Forwarded from Strike Force
get your friends on telegram
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests
Los Angeles Times
'It's a Telegram revolution': Messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
The Telegram messaging app has become an indispensable tool in coordinating the unprecedented mass demonstrations that have rocked Belarus.
Forwarded from Strike Force
Joint statement from It's Going Down and Crimethinc:
https://itsgoingdown.org/on-facebook-banning-anarchist-and-antifascist-pages-the-digital-censorship-to-come/
"Lumping anarchists and anti-fascists together with far-right militias who explicitly support the state and especially the current administration is a strategic move to muddy the issue. This is the same operation that William Barr performed in creating a Department of Justice task force focused on “anti-government extremists” of all stripes. In the case of the Department of Justice, it enables them to point to far-right and militia attacks in order to demand resources with which to crack down on those who are on the front lines of defending communities against such attacks. They are attempting to do the same thing to Black Lives Matter activists, associating them together with neo-Nazis and white nationalists as “racially motivated extremists.”"
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"Make no mistake, if this goes unchallenged, it will not stop here. The more it becomes normalized for governments to be able to determine which voices social media platforms permit to be heard, the further such censorship will penetrate into every sector of society, and the more it will shape what it is possible to think, what it is possible to imagine."
https://itsgoingdown.org/on-facebook-banning-anarchist-and-antifascist-pages-the-digital-censorship-to-come/
"Lumping anarchists and anti-fascists together with far-right militias who explicitly support the state and especially the current administration is a strategic move to muddy the issue. This is the same operation that William Barr performed in creating a Department of Justice task force focused on “anti-government extremists” of all stripes. In the case of the Department of Justice, it enables them to point to far-right and militia attacks in order to demand resources with which to crack down on those who are on the front lines of defending communities against such attacks. They are attempting to do the same thing to Black Lives Matter activists, associating them together with neo-Nazis and white nationalists as “racially motivated extremists.”"
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"Make no mistake, if this goes unchallenged, it will not stop here. The more it becomes normalized for governments to be able to determine which voices social media platforms permit to be heard, the further such censorship will penetrate into every sector of society, and the more it will shape what it is possible to think, what it is possible to imagine."
itsgoingdown.org
On Facebook Banning Anarchist and Antifascist Pages & the Digital Censorship to Come
Today Facebook deleted a variety of far-Right militia and Qanon accounts along with anarchist and antifascist pages, including It's Going Down and CrimethInc. The following is a joint statement in response. Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages…
Forwarded from Strike Force
What do you see as the most pressing front for popular mobilization over the next month? (select as many as you like)
Anonymous Poll
45%
Support ongoing protests OTG
38%
General Strike
28%
Rent Strike
34%
Building active local affinity groups
40%
Mutual Aid networks and action
42%
Eviction defence + tenant organizing
29%
Resisting cuts to the Post Office
20%
Building international solidarity
29%
Dethroning God
8%
Other (please bring it up in the chat!)
Man dies while being restrained for 6 minutes on hot tarmac in Arizona because he stole a drink to survive on a hot day. This should anger everyone. The federal government has recommended stopping chases. Chases are the most common situation a non violent and unarmed person would die. If cops didn't chase. If cops didn't have guns. If cops didn't exist, many lives would be here today with their friends and families. A riot is the voice of the unheard. We have been unheard for years. You wonder why we do it? We won't let another life be taken away by police without all of us speaking out for them. Say his name! Ramon Timothy Lopez!
https://news.sky.com/story/man-dies-in-arizona-after-being-restrained-by-police-on-hot-tarmac-for-six-minutes-12053541
https://news.sky.com/story/man-dies-in-arizona-after-being-restrained-by-police-on-hot-tarmac-for-six-minutes-12053541
Sky News
Man dies in Arizona after being restrained by police on hot tarmac for six minutes "He was fighting for his life, and he lost,"…
"He was fighting for his life, and he lost," says Ramon Timothy Lopez's brother.
Forwarded from Strike Force
This is an excellent 35 minute documentary on a highly successful #RentStrike action in the fast-gentrifying #Parkdale neighborhood of #Toronto in 2017, which has continued to form the basis for more and more active tenants organizing inside of the neighborhood since then.
Plenty of replicatable techniques and strategies in here. Lot of talk and thinking about eviction defense, tenants organizing, and rent strikes right now. Put together a screening and discussion amongst your friends and comrades, and share the link around!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCHAkCxDPjg
Plenty of replicatable techniques and strategies in here. Lot of talk and thinking about eviction defense, tenants organizing, and rent strikes right now. Put together a screening and discussion amongst your friends and comrades, and share the link around!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCHAkCxDPjg
YouTube
This is Parkdale
In the summer of 2017, in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale, over 300 tenants living across 12 apartment buildings went on rent strike to protest a wave of rent increases that would have displaced members of their community. Through months of organizing…
The Black Lives Revolution (BLM) pinned «Man dies while being restrained for 6 minutes on hot tarmac in Arizona because he stole a drink to survive on a hot day. This should anger everyone. The federal government has recommended stopping chases. Chases are the most common situation a non violent…»
Forwarded from P.U.R.R. Philly Uprising Response
philly power research
Leadership of New Pro-Police PAC Has History of Violence and Hateful Social Media Posts — philly power research
Protect Our Police PAC has raised at least $750,000 since forming in June 2020. Its leadership includes retired police officers with a history of violence and hateful social media posts.
Forwarded from Black Lives Matter Pitt
None of these covered the demands set by protesters. How about stopping cops from looking like army soldiers in camo uniforms? How about community control of policing like the Richmond model? How about defunding Pittsburgh police? How about abolishing Wilkinsburg Police? How about banning tear gas and impact weapons? What about social workers for your mental health calls I hear called on the scanners all day? How about addressing homelessness and poverty with permanent housing solutions? This does not satisfy us Mayor Peduto!
https://pittsburghpa.gov/press-releases/press-releases/4247
https://pittsburghpa.gov/press-releases/press-releases/4247
city of pittsburgh.
Statement by Mayor William Peduto on Police Interactions with Protesters
Forwarded from Pittsburgh Remote Uprising Support Team
we are on scanners listening in about protesters being arrested
Forwarded from Pittsburgh Remote Uprising Support Team
Police may stop communicating on this channel for Hastings Street Protest. We need folks on the ground to communicate back to us what they are seeing about police. message @GrittyBot