Monthly Archives: October 2022

2022-10-13: News Headlines

Tamara Nassar (2022-10-13). Palestinians resist Israeli jailers with collective hunger strike. electronicintifada.net Hundreds of groups demand pressure on Israel to end administrative detention.

Lee Camp (2022-10-13). Biden Frees All Marijuana Prisoners Except Not At All. mintpressnews.com If you watched the mainstream media recently, they lost their minds over President Biden's incredible move to release thousands of people who were convicted of drug possession from prison! Here's why that won't actually happen.

PACBI (2022-10-13). Palestinians Urge Academics to Boycott "History of Prison Reform in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: Hope and Disappointment" Workshop at Complicit Israeli College. bdsmovement.net

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-10-13). The Call Heard Around the World: Free Julian Assange Now! orinocotribune.com Thousands of people formed a human chain around the UK Parliament on October 8 to demand freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Actions in solidarity with the imprisoned journalist were held across the world, including in Morocco, Brazil, Australia, and the US | 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. | Supporters in…

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-10-13). Women, Life, Freedom! Iranians Protest Oppression of Women by Iran Regime. indybay.org Thousands of Iranians and supporters demand regime change as worldwide opposition intensifies…

Editor (2022-10-13). New Data Tool Details Thousands of Corporations Profiting From US Prison Industry. scheerpost.com

_____ (2022-10-12). Biden Frees All Marijuana Prisoners — Except Not At All. popularresistance.org Joe Biden just pardoned everyone arrested for marijuana possession! Right? | If you watched the mainstream media a few days ago, they lost their minds over President Biden's incredible move to release thousands of people who were convicted of drug possession from prison! | USA TODAY said, "Inside Biden's history-making moves on marijuana." And The New York Times screamed, "Biden Pardons Thousands Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law." | Here are the words of the U.S.'s superhuman octogenarian president himself: "No one should be in prison just for using or possessing marijuana. It's already legal i…

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-12). Biden Says He Has 'No Intention' of Meeting With Putin About Ukraine. news.antiwar.com President Biden told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Tuesday night that he has no "intention" of meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin or negotiating with Russia over Ukraine. Biden left open to the possibility of discussing a potential prisoner swap for Britney Griner, the WNBA star that was arrested in Russia for …

Staff (2022-10-12). 14-23 October: Global Week of Action for Palestinian Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is joining the Palestinian Youth Movement and over 30 other organizations, to call upon all supporters of the Palestinian struggle to join us on October 14th 23rd for a week of action in support of Palestinian political prisoners and their fight for freedom and dignity. On September 25th, 30 …

Roger D. Harris (2022-10-12). Why the US Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. dissidentvoice.org A year ago, October 16, the long arm of US extra-territorial judicial overreach abducted Alex Saab and threw him into prison in Miami, where the Venezuelan diplomat has languished ever since. The official narrative is that Saab had bilked the Venezuelans in a "vast corruption network" and the US as the world's self-appointed cop was …

____ (2022-10-12). Comicomment: Experiments on African American inmates, 'tip of iceberg' in ugly U.S. past. ecns.cn The U.S. city of Philadelphia issued a formal apology for experiments conducted on African American inmates at a prison decades ago.

Editor (2022-10-12). What an Alabama Prisoners' Strike Tells Us About Prison Labor. scheerpost.com

Fight Back (2022-10-12). Protesters rally at rapist New Orleans police officer's arraignment. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – On October 11, at 9 a.m., protesters attended Gerry Paul's arraignment. Paul, 29, is an active-duty police officer charged with second-degree rape. Protesters in the courtroom wore red, turned their backs on Paul when he pled "not guilty," and held signs saying "Jail Gerry!" They then organized a rally outside the Orleans Criminal Courthouse. | On March 15, 2021, a woman accused Paul of forcing her into non-consensual sex after a night of drinks at his apartment on the 4300 block of Tulane Avenue. She recounted that Paul choked her and pinned her hands behind her back in a police hold. A forens…

Anonymous103 (2022-10-11). Kiev Claimed Another Prisoner Swap, It Turned Out Only Bodies Of Dead Solders Returned To Ukraine. southfront.org The head of Vladimir Zelensky's office, Andrei Ermak, announced the exchange of prisoners with Russia. According to him, 32 people…

PACBI (2022-10-11). Webinar – Camouflaging Injustice: Using Sport to Hide Oppression. bdsmovement.net

RT (2022-10-11). Assange Tests Positive for Covid-19 in Prison. dissidentvoice.org © Getty Images / Guy Smallman Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has tested positive for Covid-19 and is being kept in total isolation at Belmarsh Prison as he continues to fight extradition to the US, his wife Stella told media on Monday. "The next few days will be crucial for his general health," the lawyer, who …

Cameron orr (2022-10-11). Struggles of African American youth today. cpusa.org The following was adapted from a talk given at the online CPUSA Marxist School in 2022. The Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 was a powerful demonstration of unity among a wide strata of people marching in cities and small towns against police oppression. It was led mostly by African American youth, who, like …

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2022-10-12: News Headlines

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-10-12). Women, Life, Freedom! Iranians Protest Oppression of Women by Iran Regime. indybay.org Thousands of Iranians and supporters demand regime change as worldwide opposition intensifies…

____ (2022-10-12). Comicomment: Experiments on African American inmates, 'tip of iceberg' in ugly U.S. past. ecns.cn The U.S. city of Philadelphia issued a formal apology for experiments conducted on African American inmates at a prison decades ago.

Editor (2022-10-12). What an Alabama Prisoners' Strike Tells Us About Prison Labor. scheerpost.com

Mike Ludwig (2022-10-12). Palestinian Hunger Strikers Are Facing Harsh Retaliation Inside Israeli Prisons. truthout.org

_____ (2022-10-11). The Puppets And The Puppet Masters. popularresistance.org Washington, D.C. – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the faàßade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime. They debate arcane legal nuances to distract from the Dickensian farce where a man who has not committed a crime, who is not a U.S. citizen, can be extradited under the Espionage Act and sentenced to life in prison for the most courageous and consequential journalism of our generation. | T…

Anonymous103 (2022-10-11). Kiev Claimed Another Prisoner Swap, It Turned Out Only Bodies Of Dead Solders Returned To Ukraine. southfront.org The head of Vladimir Zelensky's office, Andrei Ermak, announced the exchange of prisoners with Russia. According to him, 32 people…

PACBI (2022-10-11). Webinar – Camouflaging Injustice: Using Sport to Hide Oppression. bdsmovement.net

WSWS (2022-10-11). Australian government to detain women repatriated from Syria. wsws.org The largest yet use of control orders overriding freedom of speech, movement, association and communication to be used against Australian women returning from Syrian detention camps.

Cameron orr (2022-10-11). Struggles of African American youth today. cpusa.org The following was adapted from a talk given at the online CPUSA Marxist School in 2022. The Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 was a powerful demonstration of unity among a wide strata of people marching in cities and small towns against police oppression. It was led mostly by African American youth, who, like …

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.

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