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Migrants protest at ICE against Biden's continuation of Trump policies

On the 3ed of March, a number of migrant organizations descended on the headquarters of ICE to protest record deportations and Biden's continuation of many of Trump's worst immigration policies. Demands included freeing all ICE detainees, ending electronic monitoring, halting deportations, shutting down detention centers and chopping the budgets of ICE and CBP.

Video-protest at ICE including laying of flowers 2 min 15 sec

Property of unhoused residents of 18th and Columbia Road plaza stolen by security guards

This is a bit delayed, but reports have reached Indymedia that on Feb 26th,. Truist Bank's security guards stole posessions of unhoused residents on the plaza at 18th and Columbia Road. Unhoused residents have been driven from the plaza by harassment but activists still hold it. Truist Bank is attempting to fence off, then demolish the plaza for condo construction but has been hung up in court for decades.

The Shortwave Report 03/04/22 Listen Globally!

This week's show features stories from NHK Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Radio Havana Cuba.http://youthspeaksout.net/swr220304.mp3 (29:00)   (If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {33MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)        From JAPAN- A brief update on Covid in Japan.

"Trucker" rally for State of the Union draws zero turnout

At attempt to organize a "trucker" convoy rally at the Washington Monument on March 1 failed with the organizeer whining "where are the trucks?" on Twitter. This was supposed to cooincide with Biden's State of the Union address. For far-right organizers to enter DC would be to subject themselves to scrutiny by the US Marshalls and FBI which are still hunting J6 fugitives and unindicted co-conspirators, so they may have been scared away.

Only media at the stage: no-show for the "trucker" convoy against the State of the Union address (still from Ford Fischer video)

Anonymous hacks entire Russian Ministry of Defense, Twitter removes links

On the 25th of February, Anonymous kicked off cyberattacks on Putin's invasion of Ukraine in a very big way. In addition to knocking both Gazprom and the Russian Ministry of "Defense" (MoD)off the Internet, they cracked the MoD server and published everything they found. A Twitter post linked to the captured data-and Twitter cravenly took the post down.

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