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I took this photo and can confirm that the only pepper spray was from the police, who rolled up and started throwing punches and shoving people to the ground immediately.
In this clip you lie, saying protesters pepper sprayed police. We have the proof that the opposite happened — police pepper sprayed a Jewish protest for a ceasefire.
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Soldiers publicly murdered Victor Jara during the 1973 U.S.-backed fascist military coup. Tonight, a million people are gathered in Santiago singing his words... their words... in the face of more state violence. Words fail to convey this moment. El derecho de vivir en paz
#chile
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Keep these images in mind when U.S. politicians talks about Cuba.
do not look away — this is the violence in our city and chronic failure on housing as a human right.
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There is a debate raging in liberal circles about whether the next U.S. Secretary of Defense should be a person of color or a woman, but not on whether that person approves of or opposes U.S. wars and military interventions that overwhelmingly kill people of color and women.
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Demanding liberty while embracing racism was the founding principle of the United States.
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@Bsamuels0
I was outside in the crowd. No one there was anticipating a confrontation with police, just a loud, peaceful protest.
The police initiated violence immediately upon arrival, no prompt, no warning, no justification. Threw a journalist down a staircase, pepper sprayed people, etc
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Happening now: Iraq & Afghanistan
#veterans
have blocked entrances to the National Constitution Center in
#Philadelphia
where
@JoeBiden
is awarding the "Liberty Medal" to
@GeorgeWBush
. Dozens of veterans of his wars are outside refusing to leave.
#veteransday
#vereransday2018
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@sparrowmedia
@VetsAboutFace
Dude was also carrying a pistol on his belt. Meaning, police watched him walk into the Capitol with a gun.
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Wild to hear from these island nations that were invaded and colonized by the US military, where people fight in its wars but cannot vote for its president, without any discussion about why that's the case.
#DNCConvention
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The UN is calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Amnesty International is calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The World Health Organization is calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Only 18 members of the US Congress have the guts & moral clarity to do so.
The rest are complicit.
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Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail
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After a week of police attacks, protesters in Seattle have now occupied a 6-block area of the city, established a perimeter and dubbed it "Free Capitol Hill," or the
#SeattleAutonomousZone
.
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The attack ad on
@AOC
last night pointed out that Pol Pot was a communist. Pol Pot was also overthrown by communists (from Vietnam) who ended the genocide and brought down the Khmer Rouge. The US, having just killed 4 million Vietnamese, condemned Vietnam's actions.
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The United States has only 2 hospital ships but 60 destroyers, 40 combat ships and cruisers, more than 60 combat submarines, 2 mobile bases, over 100 military transport and logistics vessels and 11 aircraft carriers to transport its 13,000 bombers, fighters jets and helicopters.
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Here's what happened when I breached the Capitol perimeter during an anti-war march in 2007.
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History lesson: next time we take the streets against military intervention and war, trust us.
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Largest march I've seen in years in
#DC
today, probably hundreds of thousands out here and the atmosphere is incredible. Self-organized groups everywhere, totally organic feeling and empowering af. People are angry, and they're full of love.
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One of the most insidious aspects of the embargo is that it's not even based on some grand geopolitical strategy, but on domestic politics.
Democrats & Republicans alike have starved Cubans to appease Florida voters. They are pawns in the electoral battleground.
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When the U.S. Army was called to Chicago during the 1968 DNC protests, black soldiers led a mutiny on base in Texas and refused orders to deploy. Those who were eventually deployed were not put on the streets for fear that they would switch sides.
#Minneapolis
#GeorgeFloyd
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True story.
A black officer in Oklahoma was fired because he wanted to take a knee. Now he’s apart of the protest.
#NoJusticNoPeace
#protests2020
#okcprotests
#GeorgeFloyd
#JusticeforGeorgesFloyd
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I guess it's a bit obvious, but while activists in Hong Kong have sent messages of solidarity to folks in the streets across the US, it's radio silence for all the Republicans who've been crying crocodile tears over HK police attacks on demonstrators.
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Members of the
#military
: you have a serious decision to make in the days ahead. You can either obey or disobey orders to attack those demanding racial justice across the US.
Either option will have a profound impact on the future of this country.
#RefuseYourOrders
#Disobey
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Imagine how much easier this would be if half of the U.S. economy was not dedicated to the sole purpose of preparing for and initiating wars.
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You can't make this shit up.
U.S. President Joe Biden's energy security advisor is visiting Israel to discuss potential economic revitalization plans for Gaza centered around undeveloped offshore natural gas fields
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Reps from an unprecedented *170* organizations representing 200,000 people in the Baltimore-area just delivered letters to
@ChrisVanHollen
@SenatorCardin
@RepSarbanes
&
@Call_Me_Dutch
demandimg a
#CeasefireNOW
.
Never before have so many Baltimore groups come together like this.
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Congressional staffers should be walking out. Administration officials should be resigning. Military officials should be breaking rank.
This is not a normal moment. This is a turning point. Take a stand.
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Dozens of people are currently blockading the entrance of the infamous
#teargas
producer
@CombinedSysInc
in Pennsylvania, USA.
People across the world continue to suffer and die as a result of exposure to these "Made in the USA" chemical weapons.
Right now, we are blockading the entrance of
@CombinedSysInc
w giant tear gas cans & gas masks, refusing to move. By shutting down this facility today, we are here to tell CSI President Jacob Kravel that his company’s production of tear gas must come to an end.
#FacingTearGas2020
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The radical left wants everyone in the country to have access to the same government-funded healthcare that Donald Trump has right now.
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At least Biden said what became obvious last week: the Afghan military collapsed. What he didn't mention is why.
Armies tend to collapse when they A) lose, B) aren't willing to kill or die for those in charge anymore, C) sympathize more with their enemy than their leadership.
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Remember during Trump when Democrats were obsessed with "bringing the U.S. back" to the "global community."
Today they're cheerleading ethnic cleansing & a war condemned by multiple UN agencies, major relief groups & the world's leading human rights bodies.
I guess we're back.
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Words from a member of National Guard who is breaking rank and refusing orders. More will follow him, engage with the troops, talk to them!
#Standdown
#TroopsForBlackLives
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Just a quick reminder that the entire George W. Bush administration should be in prison.
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Please, help support anti-war whistle blower Daniel Hale. A recent accident has him out of work as he awaits his April trial.
Daniel is a friend, and he is facing 50 years in prison for helping expose aspects of the drone program.
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If anyone can locate this mysterious city where all of the country's outside agitators are coming from, please let me know. I would like to play a free concert there.
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This is a significant moment for this uprising to engage with the military. I have worked with veterans and active-duty troops for many years, with both folks who followed and many who refused their orders throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 👇
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There is at least one sitting US Congressman publicly calling for troops to refuse orders to move on protests (Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran who was deployed 4 times to Iraq). Let them know that too. 👇
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@abbydphillip
This is simply not true. I took this photo and can confirm the only pepper spray was from the police.
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Keeping the great
@annefeeney
in my heart today.
My dear friend, mentor, and touring partner of many years,
@annefeeney
is in the ICU battling COVID. Anne is a living legend of the movement. A radical hellraiser who Utah Phillips called the "greatest labor singer in North America." She's a fighter. Please send some love her way
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Iraq. No words.
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NEW EPISODE: Amidst a military curfew,
@anti_flag
's
@ChrisDos
and I spoke with members of Myanmar's infamous anarcho-punk band
@TheRebelRiot
about the ongoing uprising against February's coup and the history of
#punk
politics in
#Myanmar
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It makes me sick that members of my own family believe the conspiratorial bullshit coming out of Donald Trump's mouth. There is literally no amount of factual evidence that can fight it. Truth does not matter.
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.
@IlhanMN
's defiant love for this world, in the face of all the vile hatred she faces everyday, brings me such joy. Thank you for you work.
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Iraq, in the midst of a significant political and economic crisis, has suspended rent payments for 6 months due to COVID-19.
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To so many of you: try talking about the 200,000+ people who died in the war in Afghanistan instead of how much it cost. Your talking points are dehumanizing.
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My man
@Hector
from
@lascafeteras
bringing his bottomless organizing energy to the people of Iowa. ✊
"What would you do if you were president?"
"Stop the imperialist wars and cut the defense budget"
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We cannot ignore the fact that we're debating free college tuition for the world's wealthiest country while half the human population starves. Economic transformation must be global or it's just colonialism with a domestic safety net.
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Possible captions:
1. Credit where it's due
2. The United States in 2019
He held onto both Bud Light cans as the home run hit him in the chest.
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I was part of the anti-war movement when the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan & Iraq. Mass protests established our demands but after failed to effect change. If we want to prevent another war we need to be at ports, bases & factories. Learn from our mistakes & be more effective.
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Just a quick reminder that Harvey Weinstein is in prison and Chelsea Manning is free.
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Let it never be forgotten that while the majority of Congress in both parties enthusiastically supported the invasion of
#Iraq
, more Americans opposed it than the war in Vietnam. We organized the largest day of protest in world history a month before the invasion.
#EndForeverWar
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#Ferguson
is the US government's worst nightmare: Empowered, vocal, uncompromising, angry and inspired black folks backed by the world.
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SATURDAY: Members of my union local, SEIU Local 500 Rank-and-File for Palestine, are coordinating a labor contingent at this Saturday's mass march for Gaza in DC.
If you are a member, staff, or leader of a union, please join us and bring you colors, banners, shirts, etc!
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Looking for a nearly-complete, daily, nationwide account of protests, riots and other happenings linked to the uprising?
Look no further.
I am helping coordinate and hosting this daily newsreel compiling reports from activists all over the country.
NEW: Today's newsreel covers events from yesterday and last night.
The Uprise Daily is a daily, city-by-city newsreel update covering the uprising currently taking place in the US.
#DefundThePolice
#BlackLivesMatter
#FTP
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The GI Rights Hotline (1-877-447-4487) is the best first-stop. That's where they can learn their rights, specific to their current mission. Print this number on small pieces of paper and hand it to troops. Read it aloud to them on a megaphone. Chant it. 👇
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My union
@SEIULocal500
has joined the public call for a
#CeasefireNOW
!
The labor movement is showing up, and I'm proud to be part of it.
The US Labor Movement Calls for Ceasefire in Israel and Palestine
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The
#dcprotests
today were massive. Hundreds of thousands in my estimate. Largest crowd I've seen since the first women's march. And the self-organized energy was insane. Grassroots politics at its finest. Celebrate, but don't sleep! We need to keep up the pressure.
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To those leftists talking about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan as a "democratic, progressive" era--it wasn't one.
The USSR invaded the country to install an undemocratic, highly unpopular regime, and left a million farmers dead.
In many ways, it mirrored the U.S. war.
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Nice write-up from
@RollingStone
on the July 23 Rock Against the
#TPP
tour I'm part of w/
@tmorello
and many others
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#DonaldTrumps
' father was a racist slumlord and
#WoodyGuthrie
wrote a song about it. Here it is:
#Trump
#RNCinCLE
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The US anti-war "movement" has had two-decades to learn lessons from our failed attempt to prevent war w/Iraq and we have largely failed to do so. The most effective acts were blockading ports, organizing soldiers to refuse orders and mobilizing military families to speak out.
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NEW EPISODE: "
@ClaptonCFC
: London's Anti-Fascist ✊ Community
#Football
Club" takes a look at this collectively-owned, democraticlaly-run
#punk
#soccer
team. I sat down w/
@sophia_axelsson
& fan-owners Tomasso & Matthew for an hour of
#anticapitalist
#antifascist
⚽
#podcast
talk.
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Never before have so many Baltimore organizations come together like this.
If you are in the area, JOIN US ON TUESDAY alongside more than *145* local organizations & small businesses demanding Congress take action for a
#CeasefireNOW
.
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You do not have to describe a protest as "peaceful" to validate it.
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High-res version of the photo I took last night.
These folks were holding a series of LED-lit signs on the sidewalk in front of the DNC while a group linked arms across the doorways.
The police initiated violence on arrival, including throwing a journalist down the stairs.
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@TheeKHiveQueenB
No, this is fake. There is no sound on this video because the captions do not reflect what she is actually saying.
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Does your university have contracts with ICE? Find out here, and then consider doing what students at
@noiceatjhu
#JohnsHopkins
#JHU
are doing and fight to end them. Today is the third day of their occupation of their Administration Building.
#wefightwewin
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"...detailed investigations following the 2008-2009 and 2014 conflicts by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Int'l, the UN Human Rights Council, and others have failed to find a single documented case of any civilian deaths caused by Hamas using human shields."
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I just threw in $100 to support
@xychelsea
and show her that we are here for her. Someone match me!
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Soldiers are not cops, and most are not there for life. Many signed up for a short time to get benefits, college money, or to escape from whatever they were looking at before. 👇
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I can't remember the last time I saw something so beautiful.
Extraordinary. Chileans singing Victor Jara’s “En derecho de vivir en paz” [The right to live in peace] during a historic march of over 1 million people.
#Chile
#ChileResiste
#LaMarchaMasGrandeDeChile
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To anti-war and allied organizers: the military is not all pro-war and right-wing! A lot of troops are against the way the military is used, and are not in it for ideological reasons. Engage them! Talk to them about their thoughts and yours. Bring them into the work you're doing.
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Sorry yall but the US Postal Service does not fight fascism, it just sends mail.
The
@APWUnational
, a progressive union representing postal workers, does fight fascism.
Unions that extend solidarity beyond their own ranks are critical in the fight for social/economic justice.
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My point is: APPEAL TO THEM. Many of of them are feeling really stuck right now morally, politically and emotionally. Look at videos like this, it's not performance, there is a real sense of confusion as to what is right and wrong. 👇
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"Old Man
#Trump
" which I wrote from snippets of unfinished
#WoodyGuthrie
lyrics & recorded w/my friends
@anidifranco
&
@tmorello
is the featured A-side on this special
#RecordStoreDay
LP from
@OmnivoreRecords
! Get it April 13.
#antifascist
#music
@Wilco
. Also
#IStandWithIlhan
🇵🇸!
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Here is downloadable flyer you can handout to troops:
This is a make-or-break moment.
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Tens of millions of people across the Global South have been killed in U.S. wars since 1950. Tens of millions.
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The next stop is to connect them with
@VetsAboutFace
,
@VFPNational
,
@vetsfortheppl
or
@CouragetoResist
. These veteran-run groups will be able to connect them to personal, political and grassroots campaign support through engagement with media, policy-makers, activists, etc. 👇
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Tap into that. Not in a bullshit "thank you for your service" way, but in a real, "this is the time to make a decision about what you stand for" way. Talk to them. Let them know there are resources for them if they choose to stand on the right side of history in this moment. 👇
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Last year I spoke w/a friend who joined
#OccupyWallStreet
, whom I met in jail after we blockaded the Stock Exchange.
OWS & the global movement it grew from radicalized him, & he soon joined Kurdish revolutionaries fighting in
#Rojava
.
This is his story:
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Rioting is a disproportionately calm reaction to what the police did to George Floyd.
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@dancohen3000
Everytime there's a protest these days there's a video like this "proving" that it's a western design. It strips the agency from millions of people living in the countries in question to confirm beliefs for people who ignore complex realities of an increasingly multi-polar world.
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They signed up for complex personal, economic, & political reasons. They signed up because a recruiter fed them lies regarding job assignments, the terms of their contract & even their citizenship status. Often, it's a combination of a bunch of these. It is rarely cut-and-dry. 👇
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Susana Prieto Terrazas is a Mexican labor organizer and political prisoner. She was arrested earlier this month while supporting people forced to work in border factories even as they were dying from COVID-19.
We are calling for her immediate release.
#FreeSusana
#SusanaLibreYa
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350 Iraqis have died protesting a government first put in power by the United States & we haven't even held a decent solidarity protest for them. Talking to some folks about changing that.
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Wars don't end because of big marches. They never have. They end in 3 main ways; A) Enough soldiers refuse to fight due to the horror of the wars themselves and/or domestic opposition to them, B) Movements & domestic crises bring down governments perpetuating them, C) 1 side wins
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Remember that this is not the first time the US government has completely failed to support its most vulnerable in a time of extreme crisis. Hurricanes Maria and Katrina stand out as further examples of what happens when a government prioritizes a war economy over human life.
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