(2022-01-13). Flint "Water Warrior" Tony Palladeno Jr. dies tragically of COVID-19. wsws.org Tony was recognized by Flint residents as one of the staunchest voices of protest, and was one of six residents who were arrested for speaking out at a sham town hall meeting in 2017.
(2022-01-13). Flint "Water Warrior" Tony Palladeno Jr. dies tragically of COVID-19. wsws.org Tony was recognized by Flint residents as one of the staunchest voices of protest, and was one of six residents who were arrested for speaking out at a sham town hall meeting in 2017.
(2022-01-12). Headlines for January 12, 2022. democracynow.org Biden Supports Senate Bypassing Filibuster Rule to Pass Voting Rights Legislation, FDA Head Says "Most People" Will Get COVID; Students Protest School Safety Protocols, Red Cross Warns of Blood Supply Crisis Amid Pandemic, Anthony Fauci Accuses Sen. Rand Paul of Endangering His Life by Spreading Lies Around Pandemic, 19 People Reported Killed in Tigray Airstrikes on Same Day Biden Speaks with Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed, Coast Guard Rescues 176 Haitian Migrants from Boat as Biden Admin Continues Mass Deportations, DOJ Forms Domestic Terrorism Unit, NC Protesters Demand Justice for Jason Walker, a Black Man Shot Dead…
(2022-01-12). Violence and Resistance at the Frontlines of Climate Justice. zcomm.org Reflecting on an encounter with police brutality at Enbridge Line 3 encampment…
(2022-01-12). Greek police attack strikers at Kavala Oil. wsws.org On December 21, hundreds of police stormed an occupied oil refinery in Kavala, Greece, arresting workers protesting layoffs and safety violations.
(2022-01-12). Violence and Resistance at the Frontlines of Climate Justice. zcomm.org Reflecting on an encounter with police brutality at Enbridge Line 3 encampment…
(2022-01-12). Greek police attack strikers at Kavala Oil. wsws.org On December 21, hundreds of police stormed an occupied oil refinery in Kavala, Greece, arresting workers protesting layoffs and safety violations.
(2022-01-12). Greek police attack strikers at Kavala Oil. wsws.org On December 21, hundreds of police stormed an occupied oil refinery in Kavala, Greece, arresting workers protesting layoffs and safety violations.
(2022-01-11). When Revolutionary Moments Arise Again — What Will We Do? popularresistance.org The world is in a prolonged period of global unrest. Since the financial crisis of 2008, every region of the planet has experienced levels of mass protest unprecedented in recent history, from the Arab Spring in the Middle East and Black Lives Matter in the U.S., to the farmers' protests in India and the recent upheaval in Kazakhstan. | Yet decades of social movement struggle haven't produced a break from capitalist domination, and in most places they have failed to even accomplish the more modest aims of reform. Meanwhile, the global climate crisis has added another layer of urgency to the task of social transfo…
(2022-01-11). Interview with Frank Chapman, of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) as we start 2022. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviews Frank Chapman, Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR). | Fight Back!: One month ago, you held the second national conference of the Alliance. What came out of that? | Frank Chapman: Quite a bit came out of it; but let me first address why it was important to have it. December 4th and 5th was just over two years since we held the re-founding conference in 2019. We held the re-founding conference six months before the outbreak of the George Floyd rebellion. At the time, we realized that the struggle for community control of the police was…
(2022-01-11). Elbit Forced To Sell Factory After Sustained Direct Action Campaign. popularresistance.org After 18 months of sustained direct action taken at the Elbit Ferranti site in Oldham, Greater Manchester, with 36 people arrested, Elbit have now sold Ferranti technologies, with its continued operation in Oldham appearing unfeasible. Activists have occupied, blockaded, smashed, disrupted, and protested regularly at the site, ultimately succeeding in ending the factory's production of specialist military technologies for Israel's fleet of combat drones. | In November 2021, anonymous sources revealed to Palestine Action that mass redundancy notices had been issued to staff working at the factory, and that premise…
(2022-01-10). The Weekly Round-Up: Colston Four acquitted, the new offence of breastfeeding voyeurism, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the news: The Colston Four have been acquitted of criminal damage by a jury for their role in pulling down the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol and pushing it into Bristol Harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020. Under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, a defendant will have a defence …
(2022-01-10). Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) Deputy Chief of Police Visiting a House of Prostitution? indybay.org JBLM senior police officers, posing outside of a Nevada brothel raise questions about the integrity and professionalism in the JBLM Police Department.
(2022-01-10). Canton, Ohio police, district attorney, blame victim after body camera footage confirms cop shot James Williams without warning. wsws.org In a Saturday protest, family members and activists demanded justice for Williams, who was murdered by a still-unnamed Canton police officer less than 10 minutes into the New Year.
(2022-01-10). Northern California man sues police who paralyzed him during traffic stop, mocked his cries for help. wsws.org Gregory Gross, 65, was left paralyzed after police brutally held him down by his neck and damaged his spinal column in an attack similar to the murder of George Floyd.
(2022-01-10). Harvard Civil Rights Professor Lani Guinier Passes Away At 71. moguldom.com Civil rights attorney and scholar Lani Guinier, the first Black woman to receive tenure as a professor at Harvard University's Law School, died on Friday, Jan. 7. She was 71. Guinier died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at an assisted-living facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts after a long battle with the illness, according to a memoriam …
(2022-01-10). The Capitalist Death-Drive, Afghan Sanctions, Attack On Medicare. popularresistance.org Lee Camp looks at how the capitalist system sits at the heart of the worst problems facing society. In this history lesson, Camp takes you back to the feudal system, to the creation of corporations and currency, to the modern system that's destroying the lives of the poor today. The ruling class don't even try to hide the inhumanity that keeps the system running anymore, now that it has become almost impossible to ignore. This leaves it up to popular movements to end the capitalist system and create something new. Then, Camp reports on the police brutality victims who don't gain as much attention as those murdere…
(2022-01-10). WATCH: Arrests at massive anti-lockdown protest. rt.com 
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Belgian capital of Brussels to protest the government's Covid-19 restrictions | A massive crowd flooded the streets of the Belgian capital, with demonstrators calling for "freedom" and demanding that authorities abolish the Covid-19 health pass required to enter various venues. | The large-scale protest, which was joined by thousands of people, was organized by an umbrella group, "Samen Voor Vrijheid" ('Together for Freedom'). The crowd, chanting "Liberty!" and "Freedom!" and holding placards denouncing what they called the government's "vaccine dictatorship…