(2021-06-22). Justice demanded for Queens, NY man killed by plainclothes cops. liberationnews.org 
A speak-out was held outside New York Attorney General Letitia James's office on June 18 to support the family of Matthew Felix, a 19-year-old Queens resident shot and killed by Nassau County Police. The event was organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and attended by community supporters and family members of other …
(2021-06-22). Buffalo: Second annual People's Pride. workers.org 
Buffalo On June 12th the Buffalo branch of Workers World Party hosted its second annual People's Pride event. Much of the focus this year was around shutting down many of the anti-trans bills flooding the legislature as we speak, but also the call to keep cops and Zionist colonizers out . . . |
(2021-06-22). Sunrise Movement's 400-Mile Climate March Ends With Arrests at Ted Cruz's House. truthout.org 
After six weeks of Eight demonstrators with the movement's "Generation on Fire" campaign were arrested on th…
(2021-06-22). SDF Besieged Al-Busairah In Syria's Deir Ezzor, Arrested Dozens Of Civilians. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | Written by Khaled Iskef. | On June 22, SDF militants have launched a surprise security operation at dawn today, during which they targeted the city of Al-Busairah in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, with the aerial support of the U.S.-led International Coalition's helicopters. | Local sources from the town stated that SDF gunmen had imposed a security cordon around the city, preventing entry and exit. Militants announced a curfew in the town until a further notice, posting their barriers on th…
(2021-06-22). Community Control of Public Safety: Building a Transitional Program for Power. popularresistance.org That Community Control Over Police campaigns (CCOP) are essentially neocolonialism is a rather wild claim that avowed abolitionist activists, like Dubian Ade applies to the articulation of CCOP by advocate Max Rameau, an organizer in Pan-African Community Action (PACA) to which this author also belongs. Understandably Ade avoids the rabbit hole of condemning the Black Panther Party as neocolonialist, the progenitors of CCOP.
(2021-06-22). Over 100 Anti-Protest Bills Have Been Introduced Since George Floyd Rebellion. popularresistance.org Rather than address the onslaught of police violence against Black people or catastrophic environmental degradation, Republican state politicians continue to attack the people rising up against those systemic injustices. As many as 225 anti-protest bills have been introduced in 45 states since 2016 according to the International Center for Non-Profit Law U.S. Protest Law Tracker. More than 100 have been introduced since Black liberation demonstrators took to the streets in June 2020. Thirty-four such bills have been enacted since 2016.
(2021-06-22). Portland, Oregon, cops resign from rapid response squad after fellow officer charged with assaulting journalist. wsws.org Last week, all 50 members of the "Rapid Response Team" of the Portland Police Bureau resigned in protest after a grand jury charged a team member for assault during the mass protests against police brutality last year.
(2021-06-22). Juneteenth for white folk. nationofchange.org Is Juneteenth the national holiday going to fix the disparate outcomes for black people in education, health, income, wealth, home ownership, death by police, imprisonment, unemployment, and other inequities?>
(2021-06-21). German officials seek to escalate attack on Palestinian rights, targeting growing movement. samidoun.net 
One month ago, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Germany, demanding justice, freedom and liberation for Palestine, from the river to the sea. From Berlin to Frankfurt, from Hannover to Dàºsseldorf, Palestinians, Arabs and German and international comrades marched in massive, continuing demonstrations rejecting Israeli war crimes and colonialism throughout Palestine. These marches and actions continued to progress despite attempts to ban demonstrations, police brutality and attacks on protesters, and repeated defamation and racist attacks against the organizers and participants…
(2021-06-21). End Vaccine Apartheid: Summit on Vaccine Internationalism Demands Urgent Action to Help Global South. democracynow.org 
We look at the push to end what the World Health Organization is calling "vaccine apartheid," as many countries have yet to see a single COVID-19 vaccine shot amid mounting infections. "What we're looking for is an alternative to a system that has basically allowed for COVID-19 vaccines to be absolutely concentrated in the higher-income countries," says Carina Vance Mafla, former health minister of Ecuador, who co-chaired this weekend's emergency Summit on Vaccine Internationalism. She argues vaccine access can be improved by expanding vaccine "production in other countries … that have developed vaccine candida…
(2021-06-21). Prison violence like Alabama's demands a national reckoning. therealnews.com 
This story originally appeared in During the early fall of 2017, just three days before the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division would descend on the Alabama prison system to investigate reports of brutality and sexual violence, an atrocious incident occurred at the Bibb Correctional F…
(2021-06-21). Prison violence like Alabama's demands a national reckoning. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in During the early fall of 2017, just three days before the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division would descend on the Alabama prison system to investigate reports of brutality and sexual violence, an atrocious incident occurred at the Bibb Correctional Facility's Hot Bay, a dormitory "housing men in bunkbeds multiple rows deep," as the DOJ would write in its subsequent re…
(2021-06-21). "Freedom Riders" demand release of political prisoner Leonard Peltier. liberationnews.org 
This year marks 45 years since the illegal and cruel incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a political prisoner and world-renowned fighter for Native liberation. To honor Leonard's fight for freedom and his support for the struggle to save the environment, a group of supporters referring to themselves as Freedom Riders set out on a horseback journey …
(2021-06-21). Vaccine Billionaires Show Why Medicine Can't Be Left To The Market. popularresistance.org Monopoly medicine has allowed for the normalisation of a neoliberal approach in an arena it should never have penetrated: global health. As a result of pandemic profits, a wave of new billionaires has emerged — in stark contrast with the destitution faced elsewhere, and with the disturbing persisting inequality to access which is quickly becoming a vaccine apartheid. | Since the beginning of the pandemic, nine new people have become billionaires off vaccine fortunes, with a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion ( £13.6 billion). According to the People's Vaccine Alliance, between them, their net worth…
(2021-06-21). Ambassadors Recalled After Latest Nicaragua Arrest. latinorebels.com MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Mexico and Argentina recalled their ambassadors to Nicaragua for consultations Monday, a day after President Daniel Ortega's government arrested yet another presidential contender ahead of the November 7 elections.