Bilal G. Morris (2023-02-08). Civil Rights Leaders Demand Action In Response To President Biden's State Of The Union. newsone.com

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-02-08). Remembering Jesse B. Blayton Sr.: Black American Media Pioneer. moguldom.com If making history was a person, it could easily have been Jesse B. Blayton Sr. Not only was Blayton an iconic scholar, serial entrepreneur and civil rights activist, he was also the first to amplify Black voices through broadcast radio. According to his biography on Black Past, Blayton purchased WERD-AM in Atlanta, Georgia, for $ ,000 on Oct …

Salma Allam (2023-02-08). New York City protesters demand shutdown of immigration detention center. liberationnews.org "U.S. imperialism has caused the conditions for immigrants to leave their country and find shelter here," declared Rojas. "So they're not asking for anything that is not owed to them. They are asking for humanity and dignity!"

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Bilal G. Morris (2023-02-08). Civil Rights Leaders Demand Action In Response To President Biden's State Of The Union. newsone.com

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-02-08). Remembering Jesse B. Blayton Sr.: Black American Media Pioneer. moguldom.com If making history was a person, it could easily have been Jesse B. Blayton Sr. Not only was Blayton an iconic scholar, serial entrepreneur and civil rights activist, he was also the first to amplify Black voices through broadcast radio. According to his biography on Black Past, Blayton purchased WERD-AM in Atlanta, Georgia, for $ ,000 on Oct …

Salma Allam (2023-02-08). New York City protesters demand shutdown of immigration detention center. liberationnews.org "U.S. imperialism has caused the conditions for immigrants to leave their country and find shelter here," declared Rojas. "So they're not asking for anything that is not owed to them. They are asking for humanity and dignity!"

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Bruce C.T. Wright (2023-02-08). All The Ways Sandra Bland's Legacy Lives On. newsone.com The social media celebration of Sandra Bland's 36th birthday helped draw attention to all the ways her legacy lives on nearly eight years after her controversial in-custody jail death.

Unity, Struggle (2023-02-08). Building the Movement to Stop Cop City: Three Theories of Victory in Atlanta. itsgoingdown.org An analysis from Unity and Struggle about the path forward for the movement to Stop Cop City. The struggle in Atlanta's Weelaunee forest and against Cop City has been waged on many fronts: treesits, rallies, community meetings, targeted property destruction, lawsuits. Recently, police attacks and the assassination of Tortuguita dealt many of us a devastating…

Mike Ervin (2023-02-08). Smart Ass Cripple: The Right to Get Stoned (and Other Things) Online. progressive.org New federal lawsuit Rasheta Bunting v. Housing Works Cannabis demonstrates how inaccessible websites can be just as limiting as inaccessible buildings.

Jim McMahan (2023-02-08). Black Reconstruction on Carolina's Gold Coast. workers.org The "Reconstruction Era" following the Civil War spanned 1865-1876; it was a brief period in which formerly enslaved Black people won some political, social and economic rights in the South. But the former slaveocracy regained state power and enforced economic and political oppression once again. The March to the Sea, . . . |

A Guest Author (2023-02-09). Sam Marcy clarified Marx for us. workers.org The following message was from a study group of prisoners on Texas Death Row at the Ellis I Unit, Huntsville, Texas, on the occasion of the 85th birthday celebration of the late chairperson of Workers World Party, Sam Marcy, Oct. 5, 1996. Both Emerson Rudd and Ponchai Wilkerson were legally . . . |

ILWU Local 10 (2023-02-09). Thursday 2/16: Free CWA NABET Journalist & Political Prisoner Mumia:An Injury To One Is An Injury To All. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 | 400 NorthPoint St | San Francisco, CA | March to Harry Bridges Plaza next to Ferry Building…

Canadian Tire Fire (2023-02-09). Canadian Tire Fire #53: Bail Reform For the Worse, Drug Decriminalization, and Prison Construction Updates. itsgoingdown.org This week we look at a call from politicians to make it harder for prisoners to get bail, updates on prison construction in Ontario, drug decriminalization in BC, and deaths in prisons across so-called Canada. Bail Reform for the Worse Earlier in January, all 13 premiers across so-called Canada signed a letter to the federal…

Revolution Books (2023-02-08). Friday 2/10: Carl Dix-Why Defunding Police &Abolishing Prisons UnderThis System Are Dangerous Illusions. indybay.org Revolution Books | 2444 Durant Avenue | Berkeley…

Staff (2023-02-08). Barcelona suspends twinning with Tel Aviv and all institutional relationships with Israel. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the popular movement and the people of Barcelona on the occasion of the Mayor of Barcelona's announcement that all institutional relations with Israeli apartheid, including the Catalan capital's twinning with Tel Aviv, will be suspended. We praise Mayor Ada Colau for taking this important step forward, a step that …

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2023-02-07). 2023 Rosa Parks Day – Transit Equity Week. indybay.org After her arrest, Rosa Parks lost her job as a seamstress and without support from the Civil Rights Movement Leaders moved north to Detroit where her brother Sylvester McCauley an US Army Veteran lived with his large family. Auntie Rosie and Raymond Parks regained human dignity and hope. From 1965-1988 she worked as an administrative aide to U.S. Representative John Conyers.

Salma Allam (2023-02-08). New York City protesters demand shutdown of immigration detention center. liberationnews.org "U.S. imperialism has caused the conditions for immigrants to leave their country and find shelter here," declared Rojas. "So they're not asking for anything that is not owed to them. They are asking for humanity and dignity!"

Fight Back (2023-02-07). Community rallies for hunger strikers at Tacoma Northwest Detention Center. fightbacknews.org Tacoma, WA – On Saturday, February 4, over 50 people came to support the ongoing hunger strikes occurring in the Northwest Detention Center. The detention center is operated by the GEO group, sanctioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | This solidarity action was organized by La Resistencia NW to support the undocumented people detained inside. The crowd chanted, "Chinga la migra" and "Estan no solos – you are not alone!" Several detainees video-called the crowd to express their gratitude and to explain their predicament. | In the NWDC, over 100 people went on hunger strike for the most basic of demands.

Ann Brown (2023-02-07). Black Man Died After Pleading With Prison For Insulin: Prison Wanted More Money. moguldom.com Clifford Farrar, 51, was a prisoner at Stafford Detention Center in Washington state. He also had type 1 diabetes and had been insulin dependent since age 15. His condition was known to the prison, yet in December 2021, he died after pleading for insulin that would have saved his life, his family said. Farrar died …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2023-02-07). 2023 Rosa Parks Day – Transit Equity Week. indybay.org After her arrest, Rosa Parks lost her job as a seamstress and without support from the Civil Rights Movement Leaders moved north to Detroit where her brother Sylvester McCauley an US Army Veteran lived with his large family. Auntie Rosie and Raymond Parks regained human dignity and hope. From 1965-1988 she worked as an administrative aide to U.S. Representative John Conyers.

Salma Allam (2023-02-08). New York City protesters demand shutdown of immigration detention center. liberationnews.org "U.S. imperialism has caused the conditions for immigrants to leave their country and find shelter here," declared Rojas. "So they're not asking for anything that is not owed to them. They are asking for humanity and dignity!"

Fight Back (2023-02-07). Community rallies for hunger strikers at Tacoma Northwest Detention Center. fightbacknews.org Tacoma, WA – On Saturday, February 4, over 50 people came to support the ongoing hunger strikes occurring in the Northwest Detention Center. The detention center is operated by the GEO group, sanctioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | This solidarity action was organized by La Resistencia NW to support the undocumented people detained inside. The crowd chanted, "Chinga la migra" and "Estan no solos – you are not alone!" Several detainees video-called the crowd to express their gratitude and to explain their predicament. | In the NWDC, over 100 people went on hunger strike for the most basic of demands.

Ann Brown (2023-02-07). Black Man Died After Pleading With Prison For Insulin: Prison Wanted More Money. moguldom.com Clifford Farrar, 51, was a prisoner at Stafford Detention Center in Washington state. He also had type 1 diabetes and had been insulin dependent since age 15. His condition was known to the prison, yet in December 2021, he died after pleading for insulin that would have saved his life, his family said. Farrar died …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Fight Back (2023-02-07). Twin Cites rally demands freedom for Leonard Peltier. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis MN – One hundred people rallied in front of the federal courthouse in Minneapolis on February 6 to demand freedom for Leonard Peltier. Peltier is the longest-held indigenous political prisoner in the U.S. Human rights activists worldwide have repeatedly called for his release. | Nick Estes of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee said, "Today we are standing with a dozen or so rallies across the world at courthouses and embassies in solidarity with Leonard Peltier. This is the day he was arrested by the RCMP and so we count this day as the first day of his incarceration. He is entering his 48th year o…

Bruce C.T. Wright (2023-02-08). All The Ways Sandra Bland's Legacy Lives On. newsone.com The social media celebration of Sandra Bland's 36th birthday helped draw attention to all the ways her legacy lives on nearly eight years after her controversial in-custody jail death.

theguardian (2023-02-07). Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier in plea for clemency after 47 years in jail. theguardian.com Peltier, convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975, tells Guardian of desire to return home to tribal land.

WSWS (2023-02-07). "A Safe Place" exposes state and federal cover-up of 2018 death of Jerod Draper inside Indiana jail. wsws.org Instead of receiving medical attention while suffering an overdose inside the Harrison County Jail in October 2018, Draper was restrained, tortured and shocked with a taser by jailers and medical staff.

Unity, Struggle (2023-02-08). Building the Movement to Stop Cop City: Three Theories of Victory in Atlanta. itsgoingdown.org An analysis from Unity and Struggle about the path forward for the movement to Stop Cop City. The struggle in Atlanta's Weelaunee forest and against Cop City has been waged on many fronts: treesits, rallies, community meetings, targeted property destruction, lawsuits. Recently, police attacks and the assassination of Tortuguita dealt many of us a devastating…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-02-07). Justice Department Fights Lawsuit Over Secret JFK Files. thedissenter.org

Jim McMahan (2023-02-08). Black Reconstruction on Carolina's Gold Coast. workers.org The "Reconstruction Era" following the Civil War spanned 1865-1876; it was a brief period in which formerly enslaved Black people won some political, social and economic rights in the South. But the former slaveocracy regained state power and enforced economic and political oppression once again. The March to the Sea, . . . |

Fight Back (2023-02-07). Tampa panel celebrates Black History Month, vows continued fight for Black liberation. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On February 6, Tampa community members packed the North Tampa branch library for a Black History Month panel hosted by the Tampa district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The panel discussed the demands of African Americans, in Tampa and across the country, in the struggle against racism, imperialism and national oppression, especially talking about the struggles against police brutality and for community control of the police. | "The epidemic of police violence shows the need for Black liberation. If we're going to be able to confront this thing head on, we need to develop better in…

Revolution Books (2023-02-08). Friday 2/10: Carl Dix-Why Defunding Police &Abolishing Prisons UnderThis System Are Dangerous Illusions. indybay.org Revolution Books | 2444 Durant Avenue | Berkeley…

Joyce Chediac (2023-02-07). Statement from Leonard Peltier. liberationnews.org They have historically imprisoned or killed our people, taken our land and resources.

teleSUR (2023-02-07). I Fear For My Life Since 2021: Peru's Ex-President Castillo. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Peru's El Salto newspaper published an interview with former President Pedro Castillo, who has remained in the Barbadillo maximum security prison since Congress removed him from the presidency on Dec. 7, 2022. | RELATED: | "I have feared for my life since the second round of the 2021 elections, when the death threats against me and my family began," Castillo said, stressing that there are no guarante…

Adriaan Alsema (2023-02-07). How Colombia's judicial reform seeks to solve prison crisis. colombiareports.com Colombia's justice minister has come up with a major judicial reform, which seeks to combat the country's decades-long prison crisis. The judicial reform seeks to combat overcrowding in prisons, which…

Janet Parker (2023-02-07). Remember Reza Berati and demand protection for asylum seekers. greenleft.org.au Reza Berati's death has become a symbol of the brutality and impunity of the offshore imprisonment of asylum seekers and refugees, argues Janet Parker, on the ninth anniversary of his brutal death on Manus Island.

Peter Boyle (2023-02-07). Campaign for freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah àñcalan takes to Sydney Harbour. greenleft.org.au Kurds and supporters began a month-long campaign to free imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah àñcalan by sailing through iconic Sydney Harbour in a flag and banner-dressed yacht. Peter Boyle reports.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-02-07). Abahlali baseMjondolo and the fight of the organized poor against a hostile justice system. peoplesdispatch.org Months after being imprisoned on a murder charge, three leaders of the eKhenana Commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been finally granted bail. Their arrests are part of a lengthy history of violent persecution of the shack dwellers' movement…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-02-07). 'Tens of Thousands' of Prisoners Granted Amnesty in Iran. orinocotribune.com State media reports that the pardon would not apply to dual nationals held in Iranian prisons | The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, has approved the proposal of the country's Judiciary to pardon or reduce the sentence of tens of thousands of prisoners, state news agency IRNA reported on 5 February. | Among the prisoners are people accused and convicted of participating in recent anti-government protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022. | Khamenei has pardoned thousands of men and women using Article 110 of the Islamic Republic's…

Staff (2023-02-07). 7 February, Ann Arbor: The Struggle for Black and Palestinian Liberation — Political Prisoners. samidoun.net Tuesday, 7 February 7 pm Union Anderson Rm D University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Info: www.instagram.com/p/CoLCbCEvMiG/ First event for Palestine Awareness Week is coming up!! Check out the event description below! In this event, political prisoners are highlighted as freedom fighters as we discuss their strive towards liberation. Political prisoners have endured unethical means of …