Above photo: Ann Wright. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up! On March 7, 2022 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the defueling and closure of the 80-year-old leaking 250 million gallon jet fuel tanks at Red Hill on the island of O’ahu, Hawai’i. The order came 95 days after a catastrophic 19,000-gallon leak of jet fuel into one of the drinking water wells operated by the U.S. Navy. The drinking water of over 93,000 persons was contaminated, including the water of many military and civilian families living on military bases. Hundreds went to emergency rooms for treatment of rashes, headaches, vomiting, diarrhea and seizures. […]
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How Hawaii Activists Helped Force The Military’s Hand On Red Hill By Christina Jedra, Portside. March 15, 2022 How Hawaii Activists Helped Force The Military’s Hand On Red Hill2022-03-152022-03-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220315-2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Protesters waved signs for weeks after the Navy contaminated its own water supply with fuel. Cory Lum / Civil Beat. The Pentagon Reversed Years Of Opposition To Closing The Fuel Storage Facility Near Pearl Harbor Amid Political Pressure From The Community. In late November, military families were sickened by fuel ingestion, including babies with rashes, after the tap water source for some 93,000 people in the Pearl Harbor area was contaminated. […]
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: Staffers on Capitol Hill are stepping up efforts to unionize, energized by statements of support from dozens of Democratic lawmakers. (Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call file photo) Inspired By An Anonymous Instagram Account And Disgusted By Bad Pay And Worse Bosses, Congressional Staffers Have Begun The Uncertain Journey Toward Unionizing. Inspired by an anonymous Instagram account and disgusted by bad pay and worse bosses, congressional staffers have begun the uncertain journey toward unionizing. Organizers of the nascent Congressional Workers Union described their long-running efforts and future plans to organize one of the nation’s most idiosyncratic workplaces to CQ […]
Above photo: Oahu Water Protectors and supporters demonstrate in opposition to the Red Hill fuel tanks. Civil Beat. Hawaii’s Governor Gets Wishy-Washy about Permanent Shut Down of Jet Fuel Tanks. August 1 is the earliest De-Fuel Tanks Could Begin, a Wait of 8 months; Teachers Speak of Trauma of Children from Military Families. We knew the U.S. Navy would slow roll the process of complying with the State of Hawaii to defuel the leaking 80-year-old jet fuel tanks that contaminated the drinking water of over 93,000 residents of O’ahu. The majority of the 93,000 were the military’s own families. No Transparency […]
Two Hawaiian Activists Discuss the Latest Episode in Two Centuries of Colonialism. “It’s not a government; it’s not a democracy; it’s essentially a mafia state run by terrorists who don’t hurt just Hawaii but indigenous peoples across the world.” – Ihilani Lasconia In November, a huge underground naval fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes. The state’s attorney general, David Day, has alleged that the military has essentially no control over the safety of the […]
Fortress On A Hill: ‘I Ain’t Marching Anymore’ By Danny Sjursen, Fortress On A Hill. November 6, 2020 Fortress On A Hill: ‘I Ain’t Marching Anymore’2020-11-062020-11-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/soldier-e1604666521767.jpg200px200px Above photo: Hasan Jamali/AP. Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars with Chris Lombardi. Chris Lombardi, editor at Democratic Left Online, stops by the podcast to discuss her new book “I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars”. It’s an amazing history of military dissenters, conscientious objectors, and their hard, but determined path of dissent. She will be hosting a live stream on Nov 10, 2020, at 4pm PST. Click here to register for the event! […]
Fox News Media announced Thursday that Trump campaign adviser Harlan Z. Hill, a self-described Washington public relations and political consultant, is no longer welcome on their air after he tweeted that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris “comes off as an insufferable lying bitch.” “We have no intention of booking him as a guest on any of our platforms,” a Fox News Media spokesperson said in a statement to The Daily Beast, the morning after Hill—a frequent Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network guest over the past five years—unleashed his misogynistic attack on the Black California senator during her debate […]
Fortress On A Hill: Understanding The War Industry By Danny Sjursen, Fortress on a Hill. October 1, 2020 Fortress On A Hill: Understanding The War Industry2020-10-012020-10-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/foh-e1601566805917.jpg200px200px Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:41 — 31.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify | Blubrry | | More Christian Sorenson stops by the podcast to discuss his new book “Understanding the War Industry”, a detailed look at contracting within the U.S. military industrial complex and how its giant war chest gets funneled to an endless list of contractors, without question to its necessity or what could have been purchased in its place. Everyone from libertarians to mainstream liberals to anarchists utters the words […]
Anita Hill (shown here in 2017) is chair of the Hollywood Commission, which intends to combat sexual misconduct and gender inequities across the industry. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP Anita Hill (shown here in 2017) is chair of the Hollywood Commission, which intends to combat sexual misconduct and gender inequities across the industry. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP In the three years since the Harvey Weinstein story broke and the #MeToo movement took off, a new report finds that people working in Hollywood and the entertainment business say not enough has changed. The Hollywood Commission, a nonprofit that works to eradicate […]
Anita Hill speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2018 in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune hide caption toggle caption Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune Anita Hill speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2018 in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune Both Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anita Hill became cultural figures in their fight for gender equality. In the aftermath of Justice Ginsburg’s death, Hill says, “her legacy is so large.” “I think that her voice brought to the court her willingness to really […]
On September 11, 2017, Jemele Hill tweeted, “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounding himself w/ other white supremacists.” And, even though the 99-character pronouncement came a few weeks after Trump referred to a group of white nationalist protesters as “very fine people,” pearls were firmly clutched. A vocal faction of conservatives, including the president and his then-press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, called on ESPN to fire Hill. They publicly censured her instead, calling Hill’s actions “inappropriate” and strong-arming the SC6 co-host into issuing a half-hearted apology to the Worldwide Leader. Five months—and one tweet criticizing Cowboys’ owner […]
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 […]
Anti-Russia War Fever Spreads On Capitol Hill July 2, 2020 Anti-Russia War Fever Spreads On Capitol Hill2020-07-022020-07-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/afghanistan.oppose-e1593711469876.jpg200px200px Above photo: While politicians quibble, the US war against Afghanistan rages on. Zakeria Hashimi/Getty Images. Groups of congressional Republicans and Democrats have visited the White House over the past two days for briefings on allegations that the Russian military intelligence agency GRU offered bounties to Taliban fighters who killed American soldiers in Afghanistan. They have emerged bristling with demands for retaliation, with one Republican senator declaring, “I want to hear their plan for Taliban and GRU agents in body bags”—in other words, for military […]
Seattle Mayor Orders Police Clearing Of Capitol Hill Occupy Protest July 1, 2020 Seattle Mayor Orders Police Clearing Of Capitol Hill Occupy Protest2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/seattle-e1593630839689.jpg200px200px NOTE: Bear in mind when you read this that this article is from the corporate media and gives the police’s perspective, which may or may not be accurate. During the Occupy movement, camps were infiltrated by people from the extreme right as well as law enforcement who caused disruption to discredit the protests and police lied to do the same. Occupying space can be a great tactic to change the dialogue and show alternative ways of doing things […]
The Hill, Trump’s fake news generator for the Ukraine Scandal and the blocked impeachment, faked Biden corruption claims, now caught/busted! Politico: The owner of the news outlet that published the columns at the center of the Ukraine scandal helped secure an unpaid White House position for his wife — a fact the publication did not disclose to readers. Jimmy Finkelstein, a wealthy Manhattanite who owns The Hill, was sufficiently involved that he personally discussed his wife’s arrangement with White House lawyers. His wife, former CNN producer Pamela Gross, is a longtime friend of Melania Trump, and she volunteered to help the […]
Early Saturday morning, two people were shot—one fatally—inside the section of Seattle known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest Area (CHOP), a police-free zone that sprung up in the wake of anti-racism protests following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. The gunshots that rang out between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., killing a 19-year-old man and leaving another in critical condition, marked the first report of serious violence inside CHOP, where a largely festival-like atmosphere has prevailed. The protest area’s internal medical team, referred to as Medic One, transported two victims to the nearby Harborview Medical Center. “We had two […]
Life And Times At The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone By Shane Burley, ROAR Magazine. June 17, 2020 Life And Times At The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone2020-06-172020-06-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/one-of-the-entrances-to-the-chaz.-photo-by-derek-simeone-from-flickr-e1592408051577.png200px200px Above photo: One of the entrances to the CHAZ. Photo by Derek Simeone from Flickr. Following a long tradition of left revolutionary praxis, protesters in Seattle have declared a cop-free autonomous zone in the heart of the city. Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed one of the largest uprisings in recent US history. The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought millions of people in the US and around the world out […]
After a week of lusting for conflict in a six-block activist zone in Seattle, far-right figures went and made their own trouble. Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone—or CHAZ, although some newer stylings refer to it as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP—is a small protest area that emerged last week, after police vacated a nearby precinct and city leaders agreed to leave the streets open for Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Almost immediately, figures on the right looked for evidence that the loosely organized protest area was a den of violence and criminality, with President Donald Trump tweeting threats to send […]
Seattle’s bustling Capitol Hill neighborhood has long been a hotbed of gentrification, but right now, the streets surrounding Cal Anderson Park are undergoing a different kind of transformation. Over the past several days of its remarkable existence, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) has captured radical imaginations across the country, and struck fear into the hearts of conservative politicians and right-wing media pundits (including the president). Also known as the Seattle Autonomous Zone, the six blocks surrounding Seattle’s now-abandoned East Precinct have become a virtually cop-free space, populated instead by a diverse congregation of activists and community members who have turned […]
Protesters have set up barricades around the abandoned Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct after police retreated from Capitol Hill on Monday in what was approved by the city mayor as an act of “trust and de-escalation”. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and police chief Carmen Best appear to disagree on how to handle the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”, or “CHAZ”, set up by protesters around the East Precinct. Over the course of the events, Dunkan and Best have given contradicting statements concerning the “CHAZ”. Durkan has described the establishment of the “Cops Free Zone” as an act of “patriotism”, signaling that she sees […]
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Where Seattle Protesters Gather Without Police By Evan Bush, Seattle Times. June 12, 2020 The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Where Seattle Protesters Gather Without Police2020-06-122020-06-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/seattle-autonomous-zone-e1591927282924.jpg200px200px Above Photo: East Pine Street reopens to at least pedestrian traffic after Seattle police closed the East Precinct. Protesters surge toward the East Precinct as demonstrations continued. By Dean Rutz for The Seattle Times. Welcome to the CHAZ, the newly named Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where most everything was free Tuesday. Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could […]
Top shelf CBDCsThe House Financial Services Committee (FSC) Task Force on Financial Technology will convene Thursday to discuss digital currencies and other novel technologies. This includes a discussion on how FedAccounts and other digital tools might help the federal government distribute stimulus payments to help Americans suffering the economic fallout of COVID-19. The virtual hearing kicks off at noon Eastern (16:00 UTC), which you can watch here. Separately, ING Group, crypto custodian Copper, smart contract platform Cypherium and Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH have joined the Digital Monetary Institute (DMI), which seeks to research the adoption of digital currencies by central banks. Decentralized StorageArweave, a blockchain […]
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Forms Around Emptied East Precinct By Jake Goldstein-Street and Alex Garland, CapitolHillSeattle.com. June 11, 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Forms Around Emptied East Precinct2020-06-112020-06-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/chaz-e1591888459857.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Alex Garland. ‘Welcome to Free Capitol Hill.’ The first night in the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that has formed in the wake of police giving up the week-long blockade of the East Precinct was rainy and peaceful and full of speeches from activists, agitators, poets, and socialist city council members. “I guess whatever the fuck we’re doing is effective,” one organizer identified as Magik said over a megaphone early in the night as […]
Fortress On A Hill: Interview With Larry Wilkerson By Danny Sjursen, Fortress on a Hill. June 11, 2020 Fortress On A Hill: Interview With Larry Wilkerson2020-06-112020-06-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/postpics021-700×541-1-e1591884323451.jpg200px200px Powerful. That’s how I’d describe today’s episode. A deep dive into the mind of COL(R) Larry Wilkerson, his career as a U.S. Army officer to include combat in Vietnam, his close professional relationship with Colin Powell, his time at the State Department during the Bush II era, his thoughts on various conflicts to include Iraq and Syria, and his thoughts on the murder of George Floyd amidst the COVID-19 era. Lawrence Wilkerson’s last positions in […]
By sheer coincidence, Netflix’s Lenox Hill has arrived at just the right time. Directors Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash began work on their docu-series, set in an acute care hospital in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, in 2017—long before the novel coronavirus thrust health-care workers into the spotlight. The eight-hour series follows four physicians doing their best to care for their community—delivering babies, removing brain tumors, and, sometimes, providing care to patients who need a hot meal and a safe place to sleep even more than immediate medical attention. “It felt like an opportunity to really share with the world what we […]
Activists who established a commune around an abandoned police precinct in Seattle are finding out the hard way it’s not easy to run a revolution, dealing with food supply issues, internal squabbling and even a wannabe strongman. After Seattle PD vacated the East Precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Sunday, activists moved in and set up an “autonomous zone” spanning several city blocks, putting up barricades and “persuading” local residents and businesses to de facto separate from the city. Their creation has been dubbed the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ. “Right now at CHAZ there is food, security, bathrooms, […]
After police in Seattle, Washington retreated from the Capitol Hill neighborhood, protesters took over the abandoned ‘regime’ precinct and erected barricades to mark an ‘autonomous zone’ for several blocks around it. Six blocks of downtown Seattle have been declared the ‘Free Capitol Hill Zone’ or ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ (CHAZ), according to area activists that have taken control of Seattle PD’s East Precinct, on 12th Avenue and E. Pine Street. Journalist Julio Rosas tweeted out photos from the ‘Zone,’ including flyers demanding that Seattle PD be defunded, and declaring that police “will always be racist because capitalism requires inequality.” I’m outside […]
Popular sports commentator Jemele Hill has been challenged on social media after claiming that journalists should aim to serve as disrupters of society – a radical belief which she doesn’t seem to practice herself. Hill, who writes for the Atlantic, appeared on CNN to give her thoughts about a group of reporters who called in sick as a form of protest after their newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, published a column expressing concern that ongoing protests could damage historical buildings in the city. According to the former ESPN host, the group of journalists had every right to take a stand against the […]
Fortress On A Hill: Interiew With Kevin Zeese By Danny Sjursen, Fortress on a Hill. June 7, 2020 Fortress On A Hill: Interiew With Kevin Zeese2020-06-072020-06-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/maxresdefault-2-e1591538945489.jpg200px200px Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance stops by the podcast to discuss his path to becoming an activist during protests in the 60’s and 70’s, what he’s learned from Ralph Nader, police brutality and militarization, Kevin’s long standing work on the Vietnam war and Venezuela, and the dynamics of “lesser evil voting.” Kevin Zeese is a public interest attorney who has worked for economic, racial and environmental justice since graduating from George Washington Law School in 1980. He […]
Fortress On A Hill: Interview With Gareth Porter By Danny Sjursen, Fortress on a Hill. May 30, 2020 Fortress On A Hill: Interview With Gareth Porter2020-05-302020-05-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/gareth_porter_on_rt-e1590845819563.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Wikipedia. Gareth Porter has long been one of my favorite foreign policy writers and investigative journalists. Do check out his recent columns at the GrayZone! He stopped by the podcast to discuss his long standing work on the Vietnam war, his thoughts on COVID-19 via the USS Theodore Roosevelt along with his previous work on the 1919 flu epidemic, the terrifying connections between Mike Pompeo and Bibi Netanyahu, and Israel’s secret long standing nuclear […]
Fortress On A Hill: Rebecca Gordon And American Nuremberg By Danny Sjursen, Fortress on a Hill. May 9, 2020 Fortress On A Hill: Rebecca Gordon And American Nuremberg2020-05-092020-05-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/war_criminals_3-e1589040992826.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Wired.com. Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular and author of American Nuremberg: The Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post 9/11 War Crimes, stop by the podcast to discuss torture and moral injury in the post 9/11 world, her experiences in Nicaragua and South Africa, how past presidents paved the way for Donald Trump, and over-classication in the intelligence community. Transcript here: Episode 63 Transcript Rebecca Gordon received her B.A. from Reed College and her M.Div. […]
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Even a global pandemic and economic crisis isn’t enough to break President Trump’s perception of the Democratic House as a den of haters and losers who care more about hurting him than about helping the American public. Asked on Tuesday why he wasn’t permitting members of his coronavirus task force to testify in front of the House, Trump responded that the chamber is a “set-up” that’s full of “Trump haters.” “They,” said Trump, “frankly, want our situation to be unsuccessful, which means death.” It was a remarkable bit of open political retaliation that not only undercut the White House’s official line—that […]