Monthly Archives: June 2020
19 dead in a decade: the small American city where violent police thrive | US news | The Guardian
Boris Johnson says UK protests ‘hijacked by violent extremists’
UK hijacked by extremist and incompetent PM

London authorities urged protesters to stay home, for fear of clashes between far-right and anti-racism groups. Boris Johnson defended Winston Churchill’s legacy, saying the UK could not “edit or censor” the past.
Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah says LA police kneeled on his neck | US news | The Guardian
“I was just trying to exercise,” he said. “It could have easily turned into another situation if I wasn’t who I am. And the point is that being black in America is just that, being black in America. Other people can’t level with the same fears I have. Leaving the house, we should not have to fear going to the grocery store, going to get some gas, running down the street. It’s called human civility. That’s what it is. It’s called being a human. That’s why everyone is out protesting. Corona put us in the house, and George Floyd took us out of it.”
Source: Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah says LA police kneeled on his neck | US news | The Guardian
As one of Oxford’s few black professors, let me tell you why I care about Rhodes | Simukai Chigudu | Opinion | The Guardian
Rhodes’ imperialism gave rise to a pattern of settler colonialism in Southern Africa predicated on racial domination in political, economic and social spheres. In Rhodesia, 8 million disenfranchised black people eked out a living at subsistence level or below it, while 250,000 white people, barely 3% of the population, owned more than half of the country’s available land, and virtually all of its business and industry, before independence from colonial rule in 1980. Education, healthcare and housing were all segregated, with white people enjoying levels equivalent to those in western Europe or the United States.
Rhodes’ statue, then, is no mere physical artefact. It is imbued with a noxious history.
Medical workers resort to parking-lot deals and DIY projects to get safety gear

Nursing home employees and other healthcare workers are going to extraordinary lengths for masks, gowns and essential materials
A nursing home worker in New Jersey cut a deal for gowns in a parking lot. A clinic director in Florida awaited midnight deliveries of tens of thousands of masks. A South Carolina cardiologist tried to buy ingredients from Lithuania to mix his own hand sanitizer.
Medical shortages in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, have left many healthcare workers in a desperate hunt for medical supplies. Community clinics, nursing homes and independent doctors, in particular, find themselves on the fringe of the supply chain for masks, gowns, gloves and ventilators. Desperate administrators wire money to offshore banks to acquire supplies.
Italian scientists develop model to show how solar radiation can kill the coronavirus | South China Morning Post
Louisville council passes ‘Breonna’s Law’ banning no-knock warrants – CNN — Truth Troubles
The Louisville, Kentucky, metro council unanimously voted to pass an ordinance called “Breonna’s Law” on Thursday, banning no-knock search warrants in wake of Breonna Taylor’s death. Source: Louisville council passes ‘Breonna’s Law’ banning no-knock warrants – CNN
Louisville council passes ‘Breonna’s Law’ banning no-knock warrants – CNN — Truth Troubles
ICC slams US sanctions over Afghanistan war crimes probe

The Trump administration has sanctioned International Criminal Court employees investigating whether US troops committed war crimes in Afghanistan. The ICC accused the US of trying to “interfere with the rule of law.”
Kamala Harris Is Done Explaining Racism

The senator and vice-presidential prospect has a message for her white friends who are surprised about police brutality.
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