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2022-10-10: News Headlines

_____ (2022-10-10). The Call Heard Around The World. popularresistance.org On Saturday, October 8, thousands of people in the UK gathered for a massive act of solidarity with political prisoner and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Protestors formed a human chain around the Parliament in London to demand that the government cancel Assange's looming extradition to the US, and for him to finally be freed. Stella Morris, Assange's partner, told The Independent that the action had been organized because Parliament was the "seat of democracy" and that Assange represented "democracy at its strongest— government accountability and democratic movement…It is to remind people that this is…

WSWS (2022-10-10). Eugene V. Debs and the struggle of railroaders. wsws.org Debs' life—from locomotive fireman, to trade unionist, to socialist candidate for American president, to class war prisoner—holds crucial lessons for today's workers.

Staff (2022-10-10). New York Times: Whether Washington Likes It or Not, Nicolás Maduro Is President of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, October 8, in an opinion piece Recently, the US released two Venezuelans being held in US jails, Efraín Antonio Campo and Francisco Flores de Freitas, which the author considered an "incoherence of US policy towards Venezuela," by Joe Biden's administration. He added that, "even as it negotiates with Mr…

Staff (2022-10-10). New website for Brussels actions: 29 October, March for Return and Liberation! samidoun.net The Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement) launched a new website today to highlight the March for Return and Liberation taking place in Brussels, Belgium, on 29 October 2022, as well as the Week of Action for Palestinian Liberation leading up to that date. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is one of the endorsers …

____ (2022-10-10). Apology far from enough to make up for injuries caused by unethical medical experiments in U.S. ecns.cn U.S. city Philadelphia has apologized for unethical medical experiments conducted on mostly black men in one of its prisons last century, unveiling the county's disgraceful history of racial injustice.

Editor (2022-10-10). [rewind] Kevin Sharp: It's Time to Free Leonard Peltier, America's Longest Serving Political Prisoner. scheerpost.com The Native American activist's attorney tells Robert Scheer why Peltier's imprisonment is one of the worst miscarriages of justice this country has ever seen.

Amy Mek (2022-10-10). Dr. Mary O'Conner Faces Prison After Refusing to Turn Over Private Medical Records of COVID 'Vaccine Exempt' Patients. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-10-09). Melbourne: Thousands March For Julian Assange's Release. popularresistance.org Thousands have marched through Melbourne's city centre calling for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. | The 51-year-old Australian has been in London's Belmarsh prison since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in 2019. | Melbourne protesters marched through the city streets and formed a human chain across a Southbank bridge on Saturday morning as they called on the Australian government to intervene. | "There's an expectation in the electorate that the prime minister and this government is going to get Julian out of jail," Mr Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton told AAP. | "The prime minister's…

Staff (2022-10-09). 20 more Palestinian prisoners join hunger strike to end administrative detention. samidoun.net On Sunday, 9 October, 20 additional Palestinian prisoners joined the mass hunger strike launched by 30 administrative detainees demanding an end to detention without charge or trial. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society announced that the 20 prisoners include Palestinians jailed arbitrarily under administrative detention as well as people serving sentences imposed by Israeli occupation military courts …

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