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Feb 26, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Huma Yasin
New York Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D) recently introduced a bill that would designate as domestic terrorism the criminal offense of deliberately blocking “a public road, bridge, transportation facility or tunnel.” The bill also increases the current penalty range from that of a class A misdemeanor (maximum jail time of 364 days) to that of a class D felony (up to seven years in prison).
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Huma Yasin
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Huma Yasin
Two weeks after celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., Congresswoman and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for the FBI to investigate peaceful protestors demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, accusing them of collusion with Russia in an interview with CNN.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Huma Yasin |Sa’ed Atshan |Amy Goodman
Less than a third of Americans now say they back Israel in its current genocidal siege of Gaza. BySharon Zhang, TruthoutPublishedNovember 15, 2023Smoke rises during an Israeli military bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2023.Fadel Senna / AFP via Getty ImagesSupport for Israel is cratering fast among the American public amid Israeli forces’ genocidal siege of Gaza, while a majority of Americans support the growing calls for a ceasefire, new polling reveals.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Huma Yasin |Maya Bhardwaj |Kelly Hayes
The letter adds to a wave of letters and memos calling for a ceasefire coming from current and former federal staffers.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Huma Yasin |Sharon Zhang |Chris Walker
Democracy Now! speaks to award-winning writers Jazmine Hughes and Jamie Lauren Keiles in their first broadcast interview since being forced out of The New York Times Magazine for signing an open letter condemning Israel’s siege on Gaza. The magazine’s editor Jake Silverstein said the letter violated the outlet’s policy on public protest, but Keiles says there are no clear guidelines, especially for contributing writers.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Huma Yasin |Michel Moushabeck |Chris Walker |Eleanor Bader
New York University law student Ryna Workman was removed as president of the Student Bar Association last month and had a job offer rescinded after expressing “unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination” and assigning blame to the system of apartheid in Israel for “the tremendous loss of life.”The following week, Florida Gov.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Cody Bloomfield |Huma Yasin |Kelly Hayes
The Vote to Stop Cop City Coalition in Atlanta submitted more than 116,000 signatures on Monday to put a referendum about the embattled police training complex on the ballot for local voters, but city officials quickly refused to validate the signatures and move the petition along due to an ongoing legal fight over the signature-gathering process.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Kelly Hayes |Mike Ludwig |Huma Yasin |Cherise Morris
Sixty-one people involved with the movement to Stop Cop City were indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges on Tuesday. Stop Cop City organizers with the movement have long warned that such charges might be forthcoming, as part of a stunning crusade by Georgia officials and law enforcement to crush the grassroots movement.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Huma Yasin |Angela Davis |Candice Bernd
Activists fighting to halt the fiercely contested police training facility in Atlanta, Georgia, known as Cop City, have collected a whopping 104,000 signatures for a city-wide ballot referendum on the city government’s lease for the massive $90 million project. Organizers call it the “most successful” citizen-driven petition in the city of roughly 500,000 residents with a deep history of struggle for racial justice.
