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Judges will consider a legal challenge which could affect how women and trans people are treated.
Historic Investigation of U.S. Boarding Schools for Native Children Ends With Scathing Report
For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. From the passage of the Civilization Fund Act in 1819 up until 1969, the U.S. g...
HIV-related deaths decreased globally over 12-year period — but increased in Russia and many neighboring countries
Global HIV morbidity and mortality rates decreased from 2010 to 2021, with new cases dropping by almost 22 percent and deaths declining by nearly 40 percent, according to The Lancet.
British national, reportedly captured on Russian soil while fighting for Ukraine, remanded into custody
A British citizen reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine has been remanded into custody by a Russian court.
Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so much in the emergency department at Houston Methodist Sugar Land that she’...
Lowell man proven innocent of 1986 murder awarded $13 million, but state law caps payout at $1 million
> Pino was fired in 2007 from the MSP crime lab after working as a chemist for more than two decades, the complaint said. He “had allowed the collection of samples not reported by law, reported incomplete results to police, and failed to report DNA database matches to prosecutors until after the statute of limitations for the crimes had elapsed,” according to the complaint. > > Sullivan’s motion to retest his clothing was granted in 2011. His jacket tested negative for blood, and McGrath’s DNA wasn’t found. The test comparing the hair to McGrath’s was “inconclusive,” the complaint said. > > “Pino simply fabricated evidence,” the complaint said, “evidence which proved to be the difference between guilt and innocence.”
A report from North Carolina on a recent gathering benefiting anarchist political prisoner Michael Kimble featuring combat sports. Through the weekend of October 18th-20th, the triangle-area of North Carolina hosted a series of events to bring combat sports and revolutionary politics together. This ...
Palestinian Children Speak Out on World Children's Day
During World Children's Day, the Palestinian Children's Council gave a rundown of Israeli atrocities which have killed over 17,492 children in Gaza over the last year.
For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the war on Ukraine. Russia has ...
We welcome activists, curious minds, and politically engaged people from around the world! Our main task is to promote the organization of a mass movement for change in Russia. Only by creating it can we hope to dismantle Putin's authoritarian oligarchic regime, to develop a peaceful Russia. It is a...
Black Rose Anarchist Federation maps out ideas for community organizing in the current moment. Donald Trump has once again ascended to the Presidency. Below we lay out our recommendations for how to respond. 1. No Choice But to Fight The “choice” of this election, like all elections, presented us wi...
Ukrainian former teacher, Natalia Hrabarchuk, realizes she’s shot down a Russian cruise missile
By Marni Rose McFall
A video of a Ukrainian soldier shows her appearing to successfully shoot down a Russian cruise missile in her first combat launch.
Natalia Hrabarchuk, who was a nursery schoolteacher before the Russia-Ukraine war, was filmed destroying the Kh-101 long-range missile on Sunday morning during the latest of Russia's large-scale attacks, according to the Ukrainian air force.
Moscow launched a "massive, combined attack," of approximately 120 and 90 drones across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement released early on Sunday.
In the statement, Zelensky said that Moscow had used several types of missiles, including its hypersonic Zircon and Kinzhal missiles and the Irania-designed Shahed strike drones. Kyiv reportedly intercepted more than 140 of the incoming targets, Zelensky said.
The footage of Hrabarchuk, shared on X, formerly Twitter by the Ukrainian Air Force account said that: "On the morning of November 17, soldier Nataliia Hrabarchuk successfully shot down a russian cruise missile using an Igla MANPADS. It was her first combat launch and first successful hit!"
Newsweek could not independently verify the veracity of the video.
‘I have good news and bad news’ Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva speaks to Meduza about life as a political prisoner in Russia and why she’ll never be a cynic
On Thursday, November 21, the Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four women who have courageously risked their lives to report the truth amid extraordinary danger. CPJ’s 2024 honorees are Shrouq Al Aila from the Gaza Strip, Quimy de León from Guatemala, Samira Sabou from Niger, and Alsu Kur...
Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister, Hamas terrorist leader all subjects of ICC arrest warrants issued Thursday
Florida’s Pam Bondi goes from foreign agent to White House mouthpiece.
Unable to service engines due to sanctions, Russian airlines have reportedly now grounded half of their Airbus Neo planes
As of mid-November, Russian airlines have grounded 34 out of the 66 Airbus A320neo and A321neo planes in their fleets, Kommersant reports.
Man who climbed Moscow billboard with banner reading ‘Putin, where are you, bitch, make room for me’ jailed for 15 days
A man arrested last week in Moscow for climbing a billboard and displaying a banner that read, “Putin, where are you, bitch, make room for me,” has been sentenced to 15 days in jail on charges of disobeying police, according to the TV network RTVI.
Biome name ideas:
- Arroyo
- Chaparral
- Garrigue
- Maquis (pronounced mah-KEE)
- Tundra
- Taiga
- Veldt
- Oued (pronounced "Wade") / Wadi
- Xeric is a pretty cool name
A woman experiencing bleeding was not admitted by doctors in Idaho until her fourth ER visit in one week, due to fear and confusion over the state's abortion ban.
Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks
Yes, the Bandcamp page is endorsed by the Russian ABC. I've also linked the album here.
A reasonable criticism. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Yes, they are musicians from the band m6th. I'm not sure what the shirt refers to, but I think it means 'helmsman' and Lyubov's version includes a chaos star in the form of a nautical wheel, which is fucking perfect.
Are you saying it is hypocritical for him to campaign for the people in Gaza under Biden, and then continue to campaign for the people in Gaza under Trump? That's the opposite of hypocrisy.
It is ironic that he condemned Biden because of a genocide and they both lost, and now you are condemning him because of a genocide.
In run-up to the 1964 election, civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. were given an audience with incumbent president Lyndon Johnson, where he asked them to scale down their protest activity until after the election so he could be confident he could win. They understood correctly that by continuing to protest, they had political leverage.
Imagine an alternative reality where LBJ had not signed the Civil Rights Act, and instead Barry Goldwater had won and increased the segregation and discrimination facing African-americans. Would you blame them for using the only electoral political leverage they had available, and laugh at their misfortune?
The only check the worst excesses of the Trump presidency has is the potential for widespread civil unrest. The Democrats aren't capable of that. Grassroots Palestinian-american organizations are. In building that base of resistance, we shouldn't make the same mistakes that caused the Democrats to lose the election. In the words of Nate Silver:
Democrats...often get angry with you when you only halfway agree with them. And I really think this difference in personality profiles tells you a little something about why Trump won: Trump was happy to take on all comers, whereas with Democrats, disagreement on any hot-button topic (say, COVID school closures or Biden’s age) will have you cast out as a heretic. That’s not a good way to build a majority, and now Democrats no longer have one.
Abbas Alawieh is concerned for the lives of his family and friends under another Trump regime. We all are. He is one of us.
I enjoy her writing too. Her piece on the threat of Facebook entering the Fediverse does a great job of making the case.
We contacted all of the instances where we knew he had bans before granting him membership. In the future I'll keep you updated on similar controversial choices so you can better protect your community. Greenlighting him may have been a mistake, but we didn't have sufficient information to gauge the seriousness of his antics. He's definitely not a bot or a spammer, and wasn't trying to conceal his identity so we're giving him the benefit of doubt.
Most of the darker skinned ones were already run over further back on the track.
The second half of Luthen’s conversation with Saw is him trying to convince Saw to lend air support to another faction so that they can make a combined hit on an Imperial power station. In rage, Saw tells off Luthen for calling his adherence to his own ideology as “petty differences” and says that he’s not risking his people for someone else. Saw has a reputation for being an extremist, and Luthen knows that his operation is well-funded and successful. Saw, however, is right to refuse the tactical alliance.
I'd like to add that the doomed faction Luthen was trying to get Saw to support were remnants of the separatist forces from the Clone Wars. The Separatists were often coded in fiction as the Confederate side of the US Civil War by emphasizing their role as the aggressor and their colonial / race-supremacist / pro-slavery politics. Names in Star Wars often are linguistic and historical references, with Gerrera being both similar to Guerrera (warrior in Castilian) and the character is directly inspired by Che Guevara, for example. The name Anto Kreegyr conjures the German word 'Krieger' which also means warrior. This is perhaps intentional to draw a comparison between Saw and Anto, both warriors and rebels, but with very different implied motivations. Anto is linguistically similar to Anton, a common Slavic name. The German language is unfortunately closely associated with the Kaiser during WWI and Nazis during WWII to English audiences, and Russian is similarly associated with the authoritarian Soviet Union.
The implied subtext is that the opportunist Luthen wants the anarchists to work with fascists and authoritarians in the name of defeating a greater fascist threat. Saw's outrage at the suggestion is much more reasonable given this interpretation, as well as his eventual decision to permit their sacrifice to increase the chances of ultimate victory.
This was tried in 1968. It failed, and the Democratic Party instituted superdelegates to prevent it from ever having a chance at being successful again. You can't vote your way out of capitalism.
No, it invigorated it.
Bloody Sunday in Selma was one of the most successful protests in history, where police disproportionately responded to nonviolent disobedience by beating marchers with batons. It was successful not in spite of police violence, but because of it. The hundreds of demonstrators grew to thousands as people came from all across the country in solidarity.
A new Trump era means a renaissance of civil disruption. The methods competent police have developed to blunt the effect of protest don't project the strong-man image fascists crave. Protest will become much more dangerous again, but will also become much more effective.
They don't want to give up their share of rich donors and insider trading privileges.
New details about a program from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are getting attention after the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) published a trove of internal documents about ICE’s ‘Citizens Academy’ programs.
If you live in the SF area, the OP is looking for help to get the inside too.