(2023-02-21). Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don't think so. juancole.com Naseem Rakha Maurice Cowley is teaching college-level African American Studies at McDaniel High School. ( Oregon Capital Chronicle ) — Three days after the nation honored Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Education announced that no Florida public high school would be …
(2023-02-20). African Union renews full support for Palestine, confirms Israel not invited to summit. popularresistance.org In the closing statement of the 36th ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the regional bloc confirmed its "complete support" for the State of Palestine. | The AU condemned ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians, including forced evictions, extrajudicial detentions, illegal settlement expansion, and apartheid. | This statement came just one day after an Israeli delegation was unceremoniously booted from the summit's opening ceremony.
(2023-02-20). African Union Renews Full Support For Palestine, Israel Not Invited To Summit. popularresistance.org In the closing statement of the 36th ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the regional bloc confirmed its "complete support" for the State of Palestine. | The AU condemned ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians, including forced evictions, extrajudicial detentions, illegal settlement expansion, and apartheid. | This statement came just one day after an Israeli delegation was unceremoniously booted from the summit's opening ceremony. On Sunday, AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat confirmed that Israel's observer status has been suspended since last year and th…
(2023-02-21). Neo-Nazi sentenced to jail for attack on anti-racists' home. greenleft.org.au Neo-Nazi extremist Desmond Liddington has been sentenced for his part in an attack on the home of anti-racists. Kerry Smith reports.
(2023-02-21). Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don't think so. juancole.com Naseem Rakha Maurice Cowley is teaching college-level African American Studies at McDaniel High School. ( Oregon Capital Chronicle ) — Three days after the nation honored Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Education announced that no Florida public high school would be …
(2023-02-20). African Union renews full support for Palestine, confirms Israel not invited to summit. popularresistance.org In the closing statement of the 36th ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the regional bloc confirmed its "complete support" for the State of Palestine. | The AU condemned ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians, including forced evictions, extrajudicial detentions, illegal settlement expansion, and apartheid. | This statement came just one day after an Israeli delegation was unceremoniously booted from the summit's opening ceremony.
(2023-02-20). African Union Renews Full Support For Palestine, Israel Not Invited To Summit. popularresistance.org In the closing statement of the 36th ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the regional bloc confirmed its "complete support" for the State of Palestine. | The AU condemned ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians, including forced evictions, extrajudicial detentions, illegal settlement expansion, and apartheid. | This statement came just one day after an Israeli delegation was unceremoniously booted from the summit's opening ceremony. On Sunday, AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat confirmed that Israel's observer status has been suspended since last year and th…
(2023-02-21). Neo-Nazi sentenced to jail for attack on anti-racists' home. greenleft.org.au Neo-Nazi extremist Desmond Liddington has been sentenced for his part in an attack on the home of anti-racists. Kerry Smith reports.
(2023-02-20). U.S. Pressure on Japan to Free Jailed Naval Officer Is Misplaced. strategic-culture.org Stephen Givens is a corporate lawyer and an adjunct professor at Keio University Law School in Tokyo. | By Stephen GIVENS | U.S. Senator Mike Lee is threatening Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that he will put Tokyo's security arrangements with Washington under congressional review unless an imprisoned Navy officer is released and allowed to return home by the end of the month. | Put aside the recklessness of a threat, by Twitter post no less, to upset security arrangements with America's strongest Asian ally over the alleged mistreatment of an individual citizen. Ignore the arrogance of assuming it is in t…
(2023-02-20). Story Killers: Inside the Deadly Disinformation-for-Hire Industry. transcend.org 14 Feb 2023 – Journalists investigating disinformation are threatened, jailed and in extreme cases, like that of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, killed. Forbidden Stories gathered more than 100 journalists from 30 media outlets to expose the inner workings of the global, secretive world of disinformation mercenaries.
(2023-02-20). Julian Assange's Family Members Are Touring The United States With Ithaka. popularresistance.org This April will mark four years since Julian Assange was forcefully removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had been granted asylum, and jailed in Belmarsh Prison. Assange, whose health is declining, is being persecuted for being a publisher who made leaked material available to the public through Wikileaks. The materials, which exposed war crimes and corruption, were reported on by major media outlets around the world. The Biden administration could free Assange immediately by dropping the charges made by the Trump administration. Clearing the FOG speaks with Gabriel Shipton, Assange's brother, w…
(2023-02-21). Three Tribes File New Lawsuit Challenging Thacker Pass Lithium Mine. indybay.org Late yesterday, three Native American Tribes — the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Summit Lake Paiute Tribe — launched a major new lawsuit against the Thacker Pass lithium mine. | This new case contains major allegations that were not heard in the prior court case, and may be a significant roadblock for the mine.
(2023-02-20). #FluorideLawsuit: Censored Review on Fluoride's Toxicity Will Soon Be Made Public. thelastamericanvagabond.com Attorneys with the Fluoride Action Network and the U.S. government have agreed to the release of a censored report on the toxicity of fluoride, the latest development in the ongoing Fluoride lawsuit. After numerous delays, and intervention by Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, the U.S. National Toxicology Program's review of Fluoride's toxicity will soon be
(2023-02-20). Lawsuit Uncovers Chicago's Failure to Provide Disability Protections in Housing. truthout.org A discovery process in an ongoing federal lawsuit against the City of Chicago has revealed what appears to be an enormous abdication of the city and its Department of Housing's duties to both the disabled community and federal law. Documents turned over in the suit, which was filed by disability rights organization Access Living in 2018, have revealed across-the-board failures in inspecting… |
(2023-02-20). Fox News emails, messages show its role in instigating January 6 attack. wsws.org One of the key revelations from a lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems is that Trump tried to call the network and go on the air as the attack on the Capitol was ending, but Fox executives decided that to offer him a live television audience would be "irresponsible."
(2023-02-20). Mother Says Diversity Executive Is A Fake Person of Color, Really A White Woman Named Rachel. moguldom.com There is another race imposter named Rachel. Like the infamous Rachel Dolezal, who claimed to be a Black person and resigned as an NAACP chapter leader after her parents outed her to the media that she was white in 2015, a diversity executive at a major organization has been passing as a woman of color. …
(2023-02-21). Vancouver banner drops, public interventions highlight Palestinian struggle for liberation. samidoun.net Samidoun Vancouver joined in the Days of Rage and Resistance — organized by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement — with a banner drop in a busy area of the city on Sunday, 12 February 2023. Participants carried and waved Palestinian flags and hung banners with slogans including "Free All Palestinian Prisoners," …
(2023-02-21). US prisoner deaths rose more than 60 percent from 2019 to 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org Data acquired by the the UCLA School of Law's Behind Bars Data Project indicates that 6,182 imprisoned people died behind bars in 2020 compared to 4,240 in 2019, a 62 percent increase despite a 10 percent decline in the US prison population.
(2023-02-20). In Video: Interviews With Ukrainian Prisoners Of War. southfront.org
(2023-02-20). [Rewind] Eddie Conway: Prisons Enable America's Obscene Wealth. scheerpost.com
(2023-02-20). Sunday 2/19: "Reparatory Justice: Together We Rise": SJ Vigil for Japanese American Imprisonment WW2. indybay.org San Jose Buddhist Church | 632 N. Fifth Street | San Jose CA 95112 US…
(2023-02-20). The revolutionary life of former Black Panther and political prisoner Eddie Conway. peoplesdispatch.org On February 13, former Black Panther and political prisoner Marshall Eddie Conway passed away. Conway dedicated his life to the cause of Black freedom struggle and the fight against racism and inequality.