2022-05-01: News Headlines

Brenda Norrell (2022-05-01). TigerSwan Spy Documents at Standing Rock are Public Records. Victims Appeal Lawsuit. indybay.org The Water Protectors of Standing Rock were the focus of two court actions this week. The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled that 60,000 spy documents of TigerSwan are public records to be released. In a separate court action, Water Protectors injured by rubber bullets and projectiles fired by law enforcement filed an appeal of a class-action civil rights lawsuit. It was earlier thrown out by the court which sided with law enforcement.

Lynda Carson (2022-05-01). Property managers operating illegally face $20,000 in fines and or 6 months in jail. indybay.org

Lynda Carson (2022-05-01). John Stewart Company Seeks Property Managers. indybay.org Jailbirds:…

Ann Garrison (2022-05-01). Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. orinocotribune.com By Ann Garrison — Apr 27, 2022 | The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the crimes of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front or TPLF, the U.S. puppets who tyrannized Ethiopia for 27 years with divide-and-conquer ethnic politics from 1991 to 2018, when a popular uprising forced them from power. The TPLF then retreated to Tigray Region and, in November 2020, started the ongoing civil war by attacking the national army's Northern Command. | US officialdom and both state and corporate media in the US have since described the Ethiopian conflict as the government's persecution o…

Andrew McCormick (2022-05-01). Texas Voter Suppression Is Keeping Climate Action by the State Off the Table. truthout.org This story is published as part of For Alán de León, natural disasters are a way of life. Growing up in Houston, de León knew that late summer meant hurricane season, a time when his family took special care to save money and stock up on extra food. | In recent years, those storms have gotten worse because of the climate crisis. When Hurricane Harvey hit in August 2017, flood waters swallowed de León's father's house up to its roof.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-04-30). Colombia's conflict victims frustrate Otoniel's extradition to US. colombiareports.com Colombia's highest administrative court ordered President Ivan Duque to suspend the extradition of jailed warlord "Otoniel" at the request of victim organizations. According to the order of the Council of…

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-04-30). Legal Actions Challenge Huge Logging Project in Los Padres National Forest. indybay.org Three Lawsuits Filed Against Forest Service for Failing to Protect Environment, Cultural Resources on Pine Mountain, Reyes Peak…

Rebekah Entralgo (2022-04-30). Biden Faces Mounting Pressure to Commit to Substantial Student Debt Cancellation. truthout.org Less than 24 hours after news broke that President Biden is Students from the Washington, D.C. area joined advocates from Move On, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and other groups in chants of "cancel student debt" at a rally in front of the White House on April 27. | An all-star cast of Democratic members of Congress also attended the rally to pressure the Biden administration…

Anonymous103 (2022-04-30). In Video: Ukrainian Soldier Surprised By Attitude Of Russian Servicemen To Prisoners Of War. southfront.org

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