Monthly Archives: March 2023

2023-03-07: News Headlines

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-03-06). Report: Informant Got $20,000 From FBI To Create Divisiveness Among George Floyd Protestors, Accuse Activists Of Working With Police. moguldom.com The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid a convicted felon to be an FBI informant and undermine racial justice protests during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020, a new podcast alleges. According to a report by CBS News, "Alphabet Boys" is a 10-episode docuseries that debuted in February that accuses the FBI of …

Fight Back (2023-03-07). FRSO and community organizations hold International Women's Day panel. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, March 4, around 20 community members and students attended an International Women's Day panel, hosted by the Tallahassee Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The panelists included Delilah Pierre from the FRSO, Regina Joseph from Tallahassee Community Action Committee and Cas Casanovah from FSU Students for a Democratic Society. | The speakers covered a wide array of topics, ranging from combatting male chauvinism to the historic role women have played in working-class and revolutionary movements. | International Women's Day, originally International Working Women's Day, has…

ecns.cn (2023-03-07). U.S. Black people far more likely to be shot, killed by police: article. ecns.cn In the 1,000 days since the murder of Black man George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in Minnesota, 618 Black folks have been shot and killed by U.S. police nationwide, according to an article published last week by The Daily Record, a Ohio-based daily newspaper and part of the USA Today Media Network.

Atlanta Community Press Collective (2023-03-06). We Got Us: A Case Study and Reflections on Supporting an Arrestee from the 2020 Uprisings. itsgoingdown.org Reflection from the Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee about organizing a support committee for an incarcerated activist from the George Floyd uprising. The Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC) received the following submission on 3/3/2023 from a defense committee organizing on behalf of an Atlanta activist who was arrested during the uprisings in summer 2020. In the…

Ann Brown (2023-03-06). Garrett Morgan Invented The Gas Mask And 3-Position Traffic Light: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr., who was born March 4, 1877, in Paris, Kentucky, was an inventor, businessman, and community leader. He was also a Black man who wasn't widely recognized for his breakthrough inventions. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic light, the gas mask, and a chemical hair-processing and straightening solution. Here are five things to know. …

americanthinker (2023-03-07). Obama, Trayvon, and Race in America. americanthinker.com Rather than use the opportunity of his rise to the White House as the crowning achievement of a long treacherous journey to racial reconciliation, Obama chose instead to agitate and polarize the nation further…

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2023-03-06: News Headlines

Taru Taylor (2023-03-05). We Must Overturn SCOTUS Decisions That Effectively Deny Rights to Black People. truthout.org The 2020 protests against police brutality after the death of George Floyd were the biggest in United States history. Not since the 1960s assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. has our nation, and indeed the world, witnessed a more significant martyrdom. Many scoff at the notion of Floyd as martyr. Floyd was no statesman nor great moral leader. |

Taru Taylor (2023-03-05). We Must Overturn SCOTUS Decisions That Effectively Deny Rights to Black People. truthout.org The 2020 protests against police brutality after the death of George Floyd were the biggest in United States history. Not since the 1960s assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. has our nation, and indeed the world, witnessed a more significant martyrdom. Many scoff at the notion of Floyd as martyr. Floyd was no statesman nor great moral leader. |

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2023-03-05: News Headlines

teleSUR, JCM (2023-03-04). Marchan en Túnez contra deterioro de las condiciones económicas. telesurtv.net La protesta masiva fue convocada por el sindicato Unión General de Trabajadores de Túnez (UGTT), que ha denunciado varios arrestos contra destacados opositores de l Gobierno.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-03-04). Marchan en Túnez contra deterioro de las condiciones económicas. telesurtv.net La protesta masiva fue convocada por el sindicato Unión General de Trabajadores de Túnez (UGTT), que ha denunciado varios arrestos contra destacados opositores de l Gobierno.

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2023-03-04: News Headlines

Staff (2023-03-03). Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD's Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest. democracynow.org New York City has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with peaceful protesters who were violently "boxed in" or "kettled" by NYPD officers during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in response to the police murder of George Floyd in 2020. As part of the settlement, over 300 people who were trapped by police and assaulted with batons and pepper spray, then detained or arrested at a June 4, 2020, protest in the neighborhood of Mott Haven, will each receive $21,500 — believed to be the largest class-action settlement in a case of mass arrest. We are joined by three people who were…

WSWS (2023-03-03). Publisher agrees to an uncensored edition of Roald Dahl's books, but not before PEN America exposes its own hypocrisy. wsws.org Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl's books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.

Brittani Banks (2023-03-03). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Note to Editors: You are welcome to publish any selection of these news dispatches. Headlines in This News Package: In Jammu and Kashmir, Eviction Drive Sparks Anger and Protests From a Cross-Section of Society New International Sanctions Announced on Myanmar's Junta as Airstrikes, Arrests Keep Country on Edge Pakistani Brothers Finally Leave Guantanamo Bay After …

Kerry Smith (2023-03-03). Climate scientist arrested for demanding stronger climate action. greenleft.org.au Five climate activists, including a climate research scientist, were arrested for protesting outside the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association. Kerry Smith reports.

Staff (2023-03-03). Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD's Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest. democracynow.org New York City has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with peaceful protesters who were violently "boxed in" or "kettled" by NYPD officers during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in response to the police murder of George Floyd in 2020. As part of the settlement, over 300 people who were trapped by police and assaulted with batons and pepper spray, then detained or arrested at a June 4, 2020, protest in the neighborhood of Mott Haven, will each receive $21,500 — believed to be the largest class-action settlement in a case of mass arrest. We are joined by three people who were…

WSWS (2023-03-03). Publisher agrees to an uncensored edition of Roald Dahl's books, but not before PEN America exposes its own hypocrisy. wsws.org Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl's books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.

Brittani Banks (2023-03-03). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Note to Editors: You are welcome to publish any selection of these news dispatches. Headlines in This News Package: In Jammu and Kashmir, Eviction Drive Sparks Anger and Protests From a Cross-Section of Society New International Sanctions Announced on Myanmar's Junta as Airstrikes, Arrests Keep Country on Edge Pakistani Brothers Finally Leave Guantanamo Bay After …

Kerry Smith (2023-03-03). Climate scientist arrested for demanding stronger climate action. greenleft.org.au Five climate activists, including a climate research scientist, were arrested for protesting outside the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association. Kerry Smith reports.

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