Manchester’s Student Revolt By Sarah Cundy, Tribune Magazine. November 15, 2020 Manchester’s Student Revolt2020-11-152020-11-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/manchester-e1605483426880.jpeg200px200px After going on rent strike and tearing down fences on campus, students at the University of Manchester have begun an occupation. Their aim: to confront a university sector which sees them as little more than cash cows. November 13, 2020 – As of yesterday, University of Manchester students have occupied Owens Park […]
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On Thursday the United Kingdom made it “perfectly clear” it had no intention of complying with the EU demands that it ditch plans to rewrite parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Deal “by the end of the month”, as Brussels stated that Boris Johnson’s government had “seriously damaged trust” and did not rule out taking legal action against the UK. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is increasingly […]
In the last two years Yevgeny Prigozhin, working through a series of cut-outs and front organizations, has partnered with a host of racist and fascist activists in Europe to stir up, of all things, purportedly anti-colonialist politics in sub-Saharan Africa. The oligarch coyly referred to in the international media as “Putin’s chef” but identified by the U.S. and European governments as a well-heeled emissary of the […]
Scheer Intelligence: The Revolt Of The Black Athlete By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. August 28, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Scheer Intelligence: The Revolt Of The Black Athlete2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/page-header-14.jpg200px200px Above photo: Howard Bryant. Brittany Martin. The ESPN writer’s book explores the responsibilities placed upon professional black athletes from Jackie Robinson to LeBron James to be role models for social justice. Editor’s Note: We’re reposting this episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” with […]
Editors and executives at Newsweek, a formerly prestigious and popular magazine that in recent years has suffered from self-inflicted wounds and even a criminal investigation of its business practices, are once again digging themselves out of a public relations hole. Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Nancy Cooper and the magazine’s recently-hired opinion editor, Trump-backing conservative activist and attorney Josh Hammer, apologized on Friday after nearly a week of defending […]
At least 360 Democrat delegates, mostly Bernie Sanders supporters, have signed a pledge to vote against a Democrat national platform that does not include medicare for all. According to Politico’s delegate tracker, Biden has 2,632 delegates and Sanders currently has 1,076. The Dems are holding a ‘virtual’ DNC in Milwaukee in just three weeks and it looks there may be a repeat of the 2016 convention. […]
When Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced she would sign a mask-wearing mandate Wednesday, she wasn’t just protecting her citizens—she was adding fire to a growing revolt over Gov. Brian Kemp’s refusal to require face coverings in Georgia. “Atlanta is going to do it today because the fact of the matter is that COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on our city, specifically black and brown communities with […]
Democrat tyrant Gavin Newsom and other officials shut down 4th of July festivities in California due to a ‘surge in Coronavirus cases.’ Newsom closed down beaches, bars, restaurants and museums, but his winery, Plumpjack Winery in Napa Valley is still open for business. Advertisement – story continues below Californians revolted and celebrated anyway by lighting up the sky with thousands of illegal fireworks. Aerial footage over […]
Growing Revolt Among Black Journalists By Betsey Piette, Workers World. June 15, 2020 Growing Revolt Among Black Journalists2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2013/08/Malcolm-X-on-the-Media3-150×117.jpg200px200px In a historic week that has witnessed demonstrations, too numerous to count, against police brutality in the aftermath of the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, another anti-racist movement is growing. As reports surface of police intentionally targeting journalists across the U.S, especially Black […]
New York Times opinion editor James Bennet on Sunday announced that he has resigned, effectively immediately, following an internal revolt over Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column published last week. The newspaper announced that Katie Kingsbury, will step in as an interim opinion page editor through the election; and that Bennet’s deputy editor Jim Dao is being reassigned back to the newsroom. In […]
The New York Times apologized to its staff on Friday in a lengthy, tense meeting in which the paper’s top editors strongly suggested they will overhaul the oft-controversial and scrutinized opinion page. Earlier this week, the Times published an op-ed, headlined “Send in the Troops,” in which Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) enthusiastically called for the deployment of American military forces to suppress the ongoing protests against […]
Push Back: US Police State Faces Revolt By Aaron Maté, The Grayzone. June 5, 2020 Push Back: US Police State Faces Revolt2020-06-052020-06-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/horne-may-31st-1.jpg200px200px Dr. Gerald Horne on the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump’s expansion of the US police state at home and around the world. Historian and author Gerald Horne discusses the US uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism sparked by George […]
Republican Senator Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed calling for the military to be used to stop the rioting in American cities. That is a position shared by a majority of Americans. The New York Times published Cotton’s column, and now the far left activists pretending to be journalists at the paper are freaking out. Townhall reports: TRENDING: Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti Will Cut $150 Million From […]