Our Blog – WE STAND TOGETHER
“We Stand Together” is the successor of the Facebook group “C’ville Stands Together”.
Please share this URL with your friends: https://activistsguide.org/we-stand-together/
click here for a list of all blog articles
-
Georgia Gov. Declares State of Emergency, Calls Up National Guard Amid “Cop City” Protests
In Georgia, Republican Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday declared a state of emergency in response to mass protests that erupted after the police killing of environmental defender Manuel Terán in Atlanta last week. The declaration gives Kemp the power to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops over the next 15 days to quell the…
-
Florida Rejects A.P. African American Studies Class
MIAMI — Florida will not allow a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies to be offered in its high schools, stating that the course is not “historically accurate” and violates state law. In a letter last week, the Florida Department of Education informed the College Board, which administers A.P. exams, that it would…
-
Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S.
MEMPHIS — For the mother of Tyre Nichols, the fact that five Memphis police officers charged with beating her son are also Black has compounded her sorrow as she tries to cope with his violent death at age 29. “It makes it even harder to swallow,” RowVaughn Wells said in an interview last week, “because…
-
Republican Ex-Candidate Arrested in Shootings Targeting New Mexico Democrats
The authorities in Albuquerque said that Solomon Peña, who lost his bid for a State House seat in November, was behind a series of recent shootings targeting Democratic elected officials. Solomon Peña was taken into custody by Albuquerque Police officers.Credit…Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press The authorities in Albuquerque said on Monday that…
-
University: Student stabbed on bus because she is Asian
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) — A 56-year-old woman has been charged after an 18-year-old Indiana University student repeatedly was stabbed in the head on a public bus in an attack the school says was because the victim is Asian. The victim told investigators she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a…
-
What We Know About Tyre Nichols’s Lethal Encounter With Memphis Police
Tyre Nichols, 29, was beaten by Memphis police officers for three minutes on Jan. 7 after the officers had stopped him for reckless driving, lawyers for his family said on Monday. The stop escalated into a violent confrontation that ended with Mr. Nichols hospitalized in critical condition. Three days later, he died. The circumstances of…
-
CALL TO ACTION
On Wednesday, we received news of what may have been the first police killing of a climate activist in the U.S. when Atlanta police shot and killed Manuel “Tortuguita” Paéz Terán. Tortuguíta was a beloved forest defender fighting to #StopCopCity, the plan to bulldoze Weelaunee Forest to build a police training facility. Activists in Atlanta…
-
March for Life Kicks Off in Washington, Setting the Stage for New Ideas
WASHINGTON — Thousands of anti-abortion activists convened on the National Mall on Friday for the March for Life, the rally held every January since 1974 to protest Roe v. Wade. This year, for the first time, they were there to celebrate its demise. And with Roe defeated, the movement’s veteran leaders stressed it was an…
-
CALL TO ACTION: Affordable housing vigil happening Sunday in Waynesboro
WAYNESBORO — Virginia Organizing, Embrace Community Center and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Waynesboro will hold a vigil on Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. outside the Embrace Community Center. The vigil will be part of a coordinated network of actions happening across the state organized by the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, according to…
-
BLM co-founder’s cousin dies after police repeatedly use Taser, video shows
A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died hours after Los Angeles police repeatedly used a Taser on him and restrained him in the middle of the street following a traffic accident, according to body-camera footage released by authorities Wednesday The death of Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher and father visiting…
-
Madison County School Board bans 21 books from high school library
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT Ignoring calls from the community to focus on achievement gaps, the Madison County School Board approved banning 21 books from the Madison County High School Library at its first meeting of the calendar year on January 12. Voting for the banning…
-
The so-called ‘Antifa’ are a radical political movement to combat fascist, alt-right and white supremacist ideologies. And despite criticism, activists say they’re not going anywhere
‘I don’t want my children to live in the world my grandparents faced’: Antifa in their own words “Antifascists generally, and Antifa in particular, recognise that the battles – including physical ones – to defend human rights and human lives are taking place right now, not in some science fiction future ‘when the revolution comes’,”…
-
evict climate activists from German village slated to become a coal mine
LÜTZERATH, Germany — From the roof of a green farm building, an activist dressed in black made an obscene gesture at police forces below before scooping debris out of the gutter and hurling it toward them. “What’s a bit of dirt when there’s a climate crisis?” his companion yelled as she rappelled out a high…
-
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 the use of violence in wholly reprehensible ways. Antifa, shorthand for the anti-fascist movement, refers to a loose decentralised coalition of groups which oppose the far right via grassroots action rather than depending on the police or the state. While the…
-
A brief taxonomy of Christian nationalism in the U.S.
A look at six loose networks of faith leaders and followers who fit some part of the definition “Christian nationalist” once summoned images of fiery extremists — stark racists concerned with keeping immigrants out of the United States, or politicians who argued that the Ten Commandments ought to coexist in law with the Constitution. Then…
-
Anti-Defamation League survey finds a spike in antisemitic beliefs
The percentage of Americans who believe in a number of antisemitic tropes has spiked in the past three years, according to the results of an Anti-Defamation League survey released Thursday. ADL leaders say years of antisemitic rhetoric from former President Donald Trump, along with emboldened violent extremism and lax social media policies are to blame….
-
ACLU CALL TO ACTION — ABORTION RIGHTS
BREAKING: The 15-week abortion ban was just introduced today. The bill number is HB2278, sponsored by Del. Byron. It’s go time. We must do EVERYTHING we can to keep this bill from moving forward. More actions to come SOON. Sign up for our email to be notified! https://action.aclu.org/…/aclu-virginia-get-updates… https://www.facebook.com/acluofvirginia/www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyaliQ
-
CALL TO ACTION: Virginia abortion Ban Protests
FROM ACLU: BREAKING: The 15-week abortion ban was just introduced Wednesday. The bill number is HB2278, sponsored by Del. Byron. It’s go time. We must do EVERYTHING we can to keep this bill from moving forward. More actions to come SOON. Sign up for our email to be notified! https://action.aclu.org/…/aclu-virginia-get-updates… https://www.facebook.com/acluofvirginia/www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyaliQP
-
White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it.
RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests circled up in the morning chill. Some clutched cups of Starbucks coffee, a last comfort before beginning the hard work of dismantling a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill in the middle of an intersection. As a small group of Confederate heritage defenders assembled nearby — at least…
-
Here we go again — Supremacists attack schools
Albemarle School Administrator Lawsuit Heard in U.S. District Court Here comes Pete The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia heard arguments on December 15 in the case of Emily Mais v. Albemarle County School Board, originally filed in April of this year. Mais is a former assistant principal at Agnor-Hurt Elementary School…
-
White Men Charged in Attack on Black Teenagers at Pool in South Africa
CAPE TOWN — A violent attack by a group of white men on two Black teenagers at a resort pool in South Africa has sparked widespread outrage, reviving images from the ugly days of apartheid and serving as a stinging reminder of the country’s unresolved racial tensions. Cellphone footage of the assault — which the…
-
Historically illuminating photos of women Black Panthers
When he was only 20 years old, photographer Stephen Shames began documenting the Black Panther Party. At the time, he was a college student at UC Berkeley. Despite this, or maybe because of it, he was able to gain the trust of people in the Black Panthers, and they allowed him into their lives to…
-
Albert Woodfox Dies of COVID; Loved Ones Remember the Life & Legacy of Famed Political Prisoner
Transcript: FROM DEMOCRACY NOW: We speak with Michael Mable about the life and legacy of his brother, Black Panther activist and political prisoner Albert Woodfox. Woodfox spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prison guard. Woodfox’s conviction was overturned for the third…
-
CHARLOTTESVILLE JUDICIARY DOES IT AGAIN — GIVES SEAL OF APPROVAL TO SUPREMACIST VIOLENCE
PETE –WE NEED YOU!!!! We especially need you to lead us in singing the refrain from this classic: A federal judge has cut by millions of dollars the damages that some of the nation’s most prominent white supremacists and hate groups owe for their role in 2017’s deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville Judge…
-
Restaurant refuses service to Christian group, citing staff ‘dignity’
A restaurant in Richmond canceled a reservation for a private event being held by a conservative Christian organization, citing the group’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion rights. “We have always refused service to anyone for making our staff uncomfortable or unsafe and this was the driving force behind our decision,” read an Instagram post…
-
Foes of Drag Queen Story Hours Invade New York Councilman’s Home
Tensions over the children’s event escalated when two protesters were arrested for trespassing. Protesters descended on the home and the office of a gay member of the New York City Council, vandalizing the walls with homophobic graffiti and attacking one of his neighbors, over his support for Drag Story Hour events at local libraries. The…
-
A mom wrongly said the book showed pedophilia. School libraries banned it.
How misinformation about ‘Lawn Boy,’ a book that was never intended for children, made it the second-most contested book last year Brandi Burkman arrived at the Texas school board meeting with a printed speech, a plastic-sheeted library book and a swelling sense of fury. The 43-year-old mother of three approached the podium at the Sept….
-
Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He Launched
Reporters for TPM obtained text messages between Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (formerly a Tea Party congressman) and 34 Republican members of Congress advocating stragegies to end democracy in America by keeping Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election. For example, South Carolina’s Republican Congressman Ralph Norman texted Meadows: “Mark, in seeing…
-
West Point to Remove Confederate Monuments From Its Campus
The United States Military Academy at West Point will start removing Confederate symbols from its campus, including taking down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from the academy’s library, officials said. Over the next year, West Point will also remove, relocate, modify or rename busts, memorials, streets and buildings…
-
Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate
A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper, an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence in a country already experiencing a sharp increase in antisemitism. Leaders of the Jewish community in the U.S. and extremism experts have…
-
Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward,…
-
Some firsts, as reported by Madison Huddle
MA: Andrea Campbell will be the state’s first Black woman Attorney General. MD: Governor-elect Wes Moore will be the first Black governor in MD history. MN: Leigh Finke becomes the state’s first transgender legislator. MN: Alicia Kozlowski (Ojibwe) will be the first non-binary person to serve in the state legislature. NH: James Roesener is elected to the NH House, becoming the…
-
Alabama coal miners begin their 20th month on strike
Hundreds of coal miners in Brookwood, Ala., reached a milestone. They’ve spent 20 months on strike. That’s well past the six-week average for strikes, according to Bloomberg Law. The miners believe it’s the longest strike in Alabama’s history. They have continued demanding their employer, Warrior Met Coal, restore the pay and benefits that were cut…
-
How to address antisemitic rhetoric when you encounter it
Trump has said that he did not know Fuentes before the dinner at Mar-a-Lago and was not aware of his reputation, but many people, including late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, have pointed out that Ye has also spread antisemitic rhetoric. The dinner has prompted calls from some of Trump’s former allies and…
-
Striking Univ. of California Grad Students Speak Out on Nation’s Largest-Ever Higher Education Strike
The largest higher education strike in U.S. history has entered an effort to secure livable wages, more child care benefits, expanded family leave and other demands. Some 48,000 academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses went on strike, including teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows. We speak with a…
-
Keep abortion safe and legal in Virginia
As our nation grapples with the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade, it’s more important than ever that Virginia uphold and expand protections for abortion access in our Commonwealth. Every person should be able to decide for themselves when, if, and how to become a parent. Ending a pregnancy is a deeply personal and individual…
-
Barbara Love, Who Fought for Lesbians to Have a Voice, Dies at 85
Barbara Love, a feminist activist who fought for gay rights and for lesbians to have a place — and a voice — in the women’s movement in its early days, died on Nov. 13 in the Bronx. She was 85. The cause was complications of leukemia and Parkinson’s disease, said her wife, Donna Smith. Raised…
-
Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find
Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said. Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a…
-
Judge Gives Ex-Philadelphia Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Man Sitting on the Ground with a Hand Up a Lenient Sentence Because Prison Would Not ‘Make Him a Better Person’
A trial highlighted how Ruch fatally fired his weapon within six seconds of arriving on the scene in the Ogontz section of Philly, where Plowden had crashed his car while being pursued in a high-speed chase by law enforcement. Prosecutors said Plowden was in the process of surrendering to the PPD when Ruch shot and…
-
Indiana Teen Overcomes Resistance in Town with Racist Past to Recognize Lynched Black Men Once Forgotten
Sophie Kloppenburg, 17, of Mount Vernon, Indiana, helped give seven Black men who were victims of the state’s largest recorded lynching a memorial 144 years after their gruesome fates. Kloppenburg became curious about the men lynched in a town where discussions on race are scarce. Her persistence paid off with a formal memorial which now…
-
The Proud Boys keep popping up at LGBTQ events
In the months before the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, researchers at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project noticed that the extremist group the Proud Boys had become more heavily intertwined with Donald Trump’s reelection bid. Members of the group had increasingly appeared at rallies explicitly focused on Trump’s…
-
Hundreds at Harvard, NYC, Chicago protest China’s actions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered at Harvard University and near Chinese consulates in New York and Chicago to support protesters who have called for that country’s leader to step down amid severe anti-virus restrictions in the biggest demonstrations against the government in Beijing in decades. About 50 protesters, mostly students at the…
-
Jewish Texans see surge in antisemitism as a precursor to fascism
As other kids in Austin recovered from trick-or-treating on Halloween last year, Sarah Adelman worried about white supremacists, her mom and their synagogue. After a series of antisemitic incidents around Central Texas, someone set fire to Congregation Beth Israel, where Sarah’s mother, Lori, is a leader. “It made me sad and really scared,” 10-year-old Sarah…
-
‘Where Are You, N—-?’: West Virginia Man Reportedly Shoots Black Man with Paintball Gun For ‘Talking to My Wife;’ Hit with Hate Crime Charges
A white West Virginia couple has been charged with two hate crimes after authorities say they terrorized two Black people in a matter of minutes. The two are accused of assaulting one African-American man, shooting him in the chest with a paintball gun, and threatening to shoot another person … this time with a real…
-
The Photo Issue: The Real Americana
Images that capture joy and pride — and speak to the true American spirit The Washington Post is closing its Sunday magazine — one of the very few outlets in the US where captivating, truth-telling, inspiring photos appear. You can see the entire series of “The Real Americana” at https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/robin-givhan-american-flag-race-photography/?itid=hp_magazine_p016_f001
-
Exclusive: Activist Angela Davis still comes to Rockland after critics shut down school-related appearance
Rockland/Westchester Journal News https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.547.0_en.html#goog_2109424138 NYACK – Activist and educator Angela Davis came to Rockland after all Thursday evening, meeting with North Rockland teens − and hundreds of others − after a planned school-sponsored event unraveled amid criticism that she was too “radical” for the county and its children. The event finally took place at Pilgrim…
-
Some Members of Trenton PD Strung Up a Toy Monkey In Black Detective’s Work Space, He Just Won a $1M Settlement Against the City
A Black detective who used to work for the Trenton Police Department has reached a settlement on a racial discrimination lawsuit with the city after his civil rights were violated on the job. Members of the force strung up a toy monkey in his area, evoking an age-old racist trope that associates people of African…
-
The “Groundhog Day” Syndrome and Progressive Movements in the U.S.
In 2003, Rick Jahnkow wrote a critique of the U.S. anti-war movement that included a reference to the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day.” For those of you unfamiliar with the film, it’s about a TV reporter, played by Bill Murray, who is sent to cover the traditional observance of a groundhog’s emergence from its burrow on…
-
Three States Banned Slavery on Election Day. One Voted to Keep It
Nearly 160 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the order that freed slaves in states rebelling against the Union during the Civil War, Louisiana voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have abolished the use of involuntary labor as a form of punishment. Similar amendments were proposed in four other states, passing in Alabama, Tennessee, and…
-
Oath Keepers Leader Convicted of Sedition in Landmark Jan. 6 Case
A jury in federal court in Washington convicted Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right militia, and one of his subordinates for a plot to keep Donald Trump in power. By Alan Feuer and Zach Montague Nov. 29, 2022 Sign Up for On Politics, for Times subscribers only. A Times reader’s guide to the political news…
-
Trump’s Far-right Embrace
Why it’s important to know more about Nick Fuentes. Donald Trump claimed he did not know who Nick Fuentes was before sitting down to dinner with him and other guests at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week. But Fuentes is certainly well known to the groups that track racist and antisemitic trends in American society. While…
-
Hate crime charges filed for assault on Asian American
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with an alleged assault on an Asian American student at the University of Cincinnati last year. Darrin Johnson, 26, of Cincinnati was arrested following his indictment by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney’s office in the southern district…
-
He was harassed for the Black Santa on his lawn. Now, he’s a professional Black Santa
It’s been two years since Chris Kennedy received a racist letter demanding that he remove the Seven-foot inflatable Black Santa on his front lawn in North Little Rock. “Please remove your negro Santa Claus yard decoration,” the letter, signed by an anonymous “Santa Claus,” read. “You should try not to deceive children into believing that…
-
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Warns of Immigrant “Invasion,” Mirroring Language Used by El Paso Shooter
In Pennsylvania, immigrant rights advocates welcomed a second bus of asylum seekers to Philadelphia sent by Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott says Texas has bused a total of over 13,000 asylum seekers to “sanctuary cities,” including Washington, D.C., and New York. Since Abbott was reelected in November, he’s intensified his hate speech against immigrants,…
-
Civil War reenactor from Virginia accused of planting pipe bomb at battlefield
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Virginia man is accused of planting a pipe bomb at a battlefield while he was a Civil War re-enactor in 2017, prosecutors said. Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, of Winchester, pleaded not guilty to 15 indictments, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia….
-
2 Hawaiian men guilty of hate crime in white man’s beating
HONOLULU (AP) — A jury found two Native Hawaiian men guilty of a hate crime for the 2014 beating of a white man who was fixing up a house he purchased in their remote Maui neighborhood. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright ordered Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. detained pending sentencing scheduled for March…
-
Kyrie Irving rejoins the Nets after suspension and apologizes
NEW YORK — Kyrie Irving has returned to the Brooklyn Nets and apologized to anyone who felt threatened or hurt when he posted a link to a documentary with antisemitic material. Irving was suspended by the team on Nov. 3 hours after he refused to say he had no antisemitic beliefs when meeting with reporters…
-
Why the 92nd Street Y Hired a Rabbi
After shifting to online programming during the pandemic and seeing its audience explode, with viewers in 200 countries as well as all 50 states, the 92nd Street Y wanted to make clear where it was. In May it changed its name to the 92nd Street Y, New York, or simply 92NY on its redesigned logo….
-
Banned book lesson thrusts Oklahoma teacher into campaign
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Summer Boismier was living her childhood dream. She grew up a bookworm, became a high school English teacher, and filled both her classroom and home with her favorite literature. She taught her students: “Stories are what is fundamental about the human experience. We all have them.” Boismier especially loves the fantasy…
-
Nike suspended its relationship with Kyrie Irving over his antisemitic post
Nike suspended its relationship with Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving, the latest action taken against the basketball star after he tweeted a link to an antisemitic film.. Nike’s move includes canceling the launch of the latest model of Irving’s shoe line,which was scheduled for release this month. “At Nike, we believe there is no place…
-
Kyrie Irving’s Links to Antisemitism Horrify His Many Jewish Fans
In New York City, the second-largest Jewish population center in the world, Nets fans are appalled and frightened. Jordana Levine and her family of longtime Nets fans were captivated at a game on Saturday night, as guard Kyrie Irving scored basket after basket on an explosive night. Ms. Levine turned to her 9-year-old daughter. “Boy,…
-
CPD Arrests Suspect Linked to Social Media Threats Against UVA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 14, 2022 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – At approximately 10:30 a.m. on November 14th, 2022, the Charlottesville Police Department (CPD), while working in conjunction with the University of Virginia Police Department, was made aware of several concerning and threatening social media posts. CPD opened an investigation into the postings and the individual…
-
Doughnut shop hit with a molotov cocktail after drag-queen art show
Around 2:30 a.m., Sarah Swain and Brian Hunter were jolted awake by a phone call from the fire department. The doughnut shop the couple owns in Tulsa had been targeted — again — just two weeks after they’d hosted an art exhibit featuring drag queens. Early that morning, a person in a dark hoodie, red…
-
MPs back motion calling on government to recognize residential schools program as genocide
Members of Parliament gave unanimous consent in favour of a motion calling on the federal government to recognize Canada’s residential schools as genocide. Leah Gazan, the NDP member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre, introduced the motion following Question Period Thursday afternoon. Gazan brought forward a similar motion in June last year, but it did not receive unanimous consent. “Today I lift…
-
Protesters Take Over South Milwaukee Streets After Video of White Man Throttling Black 24-Year-Old with Special Needs Goes Viral
A week after the release of a video of a Black man with special needs being assaulted went viral, the streets of Milwaukee were the scenes of several demonstrations aimed at bringing justice to the victim. Community stakeholders protested the incident, asking first why the aggressor targeted the victim, and now wanting answers regarding what…
-
Defense Lawyers for Ex-Missouri Cop Convicted of Killing Back Man as He Backed Into His Garage Argued Officers Had the Right to be on the Property Because It Was a Traffic Stop
A former Kansas City, Missouri, police detective who fatally shot a Black man as he was backing into his driveway in 2019 has filed an appeal to his conviction. Eric DeValkenaere is the first white law enforcement officer in Kansas City to be charged and convicted for killing a Black person in over eight decades….
-
Opinion
Stand back and stand by. Proud Boys may be coming to a park near you. On a crisp Saturday morning, the far-right nationalist group was not aiming to overthrow the result of a presidential election with a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. Their goal was to intimidate a small contingent of parents who had…
-
Officials have urged congregations to take security precautions.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning synagogues in New Jersey of a broad security threat after getting what it called “credible information” about an increased level of risk. “We ask at this time that you take all security precautions to protect your community and facility,” the F.B.I.’s Newark office wrote on Twitter “We will…
-
INSPIRATION TO ACT
For those who feel overwhelmed by the continually growing threat from the viperous fascists, here is an idea. It is starting in New York city and spreading. When will YOU organize your local event? As Thom Hartmann says “Democracy is not a spectator sport.” ABORTION WRITES!, a community writing workshop/reading/fundraiser to support reproductive rights. THIS SUNDAY. …
-
TWO MORE YEARS!!!!
REMINDER TO ALL WHO DIDN’T VOTE. YOU GOT WHAT YOU CHOSE. CHUCK BERRY WARNED YOU. Deep down in Louisiana close to New OrleansWay back up in the woods among the evergreensThere stood a log cabin made of earth and woodWhere lived a country boy named Bobby B. GoodeWho never ever learned to read or write…
-
DESPERATE TIMES
Foe those of you who, like me, “have issues” with electoral politics, you have to set them aside and follow Malcom X: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY Here are some ideas: Help get out the vote GOTV Weekend is here! Find a GOTV event near you to help candidates and causes win on Tuesday. Sat, Nov…
-
PAY ATTENTION — BOBBY B GOOD IS REPRESENTING YOU BY SPONSORING ANTI-ABORTION BILL
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Sen. Chase plans to introduce bill to ban abortion In a video posted to Facebook on Sunday, Chase said she will introduce the “Life Begins At Conception Act.” The bill mirrors the “Life At Conception Act” that Rep. Bob Good, R-5th, has co-sponsored at the federal level….
-
THE FASCIST CHOICE
Following is from a special edition of Activists Watch: I very rarely vote in federal elections. It is next to never that I vote in legislative elections. I did start to vote regularly against the Bushes. Before that, the last time I voted was for Gene McCarthy. Next Tuesday, I definitely will vote. Against the…
-
THIS IS NOT THE ELECTION TO “SIT OUT” from Thom Hartman
It’s Critical to See what a Fascist America Looks Like, Before it’s Too Late This election may well seal or determine the fate and future of democracy in the United States and, by extension, most of the rest of the world “American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States…
-
Slavery is still allowed in U.S. prisons. Now it’s on the ballot in 5 states
Five U.S. states will vote this November on whether to eliminate languagein their state constitutions that allows slavery as punishment in prisons, an exception written into the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery more than 150 years ago.. Experts say the bills — which are on the ballot in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon and Vermont —…
-
Activists Shut Down Park Ave, Take Aim at BlackRock, Chase For Climate Destruction
tIn New York City, climate and housing activists shut down Park Avenue for the fifth straight day Saturday, the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, to demand banks and major corporations stop funding fossil fuels, and that Governor Hochul tax wealthy New Yorkers to enact a Green New Deal. Dozens of activists were arrested over the…
-
US gathered intel on Oregon protesters, report shows
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration compiled extensive intelligence dossiers on people who were arrested, even for minor offenses, during Black Lives Matter protests in Oregon. Initial drafts of the dossiers even included friends of the subjects as well as their interests, but those were later removed…
-
Anonymous Twitter accounts celebrated Musk’s takeover and argued it meant the old rules against bigotry no longer applied
An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network, raising fears that his pledge of unrestricted free speech could fuel a new wave of online hate. The flood of racist posts was among the most prominent signs…
-
Penn State Cancels Event by Proud Boys Founder, Citing Threat of Violence
The university’s president said that the event had been canceled in the interests of public safety, after a peaceful protest against it turned violent.Pennsylvania State University canceled a planned comedy event on Monday that was to be co-hosted by the founder of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, after a demonstration against the speakers turned…
-
How Michael Flynn goes local to spread Christian nationalism
VENICE, Fla. (AP) — It was less than three weeks before the Sarasota County, Florida, school board election when the former White House national security adviser weighed in on the local political race. “These ‘woke’ members need to be defeated in detail this upcoming election,” Michael Flynn posted on Telegram on Aug. 6. “Our children’s…
-
The Proud Boys played an important role in the insurrection
Many Proud Boys attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. They’ve been designated a terrorist organization by the governments of Canada and New Zealand and labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit legal advocacy group. Hoel and other Sarasota Proud Boys have taken Flynn’s presence…
-
Video shows governor hopeful Dan Cox accepting gift from Md. Proud Boys
Footage posted online from Cox’s primary victory party in July shows the exchange, but it was removed after The Post contacted the Cox campaign. He said in a statement he has no affiliation with people who stormed the capitol on Jan. 6. As Del. Dan Cox (R-Frederick) worked the crowd at his primary victory…
-
Antisemitic graffiti found in UC Davis residence hall; among many racist incidents on NorCal campuses this fall
Antisemitic graffiti was found at a UC Davis residence hall, according to officials. It’s one of several recent racist incidents found around Northern California campuses including Sac State and American River College. A swastika drawing was found in Alder Hall, which is for first-year students, and was immediately removed, the chancellor said in a release….
-
Conservative PACs inject millions into local school races
As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing collection of conservative political action groups is targeting its efforts closer to home: at local school boards. Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms,…
-
52-year-old Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime After Beating a 24-year-old Black Man in Family Dollar Parking Lot with Ax Handle
Federal prosecutors in Florida accused two brothers of committing a hate crime against a Black man leaving a Family Dollar earlier in the month. The pair attacked the man, hitting them with their fists and an ax handle as they peppered him with racial slurs. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, Robert Lashley, one of the men…
-
Spotify has a white supremacist problem, watchdog says
Spotify has come under fire in the past for not stamping out extremist content and hate speech. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters/Illustration) Music-streaming giant Spotify says it prohibits content that “promotes or supports terrorism or violent extremism,” but an investigation by a civil rights group found at least 40 white supremacist artists on the platform. The report adds…
-
Behind a Migrant Shooting in Texas: A Warden and a Troubled Jail
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Jesús Iván Sepúlveda Martínez started his fateful journey to find work in the United States in his father’s car before catching a bus from Ceballos, Mexico, to the border. The 22-year-old soon slipped into Texas and, with a group of about a dozen migrants, began traversing the parched landscape east of…
-
Flyers promoting white supremacy show up in Pataskala neighborhood
PATASKALA, Ohio — Some people in a Pataskala neighborhood are outraged after racist flyers promoting white supremacy were found on their driveways. 10TV spoke with Larry Davis, who’s lived on International Drive since 1972. Davis said he found a flyer in a bag.. “It struck me as what do we want this kind of stuff…
-
The report on mishandling of remains of MOVE bombing victims has reopened old wounds
Last year, news broke that the city of Philadelphia and local universities had mishandled the remains of people who were killed during the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. An investigation into why that happened has opened old wounds, and it leaves many questions unanswered. From member station WHYY, here’s Kenny Cooper. KENNY COOPER, BYLINE: It…
-
Shots were Illegal, Unnecessary’: Former Police Officer Charged with 2020 Fatal Shooting of a Black Teen In Illinois, Investigation Finds Cop Was Not In Danger
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, Stinnette was riding in the passenger seat with Williams when the two were pulled over by a different officer. As that officer started to interrogate the couple, Williams panicked and drove off. The officer called for backup and Salinas answered the call. In a statement, the LCSAO said while speeding off the…
-
Missing people, buried bones at center of Oklahoma mystery
OKLAHOMA CITY — The caller had news but warned LaVonne Harris not to get her hopes up. Harris’s son, 33-year-old Nathan Smith, had vanished along a dirt road in Oklahoma one freezing night more than two years earlier. Detectives had long stopped checking in with her, and Harris could feel her search growing lonelier with…
-
GOP Pa. governor nominee under fire for ties to white-nationalist site
Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, is facing intense criticism for his ties to a far-right social media site, Gab, that traffics in white-nationalist rhetoric and whose founder has made overtly antisemitic comments in recent days. Mastriano, who will face a Jewish Democrat on the ballot in November, paid the site $5,000 for…
-
Black prison exonerees outpace white counterparts, study says
Innocent Black people are significantly more likely to face wrongful convictions than innocent white people, a September report by the National Registry of Exonerations found, highlighting the stark racial disparities Black Americans continue to battle within the U.S. justice system. On high-level offenses – murder, sexual assault, and drug crimes – Black Americans are seven…
-
With scoop by scoop of soil, Alexandria remembers lynched Black teens
One by one, they scooped a clump of gray-brown soil and poured it into glass jars. First came the descendants of one of the victims, then local faith leaders and elected officials, and finally two high school students who had just delivered monologues asJoseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas, the two Black teenagers lynched here in…
-
Jail warden, his brother charged in roadside shooting of Mexican migrants
Near sundown one night this week in West Texas, a white-bearded jail warden and his twin brother allegedly drove past a group of migrants trekking through the desert. Then, authorities say, the warden stopped the truck and backed up. Migrants scrambled to hide in the brush, and later told authorities they could hear a man’s…
-
Ex-soldier said he enlisted in the Army to become ‘more proficient in killing’ Black people, authorities allege
A former soldier who is federally charged with lying in his application for a security clearance said he enlisted in the Army so he’d be “more proficient in killing” Black people, prosecutors allege. Killian M. Ryan, who was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, held the rank of specialist and served in the Army until…
-
White supremacist invited to address ASU student Republican club
An Arizona State University student Republican group is hosting known white supremacist Jared Taylor. The visit has sparked community outcry and a planned protest. Taylor, despite being known for saying and publishing white supremacist and racist ideas, considers himself a “white advocate” rather than a “white nationalist.” At ASU this Friday, he is scheduled to…
-
From Yale to jail: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ path
PHOENIX (AP) — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale Law School graduate. He secured a clerkship on the Arizona Supreme Court, in part thanks to his unusual life…
-
Student walkouts planned in protest of Youngkin transgender policy
Students at several Virginia high schools have planned walkouts today, Sept. 27, in opposition to new guidelines from the administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) that would restrict the rights of transgender students. The walkouts, organized by the Pride Liberation Project, a statewide LGBTQ youth advocacy group, are scheduled throughout the day on campuses across…
-
Some Va. districts seem ready to fight Youngkin plan for trans students
A trio of northern Virginia school districts vowed to resist an order from the administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin that would sharply reduce the rights of transgender students, while others suggested they will comply, as school leaders across the state absorbed a 180-degree turn in policy on gender identity. Youngkin (R) directed all 133 of…
