400+ 737 MAX pilots sue Boeing over 'unprecedented cover-up' that led to crashes & grounding
rt.com | 2019-06-23
A class-action lawsuit against Boeing reportedly accuses the US aviation giant of covering up the faulty sensor issue and keeping pilots in the dark about the feature in the pursuit of quick returns. | …
rt.com/usa/462492-boeing-lawsuit-pilots-737max/

Free Hiroji Yamashiro-Political Prisoner In Okinawa
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-23
The Japanese government has jailed anti-war activist Hiroji Yamashiro who has been protesting the construction of a new base in Okinawa at Henoko. He has been imprisoned for over 70 days.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/20/18824139.php

Are Immigration Detention Centers Concentration Camps?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-23
Aviva Chomsky discusses the reality of refugees coming to the U.S in light of the controversial statement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that refugees are kept in concentration camps…
therealnews.com/stories/are-immigration-detention-centers-concentration-camps

"Never Again" Means Act Now
Jenny Kurzweil | indybay.org | 2019-06-23
As the national conversation escalates around what to appropriately call the detention centers at the southern border, the humanitarian crisis continues. | Here are tangible actions the local Santa Cruz community can take to protest America's immigration policies and support relief efforts at the border.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/21/18824168.php

What's next for the youth climate lawsuit
Fran Korten | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-22
On June 4, Andrea Rodgers was in the front row of attorneys sitting before a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court. The court session, held in Portland, Oregon, was to determine whether the climate change lawsuit (Juliana v. United States) brought by 21 young plaintiffs should be dismissed, as requested by the U.S. government, or go on to trial. | It's the latest of many delays for the lawsuit, which was first filed in 2015 by the then-youth plaintiffs. The judges' decision on this most recent…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/22/whats-next-for-the-youth-climate-lawsuit/

'We have chronic elitism and gross snobbery in our social movements. It has to stop'
D Hunter | thecanary.co | 2019-06-22
The Canary is pleased to host this guest from D Hunter, author of Chav Solidarity. | In May, I wrote an article in the Independent, expressing frustration veering on disgust at the language Extinction Rebellion (XR) had used around arrest and imprisonment. I got some pats on the back and some grumpy emails about it. One of the…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/06/22/we-have-chronic-elitism-and-gross-snobbery-in-our-social-movements-it-has-to-stop/

Free Hiroji Yamashiro-Political Prisoner In Okinawa
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-22
The Japanese government has jailed anti-war activist Hiroji Yamashiro who has been protesting the construction of a new base in Okinawa at Henoko. He has been imprisoned for over 70 days.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/20/18824139.php

In Venezuela, Bachelet calls on Government to release prisoners, appeals for 'bold steps towards compromise'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-22
Speaking at the end of the first-ever official mission to Venezuela by a UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet called on the Government to release all those detained for peacefully protesting and announced that a team from her office would remain in Caracas to monitor the human rights situation.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1041091

A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-22
Concentration camp (noun): a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. …
globalresearch.ca/brief-history-us-concentration-camps/5681410

Et tu, Ilhan? Twitter goes bananas as Omar explains why detention centers are 'concentration camps'
rt.com | 2019-06-22
Rep. Ilhan Omar has argued that US immigrant detention centers fit the definition of concentration camps, eliciting both applause and eye-rolling on social media as debate over immigration continues to polarize the country. | …
rt.com/usa/462449-omar-concentration-camps-immigration-centers/

"Never Again" Means Act Now
Jenny Kurzweil | indybay.org | 2019-06-22
As the national conversation escalates around what to appropriately call the detention centers at the southern border, the humanitarian crisis continues. | Here are tangible actions the local Santa Cruz community can take to protest America's immigration policies and support relief efforts at the border.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/21/18824168.php

Floridians are suing a cop fired for planting drugs in their vehicles
Katie Rose Quandt | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-22
In October 2017, Derek Benefield was driving in the Florida Panhandle's Jackson County when he was pulled over for allegedly swerving into the opposite lane. Once at the car, sheriff's deputy Zachary Wester claimed to smell marijuana and conducted a search of the vehicle, which, he reported, turned up methamphetamine and marijuana. Despite insisting the drugs weren't his, Benefield was arrested, charged $1,100 in fines and court fees, and sentenced to one year in county jail.* | Benefield was seven months into his sentence when, in September 2018, the state attorney's office dropped his case and those of 118 o…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/22/floridians-are-suing-a-cop-fired-for-planting-drugs-in-their-vehicles/

Biden under fire over comments about working with segregationist senators
wsws.org | 2019-06-21
The controversy has put the spotlight on the role of Southern Democrats in defending racial discrimination well into the 1970s.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/21/bide-j21.html

San Francisco City Workers Hold Juneteenth Protest at City Hall
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-06-21
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar | Say Discrimination is Pervasive in Supposedly Progressive City…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/19/18824101.php

UN Labor Org's Workplace Abuse Pact Passes, #MeToo Cited
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-21
The United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) in a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland Friday adopted a new "convention concerning the elimination of violence and harassment at work" (EVHW), a multilateral binding instrument, which won with 439 votes of yes, 7 no, and 30 abstentions. | RELATED: | Swiss Women Rally Against Labor Discrimination, Wage Gaps…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Labor-Orgs-Workplace-Abuse-Pact-Passes-MeToo-Cited-as-Influence-20190621-0011.html

New lawsuit seeks to hold the Trump Administration accountable for eliminating environmental grades
Alexandra Jacobo | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-21
A new lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity demands that the Environmental Protection Agency release "any and all records" in connection with the recent changes to the EPA environmental review rating process, namely the sudden elimination of issuing public grades on environmental reviews. | The EPA is calling the process of environmental grading "antiquated" and believes that by eliminating them it will simplify the federal permitting process. The grades were…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/21/new-lawsuit-seeks-to-hold-the-trump-administration-accountable-for-eliminating-environmental-grades/

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's inquiry issues final report
wsws.org | 2019-06-21
The report the blame for the oppression of the native people from Canadian capitalism and its state to a racist "colonialist" mindset and "white society."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/21/mmiw-j21.html

Brazil: Attorney General Rejects Dropping Charges Against Lula
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-21
Brazil's Attorney General Raquel Dodge upheld her opposition to the possible nullification of ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's prison sentence for alleged corruption after new information arising from leaked conversations of former judge Sergio Moro admitting his political biases in the case. | RELATED | Brazil: Moro Testifies to Senate to Discredit Intercept Exposé | In a document sent to the Supreme Federal Tribunal (SFT), Dodge expressed her "refusal of the petition t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Attorney-General-Rejects-Dropping-Charges-Against-Lula-20190621-0016.html

A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Brett Wilkins | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-21
concentration camp (noun): a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. — Oxford English Dictionary Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a firestorm of criticism, from both…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/a-brief-history-of-us-concentration-camps/

Migrant Children Imprisoned in Texas Detail Border Patrol's "Level of Inhumanity"
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-21
"We've seen the worst conditions that we've seen in the last three years of conducting these visits." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/border_1.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/21/migrant-children-imprisoned-texas-detail-border-patrols-level-inhumanity?cd-origin=rss

Using Democratic institutions to smash Democratic aspirations (the Brazil model)
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-06-21
Brazil's former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has now been in prison since April 2018. More than four hundred Brazilian lawyers have signed a statement that expresses alarm at what they see as procedural irregularities in the case against him. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/21/using-democratic-institutions-to-smash-democratic-aspirations-the-brazil-model/

Brian Mier on Brazilian Political Scandal
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-06-21
The Brazilian anti-corruption crusade, called Car Wash or Lava Jato, that put popular ex-president Lula da Silva in prison and paved the way for fascist president Jair Bolsanaro–all while being celebrated in the US corporate press–was actually, as critics contended, less interested in corruption than in keeping Lula's Workers Party out of power.
fair.org/home/brian-mier-on-brazilian-political-scandal/

My Grandmother's 20-Year Fight for Prison Phone Justice
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-21
Imagine having to choose between purchasing groceries or making a phone call to speak with your incarcerated loved one this week. That's the dilemma facing thousands of families across the country bearing the burden of high-cost prison phone calls. | In states like Arkansas, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, it can still cost up to $24 for a 15-minute phone call with someone detained at a jail — a plight po…
truthout.org/articles/my-grandmothers-20-year-fight-for-prison-phone-justice/

'Like a debtors' prison': American who fled to CHINA from $30k in student loans
rt.com | 2019-06-21
Millions of Americans are struggling under the weight of student loans, but the government would rather bomb Iran than fix it, the graduate who packed his bags for China to escape his own crippling college debt tells RT. | …
rt.com/usa/462354-american-fled-china-student-loans/

Crackdown on Christians in Eritrea spurs UN expert to press Government 'to live up to its international commitments'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-21
Cracking down on Catholic Church activities, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Orthodox and Christian congregation members in Eritrea, prompted a call from a UN independent rights expert on Friday for the Government to respect citizens' freedom of religion and to "release those who have been imprisoned for their religious beliefs".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1041041

Slamming 'Corruption' That Has Allowed Rampant Abuse, Warren Releases Plan to Ban Private Prisons
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-21
Calling out the federal government's close ties with for-profit prison operators as "corruption," Sen. Elizabeth Warren released her plan to ban private prisons should she win the presidency in 2020. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/criminal-law-reform_0_0.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/21/slamming-corruption-has-allowed-rampant-abuse-warren-releases-plan-ban-private?cd-origin=rss

A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Brett Wilkins | commondreams.org | 2019-06-21
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, under which all people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast were rounded up and imprisoned in dozens of civilian assembly centers (where they were often forced to sleep in crowded, manure-covered horse stables), relocation centers, military bases, and "citizen isolation centers." (Photo: Japanese-American internment camp/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-3244987.jpg…
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/21/brief-history-us-concentration-camps?cd-origin=rss

Chelsea Manning Is a Political Prisoner. Release Her Right Now
commondreams.org | 2019-06-21
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/21/chelsea-manning-political-prisoner-release-her-right-now?cd-origin=rss

Chelsea Manning Is a Political Prisoner. Release Her Right Now
commondreams.org | 2019-06-21
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/21/chelsea-manning-political-prisoner-release-her-right-now?cd-origin=rss

Human Rights Lawyer Condemns Canada's Support For Honduras's Repressive Regime (2/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-21
Prisilla Alvarado, a lawyer acting for imprisoned human rights defender Edwin Espinal, condemns Canadian support for the regime of Juan Orlando Hernandez…
therealnews.com/stories/human-rights-lawyer-condemns-canadas-support-for-hondurass-repressive-regime-2-2

Free Hiroji Yamashiro-Political Prisoner In Okinawa
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-21
The Japanese government has jailed anti-war activist Hiroji Yamashiro who has been protesting the construction of a new base in Okinawa at Henoko. He has been imprisoned for over 70 days.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/20/18824139.php

Crackdown on Christians in Eritrea spurs UN expert to press Government 'to live up to its international commitments'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-21
Cracking down on Catholic Church activities, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Orthodox and other Christian congregation members in Eritrea, prompted a call from a UN independent rights expert on Friday for the Government to respect citizens' freedom of religion and to "release those who have been imprisoned for their religious beliefs".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1041041

Human Rights Lawyer Condemns Canada's Support For Honduras's Repressive Regime (2/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-21
Prisilla Alvarado, a lawyer acting for imprisoned human rights defender Edwin Aspinal, condemns Canadian support for the regime of Juan Orlando Hernandez…
therealnews.com/stories/human-rights-lawyer-condemns-canadas-support-for-hondurass-repressive-regime-2-2

Brian Mier on Brazilian Political Scandal
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-06-21
The Brazilian anti-corruption crusade, called Car Wash or Lava Jato, that put popular ex-president Lula da Silva in prison and paved the way for fascist president Jair Bolsanaro–all while being celebrated in the US corporate press–was actually, as critics contended, less interested in corruption than in keeping Lula's Workers Party out of power.
fair.org/home/brian-mier-on-brazilian-political-scandal/

As Trump Tweets Hateful Threats, States are Protecting Immigrant Rights
Naureen Shah | commondreams.org | 2019-06-21
The wave of pro-immigrant legislation in the states — and the recent passage in the House of Representatives of the American Dream and Promise Act — represents a powerful cross-current to the Trump administration's increasingly anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. (Photo: via ACLU) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-06-21_at_5.02.31_pm.png…
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/21/trump-tweets-hateful-threats-states-are-protecting-immigrant-rights?cd-origin=rss

A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Brett Wilkins | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-21
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a firestorm of criticism, from both the left and the right as well as the mainstream media, for calling US immigrant detention centers "concentration camps." To her credit, Ocasio-Cortez has refused to back down, citing academic experts and blasting the Trump administration for forcibly holding undocumented migrants "where they are brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying." She also cited history. "The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during World War II," she tweeted. "It is such a shameful history that we largely igno…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/a-brief-history-of-us-concentration-camps/

A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Brett Wilkins | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-21
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a firestorm of criticism, from both the left and the right as well as the mainstream media, for calling US immigrant detention centers "concentration camps." To her credit, Ocasio-Cortez has refused to back down, citing academic experts and blasting the Trump administration for forcibly holding undocumented migrants "where they are brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying." She also cited history. "The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during World War II," she tweeted. "It is such a shameful history that we largely igno…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/a-brief-history-of-us-concentration-camps/

Billionaires Can Buy Sex and Not Go to Jail. Why Can't You?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-21
A new law introduced in New York state would decriminalize all sex work, but it faces pushback from the NY National Organization of Women and others groups. The law follows in the wake of last year's FOSTA SESTA, which has negatively impacted sex workers and online free speech advocates…
therealnews.com/stories/billionaires-can-buy-sex-and-not-go-to-jail-why-cant-you

NAACP Invites Detroit and Surrounding Cities Residents to 110th National Convention Events
Austyn Ross | naacp.org | 2019-06-21
NAACP Experience Hall, Health Pavilion and Career Fair to headline free events at Convention. BALTIMORE‚ÄØ– Families, students, professionals and residents of Detroit, MI and surrounding areas are invited to attend the NAACP Experience taking place Saturday, July 20 through Tuesday, July 23. Hosted at the COBO Center, hundreds of partners, companies, civic organizations, and vendors …
naacp.org/latest/naacp-invites-detroit-surrounding-cities-residents-110th-national-convention-events/

New York Passes Historic Farmworker Fair Labor Law
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-20
New law ends 80 Years of Exclusion and Discrimination in State Labor Law… | The National Employment Law Project applauds New York State for passing the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, which redresses longstanding discrimination against the workers who plant, harvest, and produce our most basic sustenance. By closing a racially motivated loophole in New York's labor laws, farmworkers will at last be paid overtime wages, have safe housing, and be protected when forming a union. | "While the farming workforce may have shifted from Black workers to Latinx workers, the Jim Crow practice of denying them basic…
www.blackstarnews.com/ny-watch/politics/new-york-passes-historic-farmworker-fair-labor-law.html

San Fancisco City Workers Hold Juneteenth Protest at City Hall
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-06-20
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar | Say Discrimination is Pervasive in Supposedly Progressive City…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/19/18824101.php

US: Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Slavery Reparations at Historic 'Juneteenth' Hearing
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-20
The United States House Judiciary Committee held a historic hearing Wednesday in Washington D.C. on the divisive question of slave reparations for Black Americans. | RELATED: | Lawsuit Accuses Harvard of 'Shamelessly Capitalizing' From Exploitative Photos of Slaves | The hearing coincided with "Juneteenth," a day commemorating the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas that occurred on June 19,1865, and which today marks the emancipation of ens…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Ta-Nehisi-Coates-Talks-Slavery-Reparations-at-Historic-Juneteenth-Hearing-20190620-0026.html

Punk band files lawsuit against surveillance by German intelligence agency
wsws.org | 2019-06-20
The injunction seeks to ensure that the 2018 intelligence agency report, which lists the band in the category "left-wing extremist music scene," should no longer be published.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/20/saxo-j20.html

87yo woman tasered by Georgia police, excessive force lawsuit pending (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-06-20
Harrowing footage has been released showing the arrest of an 87-year-old Syrian woman who was tasered by Georgia police, despite their dispatcher being made aware that she could not speak English. | …
rt.com/usa/462288-87yo-tased-by-police-georgia/

Ecuador: Ola Bini Released as Court Grants Habeas Corpus
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-20
Swedish programmer and digital privacy activist Ola Bini was released from jail on Thursday evening after Ecuador's Provincial Court of Pichincha granted him the habeas corpus request. | RELATED: | Swedish Programmer Ola Bini Denied Bail by Ecuadorean Court | "I'm not free yet, I'll be out of prison tomorrow but I won't be free as long as this illegitimate investigation is going on, as long as this illegal persecution continues I won't be free. But we will prove my innocence," Bini said after the he…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-Ola-Bini-Released-as-Court-Grants-Habeas-Corpus-20190620-0024.html

The US Must Repair Historic and Current Racism
Howie Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-20
On this Juneteenth, we must confront the impacts of racism dating back to the founding of the United States with the slave trade of Black people brought from Africa, Jim Crow segregation, and policies that continue to this day that cause wealth inequality, disinvestment in Black communities, police violence, mass incarceration, and white nationalist violence. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/the-us-must-repair-historic-and-current-racism/

They Are Concentration Camps — and They Are Also Prisons
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-20
The words "Holocaust" and "concentration camp" were trending on Twitter on Tuesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had referred to the prison camps that migrant children are being kept in as "concentration camps," and a virtual war erupted. The feigned outrage of conservatives was loud. Some argued that the Holocaust was a singular event, to which no parallel should be claimed. Meanwhile, many historians and people personally connected to the Holocaust insisted that the comparison was valid. | As a Native writer and a Jewish writer, respective…
truthout.org/articles/they-are-concentration-camps-and-they-are-also-prisons/

Trump's America and Egypt's Dictatorship Deserve Each Other
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-06-20
He was the first duly elected president in the Arab world and the first in Egyptian history. Now Mohammed Morsi is dead, collapsing on June 17 in his glass cage during his show trial in Cairo–a victim, it seems, of criminal negligence during a brutal six-year stint in prison. His death only highlights the distinct malevolence of a military junta that (illegally) overthrew Morsi in a coup. He languished in an Egyptian prison system that's incarcerated thousands of others–critics of the regime, mostly–in a co…
truthdig.com/articles/trumps-america-and-egypts-dictatorship-deserve-each-other/

Nicaragua Set To Build Largest Hospital in the Country
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-20
Nicaragua's government, amidst United States' (U.S.) sanctions, has begun plans to build the largest hospital in the country in the western city of Leon. | RELATED: Nicaraguan Gov't Fulfills Prisoner Release Agreements | Vice president and first lady Rosario Murillo said that the ceremony is to take place Thursday and will coincide with the 40th anniversary of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Nicaragua-Set-To-Build-Largest-Hospital-in-the-Country-20190620-0020.html

Morsi's Legacy: Unlikely Democrat, Reluctant Martyr
Eric Walberg | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-20
Morsi surrounded by his minders Mohamed Morsi (1951–2019) was the fifth President of Egypt (30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013), deposed by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in a coup d'état July 3, 2013. In his last words, Morsi accused the government of "assassinating" him through years of poor prison conditions. Morsi is survived by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/morsis-legacy-unlikely-democrat-reluctant-martyr/