Daily Archives: 2023-09-17

2023-09-17: News Headlines

Robert Inlakesh (2023-09-17). Black Lives Don't Matter To Israel And The West Turns A Blind Eye. thelastamericanvagabond.com In what has been almost completely ignored in Western corporate media, and by the US government, following a confrontation in Tel Aviv between Eritrean immigrant protesters and the police, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly called for the expulsion of African refugees. Despite a long history of racist abuse against black people and refugees

Candice Norwood, Scheer Post. (2023-09-17). Teenagers' Detention At Angola Exposes Fractured Juvenile System. popularresistance.org This week the state of Louisiana was expected to transfer a group of mostly Black boys out of the former death row unit of Louisiana State Penitentiary — a maximum-security adult prison also known as Angola. But a federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily paused a judge's order requiring the state to move the children out of Angola by Friday. | The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several law firms, pushed for a year to stop the state from detaining children at the prison, which is located on a former slave plantation. The legal advocates praised a federal judge's man…

Editor (2023-09-16). Teenagers' Detention at Angola Prison Has Brought New Attention to Louisiana's Fractured Juvenile System. scheerpost.com

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Milwaukee community members oppose more funding for the Sheriff's office. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On September 11, at a Judiciary Committee meeting of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, community members took a stance against increased funding for the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). The MCSO is seeking a 34% budgetary increase to "look into" the conditions of the county jail and solve their "staffing shortage." There have been six in-custody deaths within the past year, with no changes in policy or preventative action taken by the MCSO. | Kerrie Hirte gave testimony about the treatment of her daughter Cilivea Thyrion, leading up to her death in December of 2022, describing th…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Milwaukee community members oppose more funding for the Sheriff's office. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On September 11, at a Judiciary Committee meeting of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, community members took a stance against increased funding for the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). The MCSO is seeking a 34% budgetary increase to "look into" the conditions of the county jail and solve their "staffing shortage." There have been six in-custody deaths within the past year, with no changes in policy or preventative action taken by the MCSO. | Kerrie Hirte gave testimony about the treatment of her daughter Cilivea Thyrion, leading up to her death in December of 2022, describing th…

David Goessmann (2023-09-17). Climate strike: How elites have been fighting Generation Alarm for five years. indybay.org Some activists are later sentenced to pay millions in damages, others have to spend months in prison for their civil disobedience. In the Bild newspaper, RWE boss Rolf Martin Schmitz calls them "eco-terrorists." But neither heat, nor summer drought, nor coal protests led the politicians to ask questions about the climate.

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-09-17). Craig Murray Blocked From Assange Courthouse In Virginia. popularresistance.org Craig Murray, a former British ambassador and close associate of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, said he was prevented by a U.S. marshal from entering the courthouse in Alexandria, VA where Assange would be put on trial if he loses his extradition case in Britain. | In Washington on a U.S. tour, Murray told a gathering on Wednesday that with some time to kill he decided earlier that day to visit the federal courthouse in Alexandria "just to see what that was like." | "So I found the federal court and I went to enter, as any member of the public is entitled to do," Murray said, according to a video…

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (2023-09-16). Policing and Policy: Prisons, Prices, the Fiction of "Free Markets" and the "Era of Global Nihilism" globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Orlando for Gender Equality urges city to counteract anti-trans bathroom law. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – On September 11, Orlando for Gender Equality mobilized for the Orlando city council meeting as part of their campaign to demand a guarantee of lowest possible enforcement for the anti-trans bathroom law passed by the state legislature earlier this year. The new law criminalizes transgender people for using the bathroom that aligns with their gender, with punishments including a $1000 fine or imprisonment for up to a year. This mobilization comes after a recent protest, hosted by OGE, against DeSantis' hateful agenda of anti-trans sentiment and infringement on democratic rights. | Two representatives…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Orlando for Gender Equality urges city to counteract anti-trans bathroom law. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – On September 11, Orlando for Gender Equality mobilized for the Orlando city council meeting as part of their campaign to demand a guarantee of lowest possible enforcement for the anti-trans bathroom law passed by the state legislature earlier this year. The new law criminalizes transgender people for using the bathroom that aligns with their gender, with punishments including a $1000 fine or imprisonment for up to a year. This mobilization comes after a recent protest, hosted by OGE, against DeSantis' hateful agenda of anti-trans sentiment and infringement on democratic rights. | Two representatives…

JANET (2023-09-16). Webinar: September 17: Alex Saab: From Venezuelan Diplomat to Political Prisoner in the US. iacenter.org REGISTER: http: //bit.ly/freealexnow with Rogers Waters, Camilla Saab Fabri, Anya Parampil, Sara Flounders, Fred Mills REGISTER: http: //bit.ly/freealexnow…

Staff (2023-09-16). 19 September, Vancouver: Political Education Discussion on Walid Daqqah. samidoun.net Tuesday, 19 September 7 pm Centre for Socialist Education 706 Clark Drive Vancouver Join Samidoun Vancouver for a political education discussion on the writing of Walid Daqqah, Palestinian political prisoner, freedom fighter and revolutionary intellectual, struggling for freedom while suffering from a rare cancer. We will be reading "Consciousness Molded, or the Re-Identification of Torture," …

David Goessmann (2023-09-16). Climate strike: How elites have been fighting Generation Alarm for five years. indybay.org Some activists are later sentenced to pay millions in damages, others have to spend months in prison for their civil disobedience. In the Bild newspaper, RWE boss Rolf Martin Schmitz calls them "eco-terrorists." But neither heat, nor summer drought, nor coal protests led the politicians to ask questions about the climate.

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