Above Photo: Harvest-time at Indian Line Farm, with Robyn Van En (center). Clemens Kalischer. Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of those rare ideas which combine transformative potential with an elegant simplicity. The CSA model of funding and sustaining locally-rooted agriculture has grown exponentially around the globe over the past four decades. Since the first formal CSA at Robyn Van En’s Indian Line Farm in South Egremont, Massachusetts in the early 1980s, CSAs have become a household fixture across the US and elsewhere; the most recent estimate by the USDA (2012) counted approximately 13,000 CSA farms in the US alone. The success of community-supported farming has coincided with rising demand […]
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Oakland, California – On April 29, thousands of teachers, students and parents from Schools and Labor Against Privatization (SLAP) rallied at Oscar Grant Plaza next to City Hall in Oakland, California, then marched to the Port of Oakland where they held a picket line that shut the port down. The innovative joint labor action was an historic day in the campaign led by SLAP, union teachers of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10, against racist gentrification in Oakland. Local 10 honored the picket line with a stop-work action in solidarity with the teachers […]
Above photo: Transition Berkeley Repair Cafe. Image Credit: Christina Choate. Uplifting the work of Transition Berkeley organizers Bonnie Borucki, Linda Currie, Lori Hines, and Carole Bennett-Simmons. Transition Berkeley has cultivated a community of practice that hits close to ground zero – a “culture of repair,” that demonstrates a way to live with more humility, making do with what we have by sharing knowledge and skills, one repair at a time. Repair Cafes harness a library-system supported methodology that touches a diversity of people and interests. The bells that ring on the repair grounds throughout an event celebrates the completion of each […]
Aurora, CO – On March 22, residents of the Sable Altura Chambers community in Aurora, Colo., won a four-month-long struggle to keep Sable Elementary School from being shut down by the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education. This grassroots struggle, its members made up primarily of parents and teachers, has called into question the true motives behind the BOE’s “Blueprint APS initiative” and the decision to close Sable Elementary. Blueprint APS and the current state of Aurora Blueprint APS is a plan created by Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Rico Munn that aims to consolidate and repurpose multiple public schools in Aurora […]
Unhoused Community & Advocates Take Over Denver Recreation Center By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot. March 14, 2022 Unhoused Community & Advocates Take Over Denver Recreation Center2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220314-3.jpg200px200px Denver, Colorado – On Thursday evening, March 10, community members who are without permanent housing and their advocates arrived at the Carla Madison Recreation Center in an attempt to take over the public facility overnight to be out of the below freezing weather. Unicorn Riot is live filming the action as it unfolds. . “Unhoused neighbors are freezing, at risk of losing limbs to frostbite, catching hypothermia, or dying. We have met too many […]
Above Photo: Fueled by her own experience with postpartum depression, Louisiana nurse practitioner and doula Nikki Greenaway is addressing the maternal mortality crisis by working with marginalized moms to help them better advocate for themselves. Nikki Greenaway. The maternal mortality rate in the United States is 23.8 deaths per 100,000 births — the highest of any developed country. The U.S. is also the only developed country where maternal mortality rates are rising. The crisis is especially dire in the South. As of 2018, Louisiana had the highest maternal mortality rate of any state with 58.1 deaths per 100,000 births — over three times the […]
Above Photo: Report on ongoing defense of Fallout Camp in so-called Portland, Oregon from the PDX Houseless Radicals Collective. (@PDXHRC / Twitter). On Thursday, February 17th, park rangers and Portland police showed up to the PDX Houseless Radicals Collective’s Fallout Camp on Park’s land in southeast Portland, Oregon. Their intended eviction of the camp was prevented by the presence of several comrades who were there in support. They promised to return in force the following Tuesday. . Organizing for a sweep defense started ramping up that weekend. A community potluck was called for that Sunday at Fallout Camp, where a meeting was held discussing […]
Above Photo: People march with signs reading ‘No to environmental contamination’ and ‘Farming community of Huascabamba’ in Sayhua, Peru. (Sebastian Castaneda / Reuters) Leaders of the Coporaque district promise to continue to block the road leading to Las Bambas copper mine. Members of a Peruvian community have promised to restart a road blockade against a prominent copper mine, even as a second community promised a 45-day truce in the dispute. The planned disruption is the latest in a series of protests along the road leading to the Las Bambas mine, which is owned by MMG Ltd and produces 2 percent of the […]
Above Photo: Túmin notes from Chiapas, Mexico. Clara Haizlett. People across Mexico are increasingly using Túmin to support local businesses and challenge monopoly capitalists. In southern Mexico, Itzel Castro sits behind the counter at a small artisanal store tucked along a colorful side street. She welcomes customers as they browse shelves stacked full of food, books and accessories. When the customers check out, Castro offers them change – not in pesos, but in Túmin. Túmin is an alternative currency that emerged in Veracruz, Mexico in 2010. About the size of a credit card, Túmin notes are printed with vibrant illustrations that […]
“Pan African Solidarity is Key to Fighting Against Western Dominances” The first year of the Biden presidency proceeds as one would expect from a man who always represented the most retrograde wing of the democratic party. The work of Community Movement Builders shows a way out of the political trap for Black people in this country. Roberto Sirvent: The Black Agenda Report is taking a look back at the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency. What are some of your takeaways as to how his policies have impacted Black communities both home and abroad? Kamau Franklin: Well simply put I think his policies, as […]
A World War II Era underground storage tank containing over 100 million gallons of jet fuel at the Red Hill Fuel Facility has been leaking into the aquifer that provides water to the people of Oahu. Until recently, the Navy denied there were leaks or that the water was unsafe despite multiple complaints of health problems and an oil sheen found in the tap water. Now, the Oahu Water Protectors have gained the Navy’s attention and that of local and state elected officials. Wayne Tanaka of the Sierra Club of Hawaii speaks with Clearing the FOG about the fuel facility, what […]
An Interview With Noni Session Of East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is based in the East Bay of California. They facilitate BIPOC and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, occupy, and steward properties, taking them permanently off the market. Residents, investors, community members, and EB PREC staff then co-own and co-steward the property. It creates a shift toward community controlled assets, and empowering their communities to be ecologically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally, and economically restorative and regenerative. Show Notes In this episode, I speak with executive director Noni Session about how EB PREC is […]
Report from Asheville Solidarity Network about resistance to an eviction in the midst of a housing crisis and ongoing pandemic. Community members, including tenants and precariously housed people, have come together on November 4th to resist an eviction in support of a multi-generational family experiencing forced displacement by Buncombe County. A number of people have occupied the property and have refused to leave until the city and county enact real solutions to the widely experienced housing crisis. Dressed as woodland creatures, the group brought a banner that says “Everyone needs a home”. The family being evicted—a mother, grandmother and two children […]
Community guard groups, Peasant, Cimarrona and Indigenous, from all over Colombia held the National Popular Assembly (NPA) last July in Cali. They nurture and cultivate practices of popular and ancestral power inherited from centuries ago and organise community members around the defense of their respective territories and spaces. An interview with the guard leaders of the Peasant, Cimarrona and Indigenous communities about the processes they have implemented since the beginning of the National Strike in Colombia. For them, self-justice goes beyond exercising authority; it means protecting their territory and the lives of those who inhabit their lands. The National Popular Assembly […]
Portland Community Beats Back Eviction, Erects Barricades December 10, 2020 Portland Community Beats Back Eviction, Erects Barricades2020-12-102020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/igdpdx-e1607640696467.jpg200px200px Eviction comes when COVID-19 deaths are exploding and the end of the eviction moratorium looms. On Tuesday morning, Portland community members successfully repealed heavily armed and militarized Multnomah County Sheriffs backed by Portland police officers, who were attempting to evict the Afro-Indigenous Kinney family, who has lived in the “Red House on Mississippi” in the North Portland neighborhood for 65 years. Since September, people have been protesting the eviction of a Black & Indigenous family from their home in Portland. Activists put up a […]
Iran Calls On The International Community To Confront Israel December 2, 2020 Iran Calls On The International Community To Confront Israel2020-12-022020-12-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/iran.jpg200px200px Above photo: A handout photo made available by the Iranian defense ministry office shows officials praying over the coffin of slain Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during the burial ceremony at Saleh shrine in northern Tehran, Iran, 30 November 2020. EFE/EPA. NOTE: Palestine Chronicle reports that the United Nations Human Rights Office is calling for Israel to conduct an investigation of Israeli occupation forces shooting Palestinian children in violation of international law. Iran is asking the international community to confront […]
Community Wants Justice For Mother Of Three Killed By Teen Driver By Georgia Fort and Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot. November 26, 2020 Community Wants Justice For Mother Of Three Killed By Teen Driver2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/karina-e1606436678597.jpg200px200px Saint Paul, MN – A small crowd gathered on the West Side of St. Paul Sunday afternoon to demand justice for a woman who was fatally run over by a teenage driver. According to family and witnesses, Karina Chosa, a 35-year-old mother of three fell in the street and was fatally hit by a 16-year-old driver who has not been charged. The incident took place November 17, around […]
New Report: ‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’ By the Institute for Policy Studies. November 18, 2020 New Report: ‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/ips-e1605708514111.png200px200px Essential Workers Continue to Suffer as US Billionaires Gain Almost $1 Trillion Under Pandemic. A “Delinquent Dozen” Pandemic Profiteers, Including Owners of Walmart, and CEOs of Amazon and Target, Failed Essential Workers and Forced Them to Risk Their Health, While Still Profiting Immensely. Washington, DC – Essential workers went underpaid, unsupported and forced to risk their health at corporations owned or operated by billionaires, even as the total wealth of America’s billionaires rose by more than $1 trillion […]
Unhoused Community Forms Tenants Union By Jenn Schreiter, Unicorn Riot. November 13, 2020 Unhoused Community Forms Tenants Union2020-11-132020-11-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/mariongreenecoverfoto-min-e1605281415528.png200px200px Constituents Protest at Commissioner’s Home. Minneapolis, MN – A tenants union was formed this past weekend by unhoused community members who have been living at the Extended Stay America hotel in Bloomington, MN. After a deal for Hennepin County to purchase the building unexpectedly fell through, residents say they are standing up for their rights as tenants. Their lawyers are helping them argue that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s suspension of evictions during the pandemic protects people experiencing homelessness who had been housed in hotels as an […]
‘It’s A Beautiful Thing To Be Able To Feed Your Community’ By Frances Madeson, Nation of Change. November 4, 2020 ‘It’s A Beautiful Thing To Be Able To Feed Your Community’2020-11-042020-11-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/perry-e1604509536430.jpg200px200px Above photo: Abrianni Perry, Freedom Farm anchor. Jason Kerzinski. Cooperation Jackson’s food sovereignty initiatives help with sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community ownership in the deep South. A little over a year ago Abrianni Perry, a 28-year-old transplant from Houston, came to Cooperation Jackson to learn about cooperatives from people who’ve been doing it for decades. She’s been happily plunging her hands into the rich West Jackson, Mississippi ever […]
Victory: East Pittsburgh Community Stops Fracking Well October 23, 2020 Victory: East Pittsburgh Community Stops Fracking Well2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/pitts-e1603460314925.png200px200px Edgar Thomson Fracking Well Appeal Rejected by East Pittsburgh Board. Decision may spell the end of controversial plan to drill at US Steel Mill. The East Pittsburgh Zoning and Hearing Board announced this evening that it was rejecting a permit appeal from Merrion Oil & Gas, the company seeking to drill a fracking well at the US Steel plant. The decision (a 3-2 vote) likely marks the final word on a well project that drew intense community opposition, led by groups like North Braddock […]
In the seven months since India’s top court allowed banks to legally service crypto platforms, users and trade volumes at local exchanges have increased. But regulators have said little about the rules for crypto trading. Confusion can be detrimental to market growth. So to introduce more clarity, some in the Indian crypto community are pitching a way to let platforms stay active but in a cordoned part of the market, supervised by the regulators – otherwise known as a sandbox approach. Initiated by crypto exchange BuyUCoin, the sandbox proposes a regulatory framework to bring crypto assets under existing regulations while also […]
Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan has called on the world to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, subject of a decades-long feud between Yerevan and Baku. He believes Paris will be one of the first to do this. “I expect the French president to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh,” the prime minister said, speaking to French network TV5Monde. “I do believe that there is simply no other way to address the concerns raised by Emmanuel Macron in the current situation.” Along with US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron last week called for “an immediate cessation of […]
Hours before a new coronavirus crackdown began in New York, Borough Park was fuming. On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered public and private schools to close in 20 New York City zip codes where positivity rates had spiked in recent weeks, most of them home to substantial ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Anger was already palpable that afternoon on the streets of one of the hottest hotspots citywide, a traditional home of New York’s Hasidic population. “It’s just political theater,” raged Mike Weber, whose teenaged sons attend the Nesivos Hatalmud yeshiva, standing maskless outside the facility on the neighborhood’s north end. “I’m not […]
Tehran and Tel Aviv have engaged in a years-long debate about one another’s nuclear intentions, with Israeli officials accusing the Islamic Republic of trying to build up a nuclear arsenal to attack Israel, and Iran countering by pointing out that the Jewish State is the only nation in the Middle East which actually already has nuclear weapons. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has appealed to the international community to pressure Israel to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and eliminate its stockpile of nukes. “The international community must compel Israel – which has aggression in its […]
Residents walk through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on September 23 in New York City. Borough Park is one of numerous Brooklyn neighborhoods that are witnessing a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Residents walk through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on September 23 in New York City. Borough Park is one of numerous Brooklyn neighborhoods that are witnessing a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases. Spencer Platt/Getty Images New Yorkers have been watching with alarm as COVID-19 cases have begun to climb in the city, particularly […]
Each week, police in Lexington, Neb., cordon off several blocks near the edge of town, where roughly 700 cars will line up for USDA Farmers to Families food boxes. Above, volunteers organize boxes on Aug. 27, 2020. Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media hide caption toggle caption Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media Each week, police in Lexington, Neb., cordon off several blocks near the edge of town, where roughly 700 cars will line up for USDA Farmers to Families food boxes. Above, volunteers organize boxes on Aug. 27, 2020. Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media Lexington, Neb., is just one of the many rural communities that […]
Housing Activists Claim Victory In Fight For Community Land Trust By Philadelphia Housing Action. September 27, 2020 Housing Activists Claim Victory In Fight For Community Land Trust2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/philly-e1601224359128.jpg200px200px Above photo: Hughe Dillon for Philly Voice. Philadelphia Housing Action claims victory after 6 month direct action campaign forces City to relinquish 50 vacant homes to community land trust. In largest self-organized housing takeover in the country, 50 homeless mothers and children to remain in 15 vacant city-owned homes, homeless protest encampments to take additional houses. On Friday, September 25, Philadelphia Housing Action and the City of Philadelphia reached a tentative agreement to resolve […]
Train A Woman To Farm, And The Community Will Eat By Rita Otu, Organic Without Boundaries. September 26, 2020 Train A Woman To Farm, And The Community Will Eat2020-09-262020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/farm-e1601088603611.jpg200px200px Above photo: When women come together something powerful happens, the Earth turns Green. Rita Otu. I love showing women farmers in Nigeria the benefits of growing food organically and motivating school girls to pursue organic farming as a worthy career. There is no shame in farming, there is only shame in biting the hand that feeds you. Farmers for a long time have been looked down upon and yet they are an essential […]
BASED has a new method for aligning decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with each other. At its core is a smart contract called Moonbase, CoinDesk has learned. Based.Money is a project of the Ghouls, a loose consortium of crypto developers, artists, designers and meme makers. Friday night, the outfit will release its newest project since BASED, the rebasing game dropped this summer during the boom of Weird DeFi. Based.Money is a game that riffs on Ampleforth’s rebasing mechanic, where it makes a daily readjustment in the supply of BASED tokens, adjusting the amount in everyone’s wallet. It’s a game of optimizing for […]
Often during a recession, enrollment in community colleges goes up. The first numbers for this fall show a decline — down nearly 8% compared with last year. Source link
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today the Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 and now also CeO of Open Source Everything (OSE Inc.). He continues his education with non-fiction reading, posting over 2,000 reviews across 98 categories; […]
Kfar Gaza, a community located just a few kilometres from the Gaza Strip, has seen emergency situations before but the outbreak of COVID-19 is now presenting new challenges, the primary one being a full lockdown, set to be imposed on Monday. Only a month ago Kfar Gaza, a southern Israeli community located just five kilometres from the Gaza Strip, was associated with rockets emanating from the enclave and the resilience of its residents who chose to stay in the area despite the constant threat of terror. Now, however, with the coronavirus raging and the town declared a red-zone, meaning the number […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to cut $1 billion from the budget of the city’s police department amid Black Lives Matter protests, while New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo wants 4,000 cops to police social distancing in restaurants. The founder of New York’s Blue Lives Matter campaign has claimed state Governor Andrew Cuomo and city Mayor Bil de Blasio “pit officers against the community” with Covid-19 regulations. Joseph Imperatrice also accused the two politicians of being selective about when to enforce the law on Saturday’s edition of Fox and Friends, commenting on Cuomo’s reported intention to use 4,000 […]
The annual town meeting in North Andover, Mass., which dates back to 1646, was held outside on June 16 on a high school football field to help keep participants a safe distance from each other. Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The annual town meeting in North Andover, Mass., which dates back to 1646, was held outside on June 16 on a high school football field to help keep participants a safe distance from each other. Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images What a strange summer it’s been. […]
‘Flowers For Moses Cemetery’: Community Fights Desecration Of African Cemetery By Popular Resistance. September 4, 2020 ‘Flowers For Moses Cemetery’: Community Fights Desecration Of African Cemetery2020-09-042020-09-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/20200904_131819-e1599269391757.jpg200px200px Above photo: Community shuts down entrance to the construction site. Margaret Flowers. “This is the scene of a crime.” Community members shut down construction of a self-storage facility being built on the site of an African cemetery. Bethesda, MD – Tucked behind a McDonalds on River Road, a major thoroughfare in Bethesda, is a deep pit, the site of an African cemetery that is being desecrated to build a self-storage facility. For four years, members […]
The Democratic National Convention recently concluded, which saw the party officially select former Vice President Joe Biden as their candidate to face off against Donald Trump in the November presidential election. Rapper Ice Cube blasted the US Democratic Party on Saturday, following their national convention, for supporting the “the same old” lines and asked what he described as the only question that matters: “What’s in it for the black community?”. “So over the last four days, the Democratic national party held their convention. A lot of people getting up there, talking, everybody really eating it up. What I didn’t hear is what’s […]
This is incredible. A black Trump supporter in Biden’s town of Wilmington, Delaware came out against Joe Biden. The young black man said that he lives across the street from the projects and he has never seen Biden visit the black community ever in his life. “Joe Biden doesn’t do nothing here…I live across the street from the projects and I have never seen Joe Biden a day in my life — NEVER! It’s lies!” he said. TRENDING: Convicted Rapist, Torturer and Killer Who Squeezed Her Victim’s Testicles with Pliers Speaks at DNC as “Impactful Community Leader” “Donald Trump is the […]
Israel has been dealing with a renewed COVID-19 outbreak, with the Health Ministry urging to avoid the northern Arab Israeli town of Yarka where cases almost quadrupled over the past week, registering one of the highest rates of infection in the country, according to Haaretz. Israel’s National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Ronni Gamzu sparked outrage on Sunday after remarking that the country’s Arab community had almost carried out a “terror attack” with its behavior resulting in a surge in COVID-19 cases, reported The Times of Israel. “The Arab community has committed in the past fortnight, since Eid al-Adha, almost a terror attack […]
Bill Binney, Intelligence Experts Ask President Trump to Demand Sunlight from FBI and Intel Community on Russia Collusion and Other Cover Ups Like the Seth Rich Investigation Tap here to add The Western Journal to your home screen. Source link
Community Peacemakers Offer A Proven Alternative To Policing By Loretta Graceffo, Waging Nonviolence. July 15, 2020 Community Peacemakers Offer A Proven Alternative To Policing2020-07-152020-07-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/outreach-workers-from-across-the-city-came-together-to-show-black-and-brown-unity-through-a-march-in-the-little-village-neighborhood.-by-chris-patterson-wnv-e1594831936773.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Outreach workers from across the city came together to show Black and brown unity through a march in the Little Village neighborhood. By Chris Patterson WNV. As calls to defund police grow, peacemakers on the frontlines of Chicago’s gun violence epidemic have dramatically reduced homicides and shootings. Imagine a world where after being accused of using a counterfeit bill, George Floyd was approached by a community member who helped mediate the situation, rather than the police officer […]
Barely a month ago, leftists began their campaign to defund and abolish the police. In New York, after a string of violent crimes which in some cases have victimized babies, some members of the black community are already calling for a course reversal. Two prominent members of the black community in New York City want the NYPD to bring back the anti-crime unit which was recently disbanded. CBS News in New York reports: TRENDING: GREAT NEWS! Tommy Tuberville Defeats Former AG Jeff Sessions in Alabama Senate Primary Race … 63% to 37%!! …Update: Trump Calls to Congratulate Tuberville In Wake Of […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): For American, Chinese, and South Korean companies, India makes for an important market. In the digital era, where data is the fuel for an empowered global future, several countries, including India, are becoming more and more responsible about collecting, storing, and sharing the data of their nationals by foreign firms. Amidst the hue and cry over a ban on dozens of mobile applications, the Indian government has decided to soon undertake a classification of data gathered by foreign firms which will decide whether they can transfer this information outside the country. The nine-member committee constituted by India’s Ministry […]
A vintage clip of CNN anchor Don Lemon telling black people to act civilized and disregard “street culture” has the woke pundit’s detractors’ jaws on the floor, wondering what happened to him over the intervening seven years. In the 2013 clip, Lemon praises Fox News host Bill O’Reilly as the Republican pundit decries the “disintegration of the African-American family,” even arguing O’Reilly “doesn’t go far enough” when he denounces “street culture.” The video was posted to social media by “Panda Tribune” on Wednesday and quickly circulated among conservatives, who had a hard time reconciling this Lemon with his painfully-PC modern-day counterpart. […]
Vibrant Community Of Resistance Behind New Orleans’ Historic Protests By Jordan Flaherty, Waging Nonviolence. July 8, 2020 Vibrant Community Of Resistance Behind New Orleans’ Historic Protests2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/curtisneworleans.jpg200px200px Decades of grassroots organizing has led to some of the largest protests in New Orleans’ modern history, and the seizing of empty housing for the displaced. New Orleans has recently seen some of the largest protests in the city’s modern history — with thousands of people taking to the streets daily to demand systemic change, including defunding police and money for housing, healthcare and jobs. These protests are the visible manifestation of grassroots organizing that […]
Of course Reverend Troy Perry is a preacher. He sounds like one. His voice booms smoothly. His Southern accent remains in place, despite years of Californian living. More than one sentence ends with a “And I will tell you…” On July 27th, Perry will celebrate his 80th birthday, and there’s a long, dramatic life to look back on which at its heart is about how one gay man who cherished his belief and faith in God did not believe—as he was constantly told—that God did not love him because he was gay. And to prove it, he created a church all […]
President Bolsonaro knowingly put reporters who stood disturbingly close to him at risk as he told of his positive Covid-19 test, Brazil’s media association said. The group is set to take him to court for the “criminal” act. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a staunch coronavirus skeptic, made headlines on Tuesday, saying his latest Covid-19 test results were positive. He was speaking in front of a hand-picked group of journalists whose microphones turned out to be mere feet away from the infected president. “Despite knowing he was infected with Covid-19, President Jair Bolsonaro continues to act in a criminal manner and endanger […]
A sculpture of Juan de Oñate’s settlers arriving in New Mexico is pictured as workers for the City of Albuquerque remove a sculpture of the Spanish conquistador on June 16, in Albuquerque, the day after the melee. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images A sculpture of Juan de Oñate’s settlers arriving in New Mexico is pictured as workers for the City of Albuquerque remove a sculpture of the Spanish conquistador on June 16, in Albuquerque, the day after the melee. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images It’s become known as the Old Town melee. […]
Palestinian Community Sets Conditions On Support For Presidential Candidate July 6, 2020 Palestinian Community Sets Conditions On Support For Presidential Candidate2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/palestinians-and-anti-zionist-orthodox-jews-protest-against-israeli-annexation-plan-on-3-july-2020-in-north-bergen-township-new-jersey-united-states.-by-tayfun-cokun-for-anadolu-agency-e1594059532202.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinians and anti-zionist Orthodox Jews protest against Israeli annexation plan, on 3 July 2020 in North Bergen Township, New Jersey, United States. By Tayfun Coşkun for Anadolu Agency. Members of the Palestinian community in the United States have issued a declaration of principles that included a set of preconditions to support federal candidates in the presidential elections later this year. The document, signed by Palestinian cultural, political, social and academic figures, included 13 preconditions namely recognizing the Palestinian people’s […]
– First published July 1, 2020, Santa Fe Reporter – by Katherine Lewin Feeding America now projects a 6% increase in food insecurity from 2018 to 2020 in Santa Fe County alone as a result of COVID-19, from 10.7% to 16.9% of residents, and the organization expects every New Mexico county to experience increases in food insecurity. Jill Dixon, The Food Depot’s director of development, tells the Santa Fe Reporter, while there is no official data on the increase in food insecurity in New Mexico yet, the organization will put together a quarterly report in early July that will reveal how […]
The University Community As A Microcosm Of The National Economy By Harry Targ, Diary of a Heartland Radical. July 4, 2020 The University Community As A Microcosm Of The National Economy2020-07-042020-07-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/dollar-bills.png200px200px In a recent article, Shawn Hubler surveys the impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic on the political economy of campus towns (The New York Times June 28, 2020). During the spring shutdowns of college campuses, millions of dollars were lost in revenues as students departed. Now with many universities and colleges contemplating reopening for the fall term, resistance has emerged from faculty, staff, and students because of the continuing threat of the spread […]
For centuries, Black women have been at the forefront of the fight for justice and equality, and yet they have been consistently mistreated, ignored, and discredited—including by Black people. It’s happened again in recent weeks, as the calls to arrest the officers who killed Breonna Taylor have been treated differently online, and elsewhere, than similar calls in cases involving Black men. Google search traffic shows that the killings of Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks gained significantly more immediate attention than Taylor’s killing. While searches for Arbery peaked almost immediately after the release of the video of his murder, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006301079753752-trump-not-briefed-on-unverified-by-intel-community-afghanistan-us-troop-allegations—obrien/ Groundless allegations that Russia offered reward money for Taliban militants for killing American soldiers raised in the recent publication by The New York Times have been denied by Moscow, the White House and Taliban itself. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien refuted the allegations on “Russian bounties” offered to Taliban militants for killing US troops in Afghanistan in a statement on Tuesday, noting that, since they were not verified or substantiated by the Intelligence Community, the President had not been briefed on them. “Because the allegations in recent press articles have not been verified or […]
When asked to dig deep for a good cause, the crypto community obliges – eventually. On May 11, the first day of this year’s Consensus: Distributed conference and of our month-long #NYBWGives fundraising campaign for COVID-19 relief, it was a bit painful to watch the donations counter. With just a few hundred dollars clocked by 5 p.m. ET, it seemed we were never going to raise enough to match the $25,000 CoinDesk had pledged for the first of two donation-matching pools, let alone reach our $100,000 target. But then the bitcoin and ether “whales” arrived. Money started pouring in, sometimes in […]
Despite the surging COVID-19 cases in some US states, many Americans are still claiming that having to wear masks in public is an infringement of their civil liberties. However, Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease physician, told Sputnik Friday that wearing masks during a global pandemic is simply a matter of public health. “First of all, wearing a mask is not a civil liberties issue, it’s a public health issue,” Kuppalli told Loud & Clear host John Kiriakou. “We’ve had thousands of people already die from COVID-19 in the US. We are the leader globally for the number of infections from […]
Reddit is anticipating big demand for its Ethereum-based “Community Points” system only one month after rolling out the product. Now the social media site is looking for a scaling solution. Posted in the r/Ethereum subreddit Thursday, Reddit announced a partnership with the Ethereum Foundation to find a Layer 2 (L2) scaling technique for the site’s 430 million users. Community Points are earned by garnering “upvotes” on posts and can be used to purchase specialized GIFs or emojis. Following CoinDesk’s request for comment, Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Ayako Miyaguchi tweeted: A blockchain for decentralized applications, Ethereum has been eyeing various scaling techniques […]
Community Control Of The Police – And A Whole Lot More By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. June 18, 2020 Community Control Of The Police – And A Whole Lot More2020-06-182020-06-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/glen_845x400_1.jpeg200px200px Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and acceptable. “Movements are about amassing power to the people, not collecting promises from corporate flunkies.” The wave of people’s protests across the nation, backed by solidarity actions in cities around the world, has caused the corporate oligarchy and its […]
Tens of Thousands of ‘black trans lives matter’ protesters gathered outside of the Brooklyn museum on Sunday. The protesters were shoulder-to-shoulder and not practicing social distancing. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to the massive protest by welding the gates at the biggest park in the Jewish community (Borough Park, Brooklyn). TRENDING: Oh Brother… Stacey Abrams: “A Man Was Murdered Because He Was Asleep in a Drive-Through” (VIDEO) WATCH: Yes. This is actually happening now! Bill de Blasio is Welding the gates at the biggest park in the Jewish community, (Borough Park, Brooklyn) So your child shouldn’t try to break in. […]
They could replace your morning coffee, so the saying goes on morning show broadcasts. Nootropics, sometimes called smart drugs, are a class of performance-enhancing supplements that are seeing widespread use in the tech and crypto sectors, and prompting much skepticism everywhere else. The thousands of chemicals that could conceivably fall under the category are bought and sold online and in stores – coming in a pharmacopoeia of varicolored powders, pills and drinks – and are marketed by their ability to improve memory, mental acuity, boost energy and help users enter flow states. Though the term nootropics literally means “mind-bending,” the point […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): With 29,943 COVID-19 cases, India’s national capital Delhi has the third highest caseload in the country. The government previously launched a mobile application called “Delhi Corona” to provide citizens with details of resources to combat the pandemic. With the rise in the number of coronavirus cases, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain has admitted that about 50% of the cases in the capital are not traceable and is now seeking the Centre’s nod on the city being at a community spread stage. “We can say that (there is community spread) only when [the] Centre admits it… Community spread is […]
Gaosong Heu talks about reactions in the Hmong community to the killing of George Floyd. Former police officer Tou Thao, a Hmong American, is seen on video of the killing running interference with the crowd and standing watch. His involvement has stirred a racial debate among Asian Americans. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jim Urquhart for NPR Gaosong Heu talks about reactions in the Hmong community to the killing of George Floyd. Former police officer Tou Thao, a Hmong American, is seen on video of the killing running interference with the crowd and standing watch. His involvement has […]
David McAtee is remembered as a “community pillar” and the owner of Yaya’s BBQ in Louisville. He was killed Monday when police and National Guard shot him at his business while dispersing protesters. Walt & Shae Smith hide caption toggle caption Walt & Shae Smith David McAtee is remembered as a “community pillar” and the owner of Yaya’s BBQ in Louisville. He was killed Monday when police and National Guard shot him at his business while dispersing protesters. Walt & Shae Smith David McAtee, owner of Yaya’s BBQ, was a beloved fixture in the Russell neighborhood of Louisville, Ky., remembered as […]
US 01:35 GMT 02.06.2020Get short URL Earlier on Sunday, the US National Guard was put on heightened alert in 15 states and in Washington DC, as several of the protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd evolved into violent rioting with buildings and cars set on fire, windows smashed and violent police confrontations with protesters gathered in front of the White House. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd encouraged residents of the Florida community to use guns in the event of violent looting and people trying to break into their homes. During a press briefing on Monday, he outlined that “the […]
The Steem blockchain has just split, or hard forked, controversially seizing the tokens of key community members who opposed TRON’s recent acquisition of the ecosystem’s biggest dapp, Steemit. At 14:00 UTC on Tuesday, Steem implemented hard fork 0.23, significantly codenamed “New Steem,” shunting some of the former Steem “witnesses” – blockchain validators – and stakeholders who created a splinter group called HIVE out of the ecosystem, it seems for good. New Steem, which was only announced on Monday, will “seize some user accounts that participated in criminal activities by actively contributing to the threat against the Steem blockchain and/or to the […]
Public health officials worry that the mostly low-income and immigrant populations served by community health centers aren’t getting proper health care and testing. Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot hide caption toggle caption Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot Public health officials worry that the mostly low-income and immigrant populations served by community health centers aren’t getting proper health care and testing. Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot Community health centers had been at the front lines of health care in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods even before the spread of the coronavirus. But in the midst of the pandemic, patients who fear deportation or infection are forcing many centers to close. Public health […]
Reddit has expanded its “community points” trial, offering users a way to earn a “piece of their favorite communities,” built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. In a slide presentation, published Wednesday evening, Reddit revealed its plans to utilize the Ethereum network to incentivize the creation of “quality posts and comments.” The points can be spent on premium features and used as a measure of reputation in the community, the social media platform said. Users are rewarded based on their contribution to their favorite channels, with the community ultimately deciding how many points each user receives. Users can hoard their points […]
Outrage is brewing in Ukraine after the leak of an inquiry letter in which the national police demanded the Jewish community in a small city disclose the names and addresses of its members, supposedly to fight organized crime. The letter was apparently sent in mid-February by a senior police official to Yakov Zalishchiker, the Jewish leader in the city of Kolomyya in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region. The official said he needed to know the names, phone numbers, and addresses of Orthodox Jews and university students “of Jewish ethnicity” who belong to the community. The data was said to be necessary to […]