2023-03-31: News Headlines

Zara Haq (2023-03-30). Here's How New Mexico is Leading the Way for Voting Rights. aclu.org Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy, and protecting that right is one of the central obligations of our government. Due to partisan gridlock in Congress, the federal government has not acted to restore some of the original protections of the New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham just signe…

Ann Brown (2023-03-30). FBI Indicts 16 East Cleveland Police Officers for Civil Rights Violations. moguldom.com A total of 16 current and former East Cleveland police officers have been indicted in the past six-and-a-half months for civil rights violations. Among the 16 who were indicted by the FBI is former police chief Scott Gardner, who was indicted in September on several counts of theft and fraud. East Cleveland, Ohio, is nine …

Staff (2023-03-30). Headlines for March 30, 2023. democracynow.org In Landmark Vote, U.N. General Assembly Asks for World Court's Opinion on Climate Crisis, U.S. Auctions Oil and Gas Leases in Vast Section Gulf of Mexico, Despite Biden's Climate Pledges, Seniors Sue Switzerland over Deadly Heat Waves Caused by Climate Crisis, Mexico to Bring Charges Against 8 People over Deadly Fire at Juárez Detention Center, Senate Votes to Repeal AUMFs 20 Years After Illegal Invasion of Iraq, Finland Poised to Become NATO Member, Russia Detains WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich, West Virginia and Kentucky Republicans Impose More Anti-Trans Laws, Jill Biden Attends Nashville School Sho…

Petteri Muukkonen (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Geography education to help understand discrimination in climate change and health. thelancet.com Thilagawathi A Deivanayagam and colleagues1 have highlighted that the effects of climate change are not equally distributed around the world, creating discrimination related to climate change and health. The authors mentioned briefly that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises education as one way to address this issue.2 However, the problem is so large and multidimensional that it should be answered with cross-disciplinary solutions. The effects of climate change vary across countries and regions due to differences in geography, history, and economic development.




ecns.cn (2023-03-31). Comicomment: U.S. summit makes a mockery of democracy. ecns.cn The United States, with its tattered version of "American-style democracy," hosted the second so-called "Summit for Democracy" this week. However, the country is plagued by chronic issues such as money in politics, racial discrimination, gun and police violence, and wealth polarization. Human rights legislation and justice have suffered an extreme regression, further undermining the basic rights and freedoms of the American people.

WSWS (2023-03-30). The slanderous campaign of "Our Harvard Can Do Better" against Professor John Comaroff. wsws.org The group doesn't document any of its sweeping claims. What "sexual violence crisis"? What administration complicity in "harassment, misogyny, and discrimination"?

Chris Walker (2023-03-30). At least 39 asylum seekers dead after fire at migrant jail in Mexico. therealnews.com

John Kiriakou, Consortium News. (2023-03-30). New Report On US Solitary Confinement. popularresistance.org In prisons and jails across America, between 41,000 and 48,000 people are currently being held in solitary confinement, or "isolation," as it is called in a new study by the Correctional Leaders Association and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale University Law School. | Those numbers are too high, especially when the United Nations' special rapporteur for torture has called the U.S. practice of using solitary confinement as a punishment a form of torture. Still, as high as the numbers are, they are far lower than they were in 2014. And there is growing support across the country for solitary…




The Associated Press (2023-03-30). Mexico: Despite 'Coup,' Castillo Legal President of Peru. latinorebels.com Mexico's president said Wednesday that Peru's ousted president, Pedro Castillo, remains "the legal and legitimate president" of that country and that he was jailed as part of a "coup," saying that Peru's current government is "racist" and had jailed Castillo because he is Indigenous.

Chris Walker (2023-03-30). Missouri GOP Seeks to Eliminate All Funding for Public Libraries in State Budget. truthout.org Missouri's Republican-led House of Representatives has given initial approval to a state budget that would strip libraries of state funding in what appears to be retaliation for a lawsuit filed by librarians seeking to overturn a law expanding book bans in schools. Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage), chair of the House Budget Committee, proposed eliminating all funding for public libraries in the state… |

Fight Back (2023-03-30). Communist Party of the Philippines calls on NPA to "stir up and spread flames" of armed struggle. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today, March 28, issued a statement on the occasion of 54th anniversary of the New People's Army (NPA) tomorrow, March 29. The CPP exhorted the NPA's commanders and Red fighters to "stir up and spread the flames of the people's war for national freedom and democracy." | The Central Committee of the CPP cited "intensified imperialist oppression against the Filipino people" and emphasized the need to "attain freedom from US control and dominatio…

A Guest Author (2023-03-30). Call for June 3 action for prison reform. workers.org Credit: by Kevin Caplicki for Justseeds.org Calling all activists, protesters and supporters to join us in refusing to move on June 3, until prison and education reform has been accomplished. This is a call to action for all Pennsylvania prisoners and supporters. We encourage every person incarcerated throughout the country . . . |

The Associated Press (2023-03-30). Mexico: Despite 'Coup,' Castillo Legal President of Peru. latinorebels.com Mexico's president said Wednesday that Peru's ousted president, Pedro Castillo, remains "the legal and legitimate president" of that country and that he was jailed as part of a "coup," saying that Peru's current government is "racist" and had jailed Castillo because he is Indigenous.

Chris Walker (2023-03-30). Missouri GOP Seeks to Eliminate All Funding for Public Libraries in State Budget. truthout.org Missouri's Republican-led House of Representatives has given initial approval to a state budget that would strip libraries of state funding in what appears to be retaliation for a lawsuit filed by librarians seeking to overturn a law expanding book bans in schools. Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage), chair of the House Budget Committee, proposed eliminating all funding for public libraries in the state… |

Fight Back (2023-03-30). Communist Party of the Philippines calls on NPA to "stir up and spread flames" of armed struggle. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today, March 28, issued a statement on the occasion of 54th anniversary of the New People's Army (NPA) tomorrow, March 29. The CPP exhorted the NPA's commanders and Red fighters to "stir up and spread the flames of the people's war for national freedom and democracy." | The Central Committee of the CPP cited "intensified imperialist oppression against the Filipino people" and emphasized the need to "attain freedom from US control and dominatio…

A Guest Author (2023-03-30). Call for June 3 action for prison reform. workers.org Credit: by Kevin Caplicki for Justseeds.org Calling all activists, protesters and supporters to join us in refusing to move on June 3, until prison and education reform has been accomplished. This is a call to action for all Pennsylvania prisoners and supporters. We encourage every person incarcerated throughout the country . . . |

Munther Khalaf Mufleh, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-03-30). Palestinian Prisoners' Movement Victory. popularresistance.org After the escalation of Zionist attacks against the achievements gained by the prisoners' movement over the years, and the attempts of the fascist Ben Gvir to seize our rights by enacting laws and policies such as the laws for the execution of prisoners, revocation of nationality, and deportation of prisoners and former prisoners, as well as the attacks on the achievements of daily life of the prisoners' movement, such as cutting access to water, setting brief times for bathing and the imposition of dozens of punitive measures, such as repeated transfer and isolation, led the prisoners' movement to take action.

Staff (2023-03-30). Free the Land, Free Walid Daqqah! Take action to liberate imprisoned Palestinian writer with rare cancer. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all organizations and communities advocating for justice in Palestine to join the campaign to free Walid Daqqah, Palestinian writer, thinker and political prisoner. One of the longest-held Palestinian prisoners, he was diagnosed on 18 December 2022 with myelofibrosis, a rare form of bone marrow cancer that requires a bone …

WSWS (2023-03-30). Israel's protest leaders enter talks to stabilise Netanyahu government. wsws.org Equally committed to the Zionist project, Jewish supremacy and the suppression of the Palestinians within a system of apartheid rule, along with the enrichment of Israel's corporate elite, the protest leaders fear Netanyahu's measures will destroy Israel's democratic fig leaf.

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