Repression, resistance and political organizing in five continents, and two inspiring leaders remembered
In Vineland, Thomas Pynchon's dour 1990 novel, the author of Gravity’s Rainbow anticipated a United States where all available definitions of freedom are channeled through security apparatuses understood as the greatest good. Sound familiar?
What Russian Left Parties Say About Belarus, and reports from Brazil, Sudan, London, Kenya, India, France and Morocco
What happened to Stone should be a wake-up call to anyone who thought police violence would confine itself to Black, brown, and poor communities. That she was snatched from a dense throng of protesters shows the sophistication of NYPD surveillance.
Legal challenges mount against new law, which allows warrantless arrests and could affect delivery of coronavirus aid.
Surge in Sudan, purge in UK, African solidarity with US protests, and more
Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the US government is brokering a $2 billion arms sale to Rodrigo Duterte’s repressive regime. The sale would only pour further fuel on an already dire human rights catastrophe.
Historically, the government has used the (grand jury) process to gather information, surveil and disrupt movements by creating paranoia and fear.
The 2010s * Working For Amazon * Public Radio and Podcasting * Facebook News Labeling * Win in San Diego * Algerian Cartoonists’ Online Protest * Predictions for 2020
Trump’s executive order will greatly exacerbate this repression with the intention of shutting down all campus activism for Palestinian rights, as promised by his campaign prior to his election.
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