Pearly Young, 77, was killed today in #Buffalo shopping for groceries.
For 25 years she ran a pantry where every Saturday she fed people in Central Park. Every. Saturday.
She loved singing, dancing, & being with family.She was mother, grandma, & missionary. Gone too soon 🕊 pic.twitter.com/dQ5X9KBJCQ
— Madison Carter (@madisonlcarter) May 15, 2022
Names & ages of those slain in the Buffalo Massacre only scratch the surface.
Celestine Chaney, 65
Roberta A. Drury, 32
Andre Mackneil, 53
Katherine Massey, 72
Margus D. Morrison, 52
Heyward Patterson, 67
Aaron Salter, 55
Geraldine Talley, 62
Ruth Whitfield, 86
Pearl Young, 77— Janai Nelson (@JNelsonLDF) May 16, 2022
American Racism and the Buffalo Shooting Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Violent White People Peacefully Arrested By Police NewsOne
Only in America can police respond to separate calls for similar incidents and have two drastically different results depending on the race of the suspect.
Resident Physicians Are Unionizing. They Must Challenge For-Profit Health Care. Truthout
Trader Joe’s Workers Announce Intent To Unionize In Letter To CEO Labor411
Study Shows Most Employees At Large Chains Still Get Paid Less Than $15 An Hour Labor411
#COVID19
New versions of Omicron are masters of immune evasion Science
Our COVID blunder: Some learn from experience. Some don’t Godfree Roberts
Palestine
A British coup?
Operation Surprise: leaked emails expose secret intelligence coup to install Boris Johnson Grayzone
Venezuela
Ex-Pentagon Chief Reveals Trump Asked Guaidó to Kill Maduro FARS
Esper admits terror plotting against Venezuela Kawsachun News
Palestine
My Nelson Mandela is dead MR Online
On the wall of the courtyard at “The Citadel” in Beit Sahour is a mural of great Palestinian figures, both women and men. Many of them are dead; those who still live spent time in prison and are prohibited from living in their homeland. And yet Palestinians are constantly demanded to answer the question, “Where is the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?”
China
China Warns NATO Not To Interfere In Asia OilPrice
Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC Caitlin Johnstone
U.S./NATO war
The Subtleties of Anti-Russia Leftist Rhetoric Edward Curtin
Why Ukraine war has no winners Indian Punchline
NATO expansion
Putin tells Finnish president: Joining NATO would be ‘mistake’ Al Jazeerah
Russia Cuts Off Electricity to Finland as Tensions Grow Common Dreams
Finland formally confirms intention to join Nato Guardian
Finland Holds War Drill Alongside U.S. Soldiers Ahead of NATO Application WSJ
Long wary of Moscow’s intentions, Finland’s membership would double the length of NATO’s border with Russia
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake ‘public opinion’ for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” — V.I. Lenin
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