2022-01-11: News Headlines

Calla Randall (2022-01-10). The Weekly Round-Up: Colston Four acquitted, the new offence of breastfeeding voyeurism, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: The Colston Four have been acquitted of criminal damage by a jury for their role in pulling down the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol and pushing it into Bristol Harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020. Under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, a defendant will have a defence …

JBLM Cop Watch (2022-01-10). Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) Deputy Chief of Police Visiting a House of Prostitution? indybay.org JBLM senior police officers, posing outside of a Nevada brothel raise questions about the integrity and professionalism in the JBLM Police Department.

WSWS (2022-01-10). Canton, Ohio police, district attorney, blame victim after body camera footage confirms cop shot James Williams without warning. wsws.org In a Saturday protest, family members and activists demanded justice for Williams, who was murdered by a still-unnamed Canton police officer less than 10 minutes into the New Year.

WSWS (2022-01-10). Northern California man sues police who paralyzed him during traffic stop, mocked his cries for help. wsws.org Gregory Gross, 65, was left paralyzed after police brutally held him down by his neck and damaged his spinal column in an attack similar to the murder of George Floyd.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-01-10). Harvard Civil Rights Professor Lani Guinier Passes Away At 71. moguldom.com Civil rights attorney and scholar Lani Guinier, the first Black woman to receive tenure as a professor at Harvard University's Law School, died on Friday, Jan. 7. She was 71. Guinier died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at an assisted-living facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts after a long battle with the illness, according to a memoriam …

_____ (2022-01-10). The Capitalist Death-Drive, Afghan Sanctions, Attack On Medicare. popularresistance.org Lee Camp looks at how the capitalist system sits at the heart of the worst problems facing society. In this history lesson, Camp takes you back to the feudal system, to the creation of corporations and currency, to the modern system that's destroying the lives of the poor today. The ruling class don't even try to hide the inhumanity that keeps the system running anymore, now that it has become almost impossible to ignore. This leaves it up to popular movements to end the capitalist system and create something new. Then, Camp reports on the police brutality victims who don't gain as much attention as those murdere…

Staff (2022-01-10). WATCH: Arrests at massive anti-lockdown protest. rt.com Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Belgian capital of Brussels to protest the government's Covid-19 restrictions | A massive crowd flooded the streets of the Belgian capital, with demonstrators calling for "freedom" and demanding that authorities abolish the Covid-19 health pass required to enter various venues. | The large-scale protest, which was joined by thousands of people, was organized by an umbrella group, "Samen Voor Vrijheid" ('Together for Freedom'). The crowd, chanting "Liberty!" and "Freedom!" and holding placards denouncing what they called the government's "vaccine dictatorship…

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