Daily Archives: September 21, 2021

2021-09-21: News Headlines

Fight Back (2021-09-20). Highway bannering keeps Palestine solidarity in focus. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On September 16, thousands of rush-hour commuters on Interstate 94 saw banners with slogans like "Free Palestine," "End apartheid" and "End ethnic cleansing" hung from the Loring Park footbridge, amid a sea of Palestinian flags. Activists from American Muslims for Palestine – Minnesota (AMP-MN), the Anti-War Committee (AWC) and Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) then rallied in the park with chants and speeches. | The occasion was the anniversary of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre in Lebanon, when an invading Israeli army encouraged local right-wing militias to murder thousands of Palesti…

_____ (2021-09-20). Met Gala Protest: Interview With An Activist. popularresistance.org A photo-journalist and activist who was at the Met Gala told Left Voice about the brutal police attack on protesters and gives a perspective on AOC's participation in the event. | The Met Gala, a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute that is also a gathering of celebrities, politicians, and the wealthy and well connected took place on September 13. The bourgeois press coverage focused on the celebrity spectacle, nearly ignoring the horrific police attack on abolitionist activists protesting outside the event, many of whom were arrested. Left Voice spoke with Prince, a photo-journalist…

_____ (2021-09-20). Democrats Urged to 'Ignore' Parliamentarian's Advice Against Path to Citizenship. commondreams.org Either Joe Biden and Democratic senators actually stand for the principle that "Black Lives Matter" or they stand for Rahm Emanuel. They can't stand for both.

Staff (2021-09-20). Cuba and the US: A tale of two prison systems. therealnews.com In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway discusses the differences between prisons in Cuba and in the United States. Of the two, only one incarcerates children, only one deliberately isolates prisoners from their families and communities, and only one uses long-term solitary confinement as a routine punishment—and it's not Cuba. "In Cuba you don't have solitary confinement," Conway says. "Because that's inhumane."

Anonymous103 (2021-09-20). J6 'Chaos' Total Bust For Media As Cops, Journalists And FBI Appear To Outnumber Protesters. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Originally published on Saturday's "Justice for J6" rally appears to have been — in the words of

Staff (2021-09-20). Bipartisan Reforms Often Expand Prisons and Police. We Need Abolition Instead. truthout.org As the concept of "mass incarceration" entered the U.S. mainstream over the last decade or so, diverse networks of advocates, funders and politicians have criticized the country's overwhelming reliance on police and prisons as a response to a vast array of social problems. A critical consensus that mass incarceration is bad has given rise to a criminal justice reform coalition that is almost as bipartisan as the push for expanding police and prisons has been in previous decades. | Yet, as Kay…

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