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Africa’s Lost White Tribe

    ‘White farmers are being brutally killed in South Africa’ warned President Donald this week amid all the uproar and craziness over tariffs, world trade and kickoff of a campaign to force Big Pharma to lower its prices to consumers.     Why would Trump target South Africa? First, because South Africa dared accuse Israel’s far right government of genocide and war crimes in its savage repression of Gaza’s Palestinians. An estimated 55,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, have been killed by Israel in Gaza. Another estimated 2,500 Palestinians are believed to have died in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and some 2,000 or more dead remain under the ruins of destroyed apartment buildings in Gaza.     The Trump Administration is very close to Israel’s hard right-wing government. So far, Trump has followed and defended Israel’s repression and slaughter in Gaza. It’s often hard to tell if the American dog is wagging the Israeli tail or vice versa.     Trump’s government has repeatedly lashed out at South Africa for accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes.

Marching Backwards? 60 years after Bloody Sunday

This March, we commemorated the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when voting rights leader John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was beaten nearly to death by cops and Klansmen on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.  

The youngest marcher, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, was beaten so badly she was put in a hearse to take to the morgue.

But when the unconscious Lynda woke up in the hearse, she jumped up, ran out, and ran straight across the bridge into the teargas and Klansmen.

Only in Gaza, children write their will!

Since the blockade began, humanitarian organizations like UNICEF have warned that children are at an increasing risk of starvation, illness, and death. Over 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition since the start of the year, highlighting the urgent need for food and medical assistance. The blockade has been described as a "silent killer," with families resorting to sharing minimal food supplies, such as a single can of beans among several members of one family according to Al Jazeera report. Personal stories from families in Gaza illustrate the heartbreaking reality of this crisis. For instance, a mother described her five-year-old son, who has become emaciated and is suffering from severe malnutrition, stating that he hasn't eaten meat in months due to the unaffordability of food.

Greep Zoom 222 - Fascist Attacks On Judges & A Mayor * Cinco De Mayo * Winning Eco-Battles

We start with “Kidnapping the Rubicon” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.

The duly elected MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon has been arrested by a fascist city council in an attempted coup; the activist progressive Mayor shares her amazing tale as we hear her plans to get re-instated.

Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH assures us all that the fight-back will inspire deep regrets among the Trumpist attackers.

LAProgressive.com editor-publishers SHARON KYLE & DICK PRICE give us the scoop on the Trump attack against Wisconsin Judge Hanna Dugan and many others like her who are standing up for actual justice & the law.  Such judges, says Kyle, have been subjected to DOXing and other forms of Nazi-style attacks.

Emmy-winning documentarian DAVID SALTMAN explains the key elements to maintaining a lawful society.

Climate activist DIANE CAMERON talks about defeating a new highway proposed for Maryland.

Green campaigner MARGARET SCHOAP OF US-PIRG expands on the great grassroots work happening in Maryland to preserve what’s left of the state.

Pope Leo XIV: A Papacy for Peace in a World at War

Prelude: As we welcome Pope Leo XIV, we do so with full awareness of the Church’s failures as an institution. Church-sanctioned teachings too often became instruments of empire, rather than channels of Christ’s peace. They upheld systems of enslavement, patriarchy, and racial hierarchy, instead of challenging institutions and bidding them to change. —

When Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost was proclaimed as Pope Leo XIV and then stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, for me it was a moment of disbelief and wonderment: The first American-born Pope in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Then came his Urbi et Orbi (to the City and the World) blessing, in which he repeatedly, and beautifully, invoked peace.

“Peace be with you all…Peace be with you…. The peace of the Risen Christ - - an unarmed and disarming peace, …uniting everyone, always in peace. …a Church that always seeks peace, …for peace in the world.”

77 years after Nakba, Israel's message to Palestinians: Surrender, leave, or die!

In the 1930s and 40s, many Jews escaped persecution in Europe by sailing to Palestine for safety. Palestinians treated them then with open hearts but later the Jewish refugees took arms and attacked Palestinians by committing massacres to drive them out of their lands.  Each year on May 14, Israel celebrates Independence Day and Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day (catastrophe in Arabic). Prior to 1948, Israel has never existed on the map. Israel was planted in the heart of the Arab world by Western imperial powers. I still have a picture of my village taken by a New York Times photographer on May 14, being erased by Jewish terror groups.
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