The Lebanon government resigned: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/beirut-police-fire-tear-gas-protesters-regroup-live-updates-200810010528285.html

In an effort to build the decentralized widespread use of organizing on telegram, considering its value for on-the-ground realtime coordination and comms for keeping people safe from police riots and attacks, here is a list of channels and chats focused on current uprisings.

If you know any that aren't included here, or want to start one for your area, please do it.
DM @BLMProtestsBot to add a new entry.

NATIONWIDE UPDATE CHANNELS
@BLMProtests
@StrikeForce2020 (+ chat)

ANNOUNCEMENT CHANNELS ↓

- ATLANTA: Channel
- AUSTIN: Channel
- CHICAGO: Channel
- GRAND RAPIDS: Channel
- IOWA CITY: Channel
- KANSAS CITY: Channel
- LANSING: Channel
- LOS ANGELES: Channel
- LOUISVILLE: Channel
- MINNEAPOLIS: Channel1, Channel2
- MONTREAL: DM @BLMProtestsBot
- NYC: Channel
- OKLAHOMA CITY: Channel
- PHILADELPHIA: Channel
- PITTSBURGH: Channel
- RICHMOND: Channel
- SF / BAY AREA: Channel
- TAMPA: Channel
- TUCSON: Channel
- WASHINGTON DC: Channel

POLICE SCANNER CHANNELS ↓

- ATLANTA: Channel
- BOSTON: Channel
- CHICAGO: Channel
- LONG ISLAND: Channel
- MINNEAPOLIS: Channel
- PHILADELPHIA: Channel
- RICHMOND: Channel
- SEATTLE: Channel
- TAMPA: Channel

CHAT / COORDINATION CHANNELS ↓

- NATIONWIDE: Channel
- ATLANTA: Chat
- AUSTIN: Chat
- BOSTON: Chat
- CHICAGO: Channel
- DALLAS: Chat
- IOWA CITY: Channel
- MONTREAL: DM @BLMProtestsBot
- NYC: Chat
- PENNSYLVANIA: Chat
- PORTLAND: Chat
- RICHMOND: Chat
- SF / BAY AREA: Chat1, Chat2
- SEATTLE: Chat
- TAMPA: Chat
- WASHINGTON DC: Chat
- WESTERN NEW YORK (BUFFALO, ROCHESTER): Channel

Tell everyone you know to download Signal and Telegram! These are essential tools for fluid and safe coordination on the ground right now.

Use good opsec, hide your phone number and set a user name. One of the key advantages telegram offers over signal is phone number anonymity.

Stay dangerous and help each stay safe. Be water! Solidarity.

#BLMRevList
last updated: June 28
last added: Pittsburgh Channel, Pennsylvania Chat

Police are being assailed by bricks and fireworks in #Chicago bright and early today. SWAT, "gas team", and a Bearcat deployed. Here's a thread with some live scanner updates: https://twitter.com/EricTendian/status/1292873126422949888?s=20

It's great seeing traditional NGOs become more abolitionist!

https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1292843239557537792

Belarus still has thousands of people out in the streets as night 2 is underway. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's whereabouts have been unknown for several hours. https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1292903215697203200

If you’re headed out to protest tonight please be prepared! Winds will be high, there will be hail and a likelihood of flying debris. Check for spots to take shelter and look out for one another. 🖤 Sounds like it’ll hit around 430.

This documentary about the unrest in Furgeson almost 6 years ago was just released publicly. After the unrest that’s unfolded this summer it may be a good time to watch and reflect on it. https://archive.org/details/touch-the-sky

Apparently police shot someone outside of white house...

BLM Chicago statement on last 24 hours in #Chicago
https://twitter.com/blmchi/status/1292895993160175616

"Khan and Hudson's visit to #Portland comes after Mayor Ted Wheeler and Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell asked Portlanders to stop attending the ongoing nightly protests, claiming that they are no longer about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Hudson challenged that assessment.

"I'm seeing Black leaders in the streets, being assaulted by police, asking to be heard," Hudson told the Mercury. "Don't tell me this isn't about Black lives." "

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/08/10/28723613/national-black-lives-matter-organizers-throw-support-behind-portland-protests

The storm has cleared in Chicago. Meet up at this Jail Support rally! https://twitter.com/BLMChi/status/1292906262674526210