Environment/Food/Health

Nurses protest at White House for Personal Protective Equipment

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 23:53

On the 21st of April, National Nurses United read out the names of nurses who have died in the fight against the zoonotic COVID-19 coronavirus. They were protesting being literally sent into battle with little or no armor, and demanding that Trump ensure that US industry produced enough masks and protective gear for them.

Video cropped from National Nurses United Twitter video(vertical) 2 min 20 sec

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Still cut from National Nurses United's Twitter video

Student activists backed by Extinction Rebellion defy lockdown in Rockville climate protest

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 23:20

On the 21st of April, MOCO Students on Climate backed by Extinction Rebellion protested in Rockville against a digital meeting of the Board of Education after the scool board ignored 700 signatures on a petition demanding action on climate change. A convoy of 20 honking cars circled the building the digital meeting originated from, and school security had to intervene to stop the horns due to an audio conection inside the building being used by some part of the meeting.

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The Shortwave Report 04/17/20 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 20:10

Dear Radio Friend,     This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio.http://www.outfarpress.com/swr200417.mp3   (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 GERMANY- First a ser

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World Uprisings

IMF Spring Meetings driven online by virus on 20th anniversary of A16

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 12:52

Twenty years ago on the day this was written, the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings were beseiged and shut down by betweenb 20,000 and 30,000 direct action protesters. Now the Spring Meetings have been driven to online venues by a different kind of siege: the coronavirus. Reports that the IMF and World Bank agreed to cancel all debts "owed" to them unfortunately turned out to be an online prank.

Video-A16 20 years later,now virus beseiges IMF 2 min 4 sec

Environment/Food/Health
Globalization/Anti-globalization

"Wellness check" and enforcement patrols going door to door in Montgomery County neighborhood

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 16:46

I currently live in Maryland and an experience I had on April 10, 2020 underscored exactly how invasive the lengths to ensure compliance with the current stay at home order (to halt the spread of the coronavirus has become.

I was outdoors cleaning up the front yard, when a blue/gray compact vehicle passed this house the third time. I wondered if the driver were lost. Two men with some kind of uniform pin on their shirts were in the front seat. Two women also with badges were in the back. They walked fairly close to the house and I warned them I had neither mask or gloves.

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The Shortwave Report 04/10/20 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 02:15

Dear Radio Friend,     This week's show features stories from NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and Radio Deutsche-Welle.http://www.outfarpress.com/swr200410.mp3   (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- On Tuesday a state

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ShutDownDC holds public protest for People's Bailout on Capitol Hill

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 01:01

On the 9th of April, the ShutDownDC activists who staged last year's major climate change blockades in DC held a public protest on Capitol Hill to demand a "People's Bailout." They were protesting Trump's coronavirus packages that focus primarily on saving corporations.

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Labor/Economics/Business

Noisy Car Caravan demands DC release all prisoners to avoid coronavirus

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 20:04

On the 8th of April, a noisy car caravan took to the streets of DC, demanding that all prisoners in the DC Jail and in Central Cell Block be released immediately so they don't contract the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus.

Video of the noise protest motorcade 1 min 10 sec

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The Shortwave Report 04/03/20 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 20:51

Dear Radio Friend,     This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio.http://www.outfarpress.com/swr200403.mp3   (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 GERMANY- We will begin wi

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Escape From Maryland: An activist's story

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 14:46

I write this as one of many thousands of US residents driven from their homes by full-on, hard authoritarian government response to the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, the 30th of March, Maryland Governor Hogan imposed one of the most severe stay at home orders in the entire US, brazenly threatening residents with prison if they left home for any but a few reasons. With hours until it went into effect, I hurredly packed up the things I care about the most and escaped from MD with hours to spare.

Environment/Food/Health
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