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Exclusive: how rightwing groups wield secret ‘toolkit’ to plot against US unions

Internal documents obtained by the Guardian reveal a nationwide drive to persuade union members to quit and stop paying dues
Rightwing activists are launching a nationwide drive to persuade public-sector trade union members to tear up their membership cards and stop paying dues, posing a direct threat to the progressive movement in America.
Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal that a network of radical conservative thinktanks spanning all 50 states is planning direct marketing campaigns targeted personally at union members to encourage them to quit. The secret push, the group hopes, could cost unions up to a fifth of their 7 million members, lead to the loss of millions of dollars in income and undermine a cornerstone of US progressive politics.
Erdoğan ends UK state visit by calling jailed journalists ‘terrorists’
Why did May even invite a dictator to Britain?

Turkish president ignores call from Theresa May to not lose sight of defending democracy
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has ended his three-day state visit to the UK by insisting that all the journalists locked in Turkish jails were terrorist criminals, ignoring a warning from Theresa May not to lose sight of democratic values as he sought to defend his country from “the extraordinary pressures of a failed coup and Kurdish terrorism”.
At a press conference in Downing Street alongside May, Erdoğan made no reference to May’s remarks about human rights, but instead urged her to do more to extradite Turkish exiles from the Gulenist or Kurdish movements, saying that if she did not act act against terrorists, it would come back to bite her.
North Korea cancels talks with South, and hints it could do the same with US

- State news agency warns US over ‘provocative’ military exercises
- Analysts say language of warning is mild by Pyongyang’s standards
The North Korean regime has called off high-level talks with Seoul and hinted it could also pull out of a planned summit with Donald Trump, in protest at joint exercises by the US and South Korean militaries.
if we live for next elections, my voice is for Hamas اذا ما حيينا لانتخابات قادمة …حماس هي صوتي
This is, above all, about Palestinian leadership which unites in effective work for freedom for all Palestinian people – not a party or government in power – for the people.
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إذا ما حيينا لانتخابات قادمة…. حماس هي صوتي
قد تبدأ الإنتقادات من العنوان ، فعادتنا لن تتغير كشعوب لا تقرأ. وقد ينتهي القاريء للعنوان الى تحليل لفحوى المقال ، وقد يعزف الكثيرون عن القراءة لصوت ينادي من أجل حماس.
ولن أطيل في مقدمة طويلة ، فصورتي على مقالاتي تؤكد انتمائي المختلف عما تنادي به حماس.
ولكن لأنني لست فصائلية ولا عقائدية ولا حزبية، ولا زلت أنبض بهويتي الفلسطينية الخالصة ، أقول وبأعلى صوتي ، أن حماس يجب أن تكون خيارنا .
ما يجري بغزة يؤكد ان هذا الشعب يصمد ويحارب ويقاوم ويبذل حياته من أجل وطن ترفع راياته ، ومن أجل حق وعدل لا بد يتحقق ما دام هناك شعب نابض مطالب لا ينسى ولا يركع .
ولا أظن ان الالاف المؤلفة في غزة تختلف عن مثيلتها بالضفة والقدس ، ولكن الاختلاف هو وبلا شك في محتواه الرئيسي في قيادة الشعب بغزة ، وسواء أعجبنا ام لم يعجبنا…
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Aching Gaza… while the world rests in slumber
Shame is the world’s
As injustice continues to be the title of living to be Palestinian … and Gaza continues to tell the tale of Return and a Diaspora … I will not be surprised to know that the world resting in slumber will not understand .
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Seattle council to tax Amazon and other big companies to fight homelessness
So, Amazon and Starbucks don’t want to aid homeless?

Companies such as Amazon and Starbucks will have to pay a levy for each full-time worker they have in Seattle. The city authority approved a compromise tax plan to fund services for those struggling to afford housing.
Police will be able to ask anyone at an airport for ID under new laws
Your papers please – mate?

The Federal Government wants to give police the power to carry out identity checks without cause at the nation’s airports, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull citing the “dangerous times” facing the nation as justification.
Hundreds arrested as activists pick up where Martin Luther King left off

The Poor People’s campaign kicked off 40 days of nonviolent protest on Monday, reviving King’s anti-poverty efforts and demanding action
Hundreds of low-wage workers, faith leaders, civil rights organizers and liberal activists were arrested in demonstrations in Washington and outside statehouses across the US on Monday as they resumed the work Martin Luther King left unfinished.
Fifty years after King launched the Poor People’s Campaign against economic inequality, militarism and racial injustice, demonstrators revived that fight, kicking off 40 days of nonviolent action.
No amount of police can scrub out the racism of Jerusalem Day
With double the usual police presence, the anti-Arab slogans usually heard during Jerusalem Day were quickly silenced. But the racism wasn’t so swiftly scrubbed out.
By Oren Ziv and Orly Noy
Israeli nationalists march through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City during the ‘March of the Flags,’ part of the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
A day before Israel was set to celebrate the U.S. Embassy’s move to Jerusalem, the annual “March of the Flags,” in which thousands of nationalist Israelis pass through the Old City waving flags and chanting racist slogans against Arabs, threatened to paint Jerusalem as violent and conflict-ridden. This is likely the reason the police made sure that this year, the march would be relatively quiet, without major clashes. In fact, the racism was quickly silenced, and the number of police officers was double the usual size.
And yet, racism was present in every street corner. In the frightened looks of Palestinians, in the closed-up shops, in ensuring that Palestinians were removed from the route of the march.
When the first groups of marchers headed into the Muslim Quarter of the Old City through Damascus Gate, they sang “Am Israel Chai” (“The nation of Israel lives”). When a group of teenagers began chanting racist slogans, the police immediately put an end to it.
At this point, nearly all the stores along the route of the march were closed. Palestinian residents of the Old City hurried home, some of them still holding the flowers handed out as a gesture by left-wing activists. Not all the residents were happy with the flowers; the owner of a nearby juice stand flat-out rejected the gesture. “I want peace,” the activist told him. “You want peace?” he responded, “then first tell your government to leave Al-Aqsa alone.”
Khaled Tufah, the owner of a souvenir shop on Al-Wad Street, where the march was set to take place, explained why he was closing up. “No one buys from us during the march, and even if someone does come, his friends will say: ‘He’s Arab, don’t buy from him.’”
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“I don’t care about Trump or anyone else,” Tufah continues. “A few months ago the Palestinian people showed its strength in the face of the metal detectors at Al-Aqsa, and in the end we removed them. The embassy is an issue for politicians, our power is in the streets.”
A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli Border Police officer during Jerusalem Day celebrations near the Old City, May 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Muhammad Omar, a young Palestinian Jerusalemite, added: “Jerusalem is holy to all religions. Trump’s decision means he recognizes only the Jews, and unfortunately this move will bring about more violence and death.”
Despite the fact that the main event of the day was a march through the Muslim Quarter, thousands celebrated in white shirts and and Israeli flags across the city. Army Radio broadcasted live from the city center, and religious girls who did not take part in the March of the Flags through the Muslim Quarter filled the streets and danced to the sounds of live music set up by the municipality.
A man draped in an American flag stands in front of Damascus Gate during the annual ‘March of the Flags,’ as part of Jerusalem Day, May 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Among the Israeli flags were flags belonging to Lehava, the right-wing anti-miscegenation group, mostly by younger marchers, many of whom wore “Kahane was right” stickers on their shirts. There was also a group of young Ethiopians who came to the march to raise awareness for Avera Mengistu, an Ethiopian-Israeli who crossed over into Gaza in 2014 and has been unheard of since. Earlier, they visited the protest tent set up by Mengistu’s family, across from the prime minister’s residence.
A group of left-wing activists from “Antifa Jerusalem” hung a giant sign on the route to Damascus Gate, reading “Jerusalem against nationalism,” leading to the detention of six activists.
It turns out that talking about nationalism during the city’s so-called holiday is too much for the public to handle. Lehava’s flags and stands, however, remained standing.
This article was first published in Hebrew by Local Call. Read it here.
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