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IMF Urges Wealthy Countries to Send COVID Aid to Poor Countries

Submitted by HannahJubilee on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 16:25

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2021

Available for interview: Eric LeCompte, Executive Director
Contact: Olivia Engling, Communications and Operations Manager
olivia@jubileeusa.org / (202) 709-7696 

IMF Urges Wealthy Countries to Send COVID Aid to Poor CountriesCountries Can Donate Special Drawing Rights, an Emergency IMF Currency

Foreign Policy/Imperialism
Globalization/Anti-globalization
Labor/Economics/Business
Miscellaneous
Philosophy/Religion
Poverty

One person hit by bulldozer in violent police/DPW eviction of L and M st tent emcampments

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 15:04

On the 4th of October, DC Mayor Bowser suddenly moved up an eviction of the L and M st unhoused encampments scheduled for two days later. MPD and DPW attacked with bulldozers and trash trucks, and one person was struck when an occupied tent was partially bulldozed. Earlier, an Indymedia vidoegrapher was told by cops he could be run down by a bulldozer that was about to move a tent to a trash truck.

Update: Bowser's tent removal program SUSPENDED after occupied tent bulldozed.

Video: tent resident DOWN, cops get violent after occupied tent bulldozed 48 sec

Video: Dozer trashes tent after videographer warned of potentially being run down 1 min 56 sec

Video-Mike Murillo's clip of scene after attempt to bulldoze occupied tent 15 sec

Housing/urban Issues/Gentrification
Local News/Neighborhoods

Mayor Bowser's position on the unhoused

Pro choice protesters block 1st st NE,face off with theocrats at SCOTUS

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 14:22

On the 4th of October, the US Supreme Court began a new session. Christian Fundamentalist made exclusively religious arguments in their antichoice protest outside while pro-choice activists chanted against them and blockaded 1st st. Several of the pro-choice activists were arrested.

Video of dueling protests and the pro-choice civil disobedience at SCOTUS 3 min 54 sec

Gender/Sexuality/Identity

Closeup of part of the civil disobedience

Women's March marches on Supreme Court, faces off with counterprotesters

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 10/02/2021 - 20:09

On the 2nd of October, the Women's March marched on the US Supreme Court to condemn their decision to uphold the Texas near-ban on abortion. Marchers were measured in thousands, counterprotesters in dozens. The cops penned the march into a dangerously narrow space by the Supreme Court while shouting matches were the limit of interaction with the right-wingers.

Video-marching on SCOTUS and confronting theocrat counterprotesters 4 min 31 sec

Gender/Sexuality/Identity

The Women's March coming up Capitol Hill

Kavanaugh gets 2nd home demo over TX abortion law-from neighbors

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 23:30

On the first day of October, Supreme Court so-called "Justice" Brett Kavanaugh got a second protest at his house over the Texas abortion law he chose to uphold. This time it was mostly his own neighbors, protesting after dark with a candlelight "Vigil for Democracy." Kavanaugh could not leave to escape the protest, as he is in quarantine at his house after a positive covid test.

Gender/Sexuality/Identity

Kavanaugh's own neighbors are now protesting his Supreme Court rulings on abortion rights

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