Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it’s just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a “domestic terrorist” and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration’s policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
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Watch as PSL walks right into the sheepdog trap laid out for them, as they do campaign events for Democrats. I really hope I’m wrong and PSL has some other plan cause based on an outside view their events are indistinguishable from 50501/No Kings events which are DNC campaign events. Them getting further entangled with those backstabbing opportunists does not bode well.
What do you think should be the strategy to engage with the very large numbers of people attending these protests?
Not have veterans and Democrat politicians on stage to speak, for one
An event the PSL actually organizes - as in sets the speaker list on its own terms - would never have a Democratic politician. A veteran would need to be an anti-imperialist organizer denouncing the military. But what if party organizers get invited to speak at an event that a Democrat was also invited to speak at? Should they say, “no, I will not sully myself with adjancency to a Democrat” or should they say “I will utilize the platform to push a radical message in opposition to the Democrats to this crowd”? Which one is more effective to our ends?
This was an official PSL-DSA-Answer joint event on January 10th, at Battleship Memorial Park in Portland. PSL_PDX has the poster on their Instagram.
The speakers included two democrat politicians so you are just straight up wrong. Portland city commissioner and I believe a state senator who was a Somali immigrant. They also let About Face talk, a Vet organization, who kept spouting incoherent patriotic bullshit. They didn’t denounce the military, they talked about how much better the military is than ICE the whole time.
I was the only one in attendance with a Palestine flag. There were more Ukraine flags there than Palestine flags.
Local politicians might have a specific relationship with a movement or group, I dunno.
About Face is a legit group of anti-imperialist veterans. If he was doing pro-military bullshit, he was misrepresenting his own org.
If so that sucks, but again, what should they do? Spend time yelling at people about their Ukraine flags?
What happened to “PSL would NEVER let a democrat speak”??? See how easily you spout 100% wrong bullshit?
By their fruits ye shall know them. If their fruits are just peaceful permitted marches with the exact same people from 50501 they are doing something wrong. The fact you can’t address this or won’t address this is concerning
Guess I was wrong about a decision that branch made. Could be something the DSA partners pushed for as well, I don’t know. Could be the party just endorsed the event and didn’t organize it at all or had to compromise with other organizations.
Edit: would also be curious who the specific politicians were to see if they’re actually democrats