(2023-05-19). Here's How Georgia's New Voting Law Harms Voters With Disabilities. aclu.org Empish Thomas is a 51-year-old voter from DeKalb County, Georgia who is blind and needs help filling out and mailing in an absentee ballot. In 2020, she was able to get that help from a sighted friend she trusted. But after the state of Georgia passed a law that made it a felony for anyone other than a "caregiver" or certain family members to help her return her ballot, she doesn't know if she will be able to find anyone to help her vote absentee. She feels she has no choice but to try to vote in person, even though she can't drive and has to rely on rides from others or public transportation to get to the pol…
(2023-05-19). This Week, Anti-Abortion Extremists Showed Us Who They Really Are. aclu.org 
(2023-05-19). Justice and Safety, Not Fear, Continue to Win at the Ballot Box. aclu.org On Tuesday, voters in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania sent a resounding message: They want solutions to prevent crime in the first place, not just politicians stoking fear after it happens. | By an 11-point margin in the primary election, voters chose the reform candidate for district attorney, Matt Dugan, who offered an affirmative vision for safety and justice that starkly contrasted with the tough-on-crime approach of the defeated 24-year incumbent, Stephen Zappala. | Like so many of the district attorney contests across the country, the race between Zappala and Dugan came down to competing visions of public…
(2023-05-19). NLRB: You can't discriminate by banning only Black Lives Matter masks. peoplesworld.org 
SEATTLE—Companies—in this case Fred Meyer and QFC stores in Washington state—can't cite dress codes to ban workers from wearing Black Lives Matter masks and buttons on the job and allow everything else. And they can't send "offending" workers home without pay, either. So said National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Mara-Louise Anzalone in a …
(2023-05-20). Editorial] The death penalty: a breach of human rights and ethics of care. thelancet.com "The death penalty is, in our common experience, an atavistic relic from the past that should be shed in the 21st century", said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Tàºrk in April, 2023, during the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council. The death penalty has existed since the Code of Hammurabi, with its history seeped in politics and discrimination. Physicians have been involved throughout this history. In the eyes of the public, the medicalisation and very involvement of physicians renders execution palatable, eroding any natural sense of abhorrence.
(2023-05-20). Thursday 6/1: Jail Former SF Fed Member & Silicon Valley CEO Gregory Becker! Bankers Out Of Fed Reserve. indybay.org San Francisco Federal Reserve | 101 Market St. | San Franciso…
(2023-05-20). Debt lawsuits would eliminate health insurance for Americans. plenglish.com Washington, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Approximately 1.5 million people in the United States will lose health insurance coverage if the Republican Party's demands on the federal debt negotiations are put into practice, an authorized source estimated.
(2023-05-19). Canadian Muslim groups sue over school prayer ban. middleeasteye.net 
Canadian Muslim groups sue over school prayer ban | The lawsuit argues the proclamation prohibiting prayer in public schools in Quebec is unconstitutional | Fri, 05/19/2023 – 18: 16 | Supporters at a public funeral at the Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario pray for the Afzaal family after members of the family were run over by a truck, on 12 June 2021 in London, Canada (AFP) | Muslim organisations in Canad…
(2023-05-19). Zionist disrupters fail to silence Salah Hamouri in Toulouse. samidoun.net 
On Tuesday, 16 May, an event featuring Salah Hamouri, the French-Palestinian lawyer and former political prisoner forcibly deported from Palestine, was organized by the CGT labour union, the Association France-Palestine Solidarité, and Solidarité Palestine Toulouse at the Bourse du Travail. The event was supported by over 20 organizations, including the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member …
(2023-05-19). Arabic press review: Tunisia calls in journalists for questioning. middleeasteye.net 
Arabic press review: Tunisia calls in journalists for questioning | Meanwhile, concern at record prisoners in Morocco, UN envoy urges double track for Syria resolution, and Qatar's FDI reaches $30bn
| Fri, 05/19/2023 – 13: 52 | Tunisian journalists protest in front of the prime minister's office in the capital, Tunis, over freedom of expression and persecution of journalists, on 16 Februa…
(2023-05-19). Rally Demands Marvin Haynes' Release from 19 Years Wrongful Imprisonment. unicornriot.ninja
(2023-05-19). Voices from behind the walls. workers.org 
Workers World received the poem and letters below from prisoners. 'America, America' An Anatomy of America's Wasteful Prison Industrial Complex America, America Land of the free, A society filled with justice and equality. This is a clear example of hypocrisy, unless they forgot to include me, and millions of others . . . |