Tag: movement

Whitmer Disavows ‘Draft Grech’ Movement

When Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer telephoned a senior official with President Biden’s campaign on Friday night, she wanted to convey a clear message: She hated the way her name was being floated as a replacement for Biden and she wasn’t behind the chatter. Whitmer’s conversation with the official, campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, was cordial […]

LGBTQ leaders on the past, present and future of the equality movement

Fifty-five years ago, a group of LGBTQ New Yorkers rioted, protested, and got arrested when taking a stand against a routine police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village. While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first time the community fought back against oppression, those six days of confrontations with police — which began […]

Rome’s Jews outraged after videos show antisemitism in Meloni’s youth movement

By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Rome’s Jewish community has called for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to punish members of her party’s youth wing who were recorded making antisemitic and pro-fascist comments in an undercover media investigation. A reporter from online newspaper Fanpage infiltrated Gioventu Nazionale, Meloni’s rightist Brothers of Italy youth movement, and recorded […]

Scholz urges movement from China in electric vehicle tariff dispute

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for movement from China in the dispute over potential European Union tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Scholz welcomed the European Commission’s offer of negotiations with China, but warned there is little time left before the threatened punitive tariffs could begin taking effect on July 4. “It is clear that […]