Monthly Archives: February 2022
2022-02-11: News Headlines
(2022-02-10). Workers Power Day, February 26. iacenter.org ‚áí Solidarity with Starbucks, Amazon, and all workers who are organizing and fighting back ‚áí Fight against racism and all forms of oppression and exploitation — these struggles are part and parcel of the workers movement. Black Lives Matter! ‚áí Unite our many struggles into one powerful force! Organize an action in your area in solidarity with this growing movement! Starbucks workers are leading an electrifying drive to organize the major coffee chain, often with several stores announcing they're joining this growing movement every day. From co…
(2022-02-10). Students Protest Fatal Police Shooting Of Amir Locke. popularresistance.org Hundreds of Twin Cities-area students walked out of class Tuesday to protest the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Amir Locke, a Black man who was killed by Minneapolis police serving a no-knock warrant at a downtown apartment. | Locke was not the subject of the warrant. | The demonstration, organized by the student organization MN Teen Activists, began at St. Paul Central High School at noon. | Students from across the Twin Cities gathered for the rally and march, including pupils from Lakeville, Hopkins, St. Louis Park and Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis. | The activists said they are demanding the resignations of…
(2022-02-10). The US Political Elite Gives Cover To The Brutal US Police State. popularresistance.org As US domestic fascism continues to evolve, there is an overt reemergence of a pro-police narrative that no one seems to be talking about. It comes amid stories that suggest that there is a crime wave in major cities across the US. In response, the mainstream press has been amplifying pundits and politicians, especially US president Biden, who argue that the police need more "resources" to better do their job. | This is the ideological offensive, the backlash, against activists' demands to "defund the police." | Press outlets like the PBS NewsHour, once considered "one of the most trusted news programs on televis…
(2022-02-10). New Zealand Police Arrest 120 Demonstrators Against Vaccine Mandate. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – New Zealand Police have arrested 120 people at the convoy protest on Parliament grounds on Thursday amid vaccine mandate demonstrations, Wellington District Commander Superintendent Corrie Parnell said.
(2022-02-10). Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' Threatens to Spread to US, DHS Warns. sputniknews.com Thousands of truckers and tens of thousands of their supporters descended on Ottawa starting late last month to protest Covid vaccination mandates. Police have called in reinforcements and begun a campaign of fines and pinpoint arrests of protesters, seizing fuel and blocking millions of dollars' worth of funding raised online.
2022-02-10: News Headlines
(2022-02-10). New Zealand Police Arrest 120 Demonstrators Against Vaccine Mandate. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – New Zealand Police have arrested 120 people at the convoy protest on Parliament grounds on Thursday amid vaccine mandate demonstrations, Wellington District Commander Superintendent Corrie Parnell said.
(2022-02-09). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Down In Virginia' By Grace Victoria. shadowproof.com Composed around the time that George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020, "Down In Virginia" is an exploration of the racism and violence faced by Black people on a constant basis.
(2022-02-09). Morning Commute: 2-9-2022. anchor.fm Hope everyone is well! Today we're doing a little news coverage based on sources I've been reading like People's Dispatch, Hoodcommunist.org, By Any Means Necessary, Liberation News, Kawasachun News, TeleSur English, Guerrilla History Podcast, etc. We go over Russia/China Relations, the Olympics, the African Union meeting, Oakland and Chicago schools ongoing issues, movements against Police Brutality and the murder by Minneapolis Police Department (yup, that one!) of Amir Locke who was 22 years old! No justice, no peace!! Go organize!
(2022-02-09). Protesters defy police threat with fuel cans. rt.com Ottawa's police chief had threatened to arrest anyone who provides 'material support' to demonstrating truckers | Hundreds of protesters appeared to mock Ottawa Police's threat to arrest anyone caught providing fuel to demonstrating truckers by marching through the city carrying red fuel cans this week. | The police
2022-02-09: News Headlines
(2022-02-09). Protest Song Of The Week: 'Down In Virginia' By Grace Victoria. shadowproof.com Composed around the time that George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020, "Down In Virginia" is an exploration of the racism and violence faced by Black people on a constant basis.
(2022-02-09). Morning Commute: 2-9-2022. anchor.fm Hope everyone is well! Today we're doing a little news coverage based on sources I've been reading like People's Dispatch, Hoodcommunist.org, By Any Means Necessary, Liberation News, Kawasachun News, TeleSur English, Guerrilla History Podcast, etc. We go over Russia/China Relations, the Olympics, the African Union meeting, Oakland and Chicago schools ongoing issues, movements against Police Brutality and the murder by Minneapolis Police Department (yup, that one!) of Amir Locke who was 22 years old! No justice, no peace!! Go organize!
(2022-02-09). Protesters defy police threat with fuel cans. rt.com Ottawa's police chief had threatened to arrest anyone who provides 'material support' to demonstrating truckers | Hundreds of protesters appeared to mock Ottawa Police's threat to arrest anyone caught providing fuel to demonstrating truckers by marching through the city carrying red fuel cans this week. | The police
(2022-02-08). Cover-Up in Minneapolis? Police "Executed" Amir Locke in "No-Knock" Raid, Say His Parents, Activists. democracynow.org Protests are continuing in Minneapolis after police fatally shot 22-year-old Amir Locke during an early-morning "no-knock" raid on February 2. Bodycam video shows that Locke appeared to be asleep on the couch and wrapped in a blanket when a SWAT team entered the apartment. Locke held a gun he was legally licensed to carry, and was not named in the warrant. Minneapolis interim city Police Chief Amelia Huffman claimed Locke pointed his weapon in the direction of the officers, and suggested he could have been connected to crime, despite not being a suspect in their investigation. "It was very jarri…
(2022-02-08). Policing on Trial: Attorney Ben Crump on Fed Case Against Three Cops Involved in George Floyd Murder. democracynow.org The Minneapolis judge who signed the no-knock warrant that led to the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old Black man Amir Locke also presided over the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer convicted for the murder of George Floyd. The trial of three officers facing lesser charges — Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng — is currently underway after being delayed when one of the defendants tested positive for COVID. The trial will show the importance of accountability even from police who are bystanders to murder, says Benjamin Crump, part of the legal team for George Floyd's famil…