Tag: Black Lives Matter

Protests have erupted across the United States in the past few days following the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on the man’s neck, suffocating him to death. Floyd’s death, the latest in a line of killings of African-Americans by law… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 20

This sense of grievance and solidarity gave voice to protests in Toronto, Berlin, London and other Western cities. “People all over the world understand that their own fights for human rights, for equality and fairness, will become so much more difficult to win if we are going to lose America as the place where ‘I… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 19

“We’re outraged about what’s happening in Minneapolis, but really us guys home in Australia need to take a stand together here … because they can actually see the racism and injustice against our people,” said Paul Francis-Silva, Dungay’s nephew, to Australia’s ABC News. In France, too, Floyd’s death rekindled memories of a 2016 incident in… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 18

The world of the incident and the diverse demonstrations that followed — emboldened existing movements over racial violence and discrimination against minorities. In Australia, where fresh solidarity protests are planned this week, the upheaval in the United States has revived conversation arouthe head of the African Union Commission, who condemned the killing of George Floyd… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 17

The United States is increasingly seen as a nation turning in on itself. As protests against the police rocked dozens of American cities, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab spoke of the crisis across the pond in language more often deployed when discussing intractable conflicts elsewhere in the world. “We want to see de-escalation of all… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 16