Protest - Revolt

11/07/20
Author: 
Peter Boyle
In her new podcast Thunberg spells out the impossibility for real climate solutions without system change. Image: Greta Thunberg/Twitter

June 30, 2020

In her new 75-minute podcast entitled Humanity has not yet failed — recorded under the COVID-19 lock down — Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg explains that there is no solution to the climate crisis without system change.

“The climate and ecological crisis cannot be solved within today's political and economic systems. That is not an opinion, that's a fact,” she says, with typical bluntness.

 

02/07/20
Author: 
Larry Buchanan, Quoctrung Bui and Jugal K. Patel

July 3, 2020

 [See charts and maps with original at link.]

The recent Black Lives Matter protests  peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today.

24/06/20
Author: 
Tom Perkins
 Chicago police officers gather as curfew nears during a demonstration in early June. Photograph: Natasha Moustache/Getty Images
23 June 2020
 

Guardian analysis shows how organizations and officers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago work against reform


Police unions and officers active in America’s three largest cities spend tens of millions of dollars annually to influence law enforcement policy and thwart pushes for reform, a Guardian analysis of local, county, state and federal campaign finance records found.

18/06/20
Author: 
ILWU Local 500
Posted on June 16, 2020

Longshore Will Observe Juneteenth

Work Will Stop for 8 Hours on Historic

In solidarity with ILWU International, there will be no work on the 8 AM shift of Friday, June 19, 2020 as we are supporting anti-racism – what this Union is founded on.

18/06/20
Author: 
Black Lives Matter
BLM

This important march is at Jack Pool Plaza tomorrow  (4PM on June 19).

 

14/06/20

Back in 2017,  Jamie Margolin, a Seattle high school student, founded an organization called Future Voters for 350ppm. (“Future voters” meaning young people who can’t vote yet, and “350 ppm” referring to a safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide that the world blew past long ago). But things didn’t go as planned, and the group ended up being short-lived.

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