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LOS ANGELES: More Street Art in Solidarity With Comrade Théo By Zein Amari Solidarity posters and graffiti in support of political prisoner Comrade Théo appeared Saturday morning around Boyle Heights, South Central, and next to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com #losangeles #la #france #comradetheo #freetheo #politicalprisoners

PORTLAND: Fascist Rally Meets Resistance, Earns Trump Approval By Larisa Shepitko On Saturday, August 17, members of the Proud Boys and other assorted reactionary groups held a rally in Portland, Oregon, claiming that the rally was in protest of domestic terrorism perpetrated by “antifa.” The gathering was as an attempt to embolden the broad far-right, who are dusting off their American flags for the upcoming Trump campaign rallies, however the majority of the fascist-led protest requested a police escort out of the area by early afternoon. They were surrounded by various organized and disorganized antifascists who came out to confront them. The FBI visited Joe Biggs and Enrique Tarrio, leaders of the Proud Boys, shortly after the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. In response, Biggs made a post on social media urging rally attendees to “tone down [the] rhetoric.” “[Let’s] hope our president designated them [Antifa] a terrorist organization,” Biggs writes in the post, to which President Donald Trump later responded, affirming that he was seriously considering doing just that. The Proud Boys predictably claimed the rally as a victory due to Trump’s tweet. The disingenuous concern about terrorism is being used as a unifying campaign for fascist and populist groups. The ploy is particularly audacious considering the manifesto of the El Paso shooter drew heavily from the writings and philosophy of fascist organizations like those that participated in the rally this past Saturday. Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com #portland #antifascism

AUSTIN: City Council Moves Domain on Riverside Forward, State Repression Continues By Walter Villarreal On Thursday, Austin city council voted to approve the second reading of the “Domain on Riverside” rezoning application, moving one step closer to full approval. That morning, there was a banner drop over city hall reading, “City Council for sale: $63,000. No Domain on Riverside, workers of Austin unite, combat gentrification!” The “asking price” of $63,000 is the sum of donations made on behalf of developer interests pushing for the rezoning, which would result in the destruction of working-class and student housing in Southeast Austin. Again, the city retaliated against the anti-gentrification movement when police detained multiple activists who were in the area after the banner was dropped, handcuffing one. The banner was removed in another act of silencing those who would oppose the city and developers’ agenda. The day before, community members from Riverside, led by revolutionary organization Defend Our Hoodz-Defiende El Barrio (DOH), interrupted the Austin Downtown Alliance meeting on homelessness, with one protester shouting at Mayor Steve Adler, “You make people homeless by tearing down affordable housing, and pushing luxury developments.” Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com #Austin #NoDomainOnRiverside

MEXICO: Women Demand Justice for 17-year-old Raped by Police By Nélida Tello In the past week, multiple protests have taken place in Mexico City in response to recent acts of sexual violence against women perpetrated by the police. Most recently on August 16, a protest of thousands defaced the Angel of Independence, shattered the windows of metrobus station “Insurgentes,” and set it ablaze by burning pieces of cardboard. During the course of the protest, the masses also set fire to the “Florencia” police station. A few days earlier, hundreds of people, mostly women, protested outside the Attorney General’s Office and eventually took it over, shattering the building’s glass doors, using queue posts as weapons, throwing a pig’s head inside the building, and tagging the building with “No me cuidan me violan,” “[police officers] don’t take care of us they rape us.” Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com #Mexico

IRELAND: Bonfires Lit, Shots Fired to Honor Passing of IRA Hero By Mike Talavera Alex Murphy, a father of four who was convicted in the killing of two British undercover corporals in 1988, was laid to rest in the Roselawn Crematorium on Monday following a massive funeral procession held in his honor in Belfast. Onlookers saluted as the coffin wrapped in the Irish flag passed by, the funeral march passed murals like the one on Northumberland Street which reads “Our Struggle Continues” with depictions of Provisional Irish Republican Army commander Óglach Charlie Hughes as well as Leila Khaled from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Sellouts from the Legislative Assembly called police after a video posted Monday night showed a masked soldier firing pistol rounds over Murphy’s coffin as mourners looked on. The traitor reformists in Sinn Fein also condemned the video. Murphy’s death coincides with a time of year when large bonfires are set ablaze to mark the Catholic Feast of the Assumption. Last week, one towering unlit bonfire was draped in the flag of a British parachute regiment and featured a prominent sign which read “Fuck Soldier F,” referring to the unnamed British soldier who was the only person convicted after the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972. Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com #Ireland #Belfast #IRA

BRAZIL: National Education Strike Sweeps 200 Cities By Jakob Stein On August 13 the people of Brazil took to the streets in 26 states and the federal capital for a National Education Strike. The protests were called in opposition to the anti-people policies of the reactionary Brazilian government, headed by Bolsonaro and the High Command of the Armed Forces, including funding cuts to federal universities, the privatization of public education through the “Future-se” program, and the dismantling of the national pension system. In Rio de Janeiro tens of thousands of students, teachers, and workers mobilized downtown despite the pouring rain in defense of public education. A militant bloc composed of the Popular Revolutionary Student Movement (MEPR), Red Unit – Revolutionary Youth League (UV-LJR), Popular Women’s Movement (MFP), and the Class Movement of Education Workers (Moclate) marched with a banner reading “Neither Bolsonaro, nor Mourão, nor the corrupt Congress and out with the reactionary Armed Forces!” The militant bloc chanted slogans against the Bolsonaro government and the military police, while carrying pictures of Gabriel Pereira Alves and Dyogo Coutinho, who were recently murdered in police operations in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói. Representatives from the Brazilian Center for Solidarity of Peoples (Cebraspo) were also present, raising posters demanding the freedom of French political prisoner Théo El Ghozzi. Peasants in the city of Januária, northern Minas Gerais, blocked a highway in support of the National Education Strike. Carrying flags of the League of Poor Peasants (LCP), they erected a barricade with burning tires and raised a banner reading, “General Strike against pension reform!” They also raised a banner against a notorious grileiro (land owners who steal the land of poor peasants with falsified documents and the aid of police) with the slogan, “Out with Walter Arantes, land thief!” Arantes is known for arranging the violent displacement of poor peasants in the municipality of Miravânia earlier this year. Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com #Brazil #newdemocracy

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