Above Photo: Garcia speaking at a demonstration for abortion rights in New York City, shortly after the draft decision was leaked (Photo via: the Party for Socialism and Liberation) Karina Garcia, a socialist feminist activist, spoke to Peoples Dispatch in the wake of the Roe v. Wade draft decision. On the night of May 3, a US Supreme Court draft decision regarding the landmark Roe v. Wade decision was leaked to the press. As per the draft, penned by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court is set to overturn the historic decision, eliminating the right to abortion for millions of women. In response, thousands have taken to […]
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice and equality. – Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots, November 10, 1963 While the land relationships that dominate this society have implications for every relation in society, the recent crisis of gentrification and forced removal in low income Black communities, along with the volatile boom-bust real estate cycles, has made the struggle for adequate housing the most pronounced battleground in an increasingly intense war over the vision for the future of how we relate, prioritize and manage access to land. The current regime of […]
Above photo: Phakamile Hlubi-Majola on Twitter. After a year of ongoing crisis, Peoples Dispatch looks back on some of the most important labor struggles of this past year. Working people across the globe are gearing up celebrate International Worker’s Day this May 1. Workers have been participating in monumental struggles since the previous year’s May Day, making this year’s celebration well-deserved. Peoples Dispatch looks back on some of the most important labor struggles of this past year: In Colombia, the National Strike Committee (CNP), which brought together diverse groups of social movements, organizations and trade unions, presented ten bills in Congress, which included […]
Pentagon-led politico-military alliance continues to serve as major impediment to peace, liberation and a just world system. Note: This paper was prepared and delivered in part to a webinar entitled: “The Case Against NATO” which featured presentations from various scholars and activists around the world. The speakers, in addition to Abayomi Azikiwe, were Carlos Run, the Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and the President of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples; Kate Hudson, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Jenny Clegg, former lecturer in International Studies and long-time China specialist; […]
Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize By Saladin Muhammad, Black Agenda Report. March 25, 2022 Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize2022-03-252022-03-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220325-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Amazon union supporter in Bessemer, Alabama, 2021 (William Thornton / al.com). Amazon union supporter in Bessemer, Alabama, 2021 (Photo: William Thornton/al.com) The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization. Bessemer, Alabama – The second Bessemer Alabama Amazon workers and Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) labor board union vote will be counted starting on March 28th. It comes as […]
Minneapolis Teachers’ Strike Is A Struggle For Black Lives By Adnan Ahmed, Left Voice. March 12, 2022 Minneapolis Teachers’ Strike Is A Struggle For Black Lives2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Luigi Morris. The Minneapolis teachers’ strike is the largest strike in the U.S. right now — and it’s an anti-racist class struggle. The Minneapolis teachers’ strike kicked off this week with a huge turnout. Over 4,000 teachers and Educational Support Professionals (ESPs) are on strike for the first time in 50 years. The teachers are demanding smaller class sizes, increased wages (especially for ESPs who are mostly people of color), increased mental health […]
Above Photo: Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Dickelbers, via Wikimedia Commons. When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbors followed the event with keen interest as they gathered in the living room of my old home in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. This emotional event took place years before Mandela uttered his famous quote “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”. For us Palestinians Mandela did not need to reaffirm the South African people’s solidarity with Palestine by using these words or any other combination of words. We already knew. […]
Above Photo: Ian Clotworthy. At the end of May 2021, I found myself behind a table in Tempelhof Field, Berlin’s largest public park, helping children print dandelions alongside the slogan Wir Bleiben Alle (We’re all staying) in multiple languages onto bright yellow paper. In the windswept park, papers blew away like dandelion seeds, crashing into the tables behind me where others were screen printing and spray painting Enteignen! (Expropriate!) onto T-shirts and purple and yellow flags. Nearby, speakers from diverse migrant movements gave multilingual testimonies interspersed with upbeat music and dance from social movements around the world. This joyous rally was organized by Right to the […]
The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how truly interconnected our world is, how superficial colonial borders are, and thus how the struggle for freedom must link localized organizing to broader global insurgencies. Of course, this is not new. Though our epoch offers unique challenges, problems, and articulations of the dialectic between repression and resistance, history doesn’t repeat itself—but it rhymes. In a world structured by racial capitalism, white supremacy, and imperialism, Blackness has often been the antithesis of freedom. After legal emancipation from racial slavery, freedom for Black folks has generally meant freedom to die and suffer—or simply […]
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the struggle against industrial agriculture with author Daniel J. O’Connell. The San Joaquin Valley in California is the most agriculturally productive farmland in the United States, but it is also plagued by high levels of poverty and water pollution, as well as the serious health risks that come with constant exposure to pesticides. These huge corporate farms in California, established over the last century, became the model for modern agrobusiness designed to exploit a transient labor force, bankrupt, and seize small family farms, exhaust the soil, and drain the aquifers and reservoirs. These agrobusinesses use […]
Above Photo: A woman from the Matagalpa’s Rural Women’s Cooperative of the Rural Workers’ Association (ATC) shucks corn. Friends of the ATC. Erika Takeo and Rohan Rice reflect on the advancement of women in Nicaragua since the Sandinista revolution. “Throughout Central America, women are actively mobilizing for their rights; the crucial difference in Nicaragua is that the new government has a commitment to support them. The challenges they face are similar to those faced by each of the neighboring republics – but only in Nicaragua have concrete opportunities for change arisen.” – Helen Collinson et al., ‘Women and Revolution in Nicaragua’ […]
Above Photo: Six months in, strikers continue to picket in a tough strike at United Metro Energy in Brooklyn. (New York Teamsters) As the rich and comfortable stayed indoors and rode out the worst months of the pandemic on their Peloton bikes, workers around the country shifted into a different gear. Ten thousand farming equipment workers in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, and Georgia walked out of their jobs, joining 1,400 cereal workers at Kellogg’s plants in Nebraska, Michigan, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania, as well as 1,100 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama and nurses in New York and Massachusetts. And thousands more are waiting in the wings—from workers in […]
Students at Howard University have historically been in the forefront of movement struggles. Now they are protesting tuition hikes, student loan debt, a lack of accountability, and all the hallmarks of the neo-liberal university. On late Tuesday, Oct. 12, Howard University students began staging a sit-in demonstration at the Blackburn building in front of the historic Yard. Students brought sleeping bags and food and began demonstrating and making demands that the university protect their health on campus. In the past month, as students returned to the school after more than a year under COVID conditions, a Twitter video went viral showing a puddle […]
As farmers and workers in India observe a countrywide shutdown, here is a look at the past 10 months of the struggle against the three agricultural laws passed by the Narendra Modi government. On September 27, Indian farmers’ organizations and trade unions are holding a country-wide shutdown demanding the withdrawal of the three agricultural laws and other anti-farmer and anti-worker measures. We take a look at the key milestones of the past 10 months of the farmers’ struggle Source link
Indigenous Women Lead Land Struggle Against Wealthiest People In The US November 29, 2020 Indigenous Women Lead Land Struggle Against Wealthiest People In The US2020-11-292020-11-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/shinnecock-e1606662605105.jpg200px200px Above photo: Warriors of the Sunrise addressing media after the lighting of a ceremonial fire to kick-off Sovereignty Camp 2020. While the United States shudders in the shambles of another election year, whether from a collective sigh of relief or fear of what’s to come, a different system of governance blooms in a swath of woodlands jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. This sandy shoreline now part of what is called Long Island has always been home […]
Beyond COVID-19: The Power Struggle Over Alternatives For Health Care Reform By John Geyman, Counterpunch. November 20, 2020 Beyond COVID-19: The Power Struggle Over Alternatives For Health Care Reform2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/cp-e1605884502823.jpg200px200px Above photo: Anthony Quintano. Today we face the COVID-19 pandemic, with its resultant economic downturn and systemic racism—the triple crises that have exposed the serious problems of U. S. health care. It is now obvious to most observers that the system is broken, raising the question of how it can be put together through the political process after a hotly contested election season filled with disinformation and confusion about potential reform alternatives. […]
Deception 2020: The Struggle Is The Same By Eleanor Goldfield, Art Killing Apathy. November 3, 2020 Deception 2020: The Struggle Is The Same2020-11-032020-11-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/jacquie-image-e1604442032768.png200px200px In this eighth and final installment of the Deception 2020 Series, we uplift the solidarity of the shaken – acknowledging how shitty things feel right now while highlighting the power and hope that rests in our actions far outside the confines of a voting booth. Jacquie Luqman, co-host of By Any Means Necessary joins us to share her fears, her hope and the long list of ways in which, regardless of who wins, our struggle remains the same. Source link
Countering Rightward Drift In The United States: This Struggle Is Long Term By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. November 1, 2020 Countering Rightward Drift In The United States: This Struggle Is Long Term2020-11-012020-11-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/1occupy-e1604252058642.jpg200px200px This week, people are planning protests across the nation beginning the day after the election. Some, like Democratic Party-aligned groups and unions, will only demonstrate if President Trump loses and refuses to leave office. Trump will fail if he tries because the ruling class has clearly shifted its support to Biden. Professor Adrienne Pine explains this in her analysis of the opposition to Trump. Others such as issues-based groups, coalitions […]
Left-Democrats Abandon Struggle For The Working Class To The Right By Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. October 29, 2020 Left-Democrats Abandon Struggle For The Working Class To The Right2020-10-292020-10-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/biden_i_guess.jpg200px200px NOTE: I know people talk about them as a “wing of the Democratic Party,” but I find the idea of “Left Democrats” an oxymoron. – MF All indications are that Joe Biden is heading for a landslide win. Losers will be Trump and those Republicans who have not already defected to the Democrat’s big tent. Collateral damage, however, may be the progressive cause. Some leftists have advocated temporarily subordinating an independent working-class alternative to campaign for […]
This article was reported for ENEMY Magazine, a new print magazine and newsletter dedicated to reporting on abuses of power in news deserts and underrepresented communities across the United States. Subscribe to ENEMY here. Over the years, Sophia* built up a dependable set of regulars. Sex work paid “enough to survive more than comfortably” and it was work she preferred over jobs she’d had in the past, like working in restaurants or warehouses. Those jobs, she said, were “much more labor intensive for quite a lot less pay.” But when news of the coronavirus first began to circulate in January, business […]
An employee of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office examines ballot envelopes at a satellite election office at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia. Local election clerks can’t start verifying mailed-in ballots in Pennsylvania until Election Day and in Michigan until the day before. Laurence Kesterson/AP hide caption toggle caption Laurence Kesterson/AP An employee of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office examines ballot envelopes at a satellite election office at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia. Local election clerks can’t start verifying mailed-in ballots in Pennsylvania until Election Day and in Michigan until the day before. Laurence Kesterson/AP Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Tina Barton […]
Back in early spring, Khristan Yates worked as a quality assurance analyst at a marketing company and loved her job. “I had one of the best jobs of my career,” recalls Yates, 31, a resident of Chicago. Yates, who’s a mother of two children, had moved into a bigger apartment just before the pandemic hit because she wanted to give her kids more space. At the time, she felt like she was “at the top of her world.” But as the economic effects of the pandemic hit the marketing industry among others, she lost her job in May. Yates is among […]
CARACAS, Venezuela — At first blush, it looked like cryptocurrency adoption was poised to make a huge stride in Venezuela. Late last month, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó announced he would use the digital currency exchange Airtm to redistribute some $19 million to Venezuelan health care workers. The money would come from funds that the U.S. government seized from the incumbent Maduro government. The “health heroes” funds would be delivered via Airtm’s stablecoin, AirUSD. But after speaking to various medical personnel here, I came away with the impression that the health heroes campaign has been somewhat chaotic. One health care worker […]
Tribute To Kevin Zeese: Life And Loss In The Struggle For Liberation By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. September 17, 2020 Tribute To Kevin Zeese: Life And Loss In The Struggle For Liberation2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/haiphong845x400-e1600354425970.jpg200px200px Zeese never wavered in his opposition to the corporate duopoly, white supremacy, and the forces of militarism. “His actions and ideological commitments were grounded in a deep identification with the oppressed.” The pain of loss is immeasurable yet comrades across the globe have come to view it as an inevitable aspect of the fight for liberation. For the revolutionary, death is neither a secret nor a prophecy. The loss […]
MicroStrategy has put even more of its treasury into bitcoin, Paxful is pulling out of Venezuela and the Bitmain power struggle appears to have found a short-term solution. Top shelf Bitcoin buyMicroStrategy, a business intelligence company, told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday it “may increase” its BTC holdings beyond the $250 million haul purchased in August. The morning after: it did. Microstrategy has acquired an additional $175 million worth of BTC in a single purchase. These blockbuster buys transformed much of MicroStrategy’s cash reserves into bitcoin, placing the Nasdaq-traded firm among Wall Street’s most notable bitcoin bulls. Future allocations would continue down […]
The Arab Spring uprising led to a transition to democracy in Tunisia, but young people decry widespread corruption and a lack of job opportunities. It’s led to protests, including self-immolation. (Image credit: Nicole Tung) Source link
Earlier this week, Facebook announced it had ejected an influence operation linked with a Russian disruption and trolling mill that sought to sow agitation in the U.S. election. Joerg Koch/AP hide caption toggle caption Joerg Koch/AP Earlier this week, Facebook announced it had ejected an influence operation linked with a Russian disruption and trolling mill that sought to sow agitation in the U.S. election. Joerg Koch/AP Two secret wars are underway simultaneously over attack and defense of the 2020 presidential election. This week, each one broke into the open again. The first war is an intelligence and national security operation aimed […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/01/1080334420_92:0:1292:675_1200x675_80_0_0_2c49cda31259d918e5c03ae6694f051a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009011080334214-are-they-edible-watch-little-pup-struggle-to-play-with-chicks—video-/ Dogs are known to love to goof off, but something that they love even more is playful friends. However, building a relationship can be difficult when you are trying to befriend another species. A little puppy has been caught on camera trying to befriend little chicks and play with them. But since they are so small, the doggo has a rough time making friends with them: he tries to pick them up with his mouth but fails, scaring the birdies, who run away from him. Source link
Tell The People That The Struggle Must Go On By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. August 20, 2020 Tell The People That The Struggle Must Go On2020-08-202020-08-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/mst-brazil-quilombo-campo-grande-e1597943390233.jpg200px200px Above photo: MST (Brazil), Families had tear gas hurled at them during eviction proceedings at the Quilombo Campo Grande in Minas Gerais, 14 July 2020. Young children marvel at an obvious contradiction in capitalist societies: why do we have shops filled with food, and yet see hungry people on the streets? It is a question of enormous significance; but in time the question dissipates into the fog of moral ambivalence, as various explanations […]
Corn plants are shown pushed over in a storm-damaged field on August 11 in Tama, Iowa. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said that early estimates indicate that 10 million acres, or nearly a third of the state’s crop land, was damaged in a powerful storm that battered the region a day earlier. Daniel Acker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Daniel Acker/Getty Images Corn plants are shown pushed over in a storm-damaged field on August 11 in Tama, Iowa. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said that early estimates indicate that 10 million acres, or nearly a third of the state’s crop land, was damaged […]
Uphold Palestinian Struggle In All Its Forms By Khaled Barakat, Electronic Intifada. August 15, 2020 Uphold Palestinian Struggle In All Its Forms2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/kite-e1597509163826.jpg200px200px Above photo: Israel and its allies have never accepted any form of Palestinian resistance. Oren Ziv/ActiveStills. Fifty years ago, Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani put forward a clear position about the boycott of Israel. Kanafani was, at the time, not only an esteemed novelist and short story writer. He was also one of the leading spokespeople of the Palestinian armed revolution, representing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. “Our boycott of Israel is not based on an emotional position, but rather, it […]
Trevor Noah is feeling pretty good about Joe Biden’s decision to go with Kamala Harris as his running mate. “Say what you want about Joe, but the man went Black and he is not going back,” the Daily Show host joked. He then explained how “impressed” he was with the former vice president’s choice despite the fact that Harris “destroyed” him at their first debate last year. “In fact, part of me thinks he only picked her so that she can just never dust his ass in public again,” Noah continued. “This isn’t a VP pick, this is an insurance policy.” […]
With the summer holiday season in full swing, some tourists seem to have taken coronavirus with them to the coast. That’s prompted Crimea to search for more doctors as infections in crowded resorts are overloading local hospitals. With Russia’s international borders partially closed, the Black Sea peninsula is experiencing a mass influx of travelers looking to have a domestic warm-weather beach holiday. In July, 1.43 million tourists visited Crimea, and hotels and boarding houses reported that they were 80 percent occupied. According to official data, Crimea recorded 32 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, and 27 on Friday. On July 14, the […]
50 Years Of Struggle From Black August To Black Lives Matter By Judy Greenspan, Workers.org. August 5, 2020 50 Years Of Struggle From Black August To Black Lives Matter2020-08-052020-08-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/jonathan-jackson-17.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jonathan Jackson, 17, with William Christmas, James McClain and Ruchell Magee take judge, prosecutor, three jurors as hostages to waiting van Aug. 7, 1970. This Aug. 7 marks the 50th anniversary of the heroic attempt by Jonathan Jackson, younger brother of George Jackson, to free three Black revolutionaries from the clutches of the California state prison system. The fact that this bold attempt failed has no bearing on its historical and […]
Madrid-based payment app and card issuer 2gether said it can only reimburse investors with its native tokens following Friday’s hack. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079964385_0:22:1200:697_1200x675_80_0_0_54cb6904901ed710511ca9e1b6e0420a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007241079966134/ The higher you climb, the harder you fall, they say. This adorable pooch’s goal was rather modest – it simply tried to get on a bench. Yet even this task was beyond his capacity – after all, he is not to blame that his paws are still short and his leash is too tight. An amusing golden retriever named Leonard was filmed trying to climb onto a bench. But no matter how hard he tried to get up there, he just couldn’t. Eventually, he achieved his aim – alas, for just a moment, as […]
The ongoing battle between the co-founders at Bitmain has now essentially hard forked the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer into two different operations and supply chains for making its flagship AntMiner equipment. Wu Jihan, the co-founder who ousted his rival co-founder Micree Zhan Ketuan last year, registered a new entity on July 16 in Shenzhen, China. The new entity, called Guiji Yanghang, is a subsidiary of another recently incorporated company named Beijing Guiyuan Dalu, which is controlled by Wu’s side. Wu removed Zhan from Beijing Bitmain in October, following a long-time power struggle between the two. But Zhan made his comeback […]
Bolivia’s Struggle To Restore Democracy After OAS Instigated Coup By Frederick B. Mills, Rita Jill Clark-Gollub and Alina Duarte, COHA. July 12, 2020 Bolivia’s Struggle To Restore Democracy After OAS Instigated Coup2020-07-122020-07-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/bolivia-presidential-candidate-luis-arce-with-vice-presidential-candidate.jpg200px200px Above photo: Luis Arce, presidential candidate, and David Choquehuanca, running for the vice presidency. They lead all surveys so far MAS-IPSP, http://www.masipsp.bo/. On October 21, 2019, the Organization of American States (OAS) issued a fateful communique on the presidential elections in Bolivia: “The OAS Mission expresses its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results revealed after the closing of the polls.”[1] The […]
The Struggle For No Police In Los Angeles Schools: Victory In Sight By Eric Mann, Counterpunch. July 12, 2020 The Struggle For No Police In Los Angeles Schools: Victory In Sight2020-07-122020-07-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/protest1-e1594574901861.jpg200px200px On Tuesday, June 23, in Los Angeles, the decade’s long struggle for No Police in the Schools had a major breakthrough. Los Angeles School Board member Monica Garcia introduced the most structural and hopeful motion to make “defund the police” a reality. Her motion, expressing gratitude to the national Black uprising, called for cutting the $70 million budget of the Los Angeles School Police Department—with 350 armed officers—by 50% in […]
The 2020 Elections: The Struggle Is For Power Not Reform By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. June 30, 2020 The 2020 Elections: The Struggle Is For Power Not Reform2020-06-302020-06-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2015/01/Rolling-Rebellion-Illusion-of-Democracy-150×100.jpg200px200px Above photo: Rolling Rebellion Illusion of Democracy. The following is excerpted from a presentation by Ajamu Baraka to a national webinar Electoral School of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, June 13 and 14.’ Building Power to Win is the Revolutionary Approach to Bourgeois Electoralism” The Context of Struggle: The great African revolutionary, Amilcar Cabral, reminded us that without revolutionary theory there can be no revolution. His reminder […]
How Palestine Advocates Can Support Black Struggle By Kristian Davis Bailey, The Electronic Intifada. June 29, 2020 How Palestine Advocates Can Support Black Struggle2020-06-292020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/main_image-e1593396586377.jpg200px200px Above photo: One of the best ways for Americans to display solidarity with Palestinians is to support the Black revolution in their own country. Tess Scheflan/ActiveStills. The recent Black Lives Matter protests have sparked conversations about how to act in better solidarity with the Black struggle. There are two especially prominent questions: how to move beyond rhetorical statements and how to address anti-Blackness among non-Black Arab communities. The following are a few suggestions for addressing these issues: 1. Understand that the Black […]
The Struggle To Protect The Sacred Place Where Life Begins By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. June 28, 2020 The Struggle To Protect The Sacred Place Where Life Begins2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/arctic-e1593356059900.png200px200px Above photo: Porcupine caribou herd. Wikimedia/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Indigenous groups lead fight against Arctic oil drilling. A nationwide grassroots movement led by the Gwich’in people may soon reach its long-sought goal: permanent protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As the Trump administration neared the end of its first year in office in 2017, it seemed environmental activists had lost one of the most hard-fought battles in the movement’s history. Thanks to […]
via Twitter Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek For almost a decade, I have been covering “Color Revolutions” in virtually all parts of the world. While making a film for TeleSur, I was facing Egyptian tanks, risking my life under sniper fire, getting roughed-up in the middle of clashes of the supporters of al-Sisi and Morsi. Together with Syrian commanders, I was also facing the terrorists in Idlib; challenged the Ukrainian fascists; encountering Bolivian indigenous elders high in the Altiplano, after the revolution of Evo Morales and MAS was crashed by the U.S.-sponsored coup in 2019. I regularly worked in Venezuela, Lebanon, […]
Zhan Ketuan, the formerly-ousted Bitmain co-founder who returned to power earlier this month, is proposing a solution to end the firm’s internal war. In a letter Sunday, Zhan, who as Bitmain’s biggest shareholder owns 36% of its stock, offered to buy back shares possessed by his rival co-founder Wu Jihan, several founding members and some of Bitmain employees, at a company valuation of $4 billion. Wu alone controls about 20% of Bitmain and three other founding members own about 15% in total. Bitmain’s employee stock option pool has another 19% and the remaining 10% belongs to external investors. But Zhan’s $4 […]
The Struggle For Justice Continues In Post-Coup Bolivia By Ben Dangl, ROAR Magazine. June 21, 2020 The Struggle For Justice Continues In Post-Coup Bolivia2020-06-212020-06-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/dsc5126-crop.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters in defense of the wiphala in La Paz. November 15, 2019. Radoslaw Czajkowski. A brutal wave of repression followed the right’s seizure of power last November, but organizing for social and political change in Bolivia continues. History is in the veins of La Paz, Bolivia, in the archives of the streets, the stains left by burning barricades, the bullet holes that scar government buildings. It marks the city itself. Indigenous rebel Túpac Katari launched his 1781 […]
Some nursing homes and long-term care facilities say they’re struggling to fill shifts as certified nursing assistants opt for unemployment benefits during the pandemic. SolStock/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption SolStock/Getty Images Some nursing homes and long-term care facilities say they’re struggling to fill shifts as certified nursing assistants opt for unemployment benefits during the pandemic. SolStock/Getty Images Shanna LaFountain has been a nursing assistant in New England for 20 years. About two months ago, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, she stopped working. “It was an extremely hard decision,” she said. LaFountain has three children and made the decision […]
The global response and fallout from the coronavirus pandemic serves as a dress rehearsal for a worldwide climate catastrophe, the head of the UN’s sustainable business agency has warned. Lise Kingo, executive director of the UN Global Compact, insisted in an interview with The Guardian that there were “very, very clear connections” linking the current health crisis, climate change issues and the Black Lives Matter protests that have spread across the globe. The coronavirus pandemic is “just a fire drill” for what’s coming, she told the news outlet. Government actions purportedly taken to stop the spread of the virus have crippled […]
The relationship between First Lady Melania Trump and the US President’s daughter Ivanka has been an intriguing subject in recent years, as both woman hold powerful positions in the White House, with the dynamics between the duo giving rise to numerous speculations. The US President’s daughter Ivanka Trump reportedly sought to rename the First Lady’s office of the White House to “First Family office,” but the move was blocked by Melania Trump, according to excerpts from a new book, “Art of her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump” by Mary Jordan, published in The Washington Post. The new book, claimed […]
Demonstrators have set fire to a building in Minnesota amid chaotic protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man this week, with dramatic scenes of clashes, looting and now arson emerging on social media. A Minneapolis auto parts store was seen nearly engulfed in flames on Wednesday night, with a column of black smoke pouring out of the building after protesters set it alight. While police initially appeared to maintain some distance from the burning store, a significant law enforcement presence was seen nearby, as officers clad in riot gear descended on the area. Autozone in Minneapolis is burning.Burning […]
World 01:01 GMT 15.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107923/09/1079230933_0:164:3073:1892_1200x675_80_0_0_6a0e15258c06efe6470db5729a7b0006.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202005151079308943-who-chief-scientist-four-to-five-year-struggle-ahead-before-containing-covid-19/ Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist, attempted to temper expectations of a “crystal ball” timeline for the containment of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus on Wednesday, expressing that vaccines are not guaranteed and the pandemic may even take a turn for the worse. “I would say in a four to five-year timeframe we could be looking at controlling this,” the expert said to the Financial Times’ Global Boardroom webinar on Wednesday. She emphasized that there is “no crystal ball” when it comes to the possible threat […]
A Virgin Mary image was flown above Guayaquil, Ecuador in a helicopter, marking the end of a pilgrimage – which was held virtually this year as the city is the worst affected by Covid-19 in the country. Usually, it’s the worshippers who line up to a shrine, sometimes waiting for hours to receive a blessing. However, this year in Guayaquil, it was the Virgin Mary herself who set off on the ‘Route of Health’ pilgrimage, flying over the city on Saturday. The local chapter of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement was behind the flyover. “We thought about the possibility, at the beginning […]
After Micree Ketuan Zhan, the exiled co-founder of Bitmain, moved to reinstate his position after another partial legal victory over his former employer, tensions reportedly escalated into a physical brawl. According to a source close to Zhan, who was ousted by his rival co-founder Wu Jihan last October, the former executive was recently granted the right to recover his status as the legal representative of Beijing Bitmain Technology by the Beijing Haidian District Justice Bureau. On Friday morning local time, as Zhan attended the bureau to collect his new registration license as part of the recovery process, he was surrounded by […]