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Today in Labor History October 19, 1922: Beginning of a railroad strike in Duran, Ecuador that led to a 3-day General Strike by railway workers in neighboring Guayaquil. Police and military massacred over 300 workers.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #guayaquil #ecuador #strike #massacre #police #policebrutality #generalstrike
The incident has prompted continued questions about #US #LawEnforcement #shootings of #Black people in their homes & generated a change in #Illinois #law requiring fuller transparency on the background of candidates for law enforcement jobs.
A jury of 10 women & 5 men, including 3 alternates, will hear testimony that’s predicted to end next week.
#SonyaMassey #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #police #racism #WhiteSupremacy
The questioning of prospective jurors Monday by Sangamon County State’s Attorney John Milhiser & defense atty Daniel Fultz focused on attitudes toward law enforcement….
Witnesses scheduled to testify for both the state & defense are reported to be experts in #police training, generally accepted police practices, use of force, body camera video, use of video in investigations & the review of incidents involving the use of force.
#SonyaMassey #law #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #racism #WhiteSupremacy
According to body-camera video that is certain to play a key role in the trial, Grayson & Massey joked about how the deputy backed away as she moved the pan before Massey said, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” Grayson later told sheriff’s investigators he thought Massey’s statement meant she intended to kill him, yelled at her to drop the pot & in the subsequent commotion, fired 3 shots, striking her just below the eye.
#SonyaMassey #law #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #police #racism #WhiteSupremacy
The incident has prompted continued questions about #US #LawEnforcement #shootings of #Black people in their homes & generated a change in #Illinois #law requiring fuller transparency on the background of candidates for law enforcement jobs.
A jury of 10 women & 5 men, including 3 alternates, will hear testimony that’s predicted to end next week.
#SonyaMassey #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #police #racism #WhiteSupremacy
On July 6, 2024, Massey, a 36-year-old single mother of 2 teenagers who struggled with mental health issues, called emergency responders over a suspected prowler. When Grayson, who is white, & another deputy entered her Springfield home to report finding no one, Grayson noticed a pan of hot water on the stove & ordered it removed.
According to body-camera video that is certain to play a key role in the trial, Grayson & Massey joked about how the deputy backed away as she moved the pan before Massey said, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” Grayson later told sheriff’s investigators he thought Massey’s statement meant she intended to kill him, yelled at her to drop the pot & in the subsequent commotion, fired 3 shots, striking her just below the eye.
#SonyaMassey #law #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #police #racism #WhiteSupremacy
The trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday with opening statements. If convicted of murder, Grayson faces a sentence of 45 years to life in prison. Prosecutors dismissed single counts of aggravated battery with a firearm & official misconduct.
On July 6, 2024, Massey, a 36-year-old single mother of 2 teenagers who struggled with mental health issues, called emergency responders over a suspected prowler. When Grayson, who is white, & another deputy entered her Springfield home to report finding no one, Grayson noticed a pan of hot water on the stove & ordered it removed.
The trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday with opening statements. If convicted of murder, Grayson faces a sentence of 45 years to life in prison. Prosecutors dismissed single counts of aggravated battery with a firearm & official misconduct.
Opening statements Wednesday in trial of ex-Illinois officer who killed #SonyaMassey
15 months after Sonya Massey, a #Black woman who had called 911 for help, was killed in her home, the former #police officer who fired the fatal shot is set to go on trial.
Sean Grayson, 31, a fmr deputy for the Sangamon County #Sheriff’s Dept in central #Illinois, has pleaded not guilty to 3 counts of first-degree #murder.
#law #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #racism #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/sonya-massey-shooting-trial-sean-grayson-police-ef91c35e7d6823a06639cdb243792a53
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Today in Labor History October 19, 1922: Beginning of a railroad strike in Duran, Ecuador that led to a 3-day General Strike by railway workers in neighboring Guayaquil. Police and military massacred over 300 workers.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #guayaquil #ecuador #strike #massacre #police #policebrutality #generalstrike
#VictoriaAustralia’s draconian new #AntiProtest laws will have a chilling effect on #FreeSpeech — and won’t keep anyone safe
Far-reaching anti-protest measures and giving police more repressive powers only serve to increase the risk of escalating violence.
by Sarah Schwartz, Jul 9, 2025
"In response to the weekend’s attack on the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced she will forge ahead with new anti-protest measures and more #police powers.
"In doing so, she is following what has become the new normal for state governments across the country: using acts of racism and violence as a pretext to #ClampDown on unrelated democratic rights.
"Taking to the streets in peaceful protest is one of the main ways for people to come together and express our political views when our representatives aren’t listening to us. But this right is not without limits. Every person has a right to worship in safety. The attack on East Melbourne Synagogue was not a protest; it was an act of antisemitism. The suspect has been apprehended and charged with a multitude of criminal offences.
"Two other incidents over the weekend, the targeting of a business with ties to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — a US-backed #Israeli organisation linked to the massacres of unarmed #Palestinians seeking aid — and a weapons company with links to the Israeli military, are also being referred to as justifying new laws. It is important not to conflate these actions against Israel with an attack against a Jewish place of worship. International human rights law, as well as our current laws, already place limits on protests that involve intimidation and violence.
"So what is actually being proposed in response? The Allan government is suggesting the creation of a new criminal offence for wearing a #FaceCovering at peaceful protests, banning 'dangerous attachment devices' (e.g. a #chain, a #BikeLock) — which have long been used in non-violent civil disobedience — and #criminalising peaceful protests around places of religious worship.
"The ban on face coverings would be a first in #Australia. It would mirror measures used in #authoritarian states that force people to submit themselves to various forms of #StateSurveillance.
" #VictoriaPolice has been using facial recognition software for years without any regulatory or legislative framework to prevent breaches of privacy. This technology, combined with a ban on face coverings at protests, would essentially amount to an obligation on behalf of individuals to submit to surveillance by the state, corporations and other groups that surveil protesters.
"Unless you’re a #MiningCompany spending hundreds of millions buying politicians’ favour or can wine and dine decision-makers, peaceful protest is one of the main ways for people to hold governments and corporations to account. Protests for the eight-hour workday, #WomensRights, #FirstNationsRights and the #AntiWar movement have led to significant improvements in all of our lives.
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"Many people attending protests wear face coverings to protect their privacy and anonymity. For temporary migrants, the consequences of identification can include visa cancellation and detention. #FarRight groups, abusers of gender-based violence and other political groups have all been documented as engaging in doxing, surveillance and retaliatory violence against people identified at peaceful protests.
"Even with exemptions, a ban would mean that people who wear facemasks for reasons of health, disability status, or religious or cultural reasons would be at risk of police targeting and made to justify their use of a face mask.
"Adding new repressive police powers against peaceful protesters only serves to increase the risk of escalating violence at already heightened public demonstrations. People will not stop taking to the streets on issues they care about, even if the state tries to stifle their voices. Donald #Trump’s deployment of the #NationalGuard in response to protests in LA shows us how deploying more state force at protests increases rather than decreases the risk of violence.
"A ban on protests outside or within a certain proximity to places of worship would mean police could arrest those engaging in peaceful protests for a genuine, non-discriminatory purpose — for example, protests by survivors of #ClergySexualAbuse or by congregants against the political activities of their own religious institutions.
"It would also have the unintended consequence of rendering large areas of the state no-go zones for peaceful protest, due to the high number of places of worship. Similar laws in #NSW are already being challenged for their #unconstitutionality.
"Taken together, this suite of laws, which would provide police with extraordinary powers against people peacefully raising their voices against #injustice, would have a chilling effect, deterring #MarginalisedGroups from attending protests and exercising their rights to freedom of expression, which the Victorian government has sought to protect.
"Ultimately, banning face coverings at peaceful protests and banning protests outside places of worship would not have done anything to prevent what occurred over the weekend. Premier Allan knows this. Yet she is stuck in the same reactive law-and-order merry-go-round that saw NSW Premier Chris Minns enact fear-based, repressive anti-protest measures in response to what we now know was an opportunistic criminal conspiracy.
"Encouraging people to express their political views peacefully is the antidote to non-peaceful forms of protest and is something that all governments should be encouraging and facilitating. At times like this, we should be able to trust our politicians not to fuel division and panic through misguided and knee-jerk responses, but to take measures to address the root causes of racism and hatred."
#AntiProtestLaws #ProtestLawsAustralia #ACAB #SilencingFreeSpeech #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #Authoritarianism
📢 German authorities raided prominent author and politician Jurgen Todenhoefer’s home and seized his computers after he criticized Israeli war criminal Netanyahu on #socialmedia
🔹 Todenhoefer, who also leads the Justice Party, said #Munich #police opened criminal proceedings against him following a social media post in which he criticized Netanyahu and compared Israeli military actions in #gaza to Nazi atrocities
#icj #icc #genocide #palestine #news
📰 Report MEMO
📢 German authorities raided prominent author and politician Jurgen Todenhoefer’s home and seized his computers after he criticized Israeli war criminal Netanyahu on #socialmedia
🔹 Todenhoefer, who also leads the Justice Party, said #Munich #police opened criminal proceedings against him following a social media post in which he criticized Netanyahu and compared Israeli military actions in #gaza to Nazi atrocities
#icj #icc #genocide #palestine #news
📰 Report MEMO
Palestine Action “not close” to terror group, Scottish board found
A #Scottish counter-terrorism board found that #PalestineAction’s activities fell below the threshold to be considered #terrorism before the group were banned by #Labour, The National can reveal.
It appears that #Police #Scotland concluded the group’s activity was well below the terrorism threshold.
#ToxicLabour #RedReform #StarmerNotLabour #DemocracyNOW #ProportionalRepresentation #PR
Chicago #police officers, who have been called to the scenes…[by protesters], have been exposed to #TearGas from federal agents twice in the last 2 weeks.
As the intensity of the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown has risen, residents of #Chicago are increasingly pushing back with fury.
In the last several weeks, Chicagoans have formed volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents, posting alerts on Facebook & in Signal group chats when agents are seen.
Palestine Action “not close” to terror group, Scottish board found
A #Scottish counter-terrorism board found that #PalestineAction’s activities fell below the threshold to be considered #terrorism before the group were banned by #Labour, The National can reveal.
It appears that #Police #Scotland concluded the group’s activity was well below the terrorism threshold.
#ToxicLabour #RedReform #StarmerNotLabour #DemocracyNOW #ProportionalRepresentation #PR
As the agents left, they released #TearGas, apparently without warning, sending people coughing & running for cover. Among those affected by the gas were 13 #Chicago #Police Dept officers, CPD said, & at least one officer was seen rinsing his eyes out with water from a neighbor’s garden hose.
A spox for #DHS said that the federal agents were conducting an #immigration enforcement operation when 2 people tried to flee & hit the agents’ vehicle [ #lies].
Federal agents deployed #TearGas on #Chicago residents & more than a dozen #police officers Tuesday [in defiance of a #CourtOrder], the latest clash in the nation’s 3rd-largest city as the #Trump admin has carried out its #immigration *crackdown*.
The clash began Tues morning when #FederalAgents were seen chasing a car through a working-class, heavily Latino neighborhood on the city’s far South Side, witnesses said.
#law #RecklessEndangerment #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #ICE #Gestapo
It was one of many *turbulent episodes* [acts of #resistance] to erupt in #Chicago in recent days. Federal agents from #ICE & #CBP have roamed the city & suburbs making arrests, often pulling up to people walking along sidewalks, stopping them & questioning them.
The agents repeatedly have been observed releasing smoke bombs, tear gas & pepper balls to disperse residents who gather or capture videos on cellphones, including when the agents were making arrests in densely populated neighborhoods.
Chicago #police officers, who have been called to the scenes…[by protesters], have been exposed to #TearGas from federal agents twice in the last 2 weeks.
As the intensity of the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown has risen, residents of #Chicago are increasingly pushing back with fury.
In the last several weeks, Chicagoans have formed volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents, posting alerts on Facebook & in Signal group chats when agents are seen.
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