(2021-09-20). Highway bannering keeps Palestine solidarity in focus. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On September 16, thousands of rush-hour commuters on Interstate 94 saw banners with slogans like "Free Palestine," "End apartheid" and "End ethnic cleansing" hung from the Loring Park footbridge, amid a sea of Palestinian flags. Activists from American Muslims for Palestine – Minnesota (AMP-MN), the Anti-War Committee (AWC) and Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) then rallied in the park with chants and speeches. | The occasion was the anniversary of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre in Lebanon, when an invading Israeli army encouraged local right-wing militias to murder thousands of Palesti…
(2021-09-20). Why Lindsey Graham is Trying to Rescue Rahm Emanuel. counterpunch.org This is not the first time Rahm Emanuel has turned to Republicans for rescue. The GOP rescued him in 1993, when he was a key White House aide, as the Clinton administration rammed the NAFTA trade pact though Congress. Most Democrats in Congress — responding to the base of the party, including union and environmental activists — voted no on NAFTA. Years later, Emanuel was still bragging about his role in NAFTA's passage.
(2021-09-20). YIMBY Movement Is Not the Answer to Housing Crisis, Grassroots Activists Say. zcomm.org "Housing has become an investment for global financial actors, and has more in common with the stock market than it does with shoes."
(2021-09-20). City Council Resolution to Support BDS Movement Fails in Burlington, VT. counterpunch.org Earlier this year (2021), Ben and Jerry's ice cream decided to quit selling its ice cream in the illegal settlements built by Israel in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. This decision was reached after years of letter-writing, leafleting, editorializing, and other forms of pressure organized in large part by the anti-occupation group called Vermonters for
(2021-09-19). Are Hindutva and Hinduism the Same? orinocotribune.com By Ram Puniyani — Sep 15, 2021 | "Dismantling Global Hindutva", an online global conference was recently held from September 10-12, 2021. It was addressed by nearly 15 activists and scholars who are working on the intolerant politics and different facets of the rising Hindu nationalism at home in India and abroad. Fifty two US universities (their 70 departments) came together to put this big meeting, for which over fifteen thousand people registered. While the mainstream Indian media practically blacked it out, huge noise opposing the event was there in the social media. | In the prelude to the conference, p…