30 July 2020 — ColdType
Day: July 30, 2020
IRR News 30 July 2020: Police forces are using software that links crime to race
30 July 2020 — Institute of Race Relations
Plus: How Institutional racism is not confined to policing
Policing of black communities is at the heart of the protests of the past two months, since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Today, following the revelation that five UK police forces have used the controversial Origins software, which claims to link ethnicities to names, neighbourhoods and potentially to crimes, the IRR calls on local authorities and other policing partners to question the impact of such data analytics in policing, which is the polar opposite of community policing and highly dangerous at a time when disproportionate and excessive stop and search, handcuffing and use of force have made police relations with black communities very fraught. We also draw readers’ attention to a new report by Resistance Lab on the use of tasers in Greater Manchester, that deepens our understanding of taser trauma.
Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate
30 July 2020 — Media Lens
What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee?
Humanity Protests Against the Crimes of Death: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2020)
30 July 2020 — Tricontinental
Frew Kebede (Ethiopia), Shimutt, 2018.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 23 July, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the world now has 15 million people infected by COVID-19. ‘The pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people. Many have been at home for months’, he said. The trauma of the Great Lockdown is taking a serious psycho-social toll. ‘It’s completely understandable that people want to get on with their lives’, Dr. Ghebreyesus said. ‘But we will not go back to the “old normal”. The pandemic has already changed the way we live our lives. Part of adjusting to the “new normal” is finding ways to live our lives safely’.
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Black Agenda Report 30 July 2020
30 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers.
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On Robots and Sheep
27 July 2020 — transform! Europe
A short introduction to historical materialism and its significance for the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
Source: pinterest.com
Today we are living in times of rupture. The ecological crisis poses a threat to the survival of many communities and animal species; immense inequalities increase economic and social instability that could explode with various forms of social destruction at any time. Ten years after one economic crisis we are facing another. This time, the economic downturn is caused by the difficult-to-control coronavirus. One could only speculate about the scale of the recession, but it is already being predicted that the crisis of 2020 and its consequences will be dramatic indeed. It will affect the most vulnerable members of society – women, children, single parents, disabled persons, the old, workers, and small business owners.
Selected Articles: Media Sabotage of Hydroxychloroquine, Censorship of Medical Doctors
29 July 2020 — Global Research News
By Allum Bokhari, July 29, 2020
The event, hosted by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney, and made up of medical doctors, came together to address what the group calls a “massive disinformation campaign” about the coronavirus. Norman also spoke at the event.
“If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease,” reads the event’s information page.
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The New Dark Age 