Tag: California
La noche del 1 de mayo, un grupo de más de un centenar de sionistas, armados con palos y elementos explosivos, atacaron de forma violenta la acampada del movimiento estudiantil por Palestina en la UCLA (Universidad de California, Los Ángeles). Conversamos sobre estos hechos y acerca de la dinámica actual del movimiento estudiantil por Palestina en Estados Unidos con Kevin Anderson (1948), autor de varios libros como “Marx en los márgenes” y “Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism”.
Police crack down on demonstrations at UT Austin and USC as students at Harvard and Brown set up encampments in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza
After they sprang a duly convicted murderer and burned down several police precincts in a summer filled with calls to “defund the police,” you may think progressive activists hate law enforcement. But that is only half true. Yes, they don’t like cops. And if you scratch beneath the surface of the “defund the police” movement, you will find ideologues committed to abolishing prisons, police departments, and even social work.
It’s a gorgeous evening in San Pedro, California. I’m standing on the outskirts of a Little League ballpark that sits atop a knoll overlooking the sprawling Port of Los Angeles and the arching Vincent St. Thomas Bridge. Below is a sea of shipping containers, stacked high like Lego blocks, forming mini-skyscrapers along the dusky horizon. President Biden made a trek to the port during the Summit of the Americas this month, giving a speech that addressed supply chain snafus and the country’s pounding inflation headache.
