Rebecca Sheff (2023-06-09). Will Customs and Border Protection's Revised Vehicle Pursuit Policy Make Us Safer? aclu.org The United States' border region has always borne the brunt of our most aggressive immigration enforcement efforts, including dangerous high-speed vehicle pursuits by Border Patrol agents that far too often end in serious injuries and deaths. | After years of public outcry from advocates, victims, and borderland residents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a revised vehicle pursuit policy earlier this year. This new policy, which took effect this month after a delay, includes measures that we believe can be important for safeguarding the lives of everyone in our communities. But serious questi…

The Green Arcade (2023-06-09). 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…

teleSUR (2023-06-09). Salvadorans Ask for the Release of Santa Marta Activists. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Association for Social Economic Development (ADES) filed a legal appeal in favor of the Santa Marta's community environmental leaders who remain detained and accused of murdering a woman in 1989. | RELATED: | Before the Sensuntepeque Court, their defense attorney Denis Muñoz requested alternative measures to preventive detention, arguing that they are in delicate health conditions. Three months ago, however…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-08). Far-right Bolivian leader Luís Fernando Camacho gets three months of preventive detention. peoplesdispatch.org Camacho, who has been in preventive detention since December 2022 under various cases, now stands accused of the crimes of breach of duty for alleged irregularities in the purchase of a fire truck…

David Bollier. (2023-06-08). Can We Move Beyond Philanthrocapitalism? popularresistance.org While the many philanthropies of the world address social injustice, gender discrimination, and countless other issues, there is one topic that is off-limits to most of them: changing the capitalist system itself, the source of many problems that philanthropy aspires to solve. | This conundrum is the focus of a new book, Post Capitalist Philanthropy, by Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy, which is a bold inquiry into what they call "philanthrocapitalism." As Ladha puts it, "A few people have amassed so much wealth that they're now determining the agenda for a civil society. Ostensibly, we're told that this is for socia…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-06-08). The Department of Homeland Security Is a Threat to the Homeland. thealtworld.com Efforts by Biden regime appointees in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Border Patrol to release millions of illegal entrants into local US communities have been blocked by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit brought against the Biden DHS by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. | America…

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-06-09). High Court Denies Assange Right To Appeal. popularresistance.org The single judge on the court, Sir Jonathan Swift, issued the 3-page decision on Tuesday. It is not yet publicly available on the High Court's website. | In December, Assange appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. The court could issue an emergency injunction to stop Assange's extradition until it examines the case. | Assange initially won the case against extradition in the lower court based on his health and conditions of U.S. prisons. This was overturned by the High Court after the court accepted U.S. written assurances that Assange would not be mistreated in U.S. prisons.

Staff (2023-06-09). Indicted Again: Donald Trump Faces Federal Espionage & Conspiracy Charges in Classified Docs Probe. democracynow.org In a historic first, the Justice Department has indicted former President Donald Trump on multiple felony charges related to his mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government's attempts to recover them. Trump is the first former president ever to face federal criminal charges and could potentially spend years in prison if convicted. He is set to be arraigned in a Miami court on Tuesday. This latest news adds to Trump's legal woes, with the former president also facing charges in New York related to hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 and another probe in Geo…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-08). Israeli forces injure journalist, five others during violent raid in Ramallah. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of Israeli soldiers raided Ramallah to demolish the home of a Palestinian prisoner and subsequently shot at those who had gathered in protest. Among those injured was Palestinian journalist Moumen Sumrein, who was reportedly wearing press fatigues…

Editor (2023-06-08). UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal. scheerpost.com By Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned by the UK High Court's decision rejecting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange's appeal against his extradition order, bringing him dangerously close to being extradited to the United States, where he could face the rest of his life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in …

Canadian Tire Fire (2023-06-08). Canadian Tire Fire #60: Anti-Logging Blockades, Toronto Rent Strike Kicks Off, Fight to Stop Deportations. itsgoingdown.org cover photo: @MWACCanada On May 29th, the New Brunswick Department of Justice and Public Safety announced that they will not be following through with plans to build a new prison in Fredericton. The ministry cited resident complaints about the location as the reason for the cancellation, and said they are looking at another site outside…

Editor (2023-06-08). LGBTQ+ Ugandans face deadly threat as "Anti-Homosexuality Act" signed into law. mronline.org Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved an anti-LGBTQ+ law that makes the "offense of homosexuality" punishable by life imprisonment and even death.

Staff (2023-06-08). Georges Abdallah files new appeal for release as campaign for his freedom escalates. samidoun.net Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist and struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France since 1984, has filed a new request for his release before the sentencing judge in Paris. Eligible for release since 1999, he has already made eight requests for parole, some of which have been accepted judicially before being blocked by politcal decisions …

Staff (2023-06-08). Georges Abdallah files new appeal for release as campaign for his freedom escalates. samidoun.net Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist and struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France since 1984, has filed a new request for his release before the sentencing judge in Paris. Eligible for release since 1999, he has already made eight requests for parole, some of which have been accepted judicially before being blocked by politcal decisions …

The Green Arcade (2023-06-08). 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…

Press Associates (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 …

Editor (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.

Press Associates (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 …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-08). Far-right Bolivian leader Luís Fernando Camacho gets three months of preventive detention. peoplesdispatch.org Camacho, who has been in preventive detention since December 2022 under various cases, now stands accused of the crimes of breach of duty for alleged irregularities in the purchase of a fire truck…

Defense for Children Palestine (2023-06-07). Israeli Forces' Systemic Denial of Fair Trial Rights to Palestinian Child Prisoners Amounts to Arbitrary Detention. globalresearch.ca

Consortium News. (2023-06-08). The CIA Suit And New Proof It Spied On Assange. popularresistance.org The plaintiffs, all U.S. citizens who visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, claim in their lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency and former Director Mike Pompeo that their devices were surveilled at the embassy while seeing Assange. | The C.I.A. has filed a motion to dismiss the case, but new evidence has emerged in a Spanish court case that provides further proof that the Spanish security company UC Global was contracted by the C.I.A. to spy on Assange 24/7 and on his visitors, including on privileged conversations with his lawyers. | New files were discovered by Assange's lawyers…

WSWS (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…

Ann Brown (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 …

Consortium News. (2023-06-08). The CIA Suit And New Proof It Spied On Assange. popularresistance.org The plaintiffs, all U.S. citizens who visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, claim in their lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency and former Director Mike Pompeo that their devices were surveilled at the embassy while seeing Assange. | The C.I.A. has filed a motion to dismiss the case, but new evidence has emerged in a Spanish court case that provides further proof that the Spanish security company UC Global was contracted by the C.I.A. to spy on Assange 24/7 and on his visitors, including on privileged conversations with his lawyers. | New files were discovered by Assange's lawyers…

WSWS (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…

Ann Brown (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 …

Kevin Gosztola (2023-06-07). Attorneys, Journalists Who Visited Assange Respond To CIA Push To Dismiss Their Lawsuit Against Alleged Spying. thedissenter.org The following independent journalism was made possible by paid subscribers. Take advantage of this discount offer and

Canadian Tire Fire (2023-06-08). Canadian Tire Fire #60: Anti-Logging Blockades, Toronto Rent Strike Kicks Off, Fight to Stop Deportations. itsgoingdown.org cover photo: @MWACCanada On May 29th, the New Brunswick Department of Justice and Public Safety announced that they will not be following through with plans to build a new prison in Fredericton. The ministry cited resident complaints about the location as the reason for the cancellation, and said they are looking at another site outside…

Center For Constitutional Rights. (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.