Daily Archives: 2021-10-03

2021-10-03: News Headlines

sputniknews (2021-10-03). Detention of Ex-Bolivian President Anez Extended by Five Months, Daughter Says. sputniknews.com MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – A Bolivian judge has ordered to extend the pre-trial detention of former interim Bolivian President Jeanine Anez for another five months, Anez's daughter, Carolina Ribera, has announced.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-03). Guantanamo Bay and the Legacy of the Global "War on Terror" libya360.wordpress.com Abdul Rahman Detainees upon arrival at Camp X-Ray, January 2002. Photo: Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy The failure of the successive governments in the US to shut Gitmo in which the majority of the detainees, past and present, were never charged with any crime formally, even after spending years in prison and suffering inhuman acts…

Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross (2021-10-03). Philadelphia: Running Down The Walls 2021 Reportback. itsgoingdown.org Report from Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross on recent Running Down the Walls event for political prisoners. To listen to an interview with Philly ABC on This Is America, go here. On sunny September 12, 2021, a light breeze persisted from off the lake in FDR park as participants gathered to check-in for their t-shirts, make…

Mickey Z. (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 …

The Lancet (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). 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…

Editor2 (2021-10-02). Liberal Feminism is an Imperialist Project — Part 1. orinocotribune.com By Sou Mi and Madeleine Freeman — Sep 11, 2021 | U.S. imperialism is responsible for the conditions facing women in Afghanistan today and others like them all across the world. Liberal feminism, with its reliance on the imperialist capitalist state, will never liberate the working class and poor women. | This article is the first in a Left Voice series on the situation of women in Afghanistan and the tasks of the international feminist movement in the fight against gender oppression. The return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan promises, and in many areas has already imposed, a rollback of women's political, ec…

Anarchist Black Cross Federation (2021-10-02). New Eric King Poster Fundraiser! itsgoingdown.org Announcing a new poster to benefit anarchist prisoner Eric King. Friends at Radix Media in Brooklyn, NY have created an amazing poster with a piece of Eric King's poetry! It is a fundraiser and proceeds will go to Eric's support fund. You can order at the link below. with some details about…

MEE staff (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…

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