(2021-08-19). Water Protectors Lock Down at Enbridge Line 3: 700 Arrests to Date. indybay.org "We have exhausted every other option," Giniw Collective said today, Monday, August 16. "This morning, four water protectors locked to each other and to machines, halting work at an Enbridge Line 3 worksite near Hay Creek, Minnesota." Now, 700 Water Protectors have been arrested. bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/08/water-pro……
(2021-08-19). Headlines for August 19, 2021. democracynow.org Two Die as Taliban Open Fire on Independence Day Celebration, Ashraf Ghani: I Fled to Prevent Afghanistan from Becoming "Bloodbath Like in Syria and Yemen", Biden: U.S. May Stay in Afghanistan Beyond Aug. 31, U.S. Announces Plans for Vaccine Boosters Despite Criticism from WHO, Biden Moves to Mandate Vaccines at Nursing Homes & Fight Mask Mandate Bans, Paralympics Report First Confirmed COVID Case in the Olympic Village, Death Toll from Haitian Earthquake Nears 2,200, Caldor Fire Destroys Most of Grizzly Flats in California, Texas Supreme Court Rules Absent Democratic Lawmakers Can Be Arrested, Appeals Court Upho…
(2021-08-19). "The Afghanistan Papers": Docs Show How Bush, Obama, Trump Lied About Brutality & Corruption of War. democracynow.org 
We speak with Washington Post investigative reporter Craig Whitlock, author of the new book "The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War," which reveals how multiple U.S. presidents deceived the public about progress in the war despite widespread skepticism among defense and diplomatic officials about the mission. "The public narrative was that the U.S. was always making progress. All these presidents said we were going to win the war, and yet, in private, these officials were extremely pessimistic," says Whitlock. He also discusses miscalculations in the initial invasion of Afghanistan, the collapse of t…
(2021-08-19). Three Activists Arrested After Blockading Drone Factory. popularresistance.org Palestine Action have returned to Elbit System's drone factory in Braunstone Town, Leicester, and have once again disrupted the production of killer drones used for repressive purposes by Israeli forces. The factory — ran by Elbit-Thales joint venture UAV Tactical Systems — has been blockaded by Palestine Action activists. Two activists in a 'lock-on' and one activist who had D-locked their body to gates have been arrested, after placing their bodies in the way of Elbit's drone manufacture operations.
(2021-08-19). U..S suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost. mronline.org 
Cuba's anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that's one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.
(2021-08-19). Experts Warn Rich Nations' Push for Boosters Could Lock in Vaccine 'Apartheid'. commondreams.org Not only did the federal minimum wage not keep pace with productivity growth, it did not even keep pace with inflation.
(2021-08-19). Movement For Black Lives: Feds Targeted BLM Protesters. popularresistance.org The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation last summer in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Movement for Black Lives.
(2021-08-19). Let's Pull the Child Tax Credit from the Ashes of the Social Infrastructure Bill. commondreams.org "The federalization of protest-related charges was a deliberate and cynical effort to target and discourage those who protested in defense of Black lives."
(2021-08-19). Feds Targeted BLM Activists to Foil Racial Justice Protests: Report. commondreams.org "More for me. None for you. America first. This is American Covid-19 vaccine policy now," one epidemiologist lamented as the U.S. moved ahead with its booster campaign.
(2021-08-18). Protesting Settler Colonialism In The Neoliberal University. popularresistance.org 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 resulted in a global show of solidarity. | A few hours after the banner…
(2021-08-18). More billionaires or human survival? greenleft.org.au Billionaires are profitting from the COVID-19 crisis while lower income countries struggle to secure vaccines. Peter Boyle argues that the global vaccine apartheid is a symptom of the billionaire-profit-first system that is capitalism.
(2021-08-18). Iran Considers Alex Saab a Prisoner of War of the United States. orinocotribune.com Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, has said that Venezuela's Special Envoy Alex Saab, under detention in Cape Verde and facing extradition to the United States, can be considered a prisoner of war, due to the violations that the United States Government has committed by getting him arrested in Cape Verde and by pressuring that country's government for his extradition. | Khatibzadeh made these comments on Saab's situation at a press conference on Monday, August 16. He denounced the arrest and the intention to extradite Saab to a third country as it violates diplomatic lega…
(2021-08-18). A Chance to Protect Our Essential Workers. otherwords.org Immigration agents arrested over 600 undocumented workers at a poultry plant in Jackson, Mississippi two years ago in what remains the This August, on the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates demanded that U.S. officials take action to repair the harms inflicted on the workers and their communities. | Some 230 of the workers have already been deported but another 400 are still waiting for their day in court. And while they wait, many are unable to provide for themselve…
(2021-08-18). Chicago pharmacist busted selling stolen CDC vaccine cards online, faces up to 120 YEARS in prison — DOJ. rt.com 
A Chicago-based pharmacist has been arrested after allegedly selling more than 100 official Covid vaccination cards on eBay after obtaining them from the CDC. He was slapped with 12 federal counts for theft of government property. | A man identified as Tangtang Zhao was arrested and charged for the vaccine card scheme on Tuesday, the Justice Department
(2021-08-18). Texas Supreme Court Says Dems Who Fled State to Block Voter Suppression Package Can Be Arrested. commondreams.org "Voters deserve better," said one advocacy group.
(2021-08-18). Disability rights and justice ‚àí for the people, against incarceration. workers.org 
Black Panther Party-run free medical clinic in Boston, 1970. The following was excerpted from a July 29 webinar held by the Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party that emphasized the interconnections betwee the struggles of disabled people and incarcerated people. Caucus members participating below were Brian Shea . . . |
(2021-08-18). WW interviews Attica survivor, Che Nieves — Part 1: 'The Black Panthers, Five Percenters educated me on my oppression'. workers.org 
Jorge 'Che' Nieves The following edited interview with Jorge "Che" Nieves, a survivor of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion and a founding member of the Young Lords Party in Greenhaven and Attica prisons, was conducted July 20 by Monica Moorehead, a Workers World managing editor. More segments of the interview . . . |
(2021-08-18). 8 Quotes From Top Reparations Scholar Dr. Sandy Darity On Obama's Legacy And Black America. moguldom.com Professor, economist and top reparations scholar Dr. Sandy Darity has never been one to mince words about the state of Black America. The Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, Darity has gone on record in the past to criticize former President Barack Obama's legacy as it relates to Black people. In …
(2021-08-18). Convicting Killer Cops Isn't Enough. progressive.org The sentencing of George Floyd's killer doesn't address deeper, systemic issues in policing.
(2021-08-18). Chicago Passes Union-Backed Bill For Civilian Oversight Of Violent Cops. popularresistance.org In July, Chicago's city council passed a modified version of police accountability legislation that activists have spent years fighting for, backed by major public sector unions and Black labor leaders. | Though stripped of some of its stronger measures, the new law is one of the most prominent pieces of police reform legislation to pass since last year's uprisings after George Floyd's murder at the hands of Minneapolis police. A civilian commission will now be empowered to pick the head of the police investigatory body and change the rules and policies under which the police operate. | In Chicago, the law reflec…
(2021-08-18). A Day in the Death of British Justice. towardfreedom.org WikiLeaks has given us real news about those who govern us and take us to war, not the preordained, repetitive spin that fills newspapers and television screens. This is real journalism; and for the crime of real journalism, Julian Assange has spent most of the past decade in one form of incarceration or another, including Belmarsh prison, a horrific place.
