(2022-09-02). Sullivan Walter, incarcerated for 36 years, exonerated in Louisiana. wsws.org Walter was convicted in a one-day trial and sentenced as an adult, serving 36 years in a Louisiana prison for a crime he did not commit. He became the 42nd person exonerated by the Innocence Project New Orleans.
(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). When Release Conditions End in Unjust Confinement. aclu.org 
After being charged with several non-violent drug possession and driving offenses, 43-year-old Shannan Davis spent five months languishing in jail awaiting trial. In an effort to get Shannan released pending trial, her attorney, Jennifer France, requested that the presiding judge give Shannan the option to seek support at a local treatment center. Instead, the Michigan judge issued an order stating that Shannan could be released directly to a drug treatment center, but with the condition that she also wear a costly ankle monitor. The judge's order stipulated that Shannan would then return to jail "upon release…
(2022-09-01). How Can Americans Tolerate U.S. Government's Crucifixion Of Julian Assange? southfront.org 
Written by 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 decade without his ever havi…
(2022-09-01). New victory for Palestinian prisoners' movement as occupation retreats from repressive measures. samidoun.net 
The Palestinian prisoners' movement announced a new victory on Thursday, 1 September 2022, in which the occupation prison administration retreated from its new repressive measures imposed upon the prisoners. In light of this achievement, the united prisoners' movement announced that they would not head into a collective mass hunger strike, saluting the prisoners, the Palestinian …
(2022-09-01). Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice demands release of political prisoner. liberationnews.org 
Leonard Peltier has been unjustly held as a political prisoner by the U.S. government for over 46 years, making him one of the world's longest incarcerated political prisoners.
(2022-09-01). Fetterman Fires Back at 'Sad and Desperate' Oz 'Murder' Smear. commondreams.org The Democratic Senate hopeful accused his GOP opponent of "making a predictable and fear-mongering attack against two men who spent 27 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit."
(2022-09-01). Routine COVID testing ended in English hospitals, care homes, prisons and homeless shelters. wsws.org COVID is being treated as no worse than a mild seasonal cold despite its long-term severely debilitating impact, leaving the continually evolving virus free to circulate.
(2022-09-01). Saudi court sentences woman to 45 years in prison for social media posts. peoplesworld.org 
A Saudi court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for allegedly damaging the country through her social media activity, according to a court document obtained today. Little is known about Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani, who hails from one of the biggest tribes in Saudi Arabia and has no apparent history of activism. …
(2022-09-01). When Starvation Is the Only Means Palestinian Prisoners Can Adopt to Challenge Israel. globalresearch.ca
(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.
(2022-09-01). Mijail Gorbachov murió en Moscú 31 años después que la Unión Soviética. globalizacion.ca Gorbachov, presidente de la Unión Soviética durante sus últimos siete años de existencia, murió en Rusia a los 91 años, por problemas renales. Durante su gobierno lanzó reformas para lograr la ´glasnost ª (apertura) y la ´perestroika ª (reestructuración), que marcaron uno…
(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). 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…