“…the struggle for a better world is never easy, is always provisional, needs to be struggled for both within yourself and among those you live, love, work, and sometimes die with.”…
Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy Cindy Millstein (ed) pp.269 AK Press (Chico, Edinburgh, 2020) ISBN: 9-781849-353731
There are two basic ways of approaching anarchism. Either as the conscious organising of those who are well versed in an explicit and thoroughly demarcated theoretical tradition. This is big @ Anarchism, people who self-identify with the label and do stuff on that basis.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not waiting for a trial to sort out what happened on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where prosecutors say a 17-year-old with a semi-automatic rifle fatally shot two men on a night of protest and violence. He’s giving an account at odds with the authorities who charged Kyle Rittenhouse with homicide.
In remarks surrounding and during his trip Tuesday to Kenosha, Trump also falsely claimed credit for National Guard deployments that he actually did not authorize. Wisconsin’s Democratic governor did.
TRUMP, asked if was going to condemn the actions of Rittenhouse: “We’re looking at all of it. And that was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as I saw. And he was trying to get away from them, I guess; it looks like. And he fell, and then they very violently attacked him. And it was something that we’re looking at right now and it’s under investigation. But I guess he was in very big trouble. He would have been — I — he probably would have been killed.” — news conference Monday before traveling to Kenosha on Tuesday.
Jacob Blake's family hosting community gathering. Includes comm. clean-up, voter reg. booth as well as food, 🎶, free haircuts provided by local business. Celebration highlights contrast between Trump’s divisive & inflammatory statements & nonviolent demonstrations held by family pic.twitter.com/9D1eHmEMWh
THE FACTS: His implication that Rittenhouse only shot the men after he tripped and they attacked him is wrong. The first fatal shooting happened before Rittenhouse ran away and fell.More Fact Checks:
Trump did not say whom he meant by “they” — the two men he shot or others in pursuit of him. But he spoke in defense of someone who opposed racial-justice protesters, who authorities say was illegally carrying a semi-automatic rifle and who prosecutors accuse of committing intentional homicide.
According to the criminal complaint released by prosecutors, victim Joseph Rosenbaum was shot and killed first, after following Rittenhouse into a parking lot, where Rosenbaum threw a plastic bag at the gunman and tried to take the weapon from him.
Fifty Shades of Whey@davenewworld_2Level 1:Kenosha PD arrested a church group for supplying food to protestors and still haven’t returned over $1,000 in goods. In a war against civilians, it’s imperative for the oppressor to cut off supply lines. This is what the Saudis did to Yemen. This is fascism.
The medical examiner found that Rosenbaum was shot in the groin and back — which fractured his pelvis and perforated his right lung and liver — and his left hand. He also suffered a superficial wound to his left thigh and a graze wound to his forehead.
Rittenhouse then ran down the street and was chased by several people trying to stop him and shouting that he just shot someone, according to the criminal complaint and cellphone video footage.
He tripped and fell. Anthony Huber, who was carrying a skateboard, was shot in the chest after apparently trying to wrest the gun from Rittenhouse, the complaint said. A third man was shot and injured.
Rittenhouse’s lawyer said he acted to defend himself.Full Coverage: AP Fact Check
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TRUMP, on Wisconsin officials and the National Guard: “Once they responded and once we took, you know, control of it, things went really well.” — remarks in Kenosha.
TRUMP: “One of the reasons I’m making the trip today and going to Wisconsin is we’ve had such a big success in shutting down what would be, right now, a city — that would’ve been Kenosha — a city that would’ve been burnt to the ground by now. … And it all stopped immediately upon the National Guard’s arrival.” — remarks Tuesday before boarding Air Force One to Wisconsin.
THE FACTS: That’s a distortion. He had nothing to do with the deployment of the National Guard in Wisconsin. The federal government never “took control of it.”
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers activated the state’s National Guard the day after a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake, sparking protests and violence over police actions and racism. When National Guard forces from three other states came in to help, it was because the governor had asked for that help from fellow governors, not the White House.
The Kenosha police department needs to be completely dismantled and re-built without racist bullies.
WATCH: Kenosha Police caught on tape attacking documentary filmmaker — after allegedly groping her breasthttps://t.co/0VEoG2EKXM
Evers said National Guard troops from Arizona, Michigan and Alabama were operating under the control of those states and Wisconsin, “not in a federal status.” National Guards answer to governors and sometimes state legislatures, not Washington.
The federal government sent deputy marshals from the U.S. Marshals Service and agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, about 200 in all. The restoration of order was primarily in the hands of National Guard units and local law enforcement.
As of Monday, 1,000 National Guard troops from Wisconsin were in Kenosha along with 500 National Guard troops from the other three states, said Wisconsin National Guard Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp.
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Bauer reported from Madison, Wisconsin. Associated Press writer Kevin Freking contributed to this report.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — A look at the veracity of claims by political figures.
Four years ago lots of people couldn’t have imagined that Donald Trump was just a few months away from being elected President of the United States.
Within days of the elections, people all across the country took to the streets to protest the election of Trump and to signal the need for a resistance movement that would have the capacity and vision to respond to what was to come.
In Grand Rapids, we wrote about how the Democratic Party was scrambling to respond to the fact that they had lost power. An event was organized in Grand Rapids entitled, Surviving the Trump Apocalypse, an event was focused exclusively how an electoral strategy. At the time, March of 2017, we wrote:
The opposition to the new president is refreshing in some ways, but this is a pattern amongst liberal and progressive circles. Liberals and progressives tend to get activated when…
In a statement published on August 26th, more than 450 people and 140 organizations from 22 countries demanded “Stop the War against the Zapatista Communities.” This occurs after “paramilitaries from the Ocosingo Coffee Growers Regional Organization (ORCAO) looted and set fire to the facilities of the New Dawn Rainbow Trade Center, which is located in the place known as the Cuxulja Crossroads, Lucio Cabañas Autonomous Municipality, within the official municipality of Ocosingo on August 22nd”, they explained.
Explaining the context, they recalled that “on February 24th, 2020, the ORCAO, together with the ‘Chinchulines’ group (identified for years as paramilitary), and members of the MORENA party in the region, used violence against and kidnapped members of National Indigenous Congress (CNI), this in the context of the Conference in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth ‘We Are All Samir’, convened by the EZLN and the CNI.”
They denounced that the “new aggression is part of the intensification of the war of attrition in Chiapas, characterized by the increase in violence by paramilitary groups and organized crime, as the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human has duly documented”, a trend that this center has highlighted in recent weeks, mostly in the agrarian conflict between the municipalities of Aldama and Chenalho.
It was released via Nonesuch Records on February 24, 2017.[13] Freedom Highway was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2017 Americana Music Honors & Awards.
“…the struggle for a better world is never easy, is always provisional, needs to be struggled for both within yourself and among those you live, love, work, and sometimes die with.”…
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