The NYPD is famous for violating civil rights so it comes as no surprise that protests over the police brutality in the city have elicited a violent crackdown from the city’s finest.
Subjects Archives: Movements
Police targeting NLG legal observers at Black Lives Matter protests
Since protests have spread to all 50 states in response to the police murders of George Floyd and countless other Black people, law enforcement has responded with a violent show of force against protestors as well as journalists, street medics, and legal support.
Gautam Navlakha’s struggle for justice
Indian activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha is in prison as part of what many observers have termed a crackdown on dissent in India. The 68-year-old has been fighting a years-long legal battle against the Indian state.
The U.S. rebellion for black lives
As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society.
Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement are linked to historical lynchings
U.S. counties where lynchings were more prevalent from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved killings
We crunched the numbers: Police — not protesters — are overwhelmingly responsible for attacking journalists
WE ARE WITNESSING a truly unprecedented attack on press freedom in the United States, with journalists are being systematically targeted while covering the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Chart of the day
At the highest of levels of unemployment following the 2007-08 crash, there were 15.3 million jobless Americans.
From George Floyd back to the structural violence of capitalism
Across the country—in city after city—the people have erupted in righteous indignation to George Floyd’s recorded lynching. His extrajudicial murder set off a rebellion that had been primed by the highly publicized white-vigilante murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the botched, “no-knock” police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in her bed.
The Movement gets BIG–and its enemies reveal themselves
When things seem like they’re coming apart, we need to ask: for whom? it may be that things are finally coming together.
White House forced to retract claim viral videos prove Antifa is plotting violence
THE WHITE HOUSE engaged in an extraordinary act of rumor-mongering on Wednesday, releasing a compilation of viral video clips posted on social media recently by people who believed, wrongly, that the piles of bricks they came across had been planted there by anti-fascist activists, known as Antifa, to inspire violence at protests.
Goliath is not invincible
Last year, I walked with Mariela Machado in her housing complex known as Kaikachi in the neighbourhood of La Vega (Caracas, Venezuela). After Hugo Chávez was inaugurated president in 1999, a group of working-class residents of the city saw an empty piece of land and occupied it. Mariela and others went to the government and […]
Agent provocateurs: Police at protests all over the country caught destroying property
Police all over the world commonly use plants and undercover cops to undermine protests.
What is the Bougaloo Movement?
There has been persistent speculation that peaceful protests against racism and police brutality may have been infiltrated by white provocateurs.
Demands for Trump removal grow as ‘fascist’ speech condemned as declaration of war against U.S. public
“Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late.”
Trump administration deploys military to the capital as nationwide protests continue
On Monday evening, President Donald Trump delivered a fascistic speech from the Rose Garden in which he announced the deployment of military forces in the capital and an escalation of police repression to end nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd one week ago.
The treason of the ruling class
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state.
New York police are attacking protesters-they know they won’t face consequences
The Civilian Complaint Review Board, New York’s independent office for investigating police abuses, has received 467 complaints since Friday, when the protests started, “and is committed to fully investigating them,” a board spokesperson told The Intercept.
Louisville Police left the body of David McAtee on the street for 12 hours
To lose your job when someone has died at your hands is a small price to pay.
U.S. campaign against Cuba’s medical brigades targets healthcare, not ‘forced labor’
For decades, Cuba has sent tens of thousands of its medical professionals abroad to work in countries where natural disasters or poverty have left people without healthcare. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the catastrophic U.S. response to it, the absurdity of a propaganda war against Cuban medical missions has become more obvious […]
The World at crossroads
Radical reforms in reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investment rather than as liabilities and look for ways to make the labour market less insecure. […]
