Staff (2021-06-07). Growing Movement Pushes Museums to Cut Ties With Colonialism and Apartheid. truthout.org Every Friday for the past nine weeks, artists and activists have been carrying on weekly rallies, assemblies and teach-ins in front of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Building on several years of earlier organizing work calling out the ties of board members at the

teleSUR (2021-06-06). President Duque Disguises State Terrorism With Police Reform. telesurenglish.net After one month of ignoring police brutality reports, Colombia's President Ivan Duque on Sunday announced that his country will undergo a police reform to put an end to human rights violations. | RELATED: | "We will modernize the Defense Ministry and transform the Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron (ESMAD) and the National Police," Duque said during a police officer promotion ceremony in Bogota. | The Duque administration hopes to a…

Staff (2021-06-06). June 8: BLOCK THE BOAT Vancouver: End Israeli Apartheid — Defend Palestine! samidoun.net Tuesday, June 8 — gather at 3 pm at Woodland Park (Woodland and Frances, Vancouver) — please stay alert through joining the text system for date and time changes! Vancouver, BC, Occupied Coast Salish Territories TEXT YOUR NAME to: +1-833-590-1987 for updates and action alerts Join the Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/1169263640162975 BLOCK THE BOAT FOR PALESTINE! — UPDATE to Tuesday, June 8 ** Get updates and news. Text your name to +1-833-590-1987 ** TUESDAY, JUNE 8 — BRING YOUR MASK AND KEFFIYEH AND GATHER AT 3 PM AT WOODLAND PARK: Zim-Operated Ship scheduled to dock at Van…

ANSWER Coalition (2021-06-06). Apartheid not welcome: "Block The Boat" picket at Port of Oakland challenges Israel's crimes. liberationnews.org Guest post by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)…

Sean Connolly (2021-06-06). Long Island, NY demands: 'End all aid to apartheid Israel!'. liberationnews.org On May 23, hundreds gathered in Garden City, Long Island, New York for a day of action in support of the Palestinian people, organized by a broad coalition, including ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, Muslims for Progress, Warriors of the Sunrise, Long Island Black Alliance, Al Quds Committee of New …

ANSWER Coalition (2021-06-06). Block The Boat picket stops Israeli apartheid profiteer ship from unloading in Port of Oakland. liberationnews.org Guest post by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)…

Anonymous669 (2021-06-06). Syrian Military Intelligence Forces Storm Daraa Town After Assassination Of Pro-Government Mayor. southfront.org FILE IMAGE: Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev | Syrian intelligence agents carried out a limited operation in Athman in Daraa following the assassination of the town's pro-government mayor. | The mayor, Faisal Ismali Alloah, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen inside Athman late on June 5. He was reportedly a staunch supporter of the government. | In the early hours of June 6, a large, heavily armed force of the Syrian Military Intelligence Directorate stormed Athman. According to local sources, the forces arrested at least nine…

Juan Cole (2021-06-06). Israel, 'Only Mideast Democracy,' Criminalizes Journalism, arrests Al Jazeera Reporter for Covering E. Jerusalem; What is being Covered Up? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli police took another step toward criminalizing journalism on Saturday when they arrested al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara al-Budeiri while she was covering a demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem marking the anniversary of the Naksa, the Setback. That term is how Palestinians refer to the 1967 …

Juan Cole (2021-06-06). Israel, 'Only Mideast Democracy,' Criminalizes Journalism, arrests Al Jazeera Reporter for Covering E. Jerusalem; What is being Covered Up? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli police took another step toward criminalizing journalism on Saturday when they arrested al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara al-Budeiri while she was covering a demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem marking the anniversary of the Naksa, the Setback. That term is how is how Palestinians refer to …

ANSWER Coalition (2021-06-06). Block The Boat picket stops Israeli apartheid profiteer ship from unloading in Port of Oakland. liberationnews.org Guest post by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)…

Staff (2021-06-06). June 8: BLOCK THE BOAT Vancouver: End Israeli Apartheid — Defend Palestine! samidoun.net Tuesday, June 8 — gather at 3 pm at Woodland Park (Woodland and Frances, Vancouver) — please stay alert through joining the text system for date and time changes! Vancouver, BC, Occupied Coast Salish Territories TEXT YOUR NAME to: +1-833-590-1987 for updates and action alerts Join the Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/1169263640162975 BLOCK THE BOAT FOR PALESTINE! — UPDATE to Tuesday, June 8 ** Get updates and news. Text your name to +1-833-590-1987 ** TUESDAY, JUNE 8 — BRING YOUR MASK AND KEFFIYEH AND GATHER AT 3 PM AT WOODLAND PARK: Zim-Operated Ship scheduled to dock at Van…

Sean Connolly (2021-06-06). Long Island, NY demands: 'End all aid to apartheid Israel!'. liberationnews.org On May 23, hundreds gathered in Garden City, Long Island, New York for a day of action in support of the Palestinian people, organized by a broad coalition, including ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, Muslims for Progress, Warriors of the Sunrise, Long Island Black Alliance, Al Quds Committee of New …

Anonymous669 (2021-06-06). Syrian Military Intelligence Forces Storm Daraa Town After Assassination Of Pro-Government Mayor. southfront.org FILE IMAGE: Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev | Syrian intelligence agents carried out a limited operation in Athman in Daraa following the assassination of the town's pro-government mayor. | The mayor, Faisal Ismali Alloah, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen inside Athman late on June 5. He was reportedly a staunch supporter of the government. | In the early hours of June 6, a large, heavily armed force of the Syrian Military Intelligence Directorate stormed Athman. According to local sources, the forces arrested at least nine…

Juan Cole (2021-06-06). Israel, 'Only Mideast Democracy,' Criminalizes Journalism, arrests Al Jazeera Reporter for Covering E. Jerusalem; What is being Covered Up? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli police took another step toward criminalizing journalism on Saturday when they arrested al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara al-Budeiri while she was covering a demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem marking the anniversary of the Naksa, the Setback. That term is how is how Palestinians refer to …

Joris Leverink (2021-06-05). What exactly is the "system" that we are fighting? roarmag.org Riot cops at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., United States. This article is adapted from Eric Laursen's new book, "The system" is back. And it is high time we talk about it again. | Fifty years ago, in the days of the Vietnam War, the counterculture and widespread questioning of government, a lot of prominent writers, not to mention day-to-day activists, used this bit of sh…

Answer Coalition (2021-06-05). Block The Boat Picket Stops Israeli Apartheid Profiteer Ship from Unloading in Port of Oakland. answercoalition.org &nbsp…

Editorial Team (2021-06-05). Charges brought against the murderers of Dea-John Reid. challenge-magazine.org On Monday (31 April 2021) at 07: 30pm, Dea-John Reid, 14, was found with a stab wound on College Road in Birmingham. Police in the area have said that Dea-John died from a stab wound to the chest area. The stabbing appeared to take place following a racially-charged fight outside a McDonalds where the local police sighted seven suspects running away from the fast food establishment. So far, four men and two children have been arrested by West Midlands police in connection to the murder. Two of the men and a 13 year old boy have been released with no further action to be taken by the police.

Joris Leverink (2021-06-05). What exactly is the "system" that we are fighting? roarmag.org Riot cops at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., United States. This article is adapted from Eric Laursen's new book, "The system" is back. And it is high time we talk about it again. | Fifty years ago, in the days of the Vietnam War, the counterculture and widespread questioning of government, a lot of prominent writers, not to mention day-to-day activists, used this bit of sh…

Answer Coalition (2021-06-05). Block The Boat Picket Stops Israeli Apartheid Profiteer Ship from Unloading in Port of Oakland. answercoalition.org &nbsp…

Staff (2021-06-04). UK's First Black Studies Professor Calls on African Diaspora to Unite. truthout.org As Black Lives Matter continues to flourish in the United States and beyond, many activists within the movement are calling for renewed internationalism and collaboration among people across the African Diaspora. In this exclusive interview, author, activist and Black radical scholar Kehinde Andrews issues the call: "We need to get back aligned with the revolutionary version of Pan-Africanism." | Andrews is founder of the Harambee Organization of Black Unity and professor of Black Studies at Birmingh…

Sam Klug (2021-06-04). 'We Know Occupation'. zcomm.org Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away…

Henry Giroux (2021-06-04). America's Nazi Problem and the End of Policing. counterpunch.org The Black Lives Matter movement has made clear that America is reproducing alarming echoes of the past. It has exposed the mobilizing passions and ideological discourses of fascism evident in Trumpland. At a different time in history, Cedric Robinson identified this American form of fascist politics as racial capitalism. [3] According to Robinson, America had its own home-grown version of fascism, which did not simply emulate the fascist European movements of the 1920s but reached back to the era of Jim Crow and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States.[4] Fascism was no longer viewed as simply an import…

Paul Farmer (2021-06-04). Finding Ourselves at Peehee Mu'huh: An Interview with Daranda Hinkey. counterpunch.org Daranda Hinkey on Protecting Ancestral Homeland at Thacker Pass On January 15th, 2021 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued permits to Lithium Americas Corporation for an open-pit lithium mine that would destroy over 17,000 acres of Paiute-Shoshone ancestral homeland at Thacker Pass, Nevada. This mine would pollute groundwater with uranium, arsenic, and heavy metals;

Paul Feather (2021-06-04). Finding Ourselves at Peehee Mu'huh: An Interview with Daranda Hinkey. counterpunch.org Daranda Hinkey on Protecting Ancestral Homeland at Thacker Pass On January 15th, 2021 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued permits to Lithium Americas Corporation for an open-pit lithium mine that would destroy over 17,000 acres of Paiute-Shoshone ancestral homeland at Thacker Pass, Nevada. This mine would pollute groundwater with uranium, arsenic, and heavy metals;

Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party (2021-06-04). Sunday 6/20: Online Discussion—LGBTQIA+ Pride: No Place for Cops. indybay.org Via Zoom…

The Socialist Program (2021-06-04). Israeli Apartheid Politics Takes a Bizarre Turn. liberationnews.org This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it. You can follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be replaced by an even more fanatical racist? A last-minute coalition …

Martha Grevatt (2021-06-04). Another police murder protested — 'We're here for Vincent'. workers.org East Cleveland, Ohio A cross section of Cleveland area community activists turned out May 31 to express solidarity with the family of 18-year-old Vincent Belmonte, killed Jan. 5 by East Cleveland cops. Police stopped him while he was driving his partner to work, chased him and shot him in the . . . |

Staff (2021-06-04). Battleground Baltimore: What does George Floyd mean to Baltimore? therealnews.com In this week's roundup of Baltimore news, we gutcheck Baltimore leaders' responses to police brutality one year after a nationwide uprising against police violence.

Jim McMahan (2021-06-04). Killer cops arrested after protests. workers.org Seattle After more than a year of protests, on May 27 Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced felony charges against three Tacoma cops for the brutal murder of Black resident Manuel Ellis. Tacoma, Wash., July 10, 2020. The cops — Mathew Collins, Christopher Burbank and Timothy Rankine — were . . . |

Staff (2021-06-04). Cops told him the First Amendment doesn't apply, then they arrested him to prove it. therealnews.com The arrest of a cop watcher by Texas police raises serious questions about the rights of citizen journalists and the state of the First Amendment.

G. Dunkel (2021-06-04). French unions respond to housing crisis. workers.org In France, activists hold a banner saying "A roof is a right" According to the French housing alliance Right to Housing (DAL—Droit au Logement), cops are prepared to evict 30,000 families starting June 1. Some 130,000 families have been notified that they need to leave their homes immediately, while tens . . . |

WSWS (2021-06-04). What capitalism has wrought—India's tsunami of infections and death, and pandemic of hunger and joblessness. wsws.org India's purported capitalist "rise"—so celebrated in the media in the west—has produced a malignant society that embodies and exemplifies the dysfunction, brutality and criminality of 21st century capitalism.

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-06-04). From Ayotzinapa to Mactumactzá, Mexican students continue to fight for access to education. peoplesdispatch.org The parents, students, teachers and teachers' unions are calling for unconditional release of all the students who were arrested while protesting for a more fair entrance exam while teachers are demanding the reinstallation of dialogue between the CNTE and the national government…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-04). On Police Abolition: Decolonization Is the Only Way. libya360.wordpress.com Cameron Crowder Introduction The United States is a project of both anti-Blackness and racial-colonial power. From the founding of this white supremacist settler-colonial state, Black people have endured 250 years of slavery, ninety years of Jim Crow, sixty years of "separate but equal" legal doctrine, and thirty-five years of explicitly anti-Black housing laws among other…