(2021-09-14). Violence Escalates In West Bank As Palestinians Rally To Protect Prisoners (Videos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Beginning on September 10th, IDF warplanes have bombed the besieged Gaza strip in a dramatic escalation of Israel's violent campaign to take revenge for the daring escape of six Palestinian political prisoners from the high-security Gilboa facility on September 6th. | On the same day, Israeli authorities announced that 4 out of the 6 escapees had been arrested. | Two still roam free. | Palestinians have rallied throughout the West Bank and clashes with Israeli author…
(2021-09-14). Fairy Creek: Indigenous-Led Blockade of Old-Growth Logging Is Now Canada's Largest Civil Disobedience. democracynow.org Tension is rising between Canadian police and activists who have been staging a months-long anti-logging resistance in Vancouver Island's ancient forests. The protest has been underway for two years, led by environmental and First Nations activists, and is considered to be Canada's largest act of civil disobedience ever. Canadian authorities have arrested nearly 1,000 people at Fairy Creek in British Columbia, and the protests show no sign of slowing down. "We have a long history of asserting ourselves as coastal people, where our inherent right is not only based in our relationship to our communities but is base…
(2021-09-14). Denver students demand defunding and disarmament of ACPD. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – About 50 students and campus community members gathered at Tivoli Commons for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) National Day of Action: "Cops Off Campus, Black Lives Matter!" Demands included the disarmament and defunding of Auraria Campus Police Department (ACPD) and more information regarding their participation in the Federal 1033 Program. Members of SDS and Freedom Road Socialist Organization gave speeches about strategies for community control of police and recounted stories of police violence, all while leading chants of "Down with mass incarceration, up, up with education!" and "Blac…
(2021-09-13). Hamas vows to free arrested escapees. electronicintifada.net Israel has so far been unable to capture two of the men.
(2021-09-13). Think Outside The Protest Box. popularresistance.org Protest. Petition. Call your senators. Nothing changes, right? No matter how large our demonstrations get, no matter how many millions of people write and petition politicians, no matter how many people get arrested in front of the White House or at our state capitols, it seems that our (supposedly) elected officials keep turning a blind eye and deaf ear to our cries for change. | In fact, there's even a study out that shows that in 20 years on 2,000 different bills, we, the People, got our bills through Congress a whopping 0.0 percent of the time. (Yes, you read that correctly. Zero point zero. In other words, "
(2021-09-13). Dozens, including nine minors, arrested in Thailand in massive crackdown on protests. peoplesdispatch.org During a violent attempt to disperse protesters on Saturday, September 11, Thai police arrested 78 people, including nine minors and 20 who were not even protesters. 52 were detained over the weekend…
(2021-09-13). Former Attica Prisoner Describes Racist Brutality That Sparked Deadly Uprising. truthout.org On the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, the deadliest prison uprising in U.S. history, we speak with Tyrone Larkins, a formerly incarcerated survivor, who was shot three times in the brutal crackdown of September 13, 1971. He describes Attica as "the roughest place that I've ever seen in my life," as he recalls what led to the rebellion on September 9, 1971, when prisoners overpowered guards and took over much of Attica prison in upstate New York to protest conditions. At the ti…