Violence

Chilean Military Learns Brutal Tactics From Israel

October 27, 2019 Benjamin Zinevich, Independent. Educate! Chile, Israel, Military, Violence

Chile - What started as a student act of civil disobedience against Santiago’s rising metro fares has now expanded outside the Chilean capital. In a sudden uprising against austerity and persistent economic inequality, a proposed fare increase (the equivalent of €0.02) was simply salt on an open wound for the poor and working-class citizens of Chile. Peaceful protests, when forcibly dispersed by the national police, have turned violent. The government, led by conservative billionaire President Sebastián Piñera, responded by declaring a state of emergency and calling in the military to quell protests, declaring that the state was “at war”. While the military enforces brutality towards civilians not seen since the dictatorship that ended in the early 1990s, it is important to highlight the international connections to such brutality.

City Council Approves $500,000 For Cure Violence Program

October 20, 2019 Taheshah Moise, WFMY News 2. Create! Public Health, Violence

Greensboro, N.C. — City Council approved $500,000 Tuesday to help reduce violence in certain parts of Greensboro. The money will fund the program called "Cure Violence" that treats violent crime like a health issue. Ingram Bell will be a part of the 6 person team. For her, curbing gun violence is personal. "I am involved because in 2011 I was actually shot in my head so I'm not a victim I'm a survivor," she said. She's also lost family members, most recently her cousin Furmann Bailey who was shot and killed at a Greensboro gas station five months ago. "He didn't get to live his life out," Bell said. The Cure Violence program approaches violence like a health problem and even uses tactics that health experts use to find causes of diseases to stop their spread. "Sometimes we just see violence is something happening, but there's reasons behind it," Councilmember Sharon Hightower said.

Trump Ordered By Judge To Testify In NY Protest Case

September 22, 2019 Tal Axelrod, The Hill. Educate! Activism, Immigrants, Trump, Violence

A New York judge Friday ordered President Trump to answer questions in a civil suit involving a 2015 incident between protesters and his security guards. State Supreme Court Justice Doris Gonzalez ruled Trump must “appear for a videotaped deposition prior to the trial” under oath, saying his testimony is “indispensable.” The trial involves a group of protesters who say Trump’s security guards assaulted them outside of Trump Tower in 2015. The plaintiffs were demonstrating against Trump’s rhetoric toward Mexican immigrants. The judge rejected arguments from Trump’s camp saying the president’s duties should exempt him from testifying. Gonzalez said Trump may answer questions from the White House “at a time that will accommodate his busy schedule,” and that “there would be no necessity for the president to attend in person, though he could elect to do so.”

Opposition Sets Democracy On Fire In Bolivia

September 16, 2019 By Hugo Moldiz Mercado, Resumen English. Educate! Bolivia, Democracy, Elections, Violence

The fragmented and heterogeneous right-wing opposition bloc in Bolivia has found in its increasingly sharp and violent attack on democracy and the institutions of the Plurinational State its point of convergence for its open opposition to the continuity of the Process of Change and President Evo Morales. Two major events, apparently disconnected, have confirmed the scope of its general strategy: first the fires affecting the Chiquitania dry forest and the other the physical violence unleashed by youth detachments, quasi-paramilitary, against MAS militants in the eastern city of Santa Cruz and the burning of an official campaign headquarters in the subtropical southern part of the Yungas of La Paz. The calls for the government to decree a national disaster based on the events of Chiquitanía and the call for an indefinite strike starting October 10 so that the members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) resign are just the pretexts or apparent motives to set fire to Bolivian democracy.

Great March Of Return: More Than 50 Protesters Injured By Israeli Forces In Gaza

September 15, 2019 Palestinian News Network. Resist! Great March of Return, Israel, Palestine, Violence

Gaza - IOF have attacked anti-occupation protests taking place near the fence between the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied territories, leaving more than 50 Palestinians injured. The Gazan Health Ministry said 55 people were injured by Israeli forces during the 74th Friday protest. Twenty-nine of the wounded people were injured by live fire, Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesman for the ministry, said on his official Twitter account. The rallies have been held every week since March 30 last year. The Palestinians want the return of those driven out of their homeland by Israeli aggression. Israeli troops have killed at least 307 Palestinians since the beginning of the rallies and wounded more than 18,000 others, according to the Gazan Health Ministry.

FARC-EP Commanders Resume Armed Struggle Against Colombian Government

September 1, 2019 Cuba Debate, Resumen English. Resist! Colombia, FARC, Peace, Violence

In response to the “betrayal of the “Peace Accords” by the Colombian state signed in Havana in 2016, a group of commanders of the insurgent Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP)announced Thursday the beginning of a new stage of struggle. Through a communiqué, the leader of the insurgent group, Iván Márquez, invoked the universal right of peoples to rise up in arms against oppression.”Our strategic objective is the peace of Colombia with social justice … that is our flag, the flag of peace,” confirmed Marquez. Among those who accompanyig him are leaders Jesús Santrich and Hernán Darío Velásquez, El Paisa, who are facing open cases before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. The group denounced the continued assassinations of social leaders and demobilized ex-combatants.

New Documentary: Gaza Fights For Freedom

August 28, 2019 Miko Peled, Mintpress News. Educate! Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Violence

In her new documentary film, Gaza Fights for Freedom, journalist Abby Martin places the Gaza Strip under a microscope for the viewers to see. The result is an excellent movie that is difficult to watch, and disturbing at times, precisely because it presents a true, realistic view of life in Gaza. The movie shows how a small, courageous nation — locked up in the world’s largest concentration camp, facing inexcusable, unjustifiable and unforgivable violence — refuses to give up on its hopes and dreams and continues to fight for life. Heroism and cliches aside, the conditions in the Gaza Strip are horrifying. Perhaps what is most refreshing about Martin’s work is that the voices one hears are clear, authentic, Gazan voices. She makes no attempt to create the artificial “balance” one too often has to endure in movies and reports about Palestine in general and Gaza in particular.

The Red Summer Of 1919, Explained

August 18, 2019 Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Black Agenda Report. Educate! KKK, Racism, Violence, White Supremacy

Some of America’s most notorious racist riots happened 100 years ago this summer. Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when black people in the United States defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship through thousands of acts of courage, small and large, individual and collective. But pull a standard U.S. history textbook off the shelf and you’re unlikely to find more than a paragraph on the 1919 riots. What you do find downplays both racism and black resistance while distorting facts in a dangerous “both sides” framing. These textbooks render students stupid about white supremacy and bereft of examples from those who defied it. At this moment of revived racist backlash, all of us need to learn the lessons of 1919.

Protests In Honduras Intensify As President Implicated In Drug Trafficking

August 15, 2019 Greg Wilpert, Real News. Resist! Drug Trafficking, Honduras, US coup, Violence

The protests against Honduras’s President, Juan Orlando Hernandez, which have been going on for several months now, are showing no signs of letting up. If anything, they have been intensifying ever since it became known last week that Hernandez was involved in a conspiracy to use drug trafficking money to support his 2013 presidential election campaign. That is, on August 3rd, the television channel Univision published a report that cited documents related to his brother’s drug trafficking trial in the United States. According to these documents, Hernandez’s brother, Tony Hernandez, has been involved in drug trafficking since 2004. As a drug trafficker, he funneled $1.5 million to the presidential campaign of his brother.

Massacres At Home And Abroad

August 14, 2019 John Marciano, Counterpunch.org Educate! Guns, Massacres, Violence

On August 5, former President Obama released a powerful statement in response to the latest gun massacres in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton that left scores dead and wounded—including children who were shopping for school supplies at Walmart with their mothers, and with their families at the wonderful Gilroy Garlic Festival. He decried the madness of violence that has been fueled by Trump’s vile pronouncements and policies that help spread anti-immigrant and racist poison across the nation.

Detroit Residents Organize Community With 12th Annual Rally To Silence The Violence

June 29, 2019 Amani Sawari, Sawarimi.org Resist! Detroit, Violence

Michigan residents have been coming together as apart of the Silence the Violence Rally for nearly over a decade. Silence the Violence continues to be an opportunity for people to show their commitment to ending violence in their communities and has grown from a local rally to a national event. This year’s rally locations have spread from Detroit into Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Baltimore, New York, and Boston; as well as a host of other local cities in the Detroit area that include Flint, Pontiac, Highland Park, and Ypsilanti. Attendees use the event to define violence in a variety of ways from individual, gang violence to domestic and state violence.

Pro-Coup, Pro-U.S. Military Intervention Pan-Americans Surround Venezuelan Embassy, Commit Acts Of Abuse And Assault

May 8, 2019 the Embassy Protection Collective. Educate! Embassy Protection Collective, US coup, Venezuela, Violence

Washington, DC - On April 10, the day after the Organization of American States (OAS) changed its rules in order to recognize coup-leader Juan Guaido as president of Venezuela, local activists sought and secured permission to live and work in the Venezuelan embassy in Georgetown to prevent its handover to coup supporters. The goal is to hold the space until Venezuela can negotiate a third country to serve as a protecting power. Until April 30, the activists, calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective (ColectivosPorLaPaz), worked from the embassy during the day and held public educational and cultural events in the evening. The events covered a variety of U.S. foreign policy issues from intervention in Latin America, to Iran to an inside look at CIA-led regime change efforts. Members and supporters were free to come and go from the embassy.

The Burning Of Highlander Center: A Fascist-like Attack

April 10, 2019 W.T. Whitney, Counterpunch.org Educate! Violence, White Nationalism

The deadly racist spree in Charlottesville in 2017 and the killing of 11 congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg in 2018 were fire bells in the night. Another rang out in New Market, Tennessee on March 29 as the main building at the Highlander Research and Education Center burned to the ground, along with archives. In the nearby parking lot, someone spray-painted a symbol associated with Romania’s fascist Iron Guard movement of the 1930s. That symbol appeared on a gun used by the shooter in the recent Christchurch, New Zealand massacre.

Guns And Liberty

March 26, 2019 Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! Guns, Violence

The proliferation of guns in American society is not only profitable for gun manufacturers, it fools the disempowered into fetishizing weapons as a guarantor of political agency. Guns buttress the myth of a rugged individualism that atomizes Americans, disdains organization and obliterates community, compounding powerlessness. Gun ownership in the United States, largely criminalized for poor people of color, is a potent tool of oppression. It does not protect us from tyranny. It is an instrument of tyranny.

Researchers: Violence, War And Climate Change Are Linked

February 25, 2019 Tim Radford, Climatenewsnetwork.net Educate! Climate Change, Violence, Wars and Militarism

LONDON—Stand by for long hot summers marked by riot and racial tension. As climate change stokes mayhem, global warming is likely to see a direct rise in human irritability. Climate change accompanied by natural disaster such as flood or drought could lead to harvest failure and food and water shortages for which people must compete. And the same natural disasters could lead to a generation of babies, children and adolescents more likely, because of disadvantage and deprivation, to become more prone to violence in adulthood.

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