(2023-09-11). Bernice King Tells America: Reparations Are Warranted, My Father MLK Would Have Supported Them. moguldom.com In recent years, the idea of reparations for descendants of slaves has sparked debates across the country. Dr. Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., has voiced her support for reparations and believes they are not only "warranted" but also have the capacity to address various societal issues. Dr. …
(2023-09-11). Socialists slam Queensland Labor for locking up children indefinitely. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-10). Socialists slam Queensland Labor for locking up children indefinitely. greenleft.org.au
(2023-09-10). 22 September, Brussels: Palestinians in detention, inside and outside of Palestine. samidoun.net 
In the framework of the week to honor the memory of Semira Adamu, killed 25 years ago while being forcibly deported from Belgium (21-24 Sept.), Samidoun Brussels invites you to its conference organized on Friday 22.09.2023 at 7 pm at DK, rue du Danemark 70B, St-Gilles. Speakers : Khaled Barakat, palestinian write and member of …
(2023-09-10). Building Hope And A Halfway House In Washington, DC. popularresistance.org With nearly two million people in prison and an incarceration rate five times higher than most countries on the planet, the United States is the world's only carceral superpower. Our nation has a long tradition of "justice" that is articulated in a cold, calculating and harsh expression of punishment. Despite this history, a counter narrative surrounding imprisonment and punishment in the United States has also existed — one that is based in reform, repentance, restoration and redemption. | Quakers in Philadelphia spent decades in the early 19th century protesting harsh prison conditions and ultimately conv…
(2023-09-10). Ukrainian Dissident Resists NATO's Proxy War. scheerpost.com By Max Blumenthal / YouTube Ukrainian journalist and exiled antiwar dissident Ruslan Kostaba has been jailed and brutally attacked for his years of opposition to his government's war in the Donbas, and his calls for peace with Russia. From exile, he speaks to The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal about the growing movement in Ukraine against escalating …
(2023-09-10). Podemos campaigns to jail former Spanish football chief Rubiales over women's world cup kiss. wsws.org The reactionary campaign to destroy Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales over his kiss of midfielder Jennifer Hermoso intensified last week.
(2023-09-11). Iran, US Prisoner Swap and Funds Release Imminent in Qatari-Mediated Deal. news.antiwar.com As the result of a deal made possible by at least eight rounds of shuttle diplomacy mediated by Doha, the US and Iran may soon be conducting a prisoner swap. This agreement will additionally see $6 billion in previously frozen funds belonging to Iran transferred to banks in Qatar, where that money will be spent …
(2023-09-11). U.S. citizen sentences to life in prison for espionage. ecns.cn A citizen of the United States has been given a life sentence by a Chinese court for espionage, China's national security agency released on Monday.
(2023-09-11). China's security authorities disclose details of a U.S. meritorious medal-awarded spy. ecns.cn China's national security authorities on Monday released details about the case of John Shing-Wan Leung, who holds permanent residency in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and a U.S. passport, and was sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges.
(2023-09-11). Friday 9/15: Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now! indybay.org The Pedestrian Bridge over Geary Blvd @ Webster, near Japantown…
(2023-09-11). "The Other 9/11": Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende. democracynow.org 
We look at the 50th anniversary of what is sometimes called the "other 9/11" — the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, when General Augusto Pinochet ousted President Salvador Allende and inaugurated almost two decades of brutal military rule. Allende died in the presidential palace on September 11, 1973, marking the end of Chile's first socialist government. During Pinochet's military dictatorship, more than 3,000 people were disappeared or killed, and some 40,000 more were tortured as political prisoners as Chile remained a close partner to the United States during the Cold War. "We…
(2023-09-10). Oral History of Political Prisoners Shows Enduring Power of Revolutionary Hope. truthout.org Political prisoners "are our messengers, our dreamers, and our pioneers," writes celebrated Marxist and abolitionist Angela Davis in the preface to Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners. "They teach us that we do not have to accede to existing modes of organizing our collective existence. They remind us that there is life beyond racial capitalism… |