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…

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.

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…

Editor2 (2022-01-09). Wet'suwet'en Water Protectors Vow to Continue Struggle after Announcing Strategic Retreat. orinocotribune.com By Anish R M — Jan 6, 2021 | In the face of another crackdown by the RCMP, anti-pipeline Wet'suwet'en protesters have retreated from Coyote Camp | In an announcement on January 4, the activists of the Indigenous Wet'suwet'en tribe in British Columbia, Canada, have stated they are staging a "strategic retreat". Water protectors who have been resisting the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline and staging an occupation and blockade at the drillsite near Camp Coyote have retreated to evade arrests and another violent police crackdown. | Earlier this week, Wet'suwet'en chiefs and activists had been…

Eisa Nefertari Ulen (2022-01-09). Ongoing Backlash Against CRT Ignores Black Children's Experience of Racism. truthout.org Note: A shorter version of this article appeared previously on It happened on the yellow bus. I was 9, in 5th grade, and the only Black girl riding to North Side Elementary School. As far as I know, I was the only Black person — child or adult — in the whole school. I felt alone, utterly alone, as a brown-haired, freckle-faced white boy laughed, pointed, and called me the N-word, over and over and over again. I will never forget his white, fre…

Editor2 (2022-01-09). Wet'suwet'en Water Protectors Vow to Continue Struggle after Announcing Strategic Retreat. orinocotribune.com By Anish R M — Jan 6, 2021 | In the face of another crackdown by the RCMP, anti-pipeline Wet'suwet'en protesters have retreated from Coyote Camp | In an announcement on January 4, the activists of the Indigenous Wet'suwet'en tribe in British Columbia, Canada, have stated they are staging a "strategic retreat". Water protectors who have been resisting the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline and staging an occupation and blockade at the drillsite near Camp Coyote have retreated to evade arrests and another violent police crackdown. | Earlier this week, Wet'suwet'en chiefs and activists had been…

WSWS (2022-01-08). Pioneering African-American actor Sidney Poitier dead at 94. wsws.org The Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier was one of the most popular leading actors in Hollywood in the 1960s at the height of the struggle for civil rights in the US.

WSWS (2022-01-08). Pioneering African-American actor Sidney Poitier dead at 94. wsws.org The Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier was one of the most popular leading actors in Hollywood in the 1960s at the height of the struggle for civil rights in the US.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-01-07). Legendary, Trailblazing Actor Sidney Poitier, Who Broke Hollywood's Color Barrier, Dies at 94. moguldom.com Legendary artist Sir Sidney Poitier, a trailblazing actor and generous humanitarian, died on Jan. 6, 2021. He was 94. His death was confirmed by Clint Watson, the press secretary for Bahamian Prime Minister Hon. Philip Davis. The first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, Poitier made history by breaking the color …

Editor (2022-01-07). A Seemingly Targeted Attack Puts George Floyd's Grand-Niece in the Hospital, Police Don't Come for Hours. scheerpost.com By Ezra Brain / Arianna Delane, the four-year-old grand-niece of George Floyd, was taken to the hospital in the early hours of New Years Day following what appears to be a targeted shooting. Early in the morning, a car pulled up outside her family home and began spraying bullets. Delane, who was asleep in her bed when she was shot, was hospitalized with a punctured lung and several broken ribs. | The exact perpetrators of the crime are currently unknown;…

Editor (2022-01-07). A Seemingly Targeted Attack Puts George Floyd's Grand-Niece in the Hospital, Police Don't Come for Hours. scheerpost.com By Ezra Brain / Arianna Delane, the four-year-old grand-niece of George Floyd, was taken to the hospital in the early hours of New Years Day following what appears to be a targeted shooting. Early in the morning, a car pulled up outside her family home and began spraying bullets. Delane, who was asleep in her bed when she was shot, was hospitalized with a punctured lung and several broken ribs. | The exact perpetrators of the crime are currently unknown;…

Ann Brown (2022-01-07). Top Reparations Scholar Dr. Sandy Darity Goes After HR40, NAARC And N'Cobra: Plans Won't Result In Pure Reparations. moguldom.com Many reparations plans are floating about. While the federal government is still debating HR40 — a proposed study of the feasibility of reparations — organizations such as American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS), National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), and The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'Cobra) have issued plans of their own …

sputniknews (2022-01-07). Three Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Black Man Ahmaud Arbery. sputniknews.com A judge in the US state of Georgia has sentenced all three men found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery to life in prison.