The United States is facing a number of interrelated crises: the coronavirus; the economy; institutional racism, including police violence against African Americans; disarray in the Federal government; and climate change, writes Barry Sheppard.
Black Lives Matter
The shooting of a Black Lives Matter protester by a white vigilante in New Mexico adds to a worrying escalation of attacks by far-right terrorists in the United States, writes Jack Kiley.
Black Lives Matter protesters will once again take to the streets this weekend to demand an end to Black deaths in custody in Australia, reports Kerry Smith.聽Find details for聽a protest near you.
Trump鈥檚 authoritarian aspirations are becoming more evident, writes Barry Sheppard.聽But the force blocking Trump is the mass Black Lives Matter uprising, which looks to continue the fight beyond the next election.
A new global focus on police brutality against people of colour has erupted. Pressure for change is mounting in Australia too, writes Paul Gregoire.
Kerry Smith reports Australian unions are showing support for the Stop Black Deaths in Custody鈥揃lack Lives Matter movement.
What began as a response to anti-Black police violence and the murder of George Floyd on May 25 is now a deepening 鈥淎merican Spring鈥, writes Malik Miah, demanding revolutionary change to a system that puts white lives above Black lives in all walks of life.
Socialist councillor in Seattle Kshama Sawant addressed protesters on June 10, in the wake of their takeover of Seattle鈥檚 Eighth Precinct, from which police have been driven out.聽
Geoff Mirelowitz has marched and demonstrated for civil rights and against racism for more than 50 years. But the daily protests in greater Seattle have been some of the most inspiring that he has ever participated in.
The rebellion against police violence and murder continues to expand in the United States. New demands are being raised concerning issues of institutional racism by Black and Brown people and in opposition to the symbols of white genocide by Native American nations, writes Malik Miah.
Between 10鈥20,000 people chanted, danced and sang in the rain at Langley Park, Perth, on June 13 in one of the biggest protests for Black rights and against deaths in custody in West Australia ever, reports Alex Salmon.
The defunding and dismantling of the standing police is the first step to creating a 鈥渟afety force鈥 under community control, with the ability to prosecute bad cops and those who are rarely thrown in prison, writes Malik Miah.
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