Yesterday was the birthday of Malcolm X,
Ho Chi Minh, Yuri Kochiyama, Lorraine Hansberry and recently-deceased former political prisoner Kathy Boudin. May 18 was the birthday of Augusto Cesar Sandino of Nicaragua, for whom the Sandinistas were named.
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Learn about struggles to defend free speech and community radio at WMNF in Tampa FL and Pacifica Radio stations in Houston, Los Angeles and elsewhere. The theme is: "Together, we will win back our airwaves!" Countering "Progressive" Media Racism & Corporate Attacks on Freedom of Speech in Our Community & Independent Media. Hear from broadcasters around the country, and in the second hour brainstorm about actions we can take to turn the situation around in a time of war, censorship and a reckoning with racism.
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#SayTheirNames: Victims of the racist terrorism shooting in Buffalo NY
Aaron Salter Jr
Ruth Whitfield
Katherine Massey
Heyward Patterson
Pearly Young
Roberta Drury
Celestine Chaney
Marcus D. Morrison
Andre MacNeil
Geraldine Talley
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Three members of a national white supremacist group called The Base have pleaded guilty in Michigan to conspiring to train for a civil disorder, marking the first convictions of the felony in the state’s history. Founded in 2018, The Base, which is the English translation of “Al-Qaeda,” is a loose, neo-Nazi organization that openly advocates for violence against the U.S. and claims to be training for a “race war” to establish white rule across the country, including Michigan’s predominantly white Upper Peninsula.
Justen Watkins, Thomas Denton and Tristan Webb were each charged in Tuscola County with the following felonies: one count of gang membership, one count of larceny in a building, one count of possession of a firearm, and one count of conspiring to train with firearms for a civil disorder in August 2021. They were accused of entering two former Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) sites in Caro, which they assessed as future training grounds for “hate camps,” according to prosecutors.
A fourth member, Alfred Gorman, was charged alongside Watkins in Washtenaw County with the following felonies: gang membership, unlawful posting of a message, and using computers to commit a crime in October 2020. Those charges were filed in connection to a December 2019 incident in which the pair terrorized a family in Dexter after mistaking their home as the residence of Daniel Harper, a podcaster who speaks against white nationalism.
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Two years ago, an Uber driver shot and killed a Black Lives Matter protester who approached him while holding a rifle. Now, the protester’s family is suing the driver — whose murder charge is still pending — and Uber.
Daniel Perry, 35, was indicted in the death of Garrett Foster, 28. Austin police determined that the shooting was a justifiable homicide, but a grand jury decided that probable cause existed to charge Perry with murder.
Foster's family filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Travis County state District Court.
Uber prohibits drivers and their riders from carrying guns of any kind while using the app, "to the extent permitted by applicable law," according to the company's website. Uber declined to answer questions about whether Texas laws affect this policy.
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