Headlines: U.S. Hoards COVID-19 Drug
From this week’s headlines: U.S. buys up world supply of COVID-19 drug. Hundreds occupy City Hall in New York City demanding defunding of the NYPD. Oklahoma defies Republican leadership to expand government-backed health insurance. Belgian King Phillipe gives his “deepest regrets” — but no apology — for the genocide of 10 million Congolese people under […]
‘They’re Trying to Make the West Bank the Next Gaza’
Israel’s plans to illegally seize more land and water resources from the occupied West Bank has awakened a new wave of mass resistance and global solidarity. BT speaks with Mnar A. Muhawesh, editor-in-chief of Mint Press News, about the current crisis. Muhawesh, based in Minnesota, also discusses a recent conference where Israeli state forces conducted […]
LGBTQ Pride Marches Return to Militant Roots Against Police Violence
Huge numbers celebrated Pride from coast to coast and the theme everywhere was to unite with the struggle against police violence and to lift up the Black LGBTQ community. And the police responded — surprise, surprise — with more violence. #copsoutofpride #pridemonth #lgbtqpride #stonewallwasariot #racisminamerica #blacklivesmatterpridemonth #nopridewithoutblacklives Connect with BreakThrough » Like us on Facebook: […]
Supreme Court: People’s Revolt Tips the Scales
The conservative court chooses stability amid a pandemic, depression and grassroots revolt. Coronavirus surges amid government negligence of epic, and criminal, proportions. Low-wage workers in North Carolina continue to call out the lack of PPE. The police respond to Pride and anti-racist protests with even more repression. And internationally Palestine resists the latest advances of […]
‘Only the Workers Know What’s Really Happening’
The virus is surging, and workers at the frontlines are still struggling for basic PPE and a livable wage. Low-wage and essential workers in North Carolina testified to members of the state’s General Assembly to demand a council to set health and safety standards, which the workers themselves would be part of enforcing. Connect with […]
Actually, Being a Cop is Not that Dangerous
While police keep inventing stories of being attacked by fast food employees, other workers are actually taking greater daily risks. Maybe it’s time to start saluting the loggers, taxi drivers, flight engineers, landscaping and farm workers out there instead. #chanceofdyingasacop #whypolicingisntdanergous #dangerousjobs #Isbeingacopdangerous #police #policingisntdangerous #IspolicingsafeinAmerica #ispolicingdangerous #realdangerinpolicing #Realdangerinbeingacop #policing #dangerinpolicingexplained #dangeronjob #chanceofdeathinpolicing […]
Bolton and Trump: A Falling Out Among Thieves
Bolton’s book has scandalized Washington but what are it’s deeper political implications? In this week’s monologue Eugene explains how Bolton is cleverly attempting to launder his extreme war-mongering positions as “mainstream” by appealing to anti-Trump sentiment. #johnbolton #donaldtrump #trump #handsoffvenezuela #venezuela #warmongers #BoltonTrump Connect with BreakThrough » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BTnewsroom » Tweet us […]
Seattle Labor Council Expels Police Union
As a massive uprising against racism sweeps the U.S., much attention has been turned to the issue of police unions. The MLK Labor Council in Seattle took the major step of expelling that area’s police union from labor’s governing regional body. BreakThrough interviewed Nicole Grant, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the MLK Labor Council about what led […]