Daily Archives: November 13, 2021

2021-11-13: News Headlines

HMD's The Bridge Project (2021-11-13). Saturday 12/11: Dance on the Front Line: BLM. indybay.org Livestreamed on Zoom…

Asma Khan (2021-11-13). Does social media affect our lives? indybay.org Female African-American Hip Hop artist, Keldamuzik shared her insight on social media and how it affects lives.

Roy Landersen (2021-11-13). Sudan protests continue, fight to overturn military coup. themilitant.com Sudanese security forces fired rubber bullets and arrested scores of protesters in attacks against rallies in several cities Nov. 7, part of an ongoing wave of actions against the Oct. 25 military coup led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Thousands had rallied in the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, as well as in Wad Madani to the south and in the northern city of Atbara. | In several cities, protesters attempted to build street barricades in response to calls for civil disobedience by the Sudanese Professionals Association. | Police fired tear gas at teachers who "were simply standing on the stre…

Staff (2021-11-12). Rittenhouse trial judge rules on lesser-charge request. rt.com The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial has ruled against a bid by the prosecution for the jury to consider a lesser charge in the shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum — one of two men the teenager is accused of killing. | Rittenhouse's defense rested their case on Thursday after presenting evidence that the then-17-year-old acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two people during violent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year. Prosecutors were seeking to add lesser charges to their case. | However, on Friday, Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder denied prosecutors' arguments that an additional cha…

Ann Brown (2021-11-12). MAGA VC-Turned-Politician JD Vance: Lebron James Is Vile And A Coward For Rittenhouse Comments. moguldom.com Protests erupted on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, when a white police officer shot and partially paralyzed a Black man, Jacob Blake, on Aug. 23, 2020. Ex-police cadet Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, crossed state lines from Antioch, Illinois and traveled to Kenosha with an AR-style semi-automatic weapon and a medic bag. His goal? To protect property after rioters …

sputniknews (2021-11-12). Kyle Rittenhouse's Mum Says Her Son 'Not a White Supremacist' as She Scolds Biden for 'Defaming' Him. sputniknews.com Kyle Rittenhouse is currently on trial as he faces charges, including murder, for shooting three men and killing two during an altercation at racial justice riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. The 18-year-old remains adamant in denying any wrongdoing and claiming self-defence.

Staff (2021-11-12). BLM could 'unleash the people' in New York — co-founder to RT. rt.com Black Lives Matter co-founder Chivona Newsome has warned that she has the power to "snap our fingers and unleash the people," should New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams resurrect controversial NYPD anti-crime units. | "Eric Adams is a man without a plan, so all he can conceive of is brute force," Newsome told RT America on Thursday. "That's how he wants to and plans to unleash law enforcement, NYPD, on black and brown people who live in … dire, dire poverty." | Read more | | Created to sto…

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-11-12). What the f U c K even IS the Left?? An episode on combatting inactivity, hypocrisy, ignorance and white chauvinism w/Bands of Turtle Island! anchor.fm In this episode I was lucky to have host of Bands of Turtle Island, Zitkato, onto the show to discuss how Indigenous people are commonly left out, not only of the discussions surrounding revolution, especially here in the Settler-Colonial State we now call "the United States". I was so happy to finally be able to do this episode, I've been listening to the show for a long time and Zitkato is one of the most intelligent people I know! This was such a good conversation and I feel I have so much more to learn, so I hope to be able to do this again soon! | Go subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, leave a rating an…

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-11-12). National Coalition Of Blacks for Reparations: Democrat Leaders Are Scared To Vote on HR40 Because of Midterms. moguldom.com For more than 30 years, Black members of Congress have been trying to get H.R. 40 reparations legislation to pass that will create a commission to study slavery and submit reparations proposals. Only recently, in 2019 and 2020 — likely aided by unprecedented racial justice protests in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd by …

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