Police Use Violence Against Land Defenders At Land Back Lane By Christopher Curtis, Ricochet Media. October 23, 2020 Police Use Violence Against Land Defenders At Land Back Lane2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/landback-1-e1603483999139.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police fire rubber bullets, use Taser during confrontation at Land Back Lane. Failed arrest attempt leads to police retreat, barricades of burning tires. Six Nations, Ontario – An argument between police and land defenders erupted in […]
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Joint Statement: US Connection In Nigeria Violence By Pan-African Community Action and Black Alliance for Peace. October 23, 2020 Joint Statement: US Connection In Nigeria Violence2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/bap-e1603485629440.jpg200px200px Washington, D.C.-based Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP)’s U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) issued a joint statement condemning what appears to be illegal police and military violence committed against unarmed, peaceful protesters in Nigeria. […]
Movement Towards Socialism Wins Landslide Victory In Bolivia October 23, 2020 Movement Towards Socialism Wins Landslide Victory In Bolivia2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/boliwin-e1603486790520.jpg200px200px Above photo: Luis Arce (right) and David Choquehuanca on the campaign trail. Twitter. With 100% of the votes counted, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential ticket of Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca has won 55.1% of the votes, with a lead of 26.27% over their nearest rival […]
The Magical Thinking Of Reformism By Dylan Rodriguez, Abolition for the People. October 23, 2020 The Magical Thinking Of Reformism2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/abolish-e1603461013858.jpg200px200px Reformism Isn’t Liberation, It’s Counterinsurgency. You can’t abolish systemic anti-Blackness and racial-colonial violence by protecting the system itself. This article is part of Abolition for the People, a series brought to you by a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, a Medium publication for and about the lives of […]
A New Revolutionary Alternative For The People Of Venezuela By Ben Lunn and Paul Dobson, Venezuelanalysis. October 23, 2020 A New Revolutionary Alternative For The People Of Venezuela2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/vz.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesting teachers on World Teachers’ Day (October 5) holding placards that read: “‘An uneducated person is an incomplete person,’ Bolivar” and “Low salaries … enough of misery”. For many on the left in Britain and within the […]
New Report: More Than $1Billion From War Industry And Government Going To Think Tanks By Cassandra Simpson, Responsible Statecraft. October 23, 2020 New Report: More Than $1Billion From War Industry And Government Going To Think Tanks2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/weapons-e1603462042646.jpg200px200px Above photo: U.S. Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ms. Christine Wormuth, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Mr. Rob Weiss, […]
Guess Who Arms Both Azerbaijan And Armenia By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. October 23, 2020 Guess Who Arms Both Azerbaijan And Armenia2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/nagorno-karabakh.png200px200px NOTE: This article exposes the United States arming conflicts around the world, particularly in the current war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the United States, weapons manufacturers are for-profit entities, so conflict is good for their bottom line. We should not be surprised. […]
The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters By Ali Winston, Black Agenda Report. October 23, 2020 The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/nypd.jpeg200px200px The police unit most likely to bust protesters’ heads is full of cops with long misconduct histories. “The SRG is a familiar presence at demonstrations and has targeted specific organizers and groups.” This summer in New York City was […]
Indigenous Knowledge Revives Ancient Clam Garden Practices By Monica Whitepigeon, Native News Online. October 23, 2020 Indigenous Knowledge Revives Ancient Clam Garden Practices2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/swinomish_clamdistributiondiscussion_fb-e1603460032617.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection aims to protect and restore the natural environment, and the health and welfare of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Facebook. La Conner, WA – Tribal communities are reviving 3,500-year-old eco-friendly practices to create sustainable beaches […]
Top Ten People To Blame If Joe Biden Loses By Lee Camp, Consortium News. October 22, 2020 Top Ten People To Blame If Joe Biden Loses2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/elect-e1603400319218.jpg200px200px Above photo: Donkey Hotey, Flickr. It’s Not The Left. Let’s get ready for a blame game. If he loses to one of the most racist, megalomaniacal presidents in history it won’t be the Left’s fault. So, Joseph Biden, AKA “Kid Senile,” leads in the […]
Bullets Are Not The Seeds Of Life By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. October 22, 2020 Bullets Are Not The Seeds Of Life2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/kamala-ibrahim-ishaq-e1603402556851.jpg200px200px Above photo: Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (Sudan), Procession (the Zār), 2015. On 9 October 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations’ World Food Programme. In the citation for the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee pointed to the ‘link between hunger and […]
Colombia: National Strike Joins The Minga As Mobilization Grows October 22, 2020 Colombia: National Strike Joins The Minga As Mobilization Grows2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/colombia-e1603403028524.jpg200px200px Above photo: General view of Bolivar Square during the national strike called today in Bogota, Colombia. October 21, 2020. EFE/Carlos Ortega. The Social Minga in Bogota joined the National Strike that is taking place this Wednesday in Colombia with the aim of “defending life and […]
Hopes Rise Of Extension Of New START Arms Control Treaty October 22, 2020 Hopes Rise Of Extension Of New START Arms Control Treaty2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/newstart-e1603403388799.jpg200px200px Russia offers to freeze arsenal. Russia on Tuesday offered to freeze its current arsenal, and proposed an extension of the treaty by one year. The treaty signed in 2010 capped the number of nuclear warheads by the two countries and its deployment. The […]
Say Racism’s Name, And Fight It With Solidarity By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. October 22, 2020 Say Racism’s Name, And Fight It With Solidarity2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/haiphong_845x400_1-1.jpeg200px200px Black Lives Matter is the internal enemy while China is considered the most dangerous foe to U.S. hegemony. “Anti-China and anti-Black racism are intimately connected.” The following remarks were given at Stand Up to Racism’s International Conference on October 17th entitled “Black Lives Matter […]
Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan By Raul Diego, Mintpress News. October 22, 2020 Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/wars.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man fences off a tail of a multiple rocket after shelling by Azerbaijan’s artillery during a military conflict in Shushi, outside Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Oct. 18, 2020. AP. With an eye on nearby Iran. Hoping to profit, protect […]
Migrant Parents Separated From Their Kids Still Can’t Be Found By Dominique Mosbergen, Huff Post. October 22, 2020 Migrant Parents Separated From Their Kids Still Can’t Be Found2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/migrant.jpg200px200px Above photo: John Moore/Getty Images. Lawyers say they can’t locate the parents of at least 545 migrant children after they were separated under the president’s “zero-tolerance” border policy. Lawyers tasked with identifying and reuniting families separated in 2017 […]
Chairman Pai Doubles Down On Open-Internet Repeal October 22, 2020 Chairman Pai Doubles Down On Open-Internet Repeal2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/pai.jpg200px200px Above photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images. Washington – On Tuesday, Free Press filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission that responded to the agency’s attempt to fix problems in its order that repealed Net Neutrality rules and tossed away its broadband-oversight authority. The proposal, scheduled for a vote at the FCC […]
Halifax Restaurants Take Lobster Off The Menu By Jesse Thomas, Global News. October 22, 2020 Halifax Restaurants Take Lobster Off The Menu2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/mikmaw1.jpg200px200px Above photo: A show of solidarity in Kingston on Monday for Indigenous lobster fishers on the East Coast. Global News. In solidarity with Mi’kmaq fishers. Lobster is a major commodity and popular dish in Atlantic Canada, but there’s now a growing list of restaurants […]
Nagorno-Karabakh Talks Again Fail October 22, 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Talks Again Fail2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/war-e1603379900644.jpg200px200px Above photo: No end of war in sight. As we had expected the ceasefire in the war on Nagarno-Karabakh did not hold. Azerbaijani units, supported by Turkish mercenaries from Syria, have gained new ground (yellow, blue) on the lower grounds of the southern front. The topographic map shows that Armenian troops have left the hard to defend […]
Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack By Taryn MacKinney, the Union of Concerned Scientists. October 21, 2020 Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/usps-1-e1603283726449.png200px200px The Postal Service is Under Attack. Our Research Shows Who This Hurts Most. With just weeks until the 2020 election, the USPS is racing to prepare for a historic surge in mail-in voting. Our recent analysis […]
With Evictions Looming, US Cities Seek Legal Help For Renters By Carey L. Biron, News.Trust.org. October 21, 2020 With Evictions Looming, US Cities Seek Legal Help For Renters2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/evict.png200px200px Advocates are looking to New York City, where evictions have fallen by 40% since renters were guaranteed representation in court. Washington – When Shalonda Glascoe fell behind on her rent as she struggled to find a job amid […]
Free Speech Under Attack In Australia By Daniel Hurst, The Guardian. October 21, 2020 Free Speech Under Attack In Australia2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/aus-e1603284841861.jpg200px200px Above photo: Darren England/EPA. ‘Chilling attack on democracy’: proposed Asio powers could be used against journalists. Environmental and human rights groups could also be targeted under a new government bill, legal experts argue. Journalists and advocacy groups could face compulsory questioning by Asio as part of […]
Chile: Left-Wing Forces Seek New Start With The Plebiscite October 21, 2020 Chile: Left-Wing Forces Seek New Start With The Plebiscite2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/chile-ref-e1603285485803.jpg200px200px Above photo: People participate in a demonstration called “Banderazo por el Apruebo”, on September 25 in Santiago (Chile). EFE/ Elvis Gonzalez. A month before the plebiscite, left-wing parties and organizations launched the I Approve Chile Digno initiative to promote an agreement regarding the new constitution. […]
Bolivia Is A beacon Of Light For Latin America By Nathalia Urban, Source News. October 21, 2020 Bolivia Is A beacon Of Light For Latin America2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/0_bolivia-e1603285865564.jpg200px200px Brazilian journalist and activist Nathália Urban looks at the sensational Bolivian election, where the left appears set to return to power less than one year after being deposed in a coup. After suffering a coup d’état that cost more than […]
Grand Jury Member Breaks Silence On Breonna Taylor Case By Charles Davis, Insider.com. October 21, 2020 Grand Jury Member Breaks Silence On Breonna Taylor Case2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/breonnataylor.jpg200px200px Above photo: A billboard featuring a picture of Breonna Taylor and calling for the arrest of police officers involved in her death is seen on August 11, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Jon Cherry/Getty Images. Says they weren’t given the chance to indict […]
Holding General Mills Accountable For Profiting From Occupation October 21, 2020 Holding General Mills Accountable For Profiting From Occupation2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/gm-e1603287226822.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters call on General Mills to stop manufacturing Pillsbury products on an illegal settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory. Emma Leigh Sron / AFSC. AFSC and partners took our campaign to boycott Pillsbury to the corporation’s boardroom. Earlier this fall, we launched our No Dough […]
A Debt Reckoning Is Unavoidable By Aaron Karp, Waging Nonviolence. October 21, 2020 A Debt Reckoning Is Unavoidable2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/debt.png200px200px Above photo: Activists with Occupy Chicago protest the response to the 2007-2008 financial crisis in 2011. Flickr/ Michael Kappel. Will activists seize the moment? The recovery from coronavirus requires economic justice and ecological stability. The late anthropologist David Graeber, who wrote about the 5,000-year history of debt, spoke […]
America Has No Allies, Only Hostages October 21, 2020 America Has No Allies, Only Hostages2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/cj-e1603288448536.png200px200px The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation’s relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran. This reverses the policies of the US-backed coup regime which immediately began closing embassies, kicking out doctors and severing relations with those nations after illegally seizing power last year. Arce […]
Media Responds With Apathy, Disappointment As Coup Government Concedes Defeat By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. October 21, 2020 Media Responds With Apathy, Disappointment As Coup Government Concedes Defeat2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/arce-e1603286786445.jpg200px200px Above photo: Former Bolivian President Evo Morales attends a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after general elections in his home country, Oct. 19. 2020. Marcos Brindicci | AP. Across the spectrum, corporate media has endorsed last year’s […]
Solidarity With Colombia’s Indigenous Minga And National Strike! By the Alliance for Global Justice. October 21, 2020 Solidarity With Colombia’s Indigenous Minga And National Strike!2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/indigenas-colombianos-768×433-1-e1603281028362.jpg200px200px Above photo: AFP. Take Action: Send an email to Colombian authorities in support of the Minga and national strike! Demand their rights be respected to demonstrate free of repression by the public forces. The people of Colombia are coming together yet […]
Shipt Workers Demand Better Pay, Treatment By Connor Sheets, AL.com. October 20, 2020 Shipt Workers Demand Better Pay, Treatment2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/shiptworkers-e1603237658229.jpg200px200px Above photo: Abby Hathcock, a Shipt Shopper and co-organizer of the Sunday demonstration outside the company’s headquarters in downtown Birmingham, addresses the gathering of protesters. Connor Sheets. Alabama – More than 20 Shipt workers demonstrated in front of the grocery delivery company’s headquarters in downtown Birmingham Sunday […]
Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening By Jaisal Noor, The Real News. October 20, 2020 Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/scool-e1603238224250.jpg200px200px Above photo: A student receives a temperature check before leaving the car to enter STAR Eco Station Tutoring & Enrichment Center on September 2, 2020 in Culver City, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images. School officials and teachers have very different views on […]
How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. October 20, 2020 How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/biden-e1603234793201.png200px200px Toward the end of Joe Biden’s October 15 town hall session, a Trump supporter asked Biden the only foreign policy question of the night. “So peace is breaking out all over the world,” the questioner claimed. “Our […]