Amazon Tech Workers Join Warehouse Workers in Protests
Bryce Covert | zcomm.org | 2020-05-02
Home-office climate activists and warehouse employees across the nation find common cause mobilizing against Amazon's policies…
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German Lawyer Sent to Psychiatric Ward for Organizing Protest Against COVID-19 Lockdown
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-02
First published on April 16, 2020 | In the Soviet Union, activists were sent to state psychiatric wards. According to the state, any and all opposition to government policy was considered a form of mental illness. | Stephanie Buck writes about the …
globalresearch.ca/german-lawyer-sent-psych-ward-organizing-protest-against-covid-19-lockdown/5709685
The War of Two Middle Classes
Joel Kotkin | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-02
Politicians across the Western world like to speak fondly of the "middle class" as if it is one large constituency with common interests and aspirations. But, as Karl Marx observed, the middle class has always been divided by sources of wealth and worldview. Today, it is split into two distinct, and often opposing, middle classes. First there is the yeomanry or the traditional middle class, which consists of small business owners, minor landowners, craftspeople, and artisans, or what we would define historically as the bourgeoisie, or the old French Third Estate, deeply embedded in the private economy. The oth…
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4/30/20: 45th Anniversary of Victory in Vietnam
repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-02
On April 30, 1975, the "little people in black pajamas" of Vietnam defeated the mightiest, most despicable war machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, namely the US military, as they chased the US military and their local lackeys onto helicopters, boats and planes, causing celebrations around the world, including here in the Bay Area where we, who opposed the war machine and resisted the draft, danced in streets. Today, Vietnam has ZERO deaths from the coronavirus because it has SOCIALIZED medicine. For more, see www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter……
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May Day Caravan in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz News | indybay.org | 2020-05-02
#COLA4ALL activists in Santa Cruz organized a May Day Caravan to support those "striking and fighting for their right to live in this city". Beginning on the UC Santa Cruz campus to support the striking COLA graduate students, the caravan traveled downtown to the Santa Cruz Main Jail, and then on to support Food Not Bombs at Front and Laurel Streets. (Photos taken downtown by Keith McHenry of Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs.)…
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Buffalo, N.Y., banner drop on May Day 2020
Nigel Bouvart | workers.org | 2020-05-02
In honor of International Workers Day, Buffalo, N.Y., activists adorned several overpasses with radical demands on behalf of the working class, including calls for rent cancellation and universal healthcare. Credit: Oscar Elliot | Continue reading Buffalo, N.Y., banner drop on May Day 2020 at Workers.org…
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"Turkey Lied to Us." Erdogan's Syrian Mercenaries in Libya Are Desperate to Leave
Lindsey Snell | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-02
"I just got back from Libya yesterday," said Zein Ahmad*, a Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) militant in Afrin. "But I had been trying to leave for more than a month." When the Libyan National Army (LNA) neared Tripoli in April 2019, the rival UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli called on Turkey for military support. | Turkish forces began heavily recruiting militants from SNA factions in Syria to fight on their behalf, and began flying hundreds to Libya every week. The exact number of Syrian militants Turkey has sent is unknown, but estimates range from 5,000 to 17,000. Flights c…
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Our Slaughterhouses Not Just for Cattle, Hogs, and Poultry Anymore. Add People
Sam Pizzigati | commondreams.org | 2020-05-02
We face meatpacking empires bigger than any Upton Sinclair ever contemplated. More powerful, too. (Photo: Anthony Albright/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Bosnian Croats Ask the Russian Military for Anti-Virus Help, Bosnian Muslims Block It
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-02
The political leader of the Bosnian Croats, Dragan Čović
We've Seen the End of the US-China Relationship. The Rift Is Now Total
Stephen S. Roach | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-02
It didn't have to end this way, but the die is now cast. After 48 years of painstaking progress, a major rupture of the US-China relationship is at hand. This is a tragic outcome for both sides
Liberation From Insanity: Moscow Suburb in Open Rebellion Against Sobyanin's Covid Gulag
Edward Slavsquat | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
In a quiet town not far from Moscow, a nameless hero unceremoniously cut the Caution tape that once vandalized the neighborhood swing set. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, children are playing in the park as their parents (probably now unemployed, but with their self-respect forever intact) stroll arm in arm. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, my son's great-grandmother (once harassed by the police for daring to show her face) now marches through the streets. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, public trashcans reveal a holocaust of Non-Essential Activity. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, t…
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Podcast: Netanyahu's Fake Documents Pushed the US Towards War
Kyle Anzalone | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
On FPF #486, I discuss how Israel apparently used fake documents to push Trump towards war with Iran in April 2018. | Gareth Porter has a great article out that explains how it is clear the documents were forgeries. | Netanyahu released the documents in April of 2018 before Trump withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal and imposed a 'maximum pressure' sanctions campaign against Iran. | The economic war – and other provocative actions by Trump – has moved the US un…
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The $20 Billion US Hospital Network UPMC Says COVID Not as Deadly as Feared, Will Shift Back to Normal
David Wenner | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
A UPMC doctor on Thursday made a case the death rate for people infected with the new coronavirus may be as low as 0.25%
41 US States Lost More People to 2018 Flu Than to Covid-19
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
Here's an interesting graphic comparing people who succumbed to the flu in the 2017-18 season by US states and people who perished while testing positive for Covid-19 in 2020, or who are merely "suspected" of having perished with Covid-19, or who were heart attack excess deaths declared "Covid victims" by the diktat of CDC or Governor Cuomo: | Just eight states
Baby Boomers for Biden Recant Left Legacy
Roger D. Harris | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-30
Former members of the leading Vietnam War-era peace organization in the US, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), recently circulated an open letter warning today's young activists to
May Day in MN – Twin Cities to celebrate online
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-30
Minneapolis, MN – Activists will gather virtually to celebrate May Day here, on Saturday, May 2. The 4 p.m. gathering is taking the place of the originally scheduled annual May Day dinner celebration, which the Twin Cities branch of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) has held for over 20 years. | Local fighters are video-recording presentations, which will be interspersed with photos and footage from the year's demonstrations. The video will be shared for a watch party on May 2. | This year's FRSO organizers state, "On May Day, we join with workers from around the world and celebrate the shared strug…
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Et tu? Progressive Boomers Are Now Preaching Pro-Biden Lesser-Evilism
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-30
At a time when an independent progressive movement is needed more than ever, the sheepdogs of a bygone era are trying to herd a new generation of activists into the Democratic Party.
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Seeking justice during COVID-19: Black man killed while jogging in Georgia
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-30
A 25-year-old Black man was shot and killed while jogging after being pursued by two white men in Brunswick, Georgia. Over two months have passed since the incident, and still no one has been charged for his murder. Friends, family, and activists are looking for answers in Ahmaud Arbery's death, but they are afraid the …
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Stir Crazy! Episode #23: The Empire State
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-28
On today's show: TRNN Digital Director Charles Lenchner. We're also joined by founding member of the Chinatown Collective which hosts the Charm City Night Market Leandro Lagera and Democratic State Committeeman and activist from Manhattan's 66th Assembly District Ben Yee. Hosted by Kim Brown.
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Headlines for April 27, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-27
Global Coronavirus Deaths Top 207,000 as Hard-Hit European Nations Start Relaxing Lockdowns, States Prepare to Reopen Economies as Cases Continue to Mount, Doctors See Rise in Strokes Caused by Coronavirus; CDC Expands List of Possible Symptoms, Oakland Police Tackle and Detain Unhoused Outreach Workers, Poison Control Center Calls Spike After President Trump Suggests Injections of Disinfectant, WHO Warns Against Issuing "Immunity Passports", Activists Hold "Cancel the Rent" Protests Around the Country, Coronavirus Outbreak Reported at Tyson Foods Meat Processing Plant, "Larry King Live" Tape from 1993 Supports T…
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Wisconsin's Fight Against the F-35s
Alice Herman | progressive.org | 2020-04-24
Activists continue to push back against the Air Force's decision to locate fighter planes in Madison.
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Activists Win Earth Day Victory Against Dirty Trash Incinerator
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-24
Activists held a die-in at the incinerator to demand its closing while wearing face masks and gloves to protect against COVID-19.
therealnews.com/stories/activists-earth-…
Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul's immediate and unconditional release…
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Malaysian activists say 'let Rohingya boats land'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Healthcare Refugees & migrants Alex SalmonIssue 1263 Malaysia COVID-19 Rohingya refugeesApril 29, 2020A boat carrying 200 Rohingy…
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