(2023-01-30). Chris Hedges: Will Julian Assange Ever Be Freed? popularresistance.org The film Ithaka, the title taken from a poem by C.P Cavafy, chronicles the slow-motion torture and execution of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, currently awaiting extradition to the United States in a high security prison in London. It charts his journey from publisher of the most important revelations of our generation of fraud, war crimes, lies and corruption by the powerful to his refuge for seven years in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London from 2012 to 2019, his seizure and arrest by British police, who enter the embassy to detain him, and harsh imprisonment in Belmarsh prison where he currently fight…
(2023-01-29). In Standoff Over Cop City, Police Are The Real Terrorists. popularresistance.org Atlanta, Georgia – The ongoing protests against the construction of a police training center in the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia are a testament to the spirit of resistance that was ignited by the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd Protests of 2020. For two years, brave activists and protesters have occupied the forest and taken to the streets to demand that the city reverse its decision to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to further fund a police force that has historically been used to violently repress, control and limit the power of working class people and people of color in p…
(2023-01-30). Chris Hedges: Will Julian Assange Ever Be Freed? popularresistance.org The film Ithaka, the title taken from a poem by C.P Cavafy, chronicles the slow-motion torture and execution of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, currently awaiting extradition to the United States in a high security prison in London. It charts his journey from publisher of the most important revelations of our generation of fraud, war crimes, lies and corruption by the powerful to his refuge for seven years in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London from 2012 to 2019, his seizure and arrest by British police, who enter the embassy to detain him, and harsh imprisonment in Belmarsh prison where he currently fight…
(2023-01-29). In Standoff Over Cop City, Police Are The Real Terrorists. popularresistance.org Atlanta, Georgia – The ongoing protests against the construction of a police training center in the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia are a testament to the spirit of resistance that was ignited by the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd Protests of 2020. For two years, brave activists and protesters have occupied the forest and taken to the streets to demand that the city reverse its decision to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to further fund a police force that has historically been used to violently repress, control and limit the power of working class people and people of color in p…
(2023-01-29). Plea Bargains Are a Tool of Racist Mass Incarceration. truthout.org The U.S. criminal legal system is racist. By now, this proposition is so well established that it's hard to believe anyone disagrees with it. Mass incarceration shifted the prison demographic from more than 70 percent white to nearly 70 percent Black and Latinx by 1989. In certain areas of the South, people of color are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than whites. |
(2023-01-29). OAS urges Colombia to release people arrested over 2021 protests. colombiareports.com The human rights agency of the Organization of American States called on Colombia's authorities to release people who were jailed for their participation in anti-government protests in 2021. In a…
(2023-01-29). Argentine Organizations Demand Presidential Pardon for Indigenous Activist Milagro Sala. orinocotribune.com Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala has been imprisoned since January 2016 over charges that human rights and social activists allege are politically motivated. | January 16, 2023, marked seven years since the illegal arrest of Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala in Argentina. Sala was one of the first victims of the political persecution that characterized the far-right government of former president Mauricio Macri (2015—2019). | On the seventh anniversary of Sala's unjust imprisonment, members of various political, social, and human rights organizations held a press conference at the he…