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在一系列活动的计划公布之际，正值布里斯托巴士抵制运动周年纪念日，此次活动旨在为这座城市激发一份社会宣言。长期以来，布里斯托一直是一座充满活动家的城市，人们在此致力于推动变革——从18世纪的 John Wesley 追随者，到21世纪推倒奴隶贸易商 Edward Colston 雕像的市民。周三，一项新运动在具有开创意义的1963年布里斯托巴士抵制运动开始周年纪念日当天启动，旨在将这座城市打造为英国的民权之都。阅读更多...

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...