Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition July 11, 2020 Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/surveillance-e1594489812130.jpg200px200px Above photo: We see the videos of the people police hurt and kill—but the surveillance that led to that brutality is often hidden from us. Jon Shireman/Getty Images. What’s happening in Detroit should be a […]
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If there’s one thing we can thank the coronavirus pandemic for, it’s a math lesson. Watching an infection lead to two, then four, then eight, then 16, then 32, then 64, then 128 and so on, people found a real-world reason to comprehend the phenomenon of exponentiality. Without such context, […]
Solidarity Means Dismantling The System Everywhere By Progressive International. June 19, 2020 Solidarity Means Dismantling The System Everywhere2020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/pi.png200px200px Above photo: By Marco Grasso. PI Council members on the uprising in the United States and around the world. A new solidarity movement is rising. From Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Minneapolis […]
Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation By Dorothy Roberts, Chronicle of Social Change. June 17, 2020 Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation2020-06-172020-06-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/parents-e1592407928700.png200px200px Above photo: Jaquelyn Martin/AP. The uprisings taking place across the nation and the world have brought unprecedented attention to abolition as a political vision and organizing strategy. […]
Cell culture operators prepare a 2000-liter single-use bioreactor to produce proteins used to make vaccines. Philip Taciak/Emergent Biosolutions hide caption toggle caption Philip Taciak/Emergent Biosolutions Cell culture operators prepare a 2000-liter single-use bioreactor to produce proteins used to make vaccines. Philip Taciak/Emergent Biosolutions Once upon a time, developing a new […]
The largest 50-day “Robinhood” rally in stock market history and even stocks of bankrupt companies are up more than 100%. What is going on? Saudi Arabia injects $13 billion in bank liquidity via blockchain. China’s state TV CCTV says Binance is still allowing crypto trading in China. MakerDAO community greenlights […]
With US President Donald Trump clashing with social media behemoth Twitter, what does the fight over ‘Section 230’ really mean and can decentralization offer a better solution? U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday, seeking to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents […]
In the nearly eight years since I first described millennials as “the screwed generation,” things have only worsened for those born between 1982 and 2000—and the coronavirus is now accelerating that slide. In the midst of a pandemic, millennials are twice as likely to be uninsured as Boomers (PDF). Despite […]
Beijing Biden on Saturday once again showed he is a globalist who will not put America first. China Joe said to the class of 2020: “Some of you will redefine what it means to be a global citizen and lead the way in uniting people regardless of age, gender, race, […]
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty Two years ago, the voices of survivors of sexual harassment and assault launched an unprecedented movement the world over, using Tarana Burke’s MeToo framework. That one moment was a spark into the unknown, but the movement itself was no happy accident. It was […]
The news that Ronaldo ‘”Jacare” Souza, plus his two cornermen, tested positive coronavirus test couldn’t have come at a worse time for the UFC, who had done everything they could to mitigate risk ahead of UFC 249 The event, which is set to be the first major sporting event in […]
Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End Of Easy Pipeline Permits By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog. May 5, 2020 Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End Of Easy Pipeline Permits2020-05-052020-05-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/keystone-xl-pipeline-in-texas42_credit-julie-dermansky-e1588702492962.jpg200px200px Above photo: Construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL, now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline, under a road in Texas in […]