Daily Archives: 2021-07-12

2021-07-12: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-07-12). British court ruling heightens danger of Assange extradition to the US. wsws.org Assange is in Belmarsh Prison and faces life incarceration in the US because the Biden administration is determined to prosecute a journalist and publisher for exposing American war crimes.

Black Alliance for Peace (2021-07-12). Why Human Rights in China and Tigray but Not in Haiti, Palestine, or Colombia? dissidentvoice.org U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democrats have been playing the "Black Lives Matter" tune on their fiddle. Biden even raised the issue of Black Lives Matter during his presidential campaign. But, just days after Biden was sworn into office, his administration lent support for the Haitian dictator, Jovenel MoàØse, who stayed in office past …

WSWS (2021-07-12). Texas man faces 40 years in prison for voting while on parole. wsws.org The state's Republican attorney general has brought the charges in order to intimidate minority voters and support the push for more restrictions on voting rights in Texas.

Leon Kunstenaar (2021-07-12). Rallies in Bay Area for Voting Rights. indybay.org Bay Area residents mobilizing to demand Congress fight voter suppression and pass the For the People Act…

William Craig Cohen (2021-07-12). The Weekly Round-Up: Proposed migrant legislation and reviews for convicted victims of coercive control. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: On Thursday, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that they would no longer prosecute migrants uninvolved in any criminal activity other than illegal entry to the UK. The development, supported by the notion that these cases can be better dealt with by administrative deportation than by prison overcrowding, is being widely reported as …

Staff (2021-07-12). Freedom for Khalida Jarrar! Appeal for immediate release upon the passing of Suha Jarrar. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network extends its deepest condolences to Khalida, Ghassan and Yafa Jarrar upon the tragic passing of Suha Jarrar, who died on Sunday, July 11 at the age of 31. Suha, Khalida and Ghassan's daughter, Yafa's sister, was a tireless advocate for Palestinian rights and liberation, speaking around the world to advance Palestinian freedom. At this horrendous moment for her and her family, Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian leader, feminist, parliamentarian and organizer, remains imprisoned in Israeli jails as a political leader, denied even the comfort of her loved ones. We extend our…

Allan Fisher (2021-07-12). Saturday 7/10: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

Global Research News (2021-07-12). Selected Articles: Video: The COVID mRNA Vaccine Regulatory Mess: Suppression of Information, Hiding Deaths and Adverse Events. globalresearch.ca By As Weinstein rightly points out, if the WHO (or virtually every federal regulatory agency for that matter) has been captured and is being influenced by industry, in …

WSWS (2021-07-12). Democrats plan increased policing and incarceration in response to lethal violence in Chicago. wsws.org Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot joined a group of mayors appealing to the Biden administration to create a "strike force" of local and federal law enforcement agencies.

Eleanor J. Bader (2021-07-12). How a Prison Program Is Encouraging Lifelong Learning. progressive.org The Last Mile trains incarcerated folks to become web developers and coders, so they are better equipped to leave prison and enter the workforce.

_____ (2021-07-12). Organizers Calling to Close Loophole That Enables Prison Slavery. popularresistance.org While the 13th Amendment abolished chattel slavery, an often ignored clause still allows for slavery and involuntary servitude as "punishment for a crime." This "slavery clause" is now the target of #EndTheException, a new campaign launched this year on Juneteenth weekend. #EndTheException is pushing for the passage of the Abolition Amendment, a joint resolution cosponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Nikema Williams, which would strike the slavery clause from the 13th Amendment making it so that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude may be imposed as a punishment for a crime."

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-12). Campaign calls for early release of Khalida Jarrar following death of her daughter. peoplesdispatch.org Human rights organizations have launched a global campaign asking Israel to release Khalida Jarrar from prison following the death of her daughter Suha…

Lynda Carson (2021-07-12). How the Sackler family got away with mass murder, and avoided prison in the process. indybay.org

_____ (2021-07-11). Dirty Tricks Campaign In Peru To Deny The Left's Presidential Victory. popularresistance.org Half an hour's taxi ride from the House of Pizarro, the presidential palace in Lima, Peru, is a high-security prison at the Callao naval base. The prison was built to hold leaders of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), particularly Abimael Guzmán. | Not far from Guzmán's cell is that of Vladimiro Montesinos, intelligence chief under former President Alberto Fujimori, who is also now imprisoned. Montesinos was sentenced to a 20-year prison term in 2006 for embezzlement, influence peddling, and abuse of power. | Now, audio files from phone calls made by Montesinos from his prison indicate an attempt to influence the r…

Staff (2021-07-11). American Association of Jurists on Illegal Detention of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab by Cape Verde for Extradition to the United States (Statement). orinocotribune.com The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) denounces the illegal arrest on June 12, 2020, of Alex Nain Saab Morán, diplomat of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Mr. Saab, of Colombian and Venezuelan nationality, was arrested when the flight to the Islamic Republic of Iran made a stopover in the Republic of Cape Verde. He was traveling to obtain medicine and medical equipment required by Venezuela for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. The arrest, with no valid grounds, took place at the request of the United States government for extradition to the USA. | Saab was traveling as Venezuela's Special Envoy, a positio…

Leon Kunstenaar (2021-07-11). Rallies in Bay Area for Voting Rights. indybay.org Bay Area residents mobilizing to demand Congress fight voter suppression and pass the For the People Act…

Staff (2021-07-11). Samidoun to launch delegation to Lebanon and Palestinian refugee camps: Support grassroots organizing! samidoun.net In late July 2021, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will be launching a delegation to Lebanon and the Palestinian refugee camps. The delegation, announced on the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian writer, leader and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani, will include activists and organizers of the Samidoun Network based in Belgium, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and elsewhere. "The delegation's mission is primarily an expression of political and cultural solidarity and struggle, aiming to highlight the reality of Palestinians in the refugee camps today, as well as learning from…

Allan Fisher (2021-07-11). Saturday 7/10: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

Dr. Peter McCullough (2021-07-11). Video: The COVID Vaccine Agenda and the Suppression of Alternative Treatments. Dr. Peter McCullough. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Meryl Nass (2021-07-11). Video: The COVID mRNA Vaccine Regulatory Mess: Suppression of Information, Hiding Deaths and Adverse Events. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-07-11). Advocates Rally Against NYC's Moving Homeless From Hotels To Shelters. popularresistance.org Just as the city ramped up moving some 8,000 homeless people out of the hotels, a lawsuit brought by the Legal Aid Society brought the process to a standstill, including at the Hotel at Fifth Avenue. The Legal Aid Society released a statement calling the city's rush to clear the hotels "illegal and inhumane," without enough time for proper screening and attention for disabled residents with special needs.

_____ (2021-07-11). Advocates Rally Against NYC's Moving Homeless From Hotels To Shelters. popularresistance.org New York City — A march and rally against New York City's decision to move about 8,000 homeless individuals from hotels to shelters was held Saturday. | The process has been put on hold, but many say it shouldn't have happened to begin with. | Homeless advocates blasted the city for pushing those sheltered in hotels back to congregate living. | "Don't you know housing is a human right?" one speaker said. | Just as the city ramped up moving some 8,000 homeless people out of the hotels, a lawsuit brought by the Legal Aid Society brought the process to a standstill, including at the Hotel at Fifth Avenue. | "T…

Umer Beigh (2021-07-11). Families of disappeared persons demonstrate in Sri Lanka's Mullaitivu. peoplesdispatch.org On Monday July 5, families of Tamilians who were subjected to enforced disappearance towards the end of the conflict in Sri Lanka demonstrated in Mullaitivu demanding justice. The demonstrators carried placards and banners that read "where are our children that we handed over to the [Sri Lankan] military." | An estimated 100,000 have been subjected to enforced disappearances in the country's ethnic conflict, notes the People for Equality and Relief in Lanka, (PEARL), an advocacy group. The conflict ended in 2009 with the brutal suppression of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by the Sri Lankan armed forces.

Lynda Carson (2021-07-11). How the Sackler family got away with mass murder, and avoided prison in the process. indybay.org

_____ (2021-07-11). US Blacklists More Foreign Firms. popularresistance.org The US Commerce Department claimed on Friday that the companies had been "implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass detention, and high technology surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region."

_____ (2021-07-11). US Blacklists More Foreign Firms. popularresistance.org The Biden administration has added 14 Chinese companies along with 20 other entities — including some from Iran and Russia — to its economic blacklist over claims of "human rights violations." | The US Commerce Department claimed on Friday that the companies had been "implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass detention, and high technology surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region." | "The Department of Commerce remains firmly committed to taking strong…

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