2019-06-05: Social Media Postees

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Dr. King and Mr. Garrow
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-05
Patrick Martin at the World Socialist Web Site responds to an incendiary smear campaign against the political legacy of the American civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/04/18823736.php

'Straight-Up Cruel': Trump Admin Condemned for Canceling Education, Recreation, and Legal Services for Detained Migrant Children
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-05
Human rights advocates responded with outrage Wednesday to the Trump administration's decision to start canceling education, recreation, and legal services for unaccompanied migrant children in federal shelters across the country, purportedly because of high detention rates and low funds. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/children_2_0.jpeg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/05/straight-cruel-trump-admin-condemned-canceling-education-recreation-and-legal?cd-origin=rss

Activists close down Atlanta Detention Center
Dianne Mathiowetz | workers.org | 2019-06-05
The multistory Atlanta City Detention Center was built prior to the 1996 Olympics to house the hundreds of poor and homeless people that the image-conscious corporate elite were determined to banish from the sight of a global audience. At that time the City Council passed a series of "quality of . . . | Continue reading Activists close down Atlanta Detention Center at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/06/04/activists-close-down-atlanta-detention-center/

Australian government forces refugees back to face repression in Sri Lanka
wsws.org | 2019-06-05
At least 20 more asylum seekers have been detained by the Australian navy and deported to Sri Lanka to face possible torture and imprisonment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/05/refu-j05.html

Brazilian Prosecutor's Office Recommends Semi-open Regime for Lula
plenglish.com | 2019-06-05
05 de junio de 2019, 13: 13Brasilia, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) The Federal Public Ministry of Brazil on Wednesday recommended that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has served 424 days in prison for alleged corruption, benefit from a semi-open regime.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42857&SEO=brazilian-prosecutors-office-recommends-semi-open-regime-for-lula

'Shock and awe' war on migrants and prisoners
Teresa Gutierrez | workers.org | 2019-06-05
In 2003, during the genocidal and criminal U.S. war against Iraq, the term "shock and awe" was propagated. The British Telegraph wrote 10 years later on March 19, 2013: "One expression above all others has become associated with the invasion of Iraq: 'shock and awe.' Developed at the Pentagon, . . . | Continue reading 'Shock and awe' war on migrants and prisoners at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/06/04/shock-and-awe-war-on-migrants-and-prisoners/

Corporate Media Have Second Thoughts About Exiling Julian Assange From Journalism
John O'Day | fair.org | 2019-06-05
"Democracy dies in darkness," reads the Washington Post slogan–though apparently sometimes it's good to put people in prison for exposing government wrongdoing ( 4/11/19). | After British police arrested Julian Assange on April 11, the first instinct of corporate journalists was to perform a line-drawing exercise. In so doing, corporate media dutifully laid the groundw…
fair.org/home/corporate-media-have-second-thoughts-about-exiling-julian-assange-from-journalism/

Calling Solitary Confinement 'Government Torture,' Ocasio-Cortez Says 'Release Everyone'
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-05
In tweet commenting on upcoming "protective custody" of Paul Manafort, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez says prison sentences don't provide license to commit "human rights violations" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/aoc-ban-solitary-manafort.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/05/calling-solitary-confinement-government-torture-ocasio-cortez-says-release-everyone?cd-origin=rss

Trump Administration Asks Congress to Make Disrupting Pipeline Construction a Crime Punishable by 20 Years in Prison
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2019-06-05
The proposed legislation would put anti-fossil fuel organizers at significant legal risk for providing training or support to peaceful protesters.
theintercept.com/2019/06/05/pipeline-protests-proposed-legislation-phmsa-alec/

FARC leader Santrich freed, but peace is still held hostage in Colombia
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-05
Former FARC guerrilla commander Jesús Santrich, imprisoned on April 9, 2018, went free on May 30. Colombian authorities had held him pending extradition to the United Sates. Their plan violated the peace agreement signed in November 2016 between FARC guerrillas and Colombia's government. Santrich, born Seuxis Hernández Solarte, personifies the turmoil in Colombia stemming from …
peoplesworld.org/article/farc-leader-santrich-freed-but-peace-is-still-held-hostage-in-colombia/

Trans Activist: ICE Must Be Held Accountable for Trans Salvadoran Asylum Seeker's Death
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-05
Johana Medina, a 25-year-old transgender asylum seeker from El Salvador, died at an El Paso, Texas, hospital this weekend after spending seven weeks in immigration jail, according to several LGBTQ groups and advocates who knew her. Medina had sought medical treatment for nearly two months for complications related to HIV/AIDS before finally being transferred to the hospital last week. She died four days later. Medina is believed to be the second transgender migrant to die in or after being released from ICE custody since Trump became president. The other is Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, a 33-year-old Honduran tran…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/5/trans_activist_ice_must_be_held

ICE Must Be Held Accountable for Trans Salvadoran Asylum Seeker's Death
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-05
Johana Medina, a 25-year-old transgender asylum seeker from El Salvador, died at an El Paso, Texas, hospital this weekend after spending seven weeks in immigration jail, according to several LGBTQ groups and advocates who knew her. Medina had sought medical treatment for nearly two months for complications related to HIV/AIDS before finally being transferred to the hospital last week. She died four days later. Medina is believed to be the second transgender migrant to die in or after being released from ICE custody since Trump became president. The other is Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, a 33-year-old Hon…
truthout.org/video/ice-must-be-held-accountable-for-trans-salvadoran-asylum-seekers-death/

Report expresses concern over 'undercurrent of low-level racist violence' in Ireland
Bryan Wall | thecanary.co | 2019-06-05
A new report has argued that racism and discrimination in Ireland continue to be a problem. The authors insist that, even though Ireland has made progress in recent years, there continues to be "an undercurrent of low-level racist violence". | As a result, the report says that the government needs to do more to fight these problems. | Inadequate laws again…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/06/05/report-expresses-concern-over-undercurrent-of-low-level-racist-violence-in-ireland/

This is What Donald Trump's Failed and Cruel Border Policy Looks Like
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-05
The Trump Administration's polices have everything to do with racism not border security… | On Friday, the Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a management alert requiring "immediate attention and action…to alleviate dangerous overcrowding at the El Paso Del Norte Processing Center (PDT)." | In unannounced visits to the PDT, the IG observed that DHS was housing 6 to 7 times the maximum capacity of detainees, including: some detainees "in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks…;" with other "detainees standing on toilets in the cells to make room and ga…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/policy/this-is-what-donald-trumps-failed-and-cruel-border-policy-looks

The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops
Connie Hassett-Walker | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-05
The persistence of racially biased policing means that unless American policing reckons with its racist roots, it is likely to keep repeating mistakes of the past.
nationofchange.org/2019/06/05/the-racist-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops/

More Than 100 Commercial, Cultural and Sporting Activities in Italy Declare Themselves Free of Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-06-05
More Than 100 Commercial, Cultural and Sporting Activities in Italy Declare Themselves Free of Israeli Apartheid: In the NewsTrade unions, movements, artisans, businesses and cultural, recreational and sports centers join campaign for Palestinian rights in what is also a clear stand against the mounting racism and nationalist closure that is fomenting hatred and intolerance across Europ…
bdsmovement.net/news/more-100-commercial-cultural-and-sporting-activities-italy-declare-themselves-free-israeli

Louisiana bills would increase transparency in law enforcement and public schools
splcenter.org | 2019-06-05
The Louisiana Legislature this week passed legislation that will help ensure schools are complying with federal anti-discrimination laws, and, in a separate bill focused on law enforcement agencies, create a task force that will improve collection and reporting of data on basic law enforcement activities.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/05/louisiana-bills-would-increase-transparency-law-enforcement-and-public-schools

Irish civil rights NGO calls Trump's policies 'unethical and unlawful' as he prepares to visit the country
Bryan Wall | thecanary.co | 2019-06-04
An Irish civil rights organisation, along with its US counterpart, has criticised Donald Trump ahead of his trip to Ireland on 5 June. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties ( ICCL) and the American Civil Lib…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/06/04/irish-civil-rights-ngo-calls-trumps-policies-unethical-and-unlawful-as-he-prepares-to-visit-the-country/

Dr. King and Mr. Garrow
wsws.org | 2019-06-04
The historian and King biographer David Garrow has unleashed a #MeToo-style slander campaign against the martyred civil rights leader.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/04/king-j04.html

The Countdown: Trump Regime's Census Ploys Will Promote Gerrymandering And Resource Diversion from Blacks and Latinos
Marc Morial | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-04
Marc Morial. Photo: Facebook | | A leadership gap, inadequate funding and staffing and a deliberate campaign to intimidate immigrants and communities of color all make the 2020 Census among the most challenging in American history. | | This was my testimony last week before a special field hearing of the US House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties regarding the upcoming Census. | | The hearing, entitled "Getting Counted: The Importance of the Census to State and Local Communities," was held at Queens Community College at the request of Congress Members Caroly…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/justice/the-countdown-trump-regimes-census-ploys-will-promote

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Celebrates Anniversary of Historic 19th Amendment Securing the Right for Women to Vote
commondreams.org | 2019-06-04
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SPLC to Congress: Myth of 'white genocide' driving white nationalist terror attacks
splcenter.org | 2019-06-04
The SPLC's Lecia Brooks testified today before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Committee on Oversight and Reform) about the need for federal action to confront the deadly white nationalist movement. Brooks delivered the following oral remarks to the subcommittee chaired by U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, in addition to written testimony.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/04/splc-congress-myth-white-genocide-driving-white-nationalist-terror-attacks

Tuesday's Daily Brief: Bicycles for the environment, new leader for the UN General Assembly, UN values, Ebola, Syria and Libya
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-04
This Tuesday, we cover: Bicycles in China; a new President elected for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, to start in September; vital food crops destroyed in Syria; migrants and refugees in Libya's detention centres; Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo surpasses 2,000 cases; and the UN deputy chief in London pushes for UN values.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1039811

Pentagon Fires Guantanamo Prison Commander for Calling Attention to US Crimes
Bill Van Auken | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-04
The Pentagon has announced the abrupt firing of the commander of the infamous US prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. | In a statement released Sunday, the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees the extra-legal detention center, …
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-fires-guantanamo-prison-commander-calling-attention-us-crimes/5679537

Judge Blocks House Democrats' Right to Block Funds for Trump's Border Wall
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-04
A judge has ruled against House Democrats in a federal lawsuit, which attempted to block President Donald Trump's ability to fund his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. | "While the Constitution bestows upon members of the House many powers, it does not grant them standing to hale the executive branch into court claiming a dilution of Congress' legislative authority," U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden wrote in a 24-page decision regarding the Democrats' lawsuit to block the transfer of funds appropriated for other means to Trump's wall. "The court therefore lacks jurisdiction to hear the Hou…
truthout.org/articles/judge-blocks-house-democrats-right-to-block-funds-for-trumps-border-wall/

Lawsuit Challenges Discriminatory Housing Policy in Chesterfield County, Virginia
aclu.org | 2019-06-04
All housing providers should comply with the legal obligation to give all applicants the opportunity to access housing. | Housing discrimination takes different forms in different eras. More than fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), it's rare to see an advertisement for housing that says "Whites Only." But in Chesterfield County, Virginia, where a Black resident is almost three times as likely as a white resident to have a criminal record, an explicit policy barring any individual with a conviction from housing has a similar effect. | Sterling Glen is an apartment complex in a white neighb…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-economic-justice/lawsuit-challenges-discriminatory-housing-policy

Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-04
The owners of a 70-story Panama City hotel tower formerly managed by President Donald Trump's companies are accusing them of stiffing the Panamanian government. | In a legal filing Monday in an ongoing lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, private equity manager Orestes Fintiklis and the company he leads, Ithaca Capital Partners, claimed that two Trump companies failed to pay Panamanian taxes equal to 12.5% of the management fees they drew from the hotel. | The Trump entities were allegedly supposed to withhold those fees…
truthdig.com/articles/trump-companies-accused-of-tax-evasion-in-panama/

NAACP President: "Congress must make election security a top priority"
Vanessa Mbonu | naacp.org | 2019-06-04
NAACP President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, issued the following statement after a report detailed Russian intent to sow discord in U.S. elections: "Nothing in these documents comes as a surprise. We have known for some time the disturbing level of tampering by Russian nationals in the 2016 presidential election. The Mueller report confirmed that Russia had interfered "in sweeping and …
naacp.org/latest/naacp-president-congress-must-make-election-security-top-priority/

Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading–and American Prisons Won't Stop
Aviva Stahl | thenation.com | 2019-06-04
Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading–and American Prisons Won't Stop…
thenation.com/article/force-feeding-prison-supermax-torture/

Top US Journalists Spread Fake News Claiming North Korean Official Was 'Purged' — Then He Shows Up on TV
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-04
Virtually every major Western corporate media outlet and a who's who of pundits circulated a blatantly false report that North Korean nuclear negotiators were killed and imprisoned, exposing their non-existent editorial standards on Official Enemies. | *** | The corporate media's editorial …
globalresearch.ca/top-us-journalists-spread-fake-news-claiming-north-korean-official-was-purged-then-he-shows-tv/5679542

In Scott Warren's No More Deaths Trial, Prosecutors Attempt to Paint a Web of Conspiracy
Ryan Devereaux | theintercept.com | 2019-06-04
For nearly a year and a half, U.S. government prosecutors in Arizona have sought to make an example out of Scott Warren. The 36-year-old geographer and border-based humanitarian aid volunteer was arrested with two undocumented migrants on January 17, 2018, and accused of providing the men with food, water, and a place to sleep over three days. A month later, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of harboring and one count of conspiracy, bringing the total amount time he could spend in prison — if convicted on all counts and sentenced to consecutive terms — to 20 years. | Warren's trial began in Tucs…
theintercept.com/2019/06/04/scott-warren-no-more-deaths-trial-conspiracy-phone/

Begging Your Pardon
Matt Bors | thenation.com | 2019-06-04
Begging Your Pardon…
thenation.com/article/prison-race-inequality/

Victorian budget: Billions for prisons but nothing for housing
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-04
The Andrews' Labor government allocated $1.8 billion in the state budget on May 27, to build 1600 new prison cells in Victoria and less than one sixth of that amount — $209 million — for 1000 social housing units. | But the capital expenditure is just the tip of the iceberg. The annual recurrent cost of imprisoning a person in a Victoria is about $125,000, while housing a family in a public housing dwelling costs about $6400. | Victoria is in an acute housing crisis with more than 24,000 people homeless and 84,000 on waiting lists for social housing. At the same time, prisons are bursting at the seams…
greenleft.org.au/content/victorian-budget-billions-prisons-nothing-housing

'Blatant Attempt to Intimidate': Trump Administration Proposal Threatens Pipeline Protesters With Up to 20 Years in Prison
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-04
"This dangerous proposal threatens to undermine Americans' right to peaceful assembly and free speech." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/dapl_protest_1_0_0.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/04/blatant-attempt-intimidate-trump-administration-proposal-threatens-pipeline?cd-origin=rss

The Murdering of Julian Assange
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-04
Julian Assange is being slowly murdered by "Her Majesty's Prison Service" at Belmarsh prison in the south-east of London. The prison is notorious for holding people who have never been charged with a crime indefinitely. It is also called the …
globalresearch.ca/murdering-julian-assange/5679492

With Manafort reportedly en route to Rikers, even his enemies call for 'hell hole' jail reform
rt.com | 2019-06-04
Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort is reportedly being transferred to New York's Rikers Island jail. While the news excited some anti-Trump commenters, it also reignited debate over the notorious jail's violent history. | …
rt.com/usa/461074-paul-manafort-rikers-island/

XY Chelsea: A deeply flawed portrait of US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning
wsws.org | 2019-06-04
The film charts Manning's life following Barack Obama's unexpected commutation in January 2017 of her vindictive 35-year-term jail sentence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/04/chel-j04.html

Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks?
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-04
Last week in an episode of my daily Ron Paul Liberty Report we discussed whether the US and British government were actually trying to kill jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. More than seven years ago Assange was granted asylum …
globalresearch.ca/hey-trump-remember-wikileaks/5679515

ACLU Testifies Before Congress on State Abortion Bans
commondreams.org | 2019-06-04
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New Hampshire Repealed the Death Penalty
aclu.org | 2019-06-04
New Hampshire's legislature overrode the governor's veto to end the use of capital punishment in the state. | As of Thursday, May 30th, New Hampshire is a state without the death penalty. It took decades to be able to say that. In the end, it came down to a single vote in both the state House and Senate. Thursday's Senate vote means that all of New England is free of the death penalty, making it the first full region of the country to reject capital punishment. | The victory is a credit to the 279 representatives and 17 senators who voted in support of the repeal bill earlier this year, and a particular credit to…
aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment/new-hampshire-repealed-death-penalty

Proof of Census conspiracy against Latino vote: gerrymanderer dies, daughter tells all
Satya Vatti | liberationnews.org | 2019-06-04
Given the track record of the U.S. government, with its racist history of deportations, incarceration and family separations under both the Democratic and Republican parties, the citizenship question on the census is sure to incite anxieties and fear among immigrants who are repeatedly scapegoated by politicians for mass unemployment and poverty that are in fact products of the capitalist economic system.
liberationnews.org/proposed-new-census-question-steps-up-trump-administrations-racist-attacks-on-immigrants/

This Chinese Artist Criticized Google and Xi Jinping. Now He's Facing Government Harassment
Ryan Gallagher | theintercept.com | 2019-06-04
Dissident Badiucao has emerged from hiding to unveil a documentary film about suppression of his work — and to finally show his face.
theintercept.com/2019/06/04/badiucao-china-google/

St. Paul marks police killing of Marcus Golden
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-06-03
St. Paul, MN – June 2 would have been Marcus Golden's 29th birthday, but he was shot in the back of the head and killed by St. Paul police four years ago. About three dozen friends and family of Marcus and other victims of police killing, activists, and supporters gathered, June 2, in front of the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to celebrate Marcus' birthday and call for justice for all victims of police violence. | Monique Collars Doty, Marcus' aunt and member of Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar and Black Lives Matter Minnesota, said, "I thank you so much for being out here to show Marcus some love, to sho…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/6/3/st-paul-marks-police-killing-marcus-golden

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