(2022-09-01). East LA commemorates the 52nd Chicano Moratorium. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – Over 100 Chicanos and other participants gathered for a rally at Salazar Park in East Los Angeles to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium. In 1970, 30,000 people once demanded a stop to the Vietnam War and an end to discrimination and racism. The LAPD and LA Sheriff's Department teargassed and beat protesters. Their actions led to the deaths of three Chicanos, including LA Times reporter Ruben Salazar. | August 29th is now recognized by our movement as Chicano Liberation Day, and is celebrated by many with rallies and marches yearly. | "We're here supporting becau…
(2022-09-01). Putin expresa sus condolencias por muerte de Mijaíl Gorbachov. telesurtv.net El presidente Putin consideró al expresidente soviético Mijaíl Gorbachov como un político y estadista con enorme impacto en la historia mundial.
(2022-08-31). Prisoners for Profit: From the Kononovich Brothers to U.S. Jails. libya360.wordpress.com John Parker Based on remarks given at "Free the Kononovich Brothers: International Campaign Meeting" on Aug. 25. Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich are leaders of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine. They were among hundreds of political opponents of the Ukrainian regime jailed this year, and thousands since the 2014 U.S.-backed coup. On July 18,…
(2022-08-31). Inspired By Reparations Movement in California, Nevada Is Exploring Its Own Approach. moguldom.com As California moves forward with its study of possible reparations for residents who are ancestors of slaves, Nevada is now considering it own approach to reparations. Recently, during a Las Vegas-based webinar led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada (ACLU), local leaders discussed whether Black Nevadans should receive reparations. The conversation was held …
(2022-08-31). Palestinian Administrative Detainee Ends Hunger Strike. telesurenglish.net After more than 160 days of hunger strike, the Palestinian prisoner decided to end it following an agreement by Israel on his release, which is expected to come in October. | RELATED: | Under a practice known as "administrative detention," Khalil Awawdeh, aged 40, was detained by Israel in December last year without charge or trial. | Awawdeh's lawyer, Ahlam Haddad, said he would stay in hospital until he is disch…
(2022-08-31). US Decision-Makers Cannot Handle End Of White Supremacy. popularresistance.org US law has to be based on human rights standards. We see as a contradiction for the US to pretend to be a leader of human rights when its law and practice is anything but practices in law that are in correspondence with human rights standards. We believe that if there's going to be legitimacy and the international human rights framework, that has to be a framework that is applied equally to all nations. | For example, when we were building the US human rights network that would apply international human rights standards to the US, looking at issues of mass incarceration that we have in the US, looking at the fail…
(2022-08-31). "The IAM has sold us out once more": Railroad machinists speak out after union announces sellout deal. wsws.org "We as Labor must unite against the bureaucracy; the outright dismissal of our contribution to the record profits, home life suppression and abuse we receive from the Carriers!"
(2022-08-31). From High School Activist to Full-Time Advocate. aclu.org Henry Seaton didn't set out to become an activist. In 2016, as a high school senior in a Nashville suburb, he just wanted to use bathrooms that corresponded with his gender identity. After school administrators restricted him to using the often-locked bathroom in the nurse's office, Seaton got involved in efforts to protect trans students, including testifying before a Tennessee state legislative committee and starting a petition against bathroom bills that garnered 67,000 signatures. | "The traumas of my life were about to become law and dictate the traumas for thousands of children," he says. "I had never th…
(2022-08-31). Fallece Mijaíl Gorbachov, expresidente de la Unión Soviética. telesurtv.net El exdirigente de la Unión Soviética se habría internado para recibir un tratamiento por una enfermedad.
(2022-08-31). This US City Is Creating a Model for Fighting Mass Incarceration. commondreams.org Abolitionists and advocates of criminal justice reform in Los Angeles County have amassed some impressive victories, laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.
(2022-08-30). Pro-regime change journalist Shane Bauer files lawsuit seeking $10 million seized from Iran. thegrayzone.com Despite their professed opposition to US sanctions, Bauer and his fellow hikers-turned-cellmates stand to benefit handsomely from public assets plundered from Iran by the US government. Over a decade since he rose to prominence as a protagonist in an international drama of espionage and imprisonment, American journalist Shane Bauer and his family filed suit against Iran's government in a Washington DC-based US District Court, seeking compensation for $10 million in damages resulting from his two year detention in Tehran. Bauer's …
(2022-08-30). Tales From The Parents Of Tortured Palestinian Children. popularresistance.org Beit Hanina, Occupied Jerusalem — The United States House of Representatives submission to Israel and Zionism is both pathetic and enraging. This total submission to the will and interests of the Zionist movement and the State of Israel does not serve the interests of the American people, and only goes to support a state that has been recognized as a racist, violent apartheid regime. As one Palestinian said to me recently, U.S. foreign aid for Israel goes towards my oppression and the killing of my people. | Nowhere is Congress' blind support for Israel more heinous, more horrifying and more outrageous than…
(2022-08-30). The Sinister and Racist Practice Infecting Death Penalty Juries. aclu.org Every person accused of a crime is entitled to a jury of their peers. While this is a fundamental right, it is not the case in death penalty trials. Jury selection in death penalty trials is unconstitutionally discriminatory and exclusionary because of a process called "death qualification," which prosecutors use to exclude jurors. | Here's how it works: To serve on a death penalty jury, potential jurors must declare to prosecutors that they are willing to impose the death penalty. This assertion makes them — "death qualified." Death qualification is as sinister as it sounds, and it's demonstrably racist…
(2022-08-30). Residents Refuse To Be Forced From Homes Won Through Past Struggle. popularresistance.org Forty years ago, residents of Philadelphia won a subsidized housing community in the area known as Black Bottom after fighting the discrimination and displacement being used to clear the way for University City. Now the city is allowing that community, 72 residences called University City Townhomes (UCT), to be sold for gentrification. Clearing the FOG spoke with Rasheda Alexander, a resident of UCT, and Sterling Johnson of Philadelphia Housing Action about their efforts to protect UCT and stop the wave of evictions and displacement that primarily target low income black and brown people. Their organizing and act…
(2022-08-30). The EU sensationalises hunger strikes and protects Israel's violations. thealtworld.com Had the wife of hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh not publicised photos of her husband's emaciated body, the EU would have felt no urge to
(2022-08-30). How Can Americans Tolerate U.S. Government's Crucifixion of Julian Assange? libya360.wordpress.com Eric Zuesse Julian Assange has long been in solitary-confinement imprisonment in Britain awaiting extradition to America on charges which could bring him 175 years in prison, but he has never been convicted of anything, and the U.S. Government has violated both the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws by having thus imprisoned him for over a…