(2022-10-23). Julian Assange: Jennifer Robinson argues for a political solution. greenleft.org.au Jennifer Robinson, Julian Assange's lawyer, told the National Press Club that if the appeal fails and Assange is extradited to the US, his prison conditions will be at the whim of intelligence agencies which plotted to kill him. Binoy Kampmark reports.
(2022-10-23). New York jury dismisses sexual assault lawsuit against Kevin Spacey. wsws.org The New York federal court jury dismissal of the sexual battery lawsuit against the actor Kevin Spacey is a further exposure of the foul #MeToo witch-hunt and a vindication of the principled stand taken by the World Socialist Web Site in defense of the fundamental right to the presumption of innocence.
(2022-10-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: An Immigration Detention Profiteer Faces The Music. levernews.com Good things are happening! A group of formerly detained immigrants can advance a lawsuit against a private corporation that operates detention facilities, while the president moved forward with "the single, biggest thing the Biden Administration can do on its own without Congress to improve the accessibility and affordability of health coverage." The largest federation of unions in the country, meanwhile, is finally pouring money into new worker organizing efforts, while indigenous tribes are recovering thousands of ancestral remains from universities that stole them.All this and much more in this week's editi…
(2022-10-22). All out for Mumia hearing Oct. 26. iacenter.org October 19, 2022 A hearing scheduled for Oct. 19 to determine whether Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal will get a new trial on recently discovered evidence was rescheduled to Oct. 26 in Philadelphia's Criminal Justice Center. The following commentary explains what is at stake regarding new legal filings by attorneys for Mumia Abu-Jamal. It first appeared on the International Action website on Jan. 4, 2022. Mumia Abu-Jamal By Johanna Fernández Campaign to Bring Mumia Home In her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston wrote, "There are years that ask questions, and years that answer…
(2022-10-22). Iran attorney general writes to Sweden on Nouri's case. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — Iran's Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has penned a letter to his Sweden counterpart to protest the violations of the rights of Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri in Swedish jails.
(2022-10-21). AIDS, Covid-19, Confederate Prisoners and a Million More Stories on Hart Island. dissidentvoice.org 
What if I told you this story connected poverty, Tony Fauci, the Military-Industrial Complex, the Prison-Industrial Complex, crack, the Civil War, Covid, AIDS, Lou Reed, and my grandfather — and that's just for starters? Hart Island is located at the western end of the Long Island Sound, off the coast of the northeastern Bronx. Despite being only …