(2022-01-05). Violence in Colombia Near Venezuelan Border Raises Military Alert. orinocotribune.com 
A new wave of violence and terror was unleashed yesterday in Colombia near its border with Venezuela, in the department of Arauca. Reports stated that over 20 people died in clashes between paramilitary groups fighting for territory. | The Colombian municipalities of Arauquita, Saravena, Forul, Tame, and Botalón, in Arauca, were struck by massacres, detentions, and displacements. | With the slogan "Botalón demands peace," Colombian social leader Mayerly Briceño published statements on her Twitter account as residents in the sector were mobilized. They requested the intervention of human rights organizations and C…
(2022-01-05). Ft. Lauderdale Food Not Bombs Wins Settlement in Federal Lawsuit Against City. itsgoingdown.org Federal lawsuit against Ft. Lauderdale Food not Bombs ends in victory against the city. Originally posted to Tequesta Black Star. After a 7-year-long legal battle between Ft. Lauderdale Food Not Bombs and the City of Fort Lauderdale, FNB has won a settlement and payment for legal fees by the City for attempting to ban food…
(2022-01-05). When identity becomes a prison, there can be no liberational politics. zcomm.org Please Help ZNet Source: The Real News Network There is no doubt that racism is real and has negative consequences for people's lives," Adolph Reed Jr. and Touré F. Reed note in the abstract to their article "The Evolution of 'Race' and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism." "This is why we
(2022-01-05). European Union funds Greece's fascistic anti-refugee offensive—Part 2. wsws.org The camps being built in Greece, with the fulsome praise of bourgeois politicians across the continent, are prisons, enforcing total surveillance and control over detainees.
(2022-01-05). Julian Assange passes one thousand days in Belmarsh Prison, dubbed "Britain's Guantanamo Bay" wsws.org Assange is imprisoned without charge to facilitate an extradition request from the American government, which plotted his illegal kidnapping or assassination.
(2022-01-04). Noise Demonstrations Held For The Incarcerated On New Year's Eve. popularresistance.org As people counted down to 2022, across multiple cities in the so-called US and Canada, people hit the streets to hold noise demonstrations outside of prisons, jails, juvenile halls, and detention facilities. For over 10 years, anarchists and abolitionists have held noise demonstrations on New Year's Eve as a way to mobilize energy for the new year and also continue to build connections with those locked behind bars. | Here's our roundup of noise demos. On New Years Eve 25 anarchists, abolitionists and other rebels gathered outside of the (in)Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio for the second annual New Yea…
(2022-01-04). Noise Demonstrations Held Across So-Called US and Canada on New Year's Eve. itsgoingdown.org 
As people counted down to 2022, across multiple cities in the so-called US and Canada, people hit the streets to hold noise demonstrations outside of prisons, jails, juvenile halls, and detention facilities. For over 10 years, anarchists and abolitionists have held noise demonstrations on New Year's Eve as a way to mobilize energy for the…
(2022-01-04). 140 days of hunger strike: Abu Hawash in "intermittent coma" as mobilization for his freedom intensifies. samidoun.net 
As of 3 January 2022, Palestinian hunger striking prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash is now on his 140th day without nutrition. According to doctors who have viewed him, he is at risk of sudden death and serious organ damage at any moment. He is on hunger strike to demand his release from administrative detention, imprisonment without […] | The article
(2022-01-04). "There's No Social Distancing": Immigrants Held in ICE Jails at Risk Amid New Omicron Surge. democracynow.org 
As the Omicron variant sets record-high COVID-19 infection rates across the United States, we look at the conditions in the sprawling network of jails run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement where the Biden administration is holding more than 22,000 people. "There's still a lot of people detained. There's no social distancing. People are still facing COVID," says longtime immigrant activist Maru Mora Villalpando, who adds that most COVID infections are coming from unvaccinated workers who are coming from outside of the jails. She describes how people held in GEO Group's Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacom…
(2022-01-04). After 141 days on hunger strike, Israeli authorities set to release Hisham Abu Hawwash. peoplesdispatch.org 
Following mass protests and international pressure, Israeli authorities confirmed that Abu Hawwash's administrative detention order would not be renewed and that he would be released in February…
(2022-01-04). Your Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest or When to Shoot A Cop. indybay.org How many unarmed, non-violent people have died at the hands of the police? When the police target you through a pattern of false arrests and illegal detentions, violent attacks on homes, family and friends, perhaps we have a duty to fight back?>
(2022-01-04). Cleveland jail inmates face continued abuse, activists protest. liberationnews.org 
On New Year's Eve 2021, activists from a broad coalition met outside the Justice Center Complex in downtown Cleveland, the seat of the current County Jail, for a noise demonstration.
(2022-01-04). Cleveland jail inmates face continued abuse; activists protest. liberationnews.org On New Year's Eve 2021, activists from a broad coalition met outside the Justice Center Complex in downtown Cleveland, the seat of the current County Jail, for a noise demonstration.
(2022-01-04). Immigrants Held in ICE Jails at Risk Amid New Omicron Surge. truthout.org 
Image Credit: Cynthia Briones | As the Omicron variant sets record-high COVID-19 infection rates across the United States, we look at the conditions in the sprawling network of jails run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement where the Biden administration is holding more than 22,000 people. "There's still a lot of people detained. There's no social distancing. People are still facing COVID," says longtime immigrant activist Maru Mora Villalpando, who adds that most COVID infections are coming from unvaccinated…
(2022-01-04). France and U.K. Sued for Manslaughter After 27 Migrants Seeking Help Drowned in English Channel. democracynow.org 
The French humanitarian group Utopia 56 has filed a manslaughter lawsuit against British and French officials for failing to help 27 migrants who drowned to death in the English Channel in November. The only two survivors say they were ignored when they made distress calls and told their location to French and English rescue services after their boat capsized and started sinking in the freezing waters off the French port city of Calais. We speak with NikolaàØ Posner of Utopia 56, who says the lawsuit is meant to "bring the truth and the transparency on what happened."
(2022-01-04). FBI Is Recklessly Misusing Trump-Era Espionage Policy To Create 'Climate Of Fear' Among Scientists. popularresistance.org On the Tuesday before Christmas, Dr. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted by a federal jury of lying to the U.S. about his involvement with China's government and failing to disclose income from China on his tax returns. He faces up to five years in federal prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. | Lieber had been prosecuted as part of the Justice Department's China Initiative, which was established in 2018 to crackdown on Chinese economic and scientific espionage. | An investigation by MIT Technology Review found that instead of focu…
(2022-01-04). Waupun, WI: Report Back from NYE Noise Demo at Waupun Prison. itsgoingdown.org Report back from New Year's Eve noise demo outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Waupun prison. A group of anarchists and anarchist adjacent folks in Wisconsin headed up to the maximum security prison in Waupun on new years eve, 2021. They intended to hold a noise demo to make sure that folks who are being held…
(2022-01-04). Elizabeth Holmes Guilty On 4 Of 11 Charges In Theranos Fraud, Jury Deadlocked On 3 Counts. moguldom.com Once celebrated as the "next Steve Jobs" and "the world's youngest self-made female billionaire," tech icon Elizabeth Holmes now faces decades in prison after being found guilty of conspiring to defraud investors out of billions. The former CEO of failed Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos, Holmes was found guilty on four of 11 charges against …
(2022-01-04). Imprisoned UK Anarchist Toby Shone Explains His Case. itsgoingdown.org Syndicated from ACT FOR FREEDOM NOW! In November 2020 a series of co-ordinated raids against the website 325.nostate.net were executed by counter-terrorism cops in the UK as part of "Operation Adream." As explained below, several properties in the southwest of England were searched and one person, Toby Shone, was arrested and charged under the Terrorist…
(2022-01-04). Theranos founder convicted of fraud & conspiracy. rt.com 
Elizabeth Holmes, once touted as the Steve Jobs of biotechnology, could now face a lengthy prison term | The founder and CEO of 'revolutionary' blood-testing health technology company Theranos, has been found guilty on four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors, but not patients. | Elizabeth Holmes, 37, was found not guilty on four charges revolving around "wire fraud against Theranos paying patients," and the jury in California also remained deadlocked on three other charges on Monday. But with a partially guilty verdict she could still face up to 20 years in prison for each count, although…
(2022-01-04). Israel-Palestine: Family call for immediate release of hunger striker Abu Hawwash. middleeasteye.net 
Israel-Palestine: Family call for immediate release of hunger striker Abu Hawwash | The 41-year-old is said to be close to death as hundreds of others held as administrative detainees begin a boycott of Israel's military courts | Tue, 01/04/2022 – 10: 45 | Palestinians take part in a solidarity protest with Hisham Abu Hawwash who has been on a hunger strike for more than 140 days, in the West Ba…
(2022-01-04). Why We Must Fight to Free Political Prisoners in 2022. scheerpost.com 
Woman holding up a sign that reads "NO POLITICAL PRISONERS" from By Ezra Brain / Newly elected Chilean president Gabriel Boric's victory speech was interrupted by a chant that went through the crowd: "We're not all here." This has become a slogan for many of the last vestiges of the 2019 Chilean uprising, a reference to the protesters who currently sit in cells,…
(2022-01-04). European Union funds Greece's fascistic anti-refugee offensive—Part 1. wsws.org The camps being built in Greece, with the fulsome praise of bourgeois politicians across the continent, are prisons, enforcing total surveillance and control over detainees.
(2022-01-04). Why U.S. Prisons Don't Want Prisoners to Read. scheerpost.com By Eddie Conway / In a recent piece for Protean magazine entitled "