Neoliberalism's Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
In this Autumn of Discontent, people | …
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Watching My Students Turn Into Soldiers of Empire
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07
This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. | Patches, pins, medals, and badges are the visible signs of an exclusive military culture, a silent language by which soldiers and officers judge each other's experiences, accomplishments, and general worth. In July 2001, when I first walked through the gate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at the ripe young age of 17, the "combat patch" on one's right shoulder — evidence of a deployment with a specific unit — had more resonance than colorful medals like Ranger badges reflecting specific ski…
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Avoiding the Climate Catastrophe Starts With Divesting From the War Machine
Jodie Evans | commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
Jane Fonda and her Fire Drill Fridays are linking social movements across issues, eyeing the connections between the myriad problems we see causing climate chaos, many of them rooted in capitalist consumer culture. (Photo: Twitter/CodePink) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Neoliberalism's Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies | commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
If Chenoweth is right and the million Chileans in the street have breached the tipping point for successful non-violent popular democracy, Chile may be leading the way to a global political and economic revolution. (Photo: RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The First Step to Averting Climate Catastrophe
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-06
The Pentagon is the single largest consumer of oil on the planet. Its war machine must be dismantled if we hope to preserve our biosphere.
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NYC: Subway protest vs. cop brutality
Workers World staff | workers.org | 2019-11-06
Over 1,000 militant activists streamed into main streets in downtown Brooklyn on Nov. 1 to protest recent police attacks on people of color and young people. A few days before, a video went viral that exposed New York Police Department cops attacking a group of teenagers at a Brooklyn subway . . . | Continue reading NYC: Subway protest vs. cop brutality at Workers.org…
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Chile's Piñera Increases Minimum Wage, Protests Continue
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
Amid massive protests and unrest calling for the government's resignation and a total overhaul of the political and economic system, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera signed Wednesday a bill that establishes a minimum income for workers of 350,000 pesos, about US$475. | RELATED: | Chilean Activists Sue Piñera Over Crimes Against Humanity During Protests | The reform is a state subsidy that will benefit 540,000 vulnerable workers whose salaries exceed the current min…
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Chile's Piñera Increases Minimum Wage, Protests Continue
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
Amid massive protests and unrest calling for the government's resignation and a total overhaul of the political and economic system, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera signed Wednesday a bill that establishes a minimum income for workers of 350,000 pesos, about US$475. | RELATED: | Chilean Activists Sue Piñera Over Crimes Against Humanity During Protests | The reform is a state subsidy that will benefit 540,000 vulnerable workers whose salaries exceed the current min…
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An Open Letter to Climate Activists in the Northwoods…and Beyond
Aimee Cree Dunn | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-06
From a talk delivered November 1, 2019. Northern Michigan University Sonderegger Symposium: Anishinaabek: East, South, West, North. Marquette, MI. Overview I'm going to cut straight to the point: averting climate change is not going stop the global collapse of the planet as we know it. Don't get me wrong. Climate change is a global…
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Chile Prosecutor To Probe 14 Policemen for Alleged Torture
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
A Chilean prosecutor on Wednesday said he would seek court approval to investigate 14 police officers for allegedly torturing protesters during almost three weeks of intense unrest and rioting in the country. | RELATED: | Chilean Activists Sue Piñera Over Crimes Against Humanity During Protests | Manual Guerra, the prosecutor for Santiago East, said the investigation was related to two separate cases during a nine-day state of emergency in the capital Santiago from O…
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FRSO condemns wave of repression against trade unionists, progressive activists in Philippines
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-06
Freedom Road Socialist Organization stands in opposition to the wave of political repression that is being unleashed in the Philippines. The U.S.-backed regime of President Duterte has carried out a series of raids on homes and offices, jailing more than 60 participants in the progressive and national democratic movement. | According to reports, among those arrested in the raids were 40 members of the militant labor movement Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)/May First Movement. Leaders of the KMU have toured the U.S. in the past, speaking of their struggle for justice and a better way of life. They need our solidarity now.
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/6/frso-con…
An Open Letter to Climate Activists in the Northwoods…and Beyond
Aimee Cree Dunn | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-06
From a talk delivered November 1, 2019. Northern Michigan University Sonderegger Symposium: Anishinaabek: East, South, West, North. Marquette, MI. Overview I'm going to cut straight to the point: averting climate change is not going stop the global collapse of the planet as we know it. Don't get me wrong. Climate change is a global…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/06/an-open-lett…
'Vindication' for Climate Activists as UK Court Rules London Ban on Extinction Rebellion Protests Unlawful
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
"XR protesters have been raising the alarm about the climate crisis. We need to listen to that alarm, not outlaw it." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-05
Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel: Open LetterIn an open letter, Khadamat Rafah, the top Gaza League football team, urges Argentina and Uruguay national teams to cancel "friendly" match in apartheid Tel Aviv. Israel denied Khadamat Rafah permits to travel to the 2019 Palestine Cup, causing the finals…
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NYC protest demands release of activists, union members jailed in Philippines
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-05
New York, NY – Several dozen organizers and community members gathered outside the Philippine Consulate on 5th Avenue, November 4, to demand that the government of the Philippines release the 62 organizers of legal, mass organizations who were arrested Negros and Metro Manila. | The emergency rally was called as the Duterte Regime amped up its repression. On October 26, the military dropped 500-pound bombs on Samar Island to further crackdown on organizing. This was followed by raids on the regional offices of GABRIELA, BAYAN MUNA, and the National Federation of Sugar Workers on October 31. During these raids, 60…
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Topic at coming West Coast gathering: Imagining a world without police
Jamal Rich | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-04
OAKLAND, Calif.–Alex S. Vitale, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will be featured here on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 5-7 p.m., in The End of Policing, an evening of conversation with local activists on abolition of policing. The event, at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, is sponsored by the Northern California Communist Party, …
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Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-04
Hundreds gathered this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre, when 40 Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five anti-racist activists in a span of 88 seconds. Those killed were members of the Communist Workers' Party. Ten other activists were injured. No one was convicted in the massacre, but a jury did find the Greensboro police liable for cooperating with the Ku Klux Klan in a wrongful death. Local pastors in Greensboro are now calling on the City Council to issue an apology for the events that led to the 1…
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Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-02
Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid: Action AlertUrge Argentina and Uruguay national football teams to stand with Palestinian footballers and cancel the "friendly" match in apartheid Israel. Red Card IsraelNovember 2, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
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The Empire, Trump and Intra-Ruling Class Conflict
Gary Olson | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-02
Over the past few months President Trump has unilaterally by Tweet and telephone begun to dismantle the U.S. military's involvement in the Middle East. The irony is amazing, because in a general overarching narrative sense, this is what the marginalized antiwar movement has been trying to do for decades.1 Prof. Harry Targ, in his important …
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Condemn mass arrest and Duterte regime's heightened fascist drive
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-02
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 2 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the mass arrest of activist workers, peasants, women, and media practitioners over the past few days in Bacolod, Escalante and Manila. Police arrested and detained more than 60 people belonging to various sectoral organizations. More than five children were also accosted. | The CPP condemns the statement issued by Malacañang which makes the patently false claim that the arrested activists in Bacolod City were members of th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/2/condemn-…
Venezuelan Leftist Parties and Unions Stage Protest, Demand Gov't Answers
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-11-01
Dozens of activists demanded better wages and respect for collective bargaining rights.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14714
Headlines for October 31, 2019
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-31
Tens of Thousands Evacuate as New Blazes Erupt in Fire-Ravaged California, Chile Calls Off U.N. Climate Talks Amid Massive Protests Against Inequality, Protesters Confront JPMorgan Chase CEO Over Fossil Fuel Investments, Youth Climate Activists Stage Sit-In at House Speaker Pelosi's Office, Keystone Pipeline Breach Spills Oil in North Dakota, House Readies Vote to Formalize Impeachment Process, Top Immigration Official Grilled Over Move to Deport Critically Ill Immigrants, "Not Qualified" Rating from Bar Association Draws Tears from Judicial Nominee, India to Split Jammu and Kashmir Into Two Territories Controlle…
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University of Illinois leadership attacks solidarity with Palestine
Liberation News Champaign-Urbana | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-30
Activists condemn false conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism.
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Chesa Boudin, Son of 1960s Radicals, Runs for San Francisco DA on Criminal Justice Reform Platform
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-30
Chesa Boudin is running for San Francisco district attorney as the latest candidate in a wave of decarceral prosecutors running for office across the United States. Bernie Sanders and other leading progressives have endorsed Boudin, who is a public defender and the child of Weather Underground activists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. His parents were imprisoned when Boudin was a toddler. These experiences have given him a first-hand view of "how broken our criminal justice system is," he says. "My earliest memories are going through steel gates and metal detectors just to see my parents, just to give them a hug.
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/30/chesa_bo…
How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine
Roger Bybee | progressive.org | 2019-10-29
Opposition to the Vietnam war burst into a wide range of activism, including wearing anti-war buttons while in uniform, petitions and demonstrations, guerrilla theater, staging hearings about war crimes, and throwing away the medals they earned.
progressive.org/dispatches/soldiers-brou…
Protests planned in 20 countries against PUMA's support for illegal Israeli settlements
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-10-25
Protests planned in 20 countries against PUMA's support for illegal Israeli settlements: UpdateActions in more than 50 locations are planned as part of a coordinated initiative to protest PUMA's sponsorship of the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes football teams in illegal Israeli settlements. | Red Card Israel Boycott PumaOctober 26…
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Do You Own Puma Sportswear? Join #RebrandPuma!
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-10-25
Do You Own Puma Sportswear? Join #RebrandPuma! : Action AlertIf you purchased Puma gear before the company decided to support Israel's illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land, rebrand it by writing "Boycott" over the logo! | Red Card Israel Boycott PumaOctober 25, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
bdsmovement.net/rebrand-puma
Palestinian BDS National Committee's responses to UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-10-17
Palestinian BDS National Committee's responses to UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief: In the NewsThe BDS movement does not tolerate any act or discourse which adopts or promotes, among others, anti-Black racism, anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, sexism, xenophobia, or homophobia. | Right To BoycottJuly 15, 20…
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Bollywood: Stand Against Apartheid!
SAMIR | bdsmovement.net | 2019-10-10
Bollywood: Stand Against Apartheid! : Action AlertHelp appeal to Bollywood stars booked to perform in Tel Aviv | Cultural BoycottOctober 10, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
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