(2022-01-08). Thursday 1/20: Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-01-08). Pioneering African-American actor Sidney Poitier dead at 94. wsws.org The Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier was one of the most popular leading actors in Hollywood in the 1960s at the height of the struggle for civil rights in the US.
(2022-01-08). Tuesday 1/11: Rally & Press Conference to Close Guantanamo; 20 yrs of detention and torture. indybay.org Dianne Feinstein's Office, One Post, above Montgomery St. BART…
(2022-01-08). This Is America #156: Students & Workers Stage Walkouts as Omicron Surges; FBI Surveilled Portland Protests; One Year Since J6. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, January 7th, 2021. On today's episode, we first bring you an audio report from a New Year's Eve noise demo in so-called Tucson, Arizona, where in the past year, at least 10 people have died in the local jail. People rallied outside of the facility, playing music, making noise, shooting…
(2022-01-08). Stolen Newsstands and the Struggle for Free Speech in Fresno. indybay.org The Community Alliance is an independent newspaper based in Fresno California. After having two newspaper stands stolen from in front of the Fresno County Jail, they came up with a creative way to figure out who the thief is and what they were doing with our newsstands.
(2022-01-08). Ralph Nader: What Are Torts? They're Everywhere! scheerpost.com 
[ By Ralph Nader | Editor's note: This article first appeared February 20, 2019. | What exposed the Tobacco industry's carcinogenic cover-up? The lethal asbestos industry cover-up? The General Motors' deadly ignition switch defect cover-up? The Catholic Church's pedophile scandal? All kinds of toxic waste poisonings? | Not the state legislatures of our country. Not Congress. Not the regulatory agencies of our federal or state governments. These abuses and other wrongs were exposed by lawsuits brought by individuals or groups of afflicted…
(2022-01-08). #Palestine2022 campaign aims to bring Palestine into the French presidential campaign. samidoun.net 
In the 2022 French presidential election campaign, Palestine is largely absent from the mainstream discussion, despite the fact that it should be a central issue in addressing France's foreign policy. French governments have always actively supported Israel, a colonial and racist state. France plays a key role in the oppression of the Palestinian people, including […] | The article
(2022-01-08). Moscow, Beijing, Washington frame opponents as 'foreign agents'. themilitant.com As they deepen their assaults on working people and political rights, the regimes in Moscow and Beijing are trying to silence political opponents by smearing them as "foreign agents." Washington condemns these two rivals for repression, but has used the very same smears to target and frame up working-class organizations at home. | On Dec. 28, Russia's Supreme Court ordered the closing of Memorial International, a long-standing rights organization that has chronicled decades of Stalinist political repression in the Soviet Union. Its archives hold tens of thousands of documents, books and artwork by prisoners spann…
(2022-01-07). FL Gov. DeSantis spreads lies, Jax community members disrupt his press conference. fightbacknews.org Jacksonville, FL – Jacksonville residents angered with Governor Ron DeSantis' handling of the pandemic and other issues showed up to make their voices heard on Tuesday morning, January 4, just before the governor was scheduled to conduct a press conference in Jacksonville. | Ben Frazier, a seasoned civil rights activist with the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville (NCOJ) and pioneering Black journalist, stood in the room inside the state office building where the governor was due to speak and ended up in a heated exchange with some of the governor's aides. Other activists present included members of the Jack…
(2022-01-07). We need prison abolition, not reform — a WW commentary. workers.org 
Nearly 2.3 million people, who are incarcerated every day in prisons, jails and detention centers in the United States, face possible death sentences while locked up during a deadly respiratory pandemic. Despite facing inhumane and unsanitary conditions, they have shown great solidarity with one another and resistance to their brutal . . . |
(2022-01-07). We need prison abolition, not reform — a WW commentary. workers.org Nearly 2.3 million people, who are incarcerated every day in prisons, jails and detention centers in the United States, face possible death sentences while locked up during a deadly respiratory pandemic. Despite facing inhumane and unsanitary conditions, they have shown great solidarity with one another and resistance to their brutal . . . |
(2022-01-07). Three Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Black Man Ahmaud Arbery. sputniknews.com A judge in the US state of Georgia has sentenced all three men found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery to life in prison.
(2022-01-07). 100 Ohio School Districts File A Lawsuit Against EdChoice Vouchers. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, 100 Ohio public school districts and the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship Program under the provisions of the Ohio Constitution. EdChoice is Ohio's rapidly growing, publicly funded school voucher program. | The *Cleveland Plain Dealer*'s [Laura Hancock reported](https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/01/100-school-districts-sue-ohio-over-private-school-vouchers-saying-they-unconstitutionally-take-money-from-public-ed.html): "A coalition of 100 school districts sued Ohio over private school vouchers Tuesday, sa…
(2022-01-07). 100 Ohio School Districts File A Lawsuit Against EdChoice Vouchers. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, 100 Ohio public school districts and the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship Program under the provisions of the Ohio Constitution. EdChoice is Ohio's rapidly growing, publicly funded school voucher program. | The *Cleveland Plain Dealer*'s [Laura Hancock reported](https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/01/100-school-districts-sue-ohio-over-private-school-vouchers-saying-they-unconstitutionally-take-money-from-public-ed.html): "A coalition of 100 school districts sued Ohio over private school vouchers Tuesday, sa…
(2022-01-07). Intersectionality, and what it might lack. anchor.fm In this episode I try to give an analysis of liberal intersectionality from a Marxist perspective. I tried to go over the ways in which intersectionality avoids revolutionary politics and a unity and solidarity based on class struggle. We need an end to the Capitalist and imperialist system now, we do not need a slow transitionary period towards another form of oppression. We need the liberation of all oppressed people now! Go organize!
(2022-01-07). 'We're Going to Look for Them': Cabello Calls for 'Thief' Guaidó's Imprisonment. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's second most significant Chavista leader called for former opposition deputy Juan Guaidó and his allies to be imprisoned, and promised that justice will punish the "thieves and murderers." | "We are going to look for them…" said Cabello. "Here I have the list of the first, to whom surprises are going to come." The PSUV vice president made the comments this Wednesday, January 5, on his weekly television program Con el Mazo Dando. | Cabello did not mention Guaidó by name, but showed posters of his face, in addition to those of Freddy Guevara, Miguel Pizarro, and Stalin González, among other opposition…
(2022-01-07). 'We're Going to Look for Them': Cabello Calls for 'Thief' Guaidó's Imprisonment. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's second most significant Chavista leader called for former opposition deputy Juan Guaidó and his allies to be imprisoned, and promised that justice will punish the "thieves and murderers." | "We are going to look for them…" said Cabello. "Here I have the list of the first, to whom surprises are going to come." The PSUV vice president made the comments this Wednesday, January 5, on his weekly television program Con el Mazo Dando. | Cabello did not mention Guaidó by name, but showed posters of his face, in addition to those of Freddy Guevara, Miguel Pizarro, and Stalin González, among other opposition…