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Nov 12, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Cody Bloomfield |Jon Jeter |Omali Yeshitela |Raymond Turner
The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism. Originally published in The Intercept. Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for revenge. On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Cody Bloomfield
November 4, 2024 Resist! We’ve been fighting anti-protest bills across the country for years. This week, an assault on the right to protest came to our own backyard, aimed at restricting protests in residential neighborhoods. The bill comes as part of a nationwide wave of anti-protest legislation, with hundreds of bills introduced since 2017. Introduced as an “emergency measure,” Defending Rights & Dissent had 3 days to help pull together a coalition to stop the bill. We successfully brought...
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Cody Bloomfield |Ann Garrison |Noah Shachtman |Raymond Turner
RT and Sputnik weren’t closed for getting it wrong. They were closed for getting it right. For the last 5 years, I hosted Fault Lines, the flagship show of radio Sputnik in Washington DC, 105.5FM.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Cody Bloomfield
Above photo: Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through a preserved forest that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, on March 4, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images. Activists organizing against the militarized police training facility in Atlanta are facing new forms of repression. With each passing day, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (dubbed “Cop City” by opponents) inches toward completion.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Cody Bloomfield
With each passing day, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (dubbed “Cop City” by opponents) inches toward completion. It’s been just under a year since the last Stop Cop City mass mobilization march attempted to breach the site, but the struggle against the militarized police training facility continues.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
theintercept.com | Cody Bloomfield
The protest did not go off as planned. In February 2023, government recruiters came to the student union at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, stacking National Security Agency-branded plastic cups and splaying out pamphlets about Navy fringe benefits. The activists had come to protest the expansion of Camp Grayling, already the largest National Guard training facility in the country.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Cody Bloomfield
FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal. The protest did not go off as planned. In February 2023, government recruiters came to the student union at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, stacking National Security Agency-branded plastic cups and splaying out pamphlets about Navy fringe benefits.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Cody Bloomfield
Above photo: Officers stand guard as Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman speaks at a news conference following the police-perpetrated killing of Samuel Sharpe Jr. by five Ohio police officers, who were in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, on July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Spencer Platt / Getty Images. Determined protesters marched close enough to be heard by RNC attendees.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Cody Bloomfield
Contestations over the Republican National Committee’s efforts to foreclose avenues for lawful protest outside this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC) were already heated months before GOP delegates started booking their flights to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the convention.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Cody Bloomfield
Several nonprofit organizations filed a petition this month asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to rule on the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known to Stop Cop City activists as “Tortuguita.”More than a year after the killing, the circumstances remain hazy. The Georgia State Patrol claims that Tortuguita shot first; an independent autopsy shows that Tortuguita likely died with their hands up.
