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igd_news , 17 hours ago to random

Just as under Trump, far-Right protesters engaging in actual violence against people are let off, while protesters on the Left face felonies and conspiracy charges.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-21/man-arrested-in-attack-on-ucla-pro-palestinian-protesters-wont-face-felony-charges

igd_news , 6 days ago to random

Anarcho-punks in #Myanmar are confronting devastating inflation and rising food costs by organizing a Food Not Bombs chapter.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/hunger-soars-in-myanmar-and-electricity-rises-punks-bring-hope/103877068

igd_news , 8 days ago to random

Neo-Nazis followers of Nick Fuentes are in #Detroit, #Michigan.

They've reportedly been kicked out of several venues already.

igd_news , 17 days ago to random

The Israeli state spent millions on a social media disinformation campaign using ChatGPT to create fake social media accounts that posted pro-war, pro-Israel content, pressured politicians, and also attacked growing campus protests. The campaign even "created three fake English-language news sites featuring pro-Israel articles."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html

igd_news , 17 days ago to random

"An Idaho jury awarded a drag performer $1,176,000 in damages after finding that a right-wing blogger defamed him by falsely claiming that he exposed himself to minors at an LGBTQ+ Pride event."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/other/a-drag-performer-was-awarded-1-1m-after-a-blogger-falsely-accused-him-of-exposing-himself-to-minors-during-a-pride-event/ar-BB1nfUZM

igd_news , 17 days ago to random

Announcing the Bay Area Anarchist Free School, with classes happening across the bay area of #California.

More info here: https://bafs.noblogs.org/classes/

igd_news , 18 days ago to random

As #Pride events are held across the US and beyond, we're sharing this collection of resources about countering far-Right bigots once again.

https://itsgoingdown.org/defendpride/

igd_news , 20 days ago to random

The second member of a violent neo-Nazi group famous for decrying drag queens and the LGBTQ+ community as "pedophiles" has been arrested for possessing child pornography.

https://itsgoingdown.org/nsc-131-arrested-child-porn/

igd_news , 21 days ago to random

"During our discussion, we speak with Lee about how elites, capitalists, and city bureaucrats are banking on gentrification and how people are pushing back against displacement. We also discuss the crisis of rising rents, how gentrification is tied to a push to better police the poor and communities of color, growing attacks on the houseless, and the tenant union movement."

https://itsgoingdown.org/andrew-lee-on-displacement-rising-rents-and-social-war/

igd_news , 25 days ago to random

"Atlanta police have been carrying out around-the-clock surveillance in several neighborhoods for months, on people and houses linked to opposition against the police training center colloquially known as “Cop City”.

The surveillance in Georgia has included following people in cars, blasting sirens outside bedroom windows and shining headlights into houses at night, the Guardian has learned."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/29/atlanta-police-cop-city-surveillance

igd_news , 27 days ago to random

"Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.

“One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,” Trump said on May 14, according to donors at the event."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/

igd_news , 27 days ago to random

"The organized Right is a mass movement for inequality and thus needs to brand itself as an alternative to the system it exists to uphold and defend."

https://itsgoingdown.org/theres-no-liberty-under-fascism-and-no-alternative-in-trump/

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

"On May 20, University of California (UC) student and postdoc workers at the Santa Cruz campus began a historic strike against the repression of the student movement. UAW 4811, which represents over 48,000 workers, voted last week to authorize a strike in response to intense repression unleashed against students and faculty protesting for Palestine."

https://truthout.org/articles/university-of-california-student-workers-strike-against-repression-on-campus/

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

"The National Counterterrorism Center’s (NCTC), a part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is beefing up its intelligence collection and analysis of “extremist” groups associated with domestic terrorism, particularly a domestic category called “Anti-government and anti-authority violent extremists,” according to a source inside the community.

On May 10, the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray asking “whether the FBI had any related undercover employees, online covert employees, or confidential human sources” among what it called “pro-Hamas protests on college campuses.”'

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-intelligence-community-is-spying

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

"Accepting the dominance of top-down and would-be vanguardist organizations hurts movements. Silencing criticisms of such groups in the name of “unity” is no excuse. We have seen time and again how these organizations ultimately prioritize their own organizational interests, which means recruiting, capturing the spotlight, spreading their party line, not dirtying their hands with real, long term organizing, not dedicating time to the labor of care or prisoner support, and sending others to carry out risky actions without informing them of the risks, without supporting them when they are arrested, and without taking risks themselves."

https://itsgoingdown.org/open-letter-to-the-encampments-and-protests-in-support-of-palestine/

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

"For all the talk of “gun rights” and “standing your ground,” the instruction manual for this society is quite clear: it is only for those who tow the ruling class line and who aren’t pushing to attack this shit-show we call capitalism and white supremacy. The pardoning of Daniel Perry is a warning: that the State is willing to sanction and support extreme violence and outright murder against those it deems as political enemies."

#GarretFoster #DanielPerry #Texas #BlackLivesMatter #2A

https://itsgoingdown.org/texas-governor-pardons-far-right-killer/

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

Blow by blow account of the defense of the #UCLA #Palestine solidarity encampment from the far-Right and riot police.

"Well into the next morning, the screams encouraged the other several hundred students guarding the barricade to remain steadfast, repel any instigators, and hold the line. Then there are the calls for medics, frequent and piercing. Students were often rushed out of the side entrance bloodied, confused, or drenched in pepper spray, and sent off for triage. Just as my group arrived, we witnessed a small string of students being escorted out of the camp with bloody heads."

Photo via @/huntedhorse

https://itsgoingdown.org/the-cops-brought-guns-ucla-report

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

"A radical politics of divestment is reviving the traditions of internationalist anti-fascism. There is perhaps no clearer sign of this than the words spray-painted on the side of a tent in Rafah: ​“Thank you students in solidarity with Gaza, your message has reached.”'

https://inthesetimes.com/article/fascism-debate-trump-democrats-gaza-campus-protest

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

"The negligible acts of property damage were not, of course, what was being policed. Nor was the holding of campus space; students have done this before in recent decades without their university administrators inviting the force of militarized police.

Instead, it was the protesters’ message that was being handcuffed — the condemnation of Israel and the calls for a free Palestine — and young peoples’ commitment to it."

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

Hitler saluting neo-Nazi Narek Palyan joined with far-Right supporters of Israel tonight to attack supporters of the #Palestine liberation encampment at #UCLA.

Narek Palyan at UCLA standing next to pro-Israel counter-protesters.

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

From the Escalate Network "anti-genocide protesters have taken over Jackson Square in New Orleans. Tents have been put up. This is the first non-university Gaza solidarity encampment, to our knowledge." #NOLA #NewOrleans #Palestine

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

On our latest podcast, we spoke with student organizers at #Columbia + #Humboldt about why they're taking part in an anti-war movement in solidarity with #Palestine that is sweeping the US + grassroots journalist @VPS_Reports about police violence in Los Angeles against demonstrators.

Listen here: https://itsgoingdown.org/voices-from-inside-the-growing-anti-war-movement/

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

People are holding their ground when police attempt to push them off campus.

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

Report from #Atlanta, police brutally suppressed attempt to set up encampment at Emory college - a campus where protests have been ongoing against Cop City.

Atlanta Community Press Collective reporting that "Police have deployed tear gas. There are also reports of tazing and rubber bullets deployed against the protesters on the Emory quad." Reports of around 20 arrests.

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

Some of anarchist Aaron Bushnell's final words in chalk outside of the occupation of an administration building at Humboldt State in #Arcata, #California.

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?

The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

"We're staring down the gun of fascism. Free #Palestine."

#LAPD has flooded the University of Southern California campus. Students have locked arms in defiance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8PyFFR0o2w

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

Faculty at #UTAustin has put out a statement condemning the police violence and occupation of the campus today.

They are calling for work stoppages and no classes tomorrow.

#Austin #NotOurTexas

igd_news , 1 month ago to random

Neoliberalism in one photo.

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

Politicians from both ruling parties are comparing anti-war protesters on school campuses to the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville and some are even calling for the National Guard to be used against them on campus.

These are calculated attacks designed to dehumanize human beings in the eyes of the public, attack solidarity, and grease the wheels of repression. These calls for systematic state violence echo the attacks against anti-war, divestment, and anti-apartheid protesters in the 1960s and 1980s.

Solidarity is our weapon. Use it.

Black student beaten by police at SF State in 1968.
Student beating bloody by police at Columbia university during a student led strike against the Vietnam war and racism.

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

Politicians and elites are denouncing the growing campus solidarity encampments calling for divestment from the state of Israel - just as they did against the Vietnam war and South African apartheid - but now under the banner of 'anti-Semitism.'

Where was this concern when for years the Alt-Right and neo-Nazi groups flooded universities with actual anti-Semitic posters, stickers, and speakers?

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

"Even if these bills fail, they contribute to a climate of intimidation that chills speech and deters people from taking action."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/war-protest-standing-rock-cop-city-repression-criminalize-dissent-political-rights-first-amendment

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

Police have begun making arrests at #Columbia university in a direct attack on the anti-apartheid encampment.

A rally is growing next to the campus as the community rallies in support.

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

Hundreds at #Columbia university and growing. Organizers are calling on people to bring blankets and stay through the night. #CU4Palestine

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

Calls for a ceasefire and an end to the war are growing louder and public opinion against the genocide in #Palestine is turning.

Far-Right Republicans and Centrists - fearful that the interests of elites, the Pentagon, and the war machine are being threatened - are now attempting to fear-monger and grease the wheels of repression.

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

"What are you?!"

"A squatted restaurant, chef!"

https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/world-news/gordon-ramsays-london-pub-york-amp-albany-taken-over-by-squatters/

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

As popular anger against the continued war in #Gaza and genocide against Palestinians continues - student walkouts, campus occupations, and blockades of military bases, ships, and beyond continues.

Calls are also growing for blockades on April 15th “to disrupt and blockade economic logistical hubs and the flow of capital."

#FreePalestine #Palestine #CeasefireNow

Photos via @indybay and @alissaazar

Check out our roundup and report here: https://itsgoingdown.org/walkouts-blockades-occupations-palestine-spring/

igd_news , 2 months ago to random

Blockades of military bases in #California continues in solidarity with #Palestine. This recent action was met with police brutality.

"During these arrests they violently attacked several femmes, and threw several to the ground. Of those attacked, one was knocked unconscious from the force of the police assault. Another who had arrived with a walker due to hip injuries, was thrown to the ground and hospitalized. Immediately after the arrests were made police moved to try and arrest protesters who had never entered the street, but they were stopped by other police. "

Report via @indybay: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/03/23/18864476.php

igd_news , 3 months ago to random

Don't miss the latest edition of @cdntirefire, featuring news, action, and analysis of autonomous social movements and struggles across so-called #Canada.

This installment includes a huge roundup of actions and blockades in solidarity with #Palestine, a look at direct actions against a Northvolt battery plant in #Quebec, and anti-logging blockades on Atikamekw territory.

Read and share here: https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-69/

igd_news , 3 months ago to random

In #Tacoma, #Washington at the Northwest Detention Center, La Resistencia reports that a hunger strike has kicked off inside the facility and is on its fifth day with "300+ people striking following the death of Charles Leo Daniel and two subsequent suicide attempts yesterday." Supporters have also set up a "24/7 Encampment outside."

For more updates, follow: https://www.instagram.com/laresistencianw/

igd_news , 3 months ago to random

Antifascists have unmasked the creator behind the white supremacist 'StoneToss" comics.

They document his direct ties to the neo-Nazi movement in the US - with StoneToss even attending a meet-up with members of Patriot Front.

https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/12/stonetoss-redpanels/

igd_news , 3 months ago to random

Yesterday, water protectors and forest defenders shut down construction against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in #Appalachia.

igd_news , 3 months ago to random

"The move is yet another piece of the Signal ethos to keep as little data on hand as it can, lest the authorities try to intrude on the company."

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/signal-app-username-phone-number-privacy/

igd_news , 4 months ago to random

"Food Not Bombs Houston, the organization that has been ticketed 90 times over the last year for providing free meals to homeless individuals near City Hall, has declared victory after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen granted two orders Wednesday essentially telling the City of Houston to stop citing volunteers with the organization, at least for now."

https://abc13.com/food-not-bombs-wins-injunction-houston-volunteers-ticketed-for-feeding-homeless-downtown-free-meals-near-city-hall/14426341/

igd_news , 4 months ago to random

Workers at #CityLights bookstore in #SanFrancisco have joined the IWW, joining with other service workers, teachers, recyclers, and others in the growing anarcho-syndicalist union.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/94207-city-lights-workers-establish-a-union.html

igd_news , 5 months ago to random

Far-Right grifters such as Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, disgraced Tucker Carlson writer Blake Neff, and Jack "Pizzagate" Posobiec are preparing a campaign around attacking Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Act.

Echoing decades of propaganda by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, Turning Point USA is now claiming that Americans have been fed a “fake history" of MLK.

As the GOP doubles down on pushing the white nationalist conspiracy theory of the "Great Replacement," racist trolls like Kirk and Posobiec are going to continue to spoon feed misinformation to their base in an effort to mainstream outright white supremacy.

Read the article in Wired here: https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/

igd_news , 5 months ago to random

The facts are clear - the so-called "moral panic" around "organized" shoplifting rings was a smokescreen of deliberate disinformation pushed by massive corporate retail chains and politicians to back more draconian legislation aimed at attacking the poor in the aftermath of the George Floyd rebellion and the pandemic - amidst record price gouging, corporate profits, and ever expanding inequality.

https://www.vox.com/politics/24025691/shoplifting-scare-criminal-justice-reform