Above Photo: Richard Vogel / The Associated Press. Protesters demanded the agency allow patients with life-threatening conditions to legally use psilocybin to treat their anxiety and depression under the 2018 Right to Try Act. Virginia – More than a dozen activists staged a “die-in” outside the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Va., Monday, demanding the agency allow patients with life-threatening conditions to legally access psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” to treat psychiatric disorders. Federal police arrested 17 protesters who were lying down in front of the building’s entrance and refused to leave until a representative from the […]
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Immigrant Youth Hold Rally Demanding Biden End All Deportations By Jenna Mcguire, Common Dreams. March 3, 2022 Immigrant Youth Hold Rally Demanding Biden End All Deportations2022-03-032022-03-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220303.webp200px200px Above Photo: Garcia criticized Biden for failing to revoke Title 42 and the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policies implemented under the Trump administration. (United We Dream) “We feel the trauma every time lives are torn apart and loved ones are deported.” A day after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, immigrant youth from across the U.S. rallied outside the White House on Wednesday, demanding an end to all deportations. Organized by United We Dream—the largest […]
Above Photo: HM Prison Belmarsh in South East London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being held. Hollie Adams / AFP via Getty Images. The crimes of the War on Terror are an assault on justice and democracy across the planet. The Belmarsh Tribunal, inspired by the Vietnam War tribunals organized by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, is demanding accountability for those crimes. In November 2019, I arrived at the gates of Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh in South East London. Since 2001, the UK government has run Belmarsh as the “British Guantanamo Bay,” detaining prisoners without charge on trial on the […]
Above photo: Students leave Brooklyn Tech High School mid-day, to protest school safety during the pandemic, on January 11, 2022. Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock. Students at several high schools in New York City coordinated a walkout from classes on Tuesday to call for remote learning as they protest what they say are unsafe learning conditions inside school buildings as COVID cases surged just as the spring semester began last week. A campaign mounted by students and activists across some of New York’s best-known high schools – including Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech and Stuyvesant – led to a walkout shortly before noon on Tuesday. While precise […]
Above Photo: Michael Bagdes-Canning on his tractor. Seasoned activist at the occupation site from the fracking front lines in Western PA tells his story. I live in the shale fields of western Pennsylvania. Butler County is one of the most heavily fracked counties in one of the most heavily fracked states in the country. We have fence line communities that have suffered health and financial hardship due to the industry. My friends in the Woodlands have been without water since Rex Energy poisoned their water in 2010 during a frack job gone bad. For almost 11 years, up to 60 families […]
Above Photo: From the #Woonstrijd protest in Groningen on Sunday. CJB. On Sunday, November 28, housing rights groups and other progressive sections in the Dutch city of Groningen marched under the banner #Woonstrijd to protest the acute housing crisis in the city. Various groups including Shelter Our Students (SOS), International Socialists Groningen, New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN), Communist Youth Movement (CJB), RED Groningen, Young Socialists Groningen, Democratic Academy Groningen, Groningen Feminist Network, and others, participated in the march while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols. The protesters demanded a radical housing policy from the authorities which will be beneficial for […]
The brutal gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh state has triggered a nationwide uproar. The opposition has been demanding the resignation of the state chief over the scandal. Students from India’s top management institute have written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the Hathras gang-rape, urging him to ensure that the victim’s family is not “intimidated, but supported to get justice”. The family of the girl belonging to the Dalit community – the lowest level on the Indian caste system – claims that they are being threatened by the upper caste Thakur […]
The Presidents of Russia, France, and the US have called for an immediate end to the escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh. The leaders chair the OSCE Minsk Group, tasked with ending the Azerbaijan and Armenia conflict. “We call for an immediate cessation of hostilities between the relevant military forces,” read the joint statement from Presidents Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, and Donald Trump. “We also call on the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to commit without delay to resuming substantive negotiations, in good faith and without preconditions, under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.” Read more The OSCE Minsk Group […]
Protesters have assembled at the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stringing up blow-dryers and curlers from a tree while demanding salons reopen after the lawmaker was caught flouting Covid-19 rules for a hair appointment. A crowd was seen outside Pelosi’s San Francisco home on Thursday, protesting after the Democrat was spotted getting her hair done at a salon shuttered under coronavirus restrictions earlier this week. Protesters have gathered in front of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and are stringing up curlers and blow dryers on a tree after a video surfaced of Pelosi getting her hair done indoors/maskless at […]
Crowds of lockdown-weary Brits gathered in London at a ‘Unite for Freedom’ rally to protest the Covid-19 measures, an event quickly dubbed a gathering of “conspiracy loons” for its strong message against restrictions and mandates. People began gathering in London’s Trafalgar Square around noon and then marched to the Houses of Parliament to show opposition to the ongoing shutdowns, introduced as part of the UK’s response to the pandemic. The rally, called under the slogans of “No More Lockdowns – No Social Distancing – No Masks,” among others, attracted more than 10,000 people aghast at the looming prospect of another lockdown […]
The city of Portland has witnessed nightly protests for the last three months, with violent attacks on police, court buildings, and federal government facilities, beginning after the death of Black man George Floyd while in police custody on 25 May. Demonstrators in Portland, Oregon have broken into the lobby of Mayor Ted Wheeler’s apartment building and staged a sit-in protest, according to photos and videos posted on Twitter. The videos show activists entering the building and promptly re-arranging furniture in the entryway for a sit-in despite objections from private security guards at the complex. According to the protesters, they are demanding that the […]
A Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights on Monday night confronted white diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. A black woman Monday night led several hundred protesters through DC’s Columbia Heights to protest the shooting of alleged sex offender Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The black activist asked the white protesters to step forward. This direction was given more than once, according to WaPo writer Fredrick Kunkle. TRENDING: “This Dude is Shooting at Us!” – BLM Run For Their Lives After Milwaukee Homeowner Fires Warning Shots at Protesters *Update* […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Friday sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy demanding documents and answers by August 21 on changes they say could damage the USPS’s ability to process mail-in ballots. The Democrat-media complex exploded a couple weeks ago and accused President Trump of “destroying” the US Postal Service after the President’s newly appointed Postmaster General made structural changes. New changes made by Louis DeJoy have reportedly ‘slowed down’ the mail deliveries, prompting the left to accuse President Trump of corrupting the US Postal Service in order to deter people […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered Chinese firm ByteDance to divest from its US-based assets within 90 days and to scrub all data linked to the company’s popular app TikTok, arguing both are a threat to national security. Friday’s executive order put further pressure on the company after an earlier mandate last week, giving ByteDance some three months to sell off its American properties and to certify to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it had destroyed “any data obtained or derived from TikTok.” “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance… might […]
FinCEN is warning cybercriminals are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, and asks firms to be especially vigilant regarding their dealings with virtual currencies. Source link
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained terrorists who demanded bitcoin in return for not blowing up buildings in the country’s capital. According to a post on SSU’s Facebook page, two 60-year-old men posted a paper note on an apartment building in Kyiv threatening to blow up that building or another one if they didn’t receive 50 BTC to their bitcoin address. To prove they were serious, the alleged terrorists detonated a small bomb near a subway station on July 21 and then called the police twice, reporting bombs were planted in other locations in Kyiv, and that those actions were […]
Multiple shootings have been reported in the lawless “CHAZ” area of Seattle just days after two people were shot there, one of them fatal. A man who was filming had his phone taken by one of the CHAZ “protesters” who was demanding that he delete his footage. The idiot thief did not realize that it was livestreaming and continued to film from the stolen phone, also broadcasting his face. From the sound of the livestream footage coming from the scene, there may be multiple people shot, as the CHAZ inhabitants were calling for medics. BREAKING: 2nd CHAZ shootout caught on video […]
(Source: G. Girvan / FREOPP; Graphic: A. Roy / FREOPP) An updated study revealed 42% of all US coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes. That comes out to over 40,000 Deaths in Nursing Homes!That is a bloodbath!! Another 60,000 deaths were outside of nursing homes.Which is what you might expect from a typical flu season. TRENDING: BREAKING: Three New York Police Detectives Poisoned at a Shake Shack in Manhattan Italy also saw 40% of their coronavirus deaths in nursing homes. Only 1.8% of the US population lives in nursing homes but over 40% of the coronavirus deaths were in these centers. […]
Stacks of bricks left seemingly unattended in riot hotspots across the US – as if begging to be snatched and thrown by unruly mobs – have protesters and journalists wondering whether the violent street clashes are orchestrated. It’s not every day one sees a stack of bricks just lying around unattended, especially when there’s no construction to be seen – but a rash of reports of pallets of bricks turning up as if by magic in over half a dozen cities over the weekend has investigators trying to get to the bottom of who’s seemingly giving would-be rioters the tools they […]
Sputnik/Moscow: The US accusations against Beijing over the so-called “cover-up” of the supposed Wuhan lab origins of COVID have raised questions about the US network of secretive bio labs located near the borders of Russia and China, as well as Washington’s decades-long resistance to the creation of an international transparency mechanism for bioweapons research. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) first received a clinical sample of the unknown virus that later became known as SARS-CoV-2 on 30 December 2020, Wang Yanyi, an immunologist and director of the institute, told CGTN broadcaster on 23 May, denouncing the Trump administration’s claims that the novel coronavirus escaped […]