City officials have imposed severe restrictions on planned marches to protest the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Vice President Kamala Harris is due to be formally anointed as the party’s presidential candidate next week.
The protests – and government efforts to impede them – were the headline topic on another packed Electronic Intifada livestream this week, on day 313 of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
We also covered Harris’ support for Israel and her attacks on anti-genocide protesters, as well as new revelations about how the American-backed Israeli military is systematically forcing Palestinian civilians, including children and elders, to act as human shields.
Soldiers send the captive civilians into tunnels and buildings which they suspect could be boobytrapped, a horrendous war crime in which the lives of civilians are deliberately endangered or sacrificed to protect occupation forces perpetrating genocide. ….more
