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  • Arrested In Rocking Chairs, Grandparents Protest Chase And Pressure Biden On Climate

    “Because the bank management chose to avoid arrests at its front door, our group eventually took our rockers and banners and moved into the street in front of the bank. There we were arrested — Michael Bagdes-Canning, 67, was shoved into a police car and Padma Dyvine, 71, became the first to be loaded into the police van. We were held in frigid cells for some hours before release with an expectation that we would be summoned to court at a later date.”

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  • NYC EMTs, Paramedics To Boycott Parade Honoring COVID First Responders

    Thousands of city frontline workers — including paramedics and emergency medical technicians — plan to boycott Mayor de Blasio’s Hometown Heroes ticker tape parade Wednesday.

    Members of FDNY EMS will not be marching up the Canyon of Heroes unless they are on duty and working, union leaders said Tuesday.

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  • The National Strike In Colombia: A Trade Union Perspective

    While the beginnings of this strike were directly tied to popular discontent with the government’s proposed tax reform bill, it was also a resurgence of the huge protests that enveloped Colombia from November 2019 to February 2020. But more than just a spontaneous reflection of the broad social crisis that has gripped Colombia for decades, the present context portends a much deeper, wider, and momentous social explosion.

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  • Journalists attacked by anti-LGBT demonstrators in Tbilisi, Georgia

    New York, July 6, 2021 – Georgian authorities should swiftly and thoroughly investigate anti-LGBT demonstrators’ recent attacks on dozens of journalists, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

    Yesterday, a group of more than 1,000 people demonstrating against a planned LGBT Pride rally in Tbilisi, the capital, attacked dozens of journalists covering the event, as well as event organizers, according to multiple news reports and Natia Zambakhidze, head of the Georgia bureau of the U.S. Congress-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Tinatin Berdzenishvili, chief executive of Georgian public broadcaster Pirveli Arkhi, both of whom spoke with CPJ in phone interviews.

    The rally, scheduled for yesterday, was canceled after counterdemonstrators arrived at the scene and stormed the building housing Tbilisi Pride’s office, according to those reports. Those demonstrators proceeded to attack at least 55 people, including 53 members of the press, according to a statement by the Georgian Interior Ministry, which said that police were investigating those attacks.

    CPJ was unable to immediately confirm the identifies of the 53 journalists reported by the Interior Ministry to have been attacked at the rally or the nature of their injuries.

    “Georgian authorities should immediately investigate the atrocious attacks on journalists yesterday by an anti-LGBT mob in Tbilisi, and ensure that the attackers are held accountable,” said Robert Mahoney, CPJ’s deputy executive director. “Police officers are responsible for protecting journalists who are doing their jobs, and it is essential that members of the press can cover protests safely and without fear.”

    Demonstrators targeted people who had cameras, were wearing press vests, or were otherwise identifiable as members of the press, according to Zambakhidze and RFE/RL reporter Tornike Mandaria, who also spoke to CPJ in a phone interview.

    The demonstrators attacked RFE/RL reporters Mandaria and Tamuna Chkareuli, as well as camera operator David Koridze, Zambakhidze and Mandaria said.

    A group of about 50 people confronted Mandaria and Koridze, and one man punched Mandaria in the face and another pushed Koridze to the ground and kicked him in the head, Mandaria said.

    Mandaria told CPJ that a group of about 10 police officers were standing nearby and saw the attack. He said he ran to the officers and asked them to intervene, but they ignored him, and one officer used an anti-gay slur and added that the journalists should expect to be attacked for interacting with the Pride rally.

    Mandaria and Koridze were taken to a local hospital, where Koridze was diagnosed with a cranial hematoma and Mandaria with a broken nose and five broken teeth, Mandaria said.

    Separately, Chkareuli was filming demonstrators attack a passerby when a group of people ran after her and threw bottles at her, Zambakhidze said. He told CPJ that Chkareuli was bruised by the bottles but was not seriously injured.

    Zambakhidze told CPJ that the police have opened an investigation into the attack on RFE/RL journalists.

    The protesters also attacked Pirveli Arkhi camera operator Ilia Tvaliashvili and correspondents Anna Bruladze and Anna Patsia, according to news reports and Berdzenishvili. 

    Demonstrators shoved Tvaliashvili to the ground, kicked him in the body and head, and threw an unidentified chemical into his eyes, according to those sources. Separately, a man on a scooter attempted to run over Bruladze and Patsia, but they escaped without injury, Berdzenishvili said.

    Tvaliashvili was hospitalized and treated for eye injuries and a concussion, according to Berdzenishvili and reports, which said that his health was “satisfactory” and his eyes were in pain but he had not lost his vision.

    The independent news website Net Gazeti identified at least 11 other journalists who were attacked, including TV Pirveli reporters Guga Maisuradze and Nanuka Kadzhaya, and camera operator Levan Bregvadze; Imedi TV reporter Dimitri Kirimlishvili; Formula TV reporters Luka Khachidze, Georgi Gabunia, Rati Tsverava, and Sulkhan Elbakidze; and Rustavi 2 TV reporters Marika Gotsiridze, Tamar Tatarashvili, and camera operator Zurab Managadze.

    CPJ emailed Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs for comment but did not receive any response.


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  • Palestinians In Chicago Nurture Connection To A Homeland Far Away

    An Estimated 85,000 Palestinians Live In Greater Chicago — 60% Of The Area’s Arab Population. The Connection Some Of Them Feel To Their Homeland Was On Full Display During Street Protests In The Loop In Late May.

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  • CPJ joins letter urging Eswatini King Mswati III to guarantee journalists’ safety

    The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined 20 other media freedom organizations in an open letter to Eswatini King Mswati III, urging him to guarantee the safety and security of journalists and media workers in the country.

    Since late June, Eswatini authorities have fired tear gas at reporters and partially shut down the internet amid pro-democracy protests in the country, the letter states. Authorities also detained at least two South Africa journalists with the news website New Frame, whom officers allegedly abused in custody, according to news reports.

    The letter states that its signatories are “gravely concerned with the excessively inhumane and largely unreasonable responses by Eswatini security forces in dealing with media workers,” and called on authorities to allow the press to work freely and “without any harassment, assaults, threats or reprisals for doing their work.”

    The letter can be read here.


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  • Palestine Action Occupy Property Manager Of Israel’s Drone Engine Factory

    Vine Property Management, trading under the Fisher German banner, has been occupied and shut down by Palestine Action in the morning of the 5th July, as Palestine Action call for an end to the company’s facilitation of Israel’s arms production.

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  • Julian Assange Spends 50th Birthday In Prison – Protesters Demand Freedom For WikiLeaks Journalist

    Julian Assange Turns 50 On July 3. Protesters Rallied Outside The US Department Of Justice In Washington, DC, Demanding The Release Of The Imprisoned WikiLeaks Journalist.

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  • Threats And Fear As Loggers Clash With Blockaders At Fairy Creek

    Over 320 arrests have been made at the Fairy Creek blockades since police began removing forest defenders in mid-May. As enforcement of an injunction obtained by logging company Teal-Jones enters its seventh week, aggression from police and logging industry workers has been ramping up.

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  • Thousands March In Cancel Canada Day Actions

    On July 1, several thousand Indigenous people and settler and immigrant allies answered the call of organizations like Idle No More to protest the celebration of Canada Day and the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. Cancel Canada Day actions took place across the land occupied by the Canadian state, from St. John’s, Newfoundland, in the east, to Victoria, B.C., including a march of thousands to parliament in Ottawa.

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  • Heat Waves Prompt Workers To Walk Out

    With climate change making heat waves harsher and more common, the sizzling temperatures will affect workers of all kinds ― not just roofers and farmworkers stuck outside, but warehouse pickers, restaurant workers and others laboring indoors, especially in workplaces not outfitted to deal with extreme heat.

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  • Olympics Chiefs Relax Protest Rules For Tokyo Games

    The decision came amid calls to relax rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter, which states: “No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.” The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had promised to review the rule after the Black Lives Matter movement gained global support.

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  • Statue Of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II Toppled Amid Scandal About Deaths Of Indigenous Children

    Demonstrators toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in Winnipeg Thursday as outrage grows in Canada over the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of Indigenous children. Reuters reports a group of protesters gathered at the Manitoba legislature and pulled down the statue of Queen Victoria on Canada Day, an annual holiday that celebrates the Canadian Confederation.

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  • Water Protectors Occupy Work Sites And Lock Down To Line 3 Pipeline Construction

    Water protectors opposed to the contentious Line 3 pipeline project have regularly staged non-violent direct actions that stop construction, with several hundred arrested in in action campaigns over the last year. In June, 179 people were arrested when thousands of water protectors shut down an Enbridge pumping station for two days as part of a multi-pronged Treaty People Gathering in Northern Minnesota.

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  • Colombian riot police beat 2 RCN Radio journalists documenting police violence

    Bogotá, July 1, 2020 – Colombian authorities must conduct a full investigation into police officers’ use of force against journalists covering recent protests, and ensure that security forces allow the press to work safely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

    On June 29, Colombian police officers assaulted Katy Sánchez, a reporter, and Alexandra Molina, an intern, both with the independent broadcaster RCN Radio, while they covered anti-government protests in the capital, Bogotá, according to news reports and both journalists, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.

    Sánchez told CPJ that she and Molina were filming members of the anti-riot police unit, known as ESMAD, beating and kicking a youth during the demonstrations, when officers attacked them. In a video recorded by Molina, the two journalists can be heard urging police to stop beating the youth, and then officers are seen accosting the reporters.

    Sánchez said one officer shoved her to the ground with his shield, kicked her in the back, and hit her with his nightstick, leaving her with a badly sprained left ankle and bloodied knees. Molina told CPJ that the same officer shoved her to the ground, but that she did not sustain serious injuries.

    Sánchez was treated at a clinic but said she will be unable to work for about a week.

    “The recent police assault of two RCN Radio journalists shows that Colombian security forces have utterly failed to heed ongoing calls to change their violent tactics and stop targeting reporters,” said CPJ Central and South America Program Coordinator Natalie Southwick, in New York. “After two months of demonstrations in Colombia, it is inexcusable that riot police continue to target members of the press who are simply working to keep their fellow citizens informed.”

    Sánchez told CPJ, “We told them we were journalists and not to attack us, that we were just doing our jobs. But they didn’t care.”

    Following the incident, Bogotá Police Commander Óscar Gómez said in a video shared on Twitter that three of the officers involved in the attacks on the journalists and on the boy had been fired.

    “We reject this irregular behavior and extend our apologies to the journalists,” Gómez said. “We reject the excessive use of force.”

    In response to that video, Bogotá Mayor Claudia López tweeted that the attack on the journalists was “unacceptable.”

    Separately, on June 23, protesters broke the windows of RCN Radio’s Bogotá headquarters and spray-painted insults on its walls, according to news reports.

    At the time, RCN Radio news director Yolanda Ruíz tweeted: “We reject violence just as we defend the right to protest peacefully.”

    Colombian authorities have repeatedly attacked journalists covering demonstrations against a variety of proposals by President Iván Duque, according to the Bogotá-based Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP), which tweeted on June 29 that it was investigating 240 attacks on members of the press amid the demonstrations, including 138 by police.

    Contacted via messaging app, police spokesperson Wilson Baquero referred CPJ to Gómez’s video on Twitter.


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  • Protesters In Colombia Are Finding Ways To Break The Stigma Of Dissent

    Both Orjuela and Silvia reported that protesters — many of them friends and fellow activists — are being arrested en masse. While most are released without charges being filed, some are being subjected to what they describe as “judicial setups,” a tactic the state has employed against social movements for years.

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  • 3 Pipeline Protesters Arrested After Large Sit-In At Energy Giant’s Waltham Offices

    Three activists who refused to leave the Waltham offices of the pipeline company Enbridge were arrested by police Wednesday afternoon, ending a more than 27-hour occupation in protest of the multi-national energy giant behind the controversial Weymouth compressor station and other fossil fuel projects around the country.

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  • Algerian journalist Mustapha Bendjama given 2-month suspended prison sentence

    On June 27, 2021, an appeals court in Annaba, in northeast Algeria, issued Mustapha Bedjama, editor-in-chief of the local independent news website Le Provincial, a two-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 dinars (US $150), according to news reports and Bendjama, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.

    The case stemmed from “harming national unity” charges related to his coverage on Facebook of the country’s anti-government protests, which have been ongoing since February 2019, according to those sources. Bendjama frequently covered political news on his Facebook account, which was deleted in January 2020, he said.

    Authorities initially arrested Bendjama in the case on October 23, 2019, after security officers raided his office at Le Provincial in Annaba and confiscated his computer, as CPJ documented at the time.

    He was free pending his trial, which was repeatedly delayed, Bendjama said. On January 19, 2021, an Annaba court convicted him on the national unity charges, which he appealed, according to those reports and the journalist. During a hearing on June 20, 2021, prosecutors called for a one-year prison sentence and the same fine, according to those sources.

    Bendjama told CPJ that the June 27 appeals court decision could not be further appealed.

    Authorities also separately accuse Bendjama of “harming the national interest” and defamation over a television interview he gave on the privately owned Saudi news channel Al-Hadath on March 20, 2020, according to news reports and the journalist. In that interview, Bendjama criticized the governor of Annaba for allegedly violating nationwide COVID-19 lockdown restrictions by hosting a wedding party for one of his relatives.

    On June 1, 2021, an Annaba court placed Bendjama under judicial control for that case, and police summoned him for questioning on a weekly basis since then, according to Bendjama and those reports. The journalist told CPJ that he is waiting for authorities to issue a verdict in that case.

    Authorities previously charged Bendjama with incitement and a host of other charges stemming from his coverage of the country’s 2019 presidential elections; on February 2, 2020, he was acquitted on those charges, according to news reports and Bendjama.

    CPJ emailed the Ministry of Interior for comment, but did not receive an immediate response. CPJ was unable to find contact information for the Annaba governor’s office.


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  • Palestinian security forces assault at least 5 journalists covering protests in Ramallah

    New York, June 30, 2021 – Authorities in the West Bank should conduct a thorough investigation into security forces’ recent attacks on members of the press covering protests, and ensure that those responsible are held to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

    On June 26 and 27, security forces affiliated with the Palestinian Authority assaulted at least five reporters who were covering protests in the West Bank city of Ramallah, according to journalists who spoke with CPJ, news reports, and reports by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) and the Skeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom.

    Protests began in Ramallah after Nizar Banat, a Palestinian anti-corruption activist, died in the custody of the Palestinian Authority on June 24, according to reports.

    In May and June, Israeli security forces detained at least three journalists and injured at least 12 others who were covering protests in Jerusalem, according to CPJ research. 

    “With their recent crackdown on protest coverage, Palestinian security forces are taking a page from the book of their Israeli counterparts when it comes to the violent treatment of journalists covering events of public interest,” said CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa representative, Ignacio Miguel Delgado. “Palestinian authorities in the West Bank must thoroughly investigate all instances of violence against journalists covering protests, and ensure that members of the press can do their work freely and safely.”

    Saja Alami, a reporter for the news websites Ultra Palestine and the Palestine Post Network, told Skeyes that she was standing next to Fayhaa Khanfar, a reporter for the news website JMedia, covering the protests on the evening of June 26 when two security officers confronted them “and insulted us by saying that we journalists are traitors and the ones who ruined the country.”

    One of the officers then pepper-sprayed both journalists and demanded they hand over their phones, Alami said. She told Skeyes that they both refused to give up their phones, and the officer ordered their arrests.

    Alami said she fled the scene and was not detained, and was treated nearby for respiratory problems caused by pepper spray.

    Khanfar told Skeyes that one of the officers grabbed her phone and she chased after him, but another officer hit her in the shoulder and knocked her to the ground, causing her to briefly lose consciousness. In a Facebook post, Khanfar wrote that she regained consciousness under a car and began looking for the officer who had seized her phone. She wrote that a group of police officers in plainclothes mocked her when she inquired about her phone, and did not return it.

    Khanfar was treated at the Palestinian Red Crescent Hospital for bruises in her shoulder, pelvis, face, jaw, and both knees, according to Skeyes.

    Also on June 26, a security officer snatched the phone of Najlaa Zaitoun, a reporter for the Quds News Network news website, out of her hand while she was covering the protests, she told CPJ via messaging app.

    She said another officer proceeded to hit her in the chest, and then, “I told him that I was a journalist and that I was doing my job, when another police officer hit me with a stick on my left shoulder.”

    Footage of the incident posted on Facebook by Ultra Palestine reporter Mohammed Ghafari shows a police officer wearing a black cap shoving Zaitoun and then hitting her with a stick. In a June 27 Facebook post, Zaitoun wrote that security forces had not returned her phone.

    During the protests on June 27, five uniformed police officers attempted to confiscate the camera of Ahmad Talat Hasan, a freelance photojournalist, while he was filming in Ramallah’s Sa’aa Square, he told CPJ via messaging app.

    He said the officers failed to take his camera and then, “They proceeded to hit me in the face and the head, even though I was wearing a helmet and a vest clearly marked with the word press.” He said he then left the scene and was not arrested or detained.

    According to a June 27 medical report that Hasan shared with CPJ, he sustained lacerations on his head and right cheek, and a bruise on his left cheek as a result of the assault.

    Also at that protest, security officers in plainclothes attempted to grab the phone of Shatha Hamad, a reporter for the news website Middle East Eye, and when they failed to do so, the officers threw the phone to the ground and broke it, Hamad told CPJ via messaging app.

    She said that security personnel were “constantly threatening us [journalists] by making gestures with their bodies,” and had essentially banned photography at the demonstrations.

    Later in the protest, at about 6:30 p.m., a police officer fired a tear gas canister that hit Hamad in the face, cutting the skin around her left eye with shrapnel, she said. She told CPJ she was taken to the Palestine Medical Complex in an ambulance, where she was treated for minor injuries.

    CPJ emailed the Palestinian Interior Ministry for comment, but did not immediately receive any reply.


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  • Police Paid By Calgary-Based Enbridge Block Access To Water Protectors Camp

    “A Minnesota Sheriff’s office blocked access Monday morning to one of the protest encampments set up to resist the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.”
    “In a notice delivered at 6 a.m. to pipeline opponents, who own the property, the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office stated that it would no longer be allowing vehicular traffic on the small strip of county-owned land between the driveway and the road.”

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  • UAE Company Cracks Down On ‘Block The Boat’ Picket Line In Canada

    A small town in northern British Columbia was recently the backdrop for a chilling display of how Emirati influence and power can be used to attempt to suppress popular support for Palestine. On June 14, Prince Rupert was the scene of a Block The Boat community picket against the Israeli Zim Volans ship that had been chased away from Oakland. For a day and a half, members of ILWU 505 had respected the picket line and the Volans had sat idle. Eventually, an emergency injunction was granted, and the Volans was finally unloaded and left for Shanghai, China.

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  • Members Of Topeka’s Local Frito-Lay Union Just Voted To Strike. Here’s What We Know.

    After multiple rounds of mediated contract negotiations with the company yielded little progress, members of Local 218 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers Union on Saturday voted to strike starting early next month.

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  • Mack And Ford Workers Call For Joint Action To Back Volvo Trucks Strikers

    While workers will no doubt gladly contribute, even though they are facing the loss of income due to temporary layoffs, it is the UAW which is fully responsible for the precarious economic situation facing striking Volvo workers. Even though the UAW sits on a strike fund worth nearly $800 million, it has put workers on starvation rations of $275 a week in strike benefits.

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  • British Activist Climbs 200m Crane In Solidarity With Palestinians

    Nick Georges, who is a grandfather, climbed up the crane in the Battersea area of south London at 4am on Tuesday, unfurling a Palestinian flag from the summit.

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  • ‘War in the woods’: hundreds of anti-logging protesters arrested in Canada

    At the protest blockades in the remote woodland, hundreds of activists have been chaining themselves to giant tripods made from the trunks of felled trees, suspending themselves in trees for days or more at a time, and even securing their arms inside devices called “sleeping dragons” cemented into the roadway.

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  • ‘We’re Not Going Away!’ Nonviolent Protest Over Voting Rights Ends With Arrests in DC

    Activists with the national Poor People’s Campaign were arrested Wednesday after blocking a street in front of the Hart Senate building in Washington, D.C. to demand passage of the For the People Act, a popular voting rights expansion bill that Republicans successfully filibustered just 24 hours earlier.

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  • More arrests along Enbridge Line 3

    Three people were arrested Monday at a prayer lodge along the Mississippi River near an Enbridge construction site as questions persist that the pipeline work is worsening water shortages in northern Minnesota.

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  • Striking Alabama coal miners take protest to Wall Street

    About 14 striking Alabama mine workers have taken their case to Wall Street this morning (06/22). Chanting “no contract, no coal,” the miners today launched the latest step in a strike that began April 1 for a new contract with Warrior Met Coal. United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts and union members plan to protest in front of the Manhattan offices of several hedge funds the union says are the reason the contract negotiations are stalled.

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  • Over 100 Anti-Protest Bills Have Been Introduced Since George Floyd Rebellion

    Rather than address the onslaught of police violence against Black people or catastrophic environmental degradation, Republican state politicians continue to attack the people rising up against those systemic injustices. As many as 225 anti-protest bills have been introduced in 45 states since 2016 according to the International Center for Non-Profit Law U.S. Protest Law Tracker. More than 100 have been introduced since Black liberation demonstrators took to the streets in June 2020. Thirty-four such bills have been enacted since 2016.

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  • Louisville and 20 other cities plan March for Medicare for All, July 24, 2021

    We will also be celebrating Medicare’s 56th birthday.  We hope you will join with us in demanding that Congress take action by passing a national single payer, improved Medicare for All plan.  Such a plan would end the tragic denial of care that causes so much suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

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