Palestine
Jerusalem Uprising Rages after Israeli Far-Right March
The Jerusalem uprising, as it has been dubbed (in Arabic intifada al-Quds), raged last night in occupied Jerusalem for the 11th night in a row in protest against Israeli police and settlers’ provocations and assaults on the city’s Palestinian residents, and expanded to reach the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israeli police violence in Jerusalem for a second night The New Arab
Israel lobby’s “Death to the Arabs” damage control Electronic Intifada
Over the last few days, disturbing videos have shown mobs of Israeli Jewish youths rampaging through occupied East Jerusalem and attacking Palestinians. “Every evening this week, dozens of young Jews walked around Jerusalem’s city center, chanting ‘Death to Arabs’ and attacking passersby with stones and tear gas,” Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday
Israel criticized for silencing call to prayer from Al-Aqsa Mosque Religion News Service
Spirited SF Protest at KQED/NPR for Showing “Philly DA” That Censors Mumia…..Again
Mass Protests Led to Chauvin’s Conviction. Now They’re Being Criminalized. Truthout
David Fowler’s cases in Maryland to be reviewed after he testified for Derek Chauvin Washington Post
Family Of Andrew Brown Jr. Demands Release Of Bodycam Video As Demonstrators Take To The Streets NewsOne
Oklahoma Governor Signs Law Granting Immunity for Drivers Who Kill Protesters Truthout
U.S. Marshals Used Drones to Spy on Black Lives Matter Protests in Washington, D.C. Intercept
Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course Guardian
Remains of those killed in 1985 Move bombing in Philadelphia serve as ‘case study’ in Princeton-backed course
The bones of Black children who died in 1985 after their home was bombed by Philadelphia police in a confrontation with the Black liberation group which was raising them are being used as a “case study” in an online forensic anthropology course presented by an Ivy League professor.
It has emerged that the physical remains of one, or possibly two, of the children who were killed in the aerial bombing of the Move organization in May 1985 have been guarded over the past 36 years in the anthropological collections of the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.
The Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular. But Actual Black Panthers Have Been Forgotten. TNR
Innocent man billed $4,000 for jail stay Boing Boing
#COVID19
“Americans First”: US Defends Export Ban On Covid Vaccine Raw Materials To India NDTV
Pharmaceutical Industry Dispatches Army of Lobbyists to Block Generic Covid-19 Vaccines Intercept
The Pandemic Has Shown Pfizer Is Obsessed With Profits—Not Saving Lives Common Dreams
The Media War Against Cuban Vaccines Internationalist 360°
Indigenous Peoples
Tribes Want Medals Awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre Rescinded NYTimes
Labor
It’s all too easy for employers to interfere in union elections Washington Post
The New York Times Won’t Voluntarily Recognize 650 Member Tech Workers Union Labor411
Ukraine
How war is making water a scarce resource in eastern Ukraine Euronews
Earth Day
Evo Morales’ Earth Day Message
China
Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with ChinaMPN
The Stock Market Is Just One Hedge Fund Blowup Away from a Crash. Here’s the Ugly Math. Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Over $200 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market in a day as bitcoin plunges below $50,000 CNBC
CR Engineers Show a Tesla Will Drive With No One in the Driver’s Seat Consumer Reports
Money Market Funds Melted in Pandemic Panic. Now They’re Under Scrutiny. NYTimes
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