2023-06-20: News Headlines

AX, Unicorn Riot. (2023-06-20). The Tale Of The City: Gentrification In London — Part 2. popularresistance.org 'The Guns of Brixton' sung by the Clash in 1979 made Brixton synonymous with resistance, anti-oppression, and anti-racism beyond the borders of the United Kingdom. The song presaged the riots of 1981 which rose Brixton into a symbol even as they spread all over England* that summer. The emblematic city of Brixton is currently at a crucial crossroad, struggling not to lose its character as gentrification spreads across London. | With a vibrance of ethnic identities represented, Brixton's main market on Pope's Road in the heart of the city is the where activists and campaigners have launched their wide-reaching #Fi…

Nicholas Powers (2023-06-19). This Juneteenth, We Are at War Over Our Right to Teach Black History. truthout.org The truth is illegal. That's what Black history teacher Valanna White realized at a routine, back-to-school meeting in August 2021. Tennessee had just banned teaching "critical race theory" in public schools. Now, if she or any other teacher dares to mention systemic racism in class, even during lessons on Black history, their licenses can be suspended or revoked. She and her colleagues are not… |

Nkechi Taifa (2023-06-19). Reparations, in Our Lifetime. aclu.org Once dismissed by many as impractical, the quest for reparations for the descendants of African people enslaved in the United States is now being embraced as a legitimate concept to be taken seriously. The remedy is not only being sought to address harms from the enslavement era, but also for lingering impacts which manifest today. The illegal kidnapping, cultural assault, and nearly 300 years of forced free labor, followed by 100 years of convict leased labor, Black codes, sharecropping, the peonage system, lynchings, mass murders, systemic racism, Jim Crow, gerrymandering, redlining, educational inequities,…

Map Liberation. (2023-06-20). Colonial Universities Grab Land For Profit, War, And Medical Apartheid. popularresistance.org Universities on Turtle Island, as la paperson writes, "are land-grabbing, land-transmogrifying, land-capitalizing machines." Indigenous land theft, and profits from slavery, enabled these universities to be built in the first place — and they still collect profits from stolen lands.[1] | With this accumulated capital, major US universities have become colonial real estate agents. Harvard University, notably, owns land all over the world — from vineyards in Washington state to farmlands in Brazil, South Africa, New Zealand, and Romania.[2] Harvard's land-grabbing machine has harmed Indigenous communiti…

SAMIR (2023-06-19). Mauritius should support Palestinian call for UN apartheid investigation, say country's trade union federations. bdsmovement.net By: | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)

Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-20). Neo-Nazis Blocked and Kicked Out of Pride Celebration in Chico, CA. itsgoingdown.org Report back on successful community defense of Pride in so-called Chico, California against neo-Nazis. On June 14th, 2023, the Chico LGBT Center hosted several community Pride events, including a drag story hour for kids and their families. It was a beautiful and hot valley day with music and fun outfits as families and friends trickled…

_____ (2023-06-19). A Compassionate Spy… How an American Spy for the Soviets Saved the World From an Atomic Holocaust. strategic-culture.org Dave Lindorff's film, A Compassionate Spy, explains much of why the world is facing an abysmal situation today. | Toward the end of World War Two, the U.S. leadership had plans to use their newly developed atomic weapon not against Nazi Germany or Japan, but rather primarily to destroy the Soviet Union. A new documentary film, A Compassionate Spy, tells how that abomination against world peace was prevented. | In this interview, award-winning journalist Dave Lindorff who co-produced the movie reveals the background and nerve-racking details of this little-known spy story. | A young American physicist named Ted…

Staff (2023-06-19). President Petro of Colombia Warns of Resurgent Far-Right in Europe, Drawing Parallels to Pre-Nazi Era. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Gustavo Petro, reflecting on his official visit to Germany, has identified the growth of the extreme right in Spain and throughout Europe as very similar to the scenario of 1933 when Adolf Hitler rose to power as the head of the Nazi party. | According to the Colombian president, who was the keynote speaker in a conference organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation, "today, we have a European left that doesn't know what to do while fascism is advancing. I could see it in the streets of Madrid, while they organized protests against me, for being Latin American, for my brown skin, for…

Anonymous103 (2023-06-19). Ukrainian Nazis Do Not Stop Killing Civilians, Including Children, In Donbass And Russian Border Regions. southfront.org The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) fail to advance on the Donbass frontlines and merciless shelling of the civilian population of the DPR, LPR and border regions of the Russian Federation continues. | On June 19, Ukrainian militants shelled Volnovakha in the DPR with American MLRS HIMARS. Ukrainian Nazis fired at least 12 missiles at the local social facilities. One of the targets was the local humanitarian center. Some of the missiles exploded in the area of the road junction leading to M…

Anonymous103 (2023-06-19). Video: Ukraine Is Harvesting Children's Organs in Adrenochrome Labs. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Peter Koenig. Originally published by A whistleblower from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which has itself a shady reputation mainly for its biased reporting, always in favor of the western wannabe empire and its vassals, has revealed the discovery of Ukrainian Nazi Groups harvesting children's organs in underground…

_____ (2023-06-19). (Italiano) Dichiarazione di Vienna per la Pace. transcend.org 11 Giugno 2023 – La società civile internazionale con la Dichiarazione di Vienna per la Pace: "Servono negoziati che possano rafforzare la logica della Pace invece dell'illogica della guerra".

_____ (2023-06-19). International Criminal Court Advancing Global Injustice, Unaccountability and Criminal Agenda against Guardians of Peace. transcend.org "Rise, O' all you intelligent, righteous humanoids". Just as the war in Ukraine has become a festering sore in the politically motivated, combined, western, proxy war against Russia, the plight of Palestinians is a chronic human rights violation, festering, as an ulcer, already systemic in its manifestations, generated by Israel in its ongoing philosophy of ethnic cleansing. In reality it is a genocide, which is obfuscated by various institutes and governments for their personal support of the Zionist agenda.

Antoine Davis, Darrell Jackson, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-06-19). What Juneteenth Looks Like For Prisoners. popularresistance.org Juneteenth is a bittersweet day for us — and all Black people in prison holding onto the promise of freedom. | Let's start with history. The Emancipation Proclamation — issued by Abraham Lincoln on Sept. 22, 1862, during the American Civil War — declared that all slaves in the Confederacy would be "forever free." Unfortunately, that freedom didn't extend to the four slaveholding states not in rebellion against the Union, and the proclamation was of course ignored by the Confederate states in rebellion. For the roughly 4 million people enslaved, Lincoln's declaration was symbolic; only after the…

ecns.cn (2023-06-20). Cathay cabin crew to add mainland employees. ecns.cn Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways on Monday announced a raft of measures to improve its service after a discrimination scandal, including recruiting staff from the Chinese mainland and increasing the number of Mandarin-speaking flight attendants.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-06-20). Addressing cancer concerns in the LGBTQ+ community. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org During June, many cities and towns around the U.S. and the world celebrate and raise awareness of the LGBTQ+ community's accomplishments and the ongoing fight for equality and acceptance. When it comes to health, the LGBTQ+ community faces increased cancer concerns. Stigma and discrimination create barriers to health care, placing the LGBTQ+ community at heightened risk for certain forms of cancer. Being aware of cancer risks and finding ways to overcome these challenges can be lifesaving. Mayo…

WSWS (2023-06-20). Spain's Pabloite Anticapitalistas call to vote for pro-war Sumar in July 23 elections. wsws.org The Pabloites' presentation of support for Sumar as a strategy to fight the rise of the far right is a political fraud.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-19). Declassified Files Expose British Role in NATO's Gladio Terror Armies. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine? Newly declassified British Foreign Office files have added disturbing details to the history of Operation Gladio. The covert…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-19). The Battle Fronts in the Face of the Global Colonizing Offensive and the New Fascism. libya360.wordpress.com José Ernesto Guerrero Photo: Bill Hackwell We will only be able to successfully confront capitalism, its colonizing desires and the neo-fascism that beats in its entrails from a common class front, from a fully emancipated consciousness. At the end of June and beginning of July the XXVI edition of the Sao Paulo Forum will be…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-19). Five Palestinians were killed after Israeli attack on Jenin city. plenglish.com Ramallah, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Israeli security forces killed Monday five Palestinians, including a minor, and a hundred were injured in a new attack on Jenin, a city in the northern occupied West Bank.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-19). Israeli forces kill five Palestinians, including 15-year-old, in Jenin raid. peoplesdispatch.org Close to a 100 Palestinians were wounded in the raid. Israeli forces shot at ambulances and paramedics and tried to prevent them from reaching the injured and providing medical attention…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-06-19). Israel kills 5 in Jenin raid amid fierce resistance. electronicintifada.net Palestinian fighters shot at attack helicopter and ambushed military vehicles.

Middle East Eye (2023-06-19). Israel Set to Bring 10,000 Indian Labourers for Jobs Traditionally Held by Palestinians. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2023-06-19). Israel to Ease Process for Expanding West Bank Settlements. telesurenglish.net During a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, the Israeli government authorized pro-settlement Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to assume main responsibility for settlement planning and construction in the West Bank, and shortened political approval process for settlement planning and construction that had been in place for 25 years. | RELATED: | The Palestinian presidency spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Palestine re…

teleSUR (2023-06-19). Israeli Soldiers Kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank. telesurenglish.net On Monday, at least three Palestinians were killed and dozens injured by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. | RELATED: | During clashes, Khaled Asa'she, 21, Ahmad Saqer, 15, and Qassam Abu Serreyeh, 29, were killed, and 29 Palestinians were injured, including six in serious condition. | Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli army force backed by drones and helicopters stormed the city and the adjacent re…

teleSUR (2023-06-19). Palestine Condemns Israeli Settlement Expansion in West Bank. telesurenglish.net The Israeli government's decision to accelerate the construction of settlements in the West Bank, is strongly condemned by Palestinians, the spokesman of the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said in statements to the press. | RELATED: | The spokesman said that the Palestinian leadership also rejects that the Israeli government has authorized Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to be in charge of decision-making for settlement plan…

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-06-19). Fuerzas de ocupación israelíes asesinan a cinco palestinos. telesurtv.net Al menos dos palestinos fueron detenidos en el operativo que se extendió por la ciudad de Yenín.

teleSUR, odr, JCM (2023-06-19). Premier israelí continuará con su reforma judicial pese a protestas. telesurtv.net Benjamin Netanyahu, se comprometió el domingo a seguir adelante con el proyecto "de manera mesurada y responsable"

Angela (2023-06-20). Saturday 6/17: Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Native Sons: Palestinians in Exile" indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

La Izquierda Diario Argentina, Left Voice. (2023-06-20). Protests In Greece After 79 Migrants Killed, Hundreds Missing In Shipwreck. popularresistance.org Protests erupted on Thursday against the Greek Government for failing to rescue hundreds of migrants off the coast of Pylos in a tragic shipwreck on the Peloponnese Coast which took the lives of at least 79 migrants, with hundreds still missing. In response, anti-racist organizations, unions, and other groups demonstrated in cities across the country, including in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Kardista, and Kalamata. Signs included slogans such as "They turned the Mediterranean into a watery grave" and "We will never get used to the slaughter," condemning both Greek and European migration and refugee policy.

Bennan Center for Justice (2023-06-20). Wednesday 6/21: How the Supreme Court's Hard-Right Turn Is Wreaking Havoc on Democracy. indybay.org Online event…

Chip Gibbons, Jacobin. (2023-06-19). Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero. popularresistance.org Few people can say their actions helped to strengthen press freedom, end a war, and bring down a presidency. Daniel Ellsberg, who died today at the age of ninety-two, did just that. | Ellsberg came to public prominence in 1971 when he photocopied a secret history of US involvement in the Vietnam War, what became known as the "Pentagon Papers," and gave a copy to the New York Times. The New York Times' decision to publish the papers set off a landmark press freedom battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. | Ellsberg became the first whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act.

WSWS (2023-06-19). Modi's BJP foments ethno-communal violence in India's northeastern state of Manipur. wsws.org If the violence remains unabated after a month and a half, it is because both the BJP state government and India's national BJP government—led by the Hindu-supremacist Prime Minister Narendra Modi—are complicit.

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-19). ICWA Stands! Supreme Court Affirms Indian Child Welfare Act. popularresistance.org

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