The latest opinion poll on support for independence has reported its findings on Wednesday and they make grim reading for the dwindling band of British state apologists. Since the beginning of 2020 eleven separate opinion polls in succession have recorded majority support for independence at anywhere between 51% to 55%. Now the twelfth has rocked the shaky Westminster foundations and set off alarm bells throughout unionist […]
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The Economy Of Sharing Is Alive during Nicaragua’s Independence Celebration By Jorge Capelán, Alliance for Global Justice. September 17, 2020 The Economy Of Sharing Is Alive during Nicaragua’s Independence Celebration2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/nica-1-e1600346363813.jpg200px200px Above photo: Pinterest. Note: AFGJ’s NicaNotes hosted a Webinar on Sept. 13 entitled The Smoking Gun: Recent Revelations about U.S. Destabilization Efforts in Nicaragua with Magda Lanuza, Coleen Littlejohn, Brian Willson and Nan McCurdy about current US intervention […]
Earlier this week, Shetland Islands Council leader Steven Coutts singled out the Scottish government’s alleged funding cuts and the Scottish National Party’s centralised decision-making as major factors that prompted the council to push for the archipelago’s independence. The Council of Shetland Islands, an archipelago in North Atlantic Ocean which has a population of just about 23,000 people, has almost unanimously passed a motion aimed at exploring […]
Councillors on Scotland’s Shetland Islands archipelago have voted in favor of exploring “financial and political self-determination” amid growing public funding cuts under Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP government. The council voted 18 to two in favour of seeking increased independence against a backdrop of significant unease at the direction Scotland is taking in recent months, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Brexit deliberations. The motion, signed […]
A Ukrainian opposition MP has accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of imposing a “little Russians” complex on Ukrainians, after the country’s Independence Day celebration featured songs performed in the Russian language. The accusation came from Oleg Sinyutka, a representative of the center-right European Solidarity, an opposition party that supports keeping Ukrainian as the sole official language, despite the country having millions of native Russian speakers. “What we […]
By Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today Every year when India celebrates Independence Day on August 15, Kashmiris, living on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and Pakistanis, including those of the world observe it as the Black Day to convey the message to the international community that New Delhi continues to usurp their inalienable right of self-determination. During the partition of the Sub-continent, […]
India, which obtained its freedom from British rule on 15 August 1947, is celebrating its Independence Day today. Even though the celebrations remained muted this year due to social distancing norms amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Indians took to social media to mark the occasion. India’s Independence Day celebrations ruled social media with hashtags like Independence Day, Jai Hind (Hail India), and 15 August featuring as […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/03/1080041788_0:117:3008:1809_1200x675_80_0_0_073cdb9c112e84f3a9ea300cdc00dfab.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008031080041769-video-new-york-police-department-releases-video-of-independence-day-shooting-in-brooklyn/ The New York Police Department (NYPD) Crime Stoppers Program on Sunday released surveillance camera footage of a shooting that took place on Sheffield Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, as a means of including the public in the search for the gunman. In the video, the victim, a 21-year-old man, appears to be chatting with another person on Sheffield Avenue, […]
MADRID (Sputnik) – The government of Spain’s Catalonia autonomous region on Tuesday announced a decision to soften prison conditions for politicians responsible for the so-called independence referendum in 2017. Earlier this month, the administrations of three prisons, where the aforementioned politicians are serving their sentences, requested to ease their confinement status. Several months ago, they were allowed to leave prisons for several hours for work or […]
Pulling Down Statues: A Tradition Dating Back To US Independence By Andrew Lawler, National Geographic. July 10, 2020 Pulling Down Statues: A Tradition Dating Back To US Independence2020-07-102020-07-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/william_walcutt_statue_george_iii-e1594407892394.png200px200px Above photo: ”Pulling Down the Statue of George III”, William Walcutt (1819-1882), painting in oils. Wikimedia. Enthusiasm for the American Revolution led colonists to burn, disfigure, and deface any symbol of Britain and its hated king. Fireworks, bands, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107980/45/1079804514_0:0:3575:2011_1200x675_80_0_0_8ade4e27cb7991714e8012f18014ae0a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007061079804548-hundreds-of-blazes-break-out-in-southern-california-amid-illegal-independence-day-fireworks-/ Firework displays have been cancelled for the 4th July celebration in Los Angeles and its neighbourhoods due to coronavirus-related concerns as the number of cases has surged in the recent days. Firefighters in Southern California have been scrambled to respond to several hundred fires that broke out across the state as illegal fireworks lit up the skies in celebration […]
This is the modern day left — America hating, whitey hating bigots. On Sunday morning Tiffany Cross filled in for Joy Reid on MSNBC. During her monologue Cross labeled the 4th of July “Independence Day for white men” and compared Trump voters to “colonizing slave owners.” Tiffany Cross: And so here we are celebrating the birth of a nation, independence for white men at a site […]
I spent most of the day, the Fourth of July, thinking about cemeteries, the past, America in the rear-view mirror. I thought about all our dead buried in Europe and the Pacific, at Arlington, in small towns and big cities here, their lives, service and sacrifice; a rather quiet, anonymous reminder of who and what our wounded country delivered to the world as a gift called […]
Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner If British Had Defeated Colonists’ Bid For Independence? By Keith Brooks, www.blackagendareport.com July 4, 2020 Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner If British Had Defeated Colonists’ Bid For Independence?2020-07-042020-07-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-07-at-8.58.15-AM-e1499432660389-150×98.png200px200px Above Photo: From blackagendareport.com Note: This article was first published on July 7, 2017.KZ By the evidence of their actions, most Blacks wanted the British to defeat their white settler masters. Most Native Americans, […]
For the 4th of July The Drudge Report highlighted four websites on its front page. Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Zero Hedge and the far left website Axios. Advertisement – story continues below What’s that about? Drudge has been moving towards the left the last few years. Today it is unrecognizable for most of its readers. TRENDING: Two Women Activists Hit by Car on I-5 Outside Seattle […]
Black Lives Matter held a protest in Nashville on Fourth of July this afternoon.Thousands of people turned out. Several thousand people gather at Bicentennial Park to rally for equality and freedom on the 4th of July @WKRN #wkrn pic.twitter.com/I4qfcXS8B4 — ValenciaNews2 (@ValenciaWicker) July 4, 2020 Advertisement – story continues below The BLM protesters did not burn down the historic courthouse this time.They already did that in […]
Fresh off an astonishingly incendiary speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday night, President Trump picked up where he left off on Saturday and took aim at the media—bizarrely claiming that journalists who call out racism somehow “slander” the entire country and all U.S. military veterans. “To those in the media, who falsely and consistently label their opponents as racists, who condemn patriotic citizens…When you level these […]
Colin Kaepernick is an American free-agent football quarterback and a political activist, who supported the protests against police brutality and racial injustice, kneeling during the national anthem. Colin Kaepernick, an American footballer and a civil rights activist, opposed in his Twitter account the celebration of the US Independence day, saying that “we reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all”. Kaepernick […]
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/202007041079795555-trump-hosts-independence-day-celebrations-amid-fears-of-covid-19-pandemic—video/ Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, Independence Day celebrations will generally not see barbeque parties and massive gatherings to “ensure the health and safety of those attending”. US President Donald Trump is hosting a 4th of July celebratory event “2020 Salute America”, despite concerns expressed by lawmakers and health officials over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event takes place […]
By Edward Lozansky For many open-minded Americans and Russians it has become a tradition to congratulate each other on their independence days, which are June 12 for Russia and July 4 for America. This year we decided to note some Russian artistic works, which in the current political atmosphere might speak better than words when sending best wishes to America. We are talking about sculptures of […]
A group of demonstrators in Portland has torn down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of a school bearing his name, fanning the flames of a growing cultural divide in the US as activists target landmarks deemed racist. Around 1,000 people gathered at Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon on Sunday to listen to speeches before setting off on a Black Lives Matter march across […]
A Mount Rushmore Independence Day celebration that will be attended by President Donald Trump will not mandate social distancing, nor will it limit the number of attendees due to the coronavirus, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Thursday. The National Parks Service is giving out 7,500 tickets by lottery for the July 3 fireworks display, which will mark the first time in a decade fireworks have […]