Militarized Police ‘Indiscriminately’ Attack Nonviolent Stop Cop City March With Tear Gas

Police attack #StopCopCity activists with tear gas and other “less lethal” weapons in DeKalb County, Georgia on November 13, 2023.  (Photo: Defend the Atlanta Forest) “This is the type of ‘training’ they will get if Cop City is built,” said one activist group. BRETT WILKINS Nov 13, 2023 (CommonDreams.org) Militarized… Continue reading

100 US Officials Sign Memo Decrying Biden’s Backing of Israeli ‘War Crimes’ in Gaza

Palestinians evacuate following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023  (Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images) The State Department and USAID staffers denounced the president’s “unwillingness to de-escalate” Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza, which have killed more than 11,000 Palestinians. BRETT WILKINS Nov… Continue reading

Largest US Medical Lobbying Group Shuts Down Resolution to Back Cease-Fire in Gaza

Healthcare workers rally for Palestinian rights and a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza on November 7, 2023 in Indianapolis.  (Photo: @Indy_SURJ/Twitter) The AMA has a responsibility to uphold the well-being of healthcare workers and minimize human suffering, and it is clear that these values are not being upheld,” said Healthcare Workers… Continue reading

The Attacks on Rashida Tlaib Are Attacks on the Ethos of Pluralist Democracy

Rep. Rashida Tlaib takes part in a Jewish-led protest outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. on October 18, 2023.  (Photo: Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images) Rashida Tlaib is pro-Palestinian. And that, apparently, is not okay. JEFFREY C. ISAAC Nov 13, 2023 Common Dreams Rashida Tlaib is a very controversial… Continue reading

The Familiar Propaganda of US Media Makes Horrors in Gaza Possible

Family of a Palestinian baby, died in the Israeli airstrikes, mourn as they take the body from the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for the funeral ceremony in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on November 10, 2023.  (Photo by Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images) The wars and the killing go on, day… Continue reading

Multiple Protest Factions Join In ‘Shut Down APEC’ Protest Sunday

Multiple Protest Factions Join In ‘Shut Down APEC’ Protest Sunday

13 NOVEMBER 2023/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Thousands demonstrated in downtown San Francisco Sunday, calling for worker rights, an end to free-trade capitalism, an end to Israel’s attacks in Gaza, an end to human rights abuses in China and the Philippines, and many other things, with a march that attempted to… Continue reading

HAMAS CHARTER

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Hamas Covenant or Hamas Charter, formally known in English as the Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, was originally issued on 18 August 1988 and outlines the founding identity, stand, and aims of Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement).[1] A new charter was issued by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal on 1 May 2017 in Doha.[2]… Continue reading

Book: “It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On”

It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On Malaika Jabali A biting, brilliant, often hilarious guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists who know it’s time to dump their toxic ex (Capitalism) and try something finer. Journalist Malaika Jabali debunks myths, centers forgotten… Continue reading

Why not let students run California’s school boards?

Joe Mathews Nov. 12, 2023 (SFChroncile.com) California kids, do you follow the news about the culture wars over local school boards? If you do, you’ll see these wars portrayed as political contests between groups that want to take education in different directions: progressives and right-wingers, and fights between parents’ groups… Continue reading

‘Shut down APEC’: Alternative S.F. summit kicks off week of protests

Danielle Echeverria Nov. 11, 2023Updated: Nov. 12, 2023 12:04 p.m. (SFChronicle.com) A summit to protest the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference drew more than 1,000 people to San Francisco State University on Saturday. Organized by the No to APEC Coalition, the nine-hour “People and Planet Over Profit and Plunder” summit was the first of several actions… Continue reading