Monthly Archives: May 2022

2022-05-11: News Headlines

____ (2022-05-10). Police release video of the shooting of DeAnthony VanAtten in East Lansing, Michigan. wsws.org The bodycam video shows DeAnthony VanAtten being shot non-fatally twice by East Lansing police in the parking lot of a Meijer grocery store on April 25.

_____ (2022-05-10). Activists Demanding Psilocybin For Terminally Ill Patients Arrested Outside DEA Headquarters. popularresistance.org Virginia – More than a dozen activists staged a "die-in" outside the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Va., Monday, demanding the agency allow patients with life-threatening conditions to legally access psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms," to treat psychiatric disorders. | Federal police arrested 17 protesters who were lying down in front of the building's entrance and refused to leave until a representative from the agency met with them to discuss their demands. The DEA refused to send anyone out to speak with demonstrators, which included terminally ill cancer p…

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2022-05-10: News Headlines

____ (2022-05-10). Police release video of the shooting of DeAnthony VanAtten in East Lansing, Michigan. wsws.org The bodycam video shows DeAnthony VanAtten being shot non-fatally twice by East Lansing police in the parking lot of a Meijer grocery store on April 25.

Dan Williams (2022-05-09). Daunte Wright's mother, Katie Wright, discusses her son's death and the trial. america.cgtn.com Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright was shot by officer Kim Potter. Potter says she mistakenly used a gun instead of a taser.

2022-05-10 11:09 | 07:09 EST | sr | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 

2022-05-08: News Headlines

JANET (2022-05-07). For Mumia on his birthday. iacenter.org By Julia Wright May 6, 2022 To yet another Mumia generation: Mumia Abu-Jamal Children, did you hear of a Black man called Mumia ? for 40 years he has been taking us on a journey showing us the cruel and unusual imprisonment of a world shackled by made-in-U.S.A. imperialism ‚àí the poisoning of the earth belonging to the damned, the hunger and the drought suffered by the underneath of the underneath at the hands of climate-blind corporate greed, the political incarceration of those who dare lift their voice against their own genocide . . . for forty years Mumia has been taking us on a journey i…

2022-05-08 18:49 | 12:49 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0