(2021-08-11). Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities. towardfreedom.org The lesson of the United States' experience in Afghanistan should be a new "Afghanistan syndrome," a public aversion to war that prevents future U.S. military attacks and invasions, rejects attempts to socially engineer the governments of other nations, and leads to a new and active U.S. commitment to peace, diplomacy, and disarmament.
(2021-08-11). Palestine Action Is Hitting Drone Maker Elbit Hard. popularresistance.org A new short film by Real Media follows the group Palestine Action over the past year. Activists have carried out sit-ins and sabotage against Elbit premises, shutting factories down, smashing windows, damaging equipment, graffiting and splashing walls with red paint to symbolize Palestinian blood. According to the film, Palestine Action have carried out more than 70 actions against Elbit in their first year, including 20 high-profile occupations of sites and factories.
(2021-08-11). Sen. Booker's enthusiastic 'embrace' of anti-defund the police measure riles activists & BLM (VIDEO). rt.com 
Senator Cory Booker (D-New York), a vocal proponent of criminal justice reform in the US, has rubbed some people the wrong way with a sarcasm-dripping endorsement of a measure against defunding the police. | Booker delivered an impassioned short speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday as the chamber worked through a grueling 13-hour vote-a-rama on hundreds of proposed amendments to the bipartisan infrastructure bill. He offered a full-throated backing to a "gift" of a proposal to "establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to decreasing federal funding for local jurisdictions that defund the police." | pi…
(2021-08-11). Keep Big Oil Out Of Public Science. popularresistance.org Above Photo: Activists from the Extinction Rebellion climate change group demonstrate against Shell's sponsorship of the exhibit. (Credit: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images) The gagging clause in the Science Museum's sponsorship contract with polluting giant Shell makes one thing clear — we can't rely on corporate profiteers to fund the pursuit of knowledge. It feels …
(2021-08-11). Lockdown Halts Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction Site for 8 Hours or More. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent action against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) which shut down construction for more than 8 hours. On the 9th of August, activists opposing fracked gas pipelines and eminent domain for corporate profit locked themselves to construction equipment at a Mountain Valley Pipeline construction site near I-81. The lockdown held for 8…
(2021-08-11). Héctor Béjar: Life of a Brilliant Foreign Affairs Minister in a Continent Where Many of his Colleagues are Felons of the Empire. orinocotribune.com Héctor Béjar was born on September 2, 1935, in Ricardo Palma district, Huarochirí province, Lima department, in Peru. His father, Mariano Béjar Pacheco, was a musician and member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) party who was not in total agreement with the party leadership. His mother, Zoila Rivera Rodríguez, was a teacher. She studied law at The National University of San Marcos (UNMSM) and was never a student leader there, but rather a press secretary at the Centro Federado de Letras. | From the age of 16 Béjar worked as a news anchor and presenter for national and international artists on…
(2021-08-11). "This Was Avoidable," Climate Activists Say About Apocalyptic UN Climate Report. commondreams.org "It's not a wildfire season anymore," said one journalist, "it's a wildfire year."
(2021-08-11). Grieving the Loss of Yemeni Children–US Complicit. indybay.org Members of the Yemeni-American community and world peace activists grieved the third year anniversary of the loss of dozens of innocent children whose lives were taken by a 500 pound U.S. made, Saudi-UAE led bomb.
(2021-08-10). Judicial Decision On Alex Saab's Extradition Expected Next Week. popularresistance.org The Constitutional Court (TC) of Cape Verde scheduled a hearing on the constitutional appeal of the special envoy of Venezuela, Alex Saab Morán, for next August 13 at 9: 00 a.m. Saab has been held in Cape Verdean prison for 410 days under an arbitrary measure emanating from the United States, victim of a flawed process denounced by the diplomat, his defense, and activists and legal experts worldwide. | "We inform you that by order of the Venerable Presiding Counselor Judge in the file of the Concrete Inspection of Constitutionality No. 2/2021, in which Alex Nain Saab Moran is appellant and the Supreme Court of Jus…
(2021-08-10). When a movement fails to uphold its standards of justice. zcomm.org We are two Portland, Oregon activists within a movement that fractured over infighting and infiltration; and we are disappointed to write that the latest schism in the community is about injustice and violence against women within our own movement…