2022-05-08: News Headlines

UUSF Sensible Cinema, the IEC (2022-05-08). Friday 5/20: NASRIN story of a courageous Iranian lawyer and political prisoner. indybay.org VIA ZOOM | us02web.zoom.us/j/81874845936?pwd=Y2RCOVV2UDlCNVhjMUd6TGdmOHpqZz09 | Meeting ID: 818 7484 5936 Passcode: 205900…

JANET (2022-05-07). For Mumia on his birthday. iacenter.org By Julia Wright May 6, 2022 To yet another Mumia generation: Mumia Abu-Jamal Children, did you hear of a Black man called Mumia ? for 40 years he has been taking us on a journey showing us the cruel and unusual imprisonment of a world shackled by made-in-U.S.A. imperialism ‚àí the poisoning of the earth belonging to the damned, the hunger and the drought suffered by the underneath of the underneath at the hands of climate-blind corporate greed, the political incarceration of those who dare lift their voice against their own genocide . . . for forty years Mumia has been taking us on a journey i…

_____ (2022-05-07). Iwakuni Residents Fight Back Against US Military Presence. popularresistance.org Iwakuni, Japan – A group of residents of the city of Iwakuni, in the Yamaguchi Prefecture, announced plans to use a lawsuit to demand a ban on military aircraft flights in the city on May 2. Residents have long complained of noise pollution from both Japanese and US aircrafts in the city's military base, and have sought a ban on their activities as well as damages. The group is expected to file the lawsuit at the Yamaguchi District Court later in the month. | Once filed, the lawsuit will be the second of its kind to emerge from Iwakuni. According to reports, the same group of residents were plaintiffs or supporte…

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-05-07). Kato Kajubi seeks Supreme Court review of Sentence. plusnews.ug Godfrey Kato Kajubi has applied to the Supreme Court asking the Justices to review their decision that upheld his conviction and subsequent life imprisonment for murdering a 12-year-old boy Joseph Kasirye. In July 2012, the then Masaka High Court Judge Mike Chibita found Kajubi guilty of murdering Kasirye on October 27, 2008. The court found …

Our Reporter (2022-05-07). Woman remanded over theft of Ug.Sh.1 bn. plusnews.ug The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala has remanded Brender Nakalanzi, the Managing Director for Goshen Hope Enterprises to Luzira prison on charges of causing the government a financial loss of more than one billion shillings. Nakalanzi was on Friday afternoon arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court Chief Magistrate Joan Aciro where she denied the charges against …

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