(2022-11-28). Israel keeps sick prisoners in "slaughterhouse" conditions. electronicintifada.net Alyan al-Amour witnessed enormous cruelty during his time behind bars.
(2022-11-28). Every Child Has a Right to Realize the Human Potential. transcend.org 20 Nov 2022 – Racism and discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnicity, language and religion remain widespread in many countries. Statement by Yasmine Sherif, Director of 'ECW-Education Cannot Wait'
(2022-11-28). Attorney: Plenty To Uncover On CIA-Backed Spying That Violated Privacy Of Assange Visitors. shadowproof.com In August, a lawsuit against the CIA, former CIA director Mike Pompeo, UC Global, and UC Global director David Morales was filed that alleged Americans who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when he was living in the Ecuador embassy had their privacy rights violated.
(2022-11-28). Red Theory: Socialism and the national question. fightbacknews.org The Russian Empire under the Tsar was rightly called a "prisonhouse of nations," because it oppressed, within its borders, whole nations of people. The Bolsheviks saw that it was a principal task of the socialist revolution to dismantle national oppression and support self-determination for the oppressed nations. | The United States is likewise a prisonhouse of nations, where the African American nation in the Black Belt South, the Chicano nation in the Southwest and the Hawaiian nation are all oppressed within the borders of the imperialist U.S. It will be a principal task of the socialist revolution in the U.S…
(2022-11-28). Leonard Peltier Supporters Walk Over 1,000 Miles To Demand Freedom For Native American Activist. shadowproof.com Hundreds of supporters of incarcerated Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier rallied at the nation's capital on Sunday to demand President Joe Biden grant clemency to the long-held prisoner. | "He's 78-years-old, he has type 2 diabetes and an abdominal aortic aneurysm that's fatal if it ruptures. He had a stroke where he lost 80 percent of the vision in one of his eyes," Rachel Thunder, one of the organizers for the rally, told Shadowproof. "He should be spending the remainder of his life with his family, not locked up in a cage." | Thunder was one of many Peltier supporters who walked across the cou…
(2022-11-27). Pennsylvania Prison Strike Letter For Fellow Incarcerated People. popularresistance.org We at SPARC [Subaltern Peoples Abolitionist Revolutionary Collective] have been organizing in PA prisons for years. We've been building our movement with focus on addressing the struggles going on right now. It's clear from the failure to return to pre-COVID normal procuedure that the administration intends to keep us under elevated restrictions indefinitely. Not only that, but there are many problems with the Pennsylvania injustice system that are not being remedied by politicians and lawyers. We intend to do our part. | Prisons are modern day slave plantations which only make profits for our exploiters if we do…
(2022-11-27). Russia And Ukraine Intensified Prisoner Exchanges. southfront.org The intensity of prisoner exchanges have recently increased between the warring sides in Ukraine. Three prisoner swaps between Russia and Ukraine were officially confirmed last week alone. | The last prisoner exchange took place on November 25 in the Zaporozhie region. The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed the swap on November 26 and claimed that "as a result of the negotiation process, nine Russian servicemen who were in mortal danger in captivity were returned from the territory contro…
(2022-11-26). Poor medical care for incarcerated people leads to deaths. workers.org Elisa Serna was only 24 when she died, due to medical neglect at a San Diego County jail in 2019. Serna was suffering from symptoms including vomiting and fainting, due to an intrauterine pregnancy and drug withdrawal. Her blood pressure was dropping. (Fox 5 San Diego, Oct. 26) An investigation . . . |
(2022-11-26). The Not Very Smart Elon Musk. commondreams.org As Twitter implodes under Musk's rule, a lawsuit argues Tesla is vastly overpaying the world's richest man.
(2022-11-26). Biden Must Demand That Al-Sisi Release Alaa Abd El-Fattah. commondreams.org President Biden should work for the immediate release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah and many more Egyptian political prisoners before granting Sisi a plum White House meeting.
(2022-11-26). Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years in prison. ecns.cn Chinese-Canadian star Kris Wu was given a 13-year prison term by a Beijing court on Friday after he tricked women into having sex, and he will be deported at the end of the sentence.
(2022-11-26). Dr. Mutulu Shakur: A steadfast revolutionary. workers.org This article was originally published in Workers World Aug. 4, 2021. Dr. Mutulu Shakur was granted parole Nov. 10, but remains in prison as of this writing. Dr. Mutulu Shakur in 2020. Despite being imprisoned for 35 years, the revolutionary and aging Dr. Mutulu Shakur remains a steadfast beacon in . . . |
(2022-11-26). Remembering Samah Idriss: "If we abandon Palestine, we abandon ourselves" samidoun.net On the first anniversary of his passing on 25 November 2021, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network remembers Arab intellectual and struggler Samah Idriss, who dedicated his life to the liberation of Palestine and the Arab region. The editor-in-chief of Al-Adab magazine and co-founder of the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of "Israel" in Lebanon, he was …