Daily Archives: August 9, 2021

2021-08-09: News Headlines

Editor (2021-08-09). Sports apartheid: Israel's Olympic team did not include a single Palestinian citizen of Israel. mronline.org Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel's 90-member Olympic team.

Joris Leverink (2021-08-09). Protesting settler colonialism in the neoliberal university. roarmag.org "Holding Palestine" artistic protest, photo by Steven Maybury. | During May's uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in Rotterdam wanted to express their solidarity with the struggle. They hung a banner on the institute's building that read: "STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING; #SaveSheikhJarrah; Free Palestine." The action took place at a time when the vicious attacks on civilians in Gaza, the ultra-right-wing mob violence against Arabs in Israel and the forced evictions of the settler colonialist system in Jerusalem had resulte…

Global Justice Now (2021-08-09). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…

Lowkey (2021-08-09). SpyCops: How the UK police infiltrated over 1,000 political groups. mronline.org As part of their false personas, many officers entered romantic relationships with politcal activists, leading to the births of a number of children whose mothers were completely unaware of their partners' double lives.

Philip A Farruggio (2021-08-09). Nomad America? The Super Rich and the Brutality of Corporate Capitalism. globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2021-08-08). Minnesotans keep the pressure on Klobuchar to end US aid to apartheid Israel. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On August 5, 60 people gathered alongside Washington Avenue near Senator Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis office to demand an end of U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. The protesters stretched down the block with signs and Palestinian flags, greeting the rush hour drivers, who were overwhelmingly supportive and honking wildly. | The protest was called after Klobuchar, a 'centrist' Democrat, failed to respond to a petition signed by over 1000 of her constituents supporting the Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act (HR 2590) which would…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-08). Riots In South Africa: Causes, Interests And Consequences. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Daniel Deiss and Edwin Watson. | In July 2021, South Africa was swept by the largest wave of violence seen since the fall of apartheid in 1994. The protests that began on July 8 have quickly turned into pogroms that involved thousands of people. | The nominal cause for the outbreak of riots was the arrest of a former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma on charges of corruption. Mr. Zuma's controversial activities have long raised questions. | After the fall of apartheid he acquired seni…

Michael Welch (2021-08-08). Video: Innumerable Ways Canada Supports Israeli Apartheid. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-08). Pipeline Fighters Lock Themselves To Drill Equipment At Crossing Of I-64. popularresistance.org Lawn, WV — Early Friday morning, two pipeline fighters locked themselves to drill equipment at the site where the Mountain Valley Pipeline crosses under Interstate 64 in Greenbrier County, WV. Their action halted work at the site for 2.5 hours, until both people were extracted and arrested. A banner at the site read, "MVP Is Deadly; Doom To The Pipeline". | Both protesters were arrested before 8: 30 AM. One person was charged with 6 misdemeanors, with bail set at $7,500. The other was charged with 4 misdemeanors, with bail set at $5,000. Both were bailed out on Friday. | "In the expansive timeline of industr…

_____ (2021-08-08). Glen Ford: Revolutionary, Friend, Leader, Lover Of Black People. popularresistance.org Glen was a man whose voice thundered with the passion of justice, his keen eyes intensified by those round glasses that sat on the bridge of his strong nose right in front of his daunting intelligence, his word mastery and their unveiling of perceptions he gleaned from having been wounded by a culture bent against his people, against him personally, as when it deployed hitmen against his life's work. It was a confirmation that he was on the right track when he and the Black Agenda Report family made the government's blacklist of subversive publications. So there was anger. And clarity. And passion that combined t…

Daniela Jimenez (2021-08-08). United States Finances Colombia's Police Brutality. orinocotribune.com In an interview with Rolling Stone Colombia, US Congressman Jim McGovern said that part of the US Congress agrees with a budget cut to reduce funding for Colombian security forces, so that the United States will not be an accomplice to police brutality in the South American country. "If that is not sufficient enough, we will review our help again," stated McGovern. "You can expect that the Biden administration will take seriously everything related to the protection of human rights." | Recently, the government of Iván Duque rejected a series of recommendations made by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights…

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