2021-09-26: News Headlines

_____ (2021-09-26). Danny Glover Under Cover For Big Pharma And Insurance Companies. popularresistance.org Ask your liberal friends about Danny Glover. They will say — superstar actor featured in the Lethal Weapon film series. Civil rights activist. Democracy Now regular. Supporter of Bernie Sanders for President and for single payer national health insurance. But ask older Americans who watch a lot of cable television about Danny Glover, and they will tell you about Danny Glover — paid actor for big pharma and the insurance industry.

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-09-26). People Aren't "Stupid" They're Made Ignorant. anchor.fm In this episode we go over one of my most awful habits, and some thing that those of us all over the world continue to support which is this mentality that some people are just stupid, or that some people are just ignorant. And that the reason why the working an oppressed people are suffering in the world is because they themselves are ignorant, and therefore it is their ignorance that is truly their oppression. But this is a copout, this is a counter revolutionary idea, because at the end of the day it is the oppressors which have made them ignorant. And it is those oppressor who are oppressing them, not the peo…

Dan Bacher (2021-09-26). Time and Again: An exhibition centering on Rigo 23's statue of Native activist Leonard Peltier. indybay.org This exhibit centers on "Leonard Peltier – Waiting," a mixed media 12 X 6 X 9 foot statue that is based on a painted self-portrait that Peltier painted from prison. The statue has been exhibited in four other venues, in Washington, DC; Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to Rigo 23.

WSWS (2021-09-25). Thousands cleared from Texas border camp as detentions and deportations of Haitian refugees continue. wsws.org The effort of the Biden White House to deport thousands to a country engulfed in extreme poverty, widespread gang violence and political instability is an immense crime.

Ted Kelly (2021-09-25). 'Tear Down the Walls! Free Them All!'. workers.org The following are excerpts given at a Sept. 19 "Shut Down Fayette" rally in front of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pa. Old Jail Museum plaque, Jim Thorpe, PA (originally Mauch Chunk, named by Munsee-Lenape Delaware peoples) My great-great-grandfather, Michael Kelly, was born in Schuylkill County. His parents were from . . . |

Staff (2021-09-25). Hactivist jailed in 'Little Guantanamo' says prison blocked him from contacting wife, covering for 'sexually abusive' guard. rt.com Imprisoned hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld says the federal prison authorities have cut off his phone access, shortly after he gave an interview to RT and told his wife about a unit manager who was allegedly sexually abusing inmates. | Gottesfeld is serving a 10-year sentence for a "cyberattack" on Boston Children's Hospital in 2014 — which he says he did to help end the "torture" of teenage girl Justina Pelletier, who was being administered the wrong treatment while her parents lost custody of their daughter to the state for trying to protest against it. | Gottesfeld, who was later arrested by the FBI and w…

AT Contributor (2021-09-25). Meng freedom unlocks China hostage diplomacy case. asiatimes.com Canada freed a Chinese telecoms executive and two Canadians imprisoned in what China's Western critics branded "hostage diplomacy" headed home Friday, drawing a close to an episode that has poisoned ties between the two countries and Washington. Meng Wanzhou — the 49-year-old daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of world-leading telecoms equipment supplier Huawei …

Gloria Rubac (2021-09-25). Changing racist name of prisons is 'like putting lipstick on a pig'. workers.org Outrage over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in May 2020 was immediate. This righteous anger took many forms, from marches and rallies to toppling racist statues, shutting down highways and even setting fire to police stations. The disgust was palpable and widespread. W. F. Ramsey prison farm in . . . |

Betsey Piette (2021-09-25). Philly's first Curb Fest for political prisoners. workers.org By Betsey Piette Philadelphia's first Curb Fest for Political Prisoners, held in the city's Germantown neighborhood Sept. 18, featured local DJs, performers, artists, multiple information and vendor tables about political prisoners and organizations working for their release. Curb Fest events are planned for other cities in the U.S. Philadelphia, Sept. . . . |

Fareed Taamallah (2021-09-25). 'We will overcome': Jenin's rebellious history as told by its elders. middleeasteye.net 'We will overcome': Jenin's rebellious history as told by its elders | Residents recount memories of defiance in West Bank city where family stories and revolution go hand in hand | Sat, 09/25/2021 – 10: 06 | Khadra Abu Sariyyi, now 84, has lost her family home in Jenin Camp twice to Israeli army demolitions (MEE/Mohammad Ateeq) | Long before six Palestinian prisoners dug their way out of…

Anonymous103 (2021-09-25). March To Free Journalist Julian Assange. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Dr. Leon Tressell. | Two years ago award winning journalist Julian Assange was imprisoned in Belmarsh maximum security prison on remand. Over this period Assange has suffered great damage to his physical and mental health. According to Professor Nils Melzer UN Special Rapporteur for Torture Julian Assange is a victim of psychological torture who should be released immediately. | Instead the UK government has ignored its obligations under international law and continues to detain Assange at the behest of the United States, | Back in January of this year Julian Assange won…

WSWS (2021-09-25). Homeless man faces seven years in prison for a 43-cent "theft" in Pennsylvania. wsws.org Under Pennsylvania's three-strikes law, no matter how small the third theft is, the charge is an automatic felony and carries a 3- to 7-year sentence.

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