2023-02-14: News Headlines

Chad Marlow (2023-02-13). How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock's Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers. aclu.org

Taylor Fox (2023-02-13). We Can't Let Antisemitism Be Weaponized to Criminalize Solidarity With Palestine. truthout.org As Jewish students and anti-Zionist organizers, we know that it is in no way antisemitic to support the fight for Palestinian liberation. False accusations of such should not be used to silence Palestinian solidarity activists. That's why we were glad to see the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights ditch a misleading and discredited definition of antisemitism in its recent fact sheet… |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-14). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

C.J. Atkins (2023-02-13). LGBTQ people under attack, People's World stands up and fights back. peoplesworld.org Drag shows made illegal. The very mention in classrooms that gay people exist outlawed forever. Trans people barred from employment, housing, or even being able to use a public restroom. Parents who seek gender-affirming health care for their kids prosecuted and jailed for child abuse. Black, brown, and Indigenous trans women dead in the back …

WSWS (2023-02-14). Anti-abortion zealots, federal judge conspire to ban abortion pill mifepristone. wsws.org The lawsuit filed in US District Court aiming to overturn FDA approval for mifepristone could effectively ban abortion for the majority of American women.

Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco (2023-02-13). Judge Orders Demolition of Illegal Construction on Cave in Puerto Rico. latinorebels.com A judge in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico has ordered the demolition of two illegal structures built on top of Cueva Las Golondrinas after ruling that the lawsuit filed by the municipality against Aguadilla Pier Corporation has merit.

Chad Marlow (2023-02-13). How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock's Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers. aclu.org

Taylor Fox (2023-02-13). We Can't Let Antisemitism Be Weaponized to Criminalize Solidarity With Palestine. truthout.org As Jewish students and anti-Zionist organizers, we know that it is in no way antisemitic to support the fight for Palestinian liberation. False accusations of such should not be used to silence Palestinian solidarity activists. That's why we were glad to see the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights ditch a misleading and discredited definition of antisemitism in its recent fact sheet… |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-14). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

C.J. Atkins (2023-02-13). LGBTQ people under attack, People's World stands up and fights back. peoplesworld.org Drag shows made illegal. The very mention in classrooms that gay people exist outlawed forever. Trans people barred from employment, housing, or even being able to use a public restroom. Parents who seek gender-affirming health care for their kids prosecuted and jailed for child abuse. Black, brown, and Indigenous trans women dead in the back …

WSWS (2023-02-14). Anti-abortion zealots, federal judge conspire to ban abortion pill mifepristone. wsws.org The lawsuit filed in US District Court aiming to overturn FDA approval for mifepristone could effectively ban abortion for the majority of American women.

Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco (2023-02-13). Judge Orders Demolition of Illegal Construction on Cave in Puerto Rico. latinorebels.com A judge in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico has ordered the demolition of two illegal structures built on top of Cueva Las Golondrinas after ruling that the lawsuit filed by the municipality against Aguadilla Pier Corporation has merit.

Dana Drugmand (2023-02-13). Lawsuit targets Shell's board of directors over energy transition plansÔøº. nationofchange.org Shell admits in internal documents it has "no immediate plans to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio."

ILWU Local 10 (2023-02-14). Thursday 2/16: Free CWA NABET Journalist & Political Prisoner Mumia: An Injury To One Is An Injury To All. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 | 400 NorthPoint St | San Francisco, CA | March to Harry Bridges Plaza next to Ferry Building…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-02-14). Take Action To Demand Justice For Our Political Prisoners. popularresistance.org This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with two advocates for the freedom of political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. Mumia Abu-Jamal is waiting to hear if Judge Lucretia Clemons will grant a new hearing on his case that includes new evidence of corruption in the legal process that led to his false conviction. On February 16, port workers will strike on the West Coast in support of an international day of action in for Mumia. Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio talks about his case and the carceral state. Leonard Peltier has now served almost 50 years in prison on a murder charge involving FBI agents. Col…

Amira Jarmakani (2023-02-13). From Palestine to US Prisons, Radical Love Can Guide Our Fight for Liberation. truthout.org What will your conversation heart say this Valentine's Day? Will it replicate the possessive politics of modern heteronormative love — summed up by phrases like "be mine" — or will it communicate the idea that love is always political, and that the greatest act of love is to work toward collective liberation? Cornel West famously said that "justice is what love looks like in public… |

Mansa Musa (2023-02-13). Dozens of Texas prisoners are hunger striking against solitary confinement. therealnews.com Across the US, some 50,000 incarcerated people are kept under conditions of solitary confinement. Advocates and prisoners have pushed to define the practice as a form of torture, pointing to the devastating psychological and physical effects it has on victims. In Texas, dozens of prisoners are now hunger striking against the use of solitary confinement in the state's prisons, which they say disproportionately targets Latinos. Jorge Antonio Renaud, National Criminal Justice Director of

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