(2022-08-25). Palestinian Collective Struggle on the Rise Inside Occupation Prisons. orinocotribune.com Palestinian prisoners
(2022-08-25). U.S. suppression of Chinese firms slammed. ecns.cn As the United States added seven new China-related entities to its export control list, scholars have said that this suppression of Chinese companies is unpopular and benefits no one.
(2022-08-25). RISE for Youth program celebrates successful first year. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org RISE for Youth, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the NAACP, recently wrapped up its inaugural year of programming. The program, which received funding through Mayo Clinic's $100 million commitment against racism, drew rave reviews from scholars, community partners and Mayo Clinic staff. For as long as she can remember, Aisha Qassim has wanted to become a surgeon. But with no doctors in her family, she wasn't sure of the…
(2022-08-24). Repurposing Prisons Can Revitalize Rural America. popularresistance.org The economic fortunes of rural communities across the United States are often deeply intertwined with the prison industrial complex. This poses a real challenge to the project of ending mass incarceration. How can organizers build political opposition to prisons in areas where prisons are the lifeblood of a community? And what should be done with former prisons once they are closed? The question of repurposing prisons in particular is too often neglected by state governments. A new report from the Sentencing Project finds that while 21 states have closed prisons since 2000, many of these sites have simply become…
(2022-08-24). Argentina: Cristina Kirchner Denounces Trial as 'Media-Judicial Firing Squad'. orinocotribune.com Despite the lack of evidence following three years of trial, and the blunders that the judiciary committed by taking "evidence" from other cases, the prosecutors asked for 12 years in prison and a lifetime political ban for Cristina Kirchner. The court, confirming its partiality, denied the former president and current vice-president of Argentina her right to expand the preliminary statement, which prompted a forceful response from her. | Rarely have the workings of the media-judicial-political system in Argentina been exposed with such clarity as we have seen with the nine-day display of a diversionary strategy…
(2022-08-24). Bradford Gamble, liberated activist and prison whistleblower. workers.org 
When Bradford Gamble died, he was surrounded by his family. The 65-year-old had been imprisoned for nearly a lifetime — 46 years — before he learned he was dying of cancer. With the help of activists on both sides of the prison walls, Gamble fought relentlessly to win his freedom. . . . |
(2022-08-24). Twitter campaign for releasing Abdul Jalil Al-Senkis. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — It's a call for a Twitter campaign aimed at releasing Abdul Jalil Al-Senkis who is jailed in Al-Khalifa regime's prison.
(2022-08-23). Mexico: Former Prosecutor General Arrested For Role In Ayotzinapa Case. popularresistance.org Former prosecutor general of Mexico, Jesús Murillo Karam, was arrested on Friday, August 19, for alleged involvement in the Ayotzinapa forced disappearance case, in which 43 teaching trainee students of Guerrero state were forcibly taken and later executed during the midnight hours of September 26-27, 2014. Murillo Karam, who headed the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), was the mastermind behind the deceiving "historical truth" narrative of the case. | The news of the detention was reported by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) through an of…