(2023-04-02). Youth Organizers Unite Marginalized Communities To Stop Atlanta's Cop City. popularresistance.org A crowd of youth organizers have mastered this call and response chant, a unanimous voice talking back to a potential Cop City. Nearing the end of Defend the Atlanta Forest's Week of Action, the energy from the In Defense of Black Lives rally held at the Atlanta Police Foundation Headquarters is palpable. There is laughter, chanting, a fire of hope that electrifies the air — folks have just finished roasting the heavily militarized police, who eye the crowd through the slits of their helmets. The solidarity between these kids is their biggest threat. | Black youth organizers were at the center of this rally…
(2023-04-02). We Just Won Something Huge. levernews.com We have incredible news to share: Thanks to your support, we just won the 2023 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.The award is especially significant because it is named after the closest thing we have to a patron saint: I.F. "Izzy" Stone, the pioneering investigative journalist who exposed racial discrimination, McCarthyism, and government deception related to the Vietnam War in his influential newsletter I.F. Stone's Weekly.As the judges noted, "No news outlet is as thorough and relentless as The Lever in exposing the corrupting influence of corporate power on government and both major…
(2023-04-03). Former Guantánamo Prisoner: Ron DeSantis Watched My Torture When He Was a Navy Lawyer at Gitmo. democracynow.org 
As Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to run for president in 2024, his time at Guantánamo is coming under scrutiny. Prior to entering politics, DeSantis served in the Navy as an attorney, first at the U.S. prison at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba and later in Iraq. Former Guantánamo prisoner Mansoor Adayfi says DeSantis personally witnessed him being force-fed and tortured, and other prisoners have backed up Adayfi's account. He joins us from his home in Belgrade for his first television interview about DeSantis's role at Guantánamo. "While I was screaming, yelling because I coul…
(2023-04-02). In Contempt #27: Judge Rejects Mumia's Attempt at New Trial; Repression of Pro-Choice Activists in Florida. itsgoingdown.org In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There's a lot happening, so let's dive right in! Political Prisoner News In political prisoner news, anarchist prisoner Eric King's support crew have launched a…
(2023-04-02). Judge Clemons Denies A New Trial For Mumia Abu Jamal. popularresistance.org Today at 4: 08 pm, March 31, 2023, Common Pleas court Judge Lucretia Clemons denied Mumia Abu-Jamal's request for a new trial. | This is simply devastating news. | After 43 years in prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal has exhausted nearly all of his avenues for relief. | Make no mistake: Justice required that Mumia Abu-Jamal be given a new trial. | The enemy now is time. At 68 years old Mumia is suffering from cardiac disease and has had a double bypass, and nearly died from lack of treatment for acute Hepatitis C. | If you put thick blinders on that block out all reality and rely on procedural minutia for cover, honestly, it…
(2023-04-02). Former PDVSA Executives Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos Declared Not Guilty of All Charges, Granted Full Freedom. orinocotribune.com 
Two former executives of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos, have been declared not guilty of all charges against them and the house arrest order against them has been lifted. | In February 2021, the two PDVSA executives were sentenced to five years in prison, for the crime of "disclosure, reservation or supply of information," after they had reported about financial crimes in PDVSA that were very similar to those unveiled recently, although those complaints involved some other top executives. The Venezuelan judiciary finally granted Torrealba and Chirinos full freedom, somethi…
(2023-04-02). Youth Organizers Unite Marginalized Communities To Stop Atlanta's Cop City. popularresistance.org A crowd of youth organizers have mastered this call and response chant, a unanimous voice talking back to a potential Cop City. Nearing the end of Defend the Atlanta Forest's Week of Action, the energy from the In Defense of Black Lives rally held at the Atlanta Police Foundation Headquarters is palpable. There is laughter, chanting, a fire of hope that electrifies the air — folks have just finished roasting the heavily militarized police, who eye the crowd through the slits of their helmets. The solidarity between these kids is their biggest threat. | Black youth organizers were at the center of this rally…
(2023-04-02). We Just Won Something Huge. levernews.com We have incredible news to share: Thanks to your support, we just won the 2023 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.The award is especially significant because it is named after the closest thing we have to a patron saint: I.F. "Izzy" Stone, the pioneering investigative journalist who exposed racial discrimination, McCarthyism, and government deception related to the Vietnam War in his influential newsletter I.F. Stone's Weekly.As the judges noted, "No news outlet is as thorough and relentless as The Lever in exposing the corrupting influence of corporate power on government and both major…
(2023-04-03). Former Guantánamo Prisoner: Ron DeSantis Watched My Torture When He Was a Navy Lawyer at Gitmo. democracynow.org As Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to run for president in 2024, his time at Guantánamo is coming under scrutiny. Prior to entering politics, DeSantis served in the Navy as an attorney, first at the U.S. prison at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba and later in Iraq. Former Guantánamo prisoner Mansoor Adayfi says DeSantis personally witnessed him being force-fed and tortured, and other prisoners have backed up Adayfi's account. He joins us from his home in Belgrade for his first television interview about DeSantis's role at Guantánamo. "While I was screaming, yelling because I coul…
(2023-04-02). In Contempt #27: Judge Rejects Mumia's Attempt at New Trial; Repression of Pro-Choice Activists in Florida. itsgoingdown.org In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There's a lot happening, so let's dive right in! Political Prisoner News In political prisoner news, anarchist prisoner Eric King's support crew have launched a…
(2023-04-02). Judge Clemons Denies A New Trial For Mumia Abu Jamal. popularresistance.org Today at 4: 08 pm, March 31, 2023, Common Pleas court Judge Lucretia Clemons denied Mumia Abu-Jamal's request for a new trial. | This is simply devastating news. | After 43 years in prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal has exhausted nearly all of his avenues for relief. | Make no mistake: Justice required that Mumia Abu-Jamal be given a new trial. | The enemy now is time. At 68 years old Mumia is suffering from cardiac disease and has had a double bypass, and nearly died from lack of treatment for acute Hepatitis C. | If you put thick blinders on that block out all reality and rely on procedural minutia for cover, honestly, it…
(2023-04-02). Former PDVSA Executives Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos Declared Not Guilty of All Charges, Granted Full Freedom. orinocotribune.com Two former executives of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos, have been declared not guilty of all charges against them and the house arrest order against them has been lifted. | In February 2021, the two PDVSA executives were sentenced to five years in prison, for the crime of "disclosure, reservation or supply of information," after they had reported about financial crimes in PDVSA that were very similar to those unveiled recently, although those complaints involved some other top executives. The Venezuelan judiciary finally granted Torrealba and Chirinos full freedom, somethi…
(2023-04-02). Former PDVSA Executives Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos Granted Full Freedom. orinocotribune.com Two former executives of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos, have been granted full freedom and the house arrest order against them has been lifted. | In February 2021, the two PDVSA executives were sentenced to five years in prison, for the crime of "disclosure, reservation or supply of information," after they had reported about financial crimes in PDVSA that were very similar to those unveiled recently, although those complaints involved some other top executives. The Venezuelan judiciary finally granted Torrealba and Chirinos full freedom, something for which the Chavista m…
(2023-04-02). Vancouver demonstration demands boycott of "Israeli" wines, freedom for Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net 
Marking Palestinian Land Day, the Canada Palestine Association and BDS Vancouver organized a demonstration in Vancouver urging the boycott of "Israeli" wines and demanding that the BC Liquor Stores (owned by the government of British Columbia) stop selling these wines. The demonstration is part of an ongoing 15-year campaign led by CPA demanding a boycott …
