The showcase festival has stated that, ‘after careful consideration’, it is ‘revising’ its ‘sponsorship model.’ — Read on http://www.hotpress.com/music/sxsw-drops-us-army-and-weapons-manufacturers-as-sponsors-following-major-artist-led-boycott-23033697
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Grassy Narrows holds protest at Dryden mill – NWONewsWatch.com
DRYDEN – On Thursday [June 20], Grassy Narrows First Nation members took their fight to the source of the mercury contamination that has affected them for more than 50 years. — Read on http://www.nwonewswatch.com/local-news/grassy-narrows-holds-protest-at-dryden-mill-9114025
The Unknown Toll Of The AI Takeover
As artificial intelligence guzzles water supplies and jacks up consumers’ electricity rates, why isn’t anyone tracking the resources being consumed? — Read on http://www.levernews.com/the-unknown-toll-of-the-ai-takeover/
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2024 | Prison Policy Initiative
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on earth — worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations. In the global context, even “progressive” U.S. states like New York and Massachusetts appear as extreme as Louisiana and Mississippi in their use of prisons and jails. — ReadContinue reading “States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2024 | Prison Policy Initiative”
Attorney asks AG’s Office be removed from prosecuting training center RICO case
Attorneys for three defendants who oppose the construction of Atlanta’s planned public safety training center have filed a motion seeking to disqualify the Attorney General’s Office from prosecuting the RICO case, alleging that attorney-client privileged information was accessed and distributed. — Read on archive.is/QFVsH
At The Five Spot with Jane
When you are with an extraordinary person, you soon realize that extraordinary things are going to happen. And keep happening. That is when the fear begins. That is when it really begins. I remember the first time we went dancing. I gave her an ultimatum: you either meet me at the Five Spot (no notContinue reading “At The Five Spot with Jane”
YouTube removes, deletes Samidoun Network channel: Resist the silencing of Palestine! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
The Zionist regime is actively seeking to ban and silence the content of people confronting its genocide against the Palestinian people, to prevent people around the world from communicating, and of course, at the heart of this effort, to block the communication lines of the Palestinian people, and especially the prisoners and the resistance movementContinue reading “YouTube removes, deletes Samidoun Network channel: Resist the silencing of Palestine! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network”
The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department
Los Angeles has long served as a proving ground where the counterinsurgency tactics later adopted by police throughout the United States were first domestically deployed. Ever since the nation’s very first no-knock SWAT raid on the Black Panther Party headquarters at 41st & Central and the CIA-facilitated, “crack cocaine explosion”that was first unleashed on South Central to moreContinue reading “The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department”
‘The Movement Underestimates Fascism’ – Gerald Horne | Groundings
The goat 🐐 himself Dr. Gerald Horne joins a special bonus episode discussing the current state of global politics, imperialism in crisis, the potential for a new multipolar world, and the rising fascism across the west. — Read on groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/horne-bonus
sometimes railway station
us sensitive to each other touching as we shouldget together get to itbefore it all’s over sometimes desperation. is just a fact. sometimes railway station. don’t know how to act. suck me suture me fuck me future me touch me torment me tenement loverlyso what she saysit’s all gravy sometimes desperation. is just an act.Continue reading “sometimes railway station”
Aida Rends 