Over 100 Rebellions In Jails And Prisons Over COVID19 Conditions By Ella Fassler, Truthout. November 21, 2020 Over 100 Rebellions In Jails And Prisons Over COVID19 Conditions2020-11-212020-11-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/covidprison.png200px200px Above image: Lauren Walker, Truthout. U.S jails and prisons, already death traps, have been completely ravaged by COVID-19. Crowded quarters, a lack of PPE, inadequate medical care, an aging population, and unsanitary conditions have contributed to an infection rate 5.5 times higher than the already ballooned average in the U.S. As of this writing, over 252,000 people in jails and prisons have been infected and at least 1,450 incarcerated people and officers have died from the novel coronavirus. Evidence suggests […]
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Scheer Intelligence: How Today’s Uprisings Compare To The 1960s Rebellions By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. September 18, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: How Today’s Uprisings Compare To The 1960s Rebellions2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/losang-e1600445188454.jpg200px200px Above image: “Los Angeles Revolution.” By Mr. Fish. The movements of the sixties, which are captured in detail in “Set the Night on Fire,” are seen as wildly successful. Is it possible Black Lives Matter will be even more so? The 1960s live on in U.S. memory as an era of counterculture rebellions and the civil rights movement that changed the course of the nation’s history. The mass uprisings that took place from coast to […]
Rebellions Break Out In Lafayette And Kenosha August 26, 2020 Rebellions Break Out In Lafayette And Kenosha2020-08-262020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/befunky-collage101.jpg200px200px Solidarity Marches Hit The Streets. A new round of uprisings has kicked off across the so-called United States following the police killings of Trayford Pellerin, “a 31-year-old Black man who was fatally shot Friday night” in Lafayette, New Orleans and 29-year-old Jacob Blake, also Black, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Pellerin was killed after police were called to the scene of a convenience store after someone called in reports of a man walking around with a knife. Police responded by first tasering Pallerin and then shooting him […]