2021-08-21: News Headlines

Joris Leverink (2021-08-21). Intersectional class struggle: from shared oppression to unified resistance. roarmag.org Protesters in Cali, Colombia — May 1, 2021. Photo: Farhanah Ali / Shutterstock.com | A fifth of the way through the 21st century, our world is riven by conflict and catastrophe and COVID-19 is accelerating our crises. The global pandemic has killed millions of people, with race, poverty and gender being

Tahia Islam (2021-08-21). Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition Propaganda and Zine Fair. peoplesforum.org A space where people who have created educational and organizing materials including zines, pamphlets, posters, stickers, buttons and more can share abolitionist ideas and messages and can freely give away, trade and sell some of these items.

Staff (2021-08-21). Bolivia charges ex-President Anez with 'genocide' over death of protesters in 2019. rt.com Bolivia's former interim president, Jeanine Anez, has been charged with genocide and other crimes over the deaths of 20 people who protested the ousting of the country's longtime socialist leader, Evo Morales, in 2019. | The charges against Anez, who seized power in the Latin American nation for a year, have been "provisionally classified as genocide, serious and minor injury, and injury followed by death," Attorney General Juan Lanchipa announced on Friday. | According to Bolivian law, the ex-president could face 10 to 20 years in prison if found guilty. | The accusations relate to two rallies in the town of…

Artemis Salisbury (2021-08-20). Exploitation of Americans by the Prison Industrial Complex. realprogressives.org To better understand what incarcerated people face, a handful of people with relevant experiences were interviewed to shed a light on the experience of incarcerated people (aka prisoners) in the United States.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-20). 10 Palestinians on hunger strike against illegal administrative detention by Israel. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinian prisoners' rights group have expressed concern about the rapid decline in the detainees' health. Four of the 10 detainees have been on hunger strike for more than a month…

Staff (2021-08-20). Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated Parent. aclu.org One in 12 American children — more than 5.7 million kids — have experienced parental incarceration at some point during their lives. Black Americans are 50 percent more likely than white Americans to have a family member who is formerly or currently incarcerated. At the ACLU, we are working to to significantly reduce the footprint of the criminal legal system in the United States, because we know the ramifications of incarceration are broad, complex and damaging. | Incarceration doesn't just impact the person incarcerated: its ripple effect can be felt throughout the families and communities [mdash…

Ann Brown (2021-08-20). Jews Supporting Black Lives Matter Are A Threat To Israel, Says Israel Minister Of Diaspora Affairs. moguldom.com The Jewish-Black alliance was once strong in the U.S., but Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Nachman Shai doesn't seem to believe in helping the cause. Shai said recently that young American Jews supporting Black Lives Matter are a threat to Israel. He made the comments on Aug. 5 to the American Jewish Committee, a New York-based …

Staff (2021-08-20). Report: Trump Admin Deployed Feds to Bring Harsher Charges on BLM Protesters. truthout.org The protests and uprisings in defense of Black lives that spread like wildfire last summer after police killed George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other unarmed Black people were extraordinary demonstrations of public outrage and Black-led organizing. As it has done throughout the nation's history, the federal government responded to Black resistance with repression and state violence. | The Trump administration used federal police and courts to deliberately target supporters of the movement for…

_____ (2021-08-20). National Shut'Em Down Demonstrations Kick Off August 21. popularresistance.org The purpose of the call is to center the 10 demands that Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and other inside formations have been pushing since the historic 2016 prison strike, encourage people to get involved in local abolitionist organizing, and also gain steam, while building towards the 2022 prison strike that JLS has just announced. So far, people have responded to the call by organizing everything from marches to free political prisoners, film showings, block parties, and noise demonstrations outside of ICE detention facilities, jails, and prisons.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-20). GIEI's report confirms human rights violations were committed during 2019 coup in Bolivia. peoplesdispatch.org The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts in its report, confirmed that the coup installed regime led by far-right de-facto president Jeanine àÅñez was responsible for massacres, torture, persecution, illegal detention and summary executions of those who took to the streets in rejection of the coup in November 2019…

Editor (2021-08-20). The nonbinary Chinese fighting to live their truth. mronline.org Activist Chao Xiaomi is inspiring transgender Chinese to reject the gender binary. But the community continues to face deep-seated discrimination.

teleSUR (2021-08-20). US Court Admits Mexican Gun Trafficking Lawsuit. telesurenglish.net A U.S. federal court has accepted the lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against several U.S. arms manufacturers, accusing them of negligence in allowing their products to reach organized crime. | RELATED: | The lawsuit, accepted by the Federal Court in Massachusetts and which could last several years, accuses 11 manufacturing and distribution companies of promoting negligent and illicit commercial practices that fa…

Center for Biological Diversity (2021-08-20). Lawsuit Seeks Protection for Northern California's Clear Lake Hitch. indybay.org Trump Administration Denied Federal Protection to Imperiled Fish in 2020…

ecns.cn (2021-08-20). COVID-19 infection rate in U.S. prisons hits 34 pct, says expert. ecns.cn

Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross (2021-08-20). Phone Zap for Eric King: Lift the Mail Ban! itsgoingdown.org Call for phone-zap campaign in support of anarchist prisoner Eric King, who is currently fighting a mail ban. Please call and spread call-in on social media. Follow his support crew here. Eric King is a 35-year-old political prisoner who is being severely singled out by the federal Bureau of Prisons for abusive and illegal treatment….

A Guest Author (2021-08-20). WW interviews Attica survivor Che Nieves ‚àí Part 3: '50 years later, Attica hasn't changed'. workers.org The following is part three of an edited interview with Che Nieves, a survivor of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion and a founding member of the Young Lords Party in Greenhaven and Attica Prisons, conducted July 20 by Monica Moorehead, a Workers World managing editor. More segments of the interview . . . |

_____ (2021-08-20). As Texas House Reaches Quorum, GOP Poised to Advance Voter Suppression Package. commondreams.org "Ending UI benefits while the pandemic still rages is cruel, period."

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