Popular Resistance

4 days ago | popularresistance.org | Dave DeCamp

Above photo: Russian and Ukrainian officials meet in Istanbul. Turkish Foreign Minister’s X account. The two sides held a second round of direct talks in Istanbul. Russian and Ukrainian officials held a second round of direct talks in Istanbul on Monday and agreed to move forward on another prisoner swap, but did not appear to make any progress toward a ceasefire or lasting peace deal as the two sides remain very far apart.

5 days ago | popularresistance.org | Nora Loreto

Above photo: Activists set up roadblocks to shut down all road access to the convention center on CANSEC’s opening morning. Shut Down Cansec Coalition. Organizers protested the Canadian government’s planned investment into militarization at a weapons fair this week.

6 days ago | popularresistance.org | Margaret Kimberley

Above photo: Founding 13 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, 1971. Charles Rangel, standing second from the left. Courtesy Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.

6 days ago | popularresistance.org | Binoy Kampmark

Above photo: The Phantom Horseman,1870-93 by Sir John Gilbert (d.1897). Birmingham Museums Trust. As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following glum observation: “Openly and flagrantly, certain countries express their will to expand and make preparations for war.

6 days ago | popularresistance.org | Sam Carliner

Above photo: Rosa Santana from First Friends speaks at a protest outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in New Jersey in May. Twitter/New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. A growing coalition in New Jersey is galvanizing national opposition to ICE’s immigrant detention centers. New Jersey’s newest immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall, sits deep in the arteries of Newark, where shipping containers are stacked on top of each other in every direction.