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  1. #StateTroopers arrest Rep. #JustinPearson for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of #nonviolent resistance after #SpeakerSexton cleared it.

    Rep. #JustinJones burned a confederate flag in the rotunda after
    99% white #Tennessee House #Republicans pass a #racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black #Memphis of #congressional #representation.

    3 Republican abstentions, 2 no votes (white and Gillespie, both from #Memphis)

    #JimCrow

  2. #StateTroopers arrest Rep. #JustinPearson for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of #nonviolent resistance after #SpeakerSexton cleared it.

    Rep. #JustinJones burned a confederate flag in the rotunda after
    99% white #Tennessee House #Republicans pass a #racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black #Memphis of #congressional #representation.

    3 Republican abstentions, 2 no votes (white and Gillespie, both from #Memphis)

    #JimCrow

  3. #StateTroopers arrest Rep. #JustinPearson for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of #nonviolent resistance after #SpeakerSexton cleared it.

    Rep. #JustinJones burned a confederate flag in the rotunda after
    99% white #Tennessee House #Republicans pass a #racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black #Memphis of #congressional #representation.

    3 Republican abstentions, 2 no votes (white and Gillespie, both from #Memphis)

    #JimCrow

  4. #StateTroopers arrest Rep. #JustinPearson for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of #nonviolent resistance after #SpeakerSexton cleared it.

    Rep. #JustinJones burned a confederate flag in the rotunda after
    99% white #Tennessee House #Republicans pass a #racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black #Memphis of #congressional #representation.

    3 Republican abstentions, 2 no votes (white and Gillespie, both from #Memphis)

    #JimCrow

  5. #StateTroopers arrest Rep. #JustinPearson for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of #nonviolent resistance after #SpeakerSexton cleared it.

    Rep. #JustinJones burned a confederate flag in the rotunda after
    99% white #Tennessee House #Republicans pass a #racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black #Memphis of #congressional #representation.

    3 Republican abstentions, 2 no votes (white and Gillespie, both from #Memphis)

    #JimCrow

  6. #MissKittyPolitics I rarely am idly curious. When I'm curious, there's no dirt left. It's all bedrock politics in this room. #Politics and #images as simple as #non-violent #mockery are now excluded. Standard #political #research and #imagery is #censored. Back to you: Are human rights necessary?

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzruykalgzmdhwbguvjjjv3b/post/3ml7nxrf7ck2u

  7. #MissKittyPolitics I rarely am idly curious. When I'm curious, there's no dirt left. It's all bedrock politics in this room. #Politics and #images as simple as #non-violent #mockery are now excluded. Standard #political #research and #imagery is #censored. Back to you: Are human rights necessary?

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzruykalgzmdhwbguvjjjv3b/post/3ml7nxrf7ck2u

  8. #MissKittyPolitics I rarely am idly curious. When I'm curious, there's no dirt left. It's all bedrock politics in this room. #Politics and #images as simple as #non-violent #mockery are now excluded. Standard #political #research and #imagery is #censored. Back to you: Are human rights necessary?

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzruykalgzmdhwbguvjjjv3b/post/3ml7nxrf7ck2u

  9. #MissKittyPolitics I rarely am idly curious. When I'm curious, there's no dirt left. It's all bedrock politics in this room. #Politics and #images as simple as #non-violent #mockery are now excluded. Standard #political #research and #imagery is #censored. Back to you: Are human rights necessary?

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzruykalgzmdhwbguvjjjv3b/post/3ml7nxrf7ck2u

  10. #MissKittyPolitics I rarely am idly curious. When I'm curious, there's no dirt left. It's all bedrock politics in this room. #Politics and #images as simple as #non-violent #mockery are now excluded. Standard #political #research and #imagery is #censored. Back to you: Are human rights necessary?

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzruykalgzmdhwbguvjjjv3b/post/3ml7nxrf7ck2u

  11. “Campaigners condemn GMP’s [Greater Manchester Police - my edit] ‘despicable’ ‘extreme violence’ vs anti-fascist protesters”

    by Skwawkbox with The Canary

    @thecanaryuk
    @uk_politics
    @ZackPolanski
    @thegreenparty
    @BBC5Live
    @BBCRadio4
    @BBCNews
    @AlJazeera

    “In a statement, the Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP) group and Resist Britain First slammed physical and chemical attacks on non-violent protesters by police concealing their identities and numbers — who then prevented paramedics and ambulances reaching their victims. The groups also pointed out that the force showed no apparent shortage of resource when it came to restricting and attacking anti-extremist counter-protesters — yet allowed fascist marchers to roam and attack with impunity”

    thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Manchester #Police #Attacks #Chemical #NonViolent #Protest #FarRight #AntiFascist #ResistBritainFirst #WhiteSupremacy #PoliticalPolicing #Labour #Starmer #Dictatorship #EpsteinFiles

  12. “Campaigners condemn GMP’s [Greater Manchester Police - my edit] ‘despicable’ ‘extreme violence’ vs anti-fascist protesters”

    by Skwawkbox with The Canary

    @thecanaryuk
    @uk_politics
    @ZackPolanski
    @thegreenparty
    @BBC5Live
    @BBCRadio4
    @BBCNews
    @AlJazeera

    “In a statement, the Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP) group and Resist Britain First slammed physical and chemical attacks on non-violent protesters by police concealing their identities and numbers — who then prevented paramedics and ambulances reaching their victims. The groups also pointed out that the force showed no apparent shortage of resource when it came to restricting and attacking anti-extremist counter-protesters — yet allowed fascist marchers to roam and attack with impunity”

    thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Manchester #Police #Attacks #Chemical #NonViolent #Protest #FarRight #AntiFascist #ResistBritainFirst #WhiteSupremacy #PoliticalPolicing #Labour #Starmer #Dictatorship #EpsteinFiles

  13. “Campaigners condemn GMP’s [Greater Manchester Police - my edit] ‘despicable’ ‘extreme violence’ vs anti-fascist protesters”

    by Skwawkbox with The Canary

    @thecanaryuk
    @uk_politics
    @ZackPolanski
    @thegreenparty
    @BBC5Live
    @BBCRadio4
    @BBCNews
    @AlJazeera

    “In a statement, the Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP) group and Resist Britain First slammed physical and chemical attacks on non-violent protesters by police concealing their identities and numbers — who then prevented paramedics and ambulances reaching their victims. The groups also pointed out that the force showed no apparent shortage of resource when it came to restricting and attacking anti-extremist counter-protesters — yet allowed fascist marchers to roam and attack with impunity”

    thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Manchester #Police #Attacks #Chemical #NonViolent #Protest #FarRight #AntiFascist #ResistBritainFirst #WhiteSupremacy #PoliticalPolicing #Labour #Starmer #Dictatorship #EpsteinFiles

  14. “Campaigners condemn GMP’s [Greater Manchester Police - my edit] ‘despicable’ ‘extreme violence’ vs anti-fascist protesters”

    by Skwawkbox with The Canary

    @thecanaryuk
    @uk_politics
    @ZackPolanski
    @thegreenparty
    @BBC5Live
    @BBCRadio4
    @BBCNews
    @AlJazeera

    “In a statement, the Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP) group and Resist Britain First slammed physical and chemical attacks on non-violent protesters by police concealing their identities and numbers — who then prevented paramedics and ambulances reaching their victims. The groups also pointed out that the force showed no apparent shortage of resource when it came to restricting and attacking anti-extremist counter-protesters — yet allowed fascist marchers to roam and attack with impunity”

    thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Manchester #Police #Attacks #Chemical #NonViolent #Protest #FarRight #AntiFascist #ResistBritainFirst #WhiteSupremacy #PoliticalPolicing #Labour #Starmer #Dictatorship #EpsteinFiles

  15. “Campaigners condemn GMP’s [Greater Manchester Police - my edit] ‘despicable’ ‘extreme violence’ vs anti-fascist protesters”

    by Skwawkbox with The Canary

    @thecanaryuk
    @uk_politics
    @ZackPolanski
    @thegreenparty
    @BBC5Live
    @BBCRadio4
    @BBCNews
    @AlJazeera

    “In a statement, the Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP) group and Resist Britain First slammed physical and chemical attacks on non-violent protesters by police concealing their identities and numbers — who then prevented paramedics and ambulances reaching their victims. The groups also pointed out that the force showed no apparent shortage of resource when it came to restricting and attacking anti-extremist counter-protesters — yet allowed fascist marchers to roam and attack with impunity”

    thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Manchester #Police #Attacks #Chemical #NonViolent #Protest #FarRight #AntiFascist #ResistBritainFirst #WhiteSupremacy #PoliticalPolicing #Labour #Starmer #Dictatorship #EpsteinFiles

  16. opb.org/article/2026/03/09/fed

    Judge limits crowd control devices at #Portland #ICE building; federal officers must identify themselves

    A federal judge in #Oregon ruled that he would continue to strictly limit federal use of #teargas and other crowd control weapons on protesters outside the building in Portland.

    DHS officers had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on #nonviolent protesters, in part to chill their #FirstAmendment rights, District Court Judge Michael Simon found.

    #ORpol #pdx

  17. opb.org/article/2026/03/09/fed

    Judge limits crowd control devices at #Portland #ICE building; federal officers must identify themselves

    A federal judge in #Oregon ruled that he would continue to strictly limit federal use of #teargas and other crowd control weapons on protesters outside the building in Portland.

    DHS officers had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on #nonviolent protesters, in part to chill their #FirstAmendment rights, District Court Judge Michael Simon found.

    #ORpol #pdx

  18. opb.org/article/2026/03/09/fed

    Judge limits crowd control devices at #Portland #ICE building; federal officers must identify themselves

    A federal judge in #Oregon ruled that he would continue to strictly limit federal use of #teargas and other crowd control weapons on protesters outside the building in Portland.

    DHS officers had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on #nonviolent protesters, in part to chill their #FirstAmendment rights, District Court Judge Michael Simon found.

    #ORpol #pdx

  19. And how much economic damage is from climate change and pollution from #FossilFuels? #BigOil is the real criminal here!

    #ClimateProtesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

    By Kara Fox, CNN
    September 14, 2024

    London CNN — "As #RightWing rioters attacked communities with #racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old #ClimateActivist #CressieGethin sat in a prison cell.

    "Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating #FossilFuel — in the #NorthSea.

    "In late July, a London court found #Gethin and four other members of the #JustStopOil activist group guilty of 'conspiring intentionally to cause a #PublicNuisance,' after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.

    "Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a #ZoomCall, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.

    "Now Gethin and three others — Louise Lancaster, #DanielShaw and #LuciaWhittakerDeAbreu, who planned the disruption on the call — are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder #RogerHallam was given five years. All are appealing.

    "The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for #nonviolent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged #policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.

    "They place the act of planning a 'public nuisance' event, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, on a similar footing as #ViolentCrimes like robbery, for which punishments range from community service to 12 years’ jail, or rape, which is four to 19 years.

    "The judge — who in court referred to the activists as '#extremists' — justified the long jail terms because all five activists had previously been convicted of one or more offenses in relation to direct action protest. Each were on bail for another set of proceedings when the Zoom call took place. He also noted people missed important doctor’s visits and funerals because of the protest.

    "But activists like Gethin say their demonstrations are proportionate to the problem at hand — a rapidly warming world that threatens to transform life as we know it, through deadly #ExtremeWeather events and by pushing #ecosystems to their brinks. They are now battling the bolstered powers of the #police and courts to get their point across.

    “'A very harsh sentence like this doesn’t make sense morally or legally — but it does make sense politically,' Gethin told CNN in a handwritten letter from HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison just south of London’s Heathrow Airport.

    "The laws have drawn criticism from the UN’s special rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders, #MichaelForst, who said not only do they criminalize peaceful protest, but they are being enforced in 'punitive and repressive' ways."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-

    #BigOilAndGas #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #WaterDefenders
    #ClimateDefenders
    #EnvironmentalActivists
    #SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
    #EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
    #EarthDefenders
    #SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
    #Activism #ClimateStrike
    #HumanRights #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #ClimateNecessityDefense #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe

  20. Crackdowns on #ClimateActivists are happening in a lot of places -- including the #US! NYPD in riot gear! For a 63 year old cellist!!!

    via @verdantsquare

    #Cello-playing #ClimateActivist arrested at #NewYork #Citibank #protest as crackdown escalates

    Second activist also arrested during ‘summer of heat’ protest against second largest financier of #FossilFuels

    Nina Lakhani in New York
    Thu 8 Aug 2024 19.13 EDT

    "A 63-year-old climate activist and professional cellist faces up to seven years in #prison after being arrested on Thursday while performing a Bach solo outside the headquarters of one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financier Citibank in downtown New York.

    "#JohnMarkRozendaal, a former Princeton professor, and #AlecConnon, director of the climate nonprofit group #StopTheMoneyPipeline, were arrested for criminal contempt in the public park at the bank’s global headquarters as the crackdown against #nonviolent climate protesters escalates.

    "Rozendaal was handcuffed and led away to the police vehicle singing 'we are not afraid, we are not afraid, we will sing for liberation because we know why we were made'. The crowd of protesters chanted 'let him play' and “ shame on you Citibank”.

    "Thirteen other climate activists, who had linked arms in a circle around Rozendaal to protect him as he played Bach’s suites for cello, were detained for alleged obstruction of governmental administration, a misdemeanor criminal charge. 'People are dying … today is my birthday,' said Mike Bucci, 77, teary eyed as the police in #RiotGear broke up the protest.

    "Since 10 June, climate activists have been peacefully protesting against Citibank’s record financial support for new fossil fuel projects as part of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign. At least 3,700 people have participated in the nonviolent civil disobedience, repeatedly blockading the entrance to its global headquarters. More than 475 people including faith leaders, scientists and elders have been arrested while calling on Citi to stop bankrolling new #coal, #oil and #gas.

    "Citi is the second largest financier of fossil fuels and the largest financier of fossil fuel expansion since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, according to the latest Banking on #ClimateChaos report.

    "The latest arrests come as climate advocates accuse Citibank and the #NYPD of coordinated and escalating efforts to suppress nonviolent protests in retaliation for drawing attention to the banking giant’s key role in funding fossil projects globally."

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #SummerOfHeatIOnWallStreet #SummerOfHeatProtests #NYC #ACAB #NonViolentProtests #BigOilAndGas #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism
    #EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #BigOilAndGas #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #Fascism #ExtinctionRebellion #ExtinctionRebellionNYC

  21. Biden posthumously pardons civil rights leader Marcus Garvey

    President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist #Marcus #Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

    Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.

    Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.
    After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, where he was born. He died in 1940.

    The Rev Martin Luther King Jr said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny”.

    It’s not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by president-elect Donald Trump.
    Issuing preemptive pardons – for actual or imagined offenses byTrump’s critics that could be investigated or prosecuted by the incoming administration – would stretch the powers of the presidency in untested ways.

    Biden has set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued.
    He announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of #nonviolent #drug #offenses.
    He also gave a broad pardon for his son #Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.

    The president has announced he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row,
    converting their punishments to life imprisonment just as Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
    In his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of executions, 13, in a protracted timeline during the coronavirus pandemic.
    A pardon relieves a person of guilt and punishment. A commutation reduces or eliminates the punishment but doesn’t exonerate the wrongdoing.

    Others pardoned on Sunday included #Don #Scott, the speaker of the Virginia house of delegates, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and served eight years in prison.
    He was elected to the Virginia legislature in 2019, and later became the first Black speaker.

    Biden also pardoned immigrant rights activist #Ravi #Ragbir, who was convicted of a nonviolent offence in 2001 and was sentenced to two years in prison and was facing deportation to Trinidad and Tobago;
    #Kemba #Smith #Pradia, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and sentenced to 24 years behind bars, but has since become a prison reform activist;
    and #Darryl #Chambers, a gun violence prevention advocate who was convicted of a drug offense and sentenced to 17 years in prison, but who now studies and writes about gun violence prevention.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

  22. #CivilResistance scholarship recommends #SocialMovements adopt a #nonviolent (NV) strategy for #SocialChange. The #violence analyzed is usually #ArmedStruggle, but it recommends NV in all tactics (thus excluding property destruction, #rioting, confrontation w/ #police). Benjamin Case's excellent "Street Rebellion" shows movements involving rioting are more likely to be successful, largely b/c riots lead to wider #CivilSociety participation in movements. Well-researched book!

    #AKPress #Reading

  23. WTF!!! #DHS Tells #Police That Common #Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

    DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even #skateboarding and #livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

    By Dell Cameron, Jul 10, 202

    "The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as violent tactics, including mundane acts like riding a #bike or livestreaming a police encounter, WIRED has learned.

    "WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests [#FOIA]. Please consider subscribing to support our journalism.

    "Threat bulletins issued during last month’s '#NoKings' #protests warn that the US government’s aggressive immigration raids are almost certain to accelerate domestic unrest, with DHS saying there’s a 'high likeliness' more Americans will soon turn against the agency, which could trigger #confrontations near federal sites.

    "Blaming intense media coverage and backlash to the US military deployment in #LosAngeles, DHS expects the #demonstrations to 'continue and grow across the nation' as #protesters focused on other issues shift to #immigration, following a broad 'embracement of #AntiICE messaging.'

    "The bulletins—first obtained by the national security nonprofit #PropertyOfThePeople through public records requests—warn that officers could face assaults with fireworks and improvised weapons: #paint-filled fire extinguishers, smoke grenades, and projectiles like #bottles and #rocks.

    "At the same time, the guidance urges officers to consider a range of #nonviolent behavior and common #ProtestGear—like #masks, #flashlights, and #cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare 'from the point of view of an adversary.'

    "Protesters on #bicycles, #skateboards, or even 'on foot' are framed as potential 'scouts' conducting reconnaissance or searching for 'items to be used as weapons.' #Livestreaming is listed alongside '#doxxing' as a 'tactic' for 'threatening' police. Online posters are cast as ideological #recruiters—or as participants in 'surveillance sharing.'

    "One list of 'violent tactics' shared by the Los Angeles–based Joint Regional Intelligence Center—part of a post-9/11 fusion network—includes both protesters’ attempts to avoid identification and efforts to identify police. The memo also alleges that face recognition, normally a tool of law enforcement, was used against officers.

    "Vera Eidelman, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU], says the government has no business treating #constitutionally protected activities—like #observing or #documenting police—as threats.

    "#DHS did not respond to a request for comment."

    Read more:
    wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli

    #ACAB #FusionCenters #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Resistance #Journalism #PoliceState #CriminalizingDissent #Protestors #Protest #USPol #CriminalizingProtest #Orwell #BigBrother #DoublePlusUngood #SurveillanceState #NaziPatrol #NineteenEightyFour