2024-08-08: News Headlines

Workers World Party (2024-08-08). PDF of August 8 issue. workers.org Download the version in color. Download the black & white version. The world responds WWP Tribute to Dr. Ismail Haniyeh Protests blast Israel's assassination attacks Iran plans strikes on Israel In D.C. and countrywide: Protests demand Netanyahu's arrest Boston protest: 'Netanyahu is not welcome anywhere!' Editorial Congress welcomes Israeli war . . . |

aljazeera (2024-08-08). 'A moral stand': Antiracism protesters rally in UK after far-right riots. aljazeera.com In towns and cities across England, thousands march against racism after far-right riots that led to some 400 arrests.

(2024-08-08). Nigerian security forces attack, arrest journalists covering protests. premiumtimesng.com

Medea Benjamin (2024-08-08). AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush's Race—and Our Elections. counterpunch.org Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, MO who is a member of the "Squad" and has been a powerful voice in Congress for poor people, women's rights, healthcare, housing—and Palestine, just lost her primary because pro-Israel lobby groups flooded the race with outside funding. Her loss is a tremendous blow to

countercounterinsurgent (2024-08-08). "Tear Gas Tim" – Tim Walz's executive orders to repress the George Floyd Uprising. indybay.org

Bruce C.T. Wright (2024-08-08). Old Audio Of Trump Praising Walz On George Floyd Protests Undermines GOP Claim He 'Let Rioters Burn Minneapolis'. newsone.com Old audio of Trump praising Tim Walz's handling of George Floyd protests undermines GOP attacks claiming Minnesota's governor "let rioters burn Minneapolis."

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2024-08-07: News Headlines

newarab (2024-08-07). Germany convicts pro-Gaza activist for 'from river to sea' chant. newarab.com A 22-year-old activist has been convicted of condoning a crime for chanting the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" at a rally in the German capital Berlin, in a move her defence team slammed as a suppression of free speech. | Ava Moayeri, a German-Iranian national, was arrested just days after Israel's war on Gaza began on 7 October after she was accused of "condoning the assault by Hamas" when she recited the chant on an 11 October protest near the Sonnenallee boulevard in the Neukà∂lln district, which the activist co-organised. | Before the trial started, Moayeri said in a statem…

Freedom From Torture (2024-08-07). 'Torture Survivors Terrified to go out as Far-Right Riots Sweep Britain'. bylinetimes.com The scenes of violence that we've seen unravelling across the country have left me reeling. It's horrendous. | It reminds me of my grandma's stories of Oswald Mosley and the Blackshirts in 1930s London. Images of people attacking and setting fires to hotels housing refugees, of minoritised communities being abused and attacked in the streets have been awful to watch. But for the survivors that

geo.tv (2024-08-07). UK's Starmer guarantees safety for Muslims amid violent protests. geo.tv Police trying to handle the situation in Great Britain. —ReutersStarmer holds emergency meeting with ministers, police chiefs."Our first duty is to ensure our communities are safe," he says. UK prime minister says more than 400 people had been arrested. | India's hawkish defence analysts inexplicably attribute former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina's ouster, following widespread student protests, to foreign interference. | Polic…

countercounterinsurgent (2024-08-07). "Tear Gas Tim" – Tim Walz's executive orders to repress the George Floyd Uprising. indybay.org

(2024-08-07). Nigerian security forces attack, arrest journalists covering protests. premiumtimesng.com

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2024-08-03: News Headlines

newarab (2024-08-03). AIPAC facing criticism for "racist" ad against Cori Bush. newarab.com The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is facing criticism for using an ad featuring an altered picture of US Representative Cori Bush of Missouri which some have described as racist. | The picture in question that was sent out to constituents shows Bush, a Black woman, with a jaw and forehead that are clearly elongated from the original, prompting questions over the motivations behind the move. | Bush's campaign has responded to the controversy, saying in a public statement, "it is shameful that in 2024 our communities are still being targeted with such blatant racism from political campaigns, l…

geo.tv (2024-08-03). Protests turn violent UK's Sunderland after killings of three children. geo.tv People protesting outside Abdullah Quilliam mosque in Liverpool. — ReutersMore violence feared after misinformation on killings.Extra police, intelligence and prosecutors deployed.17-year-old boy charged with murder of three girls. | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003. — Reuters US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,…

Labor Video Project (2024-08-03). Arrest Billionaires Not The Homeless! Rally At SF City Hall To Protest Attack On Homeless. indybay.org

presstv.ir (2024-08-03). Body cam footage shows white US police shooting unarmed Black woman. presstv.ir Sean Grayson, 30, fired three shots, striking Sonya Massey one time in the face.

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2024-07-29: News Headlines

_____ (2024-07-29). Thousands Shut Down the US Capitol to Protest Israel's Genocide. transcend.org 25 Jul 2024 – Thousands of people of conscience from across the US turned out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to D.C. this week — including hundreds of American Jews who were arrested while engaged in prayerful civil disobedience, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel.

MEE staff (2024-07-29). Israeli soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner arrested, sparking far-right riot. middleeasteye.net Israeli soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner arrested, sparking far-right riot | Minister among Israelis storming notorious Sde Teiman detention facility in solidarity with the suspects | | Israeli protesters wave flags outside Sde Teiman detention facility, after Israeli soldiers were…

The Canary. (2024-07-29). Airport Disruption Entered Fourth Day; Starmer's Government A Target. popularresistance.org On Saturday 27 July, peaceful protests took place in at least six cities across six countries in support of Oil Kills — an international uprising to end oil, gas and coal by 2030. Airport disruption was a key feature, again — with more arrests amid blockades. However, in the UK things went up a gear — as activists targeted Keir Starmer's new Labour Party government. | Across the UK, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, the USA, and Canada, protesters are gathering to demand their governments commit to establishing a legally binding treaty to stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 203…

Kristian Moravec, Press Herald. (2024-07-29). Police Arrest Protesters Outside Bath Iron Works Ceremony. popularresistance.org Police arrested nine protesters outside Bath Iron Works on Saturday morning leading up to a christening ceremony for the shipyard's newest warship. | Two protesters were charged with obstructing a public way and seven with criminal trespass after a group of demonstrators interlinked arms and sat down, blocking the entrance to a BIW parking lot. Police later said that this group had broken off from a larger demonstration of about 75 people on Washington Street. | Witnesses said that arrests started around 9: 30 a.m. when Bath police officers and Sagadahoc County sheriff's deputies rounded up some of the protesters,…

presstv.ir (2024-07-29). Iraqis protest over summer blackouts, water shortages. presstv.ir Hundreds of Iraqis in the southern province of Diwaniyah protest against power cuts and water shortages during the extreme heat of summer.

presstv.ir (2024-07-29). Body cam footage shows white US police shooting unarmed Black woman. presstv.ir Sean Grayson, 30, fired three shots, striking Sonya Massey one time in the face.

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