Monthly Archives: May 2023

2023-05-13: News Headlines

Claudine Constant (2023-05-12). Here's How Connecticut Could Implement a Historic New Voting Law. aclu.org Known as the "land of steady habits," Connecticut represents a microcosm of the racist legacy of voter suppression nationwide — but that might change soon. | While some people think of Connecticut as progressive, in truth, we're behind on protecting the right to vote: Connecticut is one of only four states that does not have in-person early voting, one of only 15 states without no-excuse absentee voting, and is in the

Staff (2023-05-12). Why Indigenous Students Are Fighting to Wear Tribal Regalia at Graduation. aclu.org

Zane McNeill (2023-05-12). Human Rights Groups Sue to Block Biden's "Unlawful" Asylum Ban. truthout.org The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and immigrant advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to the Biden administration's new asylum ban, which went into effect after Title 42 — a pandemic-era emergency policy that was widely condemned by immigrant advocates — expired on Thursday. Biden's asylum ban combines unlawful Trump-era "third country transit ban" policies — which Biden had… |

WSWS (2023-05-13). Ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan released on bail amid mass protests; authorities vow to jail him again. wsws.org The government has responded to the Supreme Court's striking down of Kahn's arrest and his subsequent release on bail with great anger and threats, setting the stage for an intensification of the political crisis.

Gloria Rubac (2023-05-12). 8th annual event honors Joe Torres, victim of killer cops. workers.org Houston When Houston cops arrested and brutally beat Vietnam war veteran Joe Campos Torres on Cinco de Mayo (May 5), 1977, the jailers refused to book him. They told the cops to take him to the hospital. Instead, police officers took him back to the banks of Buffalo Bayou and . . . |

Ann Brown (2023-05-12). Alleged Killer Of Young Dolph Gets $90,000 Bond: 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com Hernandez Govan, who was accused of organizing the murder of popular Memphis hip-hop artist Young Dolph has posted bond and was released from jail. Authorities accuse the 43-year-old Govan of being the one who ordered Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith to shoot and kill Young Dolph at Makeda's Homemade Cookies on Nov. 17, 2021. Young …


A Guest Author (2023-05-13). Martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan after 86 days of hunger strike: latest target of Israeli assassinations. workers.org Published by Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, May 1, 2023. Sheikh Khader Adnan Sheikh Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner, hunger striker and resistance leader, was martyred in the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 2, after 86 days of hunger strike demanding his freedom. Adnan, 45, was married to Randa . . . |

_____ (2023-05-13). Guantanamo Prisoner's Graphic Details of U.S. Torture. strategic-culture.org

Floyd D. Collins (2023-05-13). Prison Can't Prevent Domestic Abuse. Transformative Accountability Programs Can. truthout.org One of the central tenets of the movement to end intimate partner violence is accountability: the idea that people who use violence should be held responsible for their actions. For many in the movement, accountability has been linked to intervention by the criminal legal system. Some anti-violence advocates have argued that those who used violence could best — or only — be held accountable… |

It's Going Down (2023-05-13). Indigenous Resistance in Mexico, Border Militarization, and the End of Title 42. itsgoingdown.org On this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we look at the Mexican state's targeting of Indigenous resistance movements and communities, specifically the cases of political prisoners Fidencio Aldama and Miguel Peralta, and how this relates to the militarization of borders across so-called North America. As a recent article on It's Going Down wrote: …

Visualizing Palestine (2023-05-13). On Khader Adnan's Hunger Strike. dissidentvoice.org The story of the ongoing Nakba is the story of Khader Adnan, who spent eight years of his life in Israeli prison without charge or trial and died last week on hunger strike in solitary confinement.

A Guest Author (2023-05-12). United Nations panel investigates U.S. political prisoners. workers.org By Efia Nwangaza This article, published in Black Agenda Report via Popular Resistance, reports on a United Nations panel of experts in the U.S. that is investigating the condition of political prisoners held in the United States. Black Agenda Report Greenville, South Carolina — An April 26th U.N. Delegation session, . . . |


a guest author (2023-05-12). Political prisoners? The U.S. emperor has no clothes. workers.org By Julia Wright Julia Wright A delegation from the UN Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement (UN EMLER) visited the United States between April 24 and May 5, 2023, to review the status quo of law enforcement and police brutality in advance of the third . . . |

teleSUR (2023-05-12). Peru: Prosecutors Ask For 35 Years In Prison Against Kuczynski. telesurenglish.net The Peruvian Public Prosecutor's Office requested on Friday a prison sentence of 35 years for former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018) as part of the investigation of the Odebrecht case. | RELATED: | Prosecutor José Domingo Pérez who leads the First Office of the Lava Jato Special Team filed the indictment against Kuczynski. He is accused of the crime of money laundering with the aggravating circumstance of a criminal organization. | Acc…

Zane McNeill (2023-05-12). New ICE Program Subjects Asylum Seekers to GPS Monitoring and Curfew. truthout.org The White House is rolling out a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that will subject asylum-seeking families that cross the U.S. border without authorization to GPS monitoring and a curfew — a move that immigrant advocates say will further criminalize migrants and ultimately expand ICE's inhumane system of immigrant imprisonment. The punitive surveillance program… |

_____ (2023-05-12). Did Intel-Linked Dataminr Play Sinister Role in Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression? strategic-culture.org By Kit KLARENBERG | On April 20, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell

a guest author (2023-05-12). Political prisoners? The U.S. emperor has no clothes. workers.org By Julia Wright Julia Wright A delegation from the UN Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement (UN EMLER) visited the United States between April 24 and May 5, 2023, to review the status quo of law enforcement and police brutality in advance of the third . . . |

teleSUR (2023-05-12). Peru: Prosecutors Ask For 35 Years In Prison Against Kuczynski. telesurenglish.net The Peruvian Public Prosecutor's Office requested on Friday a prison sentence of 35 years for former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018) as part of the investigation of the Odebrecht case. | RELATED: | Prosecutor José Domingo Pérez who leads the First Office of the Lava Jato Special Team filed the indictment against Kuczynski. He is accused of the crime of money laundering with the aggravating circumstance of a criminal organization. | Acc…

Zane McNeill (2023-05-12). New ICE Program Subjects Asylum Seekers to GPS Monitoring and Curfew. truthout.org The White House is rolling out a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that will subject asylum-seeking families that cross the U.S. border without authorization to GPS monitoring and a curfew — a move that immigrant advocates say will further criminalize migrants and ultimately expand ICE's inhumane system of immigrant imprisonment. The punitive surveillance program… |

_____ (2023-05-12). Did Intel-Linked Dataminr Play Sinister Role in Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression? strategic-culture.org By Kit KLARENBERG | On April 20, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell

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2023-05-12: News Headlines

Claudine Constant (2023-05-12). Here's How Connecticut Could Implement a Historic New Voting Law. aclu.org Known as the "land of steady habits," Connecticut represents a microcosm of the racist legacy of voter suppression nationwide — but that might change soon. | While some people think of Connecticut as progressive, in truth, we're behind on protecting the right to vote: Connecticut is one of only four states that does not have in-person early voting, one of only 15 states without no-excuse absentee voting, and is in the

People's Dispatch. (2023-05-12). Pakistan Rocked By Protests As Imran Khan Is Sent To Custody. popularresistance.org Massive protests broke out across Pakistan on May 9, Tuesday, after the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. On Wednesday, a court sent the leader of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) into eight days of detention with the National Accountability Bureau. A separate judge also indicted him in a case relating to unlawful selling of state gifts [known as the Toshakhana case]. | Protesters set fire to buildings in various parts of the country. There have been reports of deaths during the protests though the exact toll is not clear yet. The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that three people had been…

_____ (2023-05-11). Palestine Is Boiling and Will Not Cool Down. strategic-culture.org The Israeli aggression against Palestinians has reached the point where they are not permitted to hear the call to prayer, Steven Sahiounie writes. | Khader Adnan, 45, of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, died while on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. | He started the hunger strike on February 5, when he was arrested and sentenced in an Israeli military court and placed into "administrative detention", which means detention without charges in abhorrent prison conditions. | It was the Israeli common practice of administrative detention that prompted the hunger strike. | Held without charges or trial, this mark…

Mike Ludwig (2023-05-11). House Vote on Border Bill Is Just Anti-Immigrant Theatrics, Critics Say. truthout.org House Republicans passed a sweeping anti-immigrant "border security" package on Thursday that has already received a veto threat from the White House and is considered dead on arrival in the Senate. The legislation would gut the right to apply for asylum in the United States and increase the detention of children and families in crowded facilities at the southern border, where large numbers of… |

Prison Policy Initiative. (2023-05-11). Report: Mass Incarceration Doesn't Stop At The Prison Walls. popularresistance.org 1.9 million people are behind bars in the U.S., but this number doesn't capture the true reach of the criminal legal system in the country. In a new report, Punishment Beyond Prisons: Incarceration & Supervision by state, the Prison Policy Initiative shows how in America, the overuse of probation and parole, along with mass incarceration, has ensnared a staggering 5.5 million people in a system of mass punishment and correctional control. | Punishment Beyond Prisons shows the full picture of correctional control in the country, with a particular focus on the overuse of probation and parole.

Gloria Rubac (2023-05-12). 8th annual event honors Joe Torres, victim of killer cops. workers.org Houston When Houston cops arrested and brutally beat Vietnam war veteran Joe Campos Torres on Cinco de Mayo (May 5), 1977, the jailers refused to book him. They told the cops to take him to the hospital. Instead, police officers took him back to the banks of Buffalo Bayou and . . . |


Lynda Carson (2023-05-12). Bankruptcy filing for Diocese of Oakland over clergy child sexual abuse lawsuits. indybay.org Diocese of Oakland – Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Documents Filed On May 8, 2023:…

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-12). Italy's Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change. popularresistance.org

Chris Walker (2023-05-11). Eric Trump Threatens Lawsuit Over Truthful Reporting on Speaking Tour. truthout.org Eric Trump, son of former President Donald Trump, has threatened to sue MSNBC host Rachel Maddow over her accurate reporting that he will be taking part in a speaking tour alongside white supremacists this weekend. Eric Trump — who, alongside his older brother Donald Trump Jr., helped manage his father's companies while he was in office — is set to participate in the far right ReAwaken America… |

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-11). Bailing Out A Friend: Judge Says Block's $306M Purchase Of Jay-Z's Tidal Was A Terrible Business Decision. moguldom.com A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against Jack Dorsey's digital payments company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition of hip-hop artist Jay-Z's majority ownership in the music streaming service Tidal, saying it seemed a "terrible business decision" but was "made in good faith." A pension fund shareholder alleged that Block founder and CEO …

A Guest Author (2023-05-12). United Nations panel investigates U.S. political prisoners. workers.org By Efia Nwangaza This article, published in Black Agenda Report via Popular Resistance, reports on a United Nations panel of experts in the U.S. that is investigating the condition of political prisoners held in the United States. Black Agenda Report Greenville, South Carolina — An April 26th U.N. Delegation session, . . . |

A Guest Author (2023-05-12). Political prisoners? The U.S. emperor has no clothes. workers.org By Julia Wright Julia Wright A delegation from the UN Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement (UN EMLER) visited the United States between April 24 and May 5, 2023, to review the status quo of law enforcement and police brutality in advance of the third . . . |


Zane McNeill (2023-05-12). New ICE Program Subjects Asylum Seekers to GPS Monitoring and Curfew. truthout.org The White House is rolling out a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that will subject asylum-seeking families that cross the U.S. border without authorization to GPS monitoring and a curfew — a move that immigrant advocates say will further criminalize migrants and ultimately expand ICE's inhumane system of immigrant imprisonment. The punitive surveillance program… |

Binoy Kampmark (2023-05-11). A Certain Form of Thieving. dissidentvoice.org It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, venal incompetence. In the customary script, they habitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses. Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie …

Zane McNeill (2023-05-12). New ICE Program Subjects Asylum Seekers to GPS Monitoring and Curfew. truthout.org The White House is rolling out a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that will subject asylum-seeking families that cross the U.S. border without authorization to GPS monitoring and a curfew — a move that immigrant advocates say will further criminalize migrants and ultimately expand ICE's inhumane system of immigrant imprisonment. The punitive surveillance program… |

Binoy Kampmark (2023-05-11). A Certain Form of Thieving. dissidentvoice.org It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, venal incompetence. In the customary script, they habitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses. Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie …

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