Monthly Archives: January 2022

2022-01-19: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-19). Civil society and rights groups raise concern over rising state repression in Tunisia. peoplesdispatch.org In a press conference Tuesday, the groups expressed alarm over the rapidly declining status of human rights and civil liberties in the country, days after security forces violently attacked anti-government protesters and made dozens of arrests…

Mike V Kinney (2022-01-18). Remembering: GAIL BERKLEY- Editor of Post News Group. indybay.org The passing of a great African-American news editor-Gail Berkley of the Oakland, CA. Post News Group…

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-01-18). Argentine political leaders demand immediate release of Indigenous activist Milagro Sala. peoplesdispatch.org January 16, 2022, marked six years since the illegal detention of Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala in Argentina. Sala, the leader of the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Organization, was arrested in 2016, for allegedly inciting violence and chaos in the Jujuy province. She was also accused of sedition for organizing and leading a month-long protest in rejection of the changes imposed in the cooperative system by Governor Gerardo Morales of the then-ruling right-wing Cambiemos alliance. | Sala was one of the first victims of the political persecution that characterized the government of former president Mauric…

2022-01-19 18:00 | 14:00 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 

2022-01-18: News Headlines

Mike V Kinney (2022-01-18). Remembering: GAIL BERKLEY- Editor of Post News Group. indybay.org The passing of a great African-American news editor-Gail Berkley of the Oakland, CA. Post News Group…

Mike V Kinney (2022-01-17). Remembering: GAIL BERKLEY- Editor of Post News Group. indybay.org The passing of a great African-American news editor-Gail Berkley of the Oakland, CA. Post News Group…

2022-01-18 15:52 | 11:52 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 

2022-01-17: News Headlines

Mike V Kinney (2022-01-17). Remembering: GAIL BERKLEY- Editor of Post News Group. indybay.org The passing of a great African-American news editor-Gail Berkley of the Oakland, CA. Post News Group…

Christian Pena (2022-01-16). High unemployment among African Americans. america.cgtn.com When it comes to unemployment in the U.S., the numbers for black Americans far exceed the numbers for whites. Mike Kirsch reports.

Mike V Kinney (2022-01-16). Remembering: GAIL BERKLEY- Editor of Post News Group. indybay.org The passing of a great African-American news editor-Gail Berkley of the Oakland, CA. Post News Group…

2022-01-18 03:37 | 23:37 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 

2022-01-16: News Headlines

Mike V Kinney (2022-01-16). Remembering: GAIL BERKLEY- Editor of Post News Group. indybay.org The passing of a great African-American news editor-Gail Berkley of the Oakland, CA. Post News Group…

It's Going Down (2022-01-15). Movement, Rebellion, Repression: Lexis Figuereo of Saratoga Springs Black Lives Matter. itsgoingdown.org On this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak with Lexis Figuereo of Saratoga Springs Black Lives Matter in New York. We talk about how the George Floyd movement exploded on the streets there, how an occupation outside of a local police station played out over a week, clashes with the Proud Boys…

Anonymous Contributor (2022-01-15). Fundraiser for 2020 Uprising Prisoner Shawn Sutton's Release. itsgoingdown.org Call for post-release support for Shawn in Greenville, NC. Go here to support. Shawn was arrested in Greenville, NC on charges stemming from protests that were part of the George Floyd Uprising of 2020. As part of supporting prisoners of the uprising, several folks reached out to them and have been organizing funds to help…

Mike V Kinney (2022-01-15). Remembering: GAIL BERKLEY- Editor of Post News Group. indybay.org The passing of a great African-American news editor-Gail Berkley of the Oakland, CA. Post News Group…

Editor (2022-01-15). Lee Camp: Cops Shoot More People Than You ThoughtÔøº. scheerpost.com Lee Camp reports on a new study that looks into the survivors of police brutality. It turns out US cops try to kill way more people than they succeed at killing.

David Rosenfeld (2022-01-15). Minneapolis trial prosecution deals blows to workers' rights. themilitant.com MINNEAPOLIS — After a 24-day trial here, former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter was found guilty Dec. 23 on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old African American Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last April. When Wright moved to drive off to avoid arrest on outstanding weapons charges, Potter mistakenly drew her Glock pistol and shot Wright, thinking she was firing her Taser. | The trial conduct of the prosecutors and judge violated key legal rights that protect working people against the state and are needed as our class battles to defend our inter…

WSWS (2022-01-15). Stewart Rhodes and Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy. wsws.org The arrest of fascist Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy explodes the claim that January 6 was merely an unruly protest and not a conspiracy by Trump to overturn the 2020 election result and establish a dictatorship.

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