2019-06-15: Social Media Postees

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WikiLeaks publisher Assange faces US extradition trial next February
wsws.org | 2019-06-15
The UK government has made clear that it will do everything possible to expedite Washington's vindictive attempt to render the courageous journalist to face imprisonment, torture, and execution in the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/15/assa-j15.html

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike in Iran jail
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-15
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe — the British-Iranian mother jailed in Iran on spying charges — has begun a new hunger strike, her husband has said.Richard Ratcliffe said he had received a phone call from his wife to tell him she had informed the Iranian judiciary she had stopped taking food in protest at her "unfair imprisonment".Mr Ratcliffe said he would also not eat for the duration of her protest.He said his wife's decision followed the fifth birthday of their daughter, Gabriella, who has not been allowed to leave Iran following her mother's arrest in 2016 and is living with her grandparents.Richard Ratc…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/06/15/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-begins-new-hunger-strike-in-iran-jail/

Oppose Inequality, Not Cops
Michael Schwalbe | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-14
Even people doing their best to improve the world make mistakes. This was evident in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, last month during a public clash on the town's Peace and Justice Plaza between defenders of Confederate statuary and anti-racist activists. Before the police arrived to insulate the two groups, mutual yelling had begun to escalate…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/oppose-inequality-not-cops/

Bigots in Blue: Philadelphia Police Department is a Home For Hate
Linn Washington Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-14
The recent protest outside Philadelphia's Police headquarters — triggered by yet another instance of police racism — had an emphasis distinctively different from similar demonstrations during past decades against recurring police misconduct in the city that preens as the Birthplace of Democracy in America. While protestors demanded disciplinary action against the 328 individual officers responsible…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/bigots-in-blue-philadelphia-police-department-is-a-home-for-hate/

Get woke, go broke: Oberlin College hit with $44 MILLION penalty for accusing local bakery of racism
Staff | rt.com | 2019-06-14
An Ohio jury awarded a local bakery $33 million in punitive damages, on top of $11 million in compensation, because college officials were involved in student protests that accused the store of racism in a shoplifting incident. | …
rt.com/usa/461913-oberlin-bakery-racism-fine/

The Armed Bureaucracy
Robert C. Koehler | commondreams.org | 2019-06-14
The researchers "found officers bashing immigrants and Muslims, promoting racist stereotypes, identifying with right-wing militia groups and, especially, glorifying police brutality." (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-160814231.jpg…
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Fighting the far right in Germany
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-14
Sibylle Kaczorek, a member of Germany's main left party Die Linke and an activist with Aufstehengegen Rassismus! (Stand Up Against Racism!) was interviewed in May by Dick Nichols, Green Left Weekly's European correspondent. | *** | Polls are showing that the racist, xenophobic and anti-Islamic Alternative for Germany (Alternative fàºr Deutschland, AfD) could be the leading party in elections later this year in the East German states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. How did things get this bad? | The trigger for their ascendency was the 2015–…
greenleft.org.au/content/fighting-far-right-germany

A Life Well-lived: Reforming the Bank of Canada. William Krehm Passes Away at 106
Bryant Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-14
In December 2011, William Krehm, Anne Emmett, and COMER (The Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform filed a lawsuit in Federal Court with a view forcing a restoration of the Bank of Canada to its mandated purposes. "In essence, they …
globalresearch.ca/life-well-lived-william-krehm-dies-106/5680550

Premature baby found in Texas Border Patrol prison
Astrid Galván, Garance Burke | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-14
The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature and held in detention instead of where the advocate …
peoplesworld.org/article/premature-baby-found-in-texas-border-patrol-prison/

Ola Bini Was Friends with Julian Assange. He Has Spent Two Months in Jail Without Charge in Ecuador
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-14
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared before a magistrates' court in London Friday, saying his life was "effectively at stake" if the U.K. honors an extradition request from the United States, where he faces 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act. Meanwhile, a friend of Assange's, Swedish programmer and data privacy activist Ola Bini, is still in prison in Ecuador, after being arrested April 11, the same day Assange was forcibly taken by British authorities from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and has been jailed ever since without charges. We speak with Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institut…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/14/ola_bini_ecuador_arrest_wikileaks_assange

Bini, Friend of Assange, Spent Two Months in Jail Without Charge in Ecuador
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-14
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared before a magistrates' court in London Friday, saying his life was "effectively at stake" if the U.K. honors an extradition request from the United States, where he faces 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act. Meanwhile, a friend of Assange, Swedish programmer and data privacy activist Ola Bini, is still in prison in Ecuador, after being arrested April 11, the same day Assange was forcibly taken by British authorities from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and has been jailed ever since without charges. We speak with Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institu…
truthout.org/video/bini-friend-of-assange-spent-two-months-in-jail-without-charge-in-ecuador/

"Advocate": Israeli Attorney Lea Tsemel Reflects on Defending Palestinians Who Resist Occupation
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-14
Attorney Lea Tsemel has defended Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli courts for nearly half a century, insisting on their humanity and their right to a fair trial. Her work has earned her the scorn and reprobation of many Israelis, as well as death threats. A staunch critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Tsemel has long argued that Palestinians who carry out politically motivated violence are freedom fighters, not "terrorists." In 1999, Tsemel won a landmark case in the Israeli Supreme Court, making it illegal for Israeli officials to torture detained Palestinians during interrogations. The docume…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/14/lea_tsemel_advocate_documentary_israel_palestine

Prisoners, Grassroots Activists Halt Construction Of Federal Prison On Former Coal Mine
Brian Sonenstein | shadowproof.com | 2019-06-14
Federal prisoners and grassroots activists defeated plans by the United States government to embark on the most expensive prison construction project in the country's history. The plans for a federal prison and labor camp in Letcher County, Kentucky, would have cost at least $444 million and resulted in serious and…
shadowproof.com/2019/06/14/prisoners-activists-halt-federal-prison-project-coal-mine-kentucky/

When Will Presidential Candidates Propose Ending the Criminalization of Poverty?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-14
Multiple Democratic presidential candidates have staked their campaigns on promises to fight for economic justice and protect low-income people from ruin. So it's mysterious and frustrating that none of these candidates have proposed to end our justice system's criminalization of poverty — at least beyond the occasional nod to ending money bail. | These candidates are missing an opportunity. The incomes of people in U.S. prisons and local jails are overwhelmingly low, and one…
truthout.org/articles/when-will-presidential-candidates-propose-ending-the-criminalization-of-poverty/

It Can't Happen Here: From Buzz Windrip and Doremus Jessup to Donald Trump and MSNBC
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-14
It's my sort, the Responsible Citizens who've felt superior because we've been well-to-do and what we thought was 'educated,' who brought on the…Fascist Dictatorship… * Doremus Jessup, a liberal and social democrat, reflecting ruefully from an American fascist prison in Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here (1935) There's something happening here. What it is…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/from-buzz-windrip-and-doremus-jessup-to-donald-trump-and-msnbc/

US Supreme Court refuses to hear Guantanamo detainee's habeas corpus appeal
wsws.org | 2019-06-14
The court's refusal to hear the case of a man who has been imprisoned and tortured for nearly two decades without ever being convicted of a crime corresponds to the inexorable lurch by the entire political establishment towards dictatorship and barbarism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/14/cour-j14.html

Millions of Brazilians Join General Strike and Protests Against President's Austerity Reforms
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-14
In what has become the largest mobilization against Brazil's right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, millions of Brazilians joined in the general strike, shutting down schools, banks, and public transportation. They are demanding a halt of the pension reform and the release of imprisoned ex-president Lula da Silva. Mike Fox reports from Brazil…
therealnews.com/stories/millions-of-brazilians-join-general-strike-and-protests-against-presidents-austerity-reforms

German boat captain faces 20 years in prison for saving refugees
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-14
A German boat captain faces a long and costly trial in Italy for charges targeting her humanitarian efforts on behalf of refugees. | Captain Pia Klemp told Basler Zeitung on June 7 that her upcoming trial in Italy for years of efforts with the civilian lifeboat Iuventa that saved at least 1000 lives, will take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars. | Klemp faces up to 20 years in prison, but whether or not she ends up in jail, she would challenge any conviction in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, if necessary. | "The worst has already come to pass," said Klemp. "Sea rescue missions have be…
greenleft.org.au/content/german-boat-captain-faces-20-years-prison-saving-refugees

Behind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an opposition front group became Western media's go-to monitor
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-06-14
Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting…
thegrayzone.com/2019/06/14/syrian-network-for-human-rights-opposition-snhr/

Complaints Intensify Over Migrant Detention Conditions
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-14
EL PASO, Texas–The Trump administration is facing growing complaints from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other hardships at border holding centers, with some people at an encampment in El Paso being forced to sleep on the bare ground during dust storms. | The Border Network for Human Rights issued a report Friday based on dozens of testimonials of immigrants over the past month and a half, providing a snapshot of cramped conditions and prolonged stays in detention amid a r…
truthdig.com/articles/complaints-intensify-over-abysmal-migrant-detention-conditions/

"Freedom Gas" Will Be Used to Justify Oppression at Home and Abroad
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-14
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) made a recent foray into unintentional self-parody when it began describing natural gas as "molecules of U.S. freedom." While amusement and ridicule are perfectly reasonable reactions to this spectacle, all of us who care about freedom (for people, not molecules) and a livable future need to think about the terrifying potential uses of this language. | The…
truthout.org/articles/freedom-gas-will-be-used-to-justify-oppression-at-home-and-abroad/

NAACP Memphis to Inquire into the Killing of Brandon Webber
Vanessa Mbonu | naacp.org | 2019-06-14
The President of the NAACP Memphis Branch, Deirdre Malone, released the following statement in regards to the death of Brandon Webber: "The NAACP Memphis Branch is making a formal inquiry with law enforcement officials into the murder of Brandon Webber. As we grieve for the loss of another African American young man's life, the injury …
naacp.org/latest/naacp-memphis-inquire-killing-brandon-webber/

Chicago Police Tortured Victims With Electric Shocks, Burns and Beatings
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-13
Flint Taylor, a founding partner of the People's Law Office in Chicago, has spent almost 50 years defending some of the most vulnerable people within the criminal legal system. In his new book, The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, Taylor describes the history of systemic violence running rampant within the Chicago Police Department. It's a history he knows all too well from his work with the Fred Hampton assassination case, among many others. This excerpt recounts some of the torture unleashed by police in Chicago during the 1980s, under Police Commander Jon Burge. During this time, Burg…
truthout.org/articles/chicago-police-tortured-victims-with-electric-shocks-burns-and-beatings/

Minneapolis police office sentenced to over 12 years in prison for murder of Justine Damond
wsws.org | 2019-06-13
A month-long trial in April resulted in Noor being found guilty of third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/13/poli-j13.html

No More Deaths: Mistrial Declared After Jury Refuses to Convict Scott Warren for Aiding Migrants
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-13
In Tucson, Arizona, a jury has refused to convict humanitarian activist Scott Warren, who faced up to 20 years in prison for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Warren's trial ended Tuesday in a mistrial after a deadlocked jury was unable to deliver a verdict. Eight jurors thought Warren was not guilty; four thought he was guilty. A status hearing is scheduled for July 2. Prosecutors have declined to comment on whether they would seek a retrial against Warren. We speak with Ryan Devereaux, a staff reporter at The Intercept who…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/13/no_more_deaths_mistrial_declared_after

UK Officially Signs Extradition Order to Send Julian Assange to US
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-13
(ZH) –Early on Thursday UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed that he has signed a US extradition request for Julian Assange, putting the WikiLeaks founder a step closer to facing prosecution for espionage and hacking on American soil, where he's almost assured life in prison or worse after the US Justice Department filed 17 new charges …
theantimedia.com/uk-officially-signs-extradition-order-to-send-julian-assange-to-us/

Wyden Bill to Strip Tax Breaks From Private Prison Industry Profiting From Child Detentions
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-13
"Companies that profit off of putting children in cages shouldn't get tax breaks." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/wyden_1.jpg…
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No More Deaths: Mistrial Declared After Jury Refuses to Convict Scott Warren for Aiding Migrants
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-13
In Tucson, Arizona, a jury has refused to convict humanitarian activist Scott Warren, who faced up to 20 years in prison for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Warren's trial ended Tuesday in a mistrial after a deadlocked jury was unable to deliver a verdict. Eight jurors thought Warren was not guilty; four thought he was guilty. A status hearing is scheduled for July 2. Prosecutors have declined to comment on whether they would seek a retrial against Warren. We speak with Ryan Devereaux, a staff reporter at The Intercept who…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/13/no_more_deaths_mistrial_declared_after

Mistrial Declared After Jury Refuses to Convict Scott Warren for Aiding Migrants
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-13
In Tucson, Arizona, a jury has refused to convict humanitarian activist Scott Warren, who faced up to 20 years in prison for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Warren's trial ended Tuesday in a mistrial after a deadlocked jury was unable to deliver a verdict. Eight jurors thought Warren was not guilty; four thought he was guilty. A status hearing is scheduled for July 2. Prosecutors have declined to comment on whether they would seek a retrial against Warren. We speak with Ryan Devereaux, a staff reporter at The Intercept…
truthout.org/video/mistrial-declared-after-jury-refuses-to-convict-scott-warren-for-aiding-migrants/

Say Goodbye to the First Amendment
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-13
"Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press," reads the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Yet, for the first time ever, a publisher is being prosecuted under the World War I-era Espionage Act. Julian Assange, co-founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, is facing 170 years in prison if he is extradited to the U.S. from the United Kingdom. The case could deal a monumental blow to the free press in the United States. | The U.S. first charged Assange in April with attempting to help a U.S.
truthdig.com/articles/the-chilling-crusade-against-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning/

Germany Passes Deportation Legislation
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-13
Germany's parliament adopted the first part of a new legislation packet to restrict the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees in Germany, denying them the right to work, sending them to prison once room in the deportation centers runs out, and even allowing apartment raids in search of "illegal" immigrants…
therealnews.com/stories/germany-passes-deportation-legislation

Say Goodbye to the First Amendment
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-13
"Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press," reads the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Yet, for the first time ever, a publisher is being prosecuted under the World War I-era Espionage Act. Julian Assange, co-founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, is facing 170 years in prison if he is extradited to the U.S. from the United Kingdom. The case could deal a monumental blow to the free press in the United States. | The U.S. first charged Assange in April with attempting to help a U.S. Army whistleblower break into a military computer system, for which Assange wo…
truthdig.com/articles/the-chilling-crusade-against-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning/

Italy's 'Closed Ports' Policy Leaves Over 1,500 Africans Dead
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-13
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and SOS Méditerranée (SOS Med) have denounced that at least 1,151 refugee seekers, including children, have died and more than 10,000 forcibly deported to Libya since the Italian government closed its ports to humanitarian ships arriving to Europe from across the Mediterranean Sea. | RELATED: | German Boat Captain Faces 20 Yrs in Prison for Saving Refugees | "European governments' response to the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean Sea and Lib…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italys-Closed-Ports-Policy-Leaves-Over-1500-Africans-Dead-20190613-0010.html

Minneapolis police officer sentenced to over 12 years in prison for murder of Justine Damond
wsws.org | 2019-06-13
A month-long trial in April resulted in Noor being found guilty of third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/13/poli-j13.html

REPRESSION FAILS TO QUELL OPPOSITION TO CAMEROON REGIME
By Global Information Network | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-13
June 10, 2019 (GIN) — Facing a growing pro-democracy movement, Cameroon is resorting to an old formula — namely unleashing government power in the form of threats, arrests and excessive force. | This week, hundreds of supporters of Maurice Kamto, leader of the opposition Cameroon Resistance Movement, filled the streets, demanding his release from detention but were detained themselves by security forces. | According to his lawyer, Kamto could be charged with: insurrection, hostility against the homeland, criminal association, threats to public order, rebellion, group rebellion, and inciting insurrecti…
www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/africa/repression-fails-to-quell-opposition-to-cameroon-regime.html

US Gov't Plans to Detain Migrant Children at WW2 Japanese Internment Camp
Jake Johnson | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-13
(CD) — Lending even greater significance to the parallels commentators and historians have drawn between U.S. migrant detention centers and concentration camps of the past, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to hold more than a thousand immigrant children at an Oklahoma army base that was used as an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. …
theantimedia.com/us-detain-migrant-children-japanese-internment-camp/

China Invites UN To Visit 'Education Centers' in Xinjiang
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-13
The Chinese envoy to the United Nations has formally welcomed U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to visit China, including Xinjiang, where Beijing has been accused of putting more than one million ethnic Uyghurs in mass detention centers. | RELATED: | Floods Kill 16, Affect Millions in China, With More Rain To Come | According to the Chinese envoy, the U.N. human rights chief is more than welcome to visit their "education training centers", which Beijing claims is helpin…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Invites-UN-To-Visit-Education-Centers-in-Xinjiang-20190613-0004.html

Israeli Intel Agents Key Part of Anti-BDS Activities: Documents
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-13
Israeli government documents disclosed Wednesday have revealed that the national intelligence agency of Israel, Mossad, has collaborated over the past years with Israeli government through its Strategic Affairs Ministry, to sabotage the international pro-Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement on a global scale. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC Sign Bill to Stop US Aid to Israel over Children Detention | The Strategic Affairs M…
telesurenglish.net/news/Intelligence-Agents-From-Israeli-Mossad-Key-Part-of-Anti-BDS-Activities-Documents–20190613-0016.html

Syrian Families Released from the Infamous Rukban Concentration Camp
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
Dozens of Syrian families have been released from the US-controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Al-Tanf, southeast of Syria. | The released families arrived at the Jaligam crossing in Homs eastern countryside after spending years in forced displacement and detention by the …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-families-released-infamous-rukban-concentration-camp/5680438

Overcrowding, rotten food & nooses: DHS watchdog confirms horrific conditions at immigrant jails
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-13
Now Homeland Security's own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets.
nationofchange.org/2019/06/13/overcrowding-rotten-food-nooses-dhs-watchdog-confirms-horrific-conditions-at-immigrant-jails/

'It Need Not Be Jail… But Get Her Out of the White House': Groups Celebrate Call by Govt Watchdog for Trump to Fire Kellyanne Conway Over Repeated Ethics Violations
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-13
"We join OSC in calling for Kellyanne Conway to be removed from federal service and expect today's findings to send a strong message to officials across the Trump Administration and the federal government that these violations will not be taken lightly." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fire_conway.jpg…
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"Pose" Star Indya Moore Demands Justice for Killed Trans Women: "We Are All Worthy of Safety"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-13
Transgender actor and model Indya Moore addressed a crowd of protesters gathered in New York City's Foley Square Monday to demand justice for Layleen Polanco, a transgender Afro-Latinx woman who was found dead in a cell at Rikers Island on Friday. Polanco was arrested on misdemeanor charges and jailed on Rikers in April when she was unable to post $500 bail. Nearly two months later, she was dead. "We are worthy of legal aid, liberty, justice, resources. And we are worthy of life. We are worthy of love," Moore told the crowd. "If the sight of us using our bodies, our voices and our defiance to protest this oppress…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/13/pose_star_indya_moore_demands_justice

Community Demands Answers After Trans Black Latinx Woman Died at Rikers
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-13
Outrage is mounting over the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender Afro-Latinx woman who was found dead in a cell at Rikers Island on Friday. Polanco was arrested on misdemeanor charges and jailed on Rikers in April when she was unable to post $500 bail. Nearly two months later, she was dead. Her family, friends and transgender rights activists are now demanding answers for the conditions that led to the 27-year-old's death. The city says the cause of death has not yet been determined. Polanco was held in a unit for transgender women while jailed at Rikers, but a week before her death she was transferred to…
truthout.org/video/community-demands-answers-after-trans-black-latinx-woman-died-at-rikers/

US to Jail 1,400 Immigrant Children at WWII Japanese Internment Site
Eric London | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
The Pentagon announced yesterday that the Trump administration will detain 1,400 immigrant children at the site of a World War II-era Japanese internment camp, Fort Sill Army Base in Lawton, Oklahoma. | The decision, announced Tuesday as Trump denounced immigrants and …
globalresearch.ca/us-jail-1400-immigrant-children-wwii-japanese-internment-site/5680478

Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community Demands Answers After Trans Black Latinx Woman Died at Rikers
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-13
Outrage is mounting over the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender Afro-Latinx woman who was found dead in a cell at Rikers Island on Friday. Polanco was arrested on misdemeanor charges and jailed on Rikers in April when she was unable to post $500 bail. Nearly two months later, she was dead. Her family, friends and transgender rights activists are now demanding answers for the conditions that led to the 27-year-old's death. The city says the cause of death has not yet been determined. Polanco was held in a unit for transgender women while jailed at Rikers, but a week before her death she was transferred to so-…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/13/justice_for_layleen_polanco_community_demands

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