Events

Programa de eventos anunciado en el aniversario del boicot a los autobuses de Bristol con el objetivo de inspirar un manifiesto social para la ciudad Bristol ha sido durante mucho tiempo una ciudad de activistas dispuestos a trabajar por el cambio, desde los seguidores de John Wesley en el siglo XVIII hasta los ciudadanos del siglo XXI que derribaron la estatua del traficante de esclavos Edward Colston. El miércoles se lanzó una nueva campaña —en el aniversario del inicio del innovador boicot a los autobuses de Bristol de 1963— orientada a convertir a la ciudad en la capital de los derechos civiles del Reino Unido. Continuar leyendo...

El tiroteo revela cómo la violencia política se ha convertido en una característica de la vida estadounidense en una noche dedicada a la libertad de prensa

Licensed school teacher and one-time police officer among those participating in riot-style gatherings as experts warn of threat to public safetyA network of militant neo-Nazi active clubs from around the US has been participating in riot-style combat events with other white nationalist groups in Virginia as part of what their founder called a “tip-off point for a fascist cultural revolution”.Social media posts and group chats show members of so-called active clubs from Texas, Tennessee and Pennsylvania have in recent weeks and months travelled to Lynchburg, Virginia to train together at a secretive compound. The compound is run by the Wolves of Vinland, which the civil rights watchdog the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as a neopagan white nationalist hate group. Also present were members of the white supremacist hate group Patriot Front and the neo-Nazi skinhead group known as the Hammerskins. Continue reading...