(2024-03-01). 4 Ways the ACLU Continues to Fight for Gender Equality. aclu.org 
In 1987, 15 years after the Women's Rights Project was established at the ACLU, March was officially designated as Women's History Month in the United States. This time is for the celebration of the women whose contributions and achievements have shaped our society. Such a celebration may feel painful at this moment, when we are facing the fall of Roe v. Wade, the Black maternal mortality crisis, as well as ongoing, systemic barriers including the gender wage gap, family policing, lack of affordable housing, and sexual harassment. Yet it is precisely at times like these we need reminders why we still fight [md…
(2024-03-01). President Biden's Order to Ban Private Prisons Faces a Persistent Internal Challenge: The U.S. Marshals Service. aclu.org 
At the onset of President Biden's term, in January 2021, he issued an
(2024-03-01). Kashmiri journalist, Asif Sultan rearrested 2 days after release from 5-yr detention. muslimmirror.com Srinagar : Two days after Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan was released from a five-year detention, he has been rearrested here in another case, officials said on Friday, March 1. "Sultan was rearrested late Thursday night," the officials said. He was first arrested in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act case in September 2018 when he was …
(2024-02-29). DR: 15,717 Prisoners Await Trial. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, official sources informed that jurists and university professors ask judges and prosecutors to stop abusive and excessive use of preventive detention as the main coercive measure. | RELATED: | In the New Prison Model by 2020 there were 5,567 pre-trial detainees, while in the Traditional Model there were a total of 10,761. | By 2021 there were a total of 6,174 pre-trial detainees in the New Model, while in…
(2024-03-02). Perspectives] Progress for women in science, and yet. thelancet.com Kate Zernike's excellent book, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science, is a journey back in time and a reality check for the present. In the book Zernike builds on the front-page story she wrote for The Boston Globe in March, 1999, reporting that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA, had acknowledged long-standing sex discrimination. This admission from a world-leading research institution devoted to scientific excellence reverberated throughout the global science community.
(2024-03-01). How To Resist The Deliberate Medical Neglect Of Our Political Prisoners. popularresistance.org Dr Joy James asked a crucial question on a Guerilla University podcast which she co-hosted with Kalonji Changa on February 13th, 2024: " How does one organize a resistance against the medical assassination of our elders behind bars?" | As abolitionists, we believe that there is no resistance without testimony and in this case without first person singular testimony about the reality of the hidden and daily torture of death by incarceration that Mumia Abu-Jamal calls slow death row. | The common denominator that links all our political prisoners is slow death row.
(2024-03-01). Secret cable: CIA orchestrated Haiti's 2004 coup. thegrayzone.com A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti's popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. A spectacular jailbreak in GonaàØves, Haiti in August 2002 saw a bulldozer smash through the local prison walls, allowing armed supporters of Amiot "Cubain" Métayer, a gang leader jailed weeks earlier for harassing Haitian political figures, to overrun the facility. Métayer escaped, as did 158 other prisoners. Among them were perpetrators of the April …
(2024-03-01). Secret Cable: CIA Orchestrated Haiti's 2004 Coup. libya360.wordpress.com Jeb Sprague and Kit Klarenberg A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti's popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. A spectacular jailbreak in GonaàØves, Haiti in August 2002 saw a bulldozer smash through the local prison walls, allowing armed supporters of Amiot "Cubain" Métayer, a gang…
(2024-03-01). Secret cable: CIA orchestrated Haiti's 2004 coup. thegrayzone.com A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti's popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. A spectacular jailbreak in GonaàØves, Haiti in August 2002 saw a bulldozer smash through the local prison walls, allowing armed supporters of Amiot "Cubain" Métayer, a gang leader jailed …
(2024-03-01). After Fukushima Meltdowns: 13 Years of Accidents, Quakes, Insults. counterpunch.org 
The catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and three reactor meltdowns that struck northeast Japan at Fukushima in March 2011 began a pollution disaster that keeps growing and surprising. From recent contamination of edible plants, and frequent earthquakes threatening new reactor fails, from accidents endangering workers, and non-enforcement of regulations, to lawsuits against Japan's pollution of the Pacific,
(2024-03-01). SC to hear Gyanvapi committee's plea against HC order. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal of the Gyanvapi management committee against an Allahabad High Court order which held that lawsuits for "restoration" of a temple where the mosque stands in Varanasi are maintainable. "We will tag this with the main case," a bench comprising Chief Justice D …
(2024-03-01). SC to hear Gyanvapi committee's plea against HC order. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal of the Gyanvapi management committee against an Allahabad High Court order which held that lawsuits for "restoration" of a temple where the mosque stands in Varanasi are maintainable. "We will tag this with the main case," a bench comprising Chief Justice D …
(2024-03-01). We Can Break the Cycle of Poverty, Mental Illness and Prison. inequality.org During my time in prison, I lived in hell. I witnessed horrific abuse, suffered from a critical lack of mental health care, and was treated as less than human. Guards even taunted inmates that we couldn't change the system because our right to vote would be stripped away when we got out. Well, they were …
(2024-03-01). In Contempt #38: Victor Puertas is Free, Repression Hits Atlanta, Protesters Rally in Solidarity with Strike Call in Alabama. itsgoingdown.org 
photo: Ash Agony, Support Here In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There's a lot happening, so let's dive right in! Political Prisoner News Chicano anarchist political prisoner and Certain Days collective…
(2024-03-01). We Can Break the Cycle of Prison, Poverty and Mental Illness. counterpunch.org 
During my time in prison, I lived in hell. I witnessed horrific abuse, suffered from a critical lack of mental health care, and was treated as less than human. Guards even taunted inmates that we couldn't change the system because our right to vote would be stripped away when we got out. Well, they were
(2024-03-01). Palestine Action US Activists Hit With Felony Charges Over Elbit Protest. popularresistance.org Three activists have been indicted for participating in a protest at Elbit Systems of America in Merrimack, New Hampshire last November. Elbit is Israel's largest private arms supplier. | Sophie Ross, Bridget Shergalis, and Calla Walsh are facing charges of riot, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, burglary, and conspiracy to commit falsifying physical evidence for climbing onto the company's roof and defacing the building with paint. Each charge is a Class B felony and could carry a three-and-a-half to seven-year prison sentence. | A fourth woman, Paige Belanger, was arrested in January over her involvement…
(2024-03-01). 29 February, Vancouver: Palestine Resists! October 7, Gaza and the Liberation of Palestinian Prisoners. samidoun.net 
VANCOUVER — PALESTINE RESISTS! October 7, Gaza and the Liberation of Palestinian Political Prisoners A Teach-In for Palestine Join Samidoun Vancouver for a teach-in for Palestine on Palestinian resistance, the Palestinian prisoners, and the struggle against the genocide in Gaza. Speakers will include Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat, Samidoun members and others. Thurs, Feb. 29 at …
(2024-03-01). Texas executes prisoner despite doubts of his guilt, Idaho calls off lethal injection after failure to insert IV line. wsws.org The death sentence of Ivan Cantu was carried out in Texas despite compelling evidence of his innocence, while in Idaho, the planned lethal injection of Thomas Creech was called off after the prison team tasked with killing him failed to insert an IV line to deliver the deadly chemicals.
(2024-03-01). In Contempt #38: Victor Puertas is Free, Repression Hits Atlanta, Protesters Rally in Solidarity with Strike Call in Alabama. itsgoingdown.org 
photo: Ash Agony, Support Here In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There's a lot happening, so let's dive right in! Political Prisoner News Chicano anarchist political prisoner and Certain Days collective…