(2021-07-17). Texas Democrats meet with Senator Manchin, backtrack on voting rights bills. wsws.org Texas state legislators met with leading Democrats in Washington but received little practical support for blocking voter suppression bills in their home state or anywhere else.
(2021-07-17). Documents Point To US Hand In Cuba Protests. popularresistance.org "For those new to the issue of Cuba, the protests we are witnessing were started by artists, not politicians. This song 'Patria y Vida' powerfully explains how young Cubans feel. And its release was so impactful, you will go to jail if caught playing it in Cuba," said Florida Senator Marco Rubio, referencing a track by rapper Yotuel.
(2021-07-17). °Liberación Sí! °Traslados No! Liberation Yes! Transfers No! workers.org 
After years of protests, York Prison, near Philadelphia, will no longer be housing ICE detainees after Aug. 12. But instead of releasing those incarcerated, prison authorities are sending them to other states, far away from their families and their legal service providers. Members and supporters of Movement of Immigrant Leaders . . . |
(2021-07-17). Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against MN Sheriff. popularresistance.org Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota.
(2021-07-17). Tuesday 7/20: Fighting Racist Voter Suppression Laws Webinar w/ Women's March. indybay.org Online discussion…
(2021-07-17). New Round Of Inter-Afghan Talks Began In Doha As Taliban Captures More Strategic Areas (Video 18+). southfront.org 
Source: Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera | A new round of inter-Afghan talks began in the Qatari capital Doha amid the advance of Taliban militants all over Afghanistan. | The negotiations are held behind closed doors. The delegations should discuss the establishment of transitional government, the exchange of prisoners and a ceasefire agreement. | The delegation of the Afghan government includes senior politicians for the first time since the first official meeting in September 2020.Head of the Supreme Council for National Re…
(2021-07-17). Black Feminist "Back Talk" Anchors Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic. truthout.org 
"Britain demands that I give up my back talk and 'know my place,'" sociologist Akwugo Emejulu tells me. "I've been told to shut up, directly or indirectly, more times than you would imagine. But how could I when there's so much to be said, plainly and without artifice?" | In her work, Emejulu — a Black feminist scholar at the University of Warwick in England — provides us with an unfiltered look at the racism and oppression faced by Black British women across significant domains of u…
(2021-07-16). Texas Dems, AFL-CIO's Trumka link voting and workers' rights. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Citing civil rights leaders the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and a delegation of Texas state Democratic lawmakers—who left Austin for D.C. to halt a draconian Texas GOP voter repression law—inextricably linked voting rights with worker rights. In an outdoor press conference at …
(2021-07-16). Texas Voting Rights Attacks Warrant Congressional Action. aclu.org Earlier this week, Texas Democrats fled the state in a last-ditch effort to prevent the passage of a restrictive new voting law by the Republican-controlled legislature. At the same time, Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the death of civil rights hero Congressma…
(2021-07-16). BLM declares solidarity with people of Cuba in attack on 'cruel & inhumane' US embargo. rt.com 
Racial justice group Black Lives Matter has publicly condemned the decades-long US embargo on Cuba as the socialist nation was swept by protests against food and drug shortages. The stance alienated some devotees. | BLM "condemns the US federal government's inhumane treatment of Cubans, and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo," the organization said in a statement posted to social media on Wednesday, echoing calls from NGOs, the UN, and other countries to end the trade blockade that has kept the country in isolation and poverty for so long. | The group's missive laid 60 years of Cuban sufferin…
(2021-07-16). On The Sentencing And Courage Of Daniel Hale. popularresistance.org My next portrait for the Americans Who Tell the Truth project will be Daniel Hale, the former Air Force analyst and drone whistleblower who released classified documents showing that nearly 90% of the casualties of U.S. drone assassination missions are civilians—children, women, workers, farmers, and other people who show up as shadows on drone pilot computer screens and are subsequently rendered permanent shadows. Hale will be sentenced on July 27 in Alexandria, Virginia for the crime of truth telling. In all likelihood he will receive 10 years in prison—surely sufficient time to reflect on the error…
(2021-07-16). Do Black People Have the Right to Bear Arms? aclu.org With 233 mass shootings so far this year, the issue of gun violence in the U.S. is all too familiar. Tragic events like the Pulse nightclub and Parkland shootings go from being media spectacles to quotidian events at an alarming rate in a country that often heralds the Second Amendment above meaningful safety for all its citizens. The vigilantism of widespread gun ownership puts Black Americans in an especially vulnerable position given the brutality and human cost of discriminatory policing. | The gun violence epidemic continues to spark debate about the Second Amendment and who has a right to bear arms. But…
(2021-07-16). Midwest Dispatch: As Crime Increases, Biden Pursues the Usual Non-Solutions. progressive.org The President is likely to respond to the national crime uptick with more police, more prisons, and more punishment—but what we really need are more Pell Grants for the incarcerated.
(2021-07-16). Vigilante Groups On The Rise As South Africa Riot Casualties Near 120. southfront.org 
Armed community members and vigilante groups have stepped in to tackle unrest in South Africa. | This has become a sort of necessity due to the fact that security forces are entirely failing in containing the unrest. | Understaffed and heavily reliant on private security companies, the police was rapidly overwhelmed when riots and looting first flared seven days ago in the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), sparked by the jailing of graft-accused former president Jacob Zuma. | On July 15th, acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni warned against "a situation where members of the public…
(2021-07-16). To Abolish Prisons and Militarism, We Need Anti-Imperialist Abolition Feminism. truthout.org 
"In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence; it will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all peoples." — Since the turn of the 21st century, the prison- and military-industrial complexes have not only expanded, but they are…
(2021-07-16). Prison population surge triggers overcrowding, COVID casualties. news.un.org One in three prisoners around the world is being held without having stood trial or been found guilty by any court, according to a new study published on Friday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
(2021-07-16). The Perils of "Minority Rule" commondreams.org "The Hubbard County Sheriff has attempted to illegally construct a de facto open-air prison to trap Indigenous environmental protectors and allies on their own property."
(2021-07-16). Defend the Cuba Revolution and Struggle for More Socialism, Not Less! counterpunch.org Hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, an economic crisis, broken supply chains, killer cops, mass incarceration, government surveillance, nuclear weapons, irrational anti-social mass shootings, normalized racism, homelessness, crumbling schools, depression, fear, suicides, and obscene disparities in incomes and wealth—all the features of a moribund, brutal, anti-human global colonial-capitalist system in the United States—and we are
(2021-07-16). Gaza's Families Suffering Another Summer of Needless Suffering. counterpunch.org My family and I—my wife, our young son, our elders, and the twin baby girls who will be born to us this week—ask the world to hear the conditions of our lives here in Deir el Balah, after 14 years' captivity in the world's largest toxic prison-camp, and since the May waves of Israeli tank
(2021-07-16). The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago. nationofchange.org Experts' discoveries lie at the heart of two dozen lawsuits that hope to hold the industry accountable for devastating damage.