(2021-08-21). Two workers killed and one suspect arrested in shooting at NHK Seating plant in Indiana. wsws.org Two workers were killed and a third is a suspect in a shooting that took place outside of the NHK Seating of America plant on Wednesday in Frankfort, Indiana.
(2021-08-21). Former Tennessee deputy charged with assaulting police officers during Capitol riots. nationofchange.org Ronald McAbee was arrested Tuesday after the FBI received a tip concerning his exposed identity on police body cam footage during the Capitol riots.
(2021-08-20). Latin American Socialists Unite With Axis Of Resistance Against Imperialism. popularresistance.org Revolutionary socialist movements in Latin America are developing closer relations with anti-imperialist resistance forces in West Asia, building a united front against Western aggression and exploitation. | This budding alliance is an extremely important development in the struggle against an authoritarian international political and economic system that is essentially a global dictatorship, ruled by the United States and its junior imperialist partners in the European Union, NATO, apartheid "Israel," and the Gulf monarchies. | As this Washington-led, trans-Atlantic hegemonic order was constructed over the past…
(2021-08-20). Jews Supporting Black Lives Matter Are A Threat To Israel, Says Israel Minister Of Diaspora Affairs. moguldom.com The Jewish-Black alliance was once strong in the U.S., but Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Nachman Shai doesn't seem to believe in helping the cause. Shai said recently that young American Jews supporting Black Lives Matter are a threat to Israel. He made the comments on Aug. 5 to the American Jewish Committee, a New York-based …
(2021-08-20). Report: Trump Admin Deployed Feds to Bring Harsher Charges on BLM Protesters. truthout.org 
The protests and uprisings in defense of Black lives that spread like wildfire last summer after police killed George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other unarmed Black people were extraordinary demonstrations of public outrage and Black-led organizing. As it has done throughout the nation's history, the federal government responded to Black resistance with repression and state violence. | The Trump administration used federal police and courts to deliberately target supporters of the movement for…
(2021-08-20). The BLM is Broken; Here's How to Fix It. counterpunch.org An open letter from a former Bureau of Land Management employee to Secretary Deb Haaland. Dear Secretary Haaland: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in your Interior Department is broken and I know how you can and should fix it. BLM's dominant management culture has long been (and is) corrupt, biased, regressive, and secretive. I
(2021-08-20). A cop kicked a compliant man in the head, then police tried to cover it up. therealnews.com 
Transcript | Taya Graham: Hello. My name is Taya Graham, and welcome to the Police Accountability Report. As I never get tired of saying, this show has a single purpose: holding the politically powerful institution of policing accountable. To do so, we don't just focus on the bad behavior of individual cops. Instead, we examine the system that makes bad policing possible. Today we're going to do so by reporting on a disturbing video out of a small town in California, where a deputy sheriff kicked a man prone on the ground and knocked him unconscious. Well, what happened after this assault occurred makes the…
(2021-08-20). Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated Parent. aclu.org One in 12 American children — more than 5.7 million kids — have experienced parental incarceration at some point during their lives. Black Americans are 50 percent more likely than white Americans to have a family member who is formerly or currently incarcerated. At the ACLU, we are working to to significantly reduce the footprint of the criminal legal system in the United States, because we know the ramifications of incarceration are broad, complex and damaging. | Incarceration doesn't just impact the person incarcerated: its ripple effect can be felt throughout the families and communities [mdash…