(2021-10-02). UN Finds Steven Donziger's House Arrest Violates International Law. popularresistance.org The world's top human rights legal body just offered a crucial show of support for Steven Donziger, the attorney who won a landmark multibillion-dollar case against an oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. The ruling came on the eve of his sentencing in a criminal trial. | On Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights ruled that Donziger's home detention is illegal under international law and called on the U.S. to release him. Donziger will have spent an unprecedented 787 days on house arrest as of Friday in what is one of the most winding and wild court cases that spa…
(2021-10-02). The ACLU bans "women" and supports medical tyranny. dissidentvoice.org 
Last month, to mark one year since the death of a female icon, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shit all over her memory with a misogynist tweet (below). The once-revered ACLU has become so #woke that they now ban words like "women" and "she" and "her" in the name of virtue …
(2021-10-02). [Editorial] Fatal police violence in the USA: a public health issue. thelancet.com Preventable violent deaths of people of colour at the hands of police in the USA have been overlooked as a public health issue. Many victims of police violence have become household names, like George Floyd, whose death made headlines worldwide and raised awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, which targets structural racism and violence against Black people in the USA and abroad. Yet, for every George Floyd, hundreds of other Americans' deaths after violent exchanges with police go unheeded, unacknowledged, and uncounted.
(2021-10-02). Bahrain: UK lawmakers demand release of prominent prisoner on hunger strike. middleeasteye.net 
Bahrain: UK lawmakers demand release of prominent prisoner on hunger strike | Letter accuses Britain of "repeating false assurances from Bahrain" in the case of Abduljalil al-Singace | Sat, 10/02/2021 – 10: 35 | Abduljalil Singace (R) has been on hunger strike since July in protest against his 'ill-treatment' in prison (AFP) | British lawmakers, trade unions, NGOs, academics, and lawyers are calling on the gov…
(2021-10-01). Conceal and Carry Restrictions Can Help Protect Freedom of Expression. aclu.org The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in an important legal challenge to New York's concealed carry law. The law requires people registering for concealed carry gun licenses to demonstrate "proper cause" in order to do so, and in particular to demonstrate a specific need for self-defense if they seek to carry a gun for that purpose. | The question in the case is whether the Second Amendment permits New York to restrict the carriage of firearms in this manner. The meaning, intent and reach of the Second Amendment remain a matter of deep controversy, but the Supreme Court has made clear that Second Amendmen…
(2021-10-01). Letter writing for refugee children in California. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – A group of people gathered at Belvedere Park in East Los Angeles, September 25, to write and draw letters. The artwork and letters are for the refugee children, mostly Central American, held at the Pomona Fairplex detention center. The event was hosted by the Immigration Committee of Centro Community Service Organization, or Centro CSO. | The event inspired many children, their parents, and even grandparents to sit under shade and draw. One grandmother told her granddaughter, "The drawing you are coloring is going to put a smile on another child like you, who is looking for their family." | In F…
(2021-10-01). CIA plan to poison Assange wasn't needed. The US found a 'lawful' way to disappear him. zcomm.org The US was also able to manipulate the legal processes in both Sweden and the UK to engineer Assange's effective incarceration all that time…
(2021-10-01). Israel: Recaptured Palestinian jailbreakers transferred to solitary confinement. middleeasteye.net 
Israel: Recaptured Palestinian jailbreakers transferred to solitary confinement | Lawyer condemns the move as 'arbitrary' and Hamas as 'retaliatory', with one prisoner close to a hunger strike | Fri, 10/01/2021 – 12: 58 | Palestinian citizens in Israel gather outside Gilboa prison in the north, in support of Palestinians in Israeli jails, 18 September 2021 (AFP) | Israel's Prison Service (IPS) has moved to sol…
(2021-10-01). Fight to Close Guantánamo Urgent as Biden Plans New Migrant Jail at Base. truthout.org 
We look at the life and legacy of the late Michael Ratner, the trailblazing human rights lawyer and former president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, with three people who knew him well: Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Vince Warren, the organization's executive director; and Lizzy Ratner, Ratner's niece and a senior editor at The Nation magazine. Michael Ratner spent decades opposing government abuse and fought…
(2021-10-01). Reflections on Political Violence and Terror. counterpunch.org Political physical violence and the threat and capacity to use such violence, enforce ruling class power and other and related forms of domination and oppression. Ideological indoctrination and informational bias to "manufacture consent" matter a great deal of course, but we should not forget the significant role of force. Manufacturing Consent with Rifles, Tear Gas
(2021-10-01). In Contempt #9: Running Down the Walls 2021; Eric King Trial, Hunger Strikes in Texas & Oregon. itsgoingdown.org 
In this month's column, we roundup the recent #ShutEmDown actions, Running Down the Walls events, and offer updates on ongoing hunger strikes, political prisoners like Eric King, resistance at the border as the settler-State brutally cracks down on Haitian migrants, and we also bring you an updated list of political prisoner birthdays and defendants facing…
(2021-10-01). Video: Samidoun on normalization campaigns and Palestinian and Arab resistance. samidoun.net Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, appeared on Press TV's "Spotlight" program on 30 September 2021 to discuss the official Bahraini U.S.-backed normalization deal with the Israeli regime. She joined Palestinian commentator and analyst Lamis Andoni on the program. Watch the video: Both guests discussed the role of U.S. imperialism […] | The article
(2021-10-01). Guantanamo Bay: US court grapples with detainees' constitutional rights. middleeasteye.net 
Guantanamo Bay: US court grapples with detainees' constitutional rights | DC Circuit Court of Appeals appears reluctant to rule over whether Guantanamo prisoners should have due process rights | Fri, 10/01/2021 – 16: 41 | Thirty-nine prisoners remain at the Guantanamo Bay prison (AFP/File photo) | A
(2021-10-01). Roaming Charges: The Dirtiest Word of All. counterpunch.org There are, of course, quieter ways to kill than in a gun battle on the streets of London and Biden, no less eager to claim Julian Assange's head than Trump, seems to have settled on a more insidious method: allowing Assange to waste away in the dark chambers of a prison, whether in Belmarsh, where he is now confined, or, if extradited, in some even more austere Supermax in the American outback.
(2021-10-01). Protests against Tory police bill continue in the UK. peoplesdispatch.org Progressive sections in the UK continue to protest against the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill proposed by the Boris Johnson-led Conservative Party government in the country. On September 29, Wednesday, under the leadership of Sisters Uncut, a protest gathering was organized at Old Bailey, London, during the proceedings for the sentencing of Wayne Couzens, the police officer who was found guilty of the murderer of Sarah Everard. On September 30, the court sentenced Wayne Couzens to a whole life term in prison with no parole. | During the trial, it was revealed that Couzens abused his offic…
(2021-10-01). State of exception declared following massacre inside prison. peoplesdispatch.org At least 100 have been killed and 80 left injured in a massive riot that broke out between the inmates of the Litoral penitentiary in Ecuador. The violence prompted President Guillermo Lasso, on September 29, to decree a "state of exception" in the country's prison system. The state of exception gives the government the power to suspend public rights and use public security forces to restore normalcy. Following the declaration of emergency, there has been a heavy deployment of soldiers inside the prisons.
(2021-10-01). Colleagues of Michael Ratner Blast Samuel Moyn's Claim That He Helped Sanitize the "War on Terror" democracynow.org 
Friends and relatives of the late radical attorney Michael Ratner respond to the recent controversy over Yale University professor Samuel Moyn's claim that Ratner "prioritized making the war on terror humane" by using the courts to challenge the military's holding of prisoners at Guantánamo. Ratner's longtime colleagues blast Moyn for failing to recognize how the late attorney had dedicated his life to fighting war and U.S. imperialism. "Michael opposed war with every fiber of his being in every medium he had access to: the courtroom, the classroom, in the media," says Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for…
(2021-10-01). 'Serious issues with self-awareness': China urges US to find 'courage' to address own mistakes after bilateral military talks. rt.com 
Beijing has called on its counterparts in Washington to find the "courage" and "self-awareness" to amend a series of aggressive and provocative policies toward China, following a second round of high-level joint military talks. | Beijing welcomes dialogue with the United States, but insists Washington must take steps to end the "continuous provocations and suppression of China," Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian
(2021-10-01). Forget the Voting Rights bill: Here's how to destroy GOP voter suppression. nationofchange.org The lesson to be learned here? When you are faced with a massive obstacle, aka, the Republicans in U.S. Senate blocking your way, then you must either go around it, over it, under it, or right through it.