Monthly Archives: April 2023

2023-04-01: News Headlines

Staff (2023-03-31). How the ACLU is Showing Up For Abortion Access Nationwide. aclu.org

cameron orr (2023-04-01). From county farm to statewide fame, Nellie Stone Johnson's journey. cpusa.org As we round out Women's History Month, we honor Nellie Allen Stone Johnson, radical farmer, African American union leader, NAACP and Urban League civil rights activist, Farm-Labor organizer, and Young Communist League member, who left an inexhaustible and distinguished legacy of struggle. Born Nellie Allen in 1905 to a rural Minnesota family of radical …

Franc Contreras (2023-04-01). Fire at a Mexican detention center killed at least 39 migrants. america.cgtn.com Mexican authorities have begun a murder investigation following a fire that killed at least 39 migrants in a Mexican detention facility in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

The Associated Press (2023-03-31). Mexico: Arrest Orders Issued for 6 in Migrant Detention Center Fire. latinorebels.com A Mexican court issued arrest orders Thursday for six people in connection with the fire that killed 39 migrants at a detention facility this week in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, according to the federal prosecutor leading the investigation.

ecns.cn (2023-04-01). Comicomment: U.S. summit makes a mockery of democracy. ecns.cn The United States, with its tattered version of "American-style democracy," hosted the second so-called "Summit for Democracy" this week. However, the country is plagued by chronic issues such as money in politics, racial discrimination, gun and police violence, and wealth polarization. Human rights legislation and justice have suffered an extreme regression, further undermining the basic rights and freedoms of the American people.

Petteri Muukkonen (2023-04-01). [Correspondence] Geography education to help understand discrimination in climate change and health. thelancet.com Thilagawathi A Deivanayagam and colleagues1 have highlighted that the effects of climate change are not equally distributed around the world, creating discrimination related to climate change and health. The authors mentioned briefly that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises education as one way to address this issue.2 However, the problem is so large and multidimensional that it should be answered with cross-disciplinary solutions. The effects of climate change vary across countries and regions due to differences in geography, history, and economic development.

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-03-31). DeSantis threatens to blow up indictment by protecting Trump from extradition. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—As soon as a group of ordinary citizens on a Manhattan grand jury exercised democracy by indicting former President Donald Trump for crimes, the right-wing governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, declared that he will not cooperate in any attempt by New York officials to extradite Trump from Mar-A-Lago for arraignment. Trump's lawyers claim he …

scorinoco (2023-04-01). Venezuela Opposition Primaries Falter Between Exclusions, Criticisms, and Lawsuits. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan opposition parties continue to announce their candidates for the 2024 presidential elections amid an environment marked by division, questions of "legitimacy," disqualified pre-candidates, and pleas to the US for more sanctions against the country's government. | Complaints of exclusion, characterizing other aspirants as "scorpions," accusations of treason, attributions of mental illness, etc. seem to be part of a campaign where the highly publicized "unity" is beginning to be exposed as a fabrication. | The so-called Unitary Platform for Venezuela (PUV), made up of the former members of the G4 platfor…

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-31). Uganda LGBTQ Law Obscures Crimes Committed On Behalf Of The US. popularresistance.org The parliament of the Republic of Uganda recently passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 , which makes it a crime to identify as gay. Same sex relationships were already illegal in Uganda, but provisions of the new law include life in prison for same-sex relations and the death penalty for what is referred to as "aggravated homosexuality." | The human rights abuses advocated in this legislation have quite rightly created shock and condemnation around the world. It is true that conservative evangelical groups from the United States encourage anti-LGBTQ policies in Uganda. These relationships should be pointed ou…

splcenter (2023-03-31). Trashing Their Rights: Alabama town uses 'debtors' prison' for people who fall behind on garbage bills. splcenter.org

Staff (2023-03-31). Barcelona demonstration marks Palestinian Land Day. samidoun.net At the call of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, approximately 60 people gathered on Thursday, 30 March in Barcelona, Catalonia, on the occasion of Palestinian Land Day. This demonstration was an opportunity to affirm the commitment of social movements in the city to the liberation …

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