Senator Richard Blumenthal spoke out against confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court Thursday afternoon at a small rally outside the Capitol. During his speech, he was interrupted by communist activist Sunsara Taylor with Refuse Fascism, who accused Blumenthal of "legitimizing" the nomination by attending the confirmation hearings. Filmed by Ford Fischer NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION Please contact Ford Fischer at fordfischer@news2share.com or call (573) 575-NEWS to license video. Photos and additional footage may be available upon request. Support News2Share on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FordFischer Special Thanks to Patreon Contributors Ardel David, Dustin Gagne, and Emily Molli See more at http://News2share.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1IE6SjjKrM

A coalition of environmental activists marched in Washington DC to protest outside the Federal Reserve on Friday afternoon. The group says the fed is destroying the planet by funding fossil fuels. Video contributed to N2S by Nick Mason NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION Please contact Ford Fischer at fordfischer@news2share.com or call (573) 575-NEWS to license video. Photos and additional footage may be available upon request. Support News2Share on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FordFischer Special Thanks to Patreon Contributors Ardel David, Dustin Gagne, and Emily Molli See more at http://News2share.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNh6wHoqoPk

"There is only one solution! Intifada revolution!" Palestinian Youth Movement activists and presidential candidate Cornel West marched on Saturday in Los Angeles. "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" "All our children, sons and daughters, we will honor all our martyrs!" chanted the marchers. "Long live the intifada!" Protesters led by the Palestinian Youth Movement waved flags and carried a bloody effigy of President Joe Biden outside a police department building in Los Angeles. "Long live the Intifada!" they chanted. "Israel, Israel, what do you say? How many kids have you killed today?" "We stand with our brothers and sisters and siblings dealing with unbelievable assault and attack, genocide on the one hand, but 75 years of it, and we still stand tall!" said Cornel West to the PYM from the stage. "We are here to be courageous, to lift our voices!" A speaker was described as in a shared "global struggle" against settler colonialism as a member of the American Indian Movement. "This is our land, but we don't believe that we own the land," she said. "We believe that we're part of the land." Filmed by Jake Lee Green for News2Share NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION Please contact Ford Fischer at fordfischer@news2share.com or call (573) 575-NEWS to license video. Photos and additional footage may be available upon request. Support News2Share on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FordFischer Special Thanks to Patreon Contributors Jessica M and Judith Lucca Shane See more at http://News2share.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq4fEDk7Rkk

Andleeb Abbas, a leading member of the Pakistani opposition party PTI (PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf) says that the country's fight against terrorism requires sustained US investment in health and education. This video, produced by News2Share's Ford Fischer (but not in association with News2Share) was screened at the National Press Club on Tuesday. It was produced for Anne Folan & Associates and BirkdaleMedia (to whom it is copyrighted and available online with permission). Ms. Abbas, who is on a private tour of the US, meeting senior officials from the State Department, the World Bank/IMF, members of the House and Senate from both parties, and Washington think tank leaders, called on the Trump administration to look beyond military and intelligence options and focus on the anger and discontent among the people in Pakistan's impoverished provinces. “If there is no war against illiteracy, no war against poverty and no war against inequity, then the war against terrorism will continue to be a battle unconquered,” she said. “Illiteracy is the breeding ground for terrorism.” President Donald Trump “needs to have an open mind,” she said. “Pakistan and the U.S. need to be allies.” Monday night, during a meeting with leaders of the U.S. Pakistan Women’s Council, Ms Abbas screened a video of her being fired on, arrested and detained at a peaceful protest in Pakistan last November. That video will be screened and made available at her news conference later today. On her US tour, she has previously met with senior economists at the World Bank/IMF and presented a strategy for "slaying the hydra" - the multi-headed monster of poverty, corruption, and terrorism. Andleeb Abbas is deeply concerned about the new revelations from the Panama Papers scandal, especially the documents released Monday by German investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer which confirm that the Pakistani Prime Minister and his family were the owners of billions of dollars of property hidden in the tax havens of Panama. Pakistan's Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments about the admissibility into evidence of Panama Papers documents. In her meetings Ms. Abbas has emphasized the link between corruption and terrorism and has appealed to the new administration to demand accountability and transparency in its dealings with Pakistan's ruling regime. From Washington, Ms Abbas will travel to Boston to address the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and for meetings in New York, before returning to Washington to guest lecture at National Defense University at the end of January. See more at http://News2share.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i4eW5zBxbQ