The Israel Defense Forces have deployed its Iron Dome and Patriot missile defense batteries around the southern city of Eilat amid concerns over an attack by Iran or its proxy forces to mark the first anniversary of the killing of powerful Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Multiple news outlets reported that batteries of Patriot surface-to-air missile system and the Iron Dome all-weather air defense system designed to […]
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Indigenous-Led Patrol Keeps Peace, Assists People In Inner City December 7, 2020 Indigenous-Led Patrol Keeps Peace, Assists People In Inner City2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/bearclaw.png200px200px Above photo: Sadie Cote, a member of the Sweet Grass patrol, hands out a donation bag in a Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C., on Friday. Ben Nelms/CBC. Indigenous-led patrol models itself on Winnipeg’s successful Bear Clan Patrol. An Indigenous-led patrol in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside […]
The U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command has announced on Friday that the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11) returned from a deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations. USS Sioux City returned to Mayport, Fla., Dec. 4, following its deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations, according to a recent news release. On Friday, the service press release said […]
City Workers Push For Collective Bargaining Rights By Brett Hall and Jane Alvarez-Wertz, WAVY. November 19, 2020 City Workers Push For Collective Bargaining Rights2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/vabeach.jpeg200px200px Above photo: WAVY. Virginia Beach, VA – While local government employees are not legally allowed to engage in collective bargaining in the commonwealth until May 1, a group of workers from public utilities and public works making known their desire to have […]
Groups Call For Federal Investigation Of City Over Toxic Industry By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun Times. November 19, 2020 Groups Call For Federal Investigation Of City Over Toxic Industry2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/chic.png200px200px Above photo: Residents on the Southeast Side have opposed the move of General Iron to their neighborhood. Sun-Times staff photo. City moving heavy industry to low-income neighborhoods. City’s role in relocating General Iron from Lincoln Park to a […]
Oregon City Voters Recall Mayor By Jayati Ramakrishnan and Kale Williams, Oregon Live. November 12, 2020 Oregon City Voters Recall Mayor2020-11-122020-11-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/mayor.jpg200px200px Above photo: Oregon City Mayor Dan Holladay defended himself after city commissioners criticized social media posts in which he downplayed police brutality against Black people. Oregon City residents voted to remove Mayor Dan Holladay from office after a committee mounted a monthslong campaign to recall him. […]
This City Makes Sure No One Goes Hungry By Pedro Vilela, Nation of Change. November 11, 2020 This City Makes Sure No One Goes Hungry2020-11-112020-11-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/belo-horizonte-food-security-9-e1605102196863.jpg200px200px Above photo: Residents wait in line to pick up fruit at Praça da Estação. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic. By long ago prioritizing residents’ right to healthy food, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has been able to keep food flowing during the pandemic. […]
The Reds have already conceded 13 goals this season, a tally it took them until December to reach last season, when they did not lose a league game until 29 February and won the title by 18 points from Manchester City, winning 32 of their 38 matches. Man City, winners in 2019, are now odds-on to win the 2020/21 Premier League after defending champions Liverpool confirmed that […]
Minneapolis City Council’s Attempt To Defund Police Thwarted By Scott Shaffer, The Appeal. October 18, 2020 Minneapolis City Council’s Attempt To Defund Police Thwarted2020-10-182020-10-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/minneapolis-e1603044476250.jpg200px200px Above photo: Minneapolis City Hall. Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. By an unelected commission. Contrary to reports, most City Council members — who won by pledging to advance racial equity — tried to do the right thing, says Scott Shaffer. […]
MIAMI—Shortly after midnight on Sunday, a line of at least 50 men and women snaked from the entrance of Tootsie’s Cabaret to the sidewalk lining the perimeter of the massive strip club in Miami Gardens, a small city in South Florida that has clocked nearly 5,000 coronavirus cases since the coronavirus pandemic began. Two Miami Gardens police cars directed traffic to a satellite parking lot because […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080761554_0:26:3071:1754_1200x675_80_0_0_8de3e4fa318215e49ef2542afc7d843c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202010131080761526-tunisia-closes-entries-to-riot-ridden-city-of-sbeitla-as-clashes-continue—reports/ CAIRO (Sputnik) – Tunisian police have closed the entrances to the city of Sbeitla in the western province of Kasserine due to mass protests and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement officers, the Sky News Arabia broadcaster reported on Tuesday. A mass rally rocked Sbeitla after a resident died in the early hours of Tuesday when his kiosk was […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0b/1080736555_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_6e56a73d63d41054beba8de049afd1c6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010111080738430-video-allegedly-showing-plumes-of-smoke-rise-over-azeri-city-of-ganja-after-missile-attack-released/ Earlier in the day, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said that seven people were killed and more than 30 others were injured after an Armenian missile hit a residential building in Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second-largest city. Yerevan has refuted Baku’s claims. The surveillance camera of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan recorded the moment of the alleged strike […]
The Trump administration has not made good on its promises to draw down US troop numbers in Syria, and instead has sent dozens of convoys of military equipment and supplies into the war-torn country via Iraq while smuggling out hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of stolen Syrian oil. US forces acting in concert with majority-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia have reinforced their positions in […]
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The city of Seattle apparently paid street artists to restore a Black Lives Matter mural near the former CHOP autonomous zone, in the process funding such eyebrow-raising messages as “ACAB,” “abolish ICE” and “100% Antifa.” Twitter user Kitty Schackleford posted a livestream video Wednesday of an unidentified artist showing parts of the mural with messages written on the BLM letters, including “abolish capitalism,”“F**k 12” and “pigs […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/08/1080713095_0:229:1960:1331_1200x675_80_0_0_ea035960fc85332f11aeb09d5bdb907b.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010081080713078-video-giant-fire-engulfs-33-storey-tower-injures-15-in-south-korean-city-of-ulsan/ The massive fire is thought to have begun on the 12th floor at around 23:00 local time (14:00 GMT), before it spread – due to strong winds – to the rest of the 102-metre-tall building in the Dal Dong district of Ulsan. A huge fire engulfed a 33-storey commercial and residential building in the South Korean city […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107052/32/1070523222_0:197:5472:3275_1200x675_80_0_0_fe289de26f627632e7a3c2fe4e91c733.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010071080701461-massive-explosion-rocks-syrian-city-of-deraa-some-people-left-injured—state-media/ According to reports by the Syrian state-run broadcaster, Al-Ikhbariya, the explosion in the southwestern Syrian city of Deraa caused several injures. A massive explosion rocked the vicinity of southwestern Syrian city of Deraa, state-run broadcaster Al-Ikhbariya reported on Wednesday. According to Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) report, the blast injured two people. The incident occured in the […]
Smoke rises in the aftermath of recent shelling during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday. Karo Sahakyan/Armenian Government/AFP via Gett hide caption toggle caption Karo Sahakyan/Armenian Government/AFP via Gett Smoke rises in the aftermath of recent shelling during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday. Karo Sahakyan/Armenian Government/AFP via Gett A decades-long dispute over territory in the southern Caucasus has led […]
…from SouthFront.org On October 2, the Armenian-Azerbaijani war entered its 5th day. Forces of the Azerbaijani military, supported by Turkey, continued their attempts to capture the contested Nagorno-Karabakh Region and to dismantle the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which is overwhelmingly populated by Armenians. Intense artillery duels and Azerbaijani airstrikes are being reported across the entire frontline in Karabakh, and even near some parts of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border. Nonetheless, […]
Authorities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania admitted that a laptop and several memory sticks used to program voting machines were stolen from a warehouse, but insisted that the integrity of the election is not in question. Election officials scrambled to investigate the theft from an East Falls warehouse and make sure the machines would not be compromised on election day, after city authorities confirmed the theft to the […]
Bankruptcies in the New York City region have spiked by 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the same time period last year, according to a new report by Bloomberg. The pandemic has resulted in almost 6,000 business closures across all five New York City boroughs between March 1 and September 11. Around 4,000 of those businesses have closed permanently. Between March 16 and September 27, […]
In the wake of last Monday’s arrest of a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer charged with spying for Beijing, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a New York Post interview on Wednesday accused the Chinese consulate in NYC of “crossing the line from normal diplomacy”, describing the embassy as an espionage hot spot on US soil. James M. Olson, former chief of counterintelligence […]
On late-Friday, the Brazosport Water Authority issued a “do not use” tap water advisory in various cities across the state, following a warning by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality informing of a potential pollution of the water supply with a brain-eating amoeba. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) announced on Saturday that it had lifted a “do not use” water advisory issued on late […]
Under the governor’s orders, law enforcement officers will reportedly have access to tear gas, despite the substance’s use by cops previously being banned by Portland Mayor ed Wheeler, who also serves as city police chief. Governor of Oregon Kate Brown has ended up declaring a state of emergency in the city of Portland on Friday, ahead of a rally held by a right-wing group known as […]
For several months last spring, New York City was the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic: Hospitals were overwhelmed by patients, a makeshift morgue was erected in Manhattan, and residents feared to leave the safety of their homes. But after a months-long lockdown, New York gained the upper hand on the virus, and since then, the city’s number of COVID-19 cases has remained low, even as […]
As Sofia Coppola has gotten older, so too have her protagonists, which makes it easy to see them—and their plights—as reflections of the aspirations and anxieties currently preoccupying the auteur. That’s once again true with On the Rocks, the story of a 39-year-old writer struggling with insecurity, suspicions about her husband, and the long shadow cast by her larger-than-life father, here played by Coppola’s Lost in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106800/54/1068005442_0:180:1920:1260_1200x675_80_0_0_931b8fb3e5be31d58529728258b3b57d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202009231080553911-razor-blades-found-at-parks-playground-equipment-in-us-city/ Authorities in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, temporarily closed all public parks in the city on Tuesday after finding 41 razor blades at two parks in the city. According to a Tuesday Facebook post by the Eaton Rapids Police Department, officers were dispatched to playgrounds in the area on Monday after a group of people at a playground reported to police […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080545177_0:0:3076:1730_1200x675_80_0_0_431f74a6e5894171ed6cf0788d014e21.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009231080544908-rains-reign-over-mumbai-again-leaving-city-waterlogged-roads-blocked–netizens-bewildered/ Marking the second-worst series of downpours in 26 years, India’s tinsel town Mumbai has been witnessing heavy torrential rainfall since Tuesday evening. As of now, rainfall of 273.6 mm has been recorded in Mumbai in less than 24 hours, turning city life upside down. Thick clouds and rumbling thunder ushered the torrential rain spells across the Indian […]
21 Sep, 2020 19:03 Follow RT on A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has struck near the world’s largest freshwater lake, Lake Baikal, shaking the buildings in Siberia’s fifth-largest city, and sending alarmed locals into a social media frenzy. Follow RT on Source link
The EU Commission said earlier this week it would allow UK clearing houses to continue processing international payments from firms in the EU for another two years, stepping back from earlier threats to cut the City of London off from the EU finance market. Brussels cannot afford to lock out UK finance firms even after a no-deal Brexit – because the euro currency is a “massive […]
As of Sunday afternoon, there were only about 20 buildings still standing in the city of Detroit, Oregon. The wildfires raging along the West Coast hit the small, rural enclave three hours outside of Portland over the weekend, burning a majority of the community’s structures—including City Hall, where the fire department’s office is based. Locals have suggested the destruction was as if “a bomb went off.” […]
The Lynwood City Council in Los Angeles County has disavowed the comments of its city manager about the ambush shooting of two sheriff’s deputies in nearby Compton, including saying it was a case of “chickens come home to roost.” “There have been comments made today by our city manager on his personal social media that are his personal opinions and don’t reflect the position of the […]
At Middle School 839 in Brooklyn, teachers say there aren’t enough custodial staff on hand to carry out the city’s recommended pandemic cleaning plan. The electrostatic sprayer for disinfecting surfaces is missing parts and doesn’t work, they allege, while classroom windows only open three inches, making ventilation an issue. And the school only has about two weeks worth of face masks instead of the 30-day supply […]