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Climate Change: Why Internationalism?

Excellent presentations by Shemona Moreno of Seattle re building solidarity with global movements; Marc Rosenthal from Wisconsin with a focus on pipeines (Enbridge) and cross-border solidarity, May action will include Minneapolis; Ferron Pedro describes the Stop EACOP campaign (East African Oil Pipeline) a pipeline that will cross central Africa (massive crude oil through the heart of Africa, 54 million tons of carbon per year) proposed by France Total (a corporation) and China National Offshore Corporation; EACOP insurers are located in the U.S. Also outdated coal power plants in So. Africa; Daniel Hunter presents 350 international history.

The Black Radical Tradition that Modernized America, Mourning Mutulu Shakur

Shakur’s generation of radical Black activists represents the sun around which the modern American state orbits, or to say it more plainly, the late 20th century’s most democratizing social movements were in collusion with Black militancy.

How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel divestment campaign, by Ray Bailey

How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel divestment campaign By melding theory and practice, Philadelphia’s Vanguard S.O.S. are building skills and collective power. Ray Bailey Metta Center for Nonviolence May 25, 2023 On a cool, clear April morning just past 8 a.m., the sprawling corporate campus of the world’s second largest asset More

Atlanta Police Kill Forest Defender at Protest Encampment Near Proposed “Cop City” Training Center

In an audio statement sent to Democracy Now, activists have released the name of the victim of the "COP City" shooting: Long-time activist Manuel Tehran, who went by the name Tortugita, was shot and murdered on January 18, 2023 by police.

Poetic Nonviolent Victory Over War, by Brad Wolf

If we take our humanity seriously, our response to the warmakers must be rebellion. Peaceful and poetic, forceful and unrelenting. We need to raise the human condition as they seek to degrade it. The Merchants of Death cannot defeat a movement that speaks the language of poetry.

Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany, by Phil Wilayto and Nukewatch’s John LaForge faces 60 days in German prison.

Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany: Heinrich Bücker runs Berlin’s popular Coop Antiwar Cafe... (See John LaForge information below.) By Phil Wilayto Original to Rise Up Times December 28, 2022 June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion More

Rise Up Times Summary, October 16, 2022

"Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them." Henry Giroux

Colonialism, Compradors and the Militarized Crisis of Capitalism in Africa

The online discussion features analysis from organizers in hotspots on the ground in Africa and from others with uncompromising and lucid views on the state of affairs in Africa and strategies to get the “U.S. Out of Africa” and “Shut Down AFRICOM.”

Dockers at England’s Largest Cargo Port Strike Against Inflation, by Joël Malo

The [UK] Conservative government is looking for ways to beef up these anti-worker laws and is considering how to break these strikes, including allowing the hiring of workers as strikebreakers. It’s a response to how this current strike wave expresses the full power and centrality of the working class in the economy, nationally and internationally.

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