2021-09-30: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-09-30). Colorado police assaulted and illegally jailed a deaf man for four months over alleged minor traffic violation, according to lawsuit. wsws.org After allegedly failing to halt at a stop sign, Brady Mistic, who is deaf in both ears and uses sign language to communicate, was assaulted by police and jailed for four months without access to an interpreter or other forms of communication.

Jesse Jackson (2021-09-30). The US Needs a Deep Reassessment of Its Immigration Policies. zcomm.org The U.S. needs to make its asylum policy clear. It needs to define who it will allow to seek asylum and apply that standard without discrimination…

Staff (2021-09-30). Olympic gold medalist pleads guilty to felony obstruction charge stemming from his role in US Capitol riot. rt.com Klete Keller, the former Olympic swimming champion who was arrested in January for participating in the US Capitol riot, faces upward of two years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony. | Keller

Staff (2021-09-30). Headlines for September 30, 2021. democracynow.org As Government Shutdown Looms, Biden's Legislative Agenda Hangs in the Balance, Second Alaska Hospital to Ration Care Amid Surge in Unvaccinated COVID Patients, YouTube to Ban Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, CDC Urges Pregnant People to Get Vaccinated, Protesters Target Moderna CEO and Top Biden Aide, Demanding Vaccine Equity , U.N. Warns Tigray Blockade Leading to Famine, Dire Medical Shortages for Millions, Pentagon Knew U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul Missed Target, Hit Civilians Weeks Before Public Admission, Ecuador Prison Riot Claims 116 Lives , North Korea Says It Tested New Hypersonic Missile, La Palma Residents L…

Milo Inglehart (2021-09-29). Our Leaders Have the Power to Decarcerate and Save Lives, But Where is the Will? | American Civil Liberties Union. aclu.org Research shows that reductions in the United States incarceration rate would have

Anjana Samant (2021-09-29). Family Surveillance by Algorithm: The Rapidly Spreading Tools Few Have Heard Of. aclu.org Last month, police

Staff (2021-09-29). Venezuela Denounces Detention of Two FANB Members by Colombia. orinocotribune.com Venezuela condemned the "arbitrary detention" of two of its military personnel by Colombia and has demanded their immediate release to avoid unnecessary tensions between the two countries. | The Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) of Venezuela has denounced the "arbitrary detention" of two of its members by Colombian authorities in the town of Cúcuta, in the department of Norte de Santander at the Colombia-Venezuela border. | According to a statement published on Tuesday, September 28, by the FANB on Twitter, Wilter Alexis González Miranda and Gabriel Antonio Veloz Varela, two Venezuelan sergeants were apprehe…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2021-09-29). COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups of Resistors in Our Future? dissidentvoice.org No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order. — Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials It's no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when. This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals …

Matt Sedlar (2021-09-29). Young Men Need More Medicaid. cepr.net Recent research establishes a link between losing Medicaid at age 19 and incarceration among young men. Using a research design that linked Medicaid records and criminal justice records for young low-income men in South Carolina, economist Elisa Jácome found that among the young men in her sample who were incarcerated before age 21, about 80 …

MEE staff (2021-09-29). Nobel laureates and bestselling authors call on Iran to release jailed writers. middleeasteye.net Nobel laureates and bestselling authors call on Iran to release jailed writers | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi urged to release Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi, who were reportedly imprisoned for their writing | Wed, 09/29/2021 – 20: 43 | The three men served on the board of the Iranian Writers Association (AFP/File photo) | A group of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer prize recipients, Tony a…

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WSWS (2021-09-29). Worker crushed in forklift accident at Dana Toledo plant amid COVID outbreak. wsws.org "This is place is like a jail or a prison. I've never been to jail or prison but I'll tell you what, if it's anything like this place I don't ever want to go," one worker said.

Brian Shilhavy (2021-09-29). Whistleblower Lawsuit! Government Medicare Data Shows 48,465 Dead Following COVID Shots — Remdesivir Drug Has 25% Death Rate! globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-09-29). Trump Planning Lawsuit to Block January 6 Committee From Getting His Records. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump is preparing to sue the Biden White House over its plans to release records from his administration to a select committee in Congress. The records pertain to the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol building, which was carried out by a mob of Trump loyalists upset with the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. |

Joel Wendland-Liu (2021-09-29). 'All the Water I've Seen Is Running': A novel in review. peoplesworld.org Imagining a free world without prisons, confining bars, or militarized borders between communities is a process that "can be done only collectively," author, activist, and teacher Elias Rodriques recently told a workshop hosted by the Michigan Writers Club. The idea of collective shaping of a clear vision of how the world is and how it …

Anarchist Black Cross Federation (2021-09-29). Eric King's Trial Postponed! itsgoingdown.org Update on anarchist political prisoner Eric King's trail, which has currently been rescheduled. Eric's pre-trial conference and trial has been rescheduled. First, there will be an evidentiary hearing regarding Eric's motion to suppress. More details to come. Judge's order: ORDER as to Eric King (1): With respect to [114] Defendant Eric King's Amended Motion to…

Staff (2021-09-29). Samidoun Spain joins the celebration of the centenary of the Communist Party of Spain. samidoun.net From Friday 24 September to Sunday 26 September, the activists of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in the Spanish State (Samidoun España) were present at the Fiesta festival, marking the centenary of the Communist Party of Spain, in the municipality of Rivas Vaciamadrid. The presence of Samidoun Spain was crucial during these important days, which […] | The article

Steve Early (2021-09-29). What is To Be Done About Work? counterpunch.org In 2020-21, Covid-19 threw millions of people out of work, dispatched the more privileged among us to white collar "home offices," and made life on the job a lot more dangerous and difficult for those suddenly deemed "essential" as health care workers, retail clerks, or meat packers. The resulting disruption of existing workplace arrangements—from commuting patterns to face-to-face meetings and on-site supervision—has been the subject of endless newspaper commentary and social media discussion, as pandemic conditions persist or abate. Thanks to the Delta variant, we're now prisoners of a wide-ranging…

_____ (2021-09-29). Alabama GOP Condemned for Plan to Build Prisons With Covid-19 Funds. commondreams.org "The rich can afford to pay a fairer share in taxes, but many families in Maine can't afford to lose out on this commonsense tax relief."

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