(2021-04-29). 'They took a minuscule event and made it fatal;' police bodycam shows Alameda, CA police killed Mario Gonzalez. liberationnews.org 
On April 27, a crowd of about 100 people gathered on the steps of the Alameda Police Department in Alameda, California, for a press conference held by the family of Mario Gonzalez, who was killed by police on April 19.
(2021-04-29). Surveillance, Policing, and Algorithms. dissidentvoice.org 
Since the brutal murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police at the onset of last summer, there has been a resurgence of political energy amongst the American population centered on significantly reforming policing in the United States. Ranging from demilitarization to defunding, there has been no shortage of policy proposals issued by an endless …
(2021-04-29). Indonesia: Government Forces Kill 9 Rebels In Papua Fighting. eurasiareview.com By Ronna Nirmala | Nine separatist rebels and a policeman were killed in fighting in Indonesia's Papua province, officials said Wednesday, after Jakarta vowed to come down hard on the insurgents who killed the government's regional intelligence chief — an army brigadier general — on Sunday. | Fighting broke out between government security forces and the insurgent group in Puncak regency on Tuesday, said Iqbal Alquddusy, spokesman for Operation Nemangkawi, a joint military-police task force to hunt down the Papuan rebels. | "Based on our findings on the ground during a firefight at the hideout of th…
(2021-04-29). The Arc of the Moral Universe? dissidentvoice.org On April 21, police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina executed Andrew Brown. According to a private autopsy, he was shot five times, including the "kill shot" to the back of his head whil;e his hands were on the steering wheel of his car. Seven officers equipped with body cameras were at the scene but only …
(2021-04-28). Headlines for April 28, 2021. democracynow.org FBI Opens Probe into Police Killing of Andrew Brown as Autopsy Confirms He Was Shot in Back of Head, Video of Police Killing of Mario Gonzalez Prompts Comparison to George Floyd, Call for Probe, India Tops 200,000 COVID Deaths as Hospitals, Cremation Sites Are Overwhelmed, Turkey Orders Coronavirus Lockdown; Brazil Rejects Russia's Sputnik V Vaccine, CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Go Unmasked in Most Outdoor Settings, Seattle City Council Calls on Biden to Support IP Waiver for COVID Vaccine Patents, Biden Proposes Crackdown on Tax Evaders, Changes to Capital Gains Tax to Fund American Families Plan, Protesters K…
(2021-04-28). Davis community calls out killer cops and white supremacy at candlelight vigil. liberationnews.org 
On April 23, more than 100 people in Davis, California, gathered to mourn the continued lives lost to police violence.
(2021-04-28). Stay in the streets — Abolish the police! workers.org 
Editors notes: We — along with anti-racist activists everywhere — applaud the guilty verdicts April 20 against the racist, white, killer cop Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched George Floyd May 25, 2020. The racially mixed jury declared Chauvin guilty of second-degree manslaughter, second-degree unintentional murder and third-degree murder (exhibiting a . . . |
(2021-04-28). In light of more police killings, Black voices must not be silenced. workers.org 
On April 17, three days before white police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter, Rep. Maxine Waters — a longtime California Democrat whose district includes South Central Los Angeles — spoke at a rally in Brooklyn Center, Minn. This is . . . |
(2021-04-28). Police Convictions Are Not the Goal. Abolitionists Have Bigger Dreams. truthout.org 
After a year of upheaval and pandemic, and the unlikely conviction of a police officer, Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and D.A. Bullock talk with Truthout's Kelly Hayes about what they have built and learned in the last year, what Derek Chauvin's conviction does not accomplish, and what they hope people will do now as the struggle against policing continues. | TRANSCRIPT: | Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form. | Kelly H…
(2021-04-28). ACLU Urges Biden to Shut Down Detention Facilities 'Used to Abuse and Traumatize Immigrants'. commondreams.org "It's time to end our nation's newest system of mass incarceration of Black and Brown people," says the ACLU's Naureen Shah. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-28). Israel is an Apartheid State seeking Systemic Domination of Palestinians: Human Rights Watch. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Human Rights Watch has issued a 214-page report concluding that between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean there are 6.8 million Jews and 6.8 million Palestinians, and that the Israeli state systematically privileges the Jews, wherever they are, and disprivileges the Palestinians, an the basis of race. HRW, like other …
(2021-04-28). Israel is an Apartheid State seeking Systemic Domination of Palestinians: Human Rights Watch. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Human Rights Watch has issued a 214-page report concluding that between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean there are 6.8 million Jews and 6.8 million Palestinians, and that the Israeli state systematically privileges the Jews, wherever they are, and disprivileges the Palestinians, on the basis of race. HRW, like other …
(2021-04-28). Human Rights Watch: Israel Is an Apartheid State. thenation.com Human Rights Watch: Israel Is an Apartheid State…
(2021-04-28). Abusive Israeli Policies Constitute Crimes Of Apartheid, Persecution, Says HRW. eurasiareview.com Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday. The finding is based on an overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians and grave abuses committed against Palestinians living in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem. | The 213-page report, "
(2021-04-28). Myanmar: Four Taungup Twsp Men Acquitted After Lengthy Terrorism Trial. eurasiareview.com Nearly a year after being arrested and charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law, four men including the chair of the Taungup Township Development Affairs Committee in Arakan State were acquitted on Monday, according to their lawyer. | The Taungup Township Court
(2021-04-28). 'Police Killed My Brother': Video Shows Officers Kneeling on Mario Gonzalez's Back for 5 Minutes. commondreams.org "He was complying and they continued to bring him down with their weight," said the brother of Mario Gonzalez, who died after being arrested by Alameda, California police officers this month. "Everything we saw in that video was unnecessary and unprofessional, and it took a minuscule event and made it fatal." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-28). 16 Kids, 2 Teachers Reportedly Injured as Knifeman Attacks Kindergarten in Beiliu, China. sputniknews.com Chinese media say the suspect has been arrested, while the injured have been taken to hospital.
(2021-04-28). An Ugly Picture as State-Level GOP Attempt to Strangle Dissent Nationwide. commondreams.org "Even as they resist a full-scale investigation of the extremists involved and the events leading up to January 6," writes Common Dreams' Michael Winship, "Republicans are using that right-wing riot as a Trojan horse to go after Black Lives Matter and other protesting activists from the left." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-28). A Year Later: The Black Lives Matter Movement in Sonoma County 2020. indybay.org BLM has become a "tool" social activist, the local government and political representatives sought to use the momentum of POC and the community to capitalize and align themselves with accountability, instead of the go-to white supremacy.
(2021-04-28). Minneapolis: Unity march demands justice for Adam Toledo. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On April 24, protesters took the streets for the second time here to demand justice for Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Mexican-American boy who was shot to death by a Chicago Police Department officer while he had his hands up. The video footage of the murder was recently released, sparking a wave of protests in Chicago and around the country. | The Minneapolis protest was led by a banner reading "Black and Brown United," followed by militant and disciplined contingents from Los Brown Berets – Minnesota, Original Black Panther Party, New Black Panther Nation, New Black Panther Party, Camp Migiizi,…
(2021-04-28). Amid National Reckoning on Police Brutality, Omar Reintroduces Bold Reform Bills. commondreams.org "History shows that the criminal justice system is not equipped to prosecute itself," says Omar. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-28). America Has a Problem With Poorly Trained Police Officers, Not 'Systemic Racism'. strategic-culture.org America can expect a future of artificially induced racial tensions as a number of good cops are forced to take the blame for a "systemic racism" | In what just might be the most misguided attempt at 'utopian' living ever conceived, progressive Democrats continue to demand the defunding and disbanding of police forces in cities around the country. Yet, like a doctor that has made the wrong diagnosis on a patient, such a radical idea will not bring peace and security to America's ailing neighborhoods. In fact, it will make them virtually unlivable. | The United States desperately needs a national debate on the roo…
(2021-04-28). Fox Valley, WI: Back-to-back weekend protests sparked by multiple police shootings. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI – Over a dozen people gathered on April 18 and April 25 to continue voicing their outrage over the murders of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo who were gunned down by police this month. Body camera footage from both incidents quickly went viral, triggering protests around the country. Both incidents prompted local organizers and residents to hold a rally with signs, chants and music demanding action. | The group marched to the Appleton Police Station and held a moment of silence for all victims of police violence. The event organizer, Cole Bennet, wants to continue to rally saying, "We need to let peopl…
(2021-04-28). Drug Laws and the Killing of Andrew Brown, Jr. counterpunch.org Not even a day after the Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts came down, another Black man—Andrew Brown Jr.—was executed in cold blood by police. And once again—as has been the case in too many of these fatal encounters—suspected drug involvement was what gave law enforcement the excuse to completely disregard the value of human life. Like
(2021-04-28). Jacksonville rallies after Chauvin guilty verdict. fightbacknews.org Jacksonville FL – On April 21, the Jacksonville Community Action Committee (JCAC) organized a rally, uniting with the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression call for protests to respond to the Chauvin trial and to demand justice for the countless number of victims of police crimes in Jacksonville and throughout the country. | Jacksonville is one of the many cities that have been plagued with countless murders at the hand of law enforcement. | The day after the guilty verdict, over a 100 people gathered in front of the Duval County Courthouse to demand justice for victims of police crimes. Chri…
(2021-04-27). Imperialist countries create global vaccine apartheid, prolonging pandemic. workers.org 
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the scale of inequality under capitalism has come sharply into focus. Long before the pandemic began, inequality, racism and imperialism had threaded their way through all aspects of society, ensuring that the worst effects of disasters fall onto the most oppressed. . . . |
(2021-04-27). U.S. 'vaccine apartheid' denounced amid inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccine. ecns.cn As the United States is hoarding COVID-19 vaccines, many developing countries are still struggling to get access to doses, with exacerbating inequality of vaccine access, according to U.S. media.
(2021-04-27). 'The envelope please': Darnella Frazier deserved an Academy Award. peoplesworld.org 
The annual Academy Awards ceremony—wherein a pack of swag bag-shlepping celebs clad in brand-name couture patted themselves on the back on live TV, while thanking their agents, hair stylists, managers, makeup artists, etc.—took place Sunday, April 25, in Los Angeles. To be fair, a number of films that competed for those coveted golden statuettes do …
(2021-04-27). Chauvin trial 'felt like something because I'm used to so much nothing'. therealnews.com 
Was the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial justice? How should we feel about it? And is a political backlash already unfolding? We reflect on the trial and the long road ahead.
(2021-04-27). Smash the anti-protest laws! workers.org In a racist ruling-class backlash to the demonstrations of millions last summer who forced a righteous verdict against killer cop Derek Chauvin, Republicans — at this point almost exclusively Republicans — have introduced 93 bills in 34 states that suppress the right to protest, supposedly protected by the First Amendment. . . . |
(2021-04-27). San Diego protest calls to end barrio warfare. liberationnews.org 
The April 24 event began in Golden Hill Park, where speakers talked about the effects of police terror, mass incarceration, racial profiling, gang enhancements, horizontal violence and other issues affecting the Chicano community.
(2021-04-27). Ivy League Secret Exposed: Classes Used Bones of Black Children Killed in 1985 MOVE Police Bombing. democracynow.org 
Outrage is growing in Philadelphia after explosive revelations that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University have been in possession of remains thought to belong to two children who were among 11 people killed in the 1985 police bombing of the Philadelphia home of the radical, Black liberation and anti-police-brutality group MOVE. We show an excerpt of a training video — now removed from the internet — by an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University who has been using the bones of at least one of the young bombing victims for the past 36 years — wit…
(2021-04-27). HRW Accuses Israel Of Apartheid, Tel Aviv, Naturally, Calls It "Nazi" southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On April 27th, Human Rights Watch released a report concluding that Israel is carrying out apartheid in the West Bank against the Palestinians. | It said that after decades of warnings that an entrenched hold over Palestinian life could lead to apartheid, it had found that the "threshold" had been crossed."This is the starkest finding Human Rights Watch has reached on Israeli conduct in the 30 years we've been documenting abuses on the ground there," said Omar Shakir, the group's Israel and Pale…
(2021-04-27). No More Police Killings of Children! counterpunch.org 
Kids of color appear to be fair game for too many cops: No More Police Killings of Children! By Dave Lindorff The latest police murder — and that's what it was whatever the circumstances — of 16-old foster child Ma'Khia Bryant by a Columbus, Ohio cop, is sickening to watch. No way did that officer,
(2021-04-27). Urging Biden to 'Put Human Lives Before Billionaire Profit,' Seattle City Coucil Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver. commondreams.org Seattle's resolution endorsing a coronavirus vaccine patent waiver "demonstrates our movement's rejection of the status quo of profit-driven vaccine apartheid and vaccine nationalism, and our fight for vaccine internationalism," said City Councilmember Kshama Sawant. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-27). The Fight Against Vaccine Apartheid Goes Global. thenation.com The Fight Against Vaccine Apartheid Goes Global…
(2021-04-27). Scathing Human Rights Watch Report Says Israel Guilty of Apartheid. commondreams.org "Prominent voices have warned for years that apartheid lurks just around the corner if the trajectory of Israel's rule over Palestinians does not change," said HRW executive director Kenneth Roth. "This detailed study shows that Israeli authorities have already turned that corner and today are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-27). Headlines for April 27, 2021. democracynow.org Anthony Brown Had Hands on Steering Wheel, Was Shot by Officers in Back of Head, Lawyer Says , Justice Department to Investigate Louisville Police, 13 Months After Breonna Taylor's Killing, Coronavirus Infections Hit New Global High, Fueled by India's "Heartbreaking" Outbreak, U.S. to Ship Up to 60 Million Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine Abroad, Biden Orders $15/Hour Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors, Proposes Capital Gains Tax Hike, Supreme Court to Hear Torture Survivor's State Secrets Case & NRA-Backed Challenge to NY Gun Law, 2020 Census Results Alter Balance of Power in House of Representatives, Florida Sena…
(2021-04-27). Headlines for April 27, 2021. democracynow.org Andrew Brown Had Hands on Steering Wheel, Was Shot by Officers in Back of Head, Lawyer Says , Justice Department to Investigate Louisville Police, 13 Months After Breonna Taylor's Killing, Coronavirus Infections Hit New Global High, Fueled by India's "Heartbreaking" Outbreak, U.S. to Ship Up to 60 Million Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine Abroad, Biden Orders $15/Hour Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors, Proposes Capital Gains Tax Hike, Supreme Court to Hear Torture Survivor's State Secrets Case & NRA-Backed Challenge to NY Gun Law, 2020 Census Results Alter Balance of Power in House of Representatives, Florida Senat…
(2021-04-27). The ruling class is murdering you: Roger Waters on shouting from the rooftops. peoplesdispatch.org Musician Roger Waters and Globetrotter Chief Correspondent Vijay Prashad discuss the brutality of the ruling class and the need for relentless resistance to those who would destroy the world for profits…
(2021-04-27). Human Rights Watch says Israel's actions against Palestinians are crimes of apartheid. thecanary.co Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a The advocacy group's 213 page report compares policy and practices in Israel and occupied territories towards Palestinians and Jewish Israeli people. | HRW concluded that there is "an overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians". It also detailed evidence of "grave abuses" against Palestinia…
(2021-04-27). Myanmar: Only 32 Of 70 Journalists Detained Post-Coup Released. eurasiareview.com As of April 19, a total of 70 journalists have been arrested since Myanmar's military staged a coup on February 1, with only 32 of them released from detention so far, Burma News International (BNI) said on Friday. | The 57 male journalists and 12 female journalists are from 33 news outlets, with 16 freelance journalists among those detained, according to BNI. (The 70th individual's information could not be confirmed, BNI said.) | Among the detained journalists, 19 have been charged; most of them have been charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, covering incitement. | "Previously, journalists were arre…
(2021-04-27). A Year Later: The Black Lives Matter Movement in Sonoma County 2020. indybay.org BLM has become a "tool" social activist, the local government and political representatives sought to use the momentum of POC and the community to capitalize and align themselves with accountability, instead of the go-to white supremacy.
(2021-04-27). Police Violence: The Standards Are Topsy-Turvy. zcomm.org In what universe should cops be considered less responsible for their actions than the rest of us?>
(2021-04-27). Democratic representative Val Demings justifies police killing of Ma'Khia Bryant. wsws.org The congresswoman from Florida and former Orlando chief of police said cops have to make tough "split-second decisions" and that Nicholas Reardon "responded as he was trained to do."
(2021-04-27). The People's Party has officially registered in Oregon! peoplesparty.org The timber-rich state is plundered on an industrial scale by Wall Street corporations, leaving rural communities impoverished in the east. Meanwhile, staggering rents have forced thousands of unhoused people into the streets in the cities to the west. | The People's Party will end those injustices. Our representatives will guarantee EVERY American housing, food, a good-paying job, a basic income, a college education, expanded social security, strong unions, and a livable climate. We will guarantee freedom from militarized police, mass incarceration, war, and monopolies and trusts. | If you live in Oregon, we need…
(2021-04-27). Demand for Release of Full Tape Grows as FBI Opens Probe Into Police Killing of Andrew Brown Jr. commondreams.org Demands are growing for authorities in Pasquotank County, North Carolina to release full police body camera video of sheriff's deputies killing unarmed Black man Andrew Brown Jr. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-27). Media Evasions on Racism and the Role of Derek Chauvin. zcomm.org Chauvin has played a useful role for corporate media — a rare villain who could be identified and named, a symbol of deadly racism…
(2021-04-27). Media evasions on racism and the role of Derek Chauvin. nationofchange.org The main perpetrators and beneficiaries of systemic racism include powerful corporations that sponsor news outlets that have aimed a bright spotlight at this killer cop.
(2021-04-27). OPINION: We Can't Talk About Adam Toledo Without Talking About 7th Grade. latinorebels.com I want to talk about what it means to be a 7th grader. Adam Toledo attended 7th grade.
