Daily Archives: 2022-08-10

2022-08-10: News Headlines

____ (2022-08-08). U.S. white men sentenced to life in prison for killing Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery. ecns.cn Two white men were sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the 2020 murder of Black man Ahmaud Arbery.

Stansfield Smith (2022-08-09). The United States has many political prisoners. Here's a list. multipolarista.com The US government has many political prisoners, including journalists; national security state whistleblowers; Black, Indigenous, and Latino revolutionaries; foreign diplomats; Muslims detained without trial; women who defended themselves from attacks; and environmental activists.

Mark Taliano (2022-08-09). Who killed the POWs at Yelenovka? All signs on the ground point to a Ukrainian attack/ By Eva Bartlett. marktaliano.net There is every reason to believe that the July 29 bombing of a detention center holding Ukrainian POWs was carried out on Kiev's orders Original Link Here: Who killed the POWs at Yelenovka? All signs on the ground point to a Ukrainian attack — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union Eva Bartlett is a Canadian …

TeleSUR (2022-08-09). Ecuadorian Government Refuses to Release Jorge Glas. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Ruben Molina, judge of the Specialized Judicial Unit for Penitentiary Guarantees of Portoviejo City, accepted a writ of habeas corpus in favor of Jorge Glas, who was vice president during the presidencies of Rafael Correa and Lenin Moreno. | RELATED: | In substantiating his decision, Molina mentioned that the Ecuadorian authorities had not adequately attended his needs and had violated his "rights to healt…

Fight Back (2022-08-09). Milwaukee Alliance holds march and vigil for Brieon Green. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI — On Saturday, August 6, the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression held a march and vigil with the family of Brieon Green and other community members. Green died at the jail on June 26. With a small but energetic crowd, the Milwaukee Alliance led people in a loop through the downtown area that began and ended in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse. | After the march, Angela Lang, executive director of Black Leaders Organizing Communities; Monique Dunlap, Green's aunt, and Omar Flores, co-chair of the MAARPR, spoke about Green's case and the need for transparency…

Derrick Broze (2022-08-09). Recently Released Emails Provide More Evidence of Big Tech-Government Collusion. thelastamericanvagabond.com Emails released as part of several open records requests and lawsuits provide a behind-the-scenes look at the level of collaboration between the U.S. government and Big Tech companies — including targeting The Last American Vagabond's Twitter account. In July 2021, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged that the White House was working with

_____ (2022-08-09). Australian Labor Party And Assange: Burying The Politics. popularresistance.org The difficulty for the Australian Labor government in deciding how to respond to the Julian Assange case is that once a prosecution is characterised as a political prosecution then, by its nature, there can be no expectation of due process. | The U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty forbids extradition in the case of "political offences." Former Australian High Commissioner to the U.K. George Brandis — who was commissioner for almost the entirety of Assange's Belmarsh imprisonment since 2019 — doesn't agree that Assange is a political prisoner. | The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and its new…

_____ (2022-08-09). How Activism Labour Defies Capitalism. popularresistance.org It only takes one doom scroll through social media to see there is no shortage of injustice in the world. But there is also no shortage of people who have dedicated themselves to dismantle systems of violence and advance justice through activism. | With how deeply entrenched injustice is in our society, the work to dismantle injustice is a full-time job. Despite the hours put in, this job does not fit a capitalist and colonial view of labour. | El Jones, a prison abolitionist dedicated to fighting state violence, said that for Black people, there is a historical precedent that makes it easier for this work to go…

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-08-09). Justicia de Ecuador arremete contra juez que falló sobre caso Glas. telesurtv.net El Consejo de la Judicatura afirmó en un comunicado que "actuará con absoluta firmeza en el ámbito de sus competencias".

____ (2022-08-09). U.S. suppresses civilizations, tramples on human dignity: report. ecns.cn A report on U.S. violations of human rights released Tuesday pointed out that the United States had been creating a "clash of civilizations," abusing imprisonment and torture, and violating freedom of religion and human dignity.

_____ (2022-08-08). Colombia: Petro Is Now President; A Call For The Release Of Prisoners. popularresistance.org "It is said that no one really knows a nation until he has been in one of its prisons." Nelson Mandela's sentence opens a petition addressed to Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, president and vice-president of Colombia, who officially takes office today. It is signed by the National Penitentiary Movement, accompanied by hundreds of organizations and personalities. | The document offers a summary of the structural problems afflicting a country like Colombia, where the spaces for political viability of the opposition were closed with the assassination of Liberal leader Eliécer Gaitán, on April 9, 1948, and where v…

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