On its face, nothing seems more benign and positive than “wildlife conservation.” But the Wildlife Conservation Society and the German and US governments have now been implicated in supporting organized violence against Congolese villagers, using mortars, RPGs, indisciminate fire, murder and rape. This is the finding of award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Robert Flummerfelt. Flummerfelt and his team uncovered a three-year campaign of violence by park authorities to expel Batwa people from their lands, using funding and trained by the West and conservation groups. Investigators were targeted for murder after their report came out. He joined Dispatches with Rania […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a rule that limits the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gasses from the power sector using a specific provision of the Clean Air Act. Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that existing and planned fossil fuel projects are more than the climate can handle, confirming that without sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use, we are, as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says, “on a fast track to climate disaster.” The report also warns investors of stranded fossil fuel assets that will amount to $4 trillion in a world […]
Above photo: Ecuador rebellion during June 2022. Inflationary pressure in the region has also influenced the elections in Colombia. An alliance of Indigenous organizations in Ecuador have held daily demonstrations after sharp increases in the costs for fuel and food. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) began their general strike actions on June 13 after huge price hikes crippled the capacity of rural and urban communities to access transportation and food for their households. In response to the demonstrations and an assortment of other forms of resistance, President Guillermo Lasso has declared a state of emergency in several provinces […]
Above photo: Rene Theberge. The Springfield Climate Justice Coalition and Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group held a press conference on the steps of Springfield City Hall on May 31, highlighting the opposition of many Springfield and Longmeadow residents and organizations to Eversource Gas’ proposed high-pressure gas expansion pipeline that would run beneath the streets of Springfield and Longmeadow. The press conference was held in response to Eversource initiating the process it must go through to obtain all necessary permits to build and operate the pipeline. Speakers included Springfield City Council member Zaida Govan, Kristen Elechko from Senator Ed Markey’s office, Terry Gibson from […]
Above photo: An oil well is pictured, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Riverside Park in Aztec. Hannah Grover/NM Political Report. In an effort to pressure President Joe Biden’s administration to enact stronger oil and gas regulations, national environmental advocacy groups have released a new map that shows where people’s health is threatened by extraction. Earthworks and FracTrack Alliance coordinated to create the map using publicly-available data and peer-reviewed science. The map is available online and people can type in their address to see how many production facilities are located within half a mile of their house. According to the map, more than 144,000 […]
Cali, Colombia – AfroResistance and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance have launched an international electoral expert mission to monitor human rights processes during the upcoming Colombian presidential election. The delegation consists of human rights experts, racial and gender justice activists, grassroots organizers, cultural workers, attorneys, and journalists, gathered to assess and monitor the safety, fairness and human rights protection in the upcoming Colombia primary elections taking place Sunday, May 29th, 2022. AfroResistance, an advocacy and solidarity building organization focused on the human rights of Black Women and Girls throughout the Americas and Grassroots Global Justice, **a multi-racial, multi-sectoral alliance building a grassroots […]
Above Photo: John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe / Getty Images. The Private Blue School In New York Teaches Labor History. Its Teachers Just Walked Off The Job. In its long-running off-Broadway show, the Blue Man Group is known for offering up innovative performance art through creative uses of paint, food and drums. But when it comes to dealing with its workers, the popular theater troupe sticks to the same-old union busting strategies routinely used by corporate employers like Amazon and Starbucks. In the face of these anti-labor tactics, teachers at the Blue School — an independent private school in Manhattan founded by the […]
Above Photo: Hawala Market in Afghanistan. Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. The Money Belongs To The People Of Afghanistan. It Should Be Used To Stabilize Economy And Relieve Suffering, Court Filing Says. New York – Afghan civil society groups are opposing the effort by a group of 9/11 families and other U.S. victims to seize billions of dollars from the Central Bank of Afghanistan to satisfy judgments against the Taliban. In an amicus brief filed yesterday, they argue that the $3.5 billion in blocked assets belongs to the people of Afghanistan and should be used to stabilize the economy […]
The United Auto Workers And Climate Groups Join Together To Push The USPS To Buy Electric Postal Vehicles To Replace Their Old, Gas-Guzzling Fleet. After nearly 30 years in the labor movement, Cindy Estrada is well familiar with the corporate playbook. “As soon as wages and benefits are decent, they want to move that work somewhere else.” That’s what happened, the United Autoworkers Vice President explained at a recent rally, after Oshkosh Defense secured a huge contract to build postal vehicles. “The ink was still drying,” Estrada said, “when they announced they were moving the work to South Carolina.” UAW members […]
Above Photo: Formerly incarcerated people protest sexual misconduct by California correctional officers outside state prison system headquarters, Sacramento, Oct. 30, 2019. Sexual abuse of prisoners by guards happens daily in the U.S. – in jails, prisons and detention centers – but is rarely reported to the public. The Associated Press recently blew the whistle on a pattern of sexual abuse and harassment at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, one of the few federal women’s prisons in the U.S. (AP, Feb. 6) FCI Dublin is known by guards and prisoners as “the rape club,” and prisoners have suffered “rampant” sexual […]
Native Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against South Dakota Hotel March 25, 2022 Native Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against South Dakota Hotel2022-03-252022-03-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220325-2.png200px200px Above Photo: Protestors marched in downtown South Dakota and celebrated the filing of a federal lawsuit against a Rapid City hotel whose owner said she would ban Native Americans from property. NDN Collective YouTube Video. Owner Said She Would Ban Native Americans. Hundreds of protestors marched in the streets and gathered outside a South Dakota courthouse Wednesday to celebrate the filing of a lawsuit against a Rapid City hotel whose owner said she would ban Native Americans from property. The […]
Groups File Suit To Compel Transparency On Lack Of Climate Action March 24, 2022 Groups File Suit To Compel Transparency On Lack Of Climate Action2022-03-242022-03-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220324-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Victor J. Blue / NYT. Great Falls, Montana – Climate and conservation groups sued the U.S. Interior Department late last Friday for failing to release public records, including documents behind the development of a federal oil and gas leasing report, related to President Biden’s 2021 executive order to address climate change. “President Biden’s executive order directed Interior to complete ‘a comprehensive review and reconsideration’ of the federal oil and gas leasing program in light of its […]
Hawai’i Groups Wary Of Military’s Sudden Decision To Shut Down Red Hill By Colonel Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. March 9, 2022 Hawai’i Groups Wary Of Military’s Sudden Decision To Shut Down Red Hill2022-03-092022-03-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/ann-not-trust-navy-shut-down-red-hill-now-scaled-e1646869529170.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ann Wright at Shut Down Red Hill vigil March 7, 2022. After stalling for decades in addressing the dangers of the massive Red Hill jet fuel storage facility in Honolulu, in a surprising move on March 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the leaking 80-year-old jet fuel tanks to be drained of their 180 million gallons of jet fuel and the facility permanently closed. The decision comes after years […]
Above photo: @photokayne | Eric Kayne/AP Images for Fossil Free Media. The President has broad authority under existing law to stop fossil fuel projects and jumpstart the just transition to clean energy. After his first year in office, President Biden has not lived up to his promise to respond to the climate crisis and has done next to nothing to curb new fossil fuel development. Washington, DC – After his first year in office, President Biden and his administration have failed to take meaningful action to keep fossil fuels in the ground. We are sending a powerful, unified message to Biden […]
Clearing the FOG provides excerpts from the speakers at the National Online Rally to stop war with Russia over Ukraine that was held on Feb. 5 as part of the national actions that took place in about 70 cities in Hawaii and coast to coast. The rally and actions were organized based on a unified call to action issued by 12 national and international antiwar organizations, which was endorsed by more than 200 more organizations. The demands include stopping the war with Russia, stopping the supply of weapons to Nazis in Ukraine, ending NATO, de-escalating the threat of nuclear war and […]
Above Photo: Protesters carry a banner which says ‘Stop The Lies – Action Not Greenwash’ while marching during the demonstration outside Downing Street in London. (Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) A Firm Called Clean Creatives Published An “F-List” Of Firms For Spreading Misinformation. The PR Giant Edelman Pushed Back, Saying It Had Never Erred On Climate Facts. Duncan Meisel used to help climate activists tell their stories, as a communications adviser to environmentalists trying to convince the public that oil and gas companies must change to avert a climate crisis. Now he is putting pressure on consultants shaping […]
Above Photo: A teacher talks to her students in her second- and third-grade class at Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy in Stanton, California, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Some school districts are seeing high absenteeism among students and staff and few substitute teachers to fill in the gaps. Paul Bersebach / MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images. With an explosion of new COVID cases and a raging national debate about school safety, pro-school-privatization and pro-charter-school groups are using the media to pit parents against teachers and teachers’ unions. Schools around the country have once again been forced to make tough […]
Above Photo: Members of the IDF’s elite Duvdevan Unit during a training exercise. The Israel Defense Forces. Canadian Charities Raised $3.5 Billion In 2018 For Global Initiatives, With A Quarter Of A Billion Dollars Going To Israel. Canada Revenue Agency rules state that “supporting the armed forces of another country is not” charitable. Yet newly released files confirm that the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association (CZCA), a registered charity based in Toronto, supports the Israeli military. In July, a formal legal complaint was submitted by Canadian-Palestinian activist Khaled Mouammar and Rabbi David Mivasair to the CRA detailing CZCA’s support for the Israeli […]
Above photo: Protestors wear orange detainee jumpsuits and black hoods as they hold a banner calling for the closing of the US detention center at Guantanamo naval base in Cuba in front of the White House in Washington on January 11, 2014.Nicholas Kahm / AFP/Getty Images. Washington, DC – On Tuesday, Jan. 11, twenty-nine national faith groups sent a letter to President Biden and all Members of Congress calling on them “to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and to ensure that all of the people held there are either released, agree to a plea deal, or receive a fair trial in […]
Above Photo: An empty tent buried in the Seattle area’s latest snowdump. Hannah Krieg. “We Shouldn’t Have To Be The Ones Doing This.” While the City of Seattle swept her home at Ballard Commons, an unhoused woman cried out to the city workers, mutual aid groups, and other community members packing up the park. “Why don’t they come up with a solution that actually makes sense?” she said of the city. “Put people indoors. Do they think we want to be out here in the middle of winter? No! We’re not crazy.” That was three weeks ago. It was 40 degrees that […]
Above Photo: Paul Harkin, director of harm reduction at the outreach program GLIDE, distributes naloxone and fentanyl detection packets to people on February 3, 2020 in San Francisco. Nick Otto for The Washington Post. “If our leaders fail to act, another year of devastating and historic overdose deaths is inevitable,” said one drug policy expert. Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released sobering statistics showing a record-breaking number of drug overdoses in the U.S. in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 260 advocacy groups called on lawmakers Tuesday to urgently pass public health proposals to mitigate the […]
Above Photo: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters ‘Betrayal Of Sudanese People’ Amid serious public pressure, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sought to justify his deal with the military, telling Saudi-backed Al Arabiya network in a Tuesday interview that he entered into the “political agreement” in hopes of “sparing the blood of the Sudanese and preserving the [economic] gains made.” Hamdok was returned to his previous post Sunday following nearly a month spent under house arrest after Sudanese army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan deposed the civilian government in a dramatic coup d’etat on Oct. 25. Proponents of civilian rule were quick to […]
Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian writer, and activist, and founder of the rights group Al-Haq, talks about the recent Israeli decision to designate six organizations as terrorists. He explains the context for the Israeli move, the long history of repression of Palestinian activists, and the resistance put up by these groups and the Palestinian people. Source link
In a statement released today, 257 organisations, networks and movements and 78 individuals from 61 countries say no to “nature-based solutions”. The statement warns that “nature-based dispossessions” and harmful practices such as monoculture tree plantations and industrial agriculture lurk behind the “nature-based solutions” marketing front that the UK government, the world’s biggest corporate polluters and the conservation industry are peddling at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. “The climate damage caused when corporations keep releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere cannot be offset through planting trees, protecting forests, restoring soils or tweaking industrial farming practices”, says Focus on the Global South. The post 257 Groups Say […]
Above Photo: International Federation For Human Rights Washington, D.C. ‒ A broad coalition of more than 288 U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights organizations is calling on the Biden administration to condemn the Israeli government’s decision last week to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organizations.” In a letter issued today, the organizations say the Biden administration has no choice but to condemn and push back against this move if it is to fulfill its avowed commitment to human rights. “These actions by the Israeli government are a clear attack on human rights,” the letter reads. “As […]
Above Photo: Oil refinery in Alberta. Kurayba. A new report finds that half of Canada’s oil and gas jobs could disappear by 2030 as the country presses on with a clean energy transition. But the federal and provincial governments are not doing enough to prepare workers for the change. Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. Roughly 167,000 people are directly employed in Canada’s oil and […]
Jewish-Led Groups Condemn Pompeo For Declaring Boycott-Divestment Movement Anti-Semitic By Brett Wilkins, Commondreams. November 20, 2020 Jewish-Led Groups Condemn Pompeo For Declaring Boycott-Divestment Movement Anti-Semitic2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/20191112_122352-scaled-e1605880767245.jpg200px200px Above photo: Sign on the wall in an anti-Zionist Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. Margaret Flowers. Proudly pro-BDS. “Our response to the false designation will be to… challenge Israeli policies of occupation and apartheid and galvanize public opinion for freedom and justice in Palestine,” vowed CodePink’s Medea Benjamin. Jewish peace activists led a wave of stinging rebuke of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday after he declared the peaceful Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for […]
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 majority Latino neighborhood is one of many actions that violate civil rights, complaint alleges. The city of Chicago’s role helping General Iron move from affluent white Lincoln Park to a majority-Latino Southeast Side neighborhood to […]
More Money For Coup Groups From US Agency For International Development By Nan McCurdy, AFGJ.org. November 18, 2020 More Money For Coup Groups From US Agency For International Development2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/nicacoup.jpg200px200px Above photo: Right wingers supporting the coup attempt. Reuters. Organizations that led the coup attempt in 2018 against the constitutional government of President Daniel Ortega, continue to receive foreign funding from the United States and some European countries. The latest information on USAID funding of the US-directed opposition was made available by journalist William Grigsby on Radio La Primerísima’s Sin Fronteras Magazine. USAID fiscal year 2021 (Oct. 1, 2020-Sept. 30, 2021) foreign […]
Standing By: Right Wing Militia Groups And The US Election By The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. November 2, 2020 Standing By: Right Wing Militia Groups And The US Election2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/militia-e1604327008114.jpg200px200px Above photo: A member of the Proud Boys fires a paint ball gun into a crowd of anti-police protesters on August 22, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Nathan Howard/Getty Images. In this joint report, ACLED and MilitiaWatch map militia activity across the United States and assess the risk of violence going into the 2020 election. Access data directly through the US Crisis Monitor and check the US methodology brief for more information about coding […]
Israel Lobby Spreads More Lies About Palestine Groups At NYU By Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada. October 24, 2020 Israel Lobby Spreads More Lies About Palestine Groups At NYU2020-10-242020-10-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/nyu-e1603558689593.jpg200px200px Above photo: Students have built a strong and resilient Palestinian rights activism community at NYU. NYU SJP. New York University has agreed to settle with the US Department of Education over allegations that the university had not appropriately responded to claims of anti-Semitism. Two attorneys filed the complaint last year on behalf of a student who alleged that she faced “two years of extreme anti-Semitism on the NYU campus which has created an intolerable and […]
The last few months of reproductive rights in America have looked like a cheap Handmaid’s Tale rip-off: a rushed nomination of a conservative judge to the Supreme Court; the president spreading lies about “late-term” abortions; and, in a cinematic flourish, the spread of a deadly pandemic that shuttered abortion clinics in multiple states. But amid this reproductive dystopia, abortion-access organizations have quietly introduced modern solutions to an increasingly regressive present. Abortion funds—dozens of groups around the country that help people fund and access abortions—are rolling out programs and applications to make their work easier, even as politicians to try to make […]
Patient groups on social media are fighting COVID-19 misinformation. Jub Rubjob/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jub Rubjob/Getty Images Patient groups on social media are fighting COVID-19 misinformation. Jub Rubjob/Getty Images For decades, people struggling with illnesses of all kinds have sought help in online support groups, and during 2020, such groups have been in high demand for COVID-19 patients, who often must recover in isolation. But the fear and uncertainty regarding the coronavirus have made online groups targets for the spread of false information. And to help fellow patients, some of these groups are making a mission of stamping out […]
Amid frequent attacks in the so-called Green Zone’ in Baghdad, several countries, including the United States, have warned Iraq that they may shut down their embassies in the area if shellings on diplomatic missions continue. Iraqi militia groups have agreed to temporarily stop shellings targeting the American military presence in the country, as long as the US-led coalition withdraws its troops from Iraq “in line with a parliamentary resolution”, The Associated Press reported, citing three militia officials. “The militia factions offered a truce and will refrain from targeting the US in Iraq, including the US Embassy, on the condition that American forces […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has attacked President Donald Trump for supposedly goading Orthodox Jews into fighting his targeted shutdown orders with theatrical protests – and lawsuits – based on a prank call. Cuomo tore into the president during a call with reporters on Friday in which he defended the zoned economic shutdown orders imposed in several Covid-19 “hotspots” across the state earlier this week. Trump, Cuomo said, was a “divisive force” trying to “inflame divisions” among New Yorkers – especially Orthodox Jews. Also on rt.com Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews burn masks in uprising against Gov. Cuomo’s new anti-Covid synagogue occupancy restrictions […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/16/1079951623_0:0:2048:1153_1200x675_80_0_0_6f10cb346d1aef0fd379a99f40516548.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010021080646739-us-house-adopts-resolution-to-condemn-qanon-reject-groups-conspiracy-theories/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The resolution also encourages the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to focus on preventing violence, harassment and other criminal activity motivated by the group. The US House of Representatives on Friday overwhelmingly passed a resolution to condemn the right-wing QAnon group and to reject the conspiracy theories it promotes. The House of Representatives passed the resolution in a 371-18 vote. QAnon is often portrayed as a shadowy collection of individuals who claim President Donald Trump is secretly battling a network of pedophiles in the Democratic Party and establishment. Lawmakers have said […]
This is a preview of Right Richter, our newsletter about the extreme right wing. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox, sign up for it here. The election is less than 40 days away. Donald Trump is refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. And now the Trumpworld hunt is on for material that can be used to discredit any election results that show Joe Biden winning the election. On to this week’s newsletter! This week: James O’Keefe and associates circle voter registration groups. Bogus ballot “destruction” story blows up on the right Liberal groups fear election infiltration from […]
Civil rights groups and other critics say the social network has not done enough to curb misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption toggle caption Thibault Camus/AP Civil rights groups and other critics say the social network has not done enough to curb misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Thibault Camus/AP The civil rights groups behind this summer’s Facebook advertiser boycott are joining other critics to pressure the social network to do more to counter hate speech, falsehoods about the election and efforts to delegitimize mail-in […]
The head of Germany’s military counter-intelligence service has been dismissed amid a sweeping probe into hundreds of soldiers for suspected links to far-right extremism, the military’s latest effort to overhaul the agency. Christof Gramm will go into early retirement next month after leading the intelligence organization – known by its acronym, “MAD” – for some five years, the German Defense Ministry announced on Thursday, adding that a successor would be “decided shortly.” The move comes as the latest shake-up at MAD, which has come under fire in recent months over its handling of investigations into more than 500 soldiers for suspected […]
The European Union (EU) and China were set to hold their 23rd summit in September, but the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. A live broadcast shows left-wing groups taking to the streets of Leipzig, Germany to hold an anti-authoritarian demonstration despite the cancellation of the EU-China summit. According to the organisers of the protests, the demonstrators want to accentuate the issues around the summit’s concept and various existing matters concerning the EU and China. The European Union and China held their 22nd bilateral Summit online on 22 June. According to the European Council’s president, the bilateral video call was focused on four […]
Facebook suddenly disabled the account of video journalist Ford Fischer as he was covering armed protest groups Saturday in Louisville, raising fears that Big Tech censors are classifying newsgathering as incitement to violence. “I am a journalist, verified on Facebook,” Fischer wrote Saturday evening on his Twitter account. “Today I spent the entire day covering various armed groups throughout Louisville. As I just finished a livestream, I tried to log in and it appears Facebook deleted my account.” Fischer, co-founder of News2Share, was unable to get an explanation in efforts to follow up with the social media behemoth until his account […]
Groups Sue Trump Administration To Protect Clean Water September 3, 2020 Groups Sue Trump Administration To Protect Clean Water2020-09-032020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/girls-stream-e1599102110520.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ren Photo/Getty Images. The administration’s latest attempt to undermine the Clean Water Act would jeopardize tribal and state rights to protect their water quality. Washington, D.C. — American Indian and Alaska Native federally recognized Tribes and environmental groups, represented by Earthjustice, sued the Trump administration over its attempt to weaken clean water protections. The rule changes proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would force states and Tribes to accept damaging and unwanted pipelines and other fossil fuel projects on their lands. […]
pinterest Wedding is Source of COVID-19 Outbreaks A wedding earlier this month sparked a Covid-19 outbreak among guests. The virus has spread so fast that it has infected people that didn’t even attend, including nursing home residents and county jail inmates, health officials say. A woman has died. https://t.co/HCsRnEPzmy — CNN (@CNN) August 25, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: COVID-19 is aggressive and opportunistic as viruses usually are, but this one packs far more steam than those who have come before it. It has been just two and one half weeks since a wedding in Maine and COVID-19 has proved its stealth […]
Progressive groups are demanding that all television networks delay airing the Republican National Convention until they fact-check all claims made by the featured speakers — which they didn’t demand for the Democratic convention. “The best way to combat the spread of disinformation is to stop it at its source. By putting the Republican National Convention on a one-minute time delay, your network will be able to actively correct disinformation in real time, and prevent the American people from being lied to on your airwaves,” said a letter on Monday, signed by nine progressive groups, including an EMILY’s List PAC and Color […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/17/1080251154_0:0:2501:1408_1200x675_80_0_0_984af1259f38bfe7cead7c098b53a834.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008231080251075-opposing-groups-engage-in-skirmishes-in-portland—police/ In an earlier incident, a crowd of up to 200 people attacked the city’s North Precinct Community Policing Centre, with police retreating out of sight of the rioters in an attempt to “de-escalate” the confrontation. Hundreds of people belonging to ‘a variety of groups with various ideologies’ gathered in the street on the Southwest 3rd Avenue side of the Justice Centre and in the nearby park. Several sporadic brawls erupted between them, with projectiles and fireworks being thrown and pepper aerosols and bear spray being put to use. People battled each other with bats and sticks, […]
Facebook announced plans Wednesday to crack down on QAnon supporters on its site, making the platform the latest social-media giant to attempt to stop the online spread of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory. The company plans to delete 790 Facebook groups and 100 pages devoted to spreading QAnon, while also taking steps to make it harder for QAnon supporters to spread their message on the platform. Facebook has also blocked more than 300 hashtags used by QAnon supporters on Facebook and Instagram, as well as adding new restrictions on nearly 2,000 Facebook groups and more than 10,000 Instagram accounts. The announcement comes […]
Far-right militia, pro-Confederacy groups and anti-fascist counter-protestors faced off on Saturday in tense scenes at Stone Mountain, Georgia, home of the largest monument to the Confederacy. To prepare for the confrontation, park officials closed off entry to the giant rock carving of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson. The city suspended bus services and urged residents to avoid the city center entirely “out of an abundance of caution.” Nevertheless, a small number of armed protesters from all sides descended on the city from 9 a.m. local time. Videos on social media showed far-right protestors attacking anti-facism protesters with pepper […]
The investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its research database project LittleSis, details how police foundations in cities such as Seattle, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as Chevron, Shell and Wells Fargo. Source link
When Nancy Perez contracted COVID-19 in March, she stayed in her room for a month, isolating herself from her sons and grandson. The mutual aid group Bed-Stuy Strong regularly sent volunteers to her home with meals for her family. Shelby Knowles for KHN hide caption toggle caption Shelby Knowles for KHN When Nancy Perez contracted COVID-19 in March, she stayed in her room for a month, isolating herself from her sons and grandson. The mutual aid group Bed-Stuy Strong regularly sent volunteers to her home with meals for her family. Shelby Knowles for KHN Nancy Perez, a 45-year-old resident of the […]
The left is currently on a crusade to cancel aspects of American history that they don’t like. Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas wants the Democrats to put their money where their mouth is. He recently introduced a resolution to ban organizations which have had ties to slavery and other ugly aspects of the past such as the KKK. In other words, the Democratic party itself. The Hill reports: TRENDING: This Weekend: Please Send Us Photos of Leftist Mob Violence and Rioting from Your City — We Want to Expose the Democrat Destruction Next Week GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would […]
GEO Group’s ICE Jail Lies To Immigration Lawyer By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot. July 19, 2020 GEO Group’s ICE Jail Lies To Immigration Lawyer2020-07-192020-07-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/unicornriot-e1595171042130.png200px200px Aurora, CO — On the morning of June 30, 2020, Pablo Mackleen Grijalva’s lawyer tried to contact him at the GEO Group’s ICE jail where he is detained, but to her shock, the officer on the phone told her he was not there. She immediately called Kesha Davalos Grijalva, Mackleen Grijalva’s wife, and told her what the officer said. After calling the jail a second time, an officer confirmed that Mackleen Grijalva was going to be deported […]
In 2015 the Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) offered funding for travel expenses for individuals and groups. These funds ran $300 for individuals and $1,000 for groups (assumed daily). A list of individuals paid by MORE was later released by MORE. TRENDING: BREAKING: Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s Twitter Accounts HACKED… Along With Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Kanye West and MORE MORE didn’t magically obtain money to fund the riots it was participating in. The money behind the riots was provided by the Open Society Foundation. This group is funded by George Soros. […]
For the past two weeks Catholics have been meeting on Art Hill in Forest Park at the St. Louis statue to pray the rosary. This is in response to radical leftists calling for the statue to be removed and for St. Louis City to be renamed. Two weeks ago the Gateway Pundit called on local Christians to come together for a prayer rally at the statue of St. Louis in Forest Park. When we arrived for a prayer rally at the St. Louis statue in Forest Park we were met by a very violent, raucous, disrespectful mob of Black Lives Matter […]
Nicaragua: How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered A US-Targeted Nation By Stefan Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. July 11, 2020 Nicaragua: How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered A US-Targeted Nation2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/06/1nic3-e1528758293472.jpg200px200px Above photo: Masked protesters sit with their mortars on a stoop in the Monimbo neighborhood in Masaya, Nicaragua, Saturday, June 2, 2018. Alfredo Zuniga for AP. Nicaragua’s case is a text-book example of how genuine human rights research has been subverted so as to produce highly biased reports. “The human rights industry markets itself dishonestly, but very powerfully, as if it were driven by humanitarian concern rather than ideological bias.” Ever since January 2007, […]
Federal prosecutors allege that a top immunologist at Ohio State University illegally concealed Chinese funding for his research and attempted to flee the country before his arrest in Alaska in May. In a criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday, the Justice Department accuses Song Guo Zheng, the Ronald L. Whisler MD Chair in Rheumatology and Immunology at Ohio State’s medical school, of fraudulently obtaining federal grant funds from the National Institutes of Health and making false statements to investigators. Zheng, prosecutors say, obtained nearly $5 million in federal research grants without disclosing ties to Chinese entities and additional grant funds provided by […]
Facebook Groups Pivot To Attacks On Black Lives Matter By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press. July 5, 2020 Facebook Groups Pivot To Attacks On Black Lives Matter2020-07-052020-07-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/black-lives-matter-protesters-in-st.-paul-mn-ap-e1593969451585.jpg200px200px Above photo: Black Lives Matter protesters march away from the State Capitol, in St. Paul, Minn. A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracies theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests against racial injustice. AP Photo/John Minchillo, File. A loose network of Facebook groups […]
The ACLU and other groups have sued Graham, North Carolina, calling the city’s ban on “demonstrations of two or more people” while under a declared emergency unconstitutional. They’ve remained silent on similar laws, though. Graham violated protesters’ First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly and speech with the law, which bars two or more people (or even a single person carrying a sign) from assembling without a protest permit during a declared state of emergency, the suit, filed on Thursday, states. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office announced last Friday that no further protest permits would be issued “for the foreseeable future” […]
The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore by Matthew Shear/Smithsonianmag.com October 2016 Each year, two million visitors walk or roll from the entrance of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in South Dakota, to the Avenue of Flags, to peer up at the 60-foot visages of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Dedicated 75 years ago this month, Mount Rushmore was intended by its creator, Gutzon Borglum, to be a celebration of not only these four presidents but also the nation’s unprecedented greatness. “This colossus is our mark,” he wrote with typical bombast. Yet Borglum’s own sordid story shows that this […]
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/middleeast/202006281079741454-kurdish-militia-groups-say-turkey-establishing-military-bases-in-northern-iraq-reports-claim/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Kurdish militia groups have accused Turkey of establishing military bases in northern Iraq as part of Ankara’s ongoing offensive against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Al Arabiya broadcaster reports on Sunday. According to a militia group spokesman, Turkish troops have already moved up to 25 miles into Iraqi territory as part of Operation Claw-Tiger, the broadcaster reported. The militia considers the Turkish encroachment to be a violation of Iraqi sovereignty, the broadcaster said, citing the spokesman. On Friday, the Turkish National Defence Ministry reported that one of the country’s soldiers […]
South Front: After two days of fighting with militants from the rival militant coalition Fa Ithbatu, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has launched a large-scale attack in order to put an end to the resistance to its dominance in Greater Idlib. According to pro-militant sources, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham members supported by battle tanks stormed the town of Arab Said west of Idlib city. This town was recently captured by Fa Ithbatu forces and turned into a foothold for operations against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. At the same time, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham besieged and stormed the HQ of Horas al-Din, a member group of Fa […]
…from SouthFront After two days of fighting with militants from the rival militant coalition Fa Ithbatu, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has launched a large-scale attack in order to put an end to the resistance to its dominance in Greater Idlib. According to pro-militant sources, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham members supported by battle tanks stormed the town of Arab Said west of Idlib city. This town was recently captured by Fa Ithbatu forces and turned into a foothold for operations against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. At the same time, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham besieged and stormed the HQ of Horas al-Din, a member group of Fa […]
One of Silicon Valley’s top investors has quietly dumped seven figures into Democratic super PACs over the past two years through a pair of dark money groups that have little documented activity beyond channeling money into federal elections. Matt Cohler, a former Facebook executive and a partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark, is behind the pair of nonprofit groups, one of which has donated a total of more than $1 million this year alone to three leading Democratic political groups. The Pacific Environmental Coalition’s latest donation came last month, according to records released this week; it donated $500,000 to Senate […]
On Monday night the Seattle Police Department announced on Twitter that they will retake control of the police precinct overrun by Antifa domestic terrorists and their allies in the violent BLM mob. This was after the shootings this weekend in the lawless CHOP zone. Tonight The Gateway Pundit learned that a host ofconservative groups and possible hundreds of activists were planning to descend on the hellhole and restore order. BREAKING: CHOP GETS THE CHOP! Seattle Mayor Sends In Police to Retake East Precinct in the CHOP Zone Bikers for Trump – Boots On The Ground, Proud Boys, and several other patriot […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Special Representative for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea said in a statement that the two countries agreed to launch technical working groups on strategic stability, adding that the first round of US-Russia strategic stability talks was “very positive”. “The first round of Vienna talks very positive. Detailed discussions on full-range of nuclear topics”, Billingslea said via Twitter on Monday. “Technical working groups launched. Agreement in principle on the second round”. Russian-US consultations on strategic stability concluded earlier in the day in Vienna. The Russian delegation was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, and the US delegation was headed […]
Several civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), have urged corporations to boycott advertising on Facebook in July because they believe the platform has failed to address hate speech. The boycott campaign, dubbed “#StopHateForProfit,” calls on Facebook advertisers to show that they will not support a company that has not “meaningfully” addressed the “vast proliferation of hate on its platforms.” “The campaign is a response to Facebook’s long history of allowing racist, violent and verifiably false content to run rampant on its platform. The campaign will organize corporate and […]
A Colombian Huitoto man sails on a raft along the Takana river in Leticia, Amazonas department, Colombia, on May 20, during the coronavirus pandemic. Tatiana de Nevó/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tatiana de Nevó/AFP via Getty Images A Colombian Huitoto man sails on a raft along the Takana river in Leticia, Amazonas department, Colombia, on May 20, during the coronavirus pandemic. Tatiana de Nevó/AFP via Getty Images With nearly 40,000 deaths, Brazil has registered the world’s third-highest COVID-19 death toll and the second-highest confirmed caseload. Its neighbors fear the disease is spilling across Brazil’s borders. Indeed, one Colombian […]
Doctors should start screening all women and girls for anxiety, according a prominent women’s health group. Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot hide caption toggle caption Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot Doctors should start screening all women and girls for anxiety, according a prominent women’s health group. Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot All adult and adolescent women and girls should be screened for anxiety, according to a new recommendation from a coalition of women’s health groups. The guidelines, issued by the Women’s Preventive Services Initiative, advise primary care doctors and other health providers to screen all female patients for anxiety disorders beginning at age 13. The panel of medical experts noted […]
Over 600 Groups And Families Of People Killed By Police Call For UN Investigation June 9, 2020 Over 600 Groups And Families Of People Killed By Police Call For UN Investigation2020-06-092020-06-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-27-at-10.58.02-AM-150×89.png200px200px Above photo: The protests against police violence in the wake of Michael Brown’s death by Jewel Samad/Getty. June 8, 2020 To Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council Re: Request for the Convening of a Special Session on the Escalating Situation of PoliceViolence and Repression of Protests in the United States Excellencies, The undersigned family members of victims of police killings and civil society organizations from around the world, call […]
The families of George Floyd and others slain by law enforcement have joined the ACLU and hundreds of other activist groups in urging the UN Human Rights Council to convene an urgent meeting to address police violence in the US. The victims’ families – which include those of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown and Philando Castile, who were all killed at the hands of police – made a joint call with the ACLU and some 600 rights groups on Monday. In a statement, they asked the UN’s top human rights body to give “international scrutiny” to the police brutality issue […]
Responding To Protests, Green Groups Reckon With A Racist Past By Shannon Osaka, Grist. June 3, 2020 Responding To Protests, Green Groups Reckon With A Racist Past2020-06-032020-06-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/police-violence-protest-let-us-breathe-by-michael-b.-thomas-for-getty-images-e1591208228467.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters demonstrate against police brutality and the death of George Floyd outside the St. Louis City Justice Center and City Hall on June 1, 2020. Protests continue to be held in cities throughout the country over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images. Already stressed by the threat of coronavirus and widespread unemployment, the United States has erupted into […]
Ethics Groups Call On Coronavirus ‘Vaccine Czar’ To Disclose Potential Conflicts By Soo Rin Kim, Olivia Rubin, Katherine Faulders and Matthew Mosk, ABC News. June 1, 2020 Ethics Groups Call On Coronavirus ‘Vaccine Czar’ To Disclose Potential Conflicts2020-06-012020-06-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/trump-and-moncef-slaoui-by-ap-e1591036364543.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Donald Trump, left, listens as Moncef Slaoui, a former GlaxoSmithKline executive, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 15, 2020, in Washington. By Alex Brandon/AP.. Increased scrutiny comes with rising general concerns about profiteering. The Trump administration’s decision to hire its new “vaccine czar” as a private contractor, rather than a government employee, has alarmed some ethics experts who say […]
Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) Group’s digital securities platform has tokenized the shares of a client for the first time. The recently launched blockchain-based venue, GRID, allows for the tokenization of securities using GSX Group’s native STACS network. In this inaugural issuance, shares for adtech firm tribeOS were created and distributed digitally. STACS is a scalable digital ledger network layer that “stacks on top of existing financial institutions” and facilitates tokenization of the financial services industry, GSX Group said in a press release Wednesday. “We are excited to have completed the successful digitalization of tribeOS’ shares,” said Nick Cowan, GSX Group CEO. […]
Canadian Groups Fight For Covid-19 Recovery That Prioritizes Human And Ecological Health By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams. May 28, 2020 Canadian Groups Fight For Covid-19 Recovery That Prioritizes Human And Ecological Health2020-05-282020-05-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/just-recovery-image.png200px200px Above photo: A new alliance of Canadian groups is calling for a just recovery. “We are standing on the threshold between the old world and the next and we must choose to build the future we want,” they say. From justrecoveryforall.ca. Nearly 200 Groups in Canada Vow to Fight for Covid-19 Recovery That Puts Human and Ecological Health First. “The choices we make now about how to recover from this pandemic […]
Violent Right Wing Groups Try To Organize In Bay Area May 16, 2020 Violent Right Wing Groups Try To Organize In Bay Area2020-05-162020-05-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/img_4485-11-e1589632420512.jpg200px200px Earlier this week, neo-Nazi group Patriot Front vandalized the front of the historic Gilman Street punk music venue (recently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic) with a stencil promoting its website and various stickers. The graffiti is only the latest in an ongoing campaign by Patriot Front members to promote the organization in the bay area. Local antifascist groups report that Patriot Front stickers have also been recently found (and quickly destroyed) around the UC Berkeley campus and in various […]