Politics & environs 2023

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Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America

 

There is some truth to the popular protest slogan: ‘They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds’

 

Mon 29 Apr 2024 12.15 CEST

Joan Donovan

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/police-brutality-university-protest

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Norway foreign minister accuses west of double standards on Gaza at World Economic Forum – video

 

Norway's foreign minister has criticised some western countries for their inconsistent responses to violations of international law in Gaza and Ukraine. Speaking on the second day of the World Economic Forum special meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Espen Barth Eide said: 'Many western countries ... hesitated to use the same type of language against violations of international humanitarian law, for instance, that we easily apply when they are violated by Russia in Ukraine'

 

Mon 29 Apr 2024 13.31 CEST Last modified on Mon 29 Apr 2024 13.35 CEST

 Source: AP

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/29/norway-foreign-minister-accuses-west-of-double-standards-on-gaza-at-world-economic-forum-video

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Arrests made at Virginia Tech as student Gaza protests swell across US – video report

 

Crowds jeered as police arrested pro-Palestine students and forcibly removed tents set up on the campus at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Protests have been sweeping college campuses across the US after an attempt by police officers to clear a pro-Palestine encampment at Columbia University, resulting in the arrest of more than 100 students. At George Washington University, students gathered for a third day, calling for the institution to divest from Israel. Protesters broke police barricades as officers attempted to make arrests

 

Source: Reuters

Mon 29 Apr 2024 12.41 CEST Last modified on Mon 29 Apr 2024 13.18 CEST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/apr/29/arrests-made-at-virginia-tech-as-student-gaza-protests-swell-across-us-video-report

[umbertino]

Rabbi Alissa Wise & Israeli-Born Novelist Ayelet Waldman Arrested Trying to Bring Food to Gaza

 

April 29, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/29/rabbis_for_ceasefire_erez_crossing

 

 

[umbertino]

Google Fired Us for Protesting Its Complicity in the War on Gaza. But We Won’t Be Silenced

 

We have been demanding that Google cut its ties to Israel’s apartheid government for years, and we’re not stopping now

 

April 29, 2024

Mohammad Khatami, Zelda Montes, and Kate Sim

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/google-firings-gaza-project-nimbus/

[umbertino]

Never Forget Portugal’s Revolution (1974)

 

By  Nick Burns

04.25.2024

 

 

 

 

 

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/portugal-revolution-military-coup-anti-colonialism

[umbertino]

What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes?

 

The Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help him

 

Mon 29 Apr 2024 19.47 CEST

Kenneth Roth

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/netanyahu-icc-war-crimes

[umbertino]

Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza?

 

Nothing screams ‘covering up war crimes’ like insisting that there should absolutely not be an independent investigation

 

Tue 30 Apr 2024 11.04 CEST

Arwa Mahdawi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-investigation-gaza-mass-graves

[umbertino]

“We Don’t Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians”: Voices of Students & Profs at Columbia Protest

 

April 30, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/30/hind_hall_columbia

[umbertino]

Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’?

 

The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of ‘woke’ terrorism. It’s a pretext for repression

 

Tue 30 Apr 2024 19.53 CEST

Cas Mudde

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-campus-peace-protests-overreaction-gaza

[umbertino]

Workers at far-right site Gateway Pundit feared credibility issues, filing shows

 

Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, election workers suing website for defamation, made disclosure in April court filing

 

Sam Levine in New York

Wed 1 May 2024 12.00 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/gateway-pundit-2020-election-lies
 

[umbertino]

Months After Israel Killed Gaza Poet Refaat Alareer, His Daughter & Infant Grandson Die in Airstrike

 

April 30, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/30/jehad_refaat

[umbertino]

May Day Greetings Book 2024: Save democracy, stop the genocide

 

April 30, 2024 10:02 PM CDT By People’s World

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/may-day-greetings-book-2024-save-democracy-stop-the-genocide/

[umbertino]

Northern California students stand up for Palestine

 

ARCATA, Calif. – The university administration had shut down the campus of California Polytechnic University Humboldt—commonly known as Cal Poly Humboldt— and urged the students to vacate the campus, but the student who welcomed me on Thursday had a warm smile and the words, “We love Palestine and we love Jewish folk”

 

April 30, 2024 10:35 AM CDT

By Henry Millstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/northern-california-students-stand-up-for-palestine/

[umbertino]

The Attacks on the Palestine Movement Are Getting Stupider by the Second

 

The enemies of the movement have always been bigots and liars. But we’re reaching an even more hysterical state. What’s going on?

 

April 30, 2024

P.E. Moskowitz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/the-attacks-on-the-palestine-movement-are-getting-stupider-by-the-second/

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‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’: student photographers’ best images of the campus protests

 

Nine photojournalists from across the US tell the stories behind their most powerful shots, as pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns

 

Thu 2 May 2024 10.00 CEST

by Gail Fletcher and Julius Constantine Motal with text by Erum Salam

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/02/university-protests-gaza-student-pictures

[umbertino]

I never thought people like me voted for the far right. I was wrong

 

In Germany the AfD uses second-generation members to overhaul its xenophobic image – some buy into the message

 

Thu 2 May 2024 08.00 CEST

Khuê Phạm

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/02/immigrant-germans-vote-far-afd

[umbertino]

Why are billionaires scared of Brazil’s plan to hit them with a global tax? Because it makes perfect sense

 

As the fortunes of the super-rich soar, a proposed annual levy of 2% could offer a corrective – and they will fight it tooth and nail

 

Thu 2 May 2024 12.00 CEST

Larry Elliott

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/02/brazil-global-tax-billionaires-perfect-sense

[umbertino]

When We Occupied Columbia in 1978, the University Didn’t Call the NYPD

 

Campus administrators met student demands to divest from apartheid-era South Africa. What’s changed?

 

May 2, 2024

D.D. Guttenplan

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/columbia-campus-occupation-1978-divestment-nypd/

[umbertino]

Rebuilding homes in Gaza will cost $40bn and take 16 years, UN finds

 

Agency pushing to raise funds as research shows 44 years of development in health and education could be erased by the war

 

Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Lorenzo Tondo

Thu 2 May 2024 18.43 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/02/rebuilding-homes-in-gaza-will-cost-40bn-and-take-16-years-un-finds
 

[umbertino]

The pro-Palestinian US campus protests in maps, videos and photos

 

A visual guide to the protest movement and the police response

 

Thu 2 May 2024 19.37 CEST

by Bryony Moore , Lucy Swan, Tural Ahmedzade and Alex Olorenshaw

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/the-pro-palestinian-us-campus-protests-in-maps-videos-and-photos

[umbertino]

The Odessa,Ukraine trade union massacre, ten years later

 

On May 2, 2014, heavily-armed fascist militia forces attacked the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. Trapped inside were demonstrators opposed to the right-wing government in Kiev that had been put in place in a U.S.-orchestrated coup just weeks earlier.

 

The new government had been established in the wake of the February 2014 “Euromaidan” protests that overthrew the corrupt albeit democratically-elected administration of President Viktor Yanukovych. Trying to play Russia and the EU off one another to get the best economic deal for Ukraine when he was in charge, Yanukovych became the target of Western-backed business interests in Ukraine and ultra-nationalist groups. The latter joined together, with U.S. support, to carry out a coup and sent Yanukovych running for Moscow...............

 

May 2, 2024 11:01 AM CDT

By John Wojcik

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-odessa-trade-union-massacre-ten-years-later/

[umbertino]

Columbia’s Violence Against Protesters Has a Long History

 

An overlooked history of selective policing at Columbia has undermined the safety of those within as well as beyond campus walls

 

Today 8:56 am

T. M. Song

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/columbia-protests-police-history/

[umbertino]

UK surgeon who described Gaza ‘massacre’ denied entry to France

 

Ghassan Abu-Sitta, who was due to speak in French senate, is told Germany has enforced Schengen-wide entry ban

 

Geneva Abdul and Kim Willsher in Paris

Sat 4 May 2024 16.44 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/uk-surgeon-who-described-gaza-massacre-denied-entry-to-france
 

[umbertino]

‘I love my country, but I can’t kill’: Ukrainian men evading conscription

 

As the war stretches on indefinitely, there are few eager recruits and Kyiv’s armed forces are short of soldiers

 

Luke Harding in Kyiv with photos by Alessio Mamo

Sat 4 May 2024 07.00 CEST




https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/i-love-my-country-but-i-cant-kill-ukrainian-men-evading-conscription