(2021-04-29). What President Biden Needs to Do Beyond the First 100 Days. aclu.org One hundred days have passed since the Biden-Harris administration assumed office. From the start, the administration faced the monumental task of undoing the vast harms of the Trump presidency while addressing an ongoing pandemic. Concurrently, a nationwide reckoning with systemic racism, particularly in the policing and criminal legal systems, serves as a reminder that many of this country's systems were broken long before Trump. Now is our chance, as we pick up the pieces, to reform and rebuild our institutions based on the painful truths that have been further highlighted over the past four years. | Trump…
(2021-04-29). PDF of April 29 issue. workers.org 
Download the PDF. Let Mumia OUT Stay in the street — Abolish the police! Black Lives Matter: Syracuse, N.Y., athletes; Daunte Wright; WAAR on police; Ma'Khia Bryant; Defend anti-racist voices. Florida: Jim Crow 2.0 bill; Ivy League attacks MOVE; A disaster waiting to happen; Biden & climate crisis; Editorial Smash . . . |
(2021-04-29). New Report Looks at Strategies to Cut Incarceration of Illinois Women by Half. truthout.org 
Between 1980 and 2014, the number of women incarcerated across the United States increased by 700 percent. In Illinois, women's incarceration increased by 767 percent during that same time period. While that number has slowly decreased over the past two decades, the
(2021-04-29). Immigration removal and an Article 2 inquest. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
R (Lawal) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2021), Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Unreported, JR/626/2020 (V) — read judgment The death of an immigration detainee, as with all prisoners, is rightly subject to legal scrutiny. This is because detainees are completely under the state's control. Article 2 ECHR requires that the …
(2021-04-29). Award-Winning Journalist Julian Assange Languishes In A British Super Max Prison At The Behest Of The Biden Regime. southfront.org 
Written by Dr. Leon Tressell. The United States and its NATO allies have weaponised the issue of human rights; using…
(2021-04-29). Award-winning Journalist Julian Assange Languishes in a British Super Max Prison at the Behest of the Biden Regime. globalresearch.ca The United States and its NATO allies have weaponised the issue …
(2021-04-29). The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier to Sentence Children to Life in Prison. commondreams.org Progressives must challenge this cruel U.S. Supreme Court opinion, writes Prof. Anthony Grasso, "but relying on rehabilitative discourse to challenge juvenile life-without-parole sentencing could be a risky strategy. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/juve.jpg …
(2021-04-29). Biden Must Make the Current Enhanced Child Tax Credit Permanent. aclu.org *This op-ed was originally Two children could be born on the same day in Anytown, USA. | Both born to loving families, healthy and at an average weight of seven pounds. However, one child is born into poverty and the other is not. The child born into poverty is more likely to experience toxic stress, suffer from environmental exposure to lead, develop diseases like asthma and experience trauma. | Growing up, the child is more likely to live in a school district with low-qua…
(2021-04-29). Biden Admin Pursuing Menthol Cigarette Ban, Despite Concerns of 'Serious Racial Implications'. sputniknews.com Earlier this week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a memo to US President Joe Biden's administration, warning that a ban on menthol cigarettes alone would "trigger criminal penalties, which will disproportionately impact people of color, as well as prioritize criminalization over public health and harm reduction."
(2021-04-29). A Year Later: The Black Lives Matter Movement in Sonoma County 2020. indybay.org BLM has become a "tool" social activist, the local government and political representatives sought to use the momentum of POC and the community to capitalize and align themselves with accountability, instead of the go-to white supremacy.
(2021-04-29). Before We Bid Farewell to Arab American Heritage Month. thenation.com Before We Bid Farewell to Arab American Heritage Month…
(2021-04-29). Palestinian Prisoners — An Ongoing Struggle for Justice. globalresearch.ca Today 04.27.2021,
(2021-04-29). Advocates Welcome DOJ Hate Crimes Charges In Ahmaud Arbery Killing. popularresistance.org Racial justice advocates welcomed Wednesday's announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice that three men imprisoned in Georgia on murder and other charges in connection with the death of unarmed Black man Ahmaud Arbery last February also have been charged with federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping. | According to a DOJ statement, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William 'Roddie' Bryan "were each charged with one count of interference with rights and with one count of attempted kidnapping." | "Travis and Gregory McMichael were also charged with one count each of using, carrying, and br…
(2021-04-29). Myanmar: Political Prisoners Association Declared An Unlawful Association. eurasiareview.com The State Administration Council's Ministry of Home Affairs on April 25 declared the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) an unlawful association. | The AAPP is not in conformity with the Law on the Registration of Organisations, the junta's Myawady TV reported. | The AAPP daily releases a list of civilian casualties during the protests since February 1, but their figures are exaggerated, the ministry claimed in a statement. | The death toll due to fatal crackdowns on the protest movement more than 80 days since the coup had reached 753, the AAPP said on April 26. | The ministry announcement a…
(2021-04-29). Moscow Thinking About Using Prison Labor Again For Major Construction Projects — OpEd. eurasiareview.com The Russian government is now thinking about reviving a practice associated with Stalinism: the use of prison labor to work on major construction sites in areas where free labor is scarce, such as the expansion of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) railway. Legal experts say Moscow can do so as long as it arranges to pay those who take part. | Vladimir Putin is pushing for the expansion of the BAM but has come up against a problem that earlier Russian rulers have faced: there are too few workers in the region through which it passes and attracting more free laborers would require spending more money than the gover…
(2021-04-28). World police: Washington seeks to imprison foreign businesspeople for violating illegal US sanctions. thegrayzone.com In violation of international law, the US is seeking to extradite and imprison foreign businesspeople for circumventing its unilateral sanctions. Washington's targets include Venezuelan national Alex Saab, North Korean Mun Chol Myong, and Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. The United States uses economic sanctions as a weapon against states which choose a development path independent of US global domination. Sanctions can take the form of blocking a nation's financial and trade transactions, not allowing financial institutions to process them. The …
(2021-04-28). World police: Washington seeks to imprison foreign businesspeople for violating illegal US sanctions. thegrayzone.com In violation of international law, the US is seeking to extradite and imprison foreign businesspeople for circumventing its unilateral sanctions. Washington's targets include Venezuelan national Alex Saab, North Korean Mun Chol Myong, and Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. The United States uses economic sanctions as a weapon against states that choose a development path independent of US global domination. Sanctions can take the form of blocking a nation's financial and trade transactions, not allowing financial institutions to process them. The …
(2021-04-28). How Broadband Access Advances Systemic Equality. aclu.org 
If you're reading this article, you're probably not one of the
(2021-04-28). Lessons from the Haymarket Affair. realprogressives.org 
May Day is celebrated internationally as a worker's holiday. The origin of this celebration came through the fight for the 8-hour workday. One of the greatest battles in this struggle was seen in the violent oppression of striking workers at the Haymarket Square in Chicago in 1886. A brief look at the history of the Haymarket Affair helps illustrate the class struggle that continues today. | May 1, 1886 was the start of a general strike with the demand of reduction of the workday from 10 hours to 8 hours. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions declared in 1884 that "…eight hours shall constitute…
(2021-04-28). Houston activists honor Mumia on his birthday. workers.org 
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered in Houston on his birthday, April 24, to demand his immediate release and the release of all political prisoners. "Mumia is a freedom fighter. He is a Panther. He is a captive of the state, because they want to kill him. It is up to . . . |
(2021-04-28). ACLU Urges Biden to Shut Down Detention Facilities 'Used to Abuse and Traumatize Immigrants'. commondreams.org "It's time to end our nation's newest system of mass incarceration of Black and Brown people," says the ACLU's Naureen Shah. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/aclu-biden-close-ice-detention.jpg …
(2021-04-28). Supreme Court: Let's Make It Easier for Judges to Send Teenagers to Die in Prison. commondreams.org "[Supreme Court case] Jones will result in countless more young people being condemned to die in prison no matter how rehabilitated they may become." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/prison_6.jpg …
(2021-04-28). US Supreme Court makes it easier to sentence minors to life in prison. wsws.org A 6-3 decision by the conservative majority gives judges more power to sentence juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
(2021-04-28). A Year Later: The Black Lives Matter Movement in Sonoma County 2020. indybay.org BLM has become a "tool" social activist, the local government and political representatives sought to use the momentum of POC and the community to capitalize and align themselves with accountability, instead of the go-to white supremacy.
(2021-04-28). An Ugly Picture as State-Level GOP Attempt to Strangle Dissent Nationwide. commondreams.org "Even as they resist a full-scale investigation of the extremists involved and the events leading up to January 6," writes Common Dreams' Michael Winship, "Republicans are using that right-wing riot as a Trojan horse to go after Black Lives Matter and other protesting activists from the left." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/potomac_crowd_0.jpg …
(2021-04-28). Race, Poverty, Farming And A Natural Gas Pipeline. popularresistance.org Five years ago, the mayor of Hopkins Park, a Black, rural community in Kankakee County, Illinois, argued for building an immigration detention center there to boost the economy. The people who lived there said: No, thanks. | Mayor Mark Hodge now has another idea for new development in his town and the surrounding, historic farming community of Pembroke Township, south of Chicago. He's backing a proposal for a pipeline, built by the utility Nicor, that would run through the area and, he hopes, bring with it natural gas and a boost to taxes and the local economy. And again, some residents are not pleased. | "People…
(2021-04-28). At the St. Louis City Jail, Inmates Have Been Pushed to the Brink. thenation.com At the St. Louis City Jail, Inmates Have Been Pushed to the Brink…
(2021-04-28). At least 11 killed in Somalia car bomb explosion. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) — A car bomb that exploded at the entrance to Somalia's central prison in west of the capital Mogadishu has killed at least 11 people.
(2021-04-28). Police & Prison Abolition — YDSA Reading Group. dsausa.org Join YDSA members from across the country for a series of discussions about police & prison abolition and how it relates to our vision and strategy for winning socialism. RSVP here…
(2021-04-28). Activists demand the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. peoplesdispatch.org On 24th April, the 67th birthday of the longtime political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, hundreds of people hit the streets of the United States demanding his release. Demonstrations were held through the weekend in Oakland and Philadelphia.
(2021-04-28). The Invention of Reality and the Second Phase. indybay.org Being human thus becomes an unsolvable task in the technocratic society… An immense pressure to conform can arise in a technocratic society, since the devaluation of the subjective is accompanied by a suppression of needs, which, when an entire population is affected, leads less to rebelliousness than to compulsive social conformity in order not to be excluded.