Headlines – Anti-Immigrant Scapegoating, Water Crisis, Palestine, Bolivia and more
From this week’s headlines: Trump signs executive order extending a ban on green cards and work visas for certain foreign workers. The repression of Bolivia’s popular Movement for Socialism Party continues under the right wing coup government. Seattle Mayor announces that the city will disband the police-free autonomous zone CHOP. Thousands of Palestinians rally against […]
They make your clothes in hellish conditions. They stand with Black Lives Matter.
Garment workers in Myanmar produce for Nike, H&M, and Zara. After going on strike, they have faced a wave of repression during the pandemic. Now they’re standing for Black lives. We interview Myanmar-based labor organizer Andrew Tillett-Sacks. #AsianforBlackLives #BlackLivesMatter #MyanmarStrikes #Garmentworkers Connect with BreakThrough » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BTnewsroom » Tweet us on Twitter: […]
Ithaca Becomes First City to Cancel Rent
The small city of Ithaca, N.Y. has voted to cancel the rents for the duration of the pandemic. BreakThrough interviews tenant organizer Daisy Wiley on how it happened, and — with the rent due again next week — what happens now. Similar measures have been adopted worldwide, but not in the U.S., where the crisis […]
Juneteenth: Explained
The anti-racist movement has revived the call to make Juneteenth — the end of chattel slavery in the U.S. — an official holiday. After all 500,000 people remained enslaved on July 4, 1776, so doesn’t that make Juneteenth the true “independence day” for Black America? Connect with BreakThrough » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BTnewsroom » […]
My Brother Was Not Suicidal’: Robert Fuller’s Sister Speaks
Authorities have been forced by mass protests to reopen investigations into the deaths of Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, another Black man found hanged 10 days prior to Fuller in Southern California. Fuller’s family is speaking out about a potential lynching and the community is demanding straight answers. #RobertFuller #JusticeforRobertFuller #Lynching #RacisminAmerica #News Connect with […]
“Tear it Down!” Racist Monument Toppled by Anti-Racist Uprising
In this segment BreakThrough News host Eugene Puryear discusses the wave of statue topplings and removals that are accompanying the uprising against racism sweeping the US. Puryear explains how these statues are symbols not just of a dark past but also the continued oppression and marginalization of Black people today.
UN rights council agrees to urgent debate on racism, police violence 2
The UN Human Rights Council started a debate today on “systemic racism” in the United States, at the urging of all 54 African nations and the family of George Floyd. This isn’t the first time the UN has taken up U.S. racism — and it’s not the first time the U.S. government has denied its […]
Protester Entrapped by Police Exclusive Interview
The story behind the viral video. Police entrapped an activist on Long Island, NY at the head of a #BlackLivesMatter march by forcing him to run into them. The officers throw the organizer, Terrel Tuosto, to the ground with a knee on his neck. Tuosto tells BT, “They need to be exposed.” #LongIslandProtests #EastMeadowProtest #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd […]