(2022-06-09). Mayo Clinic, NAACP to welcome inaugural RISE for Youth cohort on June 6. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch will welcome 40 promising high school and college students to RISE for Youth, on Monday, June 6. This program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to help Black and underrepresented students find pathways to success in education and employment. RISE stands for Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower, and is an approach developed by Anjali Bhagra, M.D., medical director of Mayo Clinic's Office of Equity,…
(2022-06-09). After attempted suicide, calls strengthened to shut Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. greenleft.org.au Justice campaigners are renewing their calls for Don Dale Youth Detention Centre to be closed, following reports of an attempted suicide by a child detainee. Stephen W Enciso reports.
(2022-06-08). The Setback In Russiagate Probe. popularresistance.org Michael Sussmann, an A-list attorney who was a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, was acquitted by a jury in the federal District Court of the District of Columbia last week. | Sussmann had been accused of lying to the F.B.I., a crime widely considered to be a "process felony" or a "throwaway felony," something the Justice Department charges you with when they can't get you for anything else. Even though the federal sentencing guidelines called for 0-6 months in prison had Sussmann been convicted, the loss of his law license and the humiliation of a felony conviction would have been a…
(2022-06-08). Cutting Incarcerated Mothers Off From Families Hurts Everyone. popularresistance.org As Wendy Sawyer and Wanda Bertram recently wrote for the Prison Policy Initiative, "Over half (58%) of all women in US prisons are mothers, as are 80% of women in jails, including many who are incarcerated awaiting trial simply because they can't afford bail… And these numbers don't cover the many women preparing to become mothers while locked up this year: An estimated 58,000 people every year are pregnant when they enter local jails or prisons." In this edition of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Debra Bennett-Austin of Change Comes Now about the shocking number of incarcerated mothers in the US toda…
(2022-06-08). #FreeSalahHamouri: Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender ordered to 3 more months in arbitrary detention. samidoun.net 
On Monday, 6 June, Israeli occupation forces once again ordered Palestinian-French lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hamouri to an additional three months jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. Hamouri is a Palestinian Jerusalemite, born to a Palestinian father and a French mother, and has faced relentless persecution by the Israeli regime, locking …
(2022-06-08). The Nakba, Administrative Detention, Jenin, and Shireen Abu Akleh. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Jun 1, 2022 | What do these four separate events have in common? | The Nakba, as many people are already aware, refers to the mass expulsion of ethnic Palestinians from their homes towns and villages in 1948. | Over 7 ,000 old men, young women, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, fled for their lives, under the threat of annihilation and ethnic genocide from the forces of the newly created "Israel." | "Israel" was born into the bloodied hands of Zionist terrorism, the Irgun, Stern gangs, and Haganah. | Terrorist groups murdered, maimed, mutilated, and raped Palestinians as part of the…
(2022-06-08). Jeanine àÅñez Coup d'État Trial Resumes in Bolivia. orinocotribune.com On Monday, April 6, the Coup d'État II trial against former de facto president of Bolivia, Jeanine àÅñez, resumed in court. However, after àÅñez suffered a health complication at the Miraflores prison, where she was following the trial via videoconference, the president of the First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz, Germán Ramos, decided to suspend the hearing for the day, and announced that hearings will restart on Tuesday. | The hearing on Monday lasted more than six hours, and many aspect of the trial were discussed, such as a complaint filed by àÅñez's defense, challenging a pre…
(2022-06-08). Election subversion is replacing voter suppression as new GOP threat. nationofchange.org Pro-Trump Republicans are building new paths to subvert future election results, numerous analyses find.
(2022-06-08). Victims of Forced Sterilization in California Are Fighting for Reparations. truthout.org In the mid-2000s, Moonlight Pulido experienced a bout of hot flashes, emotional ups-and-downs, and other symptoms of menopause that confused her — after all, she was in her 30s and far too young to be experiencing these kinds of hormonal changes. Days before the symptoms set in, she had undergone what she believed to be a procedure to remove cancerous growths on her internal reproductive organs at the hospital at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California, where she was incarcerated. Instead, she had been forcibly sterilized. | Pulido, who now lives in a reentry program home located in Los Ange…