Until We Reckon
Danielle Sered | zcomm.org | 2019-03-16
Mass Incarceration, Violence & the Radical Possibilities of Restorative Justice…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/until-we-reckon/

Report Finds Widespread Neglect and Abuse in Anaheim and Santa Ana Shelters
ACLU of Southern California | indybay.org | 2019-03-16
SANTA ANA, MARCH 14, 2019 — Orange County, in the midst of a dire homelessness crises, opened emergency shelters, giving hope to those who were living in punishing conditions on the streets. But what once was a symbol of hope has become a nightmare for many residents.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/14/18821919.php

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations
ACLU | indybay.org | 2019-03-16
Local governments like Merced and Union City, California, are feeding their residents' personal information to ICE, even when it violates local privacy laws or sanctuary policies. California Senate Bill 34 and the California Values Act (SB 54) are supposed to prohibit local law enforcement agencies from sharing license plate information and personal information for immigration enforcement or with out-of-state or federal agencies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/13/18821898.php

Support continues to pour in for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-16
Students and workers across the United States and internationally continue to speak out against the jailing of whistleblower Chelsea Manning and the ongoing persecution of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/16/mann-m16.html

Corbyn props up May government after more Brexit vote defeats
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-16
Ever since May took office as a minority dependent on the DUP, she has headed a government of permanent crisis, with her survival dependent on Labour leader Corbyn's suppression of the class struggle amid a rising tide of anti-Tory sentiment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/16/brex-m16.html

Daniel Ellsberg Praises Chelsea Manning After She Is Jailed Again
Democracy Now! | indybay.org | 2019-03-16
"I Know No One More Patriotic": Daniel Ellsberg Praises Chelsea Manning After She Is Jailed Again…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/14/18821913.php

U.N. Committee Urges UK Government to Consider "Comprehensive and Complete Ban" on Fracking
Food & Water Watch | indybay.org | 2019-03-16
Geneva/London/Brussels/Washington, March 13, 2019 – In an extraordinary move, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) slammed the United Kingdom's policies on fracking for failing to protect the rights of rural women, and urged the British Government to "consider introducing a comprehensive and complete ban on fracking."
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/13/18821901.php

Did Dallas Police and Local Media Collude to Cover Up Terrorist Threats against Journalist Barrett Brown?
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-15
Barrett Brown is an award-winning journalist and author who spent time in federal prison for work he did exposing various elements of the military-industrial complex, including publicizing the hacked emails of private intelligence company Stratfor. Since being released from prison, Brown has worked to establish the Pursuance Project, an initiative aimed at developing a new…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/15/did-dallas-police-and-local-media-collude-to-cover-up-terrorist-threats-against-journalist-barrett-brown/

Hollywood's Love Affair With Racism
Robert Scheer | truthdig.com | 2019-03-15
At a time when American society is increasingly diverse, it is necessary that our entertainment products reflect those changes in meaningful and nuanced ways, for reasons that extend beyond representation. At UCLA, Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences, and Ana-Christina Ramon, director of research and civic engagement for the social sciences division, have found another incentive for Hollywood to get its act together when it comes to diversity, both on screen and off: It's profitable. | Hunt and Ramon have collaborated on an annual report, "Old Start, New Beginning," for the past six years. In it, they focus on…
truthdig.com/articles/hollywoods-love-affair-with-racism/

Keeping Civilian Drone Deaths Secret Keeps Them Going
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-15
What's behind Trump's order reversing a transparency requirement to release information on civilian deaths? | This piece was originally published by The Washington Post. | In an executive order last week, President Trump ended a requirement for…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/targeted-killing/keeping-civilian-drone-deaths-secret-keeps-them-going

ICE's 'Bait and Switch' Policies Tear Apart Families for Following the Rules
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-15
Wanrong Lin went to his green card marriage interview and proved he was married to a U.S. citizen. ICE deported him anyway. | On Nov. 20, 2018, Wanrong Lin was stranded at an airport in Shanghai, China, almost 7,000 miles away from his wife, kids, and home in St. Mary's County, Maryland. He found himself wandering China — with no money, no cell phone, and no goodbyes exchanged — after Immigration and Customs Enforcement illegally arrested and deported him when he and his wife showed up for his "marriage interview." Alone back at home for weeks, Lin's wife, Hui Fang Dong, tended to their three children…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/deportation-and-due-process/ices-bait-and-switch-policies-tear-apart-families

Civil Rights Group Releases Report Alleging Focus On Revenue-Generation By Arkansas's Criminal Justice System Increases Poverty And Mass Incarceration
commondreams | commondreams.org | 2019-03-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/03/15/civil-rights-group-releases-report-alleging-focus-revenue-generation-arkansass?cd-origin=rss

Selected Articles: Trump's $34 Trillion Deficit and Debt Bomb
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-15
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-trumps-34-trillion-deficit-debt-bomb/5671561

Council approves ICE immigrant prison in central Illinois
Zach Carlson | peoplesworld.org | 2019-03-15
DWIGHT, Ill.–Activists from the "No ICE Dwight" coalition rallied here on Monday, March 11, for the town council's vote on a $20 million private ICE detention facility. Proposed by the Immigrant Centers of America (ICA), construction of the facility was approved in February by the town's planning commission and then went to the full council …
peoplesworld.org/article/council-approves-ice-immigrant-prison-in-central-illinois/

Watch the 20th Vigil for Assange Here Live at 4 pm EST
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-15
With Chelsea Manning still in jail for refusing to testify about Julian Assange, who remains arbitrarily detained in London, the 20th webcast vigil for Assange begins Friday at 4 pm EST. Watch it live here. Among the guests will be… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/15/watch-the-20th-vigil-for-assange-here-live-at-4-pm-est/

Tom Joyner to Receive Vanguard Award at 50th NAACP Image Awards
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2019-03-15
PRESENTERS TO INCLUDE AMANDLA STENBERG, KERRY WASHINGTON, KIKI LAYNE, LENA WAITHE, LETITIA WRIGHT, THANDIE NEWTON, TREVOR NOAH AND MORE! LIVE TV Special to Air on TV One Saturday, March 30, 2019 Hosted by Anthony Anderson LOS ANGELES (March 14, 2019) — The NAACP today announced that mass media icon Tom Joyner will be honored with the Vanguard Award at the …
naacp.org/latest/tom-joyner-receive-vanguard-award-50th-naacp-image-awards/

Dear Young Ardelia Walker
Rachel Johnson | naacp.org | 2019-03-15
As we continue to celebrate Women's History Month, we would like to share another "Letter To Our Younger Self". The NAACP will be sharing letters written by our regional Women In the NAACP (WIN) Coordinators to their younger self. Our second highlight comes from Ardelia Walker of Region 6. Dear Ardelia: I have several messages for …
naacp.org/latest/dear-young-ardelia-walker/

After New Zealand Shooting, Far-right, Racists Claim Victimhood, Hail Killer as Hero
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-03-15
Andrew Anglin found humor in the livestreamed video of a man in New Zealand storming into the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, then shooting and killing 49 people.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/03/15/after-new-zealand-shooting-far-right-racists-claim-victimhood-hail-killer-hero

Self-declared fascist carries out racist terror attack in NZ mosques
Kristen Gelineau | peoplesworld.org | 2019-03-15
SYDNEY (AP)–The gunman behind at least one of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that left 49 people dead on Friday tried to make a few things clear in the manifesto he left behind: He is a 28-year-old Australian white nationalist who hates immigrants. Though he claimed not to covet fame, the gunman–whose name was …
peoplesworld.org/article/self-declared-fascist-carries-out-racist-terror-attack-in-nz-mosques/

Australia pays Indonesia to detain refugees
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-15
Refugee Action Collective organised a forum on refugees in Indonesia on March 4. | Mozhgan Moaref, a co-founder of the Refugees and Asylum Seekers Information Centre in Jakarta, spoke by video link. She said some of the refugees are living in detention, others are in "community housing" provided by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), while yet others are homeless and living on the street. | Those living in community housing are subject to a curfew and some have protested about bad treatment, extortion and torture. Homeless refugees have held protests demanding housing. Some have even asked to be p…
greenleft.org.au/content/australia-pays-indonesia-detain-refugees

Malaysian socialists warn of rise of racism
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-15
The Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) contested the Semenyih by-election in the state seat of Selangor on March 2. Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Zakaria Hanafi defeated Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate Muhammad Aiman Zainali. Green Left Weekly's Alex Salmon spoke to PSM's campaign media coordinator Nalini Elumalai about the campaign and result. | What is PSM's assessment of this result and its wider implication for Malaysian politics? | PSM accepts the fact that we have lost. Though painful, the outcome reflects the state of the country's political situation, where voters are still not ready to accept third force r…
greenleft.org.au/content/malaysian-socialists-warn-rise-racism

Sandy Hook massacre: Court rules it's OK to sue gun maker
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-15
In a landmark ruling on Thursday, Connecticut's top court has given the go-ahead to a lawsuit by the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, which blames the manufacturer of the AR-15 style rifle used in the massacre. | …
rt.com/usa/453856-sandy-hook-lawsuit-manufacture/

Kentucky Just Banned Abortion
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-14
Two new laws passed this week are part of coordinated effort to ban abortion nationwide. | The Kentucky Legislature passed two bills on this week, and unless a court blocks them, abortion will effectively be banned in the state. | One bill, passed on Thursday night, prohibits abortion after six weeks in pregnancy before most women even know that they are pregnant. The other, passed late Wednesday night, bans abortion if a woman is seeking it because of a fetal diagnosis. The ACLU is challenging both laws, asking a judge to block them immediately to ensure that the only abortion provider in Kentucky, EMW Women's S…
aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/abortion/kentucky-just-banned-abortion

Until We Reckon: Mass Incarceration, Violence & the Radical Possibilities of Restorative Justice
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-14
A staggering 2.2 million people are locked up in America's sprawling prison system, and more than half of those currently confined in state prisons have been convicted of violent crime. In order to radically reduce the prison population and transform criminal justice in this country, author and community organizer Danielle Sered argues that reformers must reckon with violent crime and come up with radically new ways to address it. She lays out a path for this transformation in her new unflinching book, "Until We Reckon." Sered has spent nearly a decade working directly with people that have committed violent acts…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/14/until_we_reckon_mass_incarceration_violence

How Black Lives Matter to the Green New Deal
Aaron Ross Coleman | thenation.com | 2019-03-14
How Black Lives Matter to the Green New Deal…
thenation.com/article/reparations-green-new-deal-aoc/

Billionaire-Backed Lawsuit Against Teacher Tenure Fails in Minnesota
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-03-14
Trump has proposed to slash funding for public education in his 2020 budget. In courts across the country, however, public schools are holding up in lawsuits brought by pro-charter interests.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/billionaire-lawsuit-against-teacher-tenure-fails-lahm-190314/

Republicans Across US Pushing Dangerous Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Abortion Measures
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-03-14
Texas Republicans introduced a flurry of anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ measures, 18-week abortion bans continue to advance in Arkansas and Utah, and "heartbeat" bans moved forward in Georgia and Tennessee. | Arkansas: | The state senate public health committee approved a measure last week that would make it a felony, punishable by up to six years in prison, to perform an abortion if a fetus has reached 18 weeks' gestational age. Current state law prohibits abortion at 20 weeks' gestation. The " Cherish Act"–which…
truthout.org/articles/republicans-across-us-pushing-dangerous-anti-lgbtq-and-anti-abortion-measures/

'Our feminism is anti-racist and internationalist'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Elections in Berlin in September 2016 returned a coalition government made up of the Social Democratic Party, the socialist Left Party and the Green Party. Early this year, the city declared International Women's Day (IWD) a public holiday. | Internationally, the call for a women's strike on IWD has been gathering momentum. In Berlin on March 8, an alliance of feminist organisations organised a Women's Fighting Day rally and march with the theme "celebrating, striking, keep on fighting". About 20,000 people attended. | Sibylle Kaczorek, a member of Socialist Alliance and the Left Party who is currently living in…
greenleft.org.au/content/our-feminism-anti-racist-and-internationalist

Chelsea Manning jailed again and not a squeak from the Democrats
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who blew the whistle on US war crimes, and spent four years in an army stockade from 2013 as a result, is back in prison again. | This time it is because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring its founder Julian Assange from his refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to the US to put him on trial and send him to prison. | In 2010, Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of documents about the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She first tried to get mainstream media to publish them, to no avail, before turning to Wikileaks, which did p…
greenleft.org.au/content/chelsea-manning-jailed-again-and-not-squeak-democrats

NSW Not 4 Sale
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Is anything really going to change in NSW on March 23? | Let's assume Glad the Impaler [NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian] gets up and we are subjected to another four years of the Coalition's neo-conservative brutality. | Everything that hasn't already been sold is then put up for sale, forgoing any pretence of morality or acting in the public good. Public assets segue into private property. | The entire state becomes a private entity, run purely for profit — even the prisons. | The public service is further eviscerated with the few remaining public assets given over to the multinational corporates and the sc…
greenleft.org.au/content/nsw-not-4-sale

Senate Votes to Terminate Trump's Border National Emergency
Jake Johnson | theantimedia.com | 2019-03-14
(CD) — Rights groups celebrated a "historic rebuke" of an unconstitutional power grab Thursday after the Senate voted to terminate President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration by an overwhelming bipartisan margin. "Today's vote is a major blow to President Donald Trump's autocratic ambitions," said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. "The American people don't want a racist …
theantimedia.com/senate-national-emergency/

We Won't Let Our Pensions Build Prisons
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-03-14
About a month ago, I received a call from Basma Eid of Freedom to Thrive in New York City. She had gotten my contact information from a mutual friend and comrade and was looking for teachers in upstate New York to discuss an important issue. | This phone call happened to fall during the exact time I was trying to start a social justice caucus of rank-and-file teachers after growing increasingly impatient and frustrated by the lack of union leadership's tangible support of striking educators across the country. | I had learned from some of the greatest leaders of educational social movements during panels at th…
truthout.org/articles/we-wont-let-our-pensions-build-prisons/

California Halts the Use of the Death Penalty
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-13
Gov. Newsom's moratorium on the use of the fatally flawed death penalty is the latest victory for the repeal movement. | Gov. Gavin Newsom dealt a major blow to the nation's already anemic death penalty on Wednesday when he announced a moratorium on the practice in California. With 737 death row prisoners, the state has by far the nation's largest death row, dwarfing the next largest states, Florida with 353 and Texas with 232. The d…
aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment/california-halts-use-death-penalty

It's High Time Congress Passed the Equality Act
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-13
The legislation would expand federal civil rights protections to explicitly include LGBTQ people. | On Wednesday, the Equality Act — legislation that would provide LGBTQ people with explicit and comprehensive nondiscrimination protections — was introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives with the support of nearly 300 members of Congress. If passed, it would transform the civil rights landscape in the United States. | The harsh reality — despite increasing support among the public and representation in popular culture — is that discrimination remains a persistent problem for…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/lgbt-nondiscrimination-protections/its-high-time-congress-passed-equality-act

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-13
Records obtained in an ACLU lawsuit show how ICE is accessing billions of location data points from license plate scanners in over a dozen states. | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using mass location surveillance to target immigrants. And local governments like Merced and Union City, California, are helping — feeding their residents' personal information to ICE, even when it violates local privacy laws or sanctuary policies. Today, the ACLU is urging an immediate end to this information sharing. | Records obtained by the ACLU of Norther…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/documents-reveal-ice-using-driver-location-data

Press Freedom Groups Urge Court to Uphold Core First Amendment Protection in DNC-Russia Lawsuit
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-13
The First Amendment protects Wikileaks from being sued over the release of the DNC's hacked emails. | In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic National Committee was hacked, and thousands of its emails and other private documents were stolen. Those documents were eventually released to the public through a website run by "Guccifer 2.0" (an online persona allegedly maintained by the Russian government) and through WikiLeaks. Early last year, the DNC sued those it believes are responsible for the hack, including the Trump campaign and Russian officials. | The DNC also sued WikiLeaks and Juli…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/freedom-press/press-freedom-groups-urge-court-uphold-core-first-amendment

Israel's DNA Screening for 'Jewishness' Epitomizes the Discriminatory Spirit of the EthnoState
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-13
Perhaps these latest revelations on DNA testing will serve as a wake-up call to Israeli Jews of Soviet origin that the discrimination they are facing has its roots in the state-sanctioned discrimination against Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.
mintpressnews.com/israel-dna-screening-for-jewishness-epitomizes-the-discriminatory-spirit-of-the-ethnostate/256216/

US judge sentences Manafort to 73 months in prison
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-13
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced by a federal judge to 73 months behind bars for two conspiracy charges. Last week, he was sentenced for another term over tax and bank fraud. | …
rt.com/usa/453736-us-manafort-guilty-judgement/

NAACP Issues Letters to Congress Calling for Hearings on Domestic Terrorism and Government Surveillance of Black Activists
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2019-03-13
Letters sent to chairs of House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees BALTIMORE (March 13, 2019)–Today, the nation's foremost civil rights organization issued letters addressed to the chairs of the House Committees on Homeland Security and the House Judiciary Committee to request hearings on the issues of domestic terrorism; and regarding the ways in which Black …
naacp.org/latest/naacp-issues-letters-congress-calling-hearings-domestic-terrorism-government-surveillance-black-activists/

NAACP-Opposed judicial nominee coming up this week
Adam Lee | naacp.org | 2019-03-12
President Trump has nominated Ms. Neomi Rao to serve as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Rao has an extraordinarily long record of hostility to the rights of people of color and other historically marginalized people. The NAACP is strongly opposed to this nomination, which may come before the full Senate for …
naacp.org/latest/naacp-opposed-judicial-nominee-coming-week/

NAACP LAWSUIT SUPPORTING PROTECTED STATUS FOR HAITIANS MOVES FORWARD FEDERAL COURT REFUSES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REQUEST TO DISMISS CASE
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2019-03-12
BALTIMORE (March 12, 2019)–A federal court in Maryland today denied the government's attempt to block the NAACP's lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals residing in the United States since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. "This is a win for Haitians, NAACP members and immigrants of color," …
naacp.org/latest/naacp-lawsuit-supporting-protected-status-haitians-moves-forward-federal-court-refuses-trump-administration-request-dismiss-case/

International Women's Day in Tampa: Fight Trump's war on women
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-03-12
Tampa, FL – On March 10, over a dozen Tampa community, student and labor leaders gathered at Lykes Gaslight Park for a protest against President Donald Trump's anti-woman agenda. Since coming into office, Trump has led an all-out assault on women's rights, including defunding abortion services, erasing sections of Title IX that protect women from sexual assault and discrimination, and locking asylum-seeking women and children in cages in the southwestern United States. In the spirit of the women's marches that occurred in response to Trump's inauguration, protesters chanted "Pro-life is a lie, you don't care if p…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/3/12/international-women-s-day-tampa-fight-trump-s-war-women

Tucker Carlson on Rupert Murdoch in 2010 Radio Segment: "I'm 100 Percent His Bitch"
Aída Chávez | theintercept.com | 2019-03-12
"I only have, you know, American, white servants," Carlson said in 2009. "It's not because I'm racist, it's because I'm not. It's because I feel better beating them."
theintercept.com/2019/03/12/tucker-carlson-tapes-rupert-murdoch/

NAACP 110th Convention Mobilizing in Detroit
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2019-03-11
NAACP 110th Convention Mobilizing in Detroit Thousands Expected to Join in Setting NAACP 2020 Agenda Fighting Racism and Defending the Vote, Among Key Issues to be Discussed BALTIMORE (March 8, 2019) — The nation's foremost civil rights organization will kick off its 110th national convention on July 20-24, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. "In a country shaped by race relations, pollution and polarizing political struggles, Detroit stands out as the …
naacp.org/latest/naacp-110th-convention-mobilizing-detroit/

"I Know No One More Patriotic": Daniel Ellsberg Praises Chelsea Manning After She Is Jailed Again
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-11
U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Manning had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia's Eastern District to appear for questioning about her 2010 leak to WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was imprisoned from 2010 to 2017 for the leak. President Obama commuted her sentence before he left office. We speak with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about the s…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/11/i_know_no_one_more_patriotic

Glenn Greenwald: Chelsea Manning's Refusal to Testify Against WikiLeaks Will Help Save Press Freedom
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-11
Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. Manning, a U.S. Army whistleblower, had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia's Eastern District to appear for questioning about her 2010 leak to WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We speak with Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the founding editors of The Intercept.
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/11/glenn_greenwald_chelsea_mannings_refusal_to

The Wrong Stuff: Peinovich Co-Host Fired From EMT Job After Racist Comments Fall Under Scrutiny
Michael Edison Hayden | splcenter.org | 2019-03-11
Alex McNabb, co-host of the hate podcast "The Daily Shoah," was fired from his job as an emergency medical technician (EMT) on Sunday, according to WSLS, a Roanoke, Virginia-based NBC affiliate.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/03/11/wrong-stuff-peinovich-co-host-fired-emt-job-after-racist-comments-fall-under-scrutiny

Rally opposes Christmas Island plan
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-11
About 80 people attended a rally called by the Refugee Action Collective on March 2 to protest against the Australian government's plan to reopen the detention centre on Christmas Island and send refugees from Manus Island and Nauru there. | The rally heard Shamindan Kanapadhi, a Tamil refugee on Manus, speak by phone about the conditions there, including inadequate medical care. He said "all of us on Manus are mentally sick," because of the inhumane and humiliating treatment to which they are subject. | Rally co-chair Tara Josem read a message from David Price, the CEO of Christmas Island shire, who said th…
greenleft.org.au/content/rally-opposes-christmas-island-plan

Dungay family 'want the truth' on death in custody
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-11
"The family just want the truth to come out," Leetona Dungay told supporters and the media outside the New Coroners Court on March 4. Dungay is the mother of Aboriginal man David Dungay Jnr, who died in Long Bay Jail as a result of assault by prison guards in 2015. | Members of the Dungay family and supporters had gathered at the entrance to the court to express solidarity with Leetona in her quest for justice from the NSW legal system at the coroner's inquiry beginning that day. | "Me and my family have endured so much grief over my son's death," she said. "But we will not stop until we achieve justice…
greenleft.org.au/content/dungay-family-want-truth-death-custody

Billionaire Owners of Purdue Pharma Pushed Opioid Drug OxyContin Knowing it Could Kill
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-11
Released depositions revealed that Richard Sackler, owner of Purdue Pharma, lied to physicians about the danger of OxyContin. Now Purdue Pharma is considering declaring bankruptcy to avoid lawsuits. Tarbell.org founder Wendell Potter discusses the case…
therealnews.com/stories/billionaire-owners-of-purdue-pharma-pushed-opioid-drug-oxycontin-knowing-it-could-kill