Staff(2021-04-22). Headlines for April 22, 2021.democracynow.orgIndia Reports Over 315,000 COVID-19 Infections, the Single Worst Daily Toll of Pandemic, Latin American Nations Suffer "Worst Moment" of Coronavirus Pandemic, U.S. Vaccination Pace Slows as White House Hits Goal of 200 Million Doses in 100 Days, Department of Justice Launches Civil Probe into Minneapolis Police Misconduct, Funeral Services Held for Daunte Wright, 20-Year-Old Black Man Killed by White Minnesota Cop, NC Protesters Demand Release of Footage Showing Police Killing of Andrew Brown, Columbus Police Body-Camera Footage Shows Officer Shot 16-Year-Old Ma'Khia Bryant Four Times, GOP Lawmakers in Iowa and O…
Susan Price(2021-04-22). Philippines: 'Duterte resign!' .greenleft.org.auThere are growing calls for Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte to resign over his government's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, corruption and brutality, reports Susan Price.
PAI(2021-04-22). Reactions to Chauvin guilty verdict: Only a first step to justice.peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The overwhelming reaction to the Minneapolis jury's verdict finding former city police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges of murder and manslaughter in kneeing George Floyd to death last year was that it was great, but only a first step towards justice. From union leaders to Black Lives Matter to the Women's March, virtually …
Sophia Tareen(2021-04-22). Emmett Till was the first George Floyd.peoplesworld.org CHICAGO (AP)—A Black Chicago teen's lynching in 1955 galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. A Black Minneapolis man's killing by police last year propelled a worldwide call for racial justice and ending police brutality. The murders of Emmett Till and George Floyd were separated by more than six decades, contrasting circumstances and countless protests, but their …
Liberation Staff(2021-04-22). Chauvin verdict—People in the street say: 'Today we made history! Tomorrow, it's back to work!"liberationnews.org Feature image: Demonstrators holding up four fingers, symbolizing Chauvin's three accomplices plus Kim Potter, the cop who killed Daunte Wright. Liberation photo. On April 20 as it was announced that a verdict had been reached in the case of Derek Chauvin, people gathered in cities around the country to hear the verdict read, prepared to …
Leif Autzen(2021-04-22). Columbus, Ohio, police kill 16-year-old.liberationnews.org Merely 20 minutes before Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict was announced to the nation, 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant was shot four times in the chest by officer Nicholas Reardon of the Columbus Police Department.
Fight Back(2021-04-22). New York rallies and marches on the day of the Chauvin verdict.fightbacknews.orgNew York, NY – At approximately, 5 p.m. Eastern time, April 20, Derek Chauvin, the cop who fatally jammed his knee on George Floyd's neck for over to nine minutes, was found guilty on all three charges. The murder of George Floyd caused millions of people to take to take to the streets demanding justice. | Many organizations throughout the country had protests planned for the day of the verdict. In Brooklyn, the New York Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression called for a "Justice for George Floyd and NYPD Victims" rally for 6 p.m. in the plaza opposite the Barclay's Center. | The organizations that gat…
ecns.cn(2021-04-22). WeSay: Asian Americans still struggling.ecns.cnFrom "I have a dream" to "I can't breathe," it takes African Americans 57 years to "catch a breath" with the conviction of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. If the conviction is a "step forward," then do not ignore the struggling Asian Americans.
Power to the People(2021-04-22). Ex-Cop Guilty on All Counts of Murder of George Floyd.indybay.orgWe finally saw the power of a mass movement with a middle class jury, including 2 jurors with family connections to the police, convicting Minneapolis now ex-cop white Derek Chauvin of the murder of black George Floyd while handcuffed and face down, with Chauvin sitting on Floyd's neck with his knee for over 9 minutes, supposedly for the use of an alleged $20 counterfeit bill. The struggle continues.
_____(2021-04-22). Ohio Students Sit-in To Demand University Cut Ties With Police.popularresistance.orgStudents at Ohio State staged a sit-in protest and demanded that the university cut ties with Columbus Police in the wake of the killing of Ma'Khia Bryant. | The protest took place one day after a police officer shot and killed the 16-year-old girl in the city, just as the verdict in the George Floyd trial was reached. | Students staged their Wednesday protest in the Ohio Union before taking to the streets to march. | Some carried signs with the victim's name, along with phrases like "say her name", while another student had a sign that said, "Being Black shouldn't be a death sentence." | "Ohio State supports the…
Another Black Man Killed by Police(2021-04-22). Justice for Roger Allen! Protest in Daly City.indybay.orgOn April 15, in the San Francisco suburb of Daly City, dozens of demonstrators gathered to protest the shooting of Roger Allen by police.
Sonali Kolhatkar(2021-04-22). Continúa la brutalidad policial contra la población negra de Estados Unidos.globalizacion.caLa muerte de Daunte Wright hace que los presupuestos policiales se reduzcan øCuántas personas negras tienen que ser asesinadas por la policía para que los políticos se den cuenta de que las costosas reformas no funcionan? | Tres semanas después del…
subMedia(2021-04-21). System Fail # 8: The Ghosts of Democracy.dissidentvoice.orgDiscussion about sexual assault (including against minors), torture; scenes of police brutality, murder. In this episode, Dee Dos takes a look at recent developments in the social war in Greece, including the COVID-19 lockdown, the #MeToo movement and the hunger strike waged by 17th of November member Dimitris Koufontinas. We also include an interview with …
Staff(2021-04-21). Headlines for April 21, 2021.democracynow.orgJury Finds Derek Chauvin Guilty on All Counts for Murdering George Floyd, Police Shoot Dead 16-Year-Old Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, Judge Denies Dismissal of Prison Sentence for Officer Who Shot and Killed Walter Scott in 2015, India Faces COVID "Storm"; AMLO Gets COVID Vaccine; U.S. Warns Against Travel to 80% of Globe, Johnson & Johnson Resumes European Rollout After Regulator Says Benefits Outweigh Blood Clot Risk, AOC and Sen. Markey Reintroduce Green New Deal as Biden Sets Ambitious Emissions Target, Idriss Déby's Son Named Interim Leader Following Chadian President's Death, Journalists in Over 100 Cou…
Eds.(2021-04-21). Towards a Marxist theatre.mronline.org With the onset of the pandemic, the second Black Lives Matter movement, and the economic crisis, theatre as an art form and an industry is in a period of crisis and rebuilding. | April 21, 2021 | Newswire…
Marjorie Cohn(2021-04-21). The Supreme Court is also to blame for Daunte Wright's death.mronline.org When veteran Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter, who is white, stopped Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for an expired registration tag, she committed an act of racial profiling. | April 21, 2021 | Newswire…
Devin Cole(2021-04-21). HB1: Jim Crow 2.0 — an interview with Jamil Davis.workers.org House Bill 1, a bill criminalizing protest in the state of Florida beyond measures that already exist, passed its final Senate committee April 15. It was signed into law April 19 by fascistic Gov. Ron DeSantis, who proposed the bill in September 2020 as a response to the Black Lives . . . |
Shelley Ettinger(2021-04-21). San Antonio activists take on phony cop 'unions'.workers.org San Antonio — Black Lives Matter activists in San Antonio came out April 16 and 17 to demand an end to police killings of Black and Brown people, nationally and locally. The first demonstration, sponsored by the San Antonio Coalition for Police Accountability, Fix SAPD and others, was focused on . . . |
Kerry Mitchell Brown(2021-04-21). What Chauvin's Conviction Means for Black Communities.counterpunch.org Finding George Floyd's murderer guilty on all three charges was a significant victory for us at the very moment when we, Black people, need to see some justice. At the same time, the specific justice in this particular case doesn't address the profound systemic change required in our judicial, political, and economic systems. We must
Monica Moorehead(2021-04-21). Spirit of May Day: Fight Back!/Smash police violence & white supremacy.workers.org BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the police! More on workers.org May Day, International Workers Day, was born in the U.S. out of the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. Workers, many of them socialists and anarchists who migrated from other countries, risked their lives. . . . |
Monica Moorehead(2021-04-21). Spirit of May Day: Fight Back! Smash police violence & white supremacy.workers.org BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the police! More on workers.org May Day, International Workers Day, was born in the U.S. out of the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. Workers, many of them socialists and anarchists who migrated from other countries, risked their lives. . . . |
Monica Moorehead(2021-04-21). Spirit of May Day: Fight Back!Smash police violence and white supremacy.workers.org BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the police! More on workers.org May Day, International Workers Day, was born in the U.S. out of the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. Workers, many of them socialists and anarchists who migrated from other countries, risked their lives. . . . |
PAI(2021-04-21). AFL-CIO hails Chauvin verdict, but police unions still an issue for organized labor.peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—A jury's conviction of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin on all three counts in George Floyd's killing—including one that could send Chauvin to prison for decades—delivered justice to Floyd's family, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says. But at the same time, he warned, it's not the end of the story. Reconstructing the U.S. away from …
The Conversation(2021-04-21). George Floyd's legacy: Could Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts spell the end of police immunity?juancole.com By Kent Roach | — The police killing of George Floyd begs for effective remedies that respond both to past harms while also preventing future harm. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of three counts in the killing of Floyd after he kneeled on the Black man's neck for more than nine …
EMMA(2021-04-21). A just verdict, but far from justice.peoplesparty.org A taste of justice. Justice served on Derek Chauvin. Guilty on all three counts. Bail revoked. It was a quick verdict. Yet it is so rare that police officers are convicted — one in 2,000 over the last 15 years for killings by police. It doesn't bring George Floyd back. But, hopefully, it will give pause to some police who think they can kill with impunity. Six white jurors, six people of color, united on what they saw in those nine minutes of horrifying video. | If it wasn't for the video, made by an outraged bystander, Chauvin would not be behind bars now. But not for Breonna Taylor, not for Tamir Rice, no…
Party for Socialism, Liberation(2021-04-21). Guilty! People's uprising wins justice for George Floyd.liberationnews.org One thing is unambiguously clear: Derek Chauvin being found guilty is the result of a historic popular uprising. Chauvin's brutal murder of George Floyd ignited a massive resistance from Minneapolis' Third Precinct into the smallest towns and biggest cities in the United States. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was proud to participate in this …
Staff(2021-04-21). Black Visions Collective: We Need to Abolish the Police & End Militarized Occupations of Our Cities.democracynow.org The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities.
Staff(2021-04-21). Guilty on All Counts: Derek Chauvin Verdict Triggers Relief & Determination to Keep Fighting.democracynow.org A jury in Minneapolis has convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds last year. The jury reached its decision after 10 hours of deliberation. Derek Chauvin will be sentenced in two months. He faces up to 40 years in prison for the most serious charge, second-degree murder. He is the first white police officer in Minnesota to ever be convicted of killing a Black man. We feature reactions from people gathered outside the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, comments from George Floyd's brother and nephew, as…
Staff(2021-04-21). Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Policing in U.S. Was Built on Racism & Should Be Put on Trial.democracynow.org A Minnesota jury's conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, says historian and author Khalil Gibran Muhammad. "We know that while the prosecution was performing in such a way to make the case that Derek Chauvin was a rogue actor, the truth is that policing should have been on trial in that case," Muhammad says. "We don't have a mechanism in our current system of laws in the way that we treat individual offenses to have that accountability and justice delivered." Muhammad also l…
The Canary(2021-04-21). Police shoot and kill a Black teenage girl in Ohio as George Floyd verdict announced.thecanary.co Police shot and killed a Black teenage girl on Tuesday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, just as the verdict was being announced in the trial over the killing of George Floyd. | Officers claimed they were responding to an attempted stabbing call when police shot the girl at about 4.45pm local time. Police said the 911 caller reported a female was trying to stab them before hanging up. The girl was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. | In Columbus Ohio, police killed this beautiful young girl today. This is an illustration of why convictions and reform just aren't enough for our communities. | Ma'Khia Bry…
a guest author(2021-04-21). 'No good cops in a racist system'.workers.org By Anneliese Bienko Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo's first anti-police demonstration of the year was held April 16. The action, called by Workers World Party, drew activists from across the left to demand police abolition and stand in solidarity with Minneapolis in the wake of Daunte Wright's murder. Speakers addressed the police . . . |
a guest author(2021-04-21). 'No good cops in a racist system'.workers.org By Anneliese Bienko Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo's largest anti-police demonstration so far this year was held on April 16th. The action, called by Workers World Party, drew activists from across the left to demand police abolition and stand in solidarity with Minneapolis in the wake of Daunte Wright's murder. Speakers addressed . . . |
A Guest Author(2021-04-21). WAAR on Chauvin verdicts: 'We'll accept nothing less than police abolition'.workers.org April 20 protest, New York CityWW PHOTO: Nathaniel Chase The following statement was issued on April 20 by the Workers Assembly Against Racism, based in New York City. One killer cop in jail does nothing to address the violence and trauma that materially fills the experience of Black, Brown, and . . . |
Staff(2021-04-21). We Need to Abolish the Police and End Militarized Occupations of Our Cities.truthout.org The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AM…
Staff(2021-04-21). Mass Protests Led to Chauvin's Conviction. Now They're Being Criminalized.truthout.org On Tuesday, former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was convicted on all charges in the brutal public lynching of George Floyd. For the Floyd family, the conviction offered some solace that the courts did not allow Floyd's life to be taken with impunity. For many of us, however, it was a hollow "victory," not only because prisons don't solve our problems, but because we know police don't either. | While the trial convicted Chauvin, as an individual, it sought to exonerate the larger system of policing…
Staff(2021-04-21). Republicans Have Introduced 81 Anti-Protest Laws in 34 States Just This Year.truthout.org As protesters have rallied across the U.S. over the past year against police-perpetrated violence and brutality, Republicans in state legislatures have been busy cooking up anti-protest laws. Reporting has found that, just in the 2021 legislative session, Republicans This is double the number of anti-protest laws that have been f…
Workers World Party(2021-04-21). Following the Chauvin verdict/Stay in the streets! Abolish the police!workers.org Workers World Party expresses its solidarity with the family of George Floyd, along with the Minneapolis community and anti-racist activists everywhere, who understandably applaud the three guilty verdicts against the racist, white, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched Floyd May 25, 2020. Chauvin was found guilty today, April 20, . . . |
Workers World Party(2021-04-21). Following the Chauvin verdict: Stay in the streets! Abolish the police!workers.org Workers World Party expresses its solidarity with the family of George Floyd, along with the Minneapolis community and anti-racist activists everywhere, who understandably applaud the three guilty verdicts against the racist, white, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched Floyd May 25, 2020. Chauvin was found guilty today, April 20, . . . |
Wayne Nealis(2021-04-21). Chauvin guilty, but police killed 64 more people during his trial.peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS—With the first white cop in Minnesota going to prison for killing a Black man, there is joy and relief in the city of Minneapolis. Nowhere is this moment felt more deeply than in the Black community. A diverse jury of Hennepin County residents returned a guilty verdict on all three counts against Derek Chauvin …
Editor2(2021-04-21). USA: Shackling of Aged Inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is Deplorable — UN Experts.orinocotribune.comGENEVA (20 April 2021) — UN human rights experts* expressed serious concerns about the treatment and welfare of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American man who has been in jail for 40 years in Pennsylvania, and is reportedly shackled to his hospital bed. Mr. Abu-Jamal had already been shackled to his bed during a four-day hospitalization in late February while being treated for heart failure. | Mr. Abu-Jamal has been denied visits from his family and access to his lawyers and spiritual advisor after being admitted to an undisclosed hospital around 10 April, where he will reportedly undergo surgery. "This ongoi…
_____(2021-04-21). USA: UN Experts Call for President Biden to End Death Penalty.strategic-culture.orgUN human rights experts* have called on President Biden to do everything in his power to end executions in the United States, at both the federal and state level. | "The death penalty is an abhorrent practice. It serves no deterrent value and cannot be reconciled with the right to life," said the experts. | "Despite retentionist States' pretence that capital punishment can be implemented in a 'humane' fashion, executions have repeatedly resulted in degrading spectacles. The death penalty is an inherently flawed form of punishment which disproportionately impacts African-Americans and people living in poverty," th…
_____(2021-04-21). Vietnam Veterans Descended On The Capitol 50 Years Ago This Week.popularresistance.orgOn Sunday, CBS News' "60 Minutes" profiled the Oath Keepers, a white-supremacist veterans' group founded when President Barack Obama assumed office. The program traced the group's history from its 2009 formation to its armed support of Cliven Bundy in 2014 to its open plotting of sedition in December 2020. Then CBS showed some cell-phone footage of the 40 members of the group on Jan. 6, 2021, as they breached the U.S. Capitol in perfect military formation. | That insurrection's aftereffects are still being felt, with 400 participants having been arrested by the Justice Department. Now, as indictments loom, at lea…
teleSUR(2021-04-21). US: Ohio Rejects Police Brutality After Black Teen's Murder.telesurenglish.netU.S. citizens on Tuesday night took to the streets against police brutality after 15-year-old teenager Ma'Khia Bryant was shot and killed by an officer in Columbus city, Ohio. | RELATED: | Protesters marched to Ohio's Capitol with signs that read "The whole damn system is guilty as hell" and "Police brutality is white supremacy. End both." | "So far, details of the African-Descendent girl's murder remain unclear. Authorities are review…
teleSUR(2021-04-21). US Justice Department Will Investigate Minneapolis Police.telesurenglish.netU.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it would launch an investigation into Minneapolis Police following the conviction of former officer Derek Chauvin. | RELATED: | Attorney General Merrick Garland said the inquiry would "include a comprehensive review of the Minneapolis Police Department's policies, training, supervision, and use-of-force investigations." | Update: Here's the letter from DOJ to Minneapolis officials tod…
news.un(2021-04-21). UN rights chief welcomes verdict in George Floyd murder case.news.un.orgThe guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder trial has been welcomed by the UN human rights chief, who said on Wednesday that "any other result would have been a travesty of justice".
_____(2021-04-21). Uncomfortable Truths, Justice, and George Floyd.strategic-culture.orgWe ignore uncomfortable truths. The melding of the horrors of slavery with civil rights era lynchings with the killing of George Floyd, all wrapped in the means-what-you-want-it-to-mean of systemic racism, flirts with incitement to violence. It won't fix anything but falling MSM circulation rates, but that's sort of the point.
WSWS repost(2021-04-21). Police violence targets working people and youth of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.indybay.orgWhile racism is a factor in many police murders and accounts for the fact that blacks and Native Americans are killed at a rate disproportionate to their share of the national population, it is workers and young people—of every skin color, gender, sexuality and national origin—who are the victims of the police. In presenting police violence as a racial issue, of whites against blacks, the media aims to divide the working class and cover up the socioeconomic background of those who are being killed and the social processes which lead to their deaths.
Police Racism(2021-04-21). In San Rafael a Vigil–Justice for Daunte Wright.indybay.orgOn April 11, a 20-year-old Black man, Daunte Wright, was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. He was shot at close range. Protesters say police are engaged in a racist war on Black America. At a vigil on April 16 in San Rafael, demonstrators remembered Daunte and other victims.
Fight Back(2021-04-21). Texas: March held for victims of police terror.fightbacknews.orgDallas, TX – On April 18, about 90 people rallied at Dallas city hall to protest recent police killings such as the murder of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo. The rally was called by the Dallas Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression. Speeches were first held with DAARPR co-chair Jennifer Miller giving a passionate speech about her fears as a Black mother of an autistic child, "What happens when my son stops being a cute black boy and becomes a Black male threat. My son is Tamir Rice, my son is Trayvon Martin, and so many more." | Next Kawana Scott of DAARPR spoke next, comparing the police murdering Daun…
EMMA(2021-04-21). A just verdict, but far from justice.peoplesparty.org A taste of justice. Justice served on Derek Chauvin. Guilty on all three counts. Bail revoked. It was a quick verdict. Yet it is so rare that police officers are convicted — one in 2,000 over the last 15 years for killings by police. It doesn't bring George Floyd back. But, hopefully, it will give pause to some police who think they can kill with impunity. Six white jurors, six people of color, united on what they saw in those nine minutes of horrifying video. | If it wasn't for the video, made by an outraged bystander, Chauvin would not be behind bars now. But not for Breonna Taylor, not for Tamir Rice, no…
Staff(2021-04-21). Guilty on All Counts: Derek Chauvin Verdict Triggers Relief & Determination to Keep Fighting.democracynow.org A jury in Minneapolis has convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds last year. The jury reached its decision after 10 hours of deliberation. Derek Chauvin will be sentenced in two months. He faces up to 40 years in prison for the most serious charge, second-degree murder. He is the first white police officer in Minnesota to ever be convicted of killing a Black man. We feature reactions from people gathered outside the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, comments from George Floyd's brother and nephew, as…
Staff(2021-04-21). Mass Protests Led to Chauvin's Conviction. Now They're Being Criminalized.truthout.org On Tuesday, former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was convicted on all charges in the brutal public lynching of George Floyd. For the Floyd family, the conviction offered some solace that the courts did not allow Floyd's life to be taken with impunity. For many of us, however, it was a hollow "victory," not only because prisons don't solve our problems, but because we know police don't either. | While the trial convicted Chauvin, as an individual, it sought to exonerate the larger system of policing…
PAI(2021-04-21). AFL-CIO hails Chauvin verdict, but police unions still an issue for organized labor.peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—A jury's conviction of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin on all three counts in George Floyd's killing—including one that could send Chauvin to prison for decades—delivered justice to Floyd's family, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says. But at the same time, he warned, it's not the end of the story. Reconstructing the U.S. away from …
The Conversation(2021-04-21). George Floyd's legacy: Could Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts spell the end of police immunity?juancole.com By Kent Roach | — The police killing of George Floyd begs for effective remedies that respond both to past harms while also preventing future harm. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of three counts in the killing of Floyd after he kneeled on the Black man's neck for more than nine …
Staff(2021-04-21). Black Visions Collective: We Need to Abolish the Police & End Militarized Occupations of Our Cities.democracynow.org The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities.
news.un(2021-04-21). UN rights chief welcomes verdict in George Floyd murder case.news.un.orgThe guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder trial has been welcomed by the UN human rights chief, who said on Wednesday that "any other result would have been a travesty of justice".
A Guest Author(2021-04-21). WAAR on Chauvin verdicts: 'We'll accept nothing less than police abolition'.workers.org April 20 protest, New York CityWW PHOTO: Nathaniel Chase The following statement was issued on April 20 by the Workers Assembly Against Racism, based in New York City. One killer cop in jail does nothing to address the violence and trauma that materially fills the experience of Black, Brown, and . . . |
Staff(2021-04-21). We Need to Abolish the Police and End Militarized Occupations of Our Cities.truthout.org The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AM…
Workers World Party(2021-04-21). Following the Chauvin verdict/Stay in the streets! Abolish the police!workers.org Workers World Party expresses its solidarity with the family of George Floyd, along with the Minneapolis community and anti-racist activists everywhere, who understandably applaud the three guilty verdicts against the racist, white, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched Floyd May 25, 2020. Chauvin was found guilty today, April 20, . . . |
Workers World Party(2021-04-21). Following the Chauvin verdict: Stay in the streets! Abolish the police!workers.org Workers World Party expresses its solidarity with the family of George Floyd, along with the Minneapolis community and anti-racist activists everywhere, who understandably applaud the three guilty verdicts against the racist, white, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched Floyd May 25, 2020. Chauvin was found guilty today, April 20, . . . |
Wayne Nealis(2021-04-21). Chauvin guilty, but police killed 64 more people during his trial.peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS—With the first white cop in Minnesota going to prison for killing a Black man, there is joy and relief in the city of Minneapolis. Nowhere is this moment felt more deeply than in the Black community. A diverse jury of Hennepin County residents returned a guilty verdict on all three counts against Derek Chauvin …
Kerry Mitchell Brown(2021-04-21). What Chauvin's Conviction Means for Black Communities.counterpunch.org Finding George Floyd's murderer guilty on all three charges was a significant victory for us at the very moment when we, Black people, need to see some justice. At the same time, the specific justice in this particular case doesn't address the profound systemic change required in our judicial, political, and economic systems. We must
_____(2021-04-21). Guilty! People's Uprising Wins Justice For George Floyd.popularresistance.orgOne thing is unambiguously clear: Derek Chauvin being found guilty is the result of a historic popular uprising. Chauvin's brutal murder of George Floyd ignited a massive resistance from Minneapolis' Third Precinct into the smallest towns and biggest cities in the United States. | The Party for Socialism and Liberation was proud to participate in this historic movement that brought millions into the streets, many for the first time. New leaders emerged and are now in the struggle for the long haul. | "Justice for George!" was screamed in Trafalgar Square and painted on walls in Port-au-Prince. One Senator was ala…
Party for Socialism, Liberation(2021-04-21). Guilty! People's uprising wins justice for George Floyd.liberationnews.org One thing is unambiguously clear: Derek Chauvin being found guilty is the result of a historic popular uprising. Chauvin's brutal murder of George Floyd ignited a massive resistance from Minneapolis' Third Precinct into the smallest towns and biggest cities in the United States. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was proud to participate in this …
Staff(2021-04-21). Headlines for April 21, 2021.democracynow.orgJury Finds Derek Chauvin Guilty on All Counts for Murdering George Floyd, Police Shoot Dead 16-Year-Old Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, Judge Denies Dismissal of Prison Sentence for Officer Who Shot and Killed Walter Scott in 2015, India Faces COVID "Storm"; AMLO Gets COVID Vaccine; U.S. Warns Against Travel to 80% of Globe, Johnson & Johnson Resumes European Rollout After Regulator Says Benefits Outweigh Blood Clot Risk, AOC and Sen. Markey Reintroduce Green New Deal as Biden Sets Ambitious Emissions Target, Idriss Déby's Son Named Interim Leader Following Chadian President's Death, Journalists in Over 100 Cou…
Staff(2021-04-21). Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Policing in U.S. Was Built on Racism & Should Be Put on Trial.democracynow.org A Minnesota jury's conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, says historian and author Khalil Gibran Muhammad. "We know that while the prosecution was performing in such a way to make the case that Derek Chauvin was a rogue actor, the truth is that policing should have been on trial in that case," Muhammad says. "We don't have a mechanism in our current system of laws in the way that we treat individual offenses to have that accountability and justice delivered." Muhammad also l…
Power to the People(2021-04-21). Ex-Cop Guilty on All Counts of Murder of George Floyd.indybay.orgWe finally saw the power of a mass movement with a middle class jury, including 2 jurors with family connections to the police, convicting Minneapolis now ex-cop white Derek Chauvin of the murder of black George Floyd while handcuffed and face down, with Chauvin sitting on Floyd's neck with his knee for over 9 minutes, supposedly for the use of an alleged $20 counterfeit bill. The struggle continues.
The Canary(2021-04-21). Police shoot and kill a Black teenage girl in Ohio as George Floyd verdict announced.thecanary.co Police shot and killed a Black teenage girl on Tuesday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, just as the verdict was being announced in the trial over the killing of George Floyd. | Officers claimed they were responding to an attempted stabbing call when police shot the girl at about 4.45pm local time. Police said the 911 caller reported a female was trying to stab them before hanging up. The girl was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. | In Columbus Ohio, police killed this beautiful young girl today. This is an illustration of why convictions and reform just aren't enough for our communities. | Ma'Khia Bry…
_____(2021-04-21). Uncomfortable Truths, Justice, and George Floyd.strategic-culture.orgWe ignore uncomfortable truths. The melding of the horrors of slavery with civil rights era lynchings with the killing of George Floyd, all wrapped in the means-what-you-want-it-to-mean of systemic racism, flirts with incitement to violence. It won't fix anything but falling MSM circulation rates, but that's sort of the point.
Staff(2021-04-21). Iran, Pakistan agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation.en.mehrnews.comTEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation and regional coordination on Afghanistan, Palestine, multilateralism and fighting anti-Muslim bigotry.
RobertAlvarez(2021-04-21). Afghanistan's Green Future?ips-dc.orgEveryone has a different Doomsday scenario for Afghanistan once U.S. and NATO troops withdraw by September 11. | The Taliban will take over and reimpose their repressive social agenda. Al-Qaeda will multiply rapidly and again become a global threat. Rival warlords will split apart the country. Another wave of Afghan refugees will overwhelm Europe. | And then there's the scenario in which China basically takes over the country, or at least the most sought-after parts of the country: the resources that lie beneath Afghan soil. | "Afghanistan is one of the richest mining regions in the world, holding untapped minera…
Kamal Iranidoost(2021-04-21). 34 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan: MoD statement.en.mehrnews.comTEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) —Afghanistan Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday that 34 Taliban fighters were killed and 10 others were wounded in clashes with government forces in the past 24 hours.
_____(2021-04-21). Bounties? What Bounties?strategic-culture.orgWhen truth is marginalized, the fringe is the only place where it's to be found. | So it looks like Russia didn't pay the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers after all. | Last summer, the New York Times announced in a front-page
CRS(2021-04-21). US Resumption Of Foreign Aid To The Palestinians — Analysis.eurasiareview.comBy Jim Zanotti and Rhoda Margesson* | On April 7, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the Biden Administration's plan to resume various forms of aid to the Palestinians that had been discontinued under the Trump Administration. Separately in March, the Biden Administration allocated $15 million in International Disaster Assistance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) response needs and emergency food assistance in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. | Secretary Blinken's statement and other documents indicate that the Administration plans to provide: | $75 million in bilateral Economic Support Fund…
Anonymous103(2021-04-21). Mixed Sight: New Zealand, the Five Eyes and China.southfront.org U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Michael Mathews | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | The Five Eyes arrangement between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has always resembled a segregated, clandestine club. Focused on the sharing of intelligence between countries of supposedly like mind, it has shown that even its own citizens cannot be guaranteed protection from the zeal of surveillance. | In recent years, the club has become a font of other intentions, nudging beyond the group's original remit.
_____(2021-04-21). Debt As Colonialism.popularresistance.orgDebt, according to standard economic assumptions, emerges from a purely private exchange. Independent rational agents willingly enter into a contract in a free market. That market, in turn, sets a fair price for the debt. Freedom and fairness: these are the assumptions that underpin the common narrative about debt and indebtedness. | This essay sets out to explode these assumptions. Contrary to the common narrative, the massive dollar-denominated debts in the Global South did not arise from private exchange in a regulatory vacuum. Rather, they are the product of an international financial system carefully designe…
Moderator(2021-04-21). The Director of National Intelligence's Hypocritical Annual Threat Assessment.scheerpost.comDoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando] By Maj. Danny Sjursen / AntiWar Make no mistake: much policy indecency is permitted and enabled by vacuously vague bureaucratic reports peddling in platitudes. For further evidence bolstering this increasingly open-and-shut case, see Exhibit number 3,472, or so: last week's release of the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community — the latest… |
Stan Cox(2021-04-21). Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic.counterpunch.org Humanity's transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread damage, including a climate emergency, catastrophic loss of biodiversity, and extensive degradation of soils around the world. Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.
Michele de Mello(2021-04-21). Brazil may reach 1 million COVID-19 casualties by October 2021.peoplesdispatch.org Brazil could reach the figure of one million deaths from COVID-19 by October 2021 if there continues to be high levels of mobility in the national territory, emergence of new variants, and slow vaccination process, according to a study conducted by Russian social scientist Alexei Kouprianov*. | Currently, there are some 14 million infected in the country, which represents 40% of the cases in the region. More than 378,000 have already died from the disease. The
RobertAlvarez(2021-04-21). Rebuilding Black-Owned Businesses after COVID-19.ips-dc.orgWith over half of American adults now at least partially vaccinated, many of us are beginning to imagine a future beyond the pandemic. But for the many small businesses that didn't survive, there's no "after." | Black-owned businesses have been especially hard-hit. That's because even after three pandemic relief packages, there's an elephant in the room that every resource, policy, and program is failing to address: the preexisting conditions of Black entrepreneurs. | Despite strong entrepreneurial traditions in Black America, the pre-COVID state of Black business — and indeed of Black economics generally […
WSWS(2021-04-21). Texas withholds federal aid from public schools.wsws.orgThe Texas state government is refusing to disburse $17.9 billion of $19 billion in federal money intended for public education under the recently-passed COVID-19 stimulus bill.
Ben Freeman, Ben Steiner — Leila Riazi(2021-04-21). The Saudi Lobby Moves From K Street to Main Street.counterpunch.orgPrincess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S., was on the hot seat. In early March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world, oil prices collapsed and a price war broke out between Saudi Arabia and Russia, leaving American oil and gas companies feeling the pain. As oil prices plummeted, Republican
_____(2021-04-21). Systemic Racism Continues To Plague Pandemic Response.popularresistance.orgOn March 29, Eric, the most prominent lay leader at my church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, perished from COVID-19. He was one of 685 people across the United States and one of 15 in Massachusetts to die from the disease that day. On April 6, Eric's mother Elmo also died from the coronavirus, one of 907 in the US and one of 12 in Massachusetts. | Both were likely casualties of a nation and state that betrayed them more than once during the pandemic: First by failing to quell the virus last year; secondly by allowing people like them to fall behind in getting vaccines; and thirdly by relaxing coronavirus restrictio…
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). U.S. COVID-19 cases rise as more states ease restrictions.ecns.cnDespite the country's vaccine rollout, a significant number of U.S. cities and states remain hotspots where the coronavirus continues to spread at higher rates than before, according to the Guardian.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). 32 Taiwan compatriots vaccinated against COVID-19 in Fuzhou.ecns.cnThe first batch of 32 Taiwan compatriots living in Fuzhou, south China's Fujian Province on Monday received COVID-19 vaccinations free of charge via "Tailutong," a cross-Straits app for Taiwan compatriots working or living in the mainland.
subMedia(2021-04-21). System Fail # 8: The Ghosts of Democracy.dissidentvoice.orgDiscussion about sexual assault (including against minors), torture; scenes of police brutality, murder. In this episode, Dee Dos takes a look at recent developments in the social war in Greece, including the COVID-19 lockdown, the #MeToo movement and the hunger strike waged by 17th of November member Dimitris Koufontinas. We also include an interview with …
news.un(2021-04-21). ILO kicks off Green Week to 'jump-start' a sustainable future.news.un.orgAs the world grapples with the devastating economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, the UN's labour agency launched ILO Green Week to explore what a green future of work could look like, and how we can get there.
news.un(2021-04-21). Ocean benefits increasingly undermined by human activity, UN assessment reveals.news.un.orgGreater understanding of the ocean is essential if the world is to recover better from the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve agreed targets on sustainable development and climate action, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday in launching a major study on what he called "the life support system of our planet."
Staff(2021-04-21). COVID-19 daily death toll in Iran at 388.en.mehrnews.comTEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) — The number of daily deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran stood at 388 with the total death toll surpassed 67,910 on Wed.
Kamal Iranidoost(2021-04-21). 20,000 people to receive COVIran Barakat vaccine next week.en.mehrnews.comTEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) — The main researcher working on producing anti-Covid-19 vaccine dubbed COVIran Barakat said Wednesday that as many as 20,000 will start receiving the Iranian-made vaccine starting from next week.
The Canary(2021-04-21). Fresh strikes by DVLA staff in coronavirus-safety dispute.thecanary.coWorkers at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are to stage fresh strikes in a dispute over coronavirus (Covid-19) related safety. | Walkout: | Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at the site in Swansea, South Wales, will walk out for four days from 4 May following industrial action earlier this month, | The union is calling for a reduction in the number of staff who need to go into the office to work after concerns were raised following a number of coronavirus cases last year. It said extensive negotiations have been held to try to resolve the dispute but claimed managers…
The Canary(2021-04-21). NHS medics urge prime minister to tackle 'chronic undersupply' in staffing.thecanary.co Medics have written a letter to Boris Johnson urging him to massively increase investment in NHS staffing. | Invest now: | Groups and unions representing NHS workers have said increased demand for services due to coronavirus (Covid-19) has led to a "chronic undersupply" in staffing and there are nearly 90,000 vacant posts. | The letter has been signed by the NHS Confederation, NHS Providers, the British Medical Association (BMA), the Royal College of Nursing, the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges, and Unison, and states that "billions of extra funding" is needed. | The NHS has reported high levels of stre…
MISES(2021-04-21). Biden's Big Spending Plans Won't Revive The Economy — Analysis.eurasiareview.comBy Frank Shostak* | On March 11, 2021, US president Biden introduced his $1.9 trillion covid-19 stimulus plan. The president also announced a plan of more than $2 trillion to rebuild US infrastructure, which includes repairing roads and bridges, as well as expanding access to long-term care services under Medicaid, building schools, and expanding internet access across the US. | It is commonly accepted that during difficult economic times the government should run large budget deficits in order to keep the economy going. This is because when overall demand in the economy weakens, the government should step in…
East Asia Forum(2021-04-21). Could Malaysia's Fake News Ordinance Stifle Public Debate? — Analysis.eurasiareview.comBy Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani* | On 12 January 2021, Malaysia's king, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, announced a nationwide state of emergency that will last until 1 August 2021. That same day, the Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced the imposition of stricter movement controls in states most badly affected by COVID-19. The Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021 was gazetted on 14 January 2021. | On 12 March, the Emergency (Essential Powers) (No. 2) Ordinance 2021 followed, taking action against the spread of fake news across video, written and audio platforms. The ordinance raises concerns abou…
Eurasia Review(2021-04-21). Simple Oral Hygiene Could Help Reduce COVID-19 Severity.eurasiareview.comCOVID-19 could pass into people's lungs from saliva with the virus moving directly from mouth to bloodstream – particularly if individuals are suffering from gum disease, according to new research. | Evidence shows that blood vessels of the lungs, rather than airways, are affected initially in COVID-19 lung disease with high concentrations of the virus in saliva and periodontitis associated with increased risk of death. | The researchers propose that dental plaque accumulation and periodontal inflammation further intensify the likelihood of the SARS-CoV-2 virus reaching the lungs and causing more severe cases…
Howard Richards*(2021-04-21). Fratelli Tutti And The Great Reset — OpEd.eurasiareview.comPope Francis on 3 Oct 2020 released at a ceremony at the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi his latest encyclical letter, Fratelli Tutti. | Less than four months previously, Klaus Schwab and his co-author Thierry Malleret launched Covid-19: The Great Reset at Davos, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum (WEF). | In some ways their authors might appear to share a common worldview. Schwab ¥s 2020 Manifesto, The Universal Purpose of a Company, is studded with phrases borrowed from the social doctrine of the church. Regarding Covid, The Great Reset writes that the storm will accelerate disturbing trends t…
Marjorie Cohn(2021-04-21). The Supreme Court is also to blame for Daunte Wright's death.mronline.org When veteran Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter, who is white, stopped Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for an expired registration tag, she committed an act of racial profiling. | April 21, 2021 | Newswire…
Eds.(2021-04-21). Towards a Marxist theatre.mronline.org With the onset of the pandemic, the second Black Lives Matter movement, and the economic crisis, theatre as an art form and an industry is in a period of crisis and rebuilding. | April 21, 2021 | Newswire…
Dave Lindorff(2021-04-21). US Has No Moral Standing to Criticize Russia or China.counterpunch.org President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken are worried about Russian Putin critic and presidential aspirant, currently in a Russian prison after conviction on charges of skipping bail and leaving the country and other charges, being abused and at risk of dying in jail. That threat may or may not be real,
Dan Cohen(2021-04-21). Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: "Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests"orinocotribune.comDan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and native of Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-China tensions. | WASHINGTON — Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, Director of Strategic Research at Tsinghua University Endowment Fund in Beijing and a native of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Gao discusses growing up as a Mongolian ethnic minority in XUAR, and how the propaganda war against China hurts Uyghur interests, but will ultimately backfire on the United States. Gao and Coden also discuss the U.S.-China artificial intelligence…
Thomas Stephens(2021-04-21). Borders of Racial Capitalism: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.counterpunch.orgIsn't This a Time! Pardon beginning with jargon. Under racial capitalist social and power relations, stated policy intentions are inverted relative to social outcomes, and pandemic inequality reigns with a deadly life of its own. This is the rotten fruit of a poisoned neoliberal model of the relationship between the state and finance. We should
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). Xi calls for strengthening global governance at BFA annual conference.ecns.cnChinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on all countries in Asia and beyond to answer the "call of our times," defeat the pandemic through solidarity, strengthen global governance, and keep pursuing a community with a shared future for mankind.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). RCEP heralds confidence in economic globalization: experts.ecns.cnThe Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, inked at a time when the world is mired in headwinds of pandemic and anti-globalization sentiments, heralds new confidence in economic globalization, experts said at a sub-forum of the high-profile Boao Forum for Asia annual conference.
Dan Steinbock(2021-04-21). China's Record First Quarter Fuels Strong Expansion In 2021 — Analysis.eurasiareview.comChina's first quarter record performance will accelerate momentum in China and support recovery in the US and global economic prospects — as long as unwarranted geopolitical tensions remain in check. | A year ago, China's first quarter plunge was -6.8 percent, due to the pandemic effect. In the West, it was widely seen as the "end of China's growth story." | Instead, in early February 2020 I predicted
Stephanie Hedgecoke(2021-04-21). Cuban unions build socialism.workers.org Member, Communication Workers Local 14156 What are the differences between unions in capitalist countries and socialist countries? What is labor's role in a socialist country? I first became a supporter of socialist Cuba as a labor activist in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I learned about Cuba's unions in . . . |
Monica Moorehead(2021-04-21). Spirit of May Day: Fight Back!/Smash police violence & white supremacy.workers.org BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the police! More on workers.org May Day, International Workers Day, was born in the U.S. out of the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. Workers, many of them socialists and anarchists who migrated from other countries, risked their lives. . . . |
Monica Moorehead(2021-04-21). Spirit of May Day: Fight Back! Smash police violence & white supremacy.workers.org BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the police! More on workers.org May Day, International Workers Day, was born in the U.S. out of the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. Workers, many of them socialists and anarchists who migrated from other countries, risked their lives. . . . |
Monica Moorehead(2021-04-21). Spirit of May Day: Fight Back!Smash police violence and white supremacy.workers.org BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the police! More on workers.org May Day, International Workers Day, was born in the U.S. out of the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. Workers, many of them socialists and anarchists who migrated from other countries, risked their lives. . . . |
Staff(2021-04-21). Venezuela's Attorney General Requests Extradition of Leopoldo López from Spain.orinocotribune.comVenezuela's Public Ministry initiated a formal request to the kingdom of Spain to return Leopoldo López to Venezuela through an extradition process. This statement was made before the 5th Execution Court of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas, which sent the file to the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, according to its accounts. | The extradition request is related to López's alleged participation in Operation Gideón, a project aimed at overthrowing the government of President Nicolás Maduro, a judicial source said. This plan was launched on May 3, 2020, but…
Staff(2021-04-21). UK Plot to Steal Venezuelan Gold Revealed.orinocotribune.comA conspiracy that took place in 2019 involving the former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and UK Minister of State for the Americas, Alan Duncan, with the intention of retaining the gold belonging to Venezuela held in the Bank of England (BofE), has been uncovered. | The information was disclosed by Bloomberg journalist Javier Blas, who recounted how, in a telephone conversation with Carney, Duncan presented him with legal arguments for denying that President Nicolás Maduro was the rightful president of Venezuela, and thus seizing the $2 billion worth of Venezuelan gold reserves in the Bank of Engla…
Colin Todhunter(2021-04-21). Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed.counterpunch.orgWe are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. The Bill and
Colin Todhunter(2021-04-21). Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed.dissidentvoice.orgWe are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. The Bill …
Minnie Bruce Pratt(2021-04-21). 'The fire has started!' in Alabama — Amazon, mine workers.workers.org April 18 — Miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Ala., struck April 1 and are still picketing as of this writing. On April 9 they voted 1,006 to 45 to reject a contract that would have restored only $1.50 of a $6-an-hour pay cut workers took in 2016 — . . . |
_____(2021-04-21). Building Workplace Power In The Communities.popularresistance.orgAs organized labor grapples with the consequences of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union's landslide defeat at the Amazon mega-warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, one potential direction for the labor movement lies in the types of power- and base-building activities of Black worker centers. | That African American workers need to amass the power to better their conditions is beyond dispute. The American working class is in serious trouble, and Black workers most particularly. The median net wealth of Black families is just $24,100 (lower than any other racial group in America today), while that of white…
Editor2(2021-04-21). Biden isn't Ending the Afghanistan War, he's Privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors, Intelligence Operatives will Remain.orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Kuzmarov — Apr 16, 2021 | Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it. | On April 14, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the U.S.'s longest war and withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. | Over 6,000 NATO troops will also be withdrawn by that time. | "War in Afghanistan was…
Radhika Desai(2021-04-21). An "Accumulation fo Anger" in Putin's Russia: an Interview With Boris Kagarlitsky.counterpunch.org The actual loss of jobs was not that catastrophic in the long run, because quite a few migrant workers had to be thrown out of Russia. So, while the total loss of jobs was impressive, the actual loss of jobs for Russian citizens was not that catastrophic; a lot of that price had to be paid by people in Central Asia, by the immigrant and migrant workers who lost their jobs. Actually (this is very interesting), it ended up creating a kind of division between those who wanted to remain as immigrants and would do whatever they could to stay over, and those who made the personal decision to leave Russia and had to fig…
Fight Back(2021-04-21). Speaking out against police repression in MN.fightbacknews.orgMinneapolis, MN – On April 15, the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar (TCC4J) hosted a press conference to denounce police violence against protesters. Sam Martinez of Twin Cities 4 Justice for Jamar emceed the rally. | The opening speech featured TCC4J member DJ Hooker, standing alongside Victor Ramirez of MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee, whose face was covered in bruises due to broken facial bones from a police projectile. | Speakers noted that police and city authority action are restricting First Amendment rights, the freedom of speech and to protest, including: | — Posting official signage ask…
_____(2021-04-21). Manifest Destiny? U.S. Immigration 'Crisis' a Bipartisan Toxic Legacy.strategic-culture.orgMigration is here to stay regardless of fences or chicken coops used for vetting migrants as labor, and the corruption of gangsterism will continue to normalize itself with the U.S. corporatist state. | Since Joe Biden took over the White House nearly three months ago, a recurring controversy dogging his administration is the plight of migrants crossing the southern border from Mexico. In the following interview, Randy Martin gives his take on the subject as a seasoned observer and campaigner based near the border. He says much of the political heat on the subject recently is being generated by the bitterly divis…
Andrew Yeack(2021-04-21). Tampa workers protest anti-union bills moving through Florida legislature.liberationnews.org On Friday, April 16, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) took to the streets of Tampa to demonstrate against SB 1014 and HB 835, two anti-union bills filed in the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively.
Steve Lalla(2021-04-21). In Defense of the Revolution: Cuba's Historic Victory over Imperialism at Playa Girón.dissidentvoice.org "For progressives and anti-imperialists all over the world, the mention of the Bay of Pigs—known in the Spanish-speaking world as Playa Girón—evokes joy and celebration," wrote Carmelo Ruiz. "The United States, an empire accustomed to imposing itself even in the farthest corners of the world, could not prevail and enforce its will on an island …
Aboulfotouh Kandil(2021-04-21). Arab-Americans in Chicago seek congressional support for Egyptian human rights.peoplesworld.org CHICAGO — Arab Americans here, like those across the country, have connections to 22 countries that are part of the Arab world. The U.S. witnessed the first large wave of Arab immigration between 1920 and 1924. Over time, Arabs established communities in all 50 states, became more integrated into society, and their existence in the …
Robert Hunziker(2021-04-21). The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to its Billing.dissidentvoice.orgEarth.com The 21st century serves as an inflection point of acceleration of climate instability caused by human-generated greenhouse gases, as CO2 emissions increase well beyond the rate of the prior century. It's also a defining timeline of an astonishing ice mass loss rate of 500% more than the last decade of the previous century. Throughout …
Dean Baker(2021-04-21). Tax Stock Returns: If Biden Really Wants to Close Corporate Income Tax Loopholes.counterpunch.org President Biden has indicated that he wants to raise much of the money to cover the cost of his infrastructure program by raising the corporate income tax. The amount of money raised through the corporate income tax plummeted following the Trump tax cut in 2017. In non-recession years it had been averaging close to 2.0
Phelan Acheson(2021-04-21). A Brief Constitutional Argument for Police Abolition.realprogressives.org The very existence of police is a violation of the most literal interpretation of the Second through Fifth Amendments. In addition, police serve to violate the First through Eighth Amendments systematically and consistently in function. | ______________________________ | FIRST AMENDMENT | Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. | SECOND AMENDMENT | A well-regulated Militia, being ne…
Jerry Lembcke(2021-04-21). Vietnam at The Movies, 2020-21.counterpunch.org So, what do you think is going on? My friend was asking about the spate of new films about the war in Vietnam and the opposition to it. Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods story of four veterans who return to Vietnam to dig for treasure and the body of their "fifth," both left buried there,
Devin Cole(2021-04-21). HB1: Jim Crow 2.0 — an interview with Jamil Davis.workers.org House Bill 1, a bill criminalizing protest in the state of Florida beyond measures that already exist, passed its final Senate committee April 15. It was signed into law April 19 by fascistic Gov. Ron DeSantis, who proposed the bill in September 2020 as a response to the Black Lives . . . |
Eds.(2021-04-21). Pentagon adds Africa to Global battleground with China and Russia.mronline.org General Stephen Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 22. | April 21, 2021 | Newswire…
Staff(2021-04-21). Caracas-Moscow: Conviasa's New Non-Stop Commercial Passenger Flight.orinocotribune.com Venezuela's National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC) reported this Monday, April 18, through a statement, that during this week of radical quarantine defined by the National Executive, commercial air routes to various international destinations continue, including the Russian Federation as a new destination. The Russian embassy reported this first on March 25, when it announced the resumption of the direct route between Caracas and Moscow with a frequency of two flights per week. | The long-range route was approved by the Putin government and will be serviced by the Venezuelan state-owned airline, Conviasa.
Shelley Ettinger(2021-04-21). San Antonio activists take on phony cop 'unions'.workers.org San Antonio — Black Lives Matter activists in San Antonio came out April 16 and 17 to demand an end to police killings of Black and Brown people, nationally and locally. The first demonstration, sponsored by the San Antonio Coalition for Police Accountability, Fix SAPD and others, was focused on . . . |
Daniela Jimenez(2021-04-21). PDVSA's Monómeros in Colombia may be Overproducing Urea for Pablo Escobar's 'Partners'.orinocotribune.com Venezuelan opposition deputy José Brito, president of the Special Committee appointed to investigate the events perpetrated by previous National Assembly board during the 2016-2020 term, determined that advanced investigations indicate that the Venezuelan company Monómeros, belonging to stated-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), is used for the benefit of Colombian drug trafficking. | Monómeros, based in Colombia, and CITGO, based in the US, are among the assets seized by the United States government in collusion with former Venezuelan deputy Juan Guaidó in their failed 2019 attempt to oust the legitimate gover…
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin(2021-04-21). Kalashnikov: the amateur inventor who shot to global fame.dissidentvoice.org AK-47: Kalashnikov (2020) is a biographical film about Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (1919—2013), the inventor and designer of the AK-47 automatic rifle. This Russian film, released in February of last year, follows the young Kalashnikov as he is bombarded by Germans during WWII and is interspersed with flashbacks of his childhood. Disturbed by the failure of …
Betsey Piette(2021-04-21). Mumia Abu-Jamal's life in jeopardy — demand his release now!workers.org Led by Pam Africa (left) demonstrators take to the streets to demand immediate release for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, March 12. Credit: Joe Piette Philadelphia Family and supporters of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal became alarmed when they did not get his routine daily calls after April 10. On April 14 . . . |
Ceren Sagir(2021-04-21). U.K. Conservative Party government report: 'Institutional racism' doesn't exist.peoplesworld.org LONDON—United Nations experts slammed the recent race report commissioned by Boris Johnson's Conservative Party government in the U.K., warning that it attempts to "normalize white supremacy." The U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said it "categorically rejects and condemns" the findings of Johnson's Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED). CRED's …
Edward Hasbrouck(2021-04-21). Selective Service Repeal Act introduced in Congress.peoplesworld.org The Selective Service Repeal Act of 2021 (H.R. 2509 and S. 1139) was introduced in Congress on April 14 with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate. If passed, it would end draft registration and abolish the Selective Service System altogether. "No young person, regardless of gender, should be subject to a military …
Anonymous669(2021-04-21). Personal Dispute Sparked Heavy Clashes Between Government Forces, SDF In Syria's Al-Qamishli (Videos).southfront.org Screen grab from a video released by the Hawar News Agency (ANHA). | Late on April 20, heavy clashes broke out between the pro-government Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF) and Asayish, the security wing of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern Syrian city of al-Qamishli. | Asayish claimed that NDF forces attacked one of its checkpoints near the Tayy district in the city. An officer known as Ahmad Hajji was killed and four others were injured in the incident. Asayish responded by launching a lar…
Anonymous669(2021-04-21). First Of Many To Come: US Supply Convoy Attacked In Northeastern Syria (Photos).southfront.org Illustrative image | On April 20, a convoy moving supplies and vehicles for the US-led coalition in northeastern Syria came under attack. | The convoy, which was escorted by units from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was targeted with an improvised explosive device (IED) in the town of al-Sabhah in southeastern Deir Ezzor. The supply convoy was on its way to the Omar oil fields, where US forces maintain a large presence. | As a result of the attack, a pickup of the SDF was damaged. Furthermore, two civilians,…
Anonymous007(2021-04-21). Military Situation In Donetsk People's Republic On April 21, 2021 (Map Update).southfront.org Click to see full-size image | UAF shelled DPR positions in Leninskoe with 120-mm artillery | UAF targeted the Trudovskaya mine with 82-mm artillery | UAF targeted Leninskoe with grenade launchers | UAF shelled Zheleznaya Balka with a BMP-1 | The 128th Mountain Assault Brigade from the Transcarpathian region was deployed to the south of the DPR, near Mariupol. The unit replaced the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which went to the point of permanent deployment. | DPR force…
Anonymous007(2021-04-21). Military Situation In Iraq On April 21, 2021 (Map Update).southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On April 20, ISIS attacked PMU positions in north of Khanaqin area | On April 21, a soldier was killed and 3 others were wounded in an explosion targeting an army patrol in Jalawla district | On April 20, ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on two Iraqi army posts in the village of Al-Hitawiyin in the Al-Azim region | On April 20, the PMU carried out a security operation south of Samarra | On April 20, Kurdistan Security Service reportedly captured 22 terrorists…
Anonymous669(2021-04-21). US Handed Over 55 Armored Vehicles, Trucks To Lebanese Military (Photos).southfront.org Official logo of the Lebanese Armed Force, source: lebarmy.gov.lb | On April 21, the US embassy in Lebanon announced the delivery of dozens of armored vehicles and trucks to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). | In a statement posted on Twitter, the embassy said that the shipment, which arrived in Beirut Port on April 15, is meant to "protect" Lebanon's border."On April 15, a US-flagged ship docked at the Port of Beirut to deliver 55 armored vehicles worth $13 million, which will enable LAF units to better defend and pro…
Anonymous007(2021-04-21). Russia's Yasen-M Nuclear Submarine To Be Able To Salvo Launch Cruise Missiles.southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Russia's Project 885M (Yasen-M) nuclear-powered submarines will be able to salvo-launch Kalibr-PL and Oniks cruise missiles, TASS In November 2020, "the Kazan made a salvo during state trials, which confirmed the possibility of such launches," the source said…
Anonymous669(2021-04-21). Syrian Army Uncovered Loads Of Weapons, Ammunition In Eastern Homs (Photos).southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | Syrian authorities have uncovered loads of weapons and ammunition in the eastern countryside of Homs, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on April 21. | The weapons and ammunition were uncovered by the Syrian military and security forces in the course of combing and search operations in the region. | The weapons included: | 264 assault rifles; | 3 mortar cannons; | 221 mortar shells along with 450 fuze; | 110 ammunition boxes of different cali…
Anonymous669(2021-04-21). Syrian Presidential Elections: Assad Files To Run For Third Term Despite Criticism.southfront.org Syrian President Bashar Assad. FILE IMAGE: Michael Klimentiev/TASS | On April 21, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad submitted documents to run for a third term in an election scheduled for May 26. | The news was announced by Hammouda Sabbagh, the Speaker of Syrian People's Assembly. Under Syria's electoral laws, al-Assad, like all other candidates, needs the support of at least 35 members of the People's Assembly to officially enter the presidential race. | President al-Assad was the sixth to file for the upcoming presidential…
Anonymous103(2021-04-21). English Voiceover Needed. Take Your Chance!southfront.org Illustrative image | Take your chance! Join SouthFront Team | SouthFront: Analysis&Intelligence unites volunteers and specialists from all over the world and you can be the next to join our ranks. | We are looking for English language voiceover artists of any age, gender or nationality. If you have a wide experience or you wish to improve your skills join our team. | SouthFront is committed to the freedom of speech and the principles of independence, valuableness of different but confident points of views. Our…
Anonymous669(2021-04-21). ISIS Terrorists Stormed Major Military Base In Nigeria's Borno (Photos).southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On April 18, ISIS terrorists launched a large-scale attack on a major base of the Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) in the northeastern state of Borno. | The terrorists stormed the base, which is located in the town of Dikwa, following clashes with the NAF. Nigerian service members withdrew from the base leaving behind their equipment and weapons. | According to the Amaq news agency, ISIS fighters burned the camp as well as a pickup truck, an artillery piece and four armored vehic…
Anonymous007(2021-04-21). U.S. Falling Behind China And Russia In Terms Of Nuclear Arsenal: STRATCOM.southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Chinese nuclear capability is improving at an incredible pace, and could soon be useable in actual conflict, Adm. Charles Richard, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command warned. | He told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he had just ordered all briefs on Beijing's nuclear weapons contain no intelligence information vetted more than one month earlier "because it's probably out of date" that quickly. | Richard testified that China is capable of accurately deployi…
Anonymous007(2021-04-21). Large Explosion At Sensitive Israeli Defense Factory.southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On April 21st, a large explosion took place in a defense factory in Israel. | The explosion seems to have occurred during a routine test at the advanced weapons factory which houses various types of missiles. | Officials may have underestimated the collateral damage of the test, which led to the explosion. | The factory is located in central Israel, and in proximity to residential areas. Civilians documented the mushroom cloud. | Senior defense officials are now investigating what went wro…
Anonymous007(2021-04-21). Military Situation In Syria On April 21, 2021 (Map Update).southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On April 21, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 39 times: 23 — in Idlib province, 12 — in Latakia province, 4 — in Hama province | On April 20, a SAA armored military vehicle was targeted by an IED blast in the north of Daraa. No casualties were reported | On April 20, an IED blast targeted trucks carrying logistical aid for the US Coalition passing from the al-Omar field road | On April 21, clashes betwe…
Anonymous007(2021-04-21). Saudi Crown Prince Supported Israeli "Scheme" For Jordan Coup: Report.southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allegedly backed an Israeli "scheme" to overthrow Jordanian King Abdullah II in exchange for the guardianship of al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem. | Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper, quoting a Jordanian security official, said that the coup attempt against King Abdullah II was a "scheme" involving Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. | According to the unnamed official, Israel planned the…
Anand Naidoo(2021-04-21). The Heat: Boao Forum for Asia.america.cgtn.com Chinese President Xi Jinping talks geopolitics, cooperation and trade at the return of the Boao Forum for Asia conference.
a guest author(2021-04-21). 'No good cops in a racist system'.workers.org By Anneliese Bienko Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo's first anti-police demonstration of the year was held April 16. The action, called by Workers World Party, drew activists from across the left to demand police abolition and stand in solidarity with Minneapolis in the wake of Daunte Wright's murder. Speakers addressed the police . . . |
a guest author(2021-04-21). 'Shackling of aged inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is deplorable'.workers.org The following statement was released April 20 from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commission concerning the practice by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections of shackling of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal during his recent and current periods of hospitalizations. Read the statement at tinyurl.com/c7smdu24. GENEVA (April 20, . . . |
A Guest Author(2021-04-21). Statement supporting the Syrian people.workers.org The following introduction and statement was issued by the United National Antiwar Coalition April 14: Pro-Western Syrian exiles have initiated a statement supported by a number of "progressive" individuals and organizations. The statement is titled,"Erasing people through disinformation: Syria and the 'anti-imperialism' of fools." In this statement, which supports the . . . |
Anonymous669(2021-04-21). Government Mi-35 Combat Helicopter Shot Down Over Tigray Region (Video).southfront.org Screen grab from the Tigray Intercept video. | On April 20, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) announced that it had shot down a combat helicopter of the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray. | The helicopter crashed in the vicinity of the town of Abiy Addi in the center of Tigray, where a fierce battle between the TPLF and government forces has been ongoing for more than five months now. | The Tigray Intercept released a video showing the wreckage of the downed helicopter, which was…
Staff(2021-04-21). Sanders, Jayapal Introduce Bill to Make College Free for Nearly 80% of Americans.truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would make college and university tuition-free for most people living in the United States. | The legislation would allow for families that earn less than $125,000 in yearly household income
Staff(2021-04-21). Are Republicans Breaking Up With Big Business? Don't Hold Your Breath.truthout.org Mitch McConnell doesn't seem to be adjusting well to the new limits of his power, following his ouster from the majority leader seat last November. A once nigh-omnipotent power broker, McConnell has now found his influence diminished to the point that he's yelling strange things at stranger targets. He spent a chunk of last week unspooling some doozies directed at corporate America, which has long been a close ally of the Republican Party. | The trouble began in Georgia, a state whose GOP officials we…
Susan Schnur(2021-04-21). Book review: "The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh"workers.org For a fiction reader, a non-fiction book can be a bit of a slog. But this book, still unfinished when the author died in 1950 and first published in 1956, was so fascinating. Recommended to me by one of Workers World Party's leading comrades, "The Life and Times of Chu . . . |
Kenneth Surin(2021-04-21). UK's Society of the Spectacle: Mourning Prince Philip.counterpunch.org The BBC received more than 110,000 complaints relating to its coverage of Philip's death, with the fact that it had two channels showing exactly the same programmes for hours on end probably constituting a big chunk of the complaints. A BBC spokesperson, resorting to boilerplate, said lamely: "We are proud of our coverage and the role we play during moments of national significance".
WSWS(2021-04-21). The Washington Post's phony campaign on Uyghur "genocide"wsws.orgWith astonishing speed, the US media has swung into action churning out a growing deluge of propaganda with lurid horror stories of life in the detention camps in Xinjiang, calls for the US to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and demands for tougher measures against China.
_____(2021-04-21). Vietnam Veterans Descended On The Capitol 50 Years Ago This Week.popularresistance.orgOn Sunday, CBS News' "60 Minutes" profiled the Oath Keepers, a white-supremacist veterans' group founded when President Barack Obama assumed office. The program traced the group's history from its 2009 formation to its armed support of Cliven Bundy in 2014 to its open plotting of sedition in December 2020. Then CBS showed some cell-phone footage of the 40 members of the group on Jan. 6, 2021, as they breached the U.S. Capitol in perfect military formation. | That insurrection's aftereffects are still being felt, with 400 participants having been arrested by the Justice Department. Now, as indictments loom, at lea…
Fight Back(2021-04-21). Texas: March held for victims of police terror.fightbacknews.orgDallas, TX – On April 18, about 90 people rallied at Dallas city hall to protest recent police killings such as the murder of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo. The rally was called by the Dallas Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression. Speeches were first held with DAARPR co-chair Jennifer Miller giving a passionate speech about her fears as a Black mother of an autistic child, "What happens when my son stops being a cute black boy and becomes a Black male threat. My son is Tamir Rice, my son is Trayvon Martin, and so many more." | Next Kawana Scott of DAARPR spoke next, comparing the police murdering Daun…
_____(2021-04-21). Despite Climate Commitments, Health Concerns, States Approve Fuel Tanks.popularresistance.orgMagali Sanchez-Hall, usually in motion, pauses for a moment on the sidewalk to gaze through a chain-link fence at the massive new construction project: tanks shaped like giant tuna fish cans that will store crude oil. | The Los Angeles refinery has been her troublesome neighbor for a quarter of a century, but she finds this latest turn particularly perplexing. | "Right now, we are supposed to be moving to clean energy," she says. | Sanchez-Hall, 50, raised her children here before getting a master's degree in public policy. When Tesoro, now Marathon Petroleum Corp., first proposed the new tanks in 2016, she oppos…
Rick Rozoff(2021-04-21). U.S. Strategic Command chief calls for nuclear upgrade aimed at China and Russia.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comU.S. Strategic Command chief calls for nuclear upgrade aimed at China and RussiaRick Rozoff On April 20 Admiral Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee alongside his colleague General James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), in both open and closed hearings. Richard described his command, …
Peoples Dispatch(2021-04-21). Protests in Italy's Susa valley over fresh construction bids for Turin-Lyon motor link.peoplesdispatch.orgProtesters opposing a high speed rail project in the Susa valley in Italy faced violent action at San Didero in Piedmont on Tuesday, April 13. In recent times, the No TAV (No to the High Speed Train) movement has gained fresh momentum against new bids for construction at the A32 Turin-Bardonecchia motorway. The police action came while protesters resisted work on a new motor park linked to the A32 motorway. The police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protesters, injuring several people. For decades, residents in the region — which lies near the Italian-French border — have been resisting…
Fight Back(2021-04-21). March and Protest Demanding Justice for Chicano youth David Sullivan.fightbacknews.orgBuena Park, CA – A march and protest took place in Buena Park, Orange County, April 17, to demand justice for David Sullivan, a 19-year old Chicano who was shot and killed August 19, 2019 in the city of Fullerton, by Buena Park Police Department. The protest's demands included the firing and prosecution of Buena Park police officers Jennifer Tran and Bobby Colon. Sullivan was shot and killed in broad daylight, posed no threat, and was unarmed. | The protest was led by Sullivan's mother DeAnna, sibling Sam, and eldest brother Joshua Sullivan. Present in solidarity were Centro CSO, Justice X, Say Their Na…
Editor2(2021-04-21). Yemen's Defense Ministry: Liberation of Ma'rib Closer Than Ever.orinocotribune.comYemen's Defense Ministry says the Yemeni armed forces and allied Popular Committees fighters are set to encircle Ma'rib from the western and southern fronts in preparation for entering the strategic city. | Lebanon's al-Mayadeen television network on Monday cited the Sana'a-based ministry as saying that the armed forces are tightening their grip on al-Balaq al-Qebali mountain range, which overlooks the Ma'rib Dam to the north and Tala al-Hamra in Sarwah district to the west of Ma'rib. | The Yemeni forces have taken control of Homma al-Hajily district and moved the battle to al-Touma al-Olia and al-Touma al-Sofla,…
Adam Martin(2021-04-21). How Adam Became A Real Progressive.realprogressives.orgA long time ago, a game was released for the PlayStation console. The game had a demo released through Pizza Hut, a short taste of this spy thriller, Metal Gear Solid. You play as Solid Snake, and your mission is to sneak through a base and stop a terrorist group from launching a nuclear missile. Upon playing the full version, instead of a full action thriller (although the game has plenty of this) you are instead treated to a thematic experience of pacifism, the folly of nuclear proliferation, genetics and eugenics, government corruption, and more. For a game where you kill plenty of people, these pacifist th…
Editor2(2021-04-21). USA: Shackling of Aged Inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is Deplorable — UN Experts.orinocotribune.comGENEVA (20 April 2021) — UN human rights experts* expressed serious concerns about the treatment and welfare of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American man who has been in jail for 40 years in Pennsylvania, and is reportedly shackled to his hospital bed. Mr. Abu-Jamal had already been shackled to his bed during a four-day hospitalization in late February while being treated for heart failure. | Mr. Abu-Jamal has been denied visits from his family and access to his lawyers and spiritual advisor after being admitted to an undisclosed hospital around 10 April, where he will reportedly undergo surgery. "This ongoi…
Fight Back(2021-04-21). March and Protest Demanding Justice for Chicano youth David Sullivan.fightbacknews.orgBuena Park, CA – A march and protest took place in Buena Park, Orange County, April 17, to demand justice for David Sullivan, a 19-year old Chicano who was shot and killed August 19, 2019 in the city of Fullerton, by Buena Park Police Department. The protest's demands included the firing and prosecution of Buena Park police officers Jennifer Tran and Bobby Colon. Sullivan was shot and killed in broad daylight, posed no threat, and was unarmed. | The protest was led by Sullivan's mother DeAnna, sibling Sam, and eldest brother Joshua Sullivan. Present in solidarity were Centro CSO, Justice X, Say Their Na…
Rainer Shea(2021-04-21). Dictatorship of the Proletariat is the Only way to Stop Imperialism's Brutal Fist.orinocotribune.comBy Rainer Shea — Apr 18, 2021 | Imperialism is ferocious. For as long as imperialism exists, and its supporting bourgeois and fascist tendencies haven't been eliminated from history, its agents will constantly look for ways to undo progress towards liberation from its grasp. This means that while fighting against imperialism and the power structures which keep it in place, we can't afford to play our cards wrong. Not while the imperialist powers and the bourgeoisie still control most of the world's geopolitical influence, state apparatuses, and productive forces. And the dictatorship of the proletariat&sbquo…
_____(2021-04-21). Five Injured In Rocket Attack On US Airbase In Iraq.popularresistance.orgFive people — two foreign contractors and three Iraqi soldiers — were injured on Sunday, April 18 in a rocket attack on an air base near Baghdad, Al Jazeera reported. A total of five rockets hit the Balad air base, north of Baghdad, with two of them landing on a dormitory and one hitting a canteen belonging to US company Sallyport, according to security sources in the area. There were no reports of any deaths. The rocket attack was the latest in a series of attacks targeting US bases and other installations in Iraq as opposition to the US military presence in the country continues to grow. | Responsib…
_____(2021-04-21). Water Protector Steve Martinez Released From Grand Jury Detention.popularresistance.orgBismarck, ND — On March 3, Steve Martinez was jailed at the Burleigh County Detention Center after refusing to testify before a secret federal grand jury investigating 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. | Martinez is now finally free as of April 12, according to a statement posed to social media by the 'Support Steve Martinez' campaign. | Martinez has served over 60 in days in federal detention. He was previously been jailed for most of February 2021 for refusing to testify, but was briefly released after a judge found the magistrate who ordered him detained did not have the authority to do s…
_____(2021-04-21). Haudenosaunee Chiefs Declare Development Moratorium.popularresistance.orgTraditional Six Nations chiefs have declared a formal moratorium on development within the Haldimand Tract, a broad swath of land spanning 10 kms from either side of the Grand River as it winds its way from Dundalk, Ont. down to Lake Erie. | Standing outside the Longhouse, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council said construction can't proceed without the people's consent — doubling down on their support for the land reclamation in Caledonia that now enters month 10. | "The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council endorses, supports and recognizes that development should not be proceeding on our lands,…
Kate Ruane(2021-04-21). Privacy Rights Do Not Come With a Price Tag.aclu.orgApps you use every day on your phone collect and sell sensitive data, including your location over time. That data could wind up in government hands without you even knowing it — and it's already happening to millions of people across the country. When the government wants to obtain our private information, like our location data, the Fourth Amendment requires it to go to court and obtain a warrant, but over the past year, we've learned that the government has been buying its way around this requirement. Agencies are purchasing location data and other sensitive information from private companies without…
Bettina Marshall(2021-04-21). National Organizer (Justice is Global).peoplesaction.orgAbout People's Action Institute and Justice is Global People's Action Institute (501c3), and sister organization People's Action (501c4), are national progressive organizations supporting the mobilization and leadership of the grassroots in support of an agenda that reflects people over profits. People's Action/Institute builds the power of poor and working people, in rural, suburban, and urban …
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). China's loan prime rates remain unchanged.ecns.cnChina's one-year loan prime rate (LPR), a market-based benchmark lending rate, came in at 3.85 percent on Tuesday, unchanged from the previous month.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). China, Mexico pledge enhanced cooperation to promote ties.ecns.cnChina's top legislator Li Zhanshu on Tuesday held talks via video link with Oscar Eduardo Ramirez Aguilar, speaker of Mexico's Senate, and both sides pledged enhanced cooperation to promote bilateral relations.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). Nation expects steady growth of FDI this year.ecns.cnForeign direct investment into China is expected to grow at a stable pace this year, thanks to the country's moves to further expand its domestic market and its status as the biggest trading partner of more than 120 countries and regions, said experts and business leaders.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). China takes further step to open services sector.ecns.cnThe State Council, China's cabinet, has approved plans to expand the opening-up of the services sector in four regions as the country develops new systems for a higher-standard open economy.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). India hopes U.S. will soon end curbs on vaccine raw materials export.ecns.cnIndia is hopeful the U.S. will soon lift a ban on vaccine raw materials that has threatened to slow output of shots in the country, two Indian government sources told Reuters on Monday, after the foreign ministers of the two nations spoke.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). ROK says to join IAEA monitoring team for Fukushima wastewater release.ecns.cnSouth Korea will make sure to participate in an international monitoring team led by the UN nuclear watchdog for Japan's planned release of nuclear polluted water from its wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, Yonhap reported, citing the country's foreign ministry.
ecns.cn(2021-04-21). Hurun Report chairman: China leads in livestream shopping.ecns.cnRupert Hoogewerf, Hurun Report chairman and chief researcher, said Tuesday on the sideline of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 that China's livestream shopping is a new trend.
Jacob Reimann(2021-04-21). Abolish the police!indybay.orgWe need to put money into housing initiatives, addiction and violence prevention programs, community centers and mental health infrastructures – and in parallel, dismantle the police step by step. We need to develop alternative structures for how we deal with violence as a society.
Housing is A Right(2021-04-21). Empty Apt Buildings on Bush Street; SF Could House Homeless.indybay.orgWhile whole buildings on Bush Street, San Francisco have huge For Rent Signs, Supervisor Mandelman proposes spending $3000 a month per person to place homeless on cold, asphalt parking lots in tents, at today's Budget Committee meeting. If you need an apartment in San Francisco, there are thousands of empty apartments.
Police Racism(2021-04-21). In San Rafael a Vigil–Justice for Daunte Wright.indybay.orgOn April 11, a 20-year-old Black man, Daunte Wright, was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. He was shot at close range. Protesters say police are engaged in a racist war on Black America. At a vigil on April 16 in San Rafael, demonstrators remembered Daunte and other victims.
UN statement reposted by Jamal Journal(2021-04-21). United Nations: Shackling of aged inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is deplorable.indybay.org"The use of shackles during his hospital stays is deplorable, and causes Mr. Abu-Jamal additional and unnecessary suffering," said the experts. "International standards on the treatment of prisoners clearly stipulate that instruments of restraint are to be imposed only when no lesser form of control would be effective to address the risks posed by unrestricted movement."
Party for Socialism, Liberation(2021-04-21). Guilty! People's uprising wins justice for George Floyd.liberationnews.org One thing is unambiguously clear: Derek Chauvin being found guilty is the result of a historic popular uprising. Chauvin's brutal murder of George Floyd ignited a massive resistance from Minneapolis' Third Precinct into the smallest towns and biggest cities in the United States. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was proud to participate in this …
subMedia(2021-04-21). System Fail # 8: The Ghosts of Democracy.dissidentvoice.orgDiscussion about sexual assault (including against minors), torture; scenes of police brutality, murder. In this episode, Dee Dos takes a look at recent developments in the social war in Greece, including the COVID-19 lockdown, the #MeToo movement and the hunger strike waged by 17th of November member Dimitris Koufontinas. We also include an interview with …
RT(2021-04-20). Biden hopes Chauvin jury will reach 'RIGHT VERDICT' after calling George Floyd's family.rt.com US President Joe Biden has said he is praying for the "right verdict" in the case of the Minnesota police officer charged with killing George Floyd, even after the judge urged public officials to stop talking about the case. | Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Biden said he had phoned Floyd's family the day before, waiting until the jury was sequestered to begin deliberations in the case. | "They're a good family and they're calling for peace and tranquility no matter what that verdict is," Biden said. "I'm praying the verdict is the right verdict. It's overwhelming, in my view. I wouldn't say that unless th…
RT(2021-04-20). Fire consumes historic church in Minneapolis amid protests as the city braces for verdict in Chauvin trial (VIDEO).rt.com A century-old church in northeast Minneapolis has caught fire and partially collapsed as protests erupt ahead of a jury verdict in Derek Chauvin's murder trial. | Firefighters responded to a call at the two-story Sacred Heart of Jesus church on Monday evening, where the Minneapolis Fire Department Footage of the conflagration has circulated online and in local media, showing sizable flames and a column of smoke billowing from the church's…
John Kendall Hawkins(2021-04-20). Chauvinist Cops and the "Just Is" System That Enables Them.counterpunch.org Now that Derek Chauvin has closed out his defense of killing George Floyd by invoking his Constitutionally-protected right against self-incrimination — the Fifth Amendment — we who still care about such things can shake our heads at the farcical injustice that has framed this case, and all the other cases involving unnecessary police force protected
RT(2021-04-20). HFPA, group behind Golden Globes, denounces ex-president for reportedly sending email equating BLM to Manson cult.rt.com The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which awards the Golden Globes, has condemned its eight-term president Philip Berk for reportedly circulating an email that accused BLM of racism and compared it to the Manson murders. | According to the Los Angeles Times, Berk sent an email to the association's staff and members on Sunday which contained a post that called Black Lives Matter a "racist hate movement" and described its co-founder Patrisse Cullors as "self-proclaimed 'trained Marxist.'" | The paper said the text in the email appears to have been taken from an article originally published on conservative c…
George Wuerthner(2021-04-20). How Artificial Feeding Grounds in Wyoming Spread "Mad Elk" Disease.counterpunch.org Wyoming Fish and Game Department has 22 elk feed grounds scattered around the western part of the state and feeds as many as 17,000 elk every winter. The agency currently has eight of its 22 feedgrounds on National Forest land; six on BLM land. The operation of feedgrounds has been controversial for decades. Many wildlife
Wayne Nealis(2021-04-20). Chauvin jury deliberates; world waits to see whether justice will prevail.peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS—On Monday evening, a jury of 12 Hennepin County residents began their deliberations as to Derek Chauvin's future. Will it be years in prison, or will he leave the courtroom a free person acquitted of the charges? It is nearly incomprehensible to think any jury would not find Chauvin guilty for the murder of George …
Wayne Nealis(2021-04-20). Justice for George Floyd: Chauvin guilty on all counts.peoplesworld.org BREAKING NEWS: Jurors have found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts. People's World will have a story on the verdict shortly. Read our earlier coverage. The article below was published the just before the jury concluded deliberations. MINNEAPOLIS—On Monday evening, a jury of 12 Hennepin County residents began their deliberations as to Derek Chauvin's …
VOA(2021-04-20). Chauvin Convicted On All Charges In Death Of George Floyd.eurasiareview.comFormer Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of all charges Tuesday in the death of George Floyd nearly a year ago. | Chauvin had been charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. | In their final arguments, a prosecutor accused Chauvin, who is white, of killing Floyd, an African American, by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. A defense attorney, Eric Nelson, contended that Floyd died partly from drug use and that Chauvin was following his police training in the way he arrested Floyd last May on the curb of a street in Mi…
RT(2021-04-20). Minneapolis jury finds ex-cop Derek Chauvin GUILTY on ALL CHARGES in death of George Floyd.rt.com Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd, an African-American man whose death touched off Black Lives Matter protests and riots across the US in 2020. | Chauvin was charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after Floyd died on May 25, during an attempt by six officers to arrest him for allegedly passing a counterfeit bill at a Minneapolis grocery store. | The jury found him guilty on all three counts on Tuesday afternoon. | Following the verdict, Chauvin's bail was revoked and he was ordered back to jail.
Johanna Kichton(2021-04-20). People's Action Statement on Conviction of Derek Chauvin.peoplesaction.orgContact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 240.206.1145 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action Director George Goehl and Deputy Director Bree Carlson today released the following statement in response to the conviction of Derek Chauvin: "No verdict will bring George Floyd back, or deliver justice to his family and others who have suffered state-sanctioned police violence. Today, we breathe a sigh …
Staff(2021-04-20). Jurors Deliberate in Derek Chauvin Trial as Prosecution Urges Them to "Believe What They Had Seen"democracynow.org As jury deliberations are underway in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter for killing George Floyd last May, we go to Minneapolis to discuss final arguments and what is next in the case. We speak with civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, who says the prosecution "started strong and ended strong" by reminding "the jury that they could believe what they had seen with their own eyes."
commsdirector(2021-04-20). The Derek Chauvin Verdict is Not Justice.dsausa.orgThe verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial is not justice. Justice looks like a world where George Floyd grows old, where Black people can live with dignity, where police no longer terrorize our streets. As they did today, cops will sacrifice their own in order to quell outrage and maintain trust. But justice will not…
Paul Street(2021-04-20). The Chauvin Trial is Dangerously Deceptive.counterpunch.org Since most U.S.-Americans know little about social and political reality beyond their own limited experience and bubbles, powerfully deceptive narratives and images disseminated by the corporate media easily distort public perceptions. The election and presidency of Barack Obama fed the dangerous illusion that racism no longer posed barriers to Black advancement and equality in the
Josh Carson(2021-04-20). Hundreds march in Atlanta for Daunte Wright.liberationnews.org Three days after the killing of Daunte Wright by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, the Atlanta branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation organized a protest in Atlanta in solidarity with Minneapolis—demanding justice for Daunte Wright, George Floyd, and all victims of racist police terror.
Staff(2021-04-20). Police Killed John Thompson's Friend Philando Castile. Now He Is a Lawmaker Fighting Racist Policing.democracynow.org We look at the long history of police killings of Black men during traffic stops in Minnesota with state Representative John Thompson, a community activist who was elected last year and has attended protests demanding justice for George Floyd and other victims of police brutality. His friend Philando Castile was killed by police during a 2016 traffic stop in a suburb of St. Paul. "We have every right to be angry, we have every right to be mad, and we have every right to use our voices," Thompson says. "We have a problem here in this state with policing." Thompson is part of the People of Color and Indigenous Cauc…
RT(2021-04-20). Judge says Maxine Waters comments about Chauvin could get case thrown out on appeal, but denies motion for mistrial.rt.com Rep. Maxine Waters' public calls for protests and 'confrontation' in the event Derek Chauvin is acquitted could bolster an appeal that gets his case thrown out, the judge said, though refused to declare a mistrial. | Soon after delivering lengthy closing arguments on Monday, Chauvin's lead defense attorney Eric Nelson requested a mistrial, citing media coverage of the trial that he said was unavoidable and what he deemed inflammatory and "threatening" remarks from the California Democrat over the weekend. During a visit to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Waters encouraged anti-police brutality activists to step up…
Staff(2021-04-20). Headlines for April 20, 2021.democracynow.orgJury Begins Deliberations in Derek Chauvin Murder Trial, Thousands Protest in Minnesota as Derek Chauvin Murder Trial Wraps Up, U.N. Warns Planet Is "On the Verge of the Abyss" from Relentless Climate Change, Hundreds of Climate Scientists Warn Against Criminalizing Peaceful Protests, White House Holds Virtual Climate Summit as U.S. and China Pledge Cuts to Emissions, Migrant Workers Flee India's Capital Ahead of Lockdown as Coronavirus Cases Soar, Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Joins Fight for Vaccine Equity, President Biden Urges All U.S. Residents 16 and Over to Get Vaccinated, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Can…
BenarNews(2021-04-20). Bangladesh: Police To Question Leader Of Hardline Muslim Group.eurasiareview.comBy Kamran Reza Chowdhury | A Dhaka court on Monday permitted police to question a top leader of Bangladesh's most influential conservative Islamic group after its violent protests against the Indian prime minister's visit last month cast a pall over the country's 50th anniversary celebration. | The weekend arrest of Mamunul Haque was the government's latest move against Hefazat-e-Islam, which has distanced itself from the ruling Awami League since the group's previous head died last September. | Police have arrested more than 400 Hefazat members since Narendra Modi, India's leader, traveled to Bangladesh in la…
Lilyana Pantoja(2021-04-20). Sonoma County's Institutional Responses to the Black Lives Matter Movement.indybay.orgThis piece is about Sonoma County's educational institution's reponse to the Black Lives Matter movement. It explains the movement and how it has affected a couple of educational institutions in the county. It brings to light what their steps are going forward after the movement's influence.
Susan Price(2021-04-20). United States: George Floyd's killer found guilty.greenleft.org.auThe verdict in the trial of George Floyd's killer has been handed down. Malik Miah looks at the trial, the Black Lives Matter movement and the changes needed to policing in the United States.
Fight Back(2021-04-20). Large protest at U of MN demands justice for Daunte Wright.fightbacknews.orgMinneapolis, MN – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Student Union held a protest on the University of Minnesota campus, April 17, to demand justice for Daunte Wright, to call for community control of the campus police (UMPD), and to speak out against the recent deployment of the UMPD to brutalize protesters in Brooklyn Center. About 1000 students were in attendance, marking the largest on-campus demonstration in recent history. Speakers included students and community members who have experienced brutality at the hands of the National Guard this week while out in the streets demanding justice…
_____(2021-04-20). When Will Minneapolis Start Listening To The Whole Community?popularresistance.orgMinneapolis didn't get here alone. The actions and decisions of many people created the challenges facing the city. Solving them will require the work of many people, too. | But before anything changes, people need to start listening to each other. | Imagine if Derek Chauvin had listened to George Floyd and let him breathe. A 46-year-old man and father of five would not have died. Minneapolis would not have burned. The city would not have had over $1 billion in damage. And communities would not have had to deal with the fallout of the most expensive civil disorder in U.S. history. | After Floyd died in police cus…
Fight Back(2021-04-20). Twin Cities Community to acknowledge victory in Chauvin Case and honor the life of George Floyd.fightbacknews.orgFight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Twin Cities Coalition 4 Justice 4 Jamar and other organizations that are fighting for justice for George Floyd. A rally is planned at the Hennepin County Government Center at 5pm, today. | The conviction of Derek Chauvin of second-degree intentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd is an historic victory. This victory is result of the bravery of the bystanders who filmed this murder, the worldwide uprising the bold and tireless fight for justice by our community. | However, the rarity o…
WSWS repost(2021-04-20). Police violence targets working people and youth of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.indybay.orgWhile racism is a factor in many police murders and accounts for the fact that blacks and Native Americans are killed at a rate disproportionate to their share of the national population, it is workers and young people—of every skin color, gender, sexuality and national origin—who are the victims of the police. In presenting police violence as a racial issue, of whites against blacks, the media aims to divide the working class and cover up the socioeconomic background of those who are being killed and the social processes which lead to their deaths.
Police Racism(2021-04-20). In San Rafael a Vigil–Justice for Daunte Wright.indybay.orgOn April 11, a 20-year-old Black man, Daunte Wright, was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. He was shot at close range. Protesters say police are engaged in a racist war on Black America. At a vigil on April 16 in San Rafael, demonstrators remembered Daunte and other victims.
Peoples Dispatch(2021-04-20). Across US, protestors demand justice for police shooting victim Adam Toledo.peoplesdispatch.orgIn the US, anger is spreading across the city of Chicago, Illinois after the police watchdog released bodycam footage of the police shooting a teenage child dead. The footage released on April 15 shows 13-year-old Adam Toledo, seemingly unarmed, being shot in the chest. Following the release of this footage, protests have broken out in Chicago and other cities and towns across the country, which have been met with violent police repression.
RT(2021-04-19). 'I'd love to see her resign': Detroit police chief blasts Rashida Tlaib's 'anti-police rhetoric'.rt.com Detroit Police Chief James Craig has blasted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) for calling policing "inherently and intentionally racist," saying he hopes the lawmaker resigns. | "She's reckless," Craig told Fox 2 Detroit about Tlaib. "I'd love to see her resign. I'd throw her a goodbye party." | In the wake of the death of Daunte Wright after a traffic stop in Minnesota, Tlaib, a member of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Squad,' called for an end to "policing, incarceration, and militarization." She also called policing "inherently and intentionally racist." | It wasn't an accident. Policing in our country is inher…
Shemon Salam(2021-04-19). The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising.mronline.org At least 28 people died in the wave of social unrest that rocked the United States from late May until late July in 2020. In this 10-week period, there were 574 riots; 624 arsons; 2,382 incidents of looting; 97 police vehicles set on fire; and 16,241 people arrested for protest-related activities. | April 19, 2021 | Daraja Press…
Staff(2021-04-19). Headlines for April 19, 2021.democracynow.orgPolice Brutalize Protesters in Minneapolis as Chauvin Trial Moves Toward Verdict, Protests Continue in Chicago over Police Killing of 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo, Florida Poised to Pass "Anti-Riot" Bill, Criminalizing Dissent & Blocking Cuts to Police Budgets, Four of the Indianapolis Mass Shooting Victims Were from Sikh Community; Gunman Bought Arms Legally, Mass Shootings in Texas, Wisconsin Claim at Least 6 Lives in One Day, Globe Tops 3 Million COVID Deaths as India and Brazil Struggle to Contain Devastating Surges, CDC to Issue Guidance for J&J Vaccine After Pause over Blood Clot Reports, Alexei Navalny Transfer…
Sonali Kolhatkar(2021-04-19). Daunte Wright's Killing Makes the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets.counterpunch.org Three weeks into the Minneapolis trial of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, a white police officer in the neighboring suburb of Brooklyn Center killed a young Black man named Daunte Wright and illustrated in tragic terms just how law enforcement remains engaged in a racist war on Black America in spite of
Lyn Neeley(2021-04-19). Portland on fire again over police killings.workers.org Portland Protests erupted in Portland April 12 following the police killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota. They escalated four days later after police killed a homeless white man with a history of struggling with mental health issues. Protesters set fire to the North Portland Police Association building in response to . . . |
Staff(2021-04-19). Black & Latinx Lieutenant Sues Virginia Cops Who Threatened to Kill Him During Traffic Stop.democracynow.org We speak with the lawyer for a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps who is suing two Virginia police officers who pepper-sprayed him, pushed him to the ground and pointed their guns at him during a traffic stop at a gas station last December. Video of the encounter has gone viral and shows Caron Nazario, who is a Black and Latino man, was wearing his Army uniform during the stop. When Nazario says he's afraid to get out of his car, one officer responds, "You should be." Nazario says he drove about a mile to the gas station after he noticed a police car flashing its lights at him — a common practice to avoid…
Staff(2021-04-19). Meet Cariol Horne, Black Police Officer Fired After Stopping Fellow Cop's Assault on Handcuffed Man.democracynow.org Amid nationwide protests over police abuse, we speak with Cariol Horne, the Buffalo police officer whom a New York court has just vindicated for stopping a fellow cop from choking a handcuffed Black man during an arrest. In 2006, Horne, who is Black, saw a white officer repeatedly punching the man in the face before putting him in a chokehold. After Horne heard the man say "I can't breathe," she intervened by grabbing the officer's arm. Horne was sanctioned by the Buffalo Police Department, reassigned, then fired in 2008, just months before she was eligible to receive her full pension. A new ruling makes her elig…
Staff(2021-04-19). Cops Have Brutalized Chicago's Latinx Community for Decades; Adam Toledo, 13, Is the Latest Victim.democracynow.org As protests continue in Chicago and nationwide over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, we get an update from community activist and independent journalist Mateo Zapata, who says, "People in Chicago are just tired of seeing Black and Brown youth murdered by police." Released bodycam video showed Adam had his hands up in the air when he was shot by an officer. We also speak with Rutgers professor Lilia Fernández, who studies Latino Chicago history and says police brutality toward this community is "not a new phenomenon" and goes back many decades. "Adam Toledo would not be dead today if he were white, i…
RT(2021-04-19). Critics, including CNN, attack Chauvin defense for 'reasonable police officer' argument.rt.com The prosecution and defense lawyers have made their closing arguments in the trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, with his legal team earning ridicule online for their "reasonable police officer" argument. | Chauvin's trial has gripped the attention of activists in Minnesota, the state where the late George Floyd died in the custody of Chauvin, kicking off Black Lives Matter protests across the country. Tensions have heated up amid the ongoing Chauvin trial and the recent police-shooting death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, which is near Minneapolis. | In their closing arguments on Monday, Chau…
RT(2021-04-19). Texas police arrest ex-deputy over fatal triple shooting, ending search for suspect.rt.com A former deputy sheriff has been arrested over a triple shooting in Austin, Texas at the weekend, a local police chief has said. Officers had launched a manhunt for the suspected shooter, following Sunday's killings. | Stephen Broderick, 41, was carrying a pistol as he was detained on a rural road in the Austin suburb of Manor early on Monday morning, Manor Police Chief Ryan Phipps said. | Officers had received two phone calls about a possible sighting of Broderick, who has now been taken to Travis County jail. | Three people were confirmed dead in a shooting in the Arboretum area of northwest Austin on Sunday…
Staff(2021-04-19). Murder of Adam Toledo Is Latest in Long History of Anti-Latinx Police Killings.truthout.org Image Credit: Mateo Zapata | As protests continue in Chicago and nationwide over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, we get an update from community activist and independent journalist Mateo Zapata, who says, "People in Chicago are just tired of seeing Black and Brown youth murdered by police." Released bodycam video showed Adam had his hands up in the air when he was shot by an officer. We also speak with Rutgers professor Lilia Fernández, who studies Latino Chicago history and sa…
Staff(2021-04-19). Adam Toledo Is the Latest to Be Brutalized by Cops in Chicago's Latinx Community.truthout.org Image Credit: Mateo Zapata | As protests continue in Chicago and nationwide over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, we get an update from community activist and independent journalist Mateo Zapata, who says, "People in Chicago are just tired of seeing Black and Brown youth murdered by police." Released bodycam video showed Adam had his hands up in the air when he was shot by an officer. We also speak with Rutgers professor Lilia Fernández, who studies Latino Chicago history and sa…
sputniknews(2021-04-19). 'Absolutely Not': Maxine Waters Owes No Apology for 'Confrontational' Comments, Says Speaker Pelosi.sputniknews.comThis past weekend marked one week since the police-involved killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Since April 11, protesters have gathered outside of the Brooklyn Center police headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, including Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who told protesters to be "more confrontational" and let officials know "we mean business."
William Donohue(2021-04-19). Maxine Waters Leads The War On Cops — OpEd.eurasiareview.comOver the past year, there has been an explosion in anti-police rhetoric and behavior, much of it violent. Indeed, the cops are under siege in many American cities. Now Rep. Maxine Waters has
MISES(2021-04-19). The Problem With 'Just Do What The Cops Say And You Won't Get Hurt' — OpEd.eurasiareview.comBy Ryan McMaken* | New evidence has emerged in the case of 73-year old Karen Garner, an eighty-pound woman with dementia and sensory aphasia. Newly released In June 2020, Garner, had apparently attempted to leave a Walmart in Loveland, Colorado, with a bag full of small items, but was confronted by store staff. She left empty handed, and may have simply forgotten to pay. | Minutes later, Garner…
Fight Back(2021-04-19). Minneapolis: Major protest set for closing arguments in case of killer cop Chauvin.fightbacknews.orgMinneapolis, MN – A coalition of 20-plus Twin Cities organizations plan to protest on Monday, April 19 at 5 p.m. outside the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, with a call for justice for George Floyd and conviction of Derek Chauvin. April 19 is when closing arguments and as jury deliberations begin. | The evening protest will include speakers with analysis of the day's and week's events. There will be a march – no matter how many streets the city tries to close off. | "We will assert our First Amendment rights," say protest organizers. | The coalition demands are as follows:
| — Con…
Fight Back(2021-04-19). Chicago: Thousands demand justice for Adam Toledo.fightbacknews.orgChicago, IL – More than 5000 people took to the streets, April 16, in response to the police murder of Adam Toledo. As demonstrators approached the home of Mayor Lightfoot, Chicago police formed a line in the street. More protests are expected, and support for community control of the police is growing.
Fight Back(2021-04-19). Protest demands murder charges for killer cop Kim Potter at home of DA.fightbacknews.orgStillwater, MN — On April 17, a caravan of 200 protesters descended on the Twin Cities suburb of Stillwater to protest in front of Pete Orput's home. Orput is the Washington County Attorney who decided what charges to bring on Officer Kim Potter, who killed Daunte Wright on April 11. | As protesters gathered in front of Orput's home, several people held a big banner reading, "We demand murder charges for killer cop, Kimberly Porter." Others stood in solidarity for Daunte Wright holding signs like "Justice for Daunte Wright," "Bring murder charges against Kim Potter" and "Justice for #Daunte Wright." | Jayla…
MISES(2021-04-19). The Problem With 'Just Do What The Cops Say And You Won't Get Hurt' — OpEd.eurasiareview.comBy Ryan McMaken* | New evidence has emerged in the case of 73-year old Karen Garner, an eighty-pound woman with dementia and sensory aphasia. Newly released In June 2020, Garner, had apparently attempted to leave a Walmart in Loveland, Colorado, with a bag full of small items, but was confronted by store staff. She left empty handed, and may have simply forgotten to pay. | Minutes later, Garner…
Staff(2021-04-19). Headlines for April 19, 2021.democracynow.orgPolice Brutalize Protesters in Minneapolis as Chauvin Trial Moves Toward Verdict, Protests Continue in Chicago over Police Killing of 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo, Florida Poised to Pass "Anti-Riot" Bill, Criminalizing Dissent & Blocking Cuts to Police Budgets, Four of the Indianapolis Mass Shooting Victims Were from Sikh Community; Gunman Bought Arms Legally, Mass Shootings in Texas, Wisconsin Claim at Least 6 Lives in One Day, Globe Tops 3 Million COVID Deaths as India and Brazil Struggle to Contain Devastating Surges, CDC to Issue Guidance for J&J Vaccine After Pause over Blood Clot Reports, Alexei Navalny Transfer…
RT(2021-04-19). 'I'd love to see her resign': Detroit police chief blasts Rashida Tlaib's 'anti-police rhetoric'.rt.com Detroit Police Chief James Craig has blasted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) for calling policing "inherently and intentionally racist," saying he hopes the lawmaker resigns. | "She's reckless," Craig told Fox 2 Detroit about Tlaib. "I'd love to see her resign. I'd throw her a goodbye party." | In the wake of the death of Daunte Wright after a traffic stop in Minnesota, Tlaib, a member of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Squad,' called for an end to "policing, incarceration, and militarization." She also called policing "inherently and intentionally racist." | It wasn't an accident. Policing in our country is inher…
Staff(2021-04-19). Black & Latinx Lieutenant Sues Virginia Cops Who Threatened to Kill Him During Traffic Stop.democracynow.org We speak with the lawyer for a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps who is suing two Virginia police officers who pepper-sprayed him, pushed him to the ground and pointed their guns at him during a traffic stop at a gas station last December. Video of the encounter has gone viral and shows Caron Nazario, who is a Black and Latino man, was wearing his Army uniform during the stop. When Nazario says he's afraid to get out of his car, one officer responds, "You should be." Nazario says he drove about a mile to the gas station after he noticed a police car flashing its lights at him — a common practice to avoid…
Staff(2021-04-19). Meet Cariol Horne, Black Police Officer Fired After Stopping Fellow Cop's Assault on Handcuffed Man.democracynow.org Amid nationwide protests over police abuse, we speak with Cariol Horne, the Buffalo police officer whom a New York court has just vindicated for stopping a fellow cop from choking a handcuffed Black man during an arrest. In 2006, Horne, who is Black, saw a white officer repeatedly punching the man in the face before putting him in a chokehold. After Horne heard the man say "I can't breathe," she intervened by grabbing the officer's arm. Horne was sanctioned by the Buffalo Police Department, reassigned, then fired in 2008, just months before she was eligible to receive her full pension. A new ruling makes her elig…
Staff(2021-04-19). Cops Have Brutalized Chicago's Latinx Community for Decades; Adam Toledo, 13, Is the Latest Victim.democracynow.org As protests continue in Chicago and nationwide over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, we get an update from community activist and independent journalist Mateo Zapata, who says, "People in Chicago are just tired of seeing Black and Brown youth murdered by police." Released bodycam video showed Adam had his hands up in the air when he was shot by an officer. We also speak with Rutgers professor Lilia Fernández, who studies Latino Chicago history and says police brutality toward this community is "not a new phenomenon" and goes back many decades. "Adam Toledo would not be dead today if he were white, i…
Shemon Salam(2021-04-19). The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising.mronline.org At least 28 people died in the wave of social unrest that rocked the United States from late May until late July in 2020. In this 10-week period, there were 574 riots; 624 arsons; 2,382 incidents of looting; 97 police vehicles set on fire; and 16,241 people arrested for protest-related activities. | April 19, 2021 | Daraja Press…
RT(2021-04-19). Critics, including CNN, attack Chauvin defense for 'reasonable police officer' argument.rt.com The prosecution and defense lawyers have made their closing arguments in the trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, with his legal team earning ridicule online for their "reasonable police officer" argument. | Chauvin's trial has gripped the attention of activists in Minnesota, the state where the late George Floyd died in the custody of Chauvin, kicking off Black Lives Matter protests across the country. Tensions have heated up amid the ongoing Chauvin trial and the recent police-shooting death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, which is near Minneapolis. | In their closing arguments on Monday, Chau…
RT(2021-04-19). Texas police arrest ex-deputy over fatal triple shooting, ending search for suspect.rt.com A former deputy sheriff has been arrested over a triple shooting in Austin, Texas at the weekend, a local police chief has said. Officers had launched a manhunt for the suspected shooter, following Sunday's killings. | Stephen Broderick, 41, was carrying a pistol as he was detained on a rural road in the Austin suburb of Manor early on Monday morning, Manor Police Chief Ryan Phipps said. | Officers had received two phone calls about a possible sighting of Broderick, who has now been taken to Travis County jail. | Three people were confirmed dead in a shooting in the Arboretum area of northwest Austin on Sunday…
Staff(2021-04-19). Adam Toledo Is the Latest to Be Brutalized by Cops in Chicago's Latinx Community.truthout.org Image Credit: Mateo Zapata | As protests continue in Chicago and nationwide over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, we get an update from community activist and independent journalist Mateo Zapata, who says, "People in Chicago are just tired of seeing Black and Brown youth murdered by police." Released bodycam video showed Adam had his hands up in the air when he was shot by an officer. We also speak with Rutgers professor Lilia Fernández, who studies Latino Chicago history and sa…
Lilyana Pantoja(2021-04-19). Sonoma County's Institutional Responses to the Black Lives Matter Movement.indybay.orgThis piece is about Sonoma County's educational institution's reponse to the Black Lives Matter movement. It explains the movement and how it has affected a couple of educational institutions in the county. It brings to light what their steps are going forward after the movement's influence.
Fight Back(2021-04-19). Large protest at U of MN demands justice for Daunte Wright.fightbacknews.orgMinneapolis, MN – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Student Union held a protest on the University of Minnesota campus, April 17, to demand justice for Daunte Wright, to call for community control of the campus police (UMPD), and to speak out against the recent deployment of the UMPD to brutalize protesters in Brooklyn Center. About 1000 students were in attendance, marking the largest on-campus demonstration in recent history. Speakers included students and community members who have experienced brutality at the hands of the National Guard this week while out in the streets demanding justice…
William Donohue(2021-04-19). Maxine Waters Leads The War On Cops — OpEd.eurasiareview.comOver the past year, there has been an explosion in anti-police rhetoric and behavior, much of it violent. Indeed, the cops are under siege in many American cities. Now Rep. Maxine Waters has
Sonali Kolhatkar(2021-04-19). Daunte Wright's Killing Makes the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets.counterpunch.orgThree weeks into the Minneapolis trial of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, a white police officer in the neighboring suburb of Brooklyn Center killed a young Black man named Daunte Wright and illustrated in tragic terms just how law enforcement remains engaged in a racist war on Black America in spite of
Fight Back(2021-04-19). Minneapolis: Major protest set for closing arguments in case of killer cop Chauvin.fightbacknews.orgMinneapolis, MN – A coalition of 20-plus Twin Cities organizations plan to protest on Monday, April 19 at 5 p.m. outside the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, with a call for justice for George Floyd and conviction of Derek Chauvin. April 19 is when closing arguments and as jury deliberations begin. | The evening protest will include speakers with analysis of the day's and week's events. There will be a march – no matter how many streets the city tries to close off. | "We will assert our First Amendment rights," say protest organizers. | The coalition demands are as follows:
| — Con…
_____(2021-04-18). There Is No Substitute For The Rank And File.popularresistance.orgThe Bessemer Amazon unionization effort was full of potential. It held the promise of a union bringing together the Black Lives Matter movement and a struggle for labor rights in order to take on one of the biggest, most odious corporations in the country. Maybe a Southern state would set off a movement again, like West Virginia and Oklahoma kicked off the teachers' spring. | Alongside Left Voice comrades, I decided to go to Bessemer, Alabama the week before voting ended. As I prepared to go, I had a weird feeling. I kept looking at interviews and I saw just two Amazon workers, over and over and over. They were g…
Ben Slowey(2021-04-18). Jewish, immigrant organizers hold Passover action in Kenosha, Wisconsin.liberationnews.org Activists gathered outside the Kenosha Detention Center April 11 to demand the Biden administration stop the continued detention and dehumanization of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, for legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States and for the abolition of ICE.
RT(2021-04-18). NBA warns teams to be 'prepared to postpone games' amid fears of civil unrest from verdict of Derek Chauvin case — reports.rt.com The NBA has warned teams to be prepared to potentially cancel upcoming games amid fears of civil unrest related to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial for his part in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May. | Final arguments are expected to take place on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for his role in the death of African-American man Floyd. | The killing last May ignited a wave of protests in the US and beyond, and fomented the 'Black Lives Matter' demonstrations whi…
RT(2021-04-18). Man who was pulled over for running a red light attacks NYPD officers with chemicals & Molotov cocktail (VIDEO).rt.com A routine traffic stop in Brooklyn went awry after a driver attacked NYPD officers with chemicals and a Molotov cocktail. The suspect was detained after a brief chase. | The suspect, identified by local media as Lionel Virgile, was stopped by the cops on Saturday after running a red light. | Bodycam footage released by the NYPD shows an officer approaching Virgile's car and asking for his license and registration. The man answers that he doesn't have the documents, and begins to open the driver's side door. Virgile then lunges towards the cop as he throws a clear liquid on his face. It's unclear what the liqui…
RT(2021-04-18). Breonna Taylor's mother condemns Black Lives Matter chapter as 'FRAUD,' says her family's name has been used to raise money.rt.com The mother of Breonna Taylor, one of the leading martyrs of the Black Lives Matter movement, has branded the Louisville, Kentucky BLM chapter as a "fraud" and accused opportunistic activists of exploiting her name for profit. | "I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud," Tamika Palmer said on Wednesday in a since-deleted Facebook post. She added that "I've watched y'all raise money on behalf of Breonna's family who has never done a damn thing for us — nor have we needed it or asked, so talk about fraud." | Breonna Taylor's Mom. She, I fully support. BLM…
RT(2021-04-18). Spanish police raid illegal 3D-printed weapons workshop capable of producing a gun barrel IN MINUTES.rt.com Spanish police have seized weapons, including a replica assault rifle and explosives, in a raid on what has been called the first illegal 3D-printed weapons workshop in Spain, capable of producing weapon parts in minutes. | Law enforcement officers raided a facility in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands and arrested its owner, whose identity was not revealed, a The operation took place in September 2020 but remained secret until now…
Asa Winstanley(2021-04-18). The "Real" Apartheid: "There's no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person"juancole.com( Middle East Monitor) — "This is the real apartheid," Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. "The fact that Jews can't enter into 'Palestinian territory'," she claimed, "I reject that some places are dangerous for me to enter because I AM A JEW." Goldstein accompanied her tweet with a photo of a large …
teleSUR(2021-04-18). Belarus: US-Backed 'Coup' Attempt Unfolded, Says President.telesurenglish.netTwo Belarusian citizens were arrested in Moscow in relation with the operation: political scientist Alexander Feduta and lawyer Yuri Zenkovich, who also has US citizenship, the President said. | RELATED: | The announcement comes after the Belarusian security services, the KGB, announced on Friday evening that they had dismantled, during a "special operation", an "organised group of terrorist orientation" which was planning the "physical…
Arab News(2021-04-18). Biden Must Seize Chance To End US Racial Crisis — OpEd.eurasiareview.comBy Dalia Al-Aqidi* | With astonishment and apprehension, the whole world is closely following the latest wave of violence in the US, with clashes between angry rioters and the police in the streets of several major cities. | While the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin — who is accused of murder over last May's killing of George Floyd, which triggered worldwide protests — nears its end, the fatal shooting of another black man in the city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, has sparked rage and animosity. Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright was shot by police officer Kimberly Potter when, according t…
WASHINGTON—The overwhelming reaction to the Minneapolis jury's verdict finding former city police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges of murder and manslaughter in kneeing George Floyd to death last year was that it was great, but only a first step towards justice. From union leaders to Black Lives Matter to the Women's March, virtually …
CHICAGO (AP)—A Black Chicago teen's lynching in 1955 galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. A Black Minneapolis man's killing by police last year propelled a worldwide call for racial justice and ending police brutality. The murders of Emmett Till and George Floyd were separated by more than six decades, contrasting circumstances and countless protests, but their …
The criminal legal system "relies heavily on collecting money from the very people targeted by the system," in the process incentivizing police to punish as many people as possible, the authors of the ACLU report write. | April 22, 2021 | Newswire…
Feature image: Demonstrators holding up four fingers, symbolizing Chauvin's three accomplices plus Kim Potter, the cop who killed Daunte Wright. Liberation photo. On April 20 as it was announced that a verdict had been reached in the case of Derek Chauvin, people gathered in cities around the country to hear the verdict read, prepared to …
Merely 20 minutes before Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict was announced to the nation, 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant was shot four times in the chest by officer Nicholas Reardon of the Columbus Police Department.
A murder verdict in the George Floyd death trial. And relief on the streets of Minneapolis. But does this signal a new era of racial justice and police reform in the United States?
With the onset of the pandemic, the second Black Lives Matter movement, and the economic crisis, theatre as an art form and an industry is in a period of crisis and rebuilding. | April 21, 2021 | Newswire…
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — African-Americans face aggressive policing in part because, on average, they lack resources. Household wealth allows a family to donate to political campaigns, to ensure a good education for their children, and to join influential civic clubs and organizations. The Center for American Progress reports that in 2019, before the distortions …
After a jury on Monday afternoon found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin "For a lot of us that have been in this fight for justice, in this…
When veteran Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter, who is white, stopped Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for an expired registration tag, she committed an act of racial profiling. | April 21, 2021 | Newswire…
House Bill 1, a bill criminalizing protest in the state of Florida beyond measures that already exist, passed its final Senate committee April 15. It was signed into law April 19 by fascistic Gov. Ron DeSantis, who proposed the bill in September 2020 as a response to the Black Lives . . . | 
San Antonio — Black Lives Matter activists in San Antonio came out April 16 and 17 to demand an end to police killings of Black and Brown people, nationally and locally. The first demonstration, sponsored by the San Antonio Coalition for Police Accountability, Fix SAPD and others, was focused on . . . | 
Finding George Floyd's murderer guilty on all three charges was a significant victory for us at the very moment when we, Black people, need to see some justice. At the same time, the specific justice in this particular case doesn't address the profound systemic change required in our judicial, political, and economic systems. We must 
BULLETIN: Chauvin found guilty. Convict all killer cops! Abolish the police! More on workers.org May Day, International Workers Day, was born in the U.S. out of the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. Workers, many of them socialists and anarchists who migrated from other countries, risked their lives. . . . | 
WASHINGTON (PAI)—A jury's conviction of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin on all three counts in George Floyd's killing—including one that could send Chauvin to prison for decades—delivered justice to Floyd's family, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says. But at the same time, he warned, it's not the end of the story. Reconstructing the U.S. away from …
By Kent Roach | — The police killing of George Floyd begs for effective remedies that respond both to past harms while also preventing future harm. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of three counts in the killing of Floyd after he kneeled on the Black man's neck for more than nine …
A taste of justice. Justice served on Derek Chauvin. Guilty on all three counts. Bail revoked. It was a quick verdict. Yet it is so rare that police officers are convicted — one in 2,000 over the last 15 years for killings by police. It doesn't bring George Floyd back. But, hopefully, it will give pause to some police who think they can kill with impunity. Six white jurors, six people of color, united on what they saw in those nine minutes of horrifying video. | If it wasn't for the video, made by an outraged bystander, Chauvin would not be behind bars now. But not for Breonna Taylor, not for Tamir Rice, no…
In a criminal justice system that rarely ever holds police meaningfully accountable for their crimes, the fact that Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts is significant. But the foundations of that system remain intact—for now.
One thing is unambiguously clear: Derek Chauvin being found guilty is the result of a historic popular uprising. Chauvin's brutal murder of George Floyd ignited a massive resistance from Minneapolis' Third Precinct into the smallest towns and biggest cities in the United States. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was proud to participate in this …
The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities.
A jury in Minneapolis has convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds last year. The jury reached its decision after 10 hours of deliberation. Derek Chauvin will be sentenced in two months. He faces up to 40 years in prison for the most serious charge, second-degree murder. He is the first white police officer in Minnesota to ever be convicted of killing a Black man. We feature reactions from people gathered outside the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, comments from George Floyd's brother and nephew, as…
A Minnesota jury's conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, says historian and author Khalil Gibran Muhammad. "We know that while the prosecution was performing in such a way to make the case that Derek Chauvin was a rogue actor, the truth is that policing should have been on trial in that case," Muhammad says. "We don't have a mechanism in our current system of laws in the way that we treat individual offenses to have that accountability and justice delivered." Muhammad also l…
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Police shot and killed a Black teenage girl on Tuesday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, just as the verdict was being announced in the trial over the killing of George Floyd. | Officers claimed they were responding to an attempted stabbing call when police shot the girl at about 4.45pm local time. Police said the 911 caller reported a female was trying to stab them before hanging up. The girl was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. | In Columbus Ohio, police killed this beautiful young girl today. This is an illustration of why convictions and reform just aren't enough for our communities. | Ma'Khia Bry…
By Anneliese Bienko Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo's first anti-police demonstration of the year was held April 16. The action, called by Workers World Party, drew activists from across the left to demand police abolition and stand in solidarity with Minneapolis in the wake of Daunte Wright's murder. Speakers addressed the police . . . | 
April 20 protest, New York CityWW PHOTO: Nathaniel Chase The following statement was issued on April 20 by the Workers Assembly Against Racism, based in New York City. One killer cop in jail does nothing to address the violence and trauma that materially fills the experience of Black, Brown, and . . . | 
The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AM…
On Tuesday, former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was convicted on all charges in the brutal public lynching of George Floyd. For the Floyd family, the conviction offered some solace that the courts did not allow Floyd's life to be taken with impunity. For many of us, however, it was a hollow "victory," not only because prisons don't solve our problems, but because we know police don't either. | While the trial convicted Chauvin, as an individual, it sought to exonerate the larger system of policing…
As protesters have rallied across the U.S. over the past year against police-perpetrated violence and brutality, Republicans in state legislatures have been busy cooking up anti-protest laws. Reporting has found that, just in the 2021 legislative session, Republicans This is double the number of anti-protest laws that have been f…
Workers World Party expresses its solidarity with the family of George Floyd, along with the Minneapolis community and anti-racist activists everywhere, who understandably applaud the three guilty verdicts against the racist, white, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched Floyd May 25, 2020. Chauvin was found guilty today, April 20, . . . | 
MINNEAPOLIS—With the first white cop in Minnesota going to prison for killing a Black man, there is joy and relief in the city of Minneapolis. Nowhere is this moment felt more deeply than in the Black community. A diverse jury of Hennepin County residents returned a guilty verdict on all three counts against Derek Chauvin …
