Above Photo: Curshevia Robinson testifies against school paddling in front of the Holmes County School Board in 2014. Nollie Jenkins Family Center. ‘Corporal Punishment Is Violence.’ On a Tuesday morning three years ago, Julia Ringo discovered her daughter was in terrible pain. Examining her, Ringo looked in shock at a mass of bruises and swelling on her daughter Kiorey’s buttocks, a day after the 8-year-old Black girl had been paddled with a wooden board at an elementary school in Grenada, Mississippi. Ringo rushed her daughter to the emergency room and told the attending doctor what had transpired. “As soon as he […]
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Above Photo: Ricky-from-left-field / Flickr. Florida – Three years ago, Jorge Palacios, David Roper and Josh Placeres came together with a shared vision to make a better world for communities of color in Miami. They wanted to create a space where Black and Brown families can access fresh produce and learn how to live a healthy lifestyle. Borne of their own social justice and community activism, the trio cultivated a food movement by transforming an empty land lot into a lush community garden in the heart of the historically Black Overtown neighborhood. Carrots, eggplant, garlic chive, kale, cranberry hibiscus, papaya, Thai […]
‘Communities Should Not Pay Amazon. It Should Be The Other Way Around.’ By Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. March 19, 2022 ‘Communities Should Not Pay Amazon. It Should Be The Other Way Around.’2022-03-192022-03-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220319-5.jpg200px200px CounterSpin interview with Greg LeRoy on Amazon subsidies Janine Jackson: It’s meaningful that Amazon‘s head, Jeff Bezos, also owns the Washington Post, and that the paper sometimes needs to be reminded to disclose that relationship to readers, as they run stories like “Jeff Bezos Blasts Into Space on Own Rocket: ‘Best Day Ever!’”—buttressed by op-eds like “The Billionaires’ Space Efforts May Seem Tone-Deaf, but They’re Important Milestones.” The difficult reality is that Bezos doesn’t need […]
Above Photo: Zoran Svilar. On August 17, 2019, a coalition of antifascist and progressive groups in Portland, Oregon organized a rally to protest a Proud Boy event planned in the city. The rally had a carnivalesque atmosphere created by PopMob — an antifascist group of concerned Portlanders which seeks to “resist the alt-right with whimsy and creativity” — and brought on a diverse range of organizations, from labor and religious groups and civil rights groups like the NAACP to more militant organizations like Rose City Antifa. During the protest, the latter, along with autonomous black bloc organizers, acted as a buffer between the crowds at the carnival […]
Tribal activists, drinking water advocates, and commercial and subsistence fishers are asking the public to stand with them in the fight for both the Trinity and Sacramento River salmon by supporting a California state process to restore flows in California’s largest rivers, and by fighting a proposal for a twenty square mile reservoir, the Sites Reservoir. They are asking the public to attend an online Virtual Rally and Public Testimony Training on December 6, a state hearing on the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Bay Delta flows on the December 8 at 9 a.m. and Sites Reservoir related public hearings on December […]
Message For COP26 Negotiators As we gather in Glasgow for two weeks of deliberations for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties #26, (COP26) otherwise known as the “Conference of Polluters” or the “Conference of Profiteers,” we must be like Jesus in the temple overturning the tables of the money changers. We can no longer accept business as usual in the vein of moneyed interests suppressing ambition and holding us back from the bold commitments necessary to turn the tide of climate change. Too often, we members of frontline communities convene at these meetings, raise our voices and demands, yet […]
Above Photo: Shipping container trucks sit in traffic as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union strikes, putting a halt to most of the work at the busiest seaport complex in the nation on November 29, 2012 in Long Beach, California. David McNew/Getty Images. Diesel Vehicles Represented 5 Percent Of Traffic Through The Urban Areas But Emitted Up To Half Of All Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution. One Solution: Electrify Freight Trucks, School Buses And Other Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Studies have long pointed to air pollution in the United States disproportionately harming poor and minority communities. But a pair of recent studies that examined tailpipe […]
Above photo: Joey Montoya, Indigenous Rising Media. As the legacy of colonialism destroys our environment, Indigenous Peoples are at the forefront of fighting back. When Christopher Columbus landed on Turtle Island, which we now call North America, he brought with him a goal of making profit — of taking from the land and people to create commerce. Today, approximately 526 years later, that same pillaging continues to drive our planet further into the climate crisis and lead us into ecological collapse. Instead of honoring the violent colonization Columbus represents, we should use this day to call for truth and reconciliation — and honor the Indigenous communities at the […]
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 of USPS records, which we received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, suggests that the number of mail-delivery complaints has risen since March, especially in communities of color. For nearly 250 years, the United States […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US company Fortitude Ranch will operate its three vacation condos as survival communities on November 3 in anticipation of possible civil unrest that may follow the presidential and general elections, the company’s Vice President for Sales and Business Development Alicia Cachuela told Sputnik. “We are going to open up as a survival community on November 3 and spanning out for several days after that for the members… just in case of civil unrest, social unrest, the potential of a civil war,” Cachuela said. The United States has experienced protests and riots after the death of George Floyd, […]
The internet of today isn’t the independent territory it was originally imagined to be. For ordinary people “the internet” is just a bunch of apps made by giant companies. These companies do whatever they want with your data, disappear when the journey is over, spy on you and show you ads. I’m honestly not sure why people even bother trying to come up with dystopian futures for the web – it’s already here. So how will the web evolve in the next 10 years? Things could continue to get worse for a little while. But soon we’ll start playing the past […]
Wildfires across the West, such as the Creek Fire here in Madera County, Calif., are pushing firefighters to their limits. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Wildfires across the West, such as the Creek Fire here in Madera County, Calif., are pushing firefighters to their limits. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images It’s become a near-annual occurrence. A massive wildfire forces thousands of people to flee their homes. Exhausted firefighters warn of its speed and intensity. Smoke smothers cities and states hundreds of miles away. The yearly eruption of hundreds of wildfires across the […]
Whether it’s making protective masks or feeding those without access to food, compassionate bartenders across the country are stepping out from behind the bar to support their customers and communities in unprecedented ways through the Coronavirus pandemic and the resulting shutdowns. “I think it’s more or less taking what we’ve learned from hospitality and applying it to being community planners and to community aid assistance,” says Los Angeles bartender Aaron Melendrez, who co-founded an organization to feed undocumented workers. “It’s taking those principles of treating someone well in your house and being intuitive to someone’s needs, and just applying that to […]
Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black And Brown Communities By Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman, Eyes on the Ties. July 28, 2020 Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black And Brown Communities2020-07-282020-07-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/oil-and-gas-industry-logos-from-creative-commons.jpg200px200px Above: Creative Commons Photos: Shell Gas Station (Mike Mozart); Chase (longislandwins); Chevron (Roo Reynolds); Wells Fargo (Mike Mozart); BlackRock (Thomas Hawk). While Propping Up Racist Policing. As movements for racial and environmental justice escalate across the US, these struggles – which, as groups like the National Black Environmental Justice Network point out, must be seen as one – have a common foe: the fossil fuel industry. The same companies that drive environmental racism in Black and Brown […]
Albany Must Do More To Stop The Criminalization Of Our Communities By Eliana Fernandez, Mateo Guerrero, And Adilka Pimentel, City Limits. July 18, 2020 Albany Must Do More To Stop The Criminalization Of Our Communities2020-07-182020-07-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/protest-771×513-e1595084214172.png200px200px Above photo: Make the Road NY. ‘Our communities organized for years to make these victories possible, and we will continue to stand together against injustice.’ As Black, Brown, immigrant, and trans New Yorkers continue to take to the streets, it’s clear that the mass uprising taking place across the state, and indeed the country, is far from over. In New York, this movement moment has already helped produce real […]
As reported earlier—Irami Osei-Frimpong, a University of Georgia graduate student and teaching assistant recently wrote that some white people may have to die before black communities will be made whole. Note: His name is spelled Irami Osei-Frimpong on Twitter. Osei-Frimpong made the comments on Facebook and says he’s confused on why his words are so controversial. TRENDING: BREAKING: Ten People Shot in Minneapolis, Reports of ‘100 People Fighting With Various Weapons’ WSBTV reported: He speaks frequently about race and equality, but some critics believe he crossed the line when he made a post online that stated, “Some white people may have […]
Abandoned Communities Arrange Black/Brown Truce By Jacqueline Serrato, Southside Weekly. June 10, 2020 Abandoned Communities Arrange Black/Brown Truce2020-06-102020-06-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/the-real-intervention-didnt-seem-to-come-from-the-city-but-from-the-neighborhoods-themselves.-photo-by-mateo-zapata-e1591809588180.jpg200px200px Above photo: The real intervention didn’t seem to come from the city, but from the neighborhoods themselves. Mateo Zapata. Chicago residents quell racial divide in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests. When the bridges to downtown Chicago went up, public transportation was cut off, and Chicago police were deployed to wealthy areas of the city, the message to communities in the South and West sides was clear: amid protesting, looting, and expressions of rage at the state-sanctioned killing of Black people, neighborhood residents were […]
Back in July 2019 Democrat thought leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the host on Ebro in the Morning that marginalized communities have “no choice but to riot.” Advertisement – story continues below AOC is the loudest voice in the Democrat Party today.And she was excusing mass violence just last year. So it should be no surprise when the leftists took to the streets across America last week to riot and loot. This is outrageous#AOC –Marginalized communities in US “have no choice but to riot” She is legitimizing & inciting the violence that the Left has already begun She now owns this […]
After a series of devastating wildfires, like the 2019 Kincade Fire, California had planned on spending billions to prepare for climate-driven disasters. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images After a series of devastating wildfires, like the 2019 Kincade Fire, California had planned on spending billions to prepare for climate-driven disasters. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images With the coronavirus pandemic eroding state budgets across the country, many communities risk having this disaster make them less prepared for looming climate-driven disasters. Still recovering from devastating wildfires, California was poised to spend billions of dollars to […]
India 08:40 GMT 05.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107952/56/1079525625_0:0:3202:1803_1200x675_80_0_0_4c7ac87eeb322f9a75200ced9bc0724f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006051079525233-famous-indian-writer-booked-for-inciting-minority-communities-to-organise-us-style-protests-/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Overthe past week, several Indian actors and social activists expressed their solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement on social media. Support for the movement has also invited protests like those in the US, to draw attention to the alleged mistreatment of minorities in India. Bengaluru police have booked an Indian writer, journalist and former Amnesty International official Aakar Patel, for allegedly provoking people from minority communities to launch a nationwide protest in a post on Twitter. Patel had retweeted video clips of protests posted by The […]
Garcetti Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti announced the city will be cutting approximately $150 million from the police department and transferring the funds to communities of color. What could possibly go wrong? Downtown Los Angeles has been under siege for the last several days from rioters and looters. But Garcetti and city council officials claim cutting funding to the police department will help end racism. TRENDING: WTH? NFL Great Drew Brees Attacked for Saying: “I Will Never Agree with Anybody Disrespecting the Flag of the United States of America” …Update: Forced to Apologize Deadline reported: Garcetti said he would be making commitments […]
As Attacks On Protesters and Journalists Increase, Coverage Of Communities And Police Need To Change By Timothy Karr, Free Press. June 3, 2020 As Attacks On Protesters and Journalists Increase, Coverage Of Communities And Police Need To Change2020-06-032020-06-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/police-attacks-cameraman-from-mediaweek-e1591210829959.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police attacks cameraman from Mediaweek. The weekend saw escalating police violence against protesters and reporters at nationwide demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd and systemic racial injustices. There has been an unprecedented number of attacks against journalists at many of these protests as law-enforcement officers have specifically targeted those engaged in First-Amendment protected newsgathering and reporting. This mirrors the […]
Cryptocurrency-related investment scams targeting Pacific communities are on the increase, New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) and Commerce Commission have warned. Concerns over various crypto-related frauds alongside coronavirus-related scams have now prompted the two regulators to launch an awareness campaign aimed to stop communities falling foul of the criminal schemes. According to the FMA, there has been a “steady increase in complaints” relating to a variety of different frauds since March. Social media bitcoin scams that fake celebrity endorsements and news articles were identified as being the most widely reported among the different types. The FMA’s director of regulation, Liam Mason, […]
The Census Bureau says it will continue its relaunch of limited field operations for the 2020 census next week in some rural communities in nine states. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP The Census Bureau says it will continue its relaunch of limited field operations for the 2020 census next week in some rural communities in nine states. Matt Rourke/AP The Census Bureau says it is continuing the gradual relaunch of limited field operations for the 2020 census next week in nine states where the coronavirus pandemic forced the hand-delivery of paper forms in rural areas to be suspended […]