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Demands for climate action have largely faded into the background as the covid-19 pandemic, the economic meltdown, and widespread protests over police brutality have seized the world’s attention. But for Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute and one of the architects of the Green New Deal, the issues are inextricably intertwined. You can’t appreciate the real toll of the fossil-fuel sector if you’re not looking at it through the lenses of racial justice, economic inequality, and public health, she says in an interview with MIT Technology Review. People of color are more likely to live...

NASCAR will no longer require its teams to stand during the national anthem. Instead, drivers and team members will be allowed to engage in peaceful protest.According to NBC sports’ Dustin Long, “NASCAR eliminated the guidelines before last weekend’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. NASCAR official Kirk Price knelt during the invocation and raised a fist. Price, who served on active duty in the U.S. Army for three years, remained kneeling during the anthem while he saluted the flag.”Bubba Wallace, the sports only full-time black driver, called Price’s protest a “powerful move.”“If I would have seen it, I would have went...

The Bureau of Land Management, ironically going by the acronym BLM, with help from Federal agents, shut down the Bundy range land protest and killed LaVoy Finicum. A far worse group takes over a section of Seattle and NOTHING happens? Really? This raises and insurmountable number of questions.

Welcome to the CHAZ, the newly named Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where most everything was free Tuesday. Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could say their piece. A free documentary movie - Ava DuVernay’s “13th” - showing after dark. A Free Capitol Hill, according to no shortage of spray paint on building facades. And perhaps most important to demonstrators, the neighborhood core was free of uniformed police. **SNIP** A man passed out flyers calling for a Thursday meeting to help answer the question now lingering...

Please list all cities under siege by BLM/Antifa/etc rioters?

At one point, police lined up and blocked Brecksville Road near the city’s new police station. Demonstrators marched to within inches of officers. They yelled profanities at police, insulted them and made obscene gestures. None of them would identify themselves to cleveland.com. Police didn’t move, and remained silent for the most part. Some demonstrators said certain officers were smiling at them. “Why are you smiling?” one demonstrator asked police. “You want to say something? Say it.” Another demonstrator, staring down officers, said a certain percentage of police in general are wife-beaters. He said he was trying to figure out which...

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday that former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will advise her office's fast-moving probe of the New York Police Department and its clashes with protesters at demonstrations sparked by the fatal arrest of George Floyd. James announced that Lynch and Barry Friedman, a New York University professor who serves as faculty director of the NYU Law Policing Project, will join the investigation as special advisers. "The right to peacefully protest is one of our most basic civil rights, and we are working without rest to ensure that right is protected and guarded," James...

White Counterprotesters in Franklinville, N.J., Mock George Floyd's Killing The protest in the New Jersey township was similar to those that have unfolded across the United States since George Floyd was killed in police custody: About 70 people gathered to rally against police brutality and systemic racism. But as the diverse group marched along Monday, waving signs and chanting slogans in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, it was met by several white men who had gathered near a sign that said “All Lives Matter” and in front of a pickup truck draped with an American flag and a...

Lindsey P. Horvath, who was recently sworn in as mayor, tweeted “some important tips” for “showing up at Black-led and people of color-led protests” hours before the rally began... The guidelines shared by Mayor Horvath went on to advise: “Don’t join in on the chant ‘Whose streets? Our Streets!’ – these streets are not ‘Our Streets.’ Instead, carry signs and participate in chants that challenge white supremacy.” The suggested protocols also discouraged white people from speaking...

City officials in Dallas have declared protesters a high-risk population, and are particularly susceptible for coronavirus infections. Due to this new status, protesters now qualify for federally subsidized coronavirus tests. The Dallas Morning News reports that the city will open up a pop-up testing location for those who have participated in civil rights protests over the past 10 days. The site will be near the American Airlines Center and is expected to open Wednesday. The pop-up location will be run by the Parkland Health and Hospital System, as well as the city of Dallas. Since protesters are now designated a...

Democrats came under fire for staging a political stunt Monday aimed as an apparent act of solidarity with black Americans and demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd. Just before they introduced a sweeping criminal justice legislation Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), joined by over a dozen other Democrats, knelt in silence for 8:46 minutes, the same length of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held Floyd’s neck pressed to the ground with his knee during the fateful May 25 arrest. Democrats were also wearing scarfs made from a Ghanaian textile...

Urban trekking around Denver the other day, I happened across a protest march of maybe a thousand people. Here’s what I observed. The marchers were almost all white. I saw fewer than a dozen black people and no Hispanics. Most were young women looking vaguely guilt-ridden. They were well-dressed, well-groomed and well-fed. I’m not passing judgment, mind you, but just reporting the facts.... But one sign troubled me. It appeared in various incantations, but the gist was “Justice NOW for George.” Are the protesters demanding that we bypass the trial and just lynch the cops right now? What kind of...

Martin Gugino, 75, was shoved while approaching riot police in Buffalo causing him to stumble backwards and hit his head, resulting in a melt-down of intense fury on social media. Far from being an innocent old man as being portrayed by some, it turns out that Gugino is a longtime hard left agitator. At the time of this writing, it appears that Guginos Facebook and Twitter accounts have been deleted. The accounts, which were researched by RAIR Foundation USA, revealed a seasoned leftist activist who had a self-described “obsession” with Cuba. Gugino has ties to radical socialist Catholic Worker Movement,...

The Florida attorney who dressed as the Grim Reaper in an attempt to shame beachgoers into going home amid the coronavirus pandemic is championing a new cause -- and seemingly defying his own advice. In recent days, Daniel Uhlfelder has posted several photographs and videos to his Twitter account of himself attending crowded protests held in response to the death of George Floyd. "Defuniak springs, Florida. Huge crowd. Stay hopeful and stay strong," he posted Sunday from a rally in the Florida panhandle.

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An alarming look at what's really going on and the coming war with the enemy within.

Newark, N.J. ‘To all the jackasses out there who we now have to carry—get with the program,” Gov. Phil Murphy fulminated on Twitter April 6. “We know who you are and we will not relent until we have 100% compliance.” On May 2 he added: “ATTN KNUCKLEHEADS: KEEP A SAFE DISTANCE #FlattenTheCurve.” But New Jersey relented on Saturday as thousands massed in the streets of Newark, the state’s most populous city. While many protesters did avail themselves of masks, standing 6 feet apart—as per the state’s oft-repeated guidelines—was impossible. Mr. Murphy’s prohibition on “outdoor gatherings” was still in effect, although...

In a special titled “Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism,” the cast of “Sesame Street” - including fan-favorites such as Elmo, Big Bird, and Abby Cadabby - joined CNN Saturday night, to discuss and explain the concepts of protesting and racism to children for the first time. In a now viral clip Elmo tells his dad, Louie, that he does not understand what is happening with protests across the United States. Louie explains to him, “Through protesting, people are allowed to share their feelings and work together to make things better.” When Elmo asks if the protesters are sad, Louie...

Federal and local leaders on Sunday began to ease restrictions and deployment of military forces in response to nationwide protests sparked by the police-involved killing of George Floyd that continued over the weekend. President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted that he had ordered the National Guard to withdraw from Washington, D.C., but warned that they can "quickly return" if demonstrations once again escalate.

Many Americans understand that the riots aren’t righteous protests but are, instead, leftist activism aimed at destabilizing America and (the activists hope) destroying Trump’s chance at reelection. Still, people found shocking a video showing police in Buffalo pushing an old man to the ground where he lay with blood pouring from his ear. Don’t believe everything you see, though. The old man was a leftist activist looking for trouble and may have staged the whole thing.