Daily Archives: 2023-10-08

2023-10-08: News Headlines

Oleksiy Arunyan, Scheer Post. (2023-10-07). In Occupation, They Cared For The Vulnerable. popularresistance.org When the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman was occupied for five months last year, Valentyna Tkach and Tetiana Potapenko stayed behind. They volunteered to help their vulnerable neighbours. They cared for elderly residents, contacted the Russian occupation administration to ask for food and coal for them, and even buried dead bodies. | Now, both women are in detention, having been accused by Ukraine's Secret Service of collaboration with Russia — a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. | Tkach and Potapenko were volunteers long before the occupation. Since Soviet times, Lyman's population has self-org…

Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot. (2023-10-07). Be Their Voices Presser: 'No More Jail Deaths!'. popularresistance.org St. Paul, MN — Five years after losing her son Hardel Sherrell to medical malpractice and improper care while in a Minnesota jail, Del Shea Perry leads another protest against in-custody deaths. At least 15 people have died this year while inside Minnesota jails and at least 65 since 2018, according to Be Their Voices, Perry's non-profit. | A press conference titled No More Jail Deaths! organized by Be Their Voices took place on Oct. 4 at noon central in front of the Minnesota Department of Corrections building in St. Paul. In a media release about the press conference, Perry says: "The Hardel Sherell Act w…

Jewish Voice for Peace (2023-10-08). Sunday 10/8: Power Hour for Gaza: The Root of Violence is Oppression Teach-in. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

presstv.ir (2023-10-08). Indonesia, Pakistan call for end to Israeli aggression against Palestinians. presstv.ir Indonesia and Pakistan have called on the Israeli regime to immediately halt its brutal aggression against Palestinians.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-10-07). PSL statement: Free Palestine, free all Palestinian political prisoners, end all U.S. aid to the Israeli apartheid regime! liberationnews.org The unrelenting oppression, murder, torture and occupation carried out by the Israeli apartheid regime has precipitated a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces.

Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. (2023-10-09). Palestine: The Resistance Rises Toward Revolution, Return And Liberation. popularresistance.org As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine. | The new resistance operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, comes on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war in which Egypt…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-10-08). Hundreds killed in Israel, Gaza after surprise resistance raid. electronicintifada.net Hamas deputy chief says enough Israeli captives are being held in Gaza to secure release of all political prisoners.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-10-08). Right-wing rallies against Sanchez and amnesty in Spain. plenglish.com The protest in Barcelona was, above all, a claim of the conservative Popular Party (PP) and its leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo. The latter has just lost his Prime Minister's investiture attempt in the Congress of Legislators in two failed votes, thus the PP's aim was to undermine at all costs another executive that would head the current PM at the Palace of Moncloa. | Backed by the extreme VOX right and other minor conservative formations, slogans were heard in Barcelona against Sanchez and the whole range of leftists who support him. | The cries of "No to amnesty" and "Puigdemont to prison," prevailed in the demon…

presstv.ir (2023-10-08). Hamas boasts of large number of Israelis taken captive during blitz. presstv.ir Hamas says it has enough Israeli captives to swap them for the release of all Palestinian prisoners.

presstv.ir (2023-10-08). Hamas: Number of Israelis taken prisoner many times 'more than dozens'. presstv.ir Hamas says the number of Israelis taken captive in its ongoing operation against the regime is many times more than "dozens."

Christina Carrega (2023-10-07). This Law Gives Prosecutors Power to Undo Decades of Harsh or Racist Sentencing. truthout.org Three weeks after Thanh Tran's 18th birthday, he rang a drug dealer's doorbell. In an instant, Tran was caught up in a gang-related attempted murder and attempted robbery case that could have landed him in a California state prison for 75 years to life. Prosecutors presented Tran with a plea bargain of 17 years in prison, even though he didn't pull the trigger during the 2011 incident. |

Editor (2023-10-07). How Sharing a Meal Cuts Through the Violence in Prison. scheerpost.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-07). Leaked Documents Reveal Ukraine's Zelensky Tried to Hire Terrorists in Iraq. libya360.wordpress.com Steven Sahiounie Details of the recent Ukrainian-Iraqi talks have appeared in the Middle Eastern media. According to almasryalyoum.com, on September 27, a YouTube video appeared, which claims that Ukrainian president Zelenskyy has been trying to recruit certain Iraqi prisoners into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the video, the prisoners in question are convicted terrorists and ISIS…

Linn Washington (2023-10-07). Smack Down for Efforts to Silence Mumia Abu-Jamal. thiscantbehappening.net Providence, RI — The decades long efforts to erode the public credibility of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal sustained a substantial setback recently at an unlikely location: an Ivy League university. Brown University, the Ivy League institution located in Providence, Rhode Island, opened a unique exhibition on September 28, 2023, at its John Hay Library, … |

Staff (2023-10-07). Calendar of Resistance for Palestine! Events and actions around the world. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to stand with the heroic Palestinian resistance and confront colonial Zionist violence and imperialist complicity. (The list below will be constantly updated — please share the link with your friends and comrades!) These events are organized …

presstv.ir (2023-10-07). Hamas boasts of large number of Israelis taken captive during blitz. presstv.ir Hamas says it has enough Israeli captives to swap them for the release of all Palestinian prisoners.

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