Monthly Archives: December 2022

2022-12-12: News Headlines

Pat Dudgeon, Roz Walker (2022-12-10). [Comment] An urgent call to address interpersonal and structural racism and social inequities in Australia. thelancet.com On Oct 13, 2022, Cassius Turvey, a young Aboriginal teenager, was brutally attacked in Perth, Western Australia, and died 10 days later, amidst concerns that more could have been done to save him.1 His death spread waves of shock and condemnation globally, with the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, calling it "racially motivated".2 The teenager's death adds to innumerable instances of racial brutality against Indigenous peoples and Black people across the world, generating Black Lives Matter marches and calls for global justice.

Puja Mehta, Christopher D Buckley (2022-12-10). [Correspondence] "Your people have always been servants": internalised racism in academic medicine. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests catalysed a global racial awakening, intensifying an outcry to abolish structural racism, including making science more equitable and accountable. Many minoritised people had an epiphany: that we are standing at the foot of a "hostile obstacle course",1 which contrasts with the popular, but passive, leaky pipeline analogy.

Peter Boyle (2022-12-10). Thousands march in Sydney for democracy in Iran. greenleft.org.au Thousands marched through Sydney streets on December 10 (International Human Rights Day) demanding democracy in Iran and justice for Jina Mahsa Amini and the growing number of democracy protesters who have been killed, arrested and tortured by the dictatorial regime in Iran. | On December 8, Mohsen Shekari became the first democracy protester to be executed. At least 475 protesters have been killed by security forces and 18,240 others have been detained, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA).

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2022-12-11: News Headlines

Pat Dudgeon, Roz Walker (2022-12-10). [Comment] An urgent call to address interpersonal and structural racism and social inequities in Australia. thelancet.com On Oct 13, 2022, Cassius Turvey, a young Aboriginal teenager, was brutally attacked in Perth, Western Australia, and died 10 days later, amidst concerns that more could have been done to save him.1 His death spread waves of shock and condemnation globally, with the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, calling it "racially motivated".2 The teenager's death adds to innumerable instances of racial brutality against Indigenous peoples and Black people across the world, generating Black Lives Matter marches and calls for global justice.

Puja Mehta, Christopher D Buckley (2022-12-10). [Correspondence] "Your people have always been servants": internalised racism in academic medicine. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests catalysed a global racial awakening, intensifying an outcry to abolish structural racism, including making science more equitable and accountable. Many minoritised people had an epiphany: that we are standing at the foot of a "hostile obstacle course",1 which contrasts with the popular, but passive, leaky pipeline analogy.

Peter Boyle (2022-12-10). Thousands march in Sydney for democracy in Iran. greenleft.org.au Thousands marched through Sydney streets on December 10 (International Human Rights Day) demanding democracy in Iran and justice for Jina Mahsa Amini and the growing number of democracy protesters who have been killed, arrested and tortured by the dictatorial regime in Iran. | On December 8, Mohsen Shekari became the first democracy protester to be executed. At least 475 protesters have been killed by security forces and 18,240 others have been detained, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA).

Taya Graham, Stephen Janis (2022-12-09). Body cam shows Baltimore county police arresting citizen watchdog at gunpoint. therealnews.com An unnamed motorist was stopped by Baltimore County police, held at gunpoint, and manhandled by multiple officers before being arrested. Body cam footage reveals the motorist, who has requested anonymity, requesting multiple times to speak with a supervisor and know the crime he was being arrested for to no avail. Police claim the 60-year-old motorist was doing donuts in his car in a local parking lot. TRNN reporter Stephen Janis was unable to find any sign of skid marks at the scene, and further deduced that the area was likely too narrow for such activity. The police statement further reveals that the mot…

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2022-12-09: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-12-08). Power returns to Moore County, North Carolina, as perpetrators of blackout remain at large. wsws.org More than 96 hours after the armed attack on two power substations in rural North Carolina, police agencies have yet to identify or arrest a suspect.

Fight Back (2022-12-08). Fort Worth protest demands justice for Atatiana Jefferson. fightbacknews.org Fort Worth, TX – On Saturday, December 5, over 20 protesters showed up at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in downtown Fort Worth, where Fort Work police officer Aaron Dean was on trial for the murder of Atatiana Jefferson. | Jefferson, an African-American woman was shot by Dean, who fired through her window with no warning while she was playing videogames with her nephew. The protest demanded justice for her and condemned the court for not including any African Americans on the jury. The rally was organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression – Dallas. | Rick Majumdar of NAARPR…

Frieda Afary (2022-12-07). Is Iran in the Midst of a Feminist Revolution? truthout.org The women-led mass protests in Iran have now lasted for almost three months. Since September 16 — when protests began in Kurdistan and Tehran in response to the state police murder of Zhina Mahsa Amini for wearing an "improper" hijab — the state repression has increased severely. According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran, more than 18,000 protesters have been arrested, over 450 have been… |

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-12-07). Throwback Video From The '60s Shows Bourgeoisie Black Los Angeles Protesting Other Blacks Migrating From South. moguldom.com Video footage from the 1960s of a meeting between middle and upper-class Black people went viral last month after a user tweeted it out. In it, the attendees discuss why they don't want an influx of more lower-class Black people from the South migrating to Los Angeles. The footage, which has a faint watermark denoting …

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2022-12-07: News Headlines

Neal Resnikoff (2022-12-06). Some Problems With the US Constitution. orinocotribune.com By Neal Resnikoff Dec 4, 2022 | The U.S. Constitution, a product of the rich capitalist ruling class, has a number of serious problems of lack of democracy, some of which plague most of us to this day. Here are a few instances which expose the fallacy of the argument that the U.S. government stands for democracy vs autocracy in the world. | First, it is important to remember that the earliest version of the U.S. Constitution did not allow Blacks, Indigenous people, women, or poor white males to vote. And it supported slavery. | Another example is how the Presidential election results are not based on the po…

_____ (2022-12-05). Worthy And Unworthy Protest. popularresistance.org The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is on the verge of effectively making protest illegal. The Public Order Bill has passed in the House of Commons and is expected to be approved in the House of Lords and become law. The bill will ban any protest that "interferes with national infrastructure" or blocks construction or transportation. It gives police powers to search without "reasonable grounds." It allows for Serious Disruption Prevention Orders (SDPO) which give police the right to arrest anyone who may have violated these deliberately vague rules and prevents them from attending another pro…

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