Ricardo Mimbela (2023-12-14). The Consequences of Police in Schools: A North Carolina Case Study. aclu.org At the end of the 2022-2023 school year, when she was 14 years old, a verbal altercation occurred between Amerie and a classmate who was berating her and other classmates. This wasn't the first time that Amerie, a student in North Carolina, faced harassment and bullying from some of her classmates. Her mother, Regina, had repeatedly contacted the school to bring the bullying to their attention, but no interventions took place. | This time, however, the dispute required a teacher to step in, who was later bumped by a student during the intervention. Amerie was taken to the principal's office by a school resourc…

ecns.cn (2023-12-14). Beijing police detain man responsible for leaking personal medical records. ecns.cn A man has been placed under administrative detention by Beijing police for leaking a patient's personal medical records, the public security department of Shunyi district said on Thursday.

Staff (2023-12-14). Behind Enemy Bars: Palestinian and Israeli Prisoners. orinocotribune.com By Robert Inlakesh — Dec 7, 2023 | The fair treatment of Israeli captives by Hamas has become part of the information war between Palestinians and Tel Aviv. Left unsaid is that there remain thousands of Palestinians in captivity who barely survive their Israeli detention. | The issue of Prisoners of War (POWs) taken captive by Hamas-led Palestinian resistance forces has become one of the key justifications for Israel's military assault on the Gaza Strip. | While western audiences are often presented with the image of these groups as bloodthirsty terrorists, a closer look reveals that Hamas and other factions…

Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. (2023-12-14). On Human Rights Day; The US Is The Greatest Violator Of Human Rights. popularresistance.org As the international community celebrates December 10th as International Human Rights Day, it is imperative that the world also affirm that violators of the fundamental human rights of peoples and nations will be held accountable. | From the war in Ukraine to mass incarceration of Black, Latino and Native Peoples in the U.S. to Obama's ongoing war in Yemen to murderous economic sanctions, coups, assassinations, war and abandonment of Afghanistan, international arms sales, commodification of COVID vaccines, illegal military occupations in Syria and Iraq, the pending invasion of Haiti and the resource wars in the D…

Staff (2023-12-14). "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" now available free on YouTube. samidoun.net "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" was released in 2021; this documentary explores the life in struggle of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine jailed in France for 39 years. Since its release, it has been screened at hundreds of events, film festivals and public activities in over 20 countries. Now, Collectif Vacarme(s) Films, …

Ruth Milka (2023-12-14). Behind bars and beyond burgers: Exposing Alabama's prison labor exploitation. nationofchange.org This lawsuit seeks not only to compensate those who have been exploited, but also to dismantle a system that generates an estimated $450 million annually from this coerced labor.

WSWS (2023-12-14). British writer Benjamin Zephaniah: an appreciation. wsws.org A much loved poet, novelist and musician, Zephaniah remained true to the idealistic and angry concerns of his youth, opposing empire and all forms of oppression.

Unicorn Riot (2023-12-14). Eric King Released from Prison After 9+ Years as Political Prisoner. unicornriot.ninja

Andy Kroll (2023-12-14). Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World. tomdispatch.com Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During the years between then and his death six months ago, he was a tireless writer, speaker, and activist. Most people remember him, of course, as the whistleblower who exposed voluminous official lies about the Vietnam War by providing 7,000 top-secret pages of classified documents to the New York Times and other newsp…

a guest author (2023-12-14). Stop the torture! Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui! workers.org The report below is excerpted from Pakistan Aaj TV, followed by excerpts from The News. Incarcerated Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui met with her sister Dr. Fowzia for the second time in two years at a prison hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday. In one of her earlier videos, Dr. . . . |

Staff (2023-12-14). Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World. scheerpost.com Daniel Ellsberg by Christopher Michel is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Flickr By Norman Solomon / TomDispatch Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers …

Vijay Prashad (2023-12-14). We Fight with Our Eyes. We Plant Seeds with Our Hands. We Will Watch the Wheat Fill the Valley. dissidentvoice.org Medu Art Ensemble (Botswana), Shades of Change, 1982. This two-man play, set in a prison cell, was written by Mongane Wally Serote. Credit: Medu Art Ensemble via Freedom Park In the ancient time of national liberation, when partisans walked among the people in rural hamlets or small towns, they carried their message forward in the …

Ricardo Mimbela (2023-12-14). The Consequences of Police in Schools: A North Carolina Case Study. aclu.org At the end of the 2022-2023 school year, when she was 14 years old, a verbal altercation occurred between Amerie and a classmate who was berating her and other classmates. This wasn't the first time that Amerie, a student in North Carolina, faced harassment and bullying from some of her classmates. Her mother, Regina, had repeatedly contacted the school to bring the bullying to their attention, but no interventions took place. | This time, however, the dispute required a teacher to step in, who was later bumped by a student during the intervention. Amerie was taken to the principal's office by a school resourc…

ecns.cn (2023-12-14). Beijing police detain man responsible for leaking personal medical records. ecns.cn A man has been placed under administrative detention by Beijing police for leaking a patient's personal medical records, the public security department of Shunyi district said on Thursday.

Staff (2023-12-14). Behind Enemy Bars: Palestinian and Israeli Prisoners. orinocotribune.com By Robert Inlakesh — Dec 7, 2023 | The fair treatment of Israeli captives by Hamas has become part of the information war between Palestinians and Tel Aviv. Left unsaid is that there remain thousands of Palestinians in captivity who barely survive their Israeli detention. | The issue of Prisoners of War (POWs) taken captive by Hamas-led Palestinian resistance forces has become one of the key justifications for Israel's military assault on the Gaza Strip. | While western audiences are often presented with the image of these groups as bloodthirsty terrorists, a closer look reveals that Hamas and other factions…

Staff (2023-12-13). Jammu and Kashmir High Court orders release of Journalist Asif Sultan after 5 years. muslimmirror.com The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the preventive detention order imposed on journalist Asif Sultan by the Srinagar District Magistrate. The court, headed by Justice V C Koul, said that Sultan's fundamental right to a fair appeal was obstructed due to inadequate provision of detention records and evidence. Asif Sultan has been held …

It's Going Down (2023-12-13). Anarchist Prisoner Eric King Released to Halfway House After Ten Years. itsgoingdown.org Following nearly ten years of incarceration and numerous attempts by the State to frame, murder, and break him — anarchist prisoner Eric King has now been released and is headed to a half-way house "for several weeks," reports supporters. Imprisoned for taking direct action in solidarity with the Ferguson uprising, Eric King survived everything from…

Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. (2023-12-14). On Human Rights Day; The US Is The Greatest Violator Of Human Rights. popularresistance.org As the international community celebrates December 10th as International Human Rights Day, it is imperative that the world also affirm that violators of the fundamental human rights of peoples and nations will be held accountable. | From the war in Ukraine to mass incarceration of Black, Latino and Native Peoples in the U.S. to Obama's ongoing war in Yemen to murderous economic sanctions, coups, assassinations, war and abandonment of Afghanistan, international arms sales, commodification of COVID vaccines, illegal military occupations in Syria and Iraq, the pending invasion of Haiti and the resource wars in the D…

The Independent (2023-12-13). Ugandan street kid turned serial murderer gets 134 years in jail. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has sentenced former street kid Musa Musasizi to a 134-year jail term for the murder of five women in Nakulabye and Kasubi suburbs of Kampala City within one month in 2021. His victims included his girlfriend, Mackline Ahereza, Violet Kansiime, her three-month-old baby, Nourine …

Staff (2023-12-14). "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" now available free on YouTube. samidoun.net "Fedayin: Georges Abdallah's Fight" was released in 2021; this documentary explores the life in struggle of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine jailed in France for 39 years. Since its release, it has been screened at hundreds of events, film festivals and public activities in over 20 countries. Now, Collectif Vacarme(s) Films, …

Ruth Milka (2023-12-14). Behind bars and beyond burgers: Exposing Alabama's prison labor exploitation. nationofchange.org This lawsuit seeks not only to compensate those who have been exploited, but also to dismantle a system that generates an estimated $450 million annually from this coerced labor.

WSWS (2023-12-14). British writer Benjamin Zephaniah: an appreciation. wsws.org A much loved poet, novelist and musician, Zephaniah remained true to the idealistic and angry concerns of his youth, opposing empire and all forms of oppression.

Unicorn Riot (2023-12-14). Eric King Released from Prison After 9+ Years as Political Prisoner. unicornriot.ninja

Lawrence Davidson (2023-12-13). Prisoners of Context. counterpunch.org One of the first things they tell you in tenth grade biology class is that we are all submerged in an ocean of air. That is an ocean made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% other gases plus water vapor. Just like a fish out of water, we can't survive outside of this

Andy Kroll (2023-12-14). Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World. tomdispatch.com Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During the years between then and his death six months ago, he was a tireless writer, speaker, and activist. Most people remember him, of course, as the whistleblower who exposed voluminous official lies about the Vietnam War by providing 7,000 top-secret pages of classified documents to the New York Times and other newsp…

a guest author (2023-12-14). Stop the torture! Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui! workers.org The report below is excerpted from Pakistan Aaj TV, followed by excerpts from The News. Incarcerated Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui met with her sister Dr. Fowzia for the second time in two years at a prison hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday. In one of her earlier videos, Dr. . . . |

Staff (2023-12-14). Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World. scheerpost.com Daniel Ellsberg by Christopher Michel is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Flickr By Norman Solomon / TomDispatch Top American officials in the "national security" establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers …

WSWS (2023-12-13). University of Michigan permanently bans student resolution against genocide in Gaza. wsws.org What is really behind the suppression of the anti-genocide resolution is the fact that it was headed for victory, something the billionaire donors and regents, Democratic and Republican politicians, and Pentagon, CIA and State Department officials who collectively run the university would not allow.