Posts Tagged ‘repression’

Confronting Bipartisan Repression And The US-led Axis Of Domination Beyond Election Day

No matter who sits in the white peoples’ house, we will have to continue to fight for social justice, democracy, and People(s)-Centered Human Rights. “Our survival depends on seeing this violent, barbarian behemoth for what it is.” Chaos, violence, legal challenges, voter suppression and party suppression all culminated in the pathetic display of democratic degeneration […]

Bolivia: Stop State Repression And Violence, For Free And Fair Elections

Above photo: Bolivian protesters flee from coup police. Source AP. Summary executions and widespread repression under Bolivia’s interim government report rights advocates from Harvard and University Network for Human Rights. NOTE: The authors refer to the current power holders in Bolivia as an “interim government.” Popular Resistance reminds its readers that Evo Morales is the democratically-elected […]

May Day Repression Reveals Savagery of U.S. Colonialism, Resilience of Puerto Rico’s People

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — Puerto Rico’s capital was the site of massive scenes of brutal repression as police clamped down on an International Workers Day march using overwhelming violent force, scattering thousands of protesters who gathered to resist austerity measures and anti-worker attacks on the people of U.S colonial territory. Despite the colonial administration’s […]

Russia’s Political Repression of Crimea’s Radical Left

Russia’s annexation of Crimea was purportedly an exercise in free political expression, a watershed moment in history when a historic part of Russia returned to the motherland against the backdrop of a fascist putsch in Ukraine. Indeed, Crimea’s “reunification” (in Kremlin lingo) with Russia was sold, at least in part, as a humanitarian operation to […]

Under the Shadow of Violence and Repression, Mexican Women March for a Change to the System

MEXICO CITY — One night in September of last year, 19-year-old Mara Fernanda Castilla Miranda, like so many people her age, went out for a night on the town in a suburb of the south-central Mexican state of Puebla.   And like so many other women across Mexico, she never made it home. When the […]

Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a gift to the far right and US state repression

Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a gift to the far right and US state repression London Independent December 11, 2017 Noam Chomsky has criticised the anti-fascist movement and argues its tactics are a gift to the far right and US state repression. The renowned academic, widely considered the founder of modern linguistics, says anti-fascists have instigated […]

Protests Continue On Honduras Amid Curfew, Police Repression

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Repression Of Mutual Aid In Puerto Rico

Above Photo: From mutualaiddisasterrelief.org Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. Several police vehicles, an armored tactical vehicle, and law enforcement personnel including swat team pointed their guns at relief workers while surrounding and then entering our base […]

Echoes of Franco in Spain’s ‘political repression’ of Catalonia – 70 academics incl Chomsky

In an open letter, tweeted by referendum supporter Julian Assange, Chomsky et al decried the Spanish government’s handling of the issue. The academics, from the fields of political science, law, economics, human rights, sociology, and history, compared the current government’s actions to that of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain for almost forty years […]

Bomb Attack on London Underground Sets Stage for Further State Repression

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UN report finds repression and human rights abuse in Venezuela

nsnbc : UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein in a news release, stressed that his office found extensive human rights violations […]

How Movements Can Succeed In The Face Of Government Repression

Above Photo: Christian JSger/ Getty Imges Published in collaboration with the Peace Science Digest, which summarizes and reflects on current academic research in the field of peace and conflict studies. A greater number of resistance movements are choosing to adopt nonviolent forms of struggle as the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance becomes more widely known. At the […]

The Battle for Palestine on US Campuses: a review of ‘We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics’

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics Edited by William I. Robinson and Maryam S. Griffin Forward by Cynthia McKinney and Preface by Richard Falk 280 pp. AK Press, 2017. $19.95. There are many ways to try to silence people whose ideas you don’t like. You can bully, blackmail, violate, isolate, […]

Listen: MLA anti-boycott vote could encourage repression

Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 4 July 2017 Dozens of scholars have condemned a recent vote by members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) to “refrain from endorsing” the academic boycott of Israeli institutions complicit in violations of Palestinian rights. The adoption of an explicitly anti-boycott measure by the MLA, the main academic association […]

eBOOK: The Black Book of Communism – Crimes, Terror, Repression

“The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression” (1999) Review from Amazon.com: When it was first published in France in 1997, Le livre noir du Communisme touched off a storm of controversy that continues to rage today. Even some of his contributors shied away from chief editor Stéphane Courtois’s conclusion that Communism, in all its […]

Settler State Repression: Standing Rock Battles Continue In The Courts

Above Photo: Indigenous rights activists at a tipi camp set up to protest the Dakota Access pipeline, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on March 9, 2017. (Photo: Al Drago / The New York Times) As a means of making bombing, sanctioning or invading other countries palatable to the general population, the US government has […]

International May Day 2017: Mass Marches and Police Repression

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Independent Media: Providing the Truth about Empire and Repression

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‘Turkey coup plotter’ Gulen: Failed uprising could have been ‘staged’ by Erdogan himself

LIVE UPDATES: Arrests after coup attempt in Turkey “There is a possibility that it could be a staged coup, by Mr Erdogan’s AKP Party, and it could be meant for further accusations, against the Gulenists and the military,” Fathullah Gulen, who is in exile in Pennsylvania, told the media Saturday. Turkey says US is ‘no […]

Hundreds Of Groups Demand: Obama Leave Carbon In The Ground

Print Friendly Above Photo: Climate change activists’ graffiti on a billboard near the Didcot coal-fired power station in Oxfordshire, UK. Photograph: Tim Myers Historic Petition Calls on Obama Administration to Immediately Halt All New Fossil Fuel Leases on Federal Lands WASHINGTON— More than 250 climate, community and tribal organizations filed a landmark legal petition today calling on […]

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