https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/07/07/it-is-time-to-stand-up-in-this-city-twin-cities-citizens-speak-against-dismantling-the-police/?

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Just a few days ago, Leneesha Columbus, was alive and well. But Sunday night someone killed the mother of two, who was 5 months pregnant.

The next day, in Minneapolis, a 12-year-old was shot while riding with his family.

Lisa Clemons is a former officers and a peace activist with “A Mother’s Love.” She said to a crowd of reporters, “We cannot have bullets continue to fly in our community.”

A panel of African-American violence prevention advocates held what they call an emergency news conference to speak against the city council’s push to dismantle the police department.

“It is time to stand up in this city, it is time to tell the city council that utopia is a bunch of B.S. We are not in Mayberry we are in the wild wild west and it is time for some answers,” Clemons said.

Cher has been drinking again

“IF trump FORCES CHILDREN 2GO BACK 2 SCHOOL W/OUT A PLAN & TEACHERS GETS SICK,OR COVID-19 IS BROUGHT HOME 2CHILDS FAMILY,OR IF ANY CHILD GETS SICK,OR GOD FORBID WORSE,AMERICANS WILL COME FOR trump,DRAG HIS ASS OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE,& HE WILL RUE THE DAY HE WAS BORN,” Cher said.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/strike-black-lives-set-july-20-25-us-cities

STRIKES against systemic racism and police violence are set to take place in at least 25 US cities later this month, unions announced on Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of fast-food, care-home and airport workers will walk out in a 24-hour stoppage on July 20 for marches and rallies.

The Strike for Black Lives has been co-ordinated by organisations and trade unions including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents more than two million workers in the US and Canada.

SEIU President Mary Kay Henry said the union had joined the coalition to demand concrete action from companies and the US government against the economic disadvantages faced by many black and Hispanic workers, who make up a disproportionate number of those earning less than a living wage.

“We have to link these fights in a new and deeper way than ever before. Our members have been on a journey … to understanding why we cannot win economic justice without racial justice.

The union has joined forces with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers and the Fight for $15 and a Union, which was launched in 2012 by fast-food workers.

Others supporting the strike include the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance and the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a coalition of the more than 150 organisations that make up the Black Lives Matter movement.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/506595-house-democrats-push-for-resuming-aid-to-palestinians-in-spending-bill

House Democrats on Thursday advanced an amendment that would restore millions of dollars in aid to Palestinians cut by the Trump administration two years earlier, as part of a multi-billion dollar spending bill under consideration.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) proposed the amendment that passed by voice vote, calling for $255 million in aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The amendment calls for aid to be delivered directly to non-governmental organizations for humanitarian and developmental assistance. Lowey said her amendment seeks to direct U.S. funding “directly to the Palestinian people.”

Lowey said her amendment would strip authority from the Secretary of State to suspend assistance to the West Bank and Gaza.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/09/bill-barr-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell/

Bill Barr Was ‘Livid’ After Epstein Found Dead, Claims Nothing Like That Will Happen To Ghislaine Maxwell

When asked if he would ensure that Maxwell would make it to trial and whether Maxwell’s security was “locked up” to ensure that she would neither kill herself or be harmed by others, Barr responded, “Yes.”

“I was livid obviously,” Barr said of finding out about Epstein’s suicide. “I believe very strongly in that case and I was very proud of the work done by the department, the Southern District, on that case.”

“And as you will recall, after he committed suicide I said that I was confident that we would continue to pursue this case vigorously and — pursue anyone who’s complicit in it,” he added. “And so I’m very happy that we were able to get Miss Maxwell.”