Image is sourced from here.
I think a good place for left-wing coverage on the protests is hasanabi, either on his Twitter or Twitch (and wherever else he is found), as he’s been physically in the streets with the protestors and lives in the area.
Over the last few days, ICE raids have taken place throughout Los Angeles, as well as throughout America more generally. An increasing number of these raids are targeting migrants with no criminal record whatsoever (about 25% right now, but increasing constantly), which is a quantifiable escalation from both Trump’s first term and Biden’s term, where the figures were more in the realm of 5-10%.
Los Angeles has a large percentage of people who are Hispanic; as such, these raids were massively provocative, and protests began to oppose them. In response to these largely peaceful protests, the police have been exceedingly violent, with protestors and clearly marked journalists being shot at by police with “non-lethal” rounds. Trump has recently sent in the National Guard. The rhetoric of the Republicans has been, as expected, abhorrent and cruel.
While obviously coalescing around different issues, there are some parallels to be drawn with the Black Lives Matter protests five years ago; which, while drawing out enormous numbers of protestors, was eventually co-opted and gradually dismantled and failed to achieve lasting social or political goals. The two questions for this protest are: 1) What lessons have been learned by organisers and people on the ground from previous protests? and 2) Is there a general plan, or an idea of a plan, to affect political change (either top-down or bottom-up) that results in either fewer ICE raids or limiting their effectiveness?
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
I sure hope that doesn’t happen, that’s a surefire initiation of the Samson protocol.
Genius
Hey I’m not saying it’s just, just that nuclear war is bad
I know you don’t mean anything by it or any ill intent, so don’t take this personally, but please don’t use that emoji. It’s insulting to that man that we even made him the face of an emoji meant to criticize a settler colonial state when he is the victim of another himself. I’ve held this take in for a while but I’m letting it fly today.
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are at least available.
Funny we allow that but we STILL don’t have a burning Israeli flag emoji after two years of genocide.
I’ve heard all the arguments. They are pathetic and cowardly. I think basically everyone knows it, and at this point we are just waiting to see if mods are capable of self crit and backing themselves out of the hole they dug. Really seems like a thin ego thing, adding the emoji would basically mean admitting they were wrong and making Zionist-lite arguments this entire time.
It’s amazing that, for all the talk of not wanting to appear bigoted, we made a deceased POC the mascot for ridiculing a white ethnostate instead of just saying what everyone means with that emoji. What’s even worse is that if you didn’t know better, you might think that emoji is unironic, given that a beloved musician was chosen as the image.
I think it’s fine to have an emoji for the singer but should change the tag to over-the-rainbow or something instead of Israel so that it doesn’t come up when people mean to talk about the Zionist entity
That emoji was the initial “compromise”. It didn’t exist until after the original struggle session about the genuine article.
I’m fine with keeping his image as an emoji, just not as an ironic and cowardly way to ridicule a white ethnostate.
Love to compromise with Zionist arguments preemptively out of an abundance of caution (ass covering)
“Kill the fear in your heart”
I would simply make the “country-cool” consistent between nations. I won’t use it going forward, but “lehi bad” or “IDF bad” is not what I’m trying to convey
No don’t you know, Judaism and Israel are special exceptions from the rule that deserve special unique treatment.
Normal and good framing of the Nazi genocide state. Gotta preemptively ban the burning of the genocide flag in case someone complains in bad faith
I don’t know if you are new or just on a fresh account, but in case you are new, half of that image is against site rules, just as an fyi.
Against the rules but also unequivocally based.
I’m just letting them know in case they are new and aren’t aware. I have had a firm stance on what the policy should be here since May 2021.
I wasn’t here at the time, why exactly?
https://peertube.mesnumeriques.fr/w/cGzQW17hf8jUZPZtFgUhTD
“Why don’t we have an emoji that prominently features a Star of David on fire?”
“Don’t say ‘From the River to the Sea’ it’s anti-semitic”
This is just doing the Zionists’ leg work for them. Don’t burn the genocide flag because somebody might accuse you of antisemitism; well let’s cut out the middleman and ban images of the burning genocide flag at all
That’s like saying burning a nazi flag is bad because it offends Hindus
The user who manages our emojis is a committed anti-zionist and also a practicing Jew.
It made her uncomfortable to have a burning star of david emoji.
She made the burning IDF and Zionism flag emojis instead.
The reason we don’t have a burning Star of David flag emoji wasn’t because of a fear that a hypothetical zionist might falsely accuse us of antisemitism, it was because it made an actual comrade, whose volunteer work is the main reason we have 1000s of emojis on this website, deeply uncomfortable.
The Nazi and Hindu swastikas are very different. The “entity” just stole and is actively trying to coopt a religious symbol. Refusing to accept that co-opting isn’t a bad thing.
Yeah, I’m sure no zionists would dare call us anti-semitic for posting “Death to Israel”.
very excited to relitigate this one over the next few days
Could be done with the argument forever if the mods just made the right decision. Only thing keeping it in permanent play is the refusal to fix the problem.
Eternal September, Hexbear Edition
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