Monthly Archives: December 2021

2021-12-31: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-12-31). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org India: New Delhi police arrest protesting doctors; Punjab university teachers continue strike action; South Korean parcel delivery workers threaten strike…

_____ (2021-12-30). Documents Prove Tennessee County Disproportionately Jails Black Children. popularresistance.org Tennessee's Rutherford County, which has been widely criticized for its juvenile justice system, has been jailing Black children at a disproportionately high rate, according to newly obtained data. And, in a departure from national trends, the county's racial disparity is getting worse, not better. | In an earlier story, ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio chronicled a case in Rutherford County in which 11 Black children were arrested for a crime that does not exist. Four of the children were booked into the county's juvenile jail. | Since publishing that story, the two news organizations have received reports…

2021-12-31 13:11 | 15:11 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 

2021-12-30: News Headlines

Off the 99 (2021-12-29). In the Wake of Rebellion: An Analysis of Abolitionist and Antifascist Currents in Modesto in 2021. itsgoingdown.org A look at autonomous abolitionist and antifascist organizing in the Modesto area of California over the course of 2021. Originally posted to Off the 99. The police murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the subsequent rebellion that followed saw a new wave of working-class self-activity hit the so-called Central Valley, which was met in…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). MTG Attacks African American Festival Kwanzaa. telesurenglish.net Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene commented on her latest foray into American culture that the African American Festival Kwanzaa was "a fake religion created by a psychopath," attacking the festival and people of a conservative political group who posted about it. | RELATED: | On December 26, the first day of the festival, the College Republicans official Twitter account sent a message for the festival participants: "Wishing you a h…

2021-12-30 22:37 | 18:37 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 

2021-12-29: News Headlines

Staff (2021-12-28). Angela Davis on Imagining New Worlds, the Campaign to Free Mumia and the Biden Presidency. democracynow.org World-renowned author, activist and professor Angela Davis talks about navigating the pandemic and an inadequate two-party political system during a time of racial uprising in the United States. She also talks about imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Biden presidential campaign and the protests that erupted from the police killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Editor (2021-12-28). Book Review: Mumia Abu-Jamal's 'Have Black Lives Ever Mattered'. mronline.org Though he's spent the last 35 years incarcerated—and at least thirty of those years in isolation on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has remained steadfast in his activism, especially in regards to police brutality, criminal punishment, and black liberation.

Ann Brown (2021-12-28). Black Kansas Teen Cedric Lofton Died In Juvenile Jail While Being Restrained: Ruled A Homicide. moguldom.com A Dec. 27 autopsy report has determined that 17-year-old Cedric Lofton's death was a homicide, contradicting an earlier finding that the Black teenager had not suffered life-threatening injuries while in police custody in a juvenile detention facility, NPR reported. Lofton was taken into police custody on Sept. 24 on suspicion of battery against police officers in Wichita, …

2021-12-29 20:40 | 16:40 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 

2021-12-28: News Headlines

Staff (2021-12-28). Angela Davis on Imagining New Worlds, the Campaign to Free Mumia and the Biden Presidency. democracynow.org World-renowned author, activist and professor Angela Davis talks about navigating the pandemic and an inadequate two-party political system during a time of racial uprising in the United States. She also talks about imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Biden presidential campaign and the protests that erupted from the police killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Ann Brown (2021-12-27). New Research Shows Protests Reduce Police Killings. moguldom.com When thousands of protests against racism and police brutality were triggered by the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 by Minneapolis police, President Donald Trump called the protesters thugs and some media outlets focused on looting. An adverse hue was placed on Black Lives Matter, which organized or participated in many protests that grew …

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Peru To Compensate Victims' Relatives of 2020 Police Brutality. telesurenglish.net President Pedro Castillo will grant financial compensation to the relatives of the two Peruvian farmers who died as a result of the police brutality deployed in the 2020 protests, which forced the resignation of President Manuel Merino, who spent just five days in office. | RELATED: | The Justice Ministry decree sets a compensation of US$10,000 for the families of those who died in the "Agrarian Strike" which took place in La Libertad and Ica regio…

Labor Video Project (2021-12-27). Sausalito Homeless Protest Police Attacks & Arrest Of Journalist Jeremy Portje. indybay.org Homeless are under attack in Sausalito as well as an independent journalist Jeremy Portje. California Homeless Union counsel Anthony Price is interviewed about these struggles.

2021-12-28 19:36 | 15:36 EST | jz | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0