(2023-07-12). Moving Beyond the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Rulings. aclu.org At the end of its term, the Supreme Court upended established equal protection law with its decision in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, effectively eliminating the use of affirmative action in college admissions. The court's decision disregards prior precedent, as well as the societal realities of race discrimination and inequality. | Many schools, as well as the courts, recognize that diversity exposes students to new ideas and ways of thinking, prepares them to live and work with one another in a diverse society, and increases understanding and respect across differences. Those findings have not changed, al…
(2023-07-12). ACLU Intervenes in Kansas AG's Attempt to Block Gender Changes on Licenses. truthout.org The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas, representing five transgender Kansans who want to get or keep a driver's license that matches their gender identity, filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit between Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) and the Kansas Department of Revenue. "Mr. Kobach's actions demonstrate a flagrant attempt to do an end-run around our state constitution… |
(2023-07-11). Looking Beyond Haaland v. Brackeen. aclu.org 
Last month, the Supreme Court issued a The ACLU submitted…
(2023-07-12). U.S. Government Launches Investigation Into Cedars-Sinai Hospital Over Black Mothers. moguldom.com Health inequality among Black women is a matter of life and death. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is now facing a federal civil rights investigation over the treatment of Black mothers. "Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," …
(2023-07-12). Caged, stripped, beaten: Latest 'Save the Children' report on Palestine makes chilling read. mronline.org 
According to a just-released report by the international rights organization, Save the Children, four out of five Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system are beaten and 69 per cent are strip-searched.
(2023-07-12). Kids Awaiting Foster Care Placement Are Being "Housed" in Jails and Offices. truthout.org By age 17, more than half of youth who are removed from their homes will have an encounter with the legal system through arrest, conviction or detention. Critics describe this process as the foster-care-to-prison-pipeline. But for many foster children, the pipeline is activated the moment they enter care. This is because child welfare authorities in several states are placing kids in juvenile… |
(2023-07-12). End the cruelty: Labor must support asylum seekers. greenleft.org.au 
The death of a refugee at Villawood Detention Centre is the latest indictment of the bipartsian cruelty towards refugees in Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
(2023-07-12). NSW legal groups call for new religious discrimination amendments to be rejected. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-12). Uganda and Its Campaign to Normalize Homophobia. telesurenglish.net In Uganda, you can simply be arrested for being gay or lesbian. Since May, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, despite widespread condemnation from many Western governments and human rights activists. Since that time, sexual relations between people of the same sex have been punishable by jail or life imprisonment. | Related: | This violative practice has been legal in the co…
(2023-07-12). RCMP say over 70 teens sexually abused at N.S. youth jail in 30 years. plenglish.com Ottawa, Jul 12 (Prensa Latina) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are launching a confidential hotline to assist with their investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at the Nova Scotia Youth Centre between 1988 and 2017.
(2023-07-11). Rikers Island Might Be Put Under Federal Control After Recent Scandal. truthout.org An independent monitor in a federal court case investigating conditions at Rikers Island released a scathing report on Monday recommending that the administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) be held in contempt for failing to implement promised safety improvements at the jail. The report alleges that the city has not made substantial progress in implementing the Action Plan that city… |
(2023-07-11). British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture. thegrayzone.com Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA's global torture program. Britain's foreign and domestic intelligence apparatus is facing scrutiny by a tribunal tasked with intelligence oversight. On May 26, London's infamously opaque Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) unanimously issued a landmark ruling which means the complaints of two Saudis brutally tortured at CIA black sites and jailed for years in Guantanamo Bay can finally be heard, at least …
(2023-07-12). AMEC wins second trial in safeguarding its intellectual property. ecns.cn Chinese semiconductor equipment company Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc said that it has prevailed in its second instance of a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit filed in China against Lam Research Corp of Fremont, California.
(2023-07-12). Black liberation organizers across the U.S. reflect on the passing of Dr. Mutulu Shakur. mronline.org 
Shakur was a prisoner-of-war of a decades-long Black liberation struggle for 37 years. He was only released when he was months away from death.
(2023-07-12). Honduras: 1,628 Gang Members Go to Maximum Security Prisons. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Public Order Military Police (PMOP) transferred over 1,600 highly dangerous prisoners to two maximum security prisons in eastern and western Honduras. | RELATED: | This happened in the framework of the "Faith and Hope" operation which President Xiomara Castro launched on June 20 after the killing of 46 women inside a prison. | "Without rest, the PMOP dismantles the schools of organized crime and retake…
(2023-07-12). Kurds protest death threat to imprisoned leader Abdullah àñcalan. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-12). Pressured by NATO, Turkey Violates the "Azovstal Deal"(Prisoners' Exchange). Ankara-Moscow Alliance in Jeopardy? globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-12). The United States: Prison house of Indigenous nations. peoplesworld.org 
The recent Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) addressed the most pressing, immediate issue facing Indigenous children and Tribal sovereignty, but it left some serious loopholes. The important point is that it left the ICWA intact, while not addressing a number of important questions, which is par for the course for the American judicial system …
(2023-07-12). 13 July, Twitter Space: Political Prisoners for Palestine: A crime to care? samidoun.net 
DON'T MISS THIS IMPORTANT DISCUSSION OF THE PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS ▪️ What shall we do when Palestine supporters are repeatedly put behind bars for protesting for our brothers and sisters in Palestine? ▪️ What can we do to help them continue fighting against companies like Elbit Systems who provide the arms to kill innocent men, …
(2023-07-12). Solidarity with Soha Bechara: Lebanese resistance struggler detained and deported from Greece. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the Greek government and European Union's denial of entry to Souha Bechara, the Lebanese resistance struggler, former political prisoner and Communist activist. As she traveled from Beirut through Athens to Switzerland, she was stopped in the Athens airport by Greek officials, detained for multiple hours and deported to Lebanon, …
(2023-07-12). John Kiriakou: The Murder of 'Whitey' BulgerJohn Kiriakou. scheerpost.com 
Mug shot of James J. Bulger, 1959. (Federal Bureau of Prisons, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By John Kiriakou / Consortium News I've written a great deal about the broken, incompetent mess that is the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the largest and best-funded bureau in the U.S. Department of Justice. In just the last year, BOP officials have been prosecuted for the …
(2023-07-11). Police Officers Convicted in Argentina for Racial Hate Crime. telesurenglish.net The Argentine justice system sentenced on Tuesday nine police officers accused of the murder of Lucas Gonzalez, a 17-year-old teenager who was riddled with bullets in late November 2021 in the capital, Buenos Aires. | RELATED: | Commissioner Gabriel Isassi and officers Fabián López and Juan José Nieva were sentenced to life imprisonment as guilty of homicide. The conviction was for five times aggravated homicide including malice aforethought, raci…
(2023-07-11). Here's How Organizing to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex Works in Practice. truthout.org As more activists embrace abolition of the prison industrial complex, here's what this work demands of us in practice. In the early 2000s, I sat in an organizing meeting discussing how to prevent a new prison from being built. After listening to several people talk about ways our coalition could encourage the prison to be sited somewhere else or on a smaller footprint, I wondered aloud if we… |
(2023-07-11). Texas Governor Outlaws Life-Saving Water Breaks for Workers as Climate Crisis Fuels Heat Waves. democracynow.org 
We take a closer look at the impact of the massive heat dome in Texas, where extreme heat is bearing down on some of the state's most vulnerable populations, including workers and prisoners. At least three people have died after working in triple-digit heat, just as Republican Governor Greg Abbott signs into law a new measure that overrides mandatory water breaks for workers. Meanwhile, 32 people have been reported to have died in Texas prisons, most of which lack air conditioning and are prone to increased rates of heat-induced cardiac events. We are joined on Democracy Now! by Steven Monacelli in Dallas,…
(2023-07-12). French police kill young man during Marseille riots. wsws.org According to the victim's family, a man was killed by a police flash grenade during the violent suppression of riots on July 1. The nationwide crackdown also saw police violently assault the brother of Adama Troare, murdered by the police in 2016, in Paris on Saturday.
(2023-07-11). Republicans Unveil Sweeping Bill to Massively Suppress Voters Ahead of 2024. truthout.org On Monday, House Republicans introduced a sweeping voter suppression bill that the party is touting as the "most conservative election bill" considered in the House in decades. Republicans traveled to Georgia, a major front of the party's voter suppression campaign, to unveil the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act — a combination of almost 50 standalone bills that would urge states to… |