A tense day of protests and prayers in New York City on Oct. 7 anniversary

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Important Takeaways:

  • In the largest planned pro-Palestinian action of the day, protesters are expected to march through Manhattan, from Wall Street to Columbus Circle
  • A vigil to remember those killed and missing in last year’s Hamas attack on Oct. 7 will come within blocks of a pro-Palestinian march Monday night.
  • NYPD officials are planning to keep both groups separate in what is expected to be the culmination of a tense day of protests and prayers.
  • Smashed windows, red paint and graffiti including “divest now” was discovered spray-painted on the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center on the City College of New York campus in Hamilton Heights on Monday morning.
  • At Columbia University, access is limited to ID holders in an effort to keep out outside agitators.
  • More walkouts are expected in the afternoon, with both students and faculty from CUNY and city public schools gathering at Washington Square Park, to join the larger protest marching north.
  • Blocks away in Central Park, a candle lighting ceremony with members of the Jewish community will remember those killed, with music and prayer
  • Police officials say they are most concerned about the protest in Times Square, and the pro-Israeli prayer vigil in Central Park.

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Pro-Palestinian protests concern DNC officials “there’s only so much we can do”

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Important Takeaways:

  • Why it matters: The guidance comes as some Democratic lawmakers are fearful about their safety after being rattled by a series of disruptive pro-Palestinian protests since the Israel-Hamas war started last year.
  • One House Democrat told Axios they are “very concerned” about their personal security and that “of course” other lawmakers are as well.
  • A senior House Democrat said law enforcement is telling members “not to go to a certain area, because they expect violence.”
  • “The protesters aren’t staying in a designated protest site … and there are people who are going to go and really try to cause trouble,” the lawmaker predicted.
  • The bottom line: Several lawmakers expressed that there is little they can do beyond take reasonable hope that the security measures in place are enough.

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Encampments are so last spring; the ultimate goal: A national student strike over the Israel-Hamas war

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Important Takeaways:

  • Tensions over the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses aren’t going away. Neither are the protests.
  • The sudden resignation of Columbia University’s president is quickly resurfacing tensions over the Israel-Hamas war that roiled college campuses this spring — a movement primed to escalate as students return to class.
  • Organizers at a string of campuses have started planning demonstrations. And some schools are responding with changes to free speech rules that concern academic freedom advocates. The friction sets up a fraught return to school in a matter of days.
  • “We are committed to continuing our activism because we understand that it is not just one individual but the entire institution that is complicit in the ongoing genocide,” said Cam Jones, a lead organizer of the protests at Columbia, in a statement to POLITICO. “We will not rest until Columbia divests and Palestine is free.”
  • Schools are adjusting how they will regulate protests, prompting some concerns from First Amendment and academic freedom groups.
  • The American Association of University Professors this week condemned what it described as “overly restrictive policies dealing with the rights to assemble and protest on campus.”
  • “The mood at both Yale and Columbia and colleges around the country is that what happened at the end of last semester isn’t really over,” said Craig Morton, an organizer with Yalies4Palestine who is facing three charges, including two misdemeanors for trespassing and a charge of disorderly conduct.
  • “People are aware of the threat,” he said in an interview. “But people are still pretty intent on getting out there in the fall and continuing to protest.”

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White House condemned “disgraceful” protests including burning American flags during Netanyahu’s address to Congress

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Important Takeaways:

  • The White House condemned what it called “disgraceful” protests outside Union Station Wednesday in Washington, D.C., while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an address to lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol.
  • “Identifying with evil terrorist organizations like Hamas, burning the American flag, or forcibly removing the American flag and replacing it with another, is disgraceful,” deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement.
  • “Antisemitism and violence are never acceptable. Period,” Bates added.
  • Protesters took down an American flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag Wednesday, and at one point burned the U.S. flag
  • A group of House Republicans restored the U.S. flags around Union Station, and former President Trump used the incident to renew his push for jail sentences for those that desecrate American flags.
  • D.C. Metropolitan Police said six protesters were arrested at the scene. At least five protesters were also arrested in the House gallery during the prime minister’s speech, and another five were arrested while marching on Constitution Ave.

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Protests and boycotts ahead of Netanyahu’s address to Congress

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Important Takeaways:

  • Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin will preside over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress on Wednesday as he faces calls to boycott the speech.
  • The Maryland office of Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, urged the Maryland senator to boycott what the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization referred to as Netanyahu’s “war criminal” address to Congress.
  • “It is deeply troubling that Sen. Cardin would choose to lend legitimacy and support to a war criminal who is responsible for egregious violations of human rights and international law,” said CAIR’s Maryland Director Zainab Chaudhry.
  • Netanyahu arrived Monday in Washington, D.C., where he will hold meetings with the Biden administration and will address the joint session of the House and Senate on Wednesday, as he seeks bipartisan support for Israel just days after President Joe Biden announced he would end his re-election bid.
  • As Netanyahu addresses the joint Congress on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson has warned lawmakers that there will be a “zero-tolerance” policy for anyone who disrupts the speech and that law enforcement “will remove … offending visitors from the gallery and subject them to arrest.”
  • On Tuesday, hundreds of members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace were arrested during a demonstration inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., according to the group.
  • “Arrests are beginning as over 400 American Jews refuse to leave Congress, but we won’t leave until our government stops arming Israel and ends the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza!” the group wrote Tuesday in a post on X.

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George Soros we’ve heard about but wait, the EPA is now funding Pro-Hamas Protests?

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Important Takeaways:

  • Rather more jarring is that the Biden administration, and therefore taxpayer money, is also funding the protests, through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
  • “U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee… discussed oversight findings from the EPW Committee that revealed a $50 million grant was awarded from the EPA through the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to ‘Climate Justice Alliance,’ a group that engages in pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic activities.” — US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, May 21, 2024.
  • “[We] went to the website of Climate Justice Alliance. This is what we found on the website that our taxpayer dollars are going to organizations such as this. This, at the bottom, is a picture of the bulldozer that went through the fence when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.” — Senator Shelley Moore Capito, May 21, 2024.
  • The People’s Forum’s executive director Manolo De Los Santos called for the complete destruction of the United States at the conference to great applause: “We have to bring down this empire with one million cuts, and those one million cuts have to come from every sector of struggle in this room.”
  • Terrorists and their billionaire, as well as less-affluent supporters, are actively conspiring to destroy the US with the backing of foreign powers — and very little, if anything, is being done to stop it.

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French citizens protest in the street as lower parliament push Vote of No Confidence as social security program looks to go bust

Revelations 6:4 “And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Macron’s government faces vote of no confidence after pushing up retirement age
  • French President Emanuel Macron looks to change the retirement age from 62 to 64
  • Days of protests turned violent and prompted hundreds of arrests after Macron and Borne bypassed the parliament Thursday to raise the pension age by two years in what French leadership has argued is necessary to keep its social security program from going bust.
  • The Senate, which has a conservative majority, backed the changes to the retirement plan and passed the legislation last week.
  • If the vote of no-confidence fails, the bill will become law.
  • If the motions pass, Borne will be forced to resign and Macron’s presidency will likely be marred by the incident through his tenure which will conclude in 2027.

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NYC and DC brace for protests with an indictment set for former President Trump

Revelations 6:4 “And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.”

Important Takeaways:

  • ALL NYPD cops will be in uniform TODAY in anticipation of Trump’s arrest: NYC and DC brace for protests and Stormy Daniels ramps up her personal security – with an indictment set for Wednesday ‘at the earliest’
  • The New York Police Department and Metro Police Department as all officers on Tuesday are expected to be in uniform, ready for anything in the wake of a potential indictment coming down against former President Donald Trump.
  • Trump, 76, said last week that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, but a law enforcement official told DailyMail.com that an indictment is not expected until Wednesday at the earliest.
  • A grand jury investigating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels wrap up their deliberations.
  • NYPD is the largest police department in the country, with roughly 36,000 current officers and 19,000 civilian employees. This week’s memo suggests that all 36,000 officers are expected to be in uniform and on standby for deployment
  • As the New York investigation pushes toward conclusion, Trump faces a grand jury in Atlanta and a federal probe in Washington that, taken together, pose a significant legal risk for the former president.

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Trumps warns of his arrest; Former VP Mike Pence calls for people to stay peaceful and lawful

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Revelations 6:4 “And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Firestorm: Trump Warns He’s About to Be Arrested
  • Former President Trump claimed over the weekend that he’ll be arrested this week, touching off a political firestorm. It comes as the Manhattan district attorney is investigating an alleged hush money payment during the 2016 presidential campaign.
  • Trump supporters and opponents are calling it a political prosecution and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is ready to direct a House committee to investigate the D.A.
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence said, “It just feels like a politically charged prosecution here, and I, for my part, I just feel like it’s just not what the American people want to see.”
  • Trump is calling for protests. But McCarthy said, “I don’t think people should protest this, no.”
  • And Pence told ABC’s “This Week” program, “I believe that people understand that if they give voice to this, if this occurs on Tuesday, that they need to do so peacefully and in a lawful manner.”
  • Trump’s claim involves the Manhattan D.A.’s investigation into an alleged hush money payment prior to the 2016 election to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump has denied her claim that they had an affair.
  • Trump’s attorney told CNBC that if indicted, Trump will surrender to face criminal charges.

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Current Protests and Civil Unrest across the globe

Revelations 6:4 “And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Global Protest Tracker
    • Over 400 significant antigovernment protests have erupted worldwide.
    • More than 132 countries have experienced significant protests
    • 23% of significant protests have lasted than more than three months.
    • 135 significant economic antigovernment protests have occurred since 2017.
      • Colombia – Social and economic reform
      • Germany – Peace in Ukraine Protest
      • Norway – Wind Farm Protest
      • Portugal – Cost of living Protest
      • Turkey – Earthquake response protest
      • Sri Lanka – Election cancellation Protest
      • France – Pension reform strikes and protests
      • Israel – Judicial reform
      • Nigeria – Cash Shortage
      • Mexico – Electoral Reform
      • Iran – Masha Amini Protest
      • Moldova – Fuel Price Protest
      • Netherlands – Farmer Protest
      • UK – Just stop oil Protest

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