Staff (2022-02-23). Headlines for February 23, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. Imposes Sanctions, Ukraine Calls for Stronger Action After Russian Recognition of Breakaway Areas, Jury Finds Ahmaud Arbery's 3 Murderers Guilty of Federal Hate Crimes, Trial for Ex-Cop Brett Hankison, Who Shot into Breonna Taylor's Home During Fatal Raid, Starts in KY, U.N. Report Warns of Climate Disaster-Fueled "Global Wildfire Crisis", Mining Companies, Foreign Investors Driving Destruction of Amazon, Violation of Indigenous Rights, Hong Kong to Conduct Mass COVID Testing on Entire Population; U.K. Removes All Pandemic Restrictions, Israeli Forces Kill 14-Year-Old Palestinian; Isr…

This Week in Fascism (2022-02-22). This Week in Fascism #127: Far-Right Gunman Attacks Portland Protest; Solidarity Roundup with June Knightly and PDX. itsgoingdown.org We got a massive column this week for you. First a report on the recent deadly shooting in Portland that targeted a Black Lives Matter demonstration and how people are showing solidarity with our comrades in PDX; a slew of news stories, and as always: doxxes, action, analysis, and updates. Let's dive right in! Action…

Monica Moorehead (2022-02-22). Dred Scott to Daunte Wright: same repression, same fight. workers.org "There was police brutality, and there was atrocity, and the press was just as atrocious as the police. Because they helped the police cover it up by propagating a false image across the country." These words weren't spoken today but almost 60 years ago by Malcolm X. The great . . . |

This Week in Fascism (2022-02-22). This Week in Fascism #127: Far-Right Gunman Attacks Portland Protest; Solidarity Roundup with June Knightly and PDX. itsgoingdown.org We got a massive column this week for you. First a report on the recent deadly shooting in Portland that targeted a Black Lives Matter demonstration and how people are showing solidarity with our comrades in PDX; a slew of news stories, and as always: doxxes, action, analysis, and updates. Let's dive right in! Action…

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-02-21). Friday 2/18: Black History Month: Almost 2 years after the George Floyd uprising, what's at stake? indybay.org Virtual event. Register: bit.ly/struggle-continues…

Staff (2022-02-21). Ben Crump on Fighting for Justice for Daunte Wright, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin & Z'Kye Husain. democracynow.org Former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for fatally shooting Black driver Daunte Wright after mistaking her gun for a Taser. We speak to Benjamin Crump, attorney for the Wright family, about Judge Regina Chu's sympathy expressed for Potter during closing statements and how white criminals tend to receive lighter sentences. "Police officers, when it comes to Black people, they always do the most," says Crump. Crump also weighs in on other clients he currently represents, such as the family of Ahmaud Arbery, the unarmed Black jogger who was fatal…

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-21). At OAS, Nicaragua condemns US police brutality, racism, torture in Guantánamo prison. multipolarista.com Nicaragua condemned the hypocrisy of the OAS "Ministry of the Colonies" for obsessively demonizing his country while doing nothing about racist US police brutality and torture at Guantánamo or the mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada.

Ann Brown (2022-02-21). Minnesota Judge Only Gives Minnesota Killer Cop 24 Months For Killing Daunte Wright. moguldom.com The punishment for former Minnesota cop Kim Potter, who killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop after claiming she grabbed her gun instead of her Taser, has triggered outrage after a judge sentenced her to less than 16 months in prison and a $1,000 fine for manslaughter. Minnesota Judge Regina Chu gave Potter 16 …

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-02-21). Friday 2/18: Black History Month: Almost 2 years after the George Floyd uprising, what's at stake? indybay.org Virtual event. Register: bit.ly/struggle-continues…

Workers World Party (2022-02-19). Unite for Feb. 26 — Workers Power Day! workers.org Solidarity with Starbucks, Amazon and all workers who are organizing and fighting back Fight against racism and all forms of oppression and exploitation — these struggles are part and parcel of the workers movement. Black Lives Matter! Unite our many struggles into one powerful force! Starbucks workers are leading an . . . |

scorinoco (2022-02-19). A Weapon Against Radicalism: Debunking the Myth of the Conservative Black Voter. orinocotribune.com By Eugene Puryear — Feb 15, 2022 | Nina Turner's loss, the primary results of Bernie Sanders, India Walton's win—and then loss—the victory of Eric Adams, and the triumph of Cori Bush's sit-in once again ignited the political discussion around the political make-up of the Black electorate. The general trend has been a strengthening of the view that Black voters are "more conservative" and that more progressive Black voters and those they elect are unrepresentative, out-of-step and, as elected officials, actually backed by white middle-class people at the ballot box rather than working-class Blacks…

Fight Back (2022-02-19). Students march for justice for Amir Locke, demand community control of the police. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On February 16, Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota rallied and marched to demand justice for Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man murdered by the Minneapolis police in a relative's apartment earlier this month. | 200 people gathered outside the Student Union on Washington Avenue, chanting "What do we want? Justice!" and "Say his name! Amir Locke!" A banner reading "Justice for all stolen lives" was at the front, along with signs demanding justice for Amir Locke and community control over the Minneapolis Police Department. Signs announced SDS's own referendum campaign…