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Our panel for a conference on equity and antiracism at CUNY’s Lehman College was canceled because it included the word “intifada” in the title. Instead of promoting antiracism, CUNY participates in the demonization of Palestinian resistance. Source
Posts Tagged ‘repression’
Love, but not for the colonized: responding to the repression of Palestine solidarity at CUNY
February 8th, 2024 
Awake Goy In the face of repression, resistance thrives: Why attacks on the Palestinian student movement are failing
December 16th, 2023 Awake Goy The University thinks that they can crush us by sanctioning students and banning our organization, but this movement is much larger than one organization or individual. Our growing movement is evidence of the futility of their tactics. Source
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No Comments »Educators teaching Palestine face academic repression at the University of California
December 14th, 2023 Awake Goy It has become clear since October 7 that U.S. college campuses have a significant role to play in the struggle for a free Palestine. University students continue to demonstrate in campus quads and administration buildings while educators teach about the occupation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people in their classrooms. Universities across […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: academic, california, educators, Palestine, repression, teaching, university No Comments »Reclaiming CUNY as a People’s University: Fighting against repression, censorship, and anti-Palestinian racism
May 23rd, 2023 Awake Goy On May 15th, as people around the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the ongoing Nakba- the oppression and forced expulsion of Palestinians from their own country by Zionist colonizers – the administration of the City University of New York (CUNY) ramped up its repression of student-led Palestine solidarity organizing. The administration of Hunter College […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, Censorship, fighting, people, reclaiming, repression, university No Comments »A year of resistance and repression: a timeline of ‘Operation Break the Wave’
December 28th, 2022 Awake Goy The year 2022 was unlike any other we have witnessed in over a decade as Palestinian resistance was back on the agenda. Operation Break the Wave has been the Israeli response. The counterinsurgency campaign was launched in late February and had a singular purpose: to break the back of a newly-emerging phenomenon of armed Palestinian […]
Menendez: Cuba Responded to Biden’s ‘Unilateral Concessions’ by Increasing Repression, Including ‘Death Penalty for Free Speech’
May 21st, 2022 Awake Goy On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) criticized the Biden administration for lifting some restrictions on Cuba by saying that the day that the policy changes were announced, the Cuban
Posted in Jewish News Tags: biden, concessions, increasing, menendez, repression, responded, unilateral No Comments »An Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Odisha over the ongoing police repression in Dhinkia
December 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy To, Shri Naveen PattnaikChief Minister of Odisha Dear Shri Pattnaik, We, the undersigned, are shocked and deeply concerned over the ongoing police repression on the peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha who for seventeen years have used the most democratic means to resist the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Chief, Letter, Minister, odisha, ongoing, police, repression No Comments »Again Police Repression in Dhinkia
December 21st, 2021 Awake Goy Around 2pm on 20th Dec, 2021, the villagers of Dhinkia made a massive demonstration against the state and police repression at Mahala village border. Suddenly police forces entered Dhinkia village from back side and started thrashing and beating people. Some villagers sustained severe injuries. The police have arbitrarily arrested two persons Mr. Ajodhya Swain and […]
Panic in Austria after Police and Army rebel against Govt Repression
November 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Panic in Austria after Police and Army rebel against Govt RepressionPublished on November 23, 2021Written by europerenaissance.com The Police and the Army refuse to control the health passes in the name of ‘freedom and human dignity.’ They will join a large demonstration against compulsory confinement on November 20, 2021, in Vienna. Only a few days […]
Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’—Or Economic Sanctions?
November 5th, 2021 Awake Goy “Record numbers” of migrants are coming into the United States from Nicaragua, according to Newsweek (7/29/21), which blames the increase on “arbitrary arrests and human rights abuses” by the Nicaraguan government. Former Sandinista leader Sergio Ramírez, writing for El Salvador’s El Faro (8/20/21), claims that “repression” by President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista government is causing a “dramatic growth” in migration […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: economic, escaping, migrants, nicaraguan, repression, sanctions No Comments »Amidst Growing Repression Against Farmers’ Movement, 15 Reasons Why Government Should Avoid Use of Force
October 5th, 2021 Awake Goy There are increasingly worrying signs of the government becoming increasingly becoming more repressive towards farmers. On October 3, just a day after Gandhi Jayanti, four farmers and a journalist were killed at a protest site in Lakhimpur Khiri district (UP) when a car of a son of a union minister crashed into them. Just a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, amidst, farmers, growing, movement, reasons, repression No Comments »Belarus sees a year of fierce repression after disputed vote
August 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Belarusian authorities long ago removed the makeshift memorial to a protester shot by police at the start of last year’s massive protests against the country’s autocratic president, replacing flowers and placards with a garbage can. Alexander Taraikovsky died as protests swelled, a day after President Alexander Lukashenko s reelection to a sixth term in the […]
Repression Of National Protests In Colombia Is Backed By The United States
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. May 17, 2021 Colombians have been on a national strike since April 28 with protests in 500 cities and blockades that have shut down the major highway. The protests were sparked by a proposed bill that would place the burden of financing the country’s debt on the people while […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: backed, Colombia, national, protests, repression, states, united No Comments »Colombia: Violent Repression Of Anti-Government Protests
May 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Twitter. Residents of Bogota and Medellin continued to report brutal police repression of anti-government protests while Colombia’s third largest city Cali retook the streets on Saturday. The massive turnout followed days of terror that left 10 people dead since Wednesday, the first day of a national strike against a tax reform proposed by the government of President Ivan Duque. The […]
Why Repression of Climate Activists is Bad News for the Endangered Planet of Earth
February 27th, 2021 Awake Goy It is very sad that many reports of repression of climate activists are being received from several parts of world at such an early stage of climate activism. Even a very quick net search would reveal several recent instances from Brazil, Chile, Kenya, India , Russia and other countries. These are reports where climate activism […]
Posted in Climate Change Tags: activists, climate, Earth, endangered, planet, repression No Comments »How An NYPD Anti-Terror Squad Became A Tool For Repression
February 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Members of the Strategic Response Group confronting a Black Trans Liberation march in November. Scott Heins/Gothamist. On a Thursday night in November, two days after the presidential election, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn for a march against police brutality. The event was one in a series of Black Trans Liberation […]
Trump administration declares China’s repression of Uighurs ‘genocide’
January 20th, 2021 Awake Goy The Trump administration has determined that China has committed “genocide and crimes against humanity” in its repression of Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, delivering an embarrassing blow to Beijing a day before US President-elect Joe Biden is to take office.US officials briefing reporters on the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Administration, china, declares, Genocide, repression, Trump, uighurs No Comments »Australian Cop Challenges Police Repression
December 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy Aussie Cop Challenges Police Repression Henry Makow Kevin Dawson: “If there is truly no conspiracy here, why aren’t we having the conversation? Why are we being silenced? Why are we being ostracised for having a differing view? Aren’t these issues the very cornerstone of our democracy?” Facebook, November 29, 2020 To: Michael Fuller Police Commissioner […]
Racism, Repression, And Fightback In The USA
November 8th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: National Guard in Philadelphia City Center. From YouTube. November 2020 report highlights. Now more than ever, we need to debunk the myth that human rights are an issue in other countries, but not here in the U.S. A re-surged movement against police brutality, white supremacy, and state violence — come to be known […]
Confronting Bipartisan Repression And The US-led Axis Of Domination Beyond Election Day
November 6th, 2020 Awake Goy No matter who sits in the white peoples’ house, we will have to continue to fight for social justice, democracy, and People(s)-Centered Human Rights. “Our survival depends on seeing this violent, barbarian behemoth for what it is.” Chaos, violence, legal challenges, voter suppression and party suppression all culminated in the pathetic display of democratic degeneration […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: beyond, bipartisan, confronting, domination, election, repression No Comments »Bolivia: Stop State Repression And Violence, For Free And Fair Elections
July 29th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Above photo: Bolivian protesters flee from coup police. Source AP. Summary executions and widespread repression under Bolivia’s interim government report rights advocates from Harvard and University Network for Human Rights. NOTE: The authors refer to the current power holders in Bolivia as an “interim government.” Popular Resistance reminds its readers that Evo Morales is the democratically-elected […]
May Day Repression Reveals Savagery of U.S. Colonialism, Resilience of Puerto Rico’s People
May 4th, 2018 Awake Goy SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — Puerto Rico’s capital was the site of massive scenes of brutal repression as police clamped down on an International Workers Day march using overwhelming violent force, scattering thousands of protesters who gathered to resist austerity measures and anti-worker attacks on the people of U.S colonial territory. Despite the colonial administration’s […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: colonialism, people, puerto, repression, resilience, reveals, savagery No Comments »Russia’s Political Repression of Crimea’s Radical Left
March 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy Russia’s annexation of Crimea was purportedly an exercise in free political expression, a watershed moment in history when a historic part of Russia returned to the motherland against the backdrop of a fascist putsch in Ukraine. Indeed, Crimea’s “reunification” (in Kremlin lingo) with Russia was sold, at least in part, as a humanitarian operation to […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: Crimea, political, radical, rússia, repression No Comments »Under the Shadow of Violence and Repression, Mexican Women March for a Change to the System
March 18th, 2018 Awake Goy MEXICO CITY — One night in September of last year, 19-year-old Mara Fernanda Castilla Miranda, like so many people her age, went out for a night on the town in a suburb of the south-central Mexican state of Puebla. And like so many other women across Mexico, she never made it home. When the […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: march, mexican, repression, shadow, under, Violence, women No Comments »Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a gift to the far right and US state repression
December 11th, 2017 Awake Goy Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a gift to the far right and US state repression London Independent December 11, 2017 Noam Chomsky has criticised the anti-fascist movement and argues its tactics are a gift to the far right and US state repression. The renowned academic, widely considered the founder of modern linguistics, says anti-fascists have instigated […]
Protests Continue On Honduras Amid Curfew, Police Repression
December 4th, 2017 Awake Goy Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/protests-continue-on-honduras-amid-curfew-police-repression/
Repression Of Mutual Aid In Puerto Rico
October 18th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From mutualaiddisasterrelief.org Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. Several police vehicles, an armored tactical vehicle, and law enforcement personnel including swat team pointed their guns at relief workers while surrounding and then entering our base […]
Echoes of Franco in Spain’s ‘political repression’ of Catalonia – 70 academics incl Chomsky
September 30th, 2017 Awake Goy In an open letter, tweeted by referendum supporter Julian Assange, Chomsky et al decried the Spanish government’s handling of the issue. The academics, from the fields of political science, law, economics, human rights, sociology, and history, compared the current government’s actions to that of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain for almost forty years […]
Posted in World News Tags: academics, catalonia, echoes, franco, political, repression, Spain No Comments »Bomb Attack on London Underground Sets Stage for Further State Repression
September 17th, 2017 Awake Goy Posted in World News Tags: attack, further, London, repression, stage, state, underground No Comments »UN report finds repression and human rights abuse in Venezuela
August 31st, 2017 Awake Goy nsnbc : UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein in a news release, stressed that his office found extensive human rights violations […]
