(2023-09-30). Press Freedom Does Not Exist While My Husband Julian Assange Is In Jail. popularresistance.org We must defend the right to offend. The most important aspect of the right to offend is the one that confronts those in power with the truths that they most eagerly wish to conceal. Without this right, the powerful become untouchable. | My husband, Julian Assange, pictured below right, has been imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh in Thamesmead since 2019 because, as the publisher of WikiLeaks, he exposed the abuses of the war on terror which the United States wanted to remain concealed. The US has brought charges against Julian that carry 175 years in prison. As Home Secretary, Priti Patel failed to block Julian's extradi…
(2023-09-30). Press Freedom Does Not Exist While My Husband Julian Assange Is In Jail. popularresistance.org
(2023-10-01). Youth Challenge 32 European Nations In 'Truly Historic' Climate Trial. popularresistance.org After Portugal experienced massive wildfires and extreme heat waves this summer, six children and youth from the nation appeared in the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday for a landmark lawsuit against 32 European nations charged with violating their human rights due to the impacts of climate change. | At the hearing in Strasbourg, France, lawyers representing six Portuguese young people said the youth were being discriminated against by state inaction in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of which have been "foreseeable for decades." | Inadequate action to curb global emissions, the lawyers argu…
(2023-09-30). Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace Accepts FARC Leader Simón Trinidad's Request of Inclusion (+US Imprisonment). orinocotribune.com The case of Simón Trinidad, leader of the former armed guerrilla organization Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who was extradited to the United States in 2004 and sentenced to 60 years in prison in the US, was accepted by Colombia's transitional justice system, whose Amnesty and Pardon Chamber (SAI) will study his judicial situation. | Sources of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announced on Thursday, September 28, that the appeal filed by Trinidad's defense was accepted and that the study of five criminal proceedings against him will begin, as well as the investigation of his possible invol…
(2023-09-30). Inside The High-Security 'Black Site' Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated. popularresistance.org Unbeknownst to most protesters who gathered at the White House on the occasion of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier's 79th birthday, Peltier wasn't able to celebrate, much less receive reports on how the well-attended event was progressing. | That's because Peltier, who is now spending his 48th year in captivity, was sitting on his bunk, across from his cellie, "locked down" in a cramped and concrete maximum-security cell designed for one man. | The Bureau of Prison's "lockdown" phenomenon has spread to other federal facilities, but nowhere is as pronounced and as repressive as at USP Coleman I,…
(2023-09-30). 30 September, Berlin: Demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and against anti-Palestinian repression. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is organizing a demonstration on Saturday, 30 September at 1 pm in Berlin, Germany, in Hermannplatz, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, the resistance in occupied Palestine, and as part of the
(2023-10-01). Tampa 5 Make Their First Stop In Wisconsin On Their US Tour. popularresistance.org Appleton, Wisconsin — On Saturday, September 23, students, faculty, and other members of the Fox Valley community gathered at Lawrence University's Warch Cinema in defense of the Tampa 5. In their second stop on their national tour, Lauren Pineiro and Chrisley Carpio of the Tampa 5 spoke to the LU community. Opening with chants of 'drop the charges now!' and 'fight back!', the Tampa 5 representatives spoke in detail of their case and its repercussions to the group of 35 people. For some, it was their first time hearing of the infuriating case, where the five protesters are facing five to ten years in prison…
(2023-09-30). Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace Accepts FARC Leader Simón Trinidad's Request of Inclusion (+US Imprisonment). orinocotribune.com