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Remember that true strength does not reside in holding power over others. Strength comes from living out of a place of humility and integrity, inspiring others to find their unique strengths. — Read on http://www.workers.org/2024/07/79600/

A 14-year-old boy was shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday in the city of Commerce. The teenager is one of the last people to see Francisco Nunez, a Lancaster man who was found dead in an alleyway after being taken into custody by deputies alive. — Read on lapublicpress.org/2024/07/nunez-witness-shot-lasd-east-la-lancaster/

Two community relief efforts have been launched in Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park. — Read on http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g60kg5xrxo

In Charleston, South Carolina, an anarchist and musician was recently subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury. She asked that others widely share this statement in order to bring awareness to her ordeal: — Read on itsgoingdown.org/anarchist-in-south-carolina-facing-federal-subpoena-releases-statement/

More than 50 years after he lost his life serving as a peacemaker in the South Bronx, the intersection of East 165 Street and Rogers Place in Longwood has been officially renamed Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin Way.  — Read on http://www.thecity.nyc/2023/06/03/black-benjie-ghetto-brothers-gangs-hoe-avenue-peace-treaty-south-bronx-longwood/

The shared experience of settler-colonial dispossession and western military aggression helps explain why Okinawans see themselves in Palestinians — Read on http://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/okinawa-palestine-how-us-military-machine-connects-occupied-territories

Six signs of breakdown. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-collapse-of-zionism

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe passed a historic resolution earlier this month that called for an “immediate and lasting ceasefire in Palestine.” — Read on http://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2024/06/12/cheyenne-river-sioux-tribe-passes-resolution-calling-ceasefire-aid-palestine/

Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement. — Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/06/columbia-university-hinds-hall-defendants-reject-deals-in-solidarity-with-the-cuny-22/

At least eight times in his decision for the right-wing majority, Justice Neal Gorsuch cited a brief filed by City Attorney David Chiu and endorsed by Mayor London Breed. — Read on 48hills.org/2024/06/breed-chiu-gave-right-wing-supreme-court-ammunition-to-criminalize-poverty/