(2023-07-06). Southern racism is trying to kill Rodney Reed. workers.org Houston When Rodney Reed was sent to death row 25 years ago, his crime was being a Black man in a racist Texas county who was guilty of having a consensual romantic relationship with a white woman. This crime has historically caused Black men to be lynched, or if they . . . |
(2023-07-06). Eugene Community Blockades Sierra Pacific Mill in Protest of Public Lands Logging. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent logging blockade in protest of the logging of public lands in so-called Eugene, Oregon. Dozens of community members and forest defenders rallied at the Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) mill in West Eugene as four activists locked themselves together, risking arrest and effectively blocking the entrance to the mill and disrupting operations to…
(2023-07-06). Séptima noche de protestas en Francia deja unos 16 arrestados. telesurtv.net Las autoridades señalaron en un comunicado que se registraron 78 vehículos quemados y 116 incendios en la calle.
(2023-07-06). Reportan 20 arrestados en octava noche de protestas en Francia. telesurtv.net El ministerio del Interior señaló a través de un comunicado que durante la última jornada se registraron 81 incendios.
(2023-07-05). "Inflection Point": Uprising over French Teen's Killing in Traffic Stop & Pattern of Racist Policing. democracynow.org In France, more than 3,000 people have been arrested after a week of nationwide protests following the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, a teenager of North African descent, captured on video. Nahel's family and friends held his funeral Saturday at a mosque in Nanterre. We speak with Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist in Paris, who explains this killing is part of a long pattern of racist policing that has divided the country. "I wish there was a real and profound discussion about police brutality, about racialized policing," says Diallo.