Fight Back (2021-06-15). Minneapolis march honors murdered protester Deona Marie Erickson. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – 1500 community members gathered at Girard Avenue and Lake Street in Minneapolis, June 14, for a "March in Honor of Deona Marie," organized by Black Lives Matter Minnesota. The night before, Deona Marie Erickson was killed by a driver who attacked protesters demanding justice for Winston Smith. | Just before midnight on Sunday, June 13, Nicholas Kraus plowed through parked cars barricading the street where community members were gathered. Witnesses report that he was going 100 miles per hour and accelerated as he approached the protest. They say that the barricade of cars saved many lives. One o…

The Socialist Program (2021-06-15). Biden Appeals for Imperialist United Front at G7. liberationnews.org The panel discusses the G7 summit and its leaders' hypocritical rhetoric about human rights and democracy, the fight against police brutality and the suppression of the movement against racism, the latest attacks on Ilhan Omar, and more.

Staff (2021-06-15). NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Released from Prison as Family Pushes Biden to Pardon Her. democracynow.org Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Leigh Winner was released from prison Monday to serve the rest of her sentence in a halfway house. We get an update from the lawyer handling her commutation and pardon process. Winner was arrested in 2017 under the Espionage Act for leaking classified government information about Russian interference in the 2016 election to reporters at The Intercept. Prosecutors told The New York Times she got the longest sentence ever given by a federal court for unauthorized disclosure of government information to the press. Winner's family and legal team say she should receiv…

Ariel Gold (2021-06-15). New Israeli government, same Israeli apartheid. nationofchange.org 2021 marks 54 years of occupation, including 14 years of the siege of Gaza, and 28 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords that were supposed to create a Palestinian state.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-15). Indigenous-led climate justice activists vow to continue resisting Enbridge pipeline in US. peoplesdispatch.org Around 250 protesters who are opposing a controversial pipeline project in the State of Minnesota in the United States have been arrested over the past few days.

Editorial Team (2021-06-15). Outrage in Namibia at Berlin's apology offering. challenge-magazine.org The Nava and Ovaherero people of Namibia have spoken out in outrage against the feeble strings-attached apology the German government has given for the genocide carried out between 1904 and 1908. | Apartheid in the southern African country, which was a German colony between 1884 and 1915, legally ended in 1994. Viewed through an economic lens though, apartheid persists. 44% of land in Namibia is commercially owned, an area of land larger than Germany. Over 70% of the land is owned by whites, who make up only 6% of the population. Groups such as the Landless People's Movement argue that the introduction of libe…

_____ (2021-06-15). How US And UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests In Belarus. popularresistance.org The at-times fiery protests that raged across Belarus throughout 2020 had largely fizzled out by the time local activist and seeming neo-Nazi Roman Protasevich was dramatically arrested in May this year. | Now, the country has been catapulted back to the top of the mainstream news agenda, with new life breathed into controversial self-appointed President Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's hitherto unheeded calls for Western leaders to recognize her as the legitimate Belarusian leader. | True to form though, not a single outlet has deigned to mention that for many years prior to the unrest's eruption, London and Washington…

WSWS (2021-06-15). One dead, three injured after driver rams police violence protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota. wsws.org The driver, 35-year-old Nicholas David Kraus from neighboring St. Paul, was arrested and is being held without bail on a charge of vehicular manslaughter.

Ariel Gold (2021-06-15). New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a continuer of Netanyahu's policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu's. In 2013, as Middle East peace talks were set to …

Destiny Harris (2021-06-15). Policing and Militarism Go Hand in Hand. We Must Abolish Both. zcomm.org When masses of Black people mobilize, gangs of police move in, and terrorize.

Kit Klarenberg (2021-06-15). How U.S. and UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests in Belarus. covertactionmagazine.com The at-times fiery protests that raged across Belarus throughout 2020 had largely fizzled out by the time local activist and seeming neo-Nazi Roman Protasevich was dramatically arrested in May this year. Now, the country has been catapulted back to the top of the mainstream news agenda, with new life breathed into controversial self-appointed President Svetlana …

teleSUR (2021-06-14). Padrino Denounces Drug Traffickers Financing Crime in Caracas. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, the Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Carmen Meléndez, informed that, in a large police operation carried out in the La Vega neighborhood in the west of Caracas, 38 citizens were arrested and several firearms were seized, among them 3 pistols, 3 rifles of different calibers, explosives, fragmentary grenades and narcotics. | RELATED: | The Minister considered the operation as a resounding victory against…

Destiny Harris (2021-06-14). Policing and Militarism Go Hand in Hand. We Must Abolish Both. zcomm.org When masses of Black people mobilize, gangs of police move in, and terrorize.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-14). Security forces violently crush protests against police brutality in Tunisia. peoplesdispatch.org Protests against police brutality were organized for the fourth consecutive day after a Tunisian man arrested on drugs-related charges died in police custody. The man's family has alleged that he was beaten to death…

Andrew Emett (2021-06-14). Chicago cop arrested for storming Capitol building. nationofchange.org The charges against Officer Karol Chwiesiuk each carry up to a year in prison if convicted.

The Associated Press (2021-06-14). Nicaragua Stages Unprecedented Roundup of Opposition Leaders. latinorebels.com MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police have arrested another opposition politician, bringing to six the number detained over the weekend.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-14). Algerians boycott elections as Hirak movement demands total overhaul & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the parliamentary elections held in Algeria amid a mass boycott called by the Hirak movement, protests against police brutality by working-class communities in Tunisia, the increasingly anti-China stance taken by the G7 countries and the joint communique released by the group after the Summit in the UK, and the continuing demands for justice for the victims and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in the UK 4 years after the tragedy.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-14). Daily Round-up|Algerians boycott elections as Hirak movement demands total overhaul & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today's episode of Daily Round-up looks at the upcoming elections in Algeria, protests against police brutality in Tunisia, the G7 meeting & more…

Kit Klarenberg (2021-06-15). How U.S. and UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests in Belarus. covertactionmagazine.com The at-times fiery protests that raged across Belarus throughout 2020 had largely fizzled out by the time local activist and seeming neo-Nazi Roman Protasevich was dramatically arrested in May this year. Now, the country has been catapulted back to the top of the mainstream news agenda, with new life breathed into controversial self-appointed President Svetlana …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-14). Security forces violently crush protests against police brutality in Tunisia. peoplesdispatch.org Protests against police brutality were organized for the fourth consecutive day after a Tunisian man arrested on drugs-related charges died in police custody. The man's family has alleged that he was beaten to death…

Andrew Emett (2021-06-14). Chicago cop arrested for storming Capitol building. nationofchange.org The charges against Officer Karol Chwiesiuk each carry up to a year in prison if convicted.

The Associated Press (2021-06-14). Nicaragua Stages Unprecedented Roundup of Opposition Leaders. latinorebels.com MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police have arrested another opposition politician, bringing to six the number detained over the weekend.

Destiny Harris (2021-06-14). Policing and Militarism Go Hand in Hand. We Must Abolish Both. zcomm.org When masses of Black people mobilize, gangs of police move in, and terrorize.

Scott Parkin (2021-06-13). We Canceled Keystone: Now it's Time to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline. counterpunch.org Image credit: Giniw Collective. | This week, TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) announced that they were finally terminating the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL) project after over a decade resistance from the Alberta tar sands to Wall Street to the White House to the Gulf Coast. | It stirs a lot of feelings and memories for me. I've devoted myself to climate direct action for over two decades. Half of it, I spent fighting the Keystone XL pipeline. Through my KXL journey, I was arrested sitting-in the White House, recruited tens of thousands to pledge to take action, trained thousands in direct action to disrupt Obama…

_____ (2021-06-13). New Jersey Activists Halted Two Deportations. popularresistance.org The Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, New Jersey has been the site of recurring actions in solidarity with detained immigrants. On Tuesday, June 8, one such action ended with cops arresting 14 protesters who were trying to peacefully stop a deportation. | The 14 people arrested had camped out at the Bergen County Jail the previous night to try and stop the deportation of Marvin Jerezano Peña, a father from Red Bank, New Jersey who migrated from Mexico to the United States as a child. He had been arrested by ICE and was being held for marijuana possession, something now fully legal in the state. Nevertheless, ICE…

_____ (2021-06-13). New Jersey Activists Halted Two Deportations. popularresistance.org The 14 people arrested had camped out at the Bergen County Jail the previous night to try and stop the deportation of Marvin Jerezano Peña, a father from Red Bank, New Jersey who migrated from Mexico to the United States as a child. He had been arrested by ICE and was being held for marijuana possession, something now fully legal in the state. Nevertheless, ICE planned to deport Peña.

_____ (2021-06-13). How to Wreck a Black Nation In the Age of "Black Lives Matter" popularresistance.org Today you play a more nuanced game and you recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along. Obfuscate, confuse, confound, so as to hide your true intentions, that is how you play the game in this day and age.

_____ (2021-06-13). How To Wreck A Black Nation In The Age Of 'Black Lives Matter'. popularresistance.org Folks, having spent much time navigating my way through the twilight zone that is American Foreign Policy, I feel compelled to share with you all how the cynical (but very real) game of sabotaging and undermining a large African country is played while loudly proclaiming that Black Lives Matter. Here is the international playbook. Note, this playbook requires meticulous alignment and careful coordination amongst vicious terrorist groups, their trolls, paid Washington DC lobbyists, US and European Union (EU) government officials, major western media outlets, UN agencies, and Amnesty International. It seems impossi…

Editor2 (2021-06-13). How to Wreck a Black Nation in the Age of 'Black Lives Matter'. orinocotribune.com By Taytu Bitul — Jun 9,2021 | Today's colonialists recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along. | "The 'poor hapless victim TPLF' narrative quickly evolved into the 'genocide in Tigray' narrative." | Folks, having spent much time navigating my way through the twilight zone that is American Foreign Policy, I feel compelled to share with you all how the cynical (but very real) game of sabotaging and undermining a large African country is played while loudly proclaiming that Black Lives Matter. Here is the international playbook. Note, this playbook requires meticulous ali…

Staff (2021-06-13). Amsterdam protest for the liberation of Palestine: facing Zionist aggression. samidoun.net On Sunday 6 June, more than one hundred people protested on Dam Square in Amsterdam for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. The protest, organized by the Palestinijnse Gemeenschap in Nederland, Youth for Palestine and Samidoun, proved that mobilizations will continue as long as the Palestinian resistance continues. On the day that Muna and Mohammed El Kurd were arrested in Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinian and Dutch youth stated: we will not rest until Palestine is liberated from the river to the sea! Zionist aggression and police repression At the beginning of the protest for Palestine, a handful of…

The Conversation (2021-06-13). Uncovering anti-Blackness in the Arab world. juancole.com By Amir Al-Azraki | — Black Arabs are underrepresented and largely invisible in "white" Arab-dominated countries, and excluded from political, academic, artistic and religious institutions. "Black" and "Arab" are not mutually exclusive: some Black people are Arab and some Arab people are Black. As an Arab intellectual in the West (I'm an Arabic language and …

Asad Rehman (2021-06-13). "Our House Is on Fire" zcomm.org Activists Urge G7 to Immediately Address Climate, Vaccine Apartheid & Poverty…

Scott Parkin (2021-06-13). We Canceled Keystone: Now it's Time to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline. counterpunch.org Image credit: Giniw Collective. | This week, TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) announced that they were finally terminating the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL) project after over a decade resistance from the Alberta tar sands to Wall Street to the White House to the Gulf Coast. | It stirs a lot of feelings and memories for me. I've devoted myself to climate direct action for over two decades. Half of it, I spent fighting the Keystone XL pipeline. Through my KXL journey, I was arrested sitting-in the White House, recruited tens of thousands to pledge to take action, trained thousands in direct action to disrupt Obama…

_____ (2021-06-13). New Jersey Activists Halted Two Deportations. popularresistance.org The 14 people arrested had camped out at the Bergen County Jail the previous night to try and stop the deportation of Marvin Jerezano Peña, a father from Red Bank, New Jersey who migrated from Mexico to the United States as a child. He had been arrested by ICE and was being held for marijuana possession, something now fully legal in the state. Nevertheless, ICE planned to deport Peña.

_____ (2021-06-13). How to Wreck a Black Nation In the Age of "Black Lives Matter" popularresistance.org Today you play a more nuanced game and you recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along. Obfuscate, confuse, confound, so as to hide your true intentions, that is how you play the game in this day and age.

The Conversation (2021-06-13). Uncovering anti-Blackness in the Arab world. juancole.com By Amir Al-Azraki | — Black Arabs are underrepresented and largely invisible in "white" Arab-dominated countries, and excluded from political, academic, artistic and religious institutions. "Black" and "Arab" are not mutually exclusive: some Black people are Arab and some Arab people are Black. As an Arab intellectual in the West (I'm an Arabic language and …

Asad Rehman (2021-06-13). "Our House Is on Fire" zcomm.org Activists Urge G7 to Immediately Address Climate, Vaccine Apartheid & Poverty…

Staff (2021-06-12). Sustainable Peace Must End Israeli Apartheid. Anything Else Is Just a Ceasefire. truthout.org After four elections in less than two years, Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year rule comes officially to an end on Sunday. The government to replace him consists of a coalition of eight parties from across Israel's political spectrum and will be led by the ultranationalist Naftali Bennett who will serve for the first two years. | Indeed, indicative of the direction of Israeli politics and society over the course of the last 15 years or so, the end of the corrupt and much-maligned Netanyahu…

Editor2 (2021-06-12). US Cries Foul Because Nicaragua Stops it from Buying This Year's Elections. orinocotribune.com By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub — Jun 10, 2021 | The corporate media is again awash with accusatory articles about Nicaragua, claiming that the government is disqualifying political opponents to give the FSLN an easy win in this year's elections. Let's take a look at what is actually happening, from new laws, to eligibility of political parties, to treatment of those accused of crimes. It is a combination of people engaged in real crimes claiming to be presidential candidates before they get arrested, an incredible amount of U.S. regime change money flowing into the country for years, and Nicaraguan government ins…

Roger D. Harris (2021-06-12). US Compels Small African Country to Imprison Venezuelan Diplomat. dissidentvoice.org The Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, imprisoned for trying to buy humanitarian supplies from Iran in legal international trade but in violation of illegal US sanctions, is facing extradition to the US. That is like getting stabbed in the back and then being arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. US extraterritorial judicial overreach On June 12, …

Fight Back (2021-06-12). Chicago protest against Facebook censorship targeting Palestinians. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – On June 11, 100 activists gathered in front of the Facebook offices in Chicago to demand an end to digital apartheid. The social media company has repeatedly found reasons to censor Palestinian people who use the social media platform. Most recently, Facebook banned the use of hashtags denoting locations in Palestine, or advancing demands of the Palestinian people. Facebook insultingly claims that they are the names of terrorist organizations or forms of hate speech. | As a result of this abuse of power, the Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP) called for the rally to demand Facebook stop silen…

Staff (2021-06-12). Three Men in Possession of Three Rifles and 853 Bullets Arrested in Delta Amacuro (Near Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago). orinocotribune.com Officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) detained three men in the Delta Amacuro state, who were carrying three rifles and 853 cartridges of different calibers in a boat, according to reports obtained from the military authorities. | The detainees were identified as José Gregorio Flores González, Orlando Alfredo Gómez Goveia and Luis Abrahán González Rojas, members of Los Fusileros, which is an organization classified as a Structured Organized Crime Group. | According to the report, the three men were traveling in a white and blue wooden Balajú-type boat that was sailing through the El Guayo sector in the…

Amy Goodman (2021-06-12). 'Our house is on fire:' Activists urge G7 to immediately address climate, vaccine apartheid & poverty. nationofchange.org "What we've seen is simply rich countries doing too little too late and not taking up their responsibility, and unfortunately this G7 has not changed that at all."

Staff (2021-06-12). Three Men in Possession of Three Rifles and 853 Bullets Arrested in Delta Amacuro (Near Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago). orinocotribune.com Officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) detained three men in the Delta Amacuro state, who were carrying three rifles and 853 cartridges of different calibers in a boat, according to reports obtained from the military authorities. | The detainees were identified as José Gregorio Flores González, Orlando Alfredo Gómez Goveia and Luis Abrahán González Rojas, members of Los Fusileros, which is an organization classified as a Structured Organized Crime Group. | According to the report, the three men were traveling in a white and blue wooden Balajú-type boat that was sailing through the El Guayo sector in the…

Editor2 (2021-06-12). US Cries Foul Because Nicaragua Stops it from Buying This Year's Elections. orinocotribune.com By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub — Jun 10, 2021 | The corporate media is again awash with accusatory articles about Nicaragua, claiming that the government is disqualifying political opponents to give the FSLN an easy win in this year's elections. Let's take a look at what is actually happening, from new laws, to eligibility of political parties, to treatment of those accused of crimes. It is a combination of people engaged in real crimes claiming to be presidential candidates before they get arrested, an incredible amount of U.S. regime change money flowing into the country for years, and Nicaraguan government ins…

Staff (2021-06-12). Sustainable Peace Must End Israeli Apartheid. Anything Else Is Just a Ceasefire. truthout.org After four elections in less than two years, Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year rule comes officially to an end on Sunday. The government to replace him consists of a coalition of eight parties from across Israel's political spectrum and will be led by the ultranationalist Naftali Bennett who will serve for the first two years. | Indeed, indicative of the direction of Israeli politics and society over the course of the last 15 years or so, the end of the corrupt and much-maligned Netanyahu…

Amy Goodman (2021-06-12). 'Our house is on fire:' Activists urge G7 to immediately address climate, vaccine apartheid & poverty. nationofchange.org "What we've seen is simply rich countries doing too little too late and not taking up their responsibility, and unfortunately this G7 has not changed that at all."

Staff (2021-06-11). Activists Demand G7 Take Urgent Action on Climate, Vaccine Apartheid and Poverty. truthout.org As world leaders gather for the first in-person G7 summit in two years, talks are set to focus heavily on ending the pandemic and the climate crisis, and climate activists are calling on them for more immediate action. "It's not just one crisis," says Asad Rehman, executive director of War on Want and spokesperson for the COP26 Climate Coalition. "What we've seen is simply rich countries doing too little too late and not taking up their responsibility, and unfortunately this G7 has not change…

Staff (2021-06-11). "Our House Is on Fire": Activists Urge G7 to Immediately Address Climate, Vaccine Apartheid & Poverty. democracynow.org As world leaders gather for the first in-person G7 summit in two years, talks are set to focus heavily on ending the pandemic and the climate crisis, and climate activists are calling on them for more immediate action. "It's not just one crisis," says Asad Rehman, executive director of War on Want and spokesperson for the COP26 Climate Coalition. "What we've seen is simply rich countries doing too little too late and not taking up their responsibility, and unfortunately this G7 has not changed that at all."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-11). What's Next for Palestine? libya360.wordpress.com Greg Shupak The Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza demonstrated that Israel cannot go on carrying out apartheid and ethnic cleansing ad infinitum without paying a price, writes Greg Shupak. Photo by Crazymaq/Flickr. For 11 days in May, Israel massacred Palestinians in Gaza who it has been subjecting to a merciless blockade for 15 years, bombing and shelling…

Staff (2021-06-11). Cops lied to put him in handcuffs, but a camera caught the truth. therealnews.com A Los Angeles man says he was targeted by police after he was pulled over for crossing a line in front of a stop sign; but after placing him in handcuffs and arresting the passenger in his car, a recording cellphone caught the real reason cops pulled him over.

Marlanna Bullock (2021-06-11). Bad apples or bad system? Lying cops still on duty despite Brady list. liberationnews.org Almost 200 Washington state law enforcement officers have been placed on the Brady list, a list of officers who may not be considered trustworthy in a court of law.

_____ (2021-06-11). Lying Cops Still On Duty Despite Brady List. popularresistance.org Almost 200 Washington state law enforcement officers have been placed on the Brady list, a list of officers who may not be considered trustworthy in a court of law. | USA Today in an extensive investigation found that "thousands of people have faced criminal charges or have gone to prison based in part on testimony from law enforcement officers deemed to have credibility problems by their bosses or by prosecutors." | Although these officers have proven themselves unsafe for the public, law enforcement agencies continue to employ and rehire untrustworthy officers and take no real accountability for the abhorrent a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-11). Press Violations Explode to 180 in May Alone as Israel Cracks Down to Buff its Image. libya360.wordpress.com Jessica Buxbaum OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — Despite wearing a press vest and holding a government press card, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara Budeiri was violently assaulted and arrested by Israeli police on June 5. Budeiri was covering a demonstration in the Occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah when Israeli forces attacked and then detained her for several hours on…