New Orleans is the latest to refuse a $300 million grant program that critics say would build Trump’s police state, reports Mike Ludwig.
New Orleans Rejects Trump’s ‘Model City’
Category: Protest
Confronting ICE at the Polls
Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets, reports Mike Ludwig.
The ‘Red Scare’ Repression of ICE-Watch Activists
Free-speech advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools and libraries in Minnesota, reports Mike Ludwig.
‘Barclays 5′ Palestine Activists Won’t Be Tried as Terrorists
A U.K. judge ruled Friday that the damage protesters caused at a bank branch was not enough to merit terrorism sentencing, Dania Akkad reports. Sentencing is on Sept. 4.
UK Jury Refuses to Convict 7 From Palestine Action
After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges of organizing a raid on an Israeli weapons plant and the defendants were discharged Wednesday.
Caitlin Johnstone: Another Day in Dystopia
While the planet burns and the sky is full of Flock’s police-camera tyranny, AI is increasingly pervasive and intrusive and making everyone dumber and exposed to wild unpredictability.
Jonathan Cook: The ‘Morbid Symptoms’ of a Dying West
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us.
US Inciting Global Persecution of Dissidents
After Marco Rubio’s meeting last month to rally allies against “far-left terrorism,” an Argentine rights group considers the pattern of political persecution it seeks to export worldwide.
Hedges Report: Democracy Needs Resistance
Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion discusses his new book and the tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems.
Nyerere’s Grandson: Why I Support Palestine Action
A descendant of Tanzania’s first president, Julius Nyerere, tells Old Bailey why he supports Palestine Action and wants to stop Gaza genocide, Phil Miller reports.