(2019-06-21). Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's inquiry issues final report. wsws.org 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."
(2019-06-21). Human Rights Lawyer Condemns Canada's Support For Honduras's Repressive Regime (2/2). therealnews.com 
Prisilla Alvarado, a lawyer acting for imprisoned human rights defender Edwin Aspinal, condemns Canadian support for the regime of Juan Orlando Hernandez…
(2019-06-21). 'Like a debtors' prison': American who fled to CHINA from $30k in student loans. rt.com 
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.
(2019-06-21). A Brief History of US Concentration Camps. counterpunch.org 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 More
(2019-06-21). Free Hiroji Yamashiro-Political Prisoner In Okinawa. indybay.org 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.
(2019-06-21). Biden under fire over comments about working with segregationist senators. wsws.org The controversy has put the spotlight on the role of Southern Democrats in defending racial discrimination well into the 1970s.
(2019-06-21). San Francisco City Workers Hold Juneteenth Protest at City Hall. indybay.org Photos: Leon Kunstenaar | Say Discrimination is Pervasive in Supposedly Progressive City…
(2019-06-21). Rocket is a Racist. indybay.org Anarchist activist Rocket Taylor | Kohles has recently been called | out for practicing a wide range of racism for many years in Oakland.
(2019-06-21). Clueless and Shameless: Joe Biden, Staggering Frontrunner. counterpunch.org Joe Biden just put a spotlight on his mindset when he explicitly refused to apologize for fondly recalling how the Senate "got things done" with "civility" as he worked alongside some of the leading racist lawmakers of the 20th century. For Biden, the personal is the political; he knows that he's virtuous, and that should More
(2019-06-21). Billionaires Can Buy Sex and Not Go to Jail. Why Can't You? therealnews.com 
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…
(2019-06-21). Using Democratic institutions to smash Democratic aspirations (the Brazil model). mronline.org 
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
(2019-06-20). The US Must Repair Historic and Current Racism. dissidentvoice.org 
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. …
(2019-06-20). 87yo woman tasered by Georgia police, excessive force lawsuit pending (VIDEO). rt.com 
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.
(2019-06-20). Punk band files lawsuit against surveillance by German intelligence agency. wsws.org 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.
(2019-06-20). US: Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Slavery Reparations at Historic 'Juneteenth' Hearing. telesurenglish.net 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…
(2019-06-20). Trump's America and Egypt's Dictatorship Deserve Each Other. truthdig.com 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…
(2019-06-20). Morsi's Legacy: Unlikely Democrat, Reluctant Martyr. dissidentvoice.org 
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 …
(2019-06-20). Ecuador: Ola Bini Released as Court Grants Habeas Corpus. telesurenglish.net 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…
(2019-06-20). Nicaragua Set To Build Largest Hospital in the Country. telesurenglish.net 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…
(2019-06-20). Professor Stuart Rees to speak at SEP rally to defend Julian Assange. wsws.org "The rally must increase public awareness of the outrageous injustice if Julian is extradited to the US to face a possible 170 years in prison."
(2019-06-20). They Are Concentration Camps — and They Are Also Prisons. truthout.org 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…
(2019-06-20). Italy: Captain in court for saving people in distress at sea. wsws.org Pia Klemp, who has rescued about 5,000 people in distress in a total of six missions, faces up to 20 years imprisonment and heavy fines.
(2019-06-20). Ilhan Omar re-tweets video of CNN contributor claiming US could be on the road to 'death camps'. rt.com 
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar appears to be supporting fellow representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, after AOC sparked uproar for comparing detention centers at the US border to Nazi concentration camps.
(2019-06-20). Israeli Holocaust museum schools AOC on concentration camps after comparison to migrant facilities. rt.com 
The Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem lit up US Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez online for comparing US migrant detention centers to fascistic concentration camps, even offering to help educate her. |
(2019-06-20). San Fancisco City Workers Hold Juneteenth Protest at City Hall. indybay.org Photos: Leon Kunstenaar | Say Discrimination is Pervasive in Supposedly Progressive City…
(2019-06-20). New York Passes Historic Farmworker Fair Labor Law. blackstarnews.com 
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…
(2019-06-20). Juneteenth 2019: The US Must Repair Historic and Current Racism. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2019-06-20). Actor Danny Glover tells US politicians it's time to pay up for the damage caused by slavery. thecanary.co The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves has reached Congress with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover to address compensation for America's blighted heritage of racism. | Glover, who told a House Judiciary panel that his great-grandfather was enslaved, called a national reparations policy "a moral, democratic and economic imperative". | It was Congress's first hearing in a decade on the topic and comes amid a growing discussion in the Democratic Party on reparations and sets up a potential standoff with Republicans. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, for example, opposes the idea. | Glo…
(2019-06-20). The White Man's Biden. truthout.org The Democrats have a problem. Some unreconstructed ghosts from the party's gruesome racist past are rattling their chains, thanks to yet another very public blunder by former Senator and Vice President Joe Biden, the seeming frontrunner in the 2020 presidential race. | Biden, who apparently hasn't met a vicious conservative he doesn't like and respect, stepped on a whole series of rakes over the last several days, and his standing as the establishment pick for the nomination is setting the party up for another calamity at the polls. | Biden attended a big-dollar fundr…
(2019-06-20). On Juneteenth, SF City Workers Demand Firing Of HR Director Micki Callahan. indybay.org On Juneteenth day June 19, 2019 in San Francisco African American workers and others protested and spoke out against the systemic racism against African American workers. They also called for the immediate resignation of Human Resources Director Micki Callahan who has helped the racists and also promoted managers who engaged in racism and corruption…
(2019-06-20). Shady contractors jailed in Bay area and on Long Island. peoplesworld.org 
Minnesota isn't the only state that's cracking down on construction wage theft. New York is, too, and the feds did in Northern California. The two cases from opposite ends of the country illustrate the prevalence of cut-rate contractors who routinely exploit their workers, especially immigrant workers, shorting them of pay and overtime, all to line …
(2019-06-20). Floridians Are Suing a Cop Fired for Planting Drugs in Their Vehicles. truthout.org 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, who was already on probation, 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 dropp…
(2019-06-20). Supreme Court Undermines Religious Neutrality In Permitting Giant Governmental Cross. aclu.org The decision ignores our constitutional commitment to official religious neutrality. | Today, the Supreme Court announced that a governmental display of a 40-foot-tall Latin cross as a war memorial for all veterans does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The decision ignores our constitutional commitment to official religious neutrality and is a slap in the face to non-Christian veterans.
(2019-06-20). Ocasio-Cortez Is Right—We Are Running Concentration Camps. truthdig.com 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been under fire for an Instagram message she sent out in which she characterized the holding facilities for refugees and other undocumented entrants into the US run by ICE and by private companies (for which it is a $2 billion a year industry) as "concentration camps." | Human rights groups are speaking of a systematic violation of basic human rights of these immigrants. Note that it is perfectly legal for people to seek refugee status in the United States, and that the court system determ…
(2019-06-19). It's Bad Journalism to Take Cops at Their Word. truthout.org When mainstream news outlets fail to fact-check the police, they fail their readers and they fail our society. | Time and time again, by uncritically presenting claims made by police as truths, mainstream news outlets condone and enable the scourges of police violence, racism and mass incarceration in our communities. | This is true throughout the country, but a closer look at recent newspaper articles in Chicago, where I live and take part in anti-prison organizing, illustrates the dynamics of these journalistic failures. | Misleading Coverage of Bail Reform in Chicago: | Just last week, Superintenden…
(2019-06-19). Trump's Bureau of Land Management Is Being Sued Again Over Climate Impacts. truthout.org An environmental group based in New Mexico is suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) related to climate change. It's the second lawsuit the agency has faced over its approval of oil and gas leases on public lands in recent years. | WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit against BLM and the Department of Interior, asking a federal court in New Mexico to vacate 210 oil and gas leases…
(2019-06-19). Bureau of Land Management Sued Again Over Climate Impacts of Oil and Gas. truthout.org An environmental group based in New Mexico is suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) related to climate change. It's the second lawsuit the agency has faced over its approval of oil and gas leases on public lands in recent years. | WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit against BLM and the Department of Interior, asking a federal court in New Mexico to vacate 210 oil and gas leases…
(2019-06-19). Chicago police have a serious problem with pointing guns at children. nationofchange.org A family in Illinois has filed a lawsuit claiming that Chicago police officers used excessive force against an 8-year-old child during a raid on their home. | Chicago police arrived at the Wilson family home on March 15th with a search warrant and ordered Dominique Wilson and her three children out of the home at riflepoint. They then handcuffed multiple family members, including 8-year-old Royal Wilson. Royal was handcuffed for 35-40 minutes and suffered bruising to his wrists. | The lawsuit claims that not only was excessive force used but that all three children are traumatized at being held at gunpoint and…
(2019-06-19). Prosecution falters in poisoning of Flint water. mronline.org 
Five years after it was confirmed that the water supply of Flint, Michigan, was a danger to human health, charges have been—at least temporarily—dropped against eight former and present officials who had been facing up to 20 years in prison for a host of felonies. These included charges of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of […] | Source
(2019-06-19). Headlines for June 19, 2019. democracynow.org Shanahan Withdraws from Defense Sec. Consideration over Domestic Violence Past, U.N. Finds "Credible Evidence" of MBS's Responsibility in Khashoggi Murder, U.S. Excludes Saudi Arabia from List of Countries Using Child Soldiers, DOJ Intervenes to Keep Paul Manafort Out of Rikers, Trump Taps Anti-Muslim Katharine Gorka for CBP Press Sec., Acting Head of USCIS Tells Agency Staff to Crack Down on "Frivolous" Asylum Claims, AOC Calls Immigration Prisons "Concentration Camps", AOC Calls Out Amazon's Poor Labor Practices, Gunmen Kill At Least 40 People in Mali Amid Mounting Ethnic Conflict, Trump Launches 2020 President…
(2019-06-19). Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband insists Johnson's comments impacted on her. thecanary.co 
The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has insisted that comments made by Boris Johnson when he was foreign secretary "enabled a propaganda campaign" against her by Iran.Richard Ratcliffe directly contradicted claims by Mr Johnson in the Tory leadership TV debate that his remarks as foreign secretary had no bearing on the fate of the mother-of-one, who is in prison in Iran on spying charges.Apology: Mr Johnson was forced to apologise in 2017 after wrongly stating to a House of Commons committee that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran to teach journalists.Referring to the remarks, Mr Ratcliffe told BB…
(2019-06-19). NGO Demands European Leaders Allow Refugees to Disembark. telesurenglish.net German non-governmental organization Sea-Watch rescued 43 migrants off the coast of Libya and now is requesting European leaders immediate authorization to disembark the refugees who have been waiting for a port for seven days. | RELATED: | German Boat Captain Faces 20 Yrs in Prison for Saving Refugees | "Many of the rescued need medical care and suffer from dehydration due to seasickness. The disembarkation of a part of the group had a strong psychological effect on the peopl…
(2019-06-19). Brazil: Moro Testifies to Senate to Discredit Intercept Exposé. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Justice and Public Security Minister Sergio Moro testified Wednesday in front of the Senate in Brasilia to try to discredit allegations of illegal interference in the case against ex- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as revealed by The Intercept. | RELATED: | Politics, Lack of Evidence Behind Lula Trial: Intercept Expose | "Obviously…
(2019-06-19). Women's World Cup: Championship U.S. team still earn less than men. peoplesworld.org 
The Women's World Cup is now underway. Taking place in France, the tournament features 24 of the best women's national teams throughout the world. It's also a stage for widespread gender discrimination. Prior to the tournament, the distribution of tickets was absolutely botched by the infamously incompetent folks at FIFA. And here in the United …
(2019-06-19). Queens District Attorney Candidate Councilman Rory Lancman: I'll "Directly Confront The Racism" In Criminal Justice System. blackstarnews.com 
Councilman Lancman told the Black Star News he's the best candiate because he will "confront racism" in criminal justice… | On Tuesday, Councilman Rory Lancman told the Black Star News he's the best candidate to be the next Queens District Attorney because "I'm the one most willing to directly confront the racism and discrimination against poor people that permeates the criminal justice system." | Lancman is running against six other candidates in the June 25 primary race. The other six candidates are: Tiffany Cabán, Mina Malik, Jose Nieves, Betty Lugo, Judge Gregory Lasak, and Queens Borough President Mel…
(2019-06-19). Stacey Abrams to Speak at Clarence Mitchell Luncheon during NAACP's 110th National Convention. naacp.org The Honorable Stacey Abrams will speak on the importance of ending voter suppression during the annual NAACP Convention in Detroit BALTIMORE — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost civil rights organization, has announced that politician, lawyer and author Stacey Abrams will be speaking at the prestigious Clarence Mitchell …
(2019-06-19). Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Refutes McConnell's Claim That Reparations For Slave Descendants Is "Unworkable" blackstarnews.com 
Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson rejects Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's claim that reparations are "unworkable." | June 19th, also known as "Juneteenth," celebrates the end of slavery. On this day in 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War was over. | Today, on the anniversary of "Juneteenth", the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties will hold a hearing on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The purpose of the hearing is to examine the legacy of…
(2019-06-19). South African MP involved in 'racist incident' in Cape Town. cgtn.com 
Cape Town's popular V & A Waterfront apologized to South African MP Phumzile van Damme for its handling of what van Damme described as an incident of racism. | FILE — REUTERS | Van Damme explained that it all began during a visit on Tuesday to V & A. | She says she was standing in a queue when she had a quarrel with the mother of a family at one of the supermarkets. The mother allegedly told her she would "push [her] aside". | "Then when I went out, she was standing there with her family in a threatening manner. And I went to her and said, 'why are you looking at me in a threatening manner?' Then she said, '
(2019-06-19). 'I will NOT be compared to shooter who murdered my classmates' — pro-gun activist Parkland survivor. rt.com 
Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv hit back against ex-GOP congressman David Jolly for comparing him to a school shooter over racist comments he made online years ago. Harvard recently revoked Kashuv's admission over the controversy.
(2019-06-19). The persecution of Caster Semenya. workers.org 
The ongoing persecution of South African runner Caster Semenya by the International Association of Athletics Federations has shone a spotlight on the ways sports, under the patriarchal structures of capitalism and imperialism, are used to police and define, in the most unscientific and racist way, rigid definitions of gender. Caster . . . | Continue reading The persecution of Caster Semenya at Workers.org
