Lecturers Show Solidarity With Students Following ‘Racial Profiling’ By Damon Wilkinson, Manchester Evening News. November 18, 2020 Lecturers Show Solidarity With Students Following ‘Racial Profiling’2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/umanch-e1605711342914.jpg200px200px Above photo: Staff read out a statement in solidarity with protesting students. Vincent Cole Manchester Evening News. Staff told students ‘We are with you. We are here for you.’ University of Manchester, UK – Teaching staff held a show of solidarity […]
Solidarity
34 posts
The Future Of Pandemic Solidarity By Colectiva Sembrar, Red Pepper. October 25, 2020 The Future Of Pandemic Solidarity2020-10-252020-10-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/pandemic-solidarity.jpg200px200px Above photo: Favela de Mare in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Davi Marcos. The pandemic has channelled our collective rage and constructed new visions of what is possible. In their recent book Pandemic Solidarity, Colectiva Sembrar (Sowing Seeds Collective) collected first-hand experiences from around the world of people creating their […]
Say Racism’s Name, And Fight It With Solidarity By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. October 22, 2020 Say Racism’s Name, And Fight It With Solidarity2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/haiphong_845x400_1-1.jpeg200px200px Black Lives Matter is the internal enemy while China is considered the most dangerous foe to U.S. hegemony. “Anti-China and anti-Black racism are intimately connected.” The following remarks were given at Stand Up to Racism’s International Conference on October 17th entitled “Black Lives Matter […]
Solidarity With Colombia’s Indigenous Minga And National Strike! By the Alliance for Global Justice. October 21, 2020 Solidarity With Colombia’s Indigenous Minga And National Strike!2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/indigenas-colombianos-768×433-1-e1603281028362.jpg200px200px Above photo: AFP. Take Action: Send an email to Colombian authorities in support of the Minga and national strike! Demand their rights be respected to demonstrate free of repression by the public forces. The people of Colombia are coming together yet […]
Solidarity, Direct Action, And Self-Determination: Kasa Invisível By Meghan McGee, GEO-coop. October 9, 2020 Solidarity, Direct Action, And Self-Determination: Kasa Invisível2020-10-092020-10-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/kasa-invisivel-2-e1602250158810.jpg200px200px Above photo: The flagship occupation of Kasa Invisível. An Occupied Social Center Becomes a Hub of Mutual Aid in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The Zapatistas have said the best solidarity anyone can offer is to start their own social centers, projects, movements, and revolutions wherever they […]
Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly member María Alejandra Díaz called the court victory a step forward, but feared the British government Bank of England would use stalling tactics to avoid transferring the 31 tons of bullion to the UN Development Programme to buy humanitarian aid for South American country. British solidarity campaigners have hailed the reversal of a High Court ruling that handed £1 billion in Venezuelan […]
Shutting Down AFRICOM, International Solidarity And The US Elections By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. October 5, 2020 Shutting Down AFRICOM, International Solidarity And The US Elections2020-10-052020-10-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/usoutof-africa.jpg200px200px October 1, 2020, marked the twelfth anniversary of AFRICOM, the United States military’s presence in Africa. An international day of action was organized to call for AFRICOM to be shut down and for the US to stop interfering in […]
Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic By Alice Herman, In These Times. October 2, 2020 Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/rest-e1601665058621.jpg200px200px Above photo: Augie’s Coffee, a coffee chain in the Inland Empire of California, laid off 54 employees during the pandemic only a week after workers announced they would unionize, leading employees to stage a strike in July. Members of the Augie’s Union […]
Such ties were ‘fundamental’ to efforts to tackle economic decline caused by the pandemic, the state newspaper said at a state visit between Moscow and Havana this week. Solidarity and friendship marked the close relationship between the Russian and Cuban governments amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Cuban state media Granma wrote on Thursday. The comments come after a meeting between Cuban first deputy prime minister, Ricardo […]
Zapatistas Need Solidarity After Coffee Harvest Burned By Solidarity From Below, ROAR Magazine. September 27, 2020 Zapatistas Need Solidarity After Coffee Harvest Burned2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/zaps-e1601223311438.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Stallabrass / Flickr. The Zapatistas need your solidarity after targeted attacks by government-linked paramilitaries destroyed much of this year’s coffee harvest. On August 22, 2020, the ORCAO paramilitary organization looted and burned two Zapatista coffee warehouses in Cuxuljá, Chiapas. This is […]
Solidarity Across Species By Astra Taylor and Sunaura Taylor, Dissent Magazine. September 24, 2020 Solidarity Across Species2020-09-242020-09-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/meat-e1600970643603.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Workers at Jones Meat & Food Services in Rigby, Idaho on May 26, 2020. Natalie Behring/AFP via Getty Images. The destruction and exploitation of non-human life has forced different kinds of animals into closer and closer contact with each other, increasing the likelihood that viruses like COVID-19 will […]
New Simón Bolívar Institute For Peace And Solidarity Among Peoples By Arnold August, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. September 17, 2020 New Simón Bolívar Institute For Peace And Solidarity Among Peoples2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/isb-e1600357142169.jpg200px200px Above photo: Foreign Relations Ministry of Venezuela. A Refreshing Contribution from Venezuela to the World. The founding of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples on September 6, 2020 marks a new political […]
Israel and the US, which pulled out of the WHO this year, tried to reverse a UN call on member states to join forces in battling Covid-19, including by halting hostilities and sanctions that hinder the pandemic response. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has overwhelmingly supported a comprehensive resolution for “intensified international cooperation and solidarity to contain, mitigate and overcome the pandemic and its consequences.” The […]
New: Simón Bolívar Institute For Peace And Solidarity Among Peoples By César Torres, Mppre.gob.ve. September 10, 2020 New: Simón Bolívar Institute For Peace And Solidarity Among Peoples2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/sbi-e1599738276325.jpg200px200px Caracas, VZ – On Sunday, September 6, 205 years since the publication of the Jamaica Letter, the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples was inaugurated as a new space for the research, dissemination, debate, solidarity and strengthening […]
A Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights on Monday night confronted white diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. A black woman Monday night led several hundred protesters through DC’s Columbia Heights to protest the shooting of alleged sex offender Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The black activist asked the white protesters to step forward. […]
By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News Thousands of letters stuffed with money flooded Jonas Salk’s mailbox the week after his polio vaccine was declared safe and effective in 1955. Everybody wanted his vaccine. Desperate parents clogged doctors’ phone lines in search of the precious elixir; drug companies and doctors diverted doses to the rich and famous. Some of the first batches of the vaccine were disastrously […]
Land-Based Ethics And Settler Solidarity In A Time Of Corona And Revolution By Natalie Avalos, The Arrow. July 29, 2020 Land-Based Ethics And Settler Solidarity In A Time Of Corona And Revolution2020-07-292020-07-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/art-agricultre-ane-indusrry-e1596047892349.png200px200px Settler colonialism has been defined as a structure, not an event, meaning that settler societies like the U.S., Canada, and Australia endure over time through racist laws and ideologies that naturalize the dispossession of Indigenous […]
Human Solidarity And A Global Health Commons By Christian Laval, ROAR Magazine. July 17, 2020 Human Solidarity And A Global Health Commons2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/03/health-care-human-right-1024-850×567-e1521629685903.jpg200px200px To protect ourselves against this pandemic, we need to consider health as a global commons, with solidarity as public health’s first line of defense. The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us of the most fundamental features of the human condition: the solidarity that exists between humans […]
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 to London, “Black Lives Matter” is a cry and a demand heard around the world. The […]
Solidarity And The Absent State In Puerto Rico By Pedro Cabán, Dissent Magazine. June 17, 2020 Solidarity And The Absent State In Puerto Rico2020-06-172020-06-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/a-protest-in-front-of-the-puertp-rican-governors-mansion-on-january-23-2020.-by-jose-jimenez-from-getty-images-e1592409640592.jpeg200px200px Above photo: A protest in front of the Puertp Rican governor’s mansion on January 23, 2020. By Jose Jimenez from Getty Images. Last year, Puerto Ricans rose up against a government that had grown corrupt, callous, and inept. When the archipelago was devastated by […]
Whether or not police officers should ‘take the knee’ has become the subject of widespread debate throughout the UK and US. However, one police force in Britain may have now taken things to a new, and potentially troubling, level. A UK police force has called upon its officers to “take the knee” as a gesture of solidarity with Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors, or risk facing […]
Global Solidarity With US Anti-Racist Rebellion By People’s Movements and Organizations, Anti-Imperialist Week. June 13, 2020 Global Solidarity With US Anti-Racist Rebellion2020-06-132020-06-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/masai-e1592053997813.jpg200px200px Above photo: A Maasai man in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, next to a mural of George Floyd, painted by the artist Allan Mwangi on June 3. Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP via Getty Images. International Declaration of People’s Movements and Organizations in solidarity with the Anti-Racist […]
Court of Human Rights Deals Major Blow To Israel’s War On Palestine Solidarity By Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), BDS. June 12, 2020 Court of Human Rights Deals Major Blow To Israel’s War On Palestine Solidarity2020-06-122020-06-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/bds-from-french-bds-movement-e1591988349918.jpg200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators holding a banner reading “Against colonization and apartheid in Palestine, Boycott of Israeli products,” march through the northern district of Marseille, southern France, during an international demonstration in […]
Over A Thousand Cyclists Take Over City Streets On Solidarity Protest Ride By Elizabeth Kim, Caroline Lewis, Ben Yakas, JB Nicholas, Jake Offenhartz and Karen Yi, Gothamist. June 10, 2020 Over A Thousand Cyclists Take Over City Streets On Solidarity Protest Ride2020-06-102020-06-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/cyclists-crossing-the-williamsburg-bridge-during-a-black-lives-matter-ride-on-june-8th-2020.-by-jake-offenhartz-for-the-gothamist.-e1591807917645.jpg200px200px Above photo: Cyclists crossing the Williamsburg Bridge during a Black Lives Matter ride on June 8th, 2020. By Jake Offenhartz for the Gothamist. Over A Thousand Cyclists Travel From Brooklyn To Manhattan […]
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo (right) kneels as the hearse of George Floyd arrives to North Central University ahead of funeral service on Thursday. Protests in the wake of Floyd’s death while in police custody has erupted across the country. The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Im hide caption toggle caption The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Im Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo (right) […]
Open Letter: African Writers In Solidarity With African Americans June 6, 2020 Open Letter: African Writers In Solidarity With African Americans2020-06-062020-06-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/writers-e1591461023952.jpg200px200px Authors voice support for US protesters seeking justice for George Floyd’s killing, urge more action by African Union. Writers from across Africa and the diaspora have co-signed a letter of support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the face of growing protests in the […]
Solidarity Gardens Launched To Address Food Disruption And Insecurity By Solidarity Gardens CU. June 6, 2020 Solidarity Gardens Launched To Address Food Disruption And Insecurity2020-06-062020-06-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/solidarity_gardens-800×400.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Solidarity Gardens CU. Champaign-Urbana, IL – Individuals and organizations are encouraged and empowered to plant gardens throughout the Champaign-Urbana area and donate use of land, garden supplies, and expertise through a newly launched initiative, Solidarity Gardens CU, in order to […]
A Maasai man in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, prays next to a mural of George Floyd, painted by the artist Allan Mwangi on June 3. Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP via Getty Images A Maasai man in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, prays next to a mural of George Floyd, painted by the artist Allan Mwangi on […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a knee in support of the anti-racist protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd at an Ottawa rally, but was quickly reminded of little action on racial issues at home. Trudeau joined dozens of demonstrators outside the Canadian parliament who rallied in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and over the death of Floyd, an […]
Alexis Ohanian Sr, a co-founder of the social news website Reddit, has resigned amid massive protests over George Floyd’s killing. He urged for his position to be filled by a black person, and for other white CEOs to follow suit. Ohanian, Reddit’s executive head also known by the username kn0thing, announced his decision in a statement on his website, as well as in a series of […]
Venezuela And Iran Show Solidarity Can Overcome US Empire By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. May 24, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter Venezuela And Iran Show Solidarity Can Overcome US Empire2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/iran-and-venezuelan-flags-e1590360438670.png200px200px Commemorating 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths The official milestone of 100,000 dead in the United States from COVID-19 is near. This figure is certainly an undercount as thousands of deaths from COVID-19 are not being […]
Mutual Aid: Building Networks Of Solidarity Not Charity By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. May 11, 2020 Mutual Aid: Building Networks Of Solidarity Not Charity2020-05-112020-05-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/eleanor-e1589216856619.png200px200px In the face of the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic collapse, people are organizing mutual aid networks to provide food, medicines and other basics to those in need. This is done in the spirit of […]
Above: Women of San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia pose with the baskets in which they would usually carry fruits and sweets to sell. By Ricardo Maldonado Rozo/EFE. The COVID-19 pandemic has left a massive amount of disease, death and despair in its stride, and will continue to seriously trouble the world even in its wake. As the result, it has posed a formidable threat to the enjoyment […]