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Movement for Black Lives:
Let’s mobilize 50 million people

ACLU: Know your rights while demanding justice

Poor People’s Campaign:
Do M.O.R.E.: Mobilize, Organize, Resist and Educate

Current topics

  1. Delivery riders are dying in a system that never should have been allowed to thrive
  2. Remembering a White supremacist coup
  3. Federal Prosecutors Engaged in Unprecedented Push to Jail Protesters Before Trial

November 15 to 21, 2020

  1. American Fascists And The Christian Right
  2. State Sen. Gianaris Calls PBA an ‘Armed Political Organization,’ Says It Threatened Him in Tweet
  3. New IMPD policy bans minor crime vehicle pursuits
  4. Senkata, El Alto: An act is held in memory of those killed in the massacre one year ago by the Bolivian coup regime.
  5. Trump’s election power play: Persuade Republican legislators to do what U.S. voters did not
  6. Trump lawyer blames Hugo Chavez for election results
  7. Ending the War in Afghanistan
  8. Who’s Who in the Early Race for New York City Mayor
  9. Building a More Equitable World: Carol Anderson and Ibram X. Kendi
  10. No papers, no jobs: The new street vendors of Queens
  11. Glenn Greenwald Calls Out AOC’s Fake Progressiveness.
  12. It’s Time for Public Banking in New York City
  13. What should the Biden administration do?

November 8 to 14, 2020

  1. St. Louis City voters approve plan for ‘approval voting’; what does that mean?
  2. AOC rips MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill: ‘Why do we listen to people who lost elections?’
  3. The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections
  4. UK defense chief says 25% of armed forces could be robots by 2030. this doesn’t seem to be a matter of concern or debate.
  5. Marian Wright Edelman: Millionaires and billionaires keep winning and poor children keep losing
  6. Juan González: The Media Has It Wrong. Record Latinx Turnout Helped Biden. White Voters Failed Dems
  7. Democrats: Please do it right this time. A practical program (description of it begins halfway through with “Well, I think there are two or three basic problems here”)
  8. Rev. William Barber: Millions Are Struggling. So Why Do the Debates Ignore Poverty?
  9. Scotland may look at ‘serious and long-standing concerns about Trump’s business activities’
  10. Veterans for Peace: Ways to celebrate Armistice Day
  11. Chair of GOP Freedom Caucus calls for US out of Iraq and Afghanistan
  12. The Right’s Long History of Ignoring the Will of the People
  13. History and racism of “Broken Windows” policy
  14. Occupy.com: Green New Deal VII: Defund the police
  15. Manhattan Empties, Brooklyn Hangs on as Renters Prioritize Space, Amenities Over Commute in Pandemic Economy
  16. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody This movement needs more songs

November 1 to 7, 2020

  1. Tlaib and AOC introduce public banking bill:
  2. Money that benefits Main Street, We the People and our Planet
  3. Why did so many working-class people vote against Biden?
    • and why isn’t the media asking that question?
    • And, why isn’t even The Intercept asking these question about poor people?
  4. Biden wins. Now the hard part begins
  5. #PoorPeoplesCampaign Post-Election Message to the Nation
  6. 60% of Florida voters passed $15 minimum wage while majority voted for Trump for President
  7. Organizer 101: Do’s and Don’ts
  8. Steve Bannon banned by Twitter for calling for Fauci beheading
  9. Alabama town police captain resigns after “put a bullet in their skull” comment about elections
  10. St. Louis City voters approve plan for ‘approval voting’; what does that mean?

October 25 to 31, 2020

  1. Kushner questions if Black Americans “want to be successful” in Fox News interview
  2. #EndSARS isn’t just about police brutality. It’s about the future of Nigeria.
  3. They’ve Never Wanted You to Vote
  4. The Coup Already Underway
  5. Carl Dix: White Supremacy + Voter Intimidation and Vote Stealing = Fascism! Trump/Pence OUT NOW! Defend the Right to Vote!
  6. Sen. Lindsay Graham on Trump in 2016
  7. How BlackRock is on track to infiltrate a Biden administration
  8. They call themselves ‘Wives of the Deplorables’ because their husbands support Trump
  9. How an Algorithm Blocked Kidney Transplants to Black Patients
  10. ‘Stunning’ Trump Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service
  11. A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile
  12. Activist Goes Off On Police Board For Inaction And Hypocrisy
  13. How the coronavirus is spread through the air?
  14. Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept, Claims He Was Censored
  15. Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over EHRC report comments

October 18 to 24, 2020

  1. The tenants who evicted their landlord
  2. Bolivians Return Evo Morales’s Party to Power One Year After a U.S.-Applauded Coup
  3. Nearly One Year After 2019 ‘Right-Wing Coup,’ Bolivians Head to the Polls for National Elections
  4. Uncovering the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Does he belong in prison?
  5. James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own: Eddie Glaude Jr.
  6. Alaska grocery chain fined more than $20,000 for ‘widespread’ child labor violations. The chain said they have taken steps to fix the problem.
  7. How money is corrupting the Supreme Court
  8. How Police Unions Bully Politicians

October 11 to 17, 2020

  1. ‘An unbelievable chain of oppression’: America’s history of racism was a preexisting condition for COVID-19
  2. From a small town in North Carolina to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
  3. Inequality ‘surrounds you’: A Black doctor returns to hard-hit Louisiana after treating and contracting Covid-19 in New York
  4. Far-Right Twitter Trolls Won’t Admit They Were Wrong About Killing of a “Patriot” in Denver
  5. Stop-and-Frisk Never Really Ended. Now It’s Gone Digital
  6. ‘Appalling Criminal Conduct’: California GOP Accused of Operating Fake ‘Official’ Ballot Drop Boxes
  7. He Sought Asylum After MS-13 Tried to Kill Him. Amy Coney Barrett Sent Him Back Into Danger.
  8. California Is Ready To Pilot A Postal Banking Solution
  9. Bank are hotbeds of lawbreaking and fraud
  10. Report reveals ‘long-simmering racial tensions’ in New York State courts
  11. NYPD Unit At Center Of Protest Policing Has Dozens Of Officers With Long Misconduct Histories
  12. Amy Cooper Called Police 2 Times with False Accusations Against Black Birder, Prosecutors Now Say
  13. Victory!: 3 St. Marks Place Air Rights Transfer Defeated
  14. American Mythology: Part One: Manufacturing the Carnage
  15. Mobilization4Mumia (Facebook October 14, 2020)
  16. Panel on Julian Assange to Friday Night Group
  17. Report reveals ‘long-simmering racial tensions’ in New York State courts – CNN
  18. Watch “Democracy at Work: Curing Capitalism | Richard Wolff | Talks at Google” on YouTube
  19. Facing Many Unknowns, States Rush To Plan Distribution Of COVID-19 Vaccines
  20. NYPD UNIT AT CENTER OF PROTEST POLICING HAS DOZENS OF OFFICERS WITH LONG MISCONDUCT HISTORIES
  21. CBS News: Coronavirus hot spots rage in Midwest
  22. Amy Cooper Called Police 2 Times with False Accusations Against Black Birder, Prosecutors Now Say
  23. Geneva minimum wage: Voters approve $25 an hour, believed to be highest in the world – CNN
  24. VOUCHERS TO NOWHERE: How Source of Income Discrimination Happens and the Policies That Can Fix It

Oct. 4 to Oct. 10, 2020

  1. Bikes v Cars Available free on Kanopy
  2. Regal Cinemas Closing All Movie Theaters, Including 44 In NY
  3. Alameda County DA reopens investigation into Oscar Grant killing
  4. Monopoly power:
  5. How Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Fuel Pandemics
  6. A Rising Orthodox Populist Is Leading A Violent Campaign Of COVID Denial In Borough Park
  7. Ferguson is happening in NY
  8. A Canadian research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were ‘beautifully surprising’
  9. Chris Hedges on his latest book, America: The Farewell Tour
  10. Why Pence is so good at being evil
  11. Vandalizing the Post Office

Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, 2020

  1. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: We Must Rethink Our Society, from Policing to the Supreme Court
  2. Philly Activists Reclaim 50 Vacant Houses, Creating a Model for Organizing as Mass Evictions Loom
  3. John Oliver on the Supreme Court
  4. Trump’s Taxes: A Thousand Scandals in One
  5. Trump Tax Bombshell Reveals How the System Is Rigged: A Closer Look by Seth Meyers
  6. Krystal and Saagar: NEW Data Shows Millionaires, Billionaires Own 79% Of America’s Wealth
  7. Capitalism Hits Home: Why do 38% of Americans support Donald Trump?
  8. Risks of global catastrophe from work on pathogens, nuclear weapons and AI (interesting and scary)
  9. Tulsi Gabbard believes Project Veritas’ ballot-harvesting claims against fellow Dem Ilhan Omar
  10. Governor Cuomo’s ‘Moratorium’ on Evictions Won’t Really Stop Evictions
  11. COVID Didn’t Destroy New York. Austerity Just Might.
  12. Responses to Trump / Biden Debate
  13. Krystal and Saagar: Media Mum As MASSIVE Criminal Financial Enterprise At JPMorgan Chase Exposed
  14. NYPD Beat and Arrest Peaceful Protesters in Planned Assault
  15. Sam Cooke Official Lyric Video
  16. Leftists on presidential choice:

Sept. 20 to Sept. 26, 2020

  1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Future of the Supreme Court
  2. Why do Americans give away so much control to corporations?
  3. LAPD pins female reporter to the ground and arrests her
  4. Krystal Ball: Dem war On Green Party exposes voter suppression hypocrisy
  5. How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets
  6. Highlights of #NoWar2018
  7. The NYC real estate bubble refuses to pop.
  8. Bolivia’s Socialist VP Candidate: “The Coup Against Evo Morales Was Driven by Multinationals and the Organization of American States”
  9. How a Poll Tax Becomes a Law

Sept. 13 to Sept. 19, 2020

  1. Progressive efforts against RI Democratic establishment ousted 7 state legislators
  2. Why the media is silent on Assange prosecution
  3. Indianapolis police pushing back on reforms
  4. America’s settler colonialist roots explain how we see property rights
  5. A whistleblower complaint alleging ‘high rate’ of hysterectomies in ICE detention centers parallels grim U.S. history
  6. Poorly protected postal workers are catching COVID-19 by the thousands.

Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, 2020

  1. How Facebook profits from polarization
  2. Remembering Kevin Zeese
  3. Here Is One Graph Everyone Should See on Labor Day
  4. U.S. foreign policy has to reject U.S. exceptionalism
  5. America’s real hoax is a recipe for even worse social unrest
  6. Why Your Favorite Musicians Are Broke
  7. The Postal Service: A history
  8. Tragedy of American Science: How trillions are mis-spent and the lost potential

August 30 to Sept. 5, 2020

  1. Reposting Black Panther / Fred Hampton documentary Jarrettia mentioned:
  2. Scott reflects on experience in a homeless shelter and why the apartment he just moved into comes with strings attached
  3. Oxford pledged to donate rights to their COVID vaccine, Then sold them to pharma on Gates Foundation’s advice
  4. The many faces of the radical right and how to counter their threat
  5. Do the Men Running the Post Office Have Conflicts of Interest? 
  6. Online lenders are preying on desperate borrowers and could trigger a new consumer financial crisis
  7. Tenant Unions for the Future
  8. In defense of ‘looting’
  9. What MLK and Malcolm X would do today
  10. The Conservative Defense of Kyle Rittenhouse Is Dangerous Nonsense
  11. Amazon posts then deletes job listings detailing effort to monitor ‘labor organizing threats’
  12. David Graeber, author of “Debt” who coined the term “bullsh*t jobs,” dies at 59
  13. How many new drugs rely on government-funded science? All of them
  14. How to Stop a Police Pullback
  15. The Conspiracist in Chief Will Save Us All

August 23 to August 29, 2020

  1. In Australia, COVID-19 Has Exposed a Litany of Privatization Disasters
  2. Why Is It Always the Wrong Time to Criticize Democrats From the Left?
  3. When Nixon pushed postal workers, they pushed back
  4. Gangs in Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Cost Taxpayers $55 million
  5. Is QAnon the future of the Republican Party? The Intercept
  6. Drawing a false equivalence between Ilhan Omar and Marjorie Taylor Greene is not only incorrect, but dangerous
    • The Q part is getting all the attention when her racism, Islamaphobia and anti-Semitism should be the story
  7. Black Lives Matter protesters in many states are facing felony charges, including terrorism
  8. Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills
  9. Government has ‘blood on hands’ says serving soldier investigated for protesting against war in Yemen while wearing uniform
  10. Amid backlash and disillusionment, slower reckoning for #MeToo movement in India
  11. The Movement To Abolish Prisons And The Police
  12. THE LINE: a new play crafted from firsthand interviews with New York City medical first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic

August 16 to August 22, 2020

  1. Social justice movement channels spirit of Central New York suffragist
  2. Krystal and Saagar: Polls show voters want to hear from AOC more than John Kasich despite DNC choice
  3. How Ben Carson Tried to Destroy Fair And Affordable Housing
  4. What Will the Real American Resistance Look Like — Chaotic Rebellion or Organized General Strikes?
  5. NYPD used facial recognition to track down Black Lives Matter activist
  6. Fed Economists Finger Monopoly Concentration as Underlying Driver of Neoliberal Economic Restructuring
  7. Michigan reaches over $500M settlement in Flint water crisis civil suits
  8. Democrats Drop Demand To End Fossil Fuel Subsidies From Party Platform
  9. Antifa crackdown is the new red scare
  10. Modern-Day ‘Poll Tax’ Amendment In Florida Faces Court Battle Before Election
  11. Cathy O’Neil: School Reopening Is an intentional disaster: Students are pawns in a political game
  12. De Blasio: City to begin moving homeless people out of hotels after complaints
  13. An NYC exodus

August 9 to August 15, 2020

  1. Biden names Kamala Harris as his running mate
  2. Five White Louisiana judges uphold life sentence of Black man jailed for stealing hedge clippers 23 years ago
  3. Black Lives Matter Activist Hospitalized After Police Seen Kneeling On Her
  4. Belarus: Fraudulent election
  5. Man seen near homemade explosive at Portland protest ID’ed as ex-Navy SEAL
  6. Despite ‘Frantic’ Walk-Back Efforts, Group Says Trump Threat to Destroy Social Security Must Be Believed—and Defeated
  7. Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  8. How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study
  9. Abolishing Prisons and Restorative Justice
  10. In the Wake of Protests: Symbolism that cost nothing and shifted no power
  11. Trump Effort to ‘Destroy the Post Office to Sabotage This Election’

August 2 to August 8, 2020

  1. Don’t believe the lie that voting is all you can do: Movements create change
  2. Latinos, and others, should not let the president intimidate them into not being counted
  3. 2020 Is a Great Year for #SquadPolitics. Just Ask Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib
  4. Progressive Cori Bush Just Pulled Off the Upset for the Ages
  5. Noam Chomsky Says ‘Failure To Vote For Biden in a Swing State Amounts to Voting For Trump
  6. Bloomberg News: Bankruptcies rip through U.S. mall tenants with no end in sight
  7. Golden Trump ‘Statue’ Shows BLM Protester Detained in Unmarked Fed Vehicle
  8. NYC mayor’s staffers are fleeing as he gets slammed for ‘letting the cops run over him and the entire city’
  9. After months of being sidelined by de Blasio, NYC’s top doctor calls it quits
  10. The Trump child abuse scandal
  11. America’s ‘Caste’ system
  12. An estimated 30-40 million people are at risk of eviction
  13. Student suspended after posting photo of crowded hallway
  14. Can we build a politics of hope?

July 26 to August 1

  1. More federal officers deploying to Portland as protests gain momentum
  2. How police unions fight reform
  3. A tidal wave of evictions
  4. Evil is never necessary
  5. John Lewis: Together, you can redeem the soul of our nation
  6. The pandemic is an opportunity to overhaul the economy
  7. Speech and slavery in the West Indies

July 19 to July 25

  1. Public banking efforts: Local Efforts & Legislation by State
  2. Political Correctness Is Destroying America! (Just Not How You Think.)
  3. Poor People’s Campaign:
  4. An old speech but at least as relevant today as when it was given in 2014; Enormous power of Citigroup “Let’s pass something, anything, that will help break up these giant banks” (aka: why Warren will not be Biden’s VP choice). Also worth noting that the cronyism she decries was in the Obama administration.
  5. Matt Stoller: Alexander Hamilton Wasn’t a “Cool” Guy, He Was More of a “REALLY, REALLY BAD” Guy
  6. Krystal Ball: Free Speech Warriors SILENT On Anti-BDS Laws
  7. Portland’s wall of moms joined by dads with leaf blowers
  8. A Constitutional Crisis in Portland
  9. The legal war against Trump’s anti-Immigrant census power grab ramps up
  10. NYC is now the worst place to do business, retailers say
  11. Old Karen Blocks Postmates Delivery Guy From Doing His Job, Westwood Los Angeles
  12. Community fridges across the city are fighting food insecurity, reducing waste, and uniting neighbors.
  13. U.S. ranked among worst countries to raise a family, study says
  14. Groups challenge state vote-by-mail requirements that put voters at risk during COVID-19 pandemic
  15. Civil rights leader C.T.Vivian dies
  16. Civil rights leader, Congressman John Lewis dies
  17. Commentator Michael Brooks dies at age 36
  18. Imperial Wars Always Come Home
  19. Confessions of a former bastard cop
  20. Poultry and Prisons: Toward a General Strike for Abolition
  21. U.S. Capitalism Is in Total Meltdown

July 12 to July 18

  1. Reposting to Sunday discussion:
    Black Socialists of America’s Dual-Power self-determination map
  2. Dismantle Racial Capitalism
  3. America’s Enduring Caste System
  4. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions’ career comes to an end
  5. Public banking in New York?
  6. Make the Fed Publicly Owned and the Foundation of a Public Banking System
  7. Federal agents invade Portland, Oregon
  8. ACTION: Tell Gov. Cuomo that prisoners’ families should be able to visit on reasonable terms.
  9. Having Trouble Making Rent? NY State Assistance Fund Now Open for Applications
  10. Strikes:
  11. Your White neighbors “Black Lives Matter” yard sign is not enough
  12. Are you racist? ‘No’ isn’t a good enough answer – Marlon James
  13. When SNAP Gets Squeezed
  14. Congress is running out of time to extend expanded unemployment insurance
  15. The ‘Black Lives Matter’ Street Art That Contain Multitudes
  16. March on Staten Island, 6th anniversary of Eric Garner’s killing
  17. Nicaragua: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped: Nicaragua Advances Despite US Unconventional Warfare

July 5 to July 11

  1. Global Capitalism: As US Capitalism Shakes, US Socialism Renews
  2. How the pandemic exposed faultlines in capitalism and failures of the gig economy
  3. Occupy City Hall:
  4. Black Socialists of America’s Dual-Power self-determination map
  5. Tucker Carlson’s top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
  6. ICE Offering ‘Citizens Academy’ Course with Training on Arresting Immigrants
  7. Police surveilled George Floyd protests with help from Twitter-affiliated Dataminr
  8. ‘Cancel Culture’ debate

June 28 to July 4

  1. Fredrick Douglass speech: The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
  2. To discuss this Sunday: Political Realignment?
  3. Reparations, H.R. 40 and the Path Forward
  4. Garland Nixon: News Views: Trump executive order protecting monuments
  5. Hundreds of Occupy City Hall protesters demand NYPD cut budget by $1bn
  6. NYC Budget cuts of about $4 billion from other programs got little press coverage
  7. Essential Worker Spends Week In Jail After NYPD Mass Arrests Bronx Protesters
  8. New York Protester Jailed for a Week Highlights Parole Abuses
  9. John Oliver on topics not getting much MSM attention:
  10. St. Louis Mayor Says Sorry for Doxxing Protesters
  11. Richard Wolff: Could U.S. Capitalism Turn Nationalist?
  12. Israel’s Annexation Plan, a New Era in Palestinian Resistance
  13. Why are we still in Afghanistan?

Earlier Posts

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