2021-09-21: News Headlines

Detention Watch Network (2021-09-21). Thursday 9/23: National Day of Action to Shut Down Detention Centers. indybay.org In-person actions; or join in phonebanking and/or Twitter storm…

Center for Biological Diversity (2021-09-21). Federal Lawsuit Launched to Protect Pacific Humpbacks From Fishing Gear. indybay.org West Coast Pot Fishery Unlawfully Entangles Endangered Whales…

Revolution Books (2021-09-21). Saturday 9/25: Heroism for Our Times-Free Iran's Political Prisoners NOW: An Afternoon of Solidarity. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Denny LeBoeuf (2021-09-20). Remembering Damon Thibodeaux, Who Survived Death Row. aclu.org I first met The Damon I met that day at Angola was beaten down and almost defeated by injustice and hardship. His childhood had been tough: He was raised by an impoverished single mother who loved him but could not protect him from…

_____ (2021-09-20). Democrats Urged to 'Ignore' Parliamentarian's Advice Against Path to Citizenship. commondreams.org Either Joe Biden and Democratic senators actually stand for the principle that "Black Lives Matter" or they stand for Rahm Emanuel. They can't stand for both.

Rainer Shea (2021-09-20). The "United States" isn't a Nation, it's a Terrorist Organization. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Sep 16, 2021 | The idea that the United States represents an actual nation is a myth designed to comfort us in the face of the horrifying reality we on this continent are living out. This is a reality where an entire landmass has been illegally annexed, and put under an occupation which continues throughout the vast majority of Native territory. A reality where this occupation is used to perpetuate a matrix of inhumane detention centers and militarized police state subjugation of this continent's African population, as well as against the brown indigenous peoples from south of the arbitraril…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-20). Israel re-captures last two escapees of Gilboa prison; Palestinians continue solidarity protests. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinians are opposing the Israeli administrative detention policy under which prisoners are kept behind bars for long durations without charge or trial. They are also protesting the recent punitive measures imposed after six prisoners escaped Gilboa prison…

Victor Grossman (2021-09-20). Who with whom elections: Berlin Bulletin, no. 194, September 20, 2021. mronline.org In German elections—like the coming ones, as always on a Sunday—all you have to do is present the registration paper mailed to every citizen, then make crosses on a paper ballot. No trouble with the boss, no missing work, long lines or quarrels about fraud or discrimination. It sounds easy.

Staff (2021-09-20). Bipartisan Reforms Often Expand Prisons and Police. We Need Abolition Instead. truthout.org As the concept of "mass incarceration" entered the U.S. mainstream over the last decade or so, diverse networks of advocates, funders and politicians have criticized the country's overwhelming reliance on police and prisons as a response to a vast array of social problems. A critical consensus that mass incarceration is bad has given rise to a criminal justice reform coalition that is almost as bipartisan as the push for expanding police and prisons has been in previous decades. | Yet, as Kay…

Staff (2021-09-20). Cuba and the US: A tale of two prison systems. therealnews.com In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway discusses the differences between prisons in Cuba and in the United States. Of the two, only one incarcerates children, only one deliberately isolates prisoners from their families and communities, and only one uses long-term solitary confinement as a routine punishment—and it's not Cuba. "In Cuba you don't have solitary confinement," Conway says. "Because that's inhumane."

Thomas Kilkauer — Meg Young (2021-09-20). Germany's New Neo-Nazis: The Reichsbàºrger. counterpunch.org Only a few weeks ago, a Reichsbàºrger in Germany shot a police officer with a crossbow during a house's search in a remote town called Linden, in the north of Hessen. The Reichsbàºrger is accused of attempted manslaughter and he was sent to a prison until his court hearing. Violent attacks by the right-wing extremist Reichsbàºrger is nothing out of the ordinary in Germany. Germany's antisemitic and semi-fascistic Reichsbàºrger, also known as sovereign citizens — were at the forefront when a mob of right-wing extremists attacked Germany's parliament, the Bundestag in August 2020. Like man…

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