(2023-06-06). How Housing Segregation Shaped America's 'Gayborhoods'. aclu.org For much of the last century, the "American dream" has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside
(2023-06-07). Monday 6/12: Black Lives Matter's Alicia Garza, James Tracy Discuss Coalition Building in 21st Century. indybay.org 3rd Floor Edward McRoskey Loft | 1687 Market Street | SF, CA 94103…
(2023-06-07). NAACP, Latinx, labor and LGBTQ rights groups warn against visiting Florida. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—You've heard of State Department "travel advisories" for people planning to visit various foreign countries? "Don't go there. It's dangerous," is either implicit or explicit. Well, things are so bad for people of color and gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender people that three top civil rights groups have issued travel advisories…for Florida. In so many words, what they're saying …
(2023-06-07). New Anti-transgender Laws Will Hurt Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Religious Expression. scheerpost.com 
Montana is not alone in its efforts to introduce and pass anti-transgender legislation. The nationwide civil rights group Human Rights Campaign states that in 2023 alone, more than 450 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures.
(2023-06-06). Marc Steiner: My life in the Civil Rights Movement. therealnews.com 
TRNN show host Marc Steiner's Rise of the Right series has followed the ascendance of far-right political forces domestically and internationally. In a special episode of The Marc Steiner Show, TRNN Editor-in-Chief takes the mic to put Marc in the hot seat. From a childhood in Baltimore among family members who had survived the Holocaust, Marc's activism in the 1960s and 70s took him from the ranks of SNCC to organizing alongside the Young Patriots of the Black Panther's Rainbow Coalition. Marc looks back on his life as an organizer and journalist, and how it frames his understanding of our present moment.
(2023-06-07). Israeli Forces' Systemic Denial of Fair Trial Rights to Palestinian Child Prisoners Amounts to Arbitrary Detention. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-07). Yes—Canada has anti-Black racism, too. therealnews.com 
To the uninitiated, Canada may have a reputation for friendly and folksy charm. For Black and Indigenous peoples of the 'Great White North,' this veneer belies a white supremacy as vicious as anywhere else. Since 2020, Black Class Action Secretariat has fought to take the federal government to task for rampant and systemic discrimination. The class action …
(2023-06-06). Pulse Oximeters and Federal Antidiscrimination Law. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent Viewpoint reviewed legal and regulatory options to address the recognized deficiencies of pulse oximetry in quantifying severe hypoxemia in darker-skinned patients. This shortcoming is not new and the failure to rectify the technology over so many years is a regrettable example of institutional racism. Although the authors' proposition that the threat of personal injury litigation or hospital penalties may spur innovation may be valid, in the absence of a commercially available oximeter free of this defect, we believe that the idea of penalizing practitioners or institutions for use of a tr…
(2023-06-06). Pulse Oximeters and Federal Antidiscrimination Law—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In a recent Viewpoint, we explained why hospitals may face liability, under either common law torts or emerging federal antidiscrimination law, if they uncritically rely on pulse oximeters that are inaccurate for darker-skinned patients. Drs Hannenberg and Merry are correct that pulse oximetry remains an important technology in medicine, and we applaud their efforts to get health technologies to patients in low-resource settings. Still, our point remains: unreliable medical technologies do and should create liability risks for health care entities that continue to rely on them.
(2023-06-06). Legal Penalties for Physicians Providing Gender-Affirming Care. jamanetwork.com This Viewpoint explains the "legal limbo" physicians may find themselves in, straddling state laws banning gender-affirming care and federal nondiscrimination law, both of which remain unclear due to ongoing legal challenges in the courts.
(2023-06-06). Fighting back against the homophobic religious right's hateful misuse of sacred literature. peoplesworld.org 
There is a pattern in the religious right to use—and to misuse—religious texts and traditions to support their revanchist, fascist agenda. It is important to understand this and have the tools to push back because it is important to not let the religious right have a "copyright" on religion and spirituality. Real spirituality has always …
(2023-06-07). Attorneys, Journalists Who Visited Assange Respond To CIA Push To Dismiss Their Lawsuit Against Alleged Spying. thedissenter.org 
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(2023-06-07). Norfolk Southern seeks to have lawsuits dismissed over derailment, toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. wsws.org In a motion that was filed on Friday with the US District Court in Youngstown, Ohio, Norfolk Southern made the absurd claim that they are not responsible for the derailment or obligated to pay for any of the damages caused to residents health, homes or businesses…
(2023-06-07). SEC Sues Coinbase And Stock Quickly Drops 20%: Inside The Fed's Regulatory War Against Coinbase And Binance. moguldom.com Most in crypto circles saw the government lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance coming. The feds have been investigating the two crypto exchange platforms for months. Back in March, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. government agency that enforces the law against market manipulation, informed Coinbase that it planned to take enforcement action against the …
(2023-06-06). Puerto Rico sues 20 U.S. companies for PFAS contamination. plenglish.com San Juan, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The Puerto Rican government, on behalf of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), has filed a lawsuit against at least 20 companies for contamination of the island ¥s natural resources with toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which threaten the environment and people.
(2023-06-06). Merck Sues Government, Saying Plan to Lower Medicare Drug Prices Is "Extortion" truthout.org Merck announced on Tuesday that it is suing the government over a recently approved plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, aiming to stop one of the nation's first efforts to take a small step toward lowering sky-high drug prices in the U.S. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday, claims that the plan is unconstitutional and calls it a "sham" and… |
(2023-06-07). Close Guantanamo Monthly Vigils. popularresistance.org Monthly vigils — or even weekly vigils — for the closure of Guantánamo were a noticeable feature of the London protest scene for many years, while British prisoners were still held there, although, with the release of Shaker Aamer, the prison's last British resident, in October 2015, it became impossible to sustain the impetus, and the Trump years, of course, were bleak for protestors, because Trump had tweeted, even before he took office, that "there must be no more releases from Gitmo," and he was largely true to his word, releasing only one man in his nearly 1,500 days in office.
(2023-06-06). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: Horrific Crash That Killed 275 People Exposes Structural Issues in Indian Railways LGBTQ+ Ugandans Face Deadly Threat as "Anti-Homosexuality Act" Signed Into Law Communist Party of Swaziland to Launch Campaign for Release of Its Member Mvuselelo Mkhabela and Other Political Prisoners Colombia Rejoins UNASUR [NEWS ITEM TEXT] Horrific Crash …
(2023-06-07). Norfolk Southern seeks to have lawsuits dismissed over derailment, toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. wsws.org In a motion that was filed on Friday with the US District Court in Youngstown, Ohio, Norfolk Southern made the absurd claim that they are not responsible for the derailment or obligated to pay for any of the damages caused to residents health, homes or businesses…
(2023-06-07). SEC Sues Coinbase And Stock Quickly Drops 20%: Inside The Fed's Regulatory War Against Coinbase And Binance. moguldom.com Most in crypto circles saw the government lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance coming. The feds have been investigating the two crypto exchange platforms for months. Back in March, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. government agency that enforces the law against market manipulation, informed Coinbase that it planned to take enforcement action against the …
(2023-06-06). Puerto Rico sues 20 U.S. companies for PFAS contamination. plenglish.com San Juan, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The Puerto Rican government, on behalf of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), has filed a lawsuit against at least 20 companies for contamination of the island ¥s natural resources with toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which threaten the environment and people.
(2023-06-06). Merck Sues Government, Saying Plan to Lower Medicare Drug Prices Is "Extortion" truthout.org Merck announced on Tuesday that it is suing the government over a recently approved plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, aiming to stop one of the nation's first efforts to take a small step toward lowering sky-high drug prices in the U.S. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday, claims that the plan is unconstitutional and calls it a "sham" and… |
(2023-06-07). Close Guantanamo Monthly Vigils. popularresistance.org Monthly vigils — or even weekly vigils — for the closure of Guantánamo were a noticeable feature of the London protest scene for many years, while British prisoners were still held there, although, with the release of Shaker Aamer, the prison's last British resident, in October 2015, it became impossible to sustain the impetus, and the Trump years, of course, were bleak for protestors, because Trump had tweeted, even before he took office, that "there must be no more releases from Gitmo," and he was largely true to his word, releasing only one man in his nearly 1,500 days in office.
(2023-06-06). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: Horrific Crash That Killed 275 People Exposes Structural Issues in Indian Railways LGBTQ+ Ugandans Face Deadly Threat as "Anti-Homosexuality Act" Signed Into Law Communist Party of Swaziland to Launch Campaign for Release of Its Member Mvuselelo Mkhabela and Other Political Prisoners Colombia Rejoins UNASUR [NEWS ITEM TEXT] Horrific Crash …
(2023-06-06). Protests in Germany after anti-fascists sent to five years in prison. mronline.org 
Protests erupted across Germany after the Dresden regional court in Germany sentenced the anti-fascist activist Lina E. and three others for several alleged militant actions against fascists and for forming a criminal organization.
(2023-06-06). "Enough Is Enough": Australian PM Throws Support Behind Movement to Free Julian Assange. democracynow.org 
A growing number of politicians, including Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, are calling on the United States to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, who has been locked up for four years in London's Belmarsh prison awaiting possible extradition to face espionage and hacking charges for publishing leaked documents about U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among Assange's supporters is Australian human rights attorney Jen Robinson, who has been a legal adviser to Assange since 2010. She joins us from London, where she calls for the case against A…
(2023-06-06). Russiagate's Missing Pieces. strategic-culture.org By Seymour HERSH | The first thing to understand about John Durham is that he was a fearless prosecutor who went after organized crime and put in prison retired and active FBI agents who protected the mob for money or other enticements. One of the agents he stopped had enabled James "Whitey" Bulger Jr., once one of America's most wanted men, the Winter Hill Gang boss who evaded arrest for sixteen years. | In his forty-five years as a state and federal prosecutor in Connecticut and Virginia, Durham worked often and closely with FBI agents, especially on cases that involved violations of federal racketeering statut…
(2023-06-06). Progressive Groups Sue Mississippi Over 'Unconstitutional' Anti-Protest Law. scheerpost.com 
"We should not have to risk arrest and imprisonment for exercising our constitutional rights, including freedom of speech and equal protection under the law," asserted one of the plaintiffs.