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1. United States: What if Black insurrectionists said: ‘We’re taking over the Capitol to end racism’?

   Anti-racism Democracy Elections Far right North America Malik Miah 2021 attack on US Capitol Black ... been met by armed police and National Guard units. Blood would have flowed on the streets even without ... white skin. It is the only way to understand what happened on January 6 and how the state has responded ...

2. United States: The battle against Trumpism can’t be left to the Democrats

   then capitalists after the Civil War — and their political parties have been founded on and enforce ... personally loyal to him, believe whatever he says, and ready to do what he wants. Trump is now taking on ... a more public role, including projecting mass rallies, his preferred venue. The first one happened on ...

3. United States: Protests continue against voter suppression

   American Civil War in 1865, the country was at a crossroads. The US might have built a society based on ... a speech in Philadephia on July 13, where Biden attacked the Republican effort to overturn the will of the ... the face to civil rights and Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders and other activists on the ground. ...

4. United States: Kamala Harris selection causes racist and sexist backlash by Trump

   ’s rights, especially on the 100 th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. The suffragette movement ... Anti-racism Democracy Elections Imperialism & war Malik Miah United States elections Black ... far left”. This is no accident. Black women have always been denigrated more than any other group in ...

5. United States: We must fight Trumpism until we win

   Anti-racism Elections Far right Imperialism & war Malik Miah Trumpism and anti-Trumpist ... experts on how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. We live in a country in epistemological crisis, ... American problem. All around the world, rising right-wing populist parties are floating on oceans of ...

6. United States: Republicans target trans, gender diverse people

   Maryland, on May 4. “It is clear that fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of ... plays on those fears to mobilise a culture war against Black and Brown people, the LGBTI community, ... was a 28-year-old Black trans woman. Tyianna was shot and killed in Chicago, on January 6. Samuel ...

7. United States: Derek Chauvin sentenced for George Floyd's murder

   violence Derek Chavin was sentenced to 22.5 years in a Minnesota prison on June 25, for the murder of ... seconds on Floyd’s neck on May 25 last year. “I do want to give my condolences to the Floyd family,” ... himself: Why? What were you thinking? What was going through your head when you had your knee on my ...

8. United States: Black Lives Matters stands with #EndSARS movement in Nigeria

   Africa Anti-racism Imperialism & war North America Malik Miah Black Lives Matter #ENDSARS ... protests against state violence. More than 69 civilians were shot dead on October 20–21. Twelve people were ... to condemn the assault on the peaceful march. “Opening fire on peaceful protesters is a blatant ...

9. From the Tulsa massacre to George Floyd: Race, class and state in the United States

   shed light on how race continues to frame political debate and politics in the United States. First, ... Secondly, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of May 31 to June 1, 1921, revealed current fault lines on ... exception to the norm. Cops who kill Black men or women are rarely charged, much less convicted. Police and ...

10. United States: Republicans step up racist, anti-democratic attacks

    The right-wing cultural war in the United States is not an academic debate about race, history and ... youth, and for women’s right to abortion and jobs. The Republican Party has turned to a cult figure, ... traces of bamboo on last year’s ballots, seemingly trying to prove a conspiracy theory that the election ...

11. United States: Right to vote under assault

    discrimination on the basis of sex but did not recognise an inherent right to vote. Black women, of course, were ... Black and Brown citizens. The Republican Party is leading the attack, following on from former President ... closed doors by Republican state governor, Brian Kemp on March 25. The law adds a photo identification ...

12. United States: Demands for new probe into Malcolm X assassination

    white pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol on January 6. Black men and women continue to be killed. In that ... behind Macolm's assassination on February 21, 1965. In the letter he admits he was part of ... a conspiracy targeting Malcolm. The letter was presented at a news conference in New York on February 20, by ...

13. United States: Trump's race election polarises the nation

    embassy to Jerusalem, support the Saudi war on its people and Yemen, and its drone attacks in the region. ... passed that threshold on November 7. What has become the norm in 48 states is that all Electoral College ... are allocated differently. The Electoral College will meet on December 14 to rubber-stamp the outcome. ...

14. Trump’s 'Shakespearean' ploys to stay in power

    legislators from Pennsylvania “ disavowed their own election “ and called on Congress to reject the state’s ... electors for Joe Biden on December 4. United States President Donald Trump is being “enabled” by Republican ... than later”, the New York Times reported on December 5. A Washington Post survey found that only 27 of ...

15. United States: Next steps for Black Lives Matter movement, elections and beyond

    racism and anti-democratic views are on display every day. He sees the extremists as an important part of ... who was seeking strong anti-virus protections in the state. Trump especially disrespects strong women ... . Whitmer refuses to buckle to Trump and his extremist base. She has called him out repeatedly. On October ...

16. United States: Justice requires the legal system be abolished and replaced

    needs to be abolished and replaced. During the midnight raid on their apartment, Taylor’s boyfriend ... a crime. Speaking at a memorial for Taylor in Jefferson Square Park in Louisville on September 23, Until ... video on YouTube, The Universe Is Watching Us, in which he said: “You say you believe that ‘all lives ...

17. United States: Police shooting of Jacob Blake intensifies racial reckoning

    state live. The man, Jacob Blake jnr, was intervening in a street dispute between two women on August ... provocateurs, who came to Kenosha to incite a “race war”. A Facebook post had called on white extremists to come ... Black people in America. Black men, Black women, Black kids, we are terrified.” On August 26, the Major ...

18. United States: Unions to strike for Black lives

    officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck — in remembrance of Black men and women who recently died at ... to “Strike for Black Lives” on July 20. Fast food, ride-share, nursing home and airport workers in ... the hands of police. Strike for Black lives Associated Press reported on July 8 that strike organisers ...

19. Black lives do not matter in the US

    violence California Black men and women are murdered by cops and white thugs, and nothing happens. The ... regularly did ‒ in a small town in south Georgia on February 23. He stopped at a house under construction ... chased him down in a pickup truck. A third white man videoed the “chase” and subsequent murder on his ...

20. United States: The virus is colour blind, humans are not

    colour-based inequality is based on a system of white supremacy that predates the 1776 Revolutionary War. The ... disparity is tied to the specific types of jobs that Black men and women can get, such as in transit, ... compared to just 55% of white men and 40% of white women. Despite fair housing laws, Blacks continue to be ...

21. Black Lives Matter movement demands defund, dismantle, reimagine policing

    on August 28, led by the families of Black men and women murdered by cops and white vigilantes. It ... California In Houston, Texas, the body of George Perry Floyd was laid to rest on June 9. Thousands came to ... Peace. Two weeks earlier, on May 25, in Minneapolis, Floyd was killed by four cops, one kneeling on his ...

22. Learn from Malcolm X

    Trump has appointed the fewest number of women and minorities to his cabinet since Ronald Reagan. Angry ... for decades. ‘Truth is on the side of the oppressed’ Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, ... 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in New York City. His short life had ...

23. United States: Black Lives Matter movement grows stronger

    Americans. In World War II, white women were hired to work in war plants ahead of Blacks. A March on ... San Francisco Chronicle wrote on July 31. “They worry about the next time they interact with police, ... statistics on police stops of Blacks and violence mirror other cities, especially in the Midwest and South. ...

24. To make Trump’s America ungovernable, African American struggles are key

    Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, are on board with Trump’s America. They ... Women’s Lives”. Native Americans have led the anti-pipeline protests at Standing Rock Reservation, ... city. Trump met with Black supporters on the first day of Black History Month. He praised the greatness ...

25. Behind the rise of Obama

    war. Clinton voted for it and refused to repudiate that vote after it became known the war was based on ... Malik Miah San Francisco "America, this is our moment", stated Barack Obama on June ... parties. It happened on the evening of June 3 as the final two primaries (votes to elect delegates to the ...

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