Defund & Abolish: Red Daily Newswire June 15

With news from the Black Lives Matter Movement, Canada, Brazil and elsewhere.

International left news from the weekend of June 13 & 14.

Black Lives Matter:

Minneapolis City Council approves plan to create new public safety system

Minneapolis Organizers Are Already Building the Tools for Safety Without Police

Austin City Council Votes to Reinvest Police Funds, Restrict Police Use of Force

San Francisco mayor unveils plan for police reform

HOUSTON POLICE CHIEF’S SPEECHES SUPPORTING PROTESTERS WERE WIDELY CIRCULATED—BUT VIDEO PROVES HIS OFFICERS CRACKED DOWN ON THEM

“Do I believe we can have a police-free future in our lifetime? Absolutely”: Policing expert Robyn Maynard on how defunding would work in practice

Uprising & Abolition: Angela Davis on Movement Building, “Defund the Police” & Where We Go from Here

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

Fox News Is Losing It Over Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Rayshard Brooks police shooting was homicide, says medical examiner

Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated

Outrage over video showing police macing child at Seattle protest

A Black pastor who called 911 after alleged attack was arrested. The sheriff apologized.

'To show good faith': Montreal man invites police into his home and ends up handcuffed and bleeding

‘Long overdue’: lawmakers declare racism a public health emergency

Black union leaders: Stand with us in the fight for our lives

Dockworkers to Shut Down West Coast Ports in Memory of George Floyd

Sanders Proposes Slashing Pentagon Budget by 10% to Reinvest Funds in Communities 'Devastated by Poverty and Incarceration'

African Countries Call for Urgent UN Debate Over Racism

MLA calls petition presented to P.E.I. government by Black Cultural Society 'historic, powerful starting point'

Why reparations and apologies to African Canadians are necessary

An Estimated 60,000 March in Silence for Black Lives

Brazil:

Brazil Tops 850,000 COVID-19 Cases as Virus Plagues Country

Reopening in São Paulo is sending “population to the slaughterhouse,” warns COVID-19 specialist

Canada:

Recent Claims Of Police Brutality In Canada Are ‘Tip Of The Iceberg’ For Indigenous People

AFN national chief calls for overhaul of policing in Canada

Quebec watchdog to probe fatal RCMP shooting of N.B. Indigenous man

Chief Allan Adam calls for RCMP ‘overhaul’ after violent arrest video surfaces

Dene man alleges RCMP beat him up day after Yellowknife anti-racism march

Hundreds gather in Halifax for solemn healing walk in memory of Chantel Moore

Canadian Police Supplier Says He Sent Racist Tweets About ‘Black People’ To Show His Support For Police

Canadian mining abuses continue amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

Journalists At Canada's Biggest Conservative Newspaper Revolt Over Column Denying Racism

CEO asks employees to lie on timecards or risk job losses — violating labour laws

Trans Mountain Pipeline to Resume Operations After Oil Spill

Climate Emergency:

‘Either you are fighting to eliminate exploitation or not’: A leftist critique of the Green New Deal

How Europe’s “Trash Market” Offloads Pollution on Its Poorest Countries

Ecuador:

State Money Funded Ecuador's 2018 Referendum: Report

Israel / Palestine:

Israel approves funding for new 'Trump Heights' settlement

Latin America:

Four Indigenous Land Defenders Killed Monthly in Latam: UN

Lebanon:

Lebanon: Mass Night Protests as the National Currency Dives

Nigeria:

Massive protests against gender-based violence in Nigeria force government to take measures

Sweden:

The assassination of Olof Palme and Nordic radical, anti-imperialist internationalism

United States:

Supreme Court says federal law protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination

Supreme Court won't hear challenge to California sanctuary law

Some landlords are using harassment, threats to force out tenants during COVID-19 crisis

Black community braces for next threat: Mass evictions

BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS ALABAMA MAN WHO HAS SPENT OVER TWO DECADES ON DEATH ROW SHOULD GET NEW TRIAL

Fired Florida scientist goes rogue, publishes her own COVID-19 data with grimmer outlook than the state's

Coronavirus survival comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page price tag