2022-12-16: News Headlines

Fight Back (2022-12-16). Book review: Jon Melrod's Fighting Times a new class struggle classic. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — Jon Melrod's newly-published memoir, Fighting Times, is more than just a remembrance. It details his time as a revolutionary helping to build the fighting people's movements – from the student movement of the 1960s in SDS and being part of the Revolutionary Union, to the solidarity struggle with the Menominee Warrior Society occupation in 1975, to building a fighting UAW local at an American Motors plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin – and the lessons learned from each fight. It is a book that class-struggle union militants, student organizers and activists from all the people's movements alike wo…

Tanya Wadhwa (2022-12-15). Peruvians occupy the streets as anti-coup protests escalate. peoplesworld.org Since December 7, tens of thousands of citizens have been protesting in different parts of Peru against the ouster of democratically-elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo in a legislative coup carried out by the right-wing dominated unicameral Congress. For the last week, Peruvians have been on the streets demanding that Castillo, who was illegally arrested following his removal from office, …

Brasil de Fato (2022-12-14). Bolsonaristas launch attacks on public infrastructure in Brasilia. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on On Dec. 12, Bolsonaro protesters transformed the center of Brasilia into a war zone, and continued to cause problems for the residents of the city as of Tuesday morning, Dec. 13. | The violence began at the headquarters of the Federal Police, in the center of the capital, in protest against the arrest of the chief Tsererê Xavante, one of the leaders of the cou…

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2022-12-14: News Headlines

Staff (2022-12-13). Headlines for December 13, 2022. democracynow.org G7 Leaders Pledge More Aid to Ukraine as Zelensky Appeals for Weapons and Fuel, Viktor Bout Joins Russian Ultranationalist Party; Brittney Griner Resumes Playing Basketball, Disgraced Cryptocurrency Executive Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas, Iranian Protester Publicly Hanged from Crane After Secretive Trial, Attack on Kabul Hotel Kills 3; Taliban Resumes Public Executions and Floggings, Israeli Troops Fatally Shoot 16-Year-Old Palestinian Girl on Roof of Her Own Home, EU Parliament Officials Accused of Accepting Bribes from Qatar, Protests Erupt in Tunisia Ahead of Parliamentary Elections, Protests Spread i…

Anonymous103 (2022-12-12). The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade. southfront.org | Originally published on The biggest story of the past decade is not the covid pandemic, the January 6th protests, the war in Ukraine, the BLM riots, or even the stagflationary crisis in the US. Behind these major events is another story, one that connects them all together in a disturbing way. Even more important than the effects of geopolitical and economic chaos is the…

Unicorn Riot (2022-12-12). Supporting Victims and Reinvestigating Police Crimes: Communities United Against Police Brutality. unicornriot.ninja

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2022-12-13: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2022-12-12). The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade. southfront.org | Originally published on The biggest story of the past decade is not the covid pandemic, the January 6th protests, the war in Ukraine, the BLM riots, or even the stagflationary crisis in the US. Behind these major events is another story, one that connects them all together in a disturbing way. Even more important than the effects of geopolitical and economic chaos is the…

Unicorn Riot (2022-12-12). Supporting Victims and Reinvestigating Police Crimes: Communities United Against Police Brutality. unicornriot.ninja

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2022-12-12: News Headlines

Pat Dudgeon, Roz Walker (2022-12-10). [Comment] An urgent call to address interpersonal and structural racism and social inequities in Australia. thelancet.com On Oct 13, 2022, Cassius Turvey, a young Aboriginal teenager, was brutally attacked in Perth, Western Australia, and died 10 days later, amidst concerns that more could have been done to save him.1 His death spread waves of shock and condemnation globally, with the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, calling it "racially motivated".2 The teenager's death adds to innumerable instances of racial brutality against Indigenous peoples and Black people across the world, generating Black Lives Matter marches and calls for global justice.

Puja Mehta, Christopher D Buckley (2022-12-10). [Correspondence] "Your people have always been servants": internalised racism in academic medicine. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests catalysed a global racial awakening, intensifying an outcry to abolish structural racism, including making science more equitable and accountable. Many minoritised people had an epiphany: that we are standing at the foot of a "hostile obstacle course",1 which contrasts with the popular, but passive, leaky pipeline analogy.

Peter Boyle (2022-12-10). Thousands march in Sydney for democracy in Iran. greenleft.org.au Thousands marched through Sydney streets on December 10 (International Human Rights Day) demanding democracy in Iran and justice for Jina Mahsa Amini and the growing number of democracy protesters who have been killed, arrested and tortured by the dictatorial regime in Iran. | On December 8, Mohsen Shekari became the first democracy protester to be executed. At least 475 protesters have been killed by security forces and 18,240 others have been detained, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA).

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