Corene Kendrick (2023-11-10). Rosas v. Luna. aclu.org
David Cole (2023-11-09). We've Defended Trump's First Amendment Rights, but his Latest Jan. 6 Indictment Claims are Nonsense. aclu.org This editorial was Does the First Amendment shield Donald Trump from prosecution for conspiracy to obstruct the 2020 election results? | Trump's lawyer has proclaimed the indictment
Emily Janakiram (2023-11-09). South Carolina Is Ripping Infants Away From Their Mothers Over Pot Use. truthout.org Imagine toiling on your feet throughout an entire pregnancy, trying desperately to gain weight despite debilitating nausea, surviving domestic violence while pregnant and finally giving birth to a healthy child. Then imagine watching the state unexpectedly rip your child away from you at the moment of birth, put your older child in foster care and threaten you with a decade in jail — all because a… |
Sara Sneath, DeSmog. (2023-11-09). Frontline Communities On Hunger Strike Against Plastics Giant Formosa. popularresistance.org Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other's efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jaile…
Luis Linares Petrov (2023-11-10). President-elect of Ecuador soon to announce security cabinet. plenglish.com A meeting of the Public and State Security Council is expected to take place next week, chaired by the current president, Guillermo Lasso, to inform the future president and his team of the national situation in that sector, considered critical due to the growing violence ongoing in the country. | At the moment it is unknown who will be the candidates for ministers of the Interior or Defense or the director who manages the prisons of the National Service for Comprehensive Care for Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders. | Noboa stated that in the coming days, he will disclose the names of the candid…
Victoria Valenzuela, Scheer Post. (2023-11-10). Longest Wrongful Conviction Sentence In US Ends In Exoneration. popularresistance.org Glynn Simmons, who spent 48 years 1 month and 18 days in an Oklahoma prison for a crime he did not commit, has been exonerated, having served the longest sentence for a wrongfully convicted person in U.S. history. | Simmons and a co-defendant were sentenced to death in 1975 for a murder committed during a liquor store robbery, but the death sentences were commuted to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional. The co-defendant was paroled in 2008. | Simmons was 22 years old when two women were shot in a liquor store robbery on New Years Eve in 1974.
Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-11-09). Uruguay police arrest 30 people linked to drug gang. plenglish.com After over six months of intelligence work, Operation Saturno involved a dozen police officers, numerous raids in Salto, Colonia (southwest), and several prisons, Souza stated. | The spokesman added that authorities seized cocaine, marijuana, money, and vehicles. | An estimated 30 people, including 14 women, were arrested in the operation.
Sean Dougherty for Congress CA-19 (2023-11-09). Ceasefire Now: More Deaths Will Not Bring Peace to the Middle East. indybay.org November 4, 2023 – We need an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a return of all prisoners, and a halt to all forms of violence against civilians and collective punishment, including bombing of ambulances and refugee camps, and deprivation of food, water, medicine, electricity, and outside communication.
Staff (2023-11-09). Gangsterism is Over at Trujillo Prison, Says Venezuela's Minister of Interior. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, Operation Gran Cacique Guaicaipuro Venezuela's minister of the interior, justice, and peace, Remigio Ceballos, was in charge of the operation, as with the previous interventions in Tocorón, Tocuyito, La Pica, Puente Ayala, and Vista Hermosa penitentiaries. | In statement to the press, Ceb…
WSWS (2023-11-09). UK government prepares crackdown on political opposition with new "extremism" definition. wsws.org The proposed definition is deeply authoritarian, providing a pretext for the suppression of virtually any form of political opposition and eviscerating the rights to free speech and political association.