Like It Is Is - your monthly antifascist news roundup - is hosted by Diana Arce (she/her), and Tina Lee (she/her) with Miriam Aced (she/her) (in absentia). Brought to you by Artists Without a Cause , Wählen Gegen Rechts and Migration Voter.
International
Thousands of IDPs coming to Western Ukraine
-Russia leaves/ kicked out of the Council of Europe (Al Jazeera)
-British charity saving Ukrainian dogs (BBC)
Ethiopia
-6 million people are sealed off by fighting and blockades by Eritrean and Ethiopian forces, shaping up to be catostrophe without food and medicine (Axios) (NYT)
-Britain (still) has a racist police problem: Protests broke out after the publication of an investigation into an incident in 2020 where a Black child was strip-searched by police at the urging of her teachers. (Independent)
Meanwhile, a new study shows that 80% of officers accused of domestic violence kept their jobs. (Guardian)
USA:
State comptroller threatens to sieze small Black-led town in Tennessee- this story is wild (Tennessee Lookout) (The Root)
Germany
130 billion dollars for the military- is any of that gonna go to denazification? (DW)
Playlist:
We’re Not Gonna Take It- Twisted Sister
Don’t Get Captured - Run the Jewels
Fuck You - Ceelo Green
Tennessee- Arrested Development