(2024-01-04). AMC Theater Tosses Bishop William Barber for Bringing Disability Chair to See "The Color Purple" democracynow.org 
Civil rights leader Bishop William Barber joins us to discuss his calls for more awareness and justice for disabled people after he was kicked out of a Greenville, North Carolina, AMC movie theater last week when he went to see The Color Purple with his 90-year-old mother. Barber was threatened with trespassing and police forcibly removed him from the theater when the manager refused to allow him to use a specialized chair he carries to assist with an arthritic condition. "There was no attempt to accommodate," Barber says of the theater's discrimination on the basis of disability and the danger…
(2024-01-04). Names in Epstein court documents released (not including suspects). ecns.cn The names of nearly 200 friends, associates, victims and opponents of Jeffrey Epstein, the accused sex offender who hanged himself in a jail cell in 2019, were made public Wednesday by a U.S. District Court judge.
(2024-01-04). The Quest To Make Big Oil Pay For Climate Change. popularresistance.org Three years before the Marshall Fire, Boulder and San Miguel counties had filed a lawsuit seeking damages from the oil companies Exxon and Suncor by claiming much the same thing. Changes in the climate — driven, at least in part, by the burning of Exxon and Suncor's fossil fuels — have harmed their citizens and damaged their infrastructure, economies and natural environment, entitling them to compensation from the oil companies for those damages, the two counties claim. | Together, Boulder and San Miguel are part of a small but growing number of cities, states and counties seeking to hold fossil fuel…
(2024-01-04). Epstein Files: Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield and Michael Jackson Named in Unsealed Documents. dailysceptic.org Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield, Michael Jackson and Alan Dershowitz have been named in relation to a lawsuit filed against Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
(2024-01-04). Headlines for January 4, 2024. democracynow.org Iran Mourns as Death Toll from Kerman Explosions Reaches 84, Hezbollah's Nasrallah Vows Revenge After Killing of Hamas Official in Beirut, Israel Kills More Palestinians in Attacks on Civilian Homes, Strikes Jabaliya Water Collection Site, Education Dept. Official Resigns in Protest, Saying Biden Ignoring His Staff, Public Opinion on Gaza, Activists in California Shut Down State Capitol to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. and Allies Threaten Military Action Against Houthis for Red Sea Attacks, Ukraine and Russia Exchange 500 Prisoners as Both Parties Intensify Attacks, DOJ Sues Texas over New Migration Law as…
(2024-01-04). Israeli Army Arrests 51 Palestinian Women From Gaza. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Palestine Liberation Organization's Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club denounced that 51 Palestinian women were being held in Israel's Damon prison. | RELATED: | They said the detainees included an 82-year-old woman and several of her relatives. The actual number of female detainees from Gaza was higher, but they only had clear data on those in Damon prison. | The Palestinian women fac…
(2024-01-04). Abolition Is A Global Movement; What We Learned From Allies Worldwide. popularresistance.org In 1992, formerly incarcerated women created Sisters Inside to advocate for the rights of women and girls behind bars in Queensland, Australia. While other grassroots groups and ad hoc campaigns had formed to work with incarcerated women, Sisters Inside remains the country's first organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated women. Over the last 31 years, the organization has provided legal and logistical support to currently and formerly incarcerated women and pushed to end policies that cage people, such as imprisoning people for nonpayment of fines. | In November, Sisters Inside held its 10th conferen…
(2024-01-04). Ukraine, Russia carry out largest prisoner swap. independent.co.ug 
KIEV | Xinhua | Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest prisoner swap since February 2022, the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said Wednesday. Under the exchange, 230 Ukrainian captives, including six civilians, had been returned from Russian custody, the agency said. Among those freed are service people from the Ukrainian …
(2024-01-04). Can Russia Be Defeated? Nina Khrushcheva on Why "the West Must Face Reality in Ukraine" democracynow.org 
As Ukraine and Russia complete an exchange of nearly 500 prisoners amid ongoing hostilities, American news outlets are reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be open to ceasefire talks behind the scenes. But in Moscow, "That's not how we see it," says Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School and the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. "Putin has been quite clear from the beginning that Russia is going to achieve all its goals," and, despite international sanctions, the majority sentiment in Russia is that even c…
(2024-01-04). A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder. scheerpost.com 
(2024-01-04). Prison Treats Me Like an Animal. I Write to Reclaim My Humanity. scheerpost.com 
(2024-01-04). Calendar of Resistance for Palestine! Events and actions around the world. iacenter.org