ILWU announcing a call for all Labor to stop in a 8 min, 46 sec vigil of silence at Noon ET June 9, to honor George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, & victims of police brutality. They state, “all lives will matter when Black lives matter because an injury to one is an injury to all.”
Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/eKY30ig2FL
— Louie Tran (@louie_tran) June 8, 2020
Racism is a deadly virus, too: A public health defense of these mass protests NY Daily News
As Trump Threatens to Send Military Into Cities, Some GIs Refuse to Comply Truthout
Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka speaks out for Black Lives Matter, faces backlash Washington Post
Abolish the police
Minneapolis: ‘Disband, defund,’ or community control, of the police FightBack!
Not just “a few bad apples”: U.S. police kill civilians at much higher rates than other countries
Remembering Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Colour killed by Canadian police
Movement to Defund Police Gains ‘Unprecedented’ Support Across US Guardian
Minnesota Law Officers Acknowledge Slashing Tires At Minneapolis Protest HuffPost
Police use tear gas banned from war on protesters at home Facing South
KKK ‘leader’ charged for attack on Black Lives Matter protesters BBC
How White Crime Writers Justified Police Brutality NYTimes
IBM ends all facial recognition business as CEO calls out bias and inequality TechCrunch
Bolivia coup
‘It Was—Then as Now—Clearly a Coup’: NYT Finally Gets Around to Reporting OAS Fraud Election Claims in Bolivia Were Bogus Common Dreams
Indigenous Peoples
Charges Dropped Against 22 Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders
Capitalist crisis
Rigged unemployment numbers—pandemic edition
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