(2021-06-17). Palestinian youth defiant despite retaliation, mass arrests. workers.org 
Hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested in retaliation for the May 2021 uprising across Palestine, including prominent twin activists Muna and Muhammed al-Kurd. Now 23, they have have documented Zionist aggression in Palestine since childhood. The two activists again showed the world the true face of the occupation with their . . . |
(2021-06-17). Abolishing The United States' Empire Of Policing. popularresistance.org In the early morning of 30 December 2020, joint police-military units embarked on two simultaneous operations in the mountainous regions of Panay Island in the Philippines. Their assignment was to quell the spread of firearms allegedly proliferating across the region's provinces by capturing 28 supposed members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). What the police described as a "regular law enforcement activity" ended up in the brutal killings of nine Indigenous community leaders. | Council members of the Tumandok tribe were reportedly asleep when they were gunned down in front of their families, yet…
(2021-06-17). Breaking the international silence on Turkey's aggression. roarmag.org 
Family members address the crowd gathered to mourn those killed by a Turkish airstrike on the weekend. Photo by Ronan An international delegation comprised of 150 politicians, academics, activists and journalists from across Europe intended to travel to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq this week to document Turkey's military incursion and contribute to dialogue between different Kurdish political actors. Instead, they have faced severe repression, both from the leading KDP party — which despite its official condemnation of Tu…
(2021-06-17). The Threat to Kohler-Andrae. progressive.org A proposed golf course near the Wisconsin state park is facing opposition from environmental activists.
(2021-06-17). Tallahassee: Justice demanded for Tony McDade, murdered by TPD. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On the evening of May 27, marking the one-year anniversary of Tony McDade's murder by still-unnamed officers with the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD), activists and community members gathered at the Florida State Capitol to grieve, commemorate McDade's life, and to demand justice for his murder. | Since McDade's murder, TPD has used Marsy's Law as a legal shield to protect their officers from public accountability, refusing to release the names of the officers involved in the shooting. | McDade's death, occurring just two days after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis and six days afte…
(2021-06-17). Activists Withhold Gas Bill Payment To Protest National Grid Pipeline. popularresistance.org Environmentalist launched a gas bill strike Tuesday, pledging to withhold money from their monthly utilities in protest of National Grid's controversial pipeline project beneath the streets of Brooklyn. | "We will not pay for National Grid's racist, dirty, North Brooklyn fracked gas pipeline. We will not pay for our communities and our climate to be destroyed," said Lee Ziesche, an organizer with the activist group Sane Energy Project at a June 1 rally outside National Grid's MetroTech Center headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn. | The protest, organized by a coalition of environmentalist groups under the moniker No…
(2021-06-17). Grassroots Activists are Leading the Fight to Stop Face Recognition. It's Time for Congress to Step Up, Too. aclu.org Tech companies and police forces would like us to believe that there is nothing we can do to stop harmful surveillance technologies like face recognition. We reject that narrative. Across the country, coalitions of community-based organizations are fighting back to protect our communities and our lives — and winning. | Today, many ACLU affiliates are proud to join 70 grassroots partners from across the United States to
(2021-06-17). Nicaragua: The Schizophrenic Right and the Forgetful Empire. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Fonseca Terán Nicaragua's sell-out right-wing of creole colonial-remnant oligarchs and subordinate classless hangers on lives in a parallel universe and they believe everyone else does too. Among its various class components, it is the oligarchy which imposes the guidance to follow, namely, what is true and what is false, what is good and what…
(2021-06-16). This Friday June 18: Orinoco Tribune Goes Live with Emersberger & Podur, Authors of New Book on US Coup Attempts & Hybrid Warfare Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Friday, June 18, Orinoco Tribune will host a live discussion with Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur, authors of the new publication Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media, and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela, Emersberger is a writer with Ecuadorian roots based in Canada. An engineer by profession and member of Canada's UNIFOR trade union, he has written for FAIR.org, Telesur English, ZNet, CounterPunch, and many more. Podur is a Toronto-based writer and the author of America's Wars on Dem…
(2021-06-16). Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela—Book Review. orinocotribune.com By Saheli Chowdhury, Gabriel Martínez Saldívar, Steve Lalla — Jun 14, 2021 | Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998, Venezuela has been subjected to a campaign of hybrid warfare at the hands of the US and its allies. In that span of time the Bolivarian Republic has weathered six coups attempts including the attempted assassination of its president, a mercenary invasion by former green berets, and an economic blockade that has killed over 100,000 of its citizens. A new book by Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur, Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela, t…
(2021-06-16). Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media, & 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela—Book Review. libya360.wordpress.com Saheli Chowdhury, Gabriel Martínez Saldívar, Steve Lalla Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998, Venezuela has been subjected to a campaign of hybrid warfare at the hands of the US and its allies. In that span of time the Bolivarian Republic has weathered six coups attempts including the attempted assassination of its president, a…
(2021-06-16). Why Democracies in G7 and NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership. progressive.org When President Biden meets with the leaders of democratic countries, he represents a country that is, in many ways, an undemocratic outlier rather than a leader among democratic nations.
(2021-06-16). Solemn Vigil at Shannon Remembers Child Victims of War. popularresistance.org Sunday June 13th saw us returning to Shannon Airport to recommence our monthly peace vigils. We had around 20 peace activists there, watched by around 20 Gardai. | Inside the airport, security personnel, including an Irish army patrol, protecting three US Marine Corps Hercules KC-130J warplanes that had landed the previous night. They stayed overnight at Shannon, meaning that their crews and military passengers were almost certainly in local hotels for the night.
(2021-06-16). Solemn Vigil At Shannon Remembers Child Victims Of War. popularresistance.org Sunday June 13th saw us returning to Shannon Airport to recommence our monthly peace vigils. We had around 20 peace activists there, watched by around 20 Gardai. | Inside the airport, security personnel, including an Irish army patrol, protecting three US Marine Corps Hercules KC-130J warplanes that had landed the previous night. They stayed overnight at Shannon, meaning that their crews and military passengers were almost certainly in local hotels for the night. | Our vigil was poignant and emotional as we commemorated the more than 70 Palestinian children killed recently. Two members of Red Rebels Clare, which…
(2021-06-16). Mark Carney — 'Divest' from companies without credible net zero plans. imperial.ac.uk Companies must set net zero emissions targets and devise plans for adapting their business models for a low emission world, says Mark Carney.
(2021-06-16). Was American Indian Overhunting Responsible for the Near-Extinction of the Buffalo? counterpunch.org In the 1990s, there were repeated attempts to debunk the idea of an ecological Indian. Scholars and activists with seemingly little in common all sought to portray the Indian as wasteful of natural resources, if not even worse than the European settlers who have left the USA resembling a toxic dump as the 21st century