Posts Tagged ‘uprising’

Africa’s Uprising Is Frozen, Its Cry Swollen With Hope

Above Photo: Bertina Lopes (Mozambique), Dimensão (‘Dimension’), 1972. On 26 August, two deadly attacks on the perimeter of Kabul’s international airport killed over a hundred people, including a dozen US soldiers. The bombings struck people desperate to enter the airport and flee Afghanistan. Not long afterwards, the Islamic State of Khorasan (IS-K) took credit for […]

The Global Uprising You’re Not Supposed to Talk About

For a better experience I invite you to go to the original post: https://covid19up.org/global-uprising/ July 31, 2021 A massive uprising in opposition to the authoritarianism of government lockdown mandates has gone global. ByDon Via, Jr. @COVID19Up: Last Saturday, July 24, streets in cities around the world were besieged in abundance by hundreds of thousands—if not […]

Coons: U.S. Sanctions Partially Created Conditions for Cuba Uprising

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that the oppression of Cuba’s Communist government “has created the conditions, in combination with our sanctions and with COVID, for a popular uprising.” Coons listed examples of countries where “government action is oppressing their people and causing famine, so too is the […]

’48 Palestine after the Unity Uprising

So where are the Palestinian voices in mainstream media? Mondoweiss covers the full picture of the struggle for justice in Palestine. Read by tens of thousands of people each month, our truth-telling journalism is an essential counterweight to the propaganda that passes for news in mainstream and legacy media. Our news and analysis is available […]

Day of Action in Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising: Tuesday, May 18

As Israel is continuing its massacres in Gaza, its attacks in Jerusalem and settler mob violence throughout occupied Palestine from the river to the sea, Palestinians have called for a general strike! Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins the call of Palestinians in Palestine and across the world for actions and mobilizations in support of […]

Friedman’s analysis of the Palestinian uprising is silly, offensive — and leaves out key words, ‘Israeli apartheid’

The explosive news from Israel/Palestine gave Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist who portrays himself as a Middle East expert, a chance to start explaining why Palestinian resistance and Israeli repression have reached the highest level in years. In his column yesterday, he failed. He nowhere wrote the words “Israel apartheid,” or […]

‘Heroic’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembered With Personal Stories, Symbolic Flowers on Anniversary of Outbreak

A Polish soldier lays a wreath during the commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in front of the Warsaw Ghetto monument in Warsaw, Poland April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY The largest act of Jewish military resistance during World War II […]

On this day 78 years ago, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out

Exactly 78 years ago on April 19, 1943, the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland broke out, in a Europe ravaged by ravaged by Nazi Germany. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began on the eve of the Passover holiday, and continued for an entire month until May 16.  It was the first large-scale revolt by […]

EU sanctions top Iranian commanders over 2019 uprising

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Reforming An Uprising, But Not The Police

By Adnan Ahmed, Cliff Willmeng, Theresa Berrell Stets and Merrily Mazza, Left Voice. April 7, 2021 | Educate! Above photo: Tony Webster/Minnesota Reformer. “Yes 4 Minneapolis.” Minneapolis voters now may have a few different police-reform options to consider in the upcoming city elections in November. Despite promises to dismantle the Police Department, the proposals on […]

In war-torn Syria, uprising birthplace seethes 10 years on

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‘I might not live to see a free Syria,’ activist tells Euronews on uprising’s 10th anniversary

Just ten years after Syrians first took to the streets to protest against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, Euronews spoke to Syrian journalist and activist Wafa Ali Mustafa who was part of the uprising from the outset. She explained how it felt to be part of the protests and what impact the Syrian revolution […]

Syria says it foiled explosives plot in Damascus on uprising’s 10th anniversary

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How a revolution became an Odyssey. Syria’s shattered uprising 10 years on

P lease don’t go, darling, come straight home, was the panicked plea from Tahani’s mother when she found out about the Facebook invite to a rare protest in central Damascus. Determined, the fourth-year psychology student, went anyway scrambling to get to the rallying point after her last lecture. It was early March, 2011, the early […]

On 10th Anniversary of Syrian Uprising, US Holocaust Museum Calls Out International ‘Failure’ to Apply ‘Never Again’ Principle

A Syrian couple grieving for their children murdered in a chemical weapons attack on Aleppo. Photo: Screenshot. In a sharply-worded statement to mark the tenth anniversary of the uprising against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) asserted that the world’s failure to stop the mass atrocities committed by pro-Assad forces, […]

Ten years after anti-Gaddafi uprising, scarred Libyans live in a divided country

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The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots

Above photo: Much ado about GameStop. [Mike Mozart / CC BY 2.0. Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back. A short squeeze frenzy driven by a new generation of gamers captured financial headlines in recent weeks, […]

Ten years from uprising, Yemen lies fractured and hungry: A timeline of its slide into conflict

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The dream that became a nightmare: How hopes for Egypt’s Arab Spring uprising were crushed

E ven the most fervent supporters of the protests called for 25 January did not believe they could amount to much.   Newspaper editor Lina Attalah chose not to assign a reporter to cover the rallies in Cairo, assuming they would be cleared within minutes.   Human rights defender Mona Seif, who planned to attend […]

Black Inmates Begin 2021 With Uprising In Saint Louis Justice Center

Above photo: The Saint Louis City Justice Center, located at 200 S. Tucker Boulevard. Two Staff Allegedly Held Hostage In Struggle for Humane COVID-19 Response. For prisoners, there is no alcohol nor flowers,But the night is so lovely, how can we celebrate it?I go to the air-hole and stare up at the moon,And through the […]

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