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शहर के लिए एक सामाजिक घोषणापत्र को प्रेरित करने के उद्देश्य से Bristol bus boycott की वर्षगांठ पर कार्यक्रमों की श्रृंखला की घोषणा की गई। Bristol लंबे समय से बदलाव के लिए काम करने के लिए तैयार कार्यकर्ताओं का शहर रहा है, 18वीं शताब्दी में John Wesley के अनुयायियों से लेकर 21वीं सदी के उन नागरिकों तक, जिन्होंने दास व्यापारी Edward Colston की प्रतिमा को गिरा दिया था। बुधवार को, क्रांतिकारी 1963 Bristol bus boycott की शुरुआत की वर्षगांठ पर, एक नया अभियान शुरू किया गया - जिसका उद्देश्य शहर को UK की नागरिक अधिकारों की राजधानी बनाना है। आगे पढ़ें...

Shooting reveals how political violence has become feature of American life on a night dedicated to press freedomAhead of this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner, conversations centered on the role of the media and freedom of the press as journalists prepared to dine with the president.Instead of a speech stacked with heated barbs against the media, the event ended like many in the US do: with gun violence. Continue reading...

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...