(2019-06-27). American Concentration Camps. commondreams.org A bus transporting immigrants leaves a temporary facility at a US Border Patrol Station in Clint, Texas, on June 21, 2019. – Lawyers who were able to tour the facility under the Flores Settlement, which governs detention conditions for migrant children, said they witnessed inhumane conditions of overcrowding, and about 250 children being held over the limit of 72 hours, some saying they were there for weeks in overcrowded cells. (Photo: Paul Ratje / AFP) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/american_concentration_camps.jpg…
(2019-06-27). Boston: Hundreds protest Wayfair's profiting from sales to immigrant detention centers. wsws.org Employees learned last week that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture from Wayfair was placed by a private contractor for a detention facility.
(2019-06-27). For a global campaign to prevent Julian Assange's rendition to the US! wsws.org On June 20 the WSWS issued a call for the formation of a Global Defence Committee to secure freedom for Wikileaks founder and class-war prisoner Julian Assange.
(2019-06-27). Join the Sydney rally this Saturday demanding freedom for Julian Assange! wsws.org The demonstration will insist that the Australian government take immediate action to prevent the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the US, where he faces life imprisonment or the death penalty.
(2019-06-27). #NeverAgainIsNow: Vigil for Children Imprisoned at Border (San Jose). indybay.org Issei Memorial Building, 565 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA…
(2019-06-27). Progressive Leads Queens DA Race, Shocking the Establishment. therealnews.com 
31-year-old Public Defender Tiffany Caban ran an AOC-style grassroots campaign calling for an end to mass incarceration and radical reform to the prosecutor's office…
(2019-06-26). Equity Must Be at the Heart of Marijuana Legalization. aclu.org With an equity-centered bill, Illinois just became the 11th state to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and older. | Illinois just passed what may be the most progressive marijuana legalization bill in America. Gov. Pritzker didn't surprise anyone by signing the bill yesterday ( he campaigned on the issue), and with the work of the state legislature Illinois is the 11th state to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. This is a deceptively momentous criminal justice reform whose nuances show ju…
(2019-06-26). Raising our Voices for Equality at Stonewall and the Supreme Court. aclu.org 50 years after the riots at Stonewall, we are telling the Supreme Court not to roll back protections for LGBTQ people. | It's been half a century since the Stonewall uprising began on June 28, 1969, the reason we celebrate Pride each June. But there's another fitting date to commemorate this month, and it falls just two days before the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. | June 26 marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 2003 striking down state laws that criminalized same-sex intimacy. T…
(2019-06-26). I've Lived on the Border My Entire Life. The Courts Must Shut Down Trump's Border Wall. aclu.org Communities, public lands and property are threatened by the president's abuse of emergency powers. | The ecological destruction of Arizona, New Mexico, and California hangs in the balance as courts decide whether to block President Trump's abuse of emergency powers to secure funds for a border wall Congress denied. | On Feb. 15, 2019, President Trump declared a national emergency so that he could raid the military budget for billions of dollars for border wall construction. The declaration came after the president put the country through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history over Congress's refusal to…
(2019-06-26). Congress Is Funding the Destruction of Kids' Lives. truthdig.com 
I came to this country from Mexico as a small child because my mother was escaping poverty and wanted to give my sisters and me a better life. She worked hard to make sure we had food on our table and a roof over our heads, often doing two and three jobs at a time. | Because of poverty and systemic racism, undocumented families like mine must work multiple jobs and get paid under the table, and that often comes with mistreatment and discrimination on the job. To get by, people in our community have to develop our own survival methods, such as getting together with neighbors to share meals or take care of each oth…
(2019-06-26). It's 2019: Why Do LGBTQ Americans Still Lack Basic Civil-Rights Protections? thenation.com It's 2019: Why Do LGBTQ Americans Still Lack Basic Civil-Rights Protections?
(2019-06-26). New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Macy's Over Criminal History Screening Policy. blackstarnews.com 
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP (O&G), and Youth Represent (YR) filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York against Macy's, Inc. (Macy's), challenging its use of an unnecessarily punitive criminal history screening policy. | According to the lawsuit, the policy disproportionately disqualifies Black and Latinx applicants and employees from job opportunities in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the New York City Human Rights Law. | Plaintiffs, The Fortune Society, Inc. (Fortune) and Ms. Jenetta Rolfer,…
(2019-06-26). US Navy officer jailed for trying to arrange sex with deaf 12yo… is tapped for PROMOTION. rt.com 
The Navy has included an officer imprisoned for attempting to arrange sex with a deaf child on its list of those eligible for a department head position — even though he's currently serving a 10-year sentence in federal prison.
(2019-06-26). Trump DHS Moves 100 Migrant Kids Back to "Child Jail" Despite Conditions. truthout.org The Department of Homeland Security has moved 100 migrant children back to a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where infants and toddlers have been locked up without adequate food, water, sanitation or medical care, with older children having to care for the younger ones. Around 300 kids were removed from the facility Monday following widespread outrage over the reports, but Customs and Border Protection said some of the children are being sent back, claiming that the facility is no longer overcrowded. Lawyers who recently visited the facility described a scene of chaos and sickness, with children unable…
(2019-06-26). AOC Joins Other Progressives to Vote Against Dems on Funding Bill for DHS, Call for Abolition of ICE. democracynow.org 
A divided House approved a contentious $4.5 billion emergency funding package to address the border crisis Tuesday, under growing pressure to address the Trump administration's inhumane treatment of migrants. The bill passed largely along party lines in a 230-195 vote, with some progressive Democrats voting in favor after negotiating to include provisions including new health and safety standards for jailed migrants. Four Democrats voted against the bill: Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib. Last week, the progressive congressmembers issued a statement condemnin…
(2019-06-26). Survivor of WWII Internment Camp Speaks Out: Japanese Americans Know the Trauma of Child Detention. democracynow.org 
Amid reports of inhumane and degrading conditions at child immigration jails along the southern border, we speak with Satsuki Ina, a Japanese-American psychotherapist who was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a maximum-security internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. "After decades of living our lives as compliant and quiet, and demonstrating and proving ourselves as good citizens, many of us have felt that it's time for us to speak out, to protest, to resist, and to speak out in ways that we haven't in the past, because we know what these children are experiencing," Ina said. "We know what it…
(2019-06-26). Trump Admin Moves 100 Migrant Kids Back to "Child Jail" Despite Concern over Inhumane Conditions. democracynow.org 
The Department of Homeland Security has moved 100 migrant children back to a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where infants and toddlers have been locked up without adequate food, water, sanitation or medical care, with older children having to care for the younger ones. Around 300 kids were removed from the facility Monday following widespread outrage over the reports, but Customs and Border Protection said some of the children are being sent back, claiming that the facility is no longer overcrowded. Lawyers who recently visited the facility described a scene of chaos and sickness, with children unable to…
(2019-06-26). DHS Whistleblower Who Spoke Out Against Obama-Era Immigration Jails Condemns Conditions on Border. democracynow.org 
Immigration jails along the southern border are facing heightened scrutiny following horrific reports of dirty and unhygienic conditions at a detention center in Clint, Texas, and other facilities. We speak with government whistleblower Dr. Scott Allen, who was hired in 2014 to inspect facilities where immigrant families are incarcerated, who says degrading conditions for jailed migrants date back to Obama's presidency. He is calling for more government transparency about conditions in immigration facilities, saying, "I think most Americans, if they were confronted with the humanity of what we are doing here, wou…
(2019-06-26). Lawsuit Launched to Protect Critically Endangered Okinawa Woodpecker. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-06-26). CPUSA encourages building unity from the ground up in anti-oppression panel. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO—Hundreds gathered here this past weekend to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The party's 31st National Convention was held at the University of Illinois campus in Chicago and ran for three consecutive days. The event featured a variety of speakers, such as Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, who …
(2019-06-26). Democrats Confront the Horror at the Border. thenation.com Democrats Confront the Horror at the Border…
(2019-06-26). US border official resigns amid uproar over children in detention. thecanary.co 
The acting head of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has resigned amid an uproar over the discovery of children being held in pitiful conditions at one of the agency's stations in Texas.John Sanders's departure deepened the sense of crisis and added to the rapid turnover inside the agencies responsible for enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration priorities as the US deals with record numbers of families coming across the southern border.In a message to employees, Mr Sanders said he would step down on July 5. He did not give a reason for leaving. | "Although I will leave it to you to determine whether…
(2019-06-26). Refugees in Desperate Need of Help in Airports Across the United States. truthout.org Co-host Juan González was at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport this past Sunday, where he encountered Central American refugee families recently released from detention centers. The families, who were from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, had been left there by Immigration and Customs Enforcement without guidance or a translator to help them navigate their flight information. The families were likely traveling to cities where they could reunite with loved ones already in living in the U.S. In the case of the Guatemalan families, most of them didn't speak Spanish, but indigenous languages. None of them s…
(2019-06-26). At #WayfairWalkout Actions, Workers Denounce Company Profiting From Child Detention. commondreams.org "The safety and well-being of immigrant children is always worth fighting for." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/wayfair_walkout_0.jpg…
(2019-06-26). Fund Head Start, Not Internment Camps. commondreams.org Reports of sickening conditions in children's detention facilities, along with renewed threats by the administration to attack migrant families, have cast a dark shadow over the lives of families like mine. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/shutterstock_1229072188.jpeg…
(2019-06-26). Democrats Confront a Dilemma at the Border. thenation.com Democrats Confront a Dilemma at the Border…
(2019-06-26). 'It is a Stain on Our Country': Warren Joins Protest Outside Child Detention Facility in Florida. commondreams.org "There are a lot of different ways that we get in the fight. And one of them is that you show up." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/warren_homestead.jpg…
(2019-06-26). Juan González: There Are Refugees in Desperate Need of Help in Airports Across the United States. democracynow.org 
Co-host Juan González was at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport this past Sunday, where he encountered Central American refugee families recently released from detention centers. The families, who were from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, had been left there by Immigration and Customs Enforcement without guidance or a translator to help them navigate their flight information. The families were likely traveling to cities where they could reunite with loved ones already in living in the U.S. In the case of the Guatemalan families, most of them didn't speak Spanish, but indigenous languages. None of them spoke Engli…
(2019-06-26). The Problem With Child Detention Isn't That It's Private. It's That It Exists. truthout.org The House passed a bill on Tuesday that would allocate $4.5 billion to cover the burgeoning costs of Trump's internment of migrant children, teens and adults along the border. While the legislation was characterized as an "aid package," Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ihan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib voted against the bill. In a statement explaining her position, Omar stated, "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abuses — and the very Administration directing these human rights abuses — is not a solution." This congressional drama occurred on the same da…
(2019-06-26). Headlines for June 26, 2019. democracynow.org DHS Moves 100 Children Back to Texas Border Patrol Station Deemed Unsafe and "Inhumane", House Passes Contentious $4.5 Billion Emergency Border Bill, "Defund Hate Campaign" Activists Call for Action on Migrant Deaths and Detention, Trump Threatens to "Obliterate" Iran as Bipartisan Reps Seek to Avoid Unauthorized Strikes, Robert Mueller to Testify Before House in July, Tiffany Cabán Leading Queens DA Race, U.S. and N. Korea in Talks for Third Summit, Pompeo Says U.S. Hoping for a Peace Deal and Ready to Pull Out Troops in Afghanistan, Spanish Supreme Court Ups Conviction of Men Who Raped and Filmed Teenager in 20…
(2019-06-26). Vile act of torture prohibited 'under all circumstances', UN chief affirms on International Day to support victims. un.org While the prohibition of torture is "absolute, under all circumstances", UN Secretary-General António Guterres bemoaned the fact that "this core principle is undermined every day" – in detention centres, prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions and other places where captor can prey on captive.
(2019-06-26). Horrific detention center conditions expose Trump's true immigration policy: unmitigated, unrelenting cruelty. splcenter.org A year ago, America awoke to the shocking images of children being held in cages — children who had been stolen from their asylum-seeking parents at the border by an administration that had no plan to reunite them.
(2019-06-26). #NeverAgainIsNow: Vigil for Children Imprisoned at Border (San Jose). indybay.org Issei Memorial Building, 565 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA…
(2019-06-26). Egyptian Officials Threatened Morsi Days Before Death in Court. theantimedia.com (MEE) — Mohamed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders in prison in Egypt were given an ultimatum by top officials to disband the organisation or face the consequences, Middle East Eye has learned. They had until the end of Ramadan to decide. Morsi refused and within days he was dead. Brotherhood members inside and outside Egypt now fear for the lives …
(2019-06-26). Migrant Rescue Boat Defies Racist Ban, Heads for Italian Coast. telesurenglish.net The Sea-Watch 3 ship carrying 42 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean said Wednesday it was headed for the island of Lampedusa despite the threat of hefty fines from Italy's far-right interior minister. | RELATED: | German Boat Captain Faces 20 Yrs in Prison for Saving Refugees | "I've decided to enter the port of Lampedusa," Sea-Watch Captain Carola Rackete said, adding that they were still waiting for the coast guards to react. "I know this is risky, but the 42 shipwrecked o…
(2019-06-26). Navy SEAL Court-Martial Witness Could Face Perjury Charges. truthdig.com 
SAN DIEGO—A Navy SEAL witness could face a perjury charge after testifying that he — and not Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher— had killed a young Islamic State prisoner in Iraq, according to an email sent to a lawyer for the witness. | Officials are considering charging Special Operator First Class Corey Scott with lying under oath during Gallagher's court-martial, said the email sent Tuesday by Navy Capt. Donald King, a lawyer for the senior commander who convened the war crimes proceedings. | Scott "testified directly contrary to previous official statements — thus exposing him…
(2019-06-26). For-profit company makes $750 per day, per immigrant child yet maintains deplorable conditions. nationofchange.org Private prisons have become notorious in the US for making billions of dollars off the incarcerated. Now private for-profit companies are expanding their services and getting rich off of immigrant children. | Caliburn International Corp., the company in charge of a temporary influx shelter in Homestead, Florida charges an outrageous $750 per child, per day to house immigrant children at their facility. Compared to the approximate cost of housing a migrant child at a standard, permanent shelter ($250), you would think that the children at the Homestead shelter would be well taken care of. | For $750 a day a chi…
(2019-06-26). Trump's prisons for migrant children are "torture chambers" — shut them down. peoplesworld.org 
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(2019-06-26). 'Shocking Blow to the Queens Democratic Machine' as Progressive Tiffany Cab√°n Declares Victory in District Attorney Race. commondreams.org "A victory for working people everywhere who are fighting for real political change and demanding we end cash bail, mass incarceration, and the failed war on drugs." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/tiffany_caban.png…
(2019-06-25). Federal Judges Send 2020 Census Lawsuit Back to Lower Court. truthdig.com 
BALTIMORE — A lawsuit that alleges a 2020 census question pushed by the Trump administration violates minorities' rights will be sent back to a federal court in Maryland so new evidence can be considered, U.S. appeals judges ruled Tuesday. | The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision comes a day after U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland suggested in an opinion that racial discrimination and partisan power plays could be the underlying motives in asking everyone in the country about citizenship status. The 4th Circuit's order sending the case back to Hazel could be pivotal. | "The decision today ope…
(2019-06-25). Italian Mafia Boss Escapes Prison in Uruguay, Manhunt Ensues. telesurenglish.net A manhunt was organized in Uruguay Tuesday after an Italian mob boss, who had been imprisoned in the country since 2017, escaped from jail overnight as he was waiting to be extradited back to Italy. | Rocco Morabito and three other inmates "escaped through a hole in the roof" Sunday according to authorities. He had been the most wanted fugitive member of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful organized crime group and one of Europe's biggest importers of South American cocaine. | Dubbed the "cocaine king of Milan," the 52-year-old Morabito had been arrested after more than two decades on the run fro…
(2019-06-25). Italian Mafia Boss Escapes Prison in Uruguay, Manhunt Ensues. telesurenglish.net A manhunt was organized in Uruguay Tuesday after an Italian mob boss, who had been imprisoned in the country since 2017, escaped from jail overnight as he was waiting to be extradited back to Italy. | RELATED: | Dozens of Mafia Suspects Held in Europe, South American Sting | Rocco Morabito and three other inmates "escaped through a hole in the roof" Sunda…
(2019-06-25). U.S. Border Chief Abruptly Resigns Amid Public Outrage. truthdig.com The agency has been under fire since it was revealed that migrant children have been living in squalor at a Texas detention center.
(2019-06-25). Bangladeshi Migrants in Tunisia Forced to Go Back Home. telesurenglish.net More than 30 Bangladeshi migrants were sent back to their home country Wednesday, against their will, say relatives and aid groups. The migrants had been adrift in a merchant ship off the Tunisian coast for weeks. | RELATED: | Migrant Children in US Detention Center Face 'Inhumane' Conditions | The Bangladeshi refugee seekers were among 75 people saved May 31 by the China-owned ship, Maridive 601, a vessel assisting offshore oil platforms. The rescused had spent the last 20…
(2019-06-25). "Never Again" Means Act Now. indybay.org 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.
(2019-06-25). Behind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an Opposition Front Group Became Western Media's Go-to monitor. globalresearch.ca Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting the group's seamless connection to Syria's opposition, the support it receives from states that waged war on the country, or …
(2019-06-25). AOC leads Twitter rage-mob over furniture company Wayfair supplying beds to migrant centers. rt.com 
A protest by employees of discount furniture retailer Wayfair against the sale of beds to migrant detention centers has gone viral, forcing Twitter users to argue over the morality of supplying furniture to "concentration camps."
(2019-06-25). 'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like,' Says Ocasio-Cortez, as Wayfair Workers Vow Walkout to Protest Company for Working With Child Detention Centers. commondreams.org "We believe that the current actions of the United States and their contractors at the southern border do not represent an ethical partnership Wayfair should choose to be a part of." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/wayfair_0.jpg…
(2019-06-25). Brazil Supreme Court Justices Weigh Appeals to Free Lula. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider two serperate appeals by imprisoned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is seeking release, alleging that the judge behind his conviction was not impartial. | RELATED: | Lula's Lawyers to Take Case to UN in Wake of New Revelations | Lula, Brazil's famous leftist leader from 2003-2010, left office with an 87 percent approval rating. But the Workers Party he founded fell hard when Brazilian prosecutors in 2014 began the "Ca…
(2019-06-25). Peru: Fujimori Returns to Prison After Brief Hospitalization. telesurenglish.net Former right-wing Peruvian President and dictator Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) returned to prison Tuesday after being hospitalized Sunday night. | RELATED: | Alberto Fujimori's Son Set to Return to Peruvian Politics | The 80-year-old former head of state was transported from the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) to a private clinic in Lima due to high blood…