(2023-05-17). Atlanta police doubles down on attacks on Cop City protesters. fightbacknews.org Atlanta, GA – Several activists were arrested and charged with felonies for the crime of hanging up flyers demanding justice for Manuel "Tortuguita'' Terán, a forest defender who was shot 57 times and murdered by Georgia State Patrol in January 2023. | The three people arrested are being charged with felony 'intimidation of an officer', which falls under Georgia's domestic terrorism laws, and are facing 20 years in jail for posting flyers on mailboxes in Cartersville, a suburb in north metro Atlanta. All three arrested are being denied bail and held in solitary confinement. The bogus charges and unjust…
(2023-05-16). VIDEO: The CIA Put Him In Jail For 2.5 Years With ZERO Evidence. progressivehub.net JEFFREY STERLING AND RYAN BLACK…
(2023-05-16). Will Lawsuits Bring an End to COVID Vaccines? globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-16). Housing Reparations as an Avenue to Counter the Impact of Structural Racism on Asthma. jamanetwork.com Current neighborhood conditions for Black and Indigenous communities in the US reflect policies and practices rooted in a history of structural racism and oppression. These policies and practices have shaped the physical and social environment in ways that have led to an increased prevalence of negative health outcomes, including asthma, in Black and Indigenous persons in this country.
(2023-05-16). Tunisia's main opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi sentenced to one year in prison. peoplesdispatch.org Ghannouchi's party and his supporters believe his conviction is politically motivated and part of President Kais Saied's attempts to silence opposition in the country…
(2023-05-16). Haiti: 4 inmates died at Saint Marc penitentiary. plenglish.com Port-au-Prince, May 16 (Prensa Latina) Four prisoners died at the Saint Marc civil prison, northwest of Haiti ¥s capital, as a consequence of the penitentiary ¥s poor conditions, as condemned by the Coordinator of Collective of Lawyers for the Defense of Human Rights Arnel Rémy.
(2023-05-16). Profiteers of Holmesburg Prison's Medical Experiments Have Yet to Redress Harm. truthout.org A crowd of students, professors, and community members gathered in a packed room at St. Joseph's University on April 26 to hear about "Philadelphia's lasting shame" from the people who are still living under the pain of it. That shame — the horrific medical experiments conducted by dermatologist Dr. Albert Kligman in Pennsylvania's Holmesburg Prison for more than 20 years beginning in the 1950s… |
(2023-05-16). Munther Khalaf Mufleh transferred to interrogation after isolation of fellow imprisoned leaders. samidoun.net 
On Tuesday, 16 May, Israeli prison administration transferred Palestinian prisoner Munther Khalaf Mufleh to interrogation, one week after they invaded Ramon prison and transferred Ahmad Sa'adat, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh and Walid Hanatsheh to interrogation. The three leaders are still being held isolated in interrogation at this moment. This comes one day after the Palestinian prisoners' …
(2023-05-16). New Study Quantifies Fossil Fuel Companies' Impact on Western Wildfires. truthout.org The American West has always had forest fires — just not like this. Blazes are spreading further and burning longer, incinerating towns and exposing millions of people to noxious smoke. While a century of fire suppression and other land management choices contribute to the severity, climate change is a key factor fueling these fires, roughly doubling the acreage burned over the last 40 years. |