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.
I apologise for posting a reddit link, but I haven'y seen anyone post this here
Philly Black Panthers confront pigs and protect the people - https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1qdo5hq/philly_black_panthers_confront_pigs_and_protect/ (2 days ago, ~jan 15th)
barely mentioned anywhere online, I just saw it pop up in a political humour comm on lemmy.world and had to do some digging to find info
I think this group might be associated https://nbppblackcross.com/ - https://nbpp.org/
interested to know more if anyone is more informed than me
reddit comments saying an armed member of the black panther party is based, cant believe what im seeing
He's part of a different group, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTf6oseCQnQ/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-birdsong-53943a341
This is distinct from the new black panther party which have a long and controversial history, to say the least
I've only seen this new Black Panther Party for Self Defense on Instagram, which probably says enough about my algorithm; and you're right, Paul Birdsong's profile indicates this is a distinct entity drawing direct and sole continuity with the original BPP. The Philly branch is the PA chapter, I think there's a Northern Cali one too, but idk about any specifics either
What's the "new black panther party"? Reason I ask is a BPP I follow posted a weird post on Instagram today basically denouncing Paul Birdsong and calling his rhetoric foolish. The comments were all saying "idk he seems be pretty good to me" and the post was removed later. No idea what is going on in inter-BPP politics but I personally haven't heard birdsong say anything that seems bad
There’s probably a half dozen active orgs using the party name in one way or another, and they all hate each other for various ideological/tactical/strategic reasons (sound familiar?). Here’s the nbpp in a nutshell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party
So the party here definitely isn't NBPP, I think they are just independent. Idk if they have any continuity with the OG black panther org here, but their platform seems left leaning but not Marxist leninist
I kind of got the feeling that the post was just bitterness about birdsong gaining social media clout and notoriety, but not doing it the "right way"
Right I thought I was getting some wires crossed, i'd read sketchy things about the NBPP, but kinda hard to find info when everything is behind these weird walled gardens
thank you
Here's a longer video: Terrified Cops FLEE the Scene When They Spot the Black Panthers - TYT Sports
Also, I believe this discussion is relevant: The system cannot be reformed so this is the plan - Colonial Outcasts and Peoples Core
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