‘Rally in a box’ being unpacked, Oct. 13, New York City. I watched as a prefab “rally in a box” about Hong Kong opened up here on Oct. 13. I don’t know if this rally was funded directly by the notorious U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, a congressionally funded agency . . .
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Marinelli writes often for Prensaobrera.com on Catalonia. This article was published Oct. 19 on redroja.org and translated by John Catalinotto. Some background on the events is included in a Note at the end of the article. Oct. 18 — More than a half-million people overflowed the streets of Barcelona today, . . .
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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians — particularly the poor of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere — came out on the streets of Port-au-Prince and every city throughout the country Oct. 20 to demand President Jovenel Moïse depart. Haitians take to the streets on Oct. 20. The regime’s refusal . . .
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After 27 hours of deliberation over six days, the jury in the trial of Robert Olsen, a DeKalb County officer charged with killing a nude, unarmed Anthony Hill, delivered its verdict Oct. 14. It found Olsen guilty on four of the six charges, but not guilty on the most serious . . .
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The writer of the following letter is imprisoned in Massachusetts. As the month of October began, an extraordinary event was unfurling in a Texas courtroom. At least that’s how the mainstream media was reporting it. However, for people of color and other oppressed individuals, this was a familiar scene. In . . .
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