Thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday night in a first major rally against the new government and its far-right policy plans, with two marches taking place in the city. The first march was organized by Standing Together, a grassroots group promoting Jewish and Arab equality and partnership,...
Actress Jessica Chastain Says Ukraine in Focus Overlooking Iran Because it’s ‘Mostly White’
"Zero Dark Thirty," and "Interstellar" actress Jessica Chastain claims the war in Ukraine gets more attention than Iran's "women-led revolution." "I've done a lot of press recently, and a lot of people want to talk about Ukraine. But when I bring up Iran, no one wants to talk about that,"...
Iranian Women to Fresno Cousin: ‘If We Die, Don’t Cry for Me. Be My Voice.’
Shahnaz Tousinezhad left Iran for the United States in 1983, but like many expatriate Iranians, her heart has never left her homeland. She is grief-stricken over the cruelty that Iranians have been subjected to in the decades since the Muslim Shiite cleric-led regime began running the government. That cruelty...
Protests Intensify in Fresno, Around World Over Woman’s Death in Iranian Custody
Demonstrators gathered again Sunday at a major north Fresno intersection to speak out over the killing of a young Kurdish woman in Iran and that country's violent crackdown on protests there. The death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who was detained by Iran's morality police over an "improper"...
What is a Proud Boy? Fresno Chapter Leader Gives His Take.
They've been called a hate group. White supremacists. Outside agitators. The Fresno community's frustration with the Proud Boys boiled over last week at the Tower Theatre protests. City Hall officials held a news conference to denounce the group. The local leader of the Proud Boys pushes back against those assessments,...
Race Double Standard Clear in Rioters’ Capitol Insurrection
NEW YORK — Black Lives Matter protests, 2020: Overwhelming force from law enforcement in dozens of cities. Chemical dispersants. Rubber bullets and hand-to-hand combat with largely peaceful crowds and some unruly vandals and looters. More than 14,000 arrests. The U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021: Barely more than a few dozen...
A Moment in America, Unimaginable but Perhaps Inevitable
To see it unspool — to watch the jumbled images ricochet, live, across the world's endless screens — was, as an American, a struggle to believe your eyes. But there it was, in the capital city of the United States in early January 2021, a real-time breaking and entering the...
Philadelphia Pledges Better Response After Black Man’s Death
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police pledged to release 911 tapes and police body camera footage “in the near future” in the shooting death of a Black man with a history of mental health problems, a death that prompted protests, widespread vandalism and an overnight curfew days before Election Day. Police Commissioner...
Officers Injured, Dozens Arrested in Philadelphia Protest After Police Kill Black Man
PHILADELPHIA — More than a dozen people were arrested and more than 30 officers injured in protests stemming from the police shooting death of a Black man they say refused their orders to drop a knife in a confrontation captured on video, Philadelphia police said Tuesday. The man, identified by...
Most Arrested in Protests Aren’t Leftist Radicals, Records Show
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of court documents tell a different story. Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized...