Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you’ve got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and counterterrorism officials. And we’re worried, too — worried enough, in fact, to feel that it’s time to take a look at the experience of India, where Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been enforced through violent means. Source Source / Read More: Far Right Violence Surges in US and India
Domestic Terrorism
Cop City Protesters Face Felonies for Flyering as Police Repress Student Sit-Ins
An attorney for three activists opposed to a planned $72.8 million police training center that opponents have dubbed “Cop City” tells Truthout her clients are facing felony charges of intimidation of an officer and misdemeanor stalking after two of them placed flyers on mailboxes in Bartow County, Georgia, a neighborhood about 40 miles from Atlanta. The charges carry a sentence of up to 20 years… Source Source / Read More: Cop City Protesters Face Felonies for Flyering as Police Repress Student Sit-Ins
Stop Cop City Movement Embraces National Strategy as Permit Appeal Is Denied
The DeKalb County Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday unanimously denied three plaintiffs’ legal appeal of the land disturbance permit for the Atlanta Police Foundation’s 85-acre, $90 million police militarization and training complex dubbed “Cop City” by a coalition of racial justice, abolitionist, Indigenous and environmental activists. If built, the compound would be one of the largest police… Source Source / Read More: Stop Cop City Movement Embraces National Strategy as Permit Appeal Is Denied
Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Demonstrators Spur Further Protests
In the early evening of March 5, a noxious plume of black smoke wafted over the proposed site of the unpopular Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, known as “Cop City.” Construction equipment and vehicles were reportedly set on fire, igniting an incendiary response by police on the second day of the Week of Action called by the Defenders of the Atlanta Forest. It was the fifth such week-long… Source Source / Read More: Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Demonstrators Spur Further Protests
Every Domestic Extremist Murder in 2022 Was Committed by Right-Wingers: Report
Domestic extremists killed at least 25 people in the United States last year and all of them had ties to forms of right-wing extremism, including white supremacy, anti-government extremism and right-wing conspiracy theorists, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. Domestic extremist-related mass killings have increased in the past 12 years with most of them being tied to right… Source Source / Read More: Every Domestic Extremist Murder in 2022 Was Committed by Right-Wingers: Report