Just 11 months into his second term, president trump has harnessed the brutal power of the federal government to go to war with american cities, communities, and citizens. Since the launch of “operation midway blitz” in september, chicago has become the epicenter of the trump administration’s assault on immigrants, protestors, and political opponents, but chicagoans on the front lines of that assault say the reality is even worse than people think. In this episode of the marc steiner show, marc speaks with codepink national co-director danaka katovich to get an on-the-ground view of the federal siege of chicago and the powerful grassroots resistance movements rising up against it.
More than fifty vessels are making their way to Gaza. Members of the European parliament, journalists, actors, doctors, lawyers, and climate activist Greta Thunberg. On The Line spoke with Greta just off the coast of Sicily. Hundreds of people are putting it all on the line to bring hope and humanity to Palestinians in Gaza because governments and institutions have miserably failed at doing so.
They tried everything in their arsenal. From accusations of antisemitism to public safety threats to it being a potential site of violence and they even took the City of Toronto to court, but Zionists lost in their attempt to stop the raising of the flag of Palestine in Toronto. This month alone the Canada Revenue Agency revoked the charitable status of three more Zionist organisations in Canada
It’s just really, really bleak, and I don’t think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out of their vans, rolling up on two men who were working… and asking for their papers.