(2023-07-19). Headlines for July 19, 2023. democracynow.org Trump Says He's the Target of Federal Criminal Probe of Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election, Michigan Attorney General Charges 16 GOP "Fake Electors" with Felonies, Chinese Coal Consumption Hits Record High as Temperatures Soar, Floodwaters Lap Walls of India's Taj Mahal; Heat Index in Iran Tops 150 ∞F, Wildfires Erupt in Greece as Europe Swelters in Record Heat, ACLU Asks Court to Release Children from Angola Prison as Heat Index Tops 130 ∞, Whistleblower Says Texas Officers Were Ordered to Push Migrant Children into Rio Grande, ICC to Probe Reports of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur…
(2023-07-19). Ten years too long: End offshore detention. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-19). Federal Court judge rules hotel detention inhumane but legal. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-18). Israeli Forces Blindfold & Handcuff Palestinian Reporter Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta. democracynow.org 
On Saturday, Basel Adra, reporter for Local Call and +972 Magazine, was detained while covering an Israeli settler attack in the West Bank area of Masafer Yatta. After he refused to hand over his video footage, Israeli soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him and then sat him in a chair in the blazing sun for hours. The Union of Journalists in Israel denounced Basel's detention, describing it as a "serious violation of freedom of the press." Adra joined the show to discuss the difficulty of witnessing the crimes of Israeli forces against Palestinians as a local journalist. "I'm a Pale…
(2023-07-18). Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government's War on Thought Crimes. dissidentvoice.org 
Get ready for the next phase of the government's war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions. Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch …
(2023-07-19). Patriarchy and the origins of women's oppression. mronline.org 
Any vision of a world beyond capitalism involves the liberation of women from oppression, exploitation and discrimination. But just because we might have been able to win revolutionary social change, it does not mean that equal economic, social and cultural rights will be automatic for women.
(2023-07-19). West Virginia Rally Condemns Jail Deaths. popularresistance.org Beckley, West Virginia – Nearly 100 prison abolitionists and family members of jailhouse murder victims rallied in Beckley on July 15 to raise awareness of the growing number of deaths in jails throughout West Virginia. In the last couple of years, the deaths have become epidemic, with dozens of incarcerated workers murdered at the hands of guards throughout the state. | Appropriately dubbed "Handcuffs Shouldn't Kill You," the event was organized by the West Virginia Poor People's Campaign and co-sponsored by the West Virginia American Civil Liberties Union and the Beckley chapter of the NAACP. Community and unio…
(2023-07-19). Over 1000 People Are Sentenced for Riots in France. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti reported that the French authorities handed down 1,278 sentences for the riots that occurred in late June and early July. | RELATED: | Approximately 95 percent of those sentences were convictions, that is, 1,056 people were sentenced to prison. Among them are 742 citizens who must serve mandatory jail terms with an average duration of 8.2 months. | "It was extremely important that there be a…
(2023-07-19). Generative AI lawsuits pile up. america.cgtn.com 
The lawsuits are stacking up against Artificial Intelligence. Over the past year, numerous cases, some involving celebrities, have involved claims that tech companies inappropriately used unauthorized data to train their AI systems. CGTN's Mark Niu shares more.
(2023-07-19). Prisoners Trading Organs For Reduced Sentences & Scientology Leader On The Run To Avoid Lawsuit. trofire.com Democrats in Massachusetts have a proposal for prison inmates: Give up your internal organs and we'll reduce your sentence. Also, a leader at the Church of Scientology has disappeared after authorities tried to serve him with a child trafficking lawsuit. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so …
(2023-07-18). Iowa Judge Blocks Newly Passed 6-Week Abortion Ban. truthout.org A district judge in Iowa has placed an indefinite hold on a recently passed statewide ban on abortion at six weeks, which had passed last week after a special session was convened by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. Polk County District Court Judge Joseph Seidlin issued his ruling on Monday, putting an injunction on the law while a lawsuit challenging it runs its course. "The current state of the law… |
(2023-07-19). Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli Apartheid. truthout.org The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution vowing perpetual allyship with Israel and denying the country's apartheid against Palestinians on Tuesday night, just days after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) criticized Israel's violent oppression and far right regime over the weekend. The legislation, which states that "Israel is not a racist or apartheid state" despite mountains of evidence and… |
(2023-07-19). Polisario disqualifies Israeli recognition of Moroccan sovereignty. plenglish.com In a statement issued by the Ministry of Information of the Polisario Front, it underlined that "such a decision is not an achievement for the occupying State of Morocco, but a clear condemnation of an alliance of two discordant states that militarily occupy Western Sahara and the Palestinian territories, respectively (…)." | According to the text spread by the Saharawi agency SPS, Morocco and Israel subjugate the nations with the same practices of oppression, "confiscating their internationally recognized rights to self-determination and independence." | "Israel's decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty ov…
(2023-07-19). "Prisoners are alive but without life" electronicintifada.net Yusri Atiya al-Masri is free after two decades in Israeli prison, but he still struggles with the consequences of years of medical neglect.
(2023-07-19). Kids Are Being Kept in Solitary Confinement, Former Death Row Unit With No AC. truthout.org Children incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day without air conditioning as heat indexes in the area reach up to 133 degrees. The youth, almost all of whom are Black, are being detained in the former death row building of the nation's largest adult maximum security prison, according to the American Civil… |
(2023-07-19). Solidarity Campaign for the Freedom and Defense of Puente Madera. itsgoingdown.org Call for solidarity with the Binnizá community of Puente Madera, San Blas Atempa, Oaxaca, facing state repression for the defense of their communal lands. On July 20, 2023, another court hearing will be held in the case of our compañero, David Hernández Salazar. He has been accused of several fabricated crimes seeking to imprison him…
(2023-07-19). Chilean court gives the all-clear to new white-collar crime act. plenglish.com By vast majority, TC ¥s members concluded that the new Act is in line with current Constitution, so there is no reason to modify the text approved by the National Congress on May 16. | Therefore, TC's ministers dismissed the claims of big business, represented by the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC), which challenged the initiative under the claim of alleged violations to the Constitution. | The act extends fines and imprisonment for banking and tax crimes, embezzlement of public funds and money laundering. | This new resolution is aimed at craqcking down on corruption and illicit enrichment; su…
(2023-07-18). Egyptian court sentences activist and scholar Patrick George Zaki to three years in prison. peoplesdispatch.org 
Patrick George Zaki has been accused of disseminating false news about the country's internal conditions to disturb security and social peace. His case is emblematic of the large-scale crackdown by the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi government on rights and freedoms in Egypt…
(2023-07-19). Polisario disqualifies Israeli recognition of Moroccan sovereignty. plenglish.com In a statement issued by the Ministry of Information of the Polisario Front, it underlined that "such a decision is not an achievement for the occupying State of Morocco, but a clear condemnation of an alliance of two discordant states that militarily occupy Western Sahara and the Palestinian territories, respectively (…)." | According to the text spread by the Saharawi agency SPS, Morocco and Israel subjugate the nations with the same practices of oppression, "confiscating their internationally recognized rights to self-determination and independence." | "Israel's decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty ov…
(2023-07-19). "Prisoners are alive but without life" electronicintifada.net Yusri Atiya al-Masri is free after two decades in Israeli prison, but he still struggles with the consequences of years of medical neglect.
(2023-07-19). Kids Are Being Kept in Solitary Confinement, Former Death Row Unit With No AC. truthout.org Children incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day without air conditioning as heat indexes in the area reach up to 133 degrees. The youth, almost all of whom are Black, are being detained in the former death row building of the nation's largest adult maximum security prison, according to the American Civil… |
(2023-07-19). Solidarity Campaign for the Freedom and Defense of Puente Madera. itsgoingdown.org Call for solidarity with the Binnizá community of Puente Madera, San Blas Atempa, Oaxaca, facing state repression for the defense of their communal lands. On July 20, 2023, another court hearing will be held in the case of our compañero, David Hernández Salazar. He has been accused of several fabricated crimes seeking to imprison him…
(2023-07-19). Chilean court gives the all-clear to new white-collar crime act. plenglish.com By vast majority, TC ¥s members concluded that the new Act is in line with current Constitution, so there is no reason to modify the text approved by the National Congress on May 16. | Therefore, TC's ministers dismissed the claims of big business, represented by the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC), which challenged the initiative under the claim of alleged violations to the Constitution. | The act extends fines and imprisonment for banking and tax crimes, embezzlement of public funds and money laundering. | This new resolution is aimed at craqcking down on corruption and illicit enrichment; su…
(2023-07-18). Egyptian court sentences activist and scholar Patrick George Zaki to three years in prison. peoplesdispatch.org Patrick George Zaki has been accused of disseminating false news about the country's internal conditions to disturb security and social peace. His case is emblematic of the large-scale crackdown by the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi government on rights and freedoms in Egypt…
(2023-07-18). Assange Is 'Dangerously Close' To Extradition For Revealing Crimes. popularresistance.org For nearly five years, publisher and journalist Julian Assange has fought extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes. | Instead of protecting freedom of the press, to which he pledged allegiance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April, Joe Biden is continuing Donald Trump's prosecution of Assange under the infamous Espionage Act. James Ball is one of at least four journalists that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI are pressuring to cooperate with the prosecution of Assange, Ball wrote in Rolling Stone.
(2023-07-18). UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine Into 'An Open-Air Prison' to Further Annexation Plans. scheerpost.com 
Francesca Albanese's June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to "de-Palestinianize" the occupied territory, threatening "the existence of the Palestinians as a people."
(2023-07-18). 'I wasn't sentenced to be cooked': Heat desperation in a Texas prison. therealnews.com 
This story originally appeared in TW: mentions of self-harm and suicide | His sweat drips into my drinking cup. I'm in solitary confinement, and I've waited nine hours for ice-cold water. Severe staff shortages mean the sergeant is distributing lunch. My thirsty eyes watch him fill my three cups with the cold water pitcher, mixing with his DNA. The ice machine is broken more than it works. I don't blame it; I'd quit too if I were the only thing making ice for more than 1,200 p…