(2023-08-10). Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap. aclu.org 
Systemic inequities and barriers keep people of color from achieving economic security through employment, education, and homeownership, resulting in racial disparities in wealth and income. These disparities are the consequence of ongoing discrimination, structural inequality, and biases across our institutions. They continue to emerge in new forms of technology — including artificial intelligence and algorithmic risk assessment tools — that influence nearly every facet of life. The confluence of these inequities has created a massive, persistent racial wealth gap in the United States. | Here are…
(2023-08-10). Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81. aclu.org 
David Rufus was just a toddler when the bulldozers rolled into the streets of his Syracuse, New York, neighborhood in 1960. As part of the country's interstate highways surge, city officials wanted to extend I-81 with an elevated viaduct that would cut right through the 15th Ward, where nearly 90 percent of Syracuse's Black population lived. Protesting locals were ignored, and the razing of homes, churches, and businesses resulted in the displacement of more than 1,300 families, including Rufus's. Over the next 50 years, the 15th Ward community suffered in every way possible—jobs, housing, schools, and p…
(2023-08-09). The Authoritarian Agenda Behind the Scheme to Attack Democracy and Abortion in Ohio. aclu.org 
(2023-08-09). Headlines for August 9, 2023. democracynow.org Ohio Voters Reject GOP Attempt to Impose Higher Barrier to Enshrining Abortion Rights in Constitution, SCOTUS Allows Biden Admin to Regulate Ghost Guns for Now, Sudan Conflict Rages On: 4 Million Displaced, 24 Million in Need of Aid, U.N. Warns Burmese Military Is Escalating Attacks on Civilians, Brazil Summit Produces Pledge to Protect Amazon But Fails to Adopt Vow to End Deforestation by 2030, King Center Backs Referendum on Cop City; ACLU, NAACP Call for Probe into Targeting of Activists, Hawaii Wildfires Prompt Evacuations as People Take to Ocean to Escape Fire and Smoke, Community Members, Loved Ones of Murd…
(2023-08-09). Meet Porcha Woodruff, Detroit Woman Jailed While 8 Months Pregnant After False AI Facial Recognition. democracynow.org 
Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when Detroit police mistakenly arrested her for robbery and carjacking based on a faulty facial recognition match. She was held in jail for 11 hours, where she started having contractions, and had to be taken to the hospital upon her release on a $100,000 bond. "Being under that type of stress could have ultimately led me to lose my child," says Woodruff. According to the ACLU, Woodruff is at least the sixth person — all of whom are Black — to report being falsely accused of a crime as a result of facial recognition technology. It is yet another ca…
(2023-08-09). Indoctrination, Intimidation and Intolerance: What Passes for Education Today. dissidentvoice.org Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. — Annette Fuentes Investigative journalist, When the School House Becomes a Jail House This is what it means to go back-to-school …
(2023-08-09). UK Tory government launches fascistic campaign against asylum seekers. wsws.org The Labour Party has already declared that in government they would keep the barges as detention centres and other anti-immigration infrastructure of the Tories.
(2023-08-10). Right-Wing Troll Andy Ngo Loses Lawsuit Filed Against Portland Activists. truthout.org A jury in Portland, Oregon, ruled against conservative provocateur Andy Ngo this week in a civil lawsuit he filed three years ago against local activists over multiple allegations of assault, including an embarrassing incident in 2019 when Ngo was hit in the face with a milkshake during a far right rally and counterprotest. "The jury's verdict was a resounding affirmation that Multnomah County is… |
(2023-08-10). Idaho Professors Sue Over Law That Criminalizes Teaching About Abortion. truthout.org A group of Idaho educators is suing the state over a law that they say punishes teachers with up to 14 years in prison for discussing or teaching about abortion in the classroom. The No Public Funds for Abortion Act (NPFAA) prohibits the use of public funds to "promote" or "counsel" in favor of abortion. Professors across Idaho's publicly-funded universities say that this stifles both lessons on… |
(2023-08-10). Wars against Black history. workers.org 
Mumia Abu-Jamal This slightly edited July 21, 2023 commentary was recorded on prisonradio.org. And now we see, perhaps for the first time in modern days, states like Florida waging war against Black history by passing laws against what teachers can teach, and, perhaps more importantly, what they cannot. In the . . . |
(2023-08-10). Report: US, Iran Reach Deal on Prisoner Release and Frozen Funds. news.antiwar.com The US and Iran have reached a deal that will free five Americans in exchange for the US releasing some Iranians and granting Tehran limited access to $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds, The New York Times reported Thursday. Sources told the Times that the negotiations have been going on quietly for two years. Prisoner …
(2023-08-10). Prisoners launch hunger strike in Bahrain. peoplesdispatch.org
(2023-08-10). Headlines for August 10, 2023. democracynow.org At Least 36 Dead, Town of Lahaina Burned to the Ground as Wildfires Devastate Hawaii, Ecuadorian Anti-Corruption Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio Assassinated, Biden Seeking More Funding for War in Ukraine, Arming Taiwan, Niger Coup Leaders Accuse France of Destabilizing Country as ECOWAS Summit Kicks Off, The Intercept: U.S. State Dept. Pushed for Pakistan's Now-Imprisoned Ex-PM Imran Khan to Be Removed, Death Toll from Mediterranean Refugee Shipwreck Rises to 41 as Black Africans Expelled from Tunisia, Venezuela Wins Fight to Recover $1.5B of Frozen Funds from Novo Banco, Biden Bans U.S. Comp…
(2023-08-09). The "Palestinian Authority" and political arrests: Prison subcontractor of the occupation. samidoun.net 
The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has, since its inception, represented a project created as part of the Oslo process, for the purpose of subjugating the Palestinian resistance, replacing the Palestinian revolutionary struggle with a pseudo-state entity, and serving the interests of the security of the Zionist occupation. Sponsored by the United States in security interests …
(2023-08-09). Uruguay has one of the largest incarcerated populations. plenglish.com Montevideo, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay was confirmed as one of the countries with the largest prison population per capita on the globe, and the first today in South America.
(2023-08-09). UK "warehousing people" in overcrowded, unsafe prisons. wsws.org Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed criticised the Conservative government from the right, pledging, "Labour is the party of law and order. In Government it will get on and deliver the prison places we need to ensure that dangerous criminals are where they belong—behind bars."