Zane McNeill (2024-01-05). New Hampshire Democrats Join Republicans in Passing Anti-Trans Bills. truthout.org On January 4, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed two bills attacking LGBTQ rights — one that would permit discrimination against trangender people in public spaces and one that would ban gender-affirming procedures for trans youth. HB 396 would weaken the guarantee of equal protection under the law for LGBTQ people by permitting the state and educational institutions to discriminate… |

Eve Ottenberg (2024-01-05). Assange's Rights and Press Freedom Hang in the Balance. counterpunch.org The deadline for Julian Assange's fight against extradition to the United States looms, as British judges will decide his case on February 21. Meanwhile, the American demand that Wikileaks publisher Assange stand trial in Virginia on trumped-up charges is what has kept this journalist locked up in Britain's maximum security Belmarsh jail for four years, and sequestered for refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for seven years before that.

WSWS (2024-01-05). Australian media studies teacher denounces Gaza genocide and escalating attacks on democratic rights. wsws.org "Millions of people are shocked by what they see going on day after day in Gaza, but they need to understand the whole brutal history of the oppression and dispossession of Palestinian people." — Australian media studies teacher…

Editor (2024-01-05). Ray McGovern: The Imprisonment of the Palestinian People Was Not an Act of God. scheerpost.com Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble Israel's current war on Gaza and the Palestinians draws pessimism and hopelessness, reminding two veterans of its origin in another such war in the region in 1967, The Six Day War, which resulted In Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern joins host Robert …

Fight Back News!. (2024-01-05). 20 Years Too Many, Free Simon Trinidad Now! popularresistance.org On January 2, 2004, under the orders of the U.S. government and the CIA, Ecuadorian and Colombian forces kidnapped and arrested Colombian revolutionary Simon Trinidad. 20 years detained and imprisoned is 20 too many. That needs to change immediately, and conditions are better than ever for activists in the U.S. and Colombia to push for his freedom. | A member of the revolutionary organization and army of the people, the FARC, since 1987, Trinidad was a leading thinker and peace negotiator. Acting in that role, Trinidad's and the FARC's peace-seeking efforts have been routinely sabotaged by the U.S. government and…

latintimes (2024-01-05). S.Africa's Pistorius To Be Released From Prison. latintimes.com South Africa's ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on parole Friday, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world.

Editor (2024-01-05). 20 Years Too Many, Free Simon Trinidad Now! scheerpost.com By Fight Back! News On January 2, 2004, under the orders of the U.S. government and the CIA, Ecuadorian and Colombian forces kidnapped and arrested Colombian revolutionary Simon Trinidad. 20 years detained and imprisoned is 20 too many. That needs to change immediately, and conditions are better than ever for activists in the U.S. and …

latintimes (2024-01-05). Former Guatemalan President Released From Prison After 8 Years; Can't Leave Country. latintimes.com César Calderón, Molina's lawyer, said the former president – who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy – was released Wednesday night after he posted a bond of $1.3 million. However, he won't be able to leave Guatemala.

North Shore Counter-Info (2024-01-05). Hamilton New Years Noise Demo Reportback 2023. itsgoingdown.org Report on new year's eve noise demo in so-called Hamilton, Ontario. See our roundup of other noise demos across the US and Canada, here. For the 15th year in a row, we lit up the sky with fireworks to deliver warm new years greetings to prisoners in Hamilton, ON. Our first stop was to the…

Editor (2024-01-05). New Jersey's Failures to Provide for Mentally Ill People in Prison. scheerpost.com

Staff (2024-01-05). Ralph Nader on Stopping Gaza War & Why Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Is the Real Problem on Campus. democracynow.org Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time former presidential candidate, joins Democracy Now! to discuss Americans pushing the government to end "this genocidal war in Gaza," large donors influencing free speech and curriculum at universities, and his new book, The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right.

Democracy Now! (2024-01-05). Democracy Now! 2024-01-05 Friday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 05, 2024; "My Heart Is Still in Gaza": Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide; "The IDF Should Not Exist": Meet Meital Yaniv, Former Israeli Soldier Turned Anti-Zionist Organizer; Ralph Nader on Gaza Ceasefire & Why Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Is the Real Problem on Campus | Headlines for January 05, 2024; "My Heart Is Still in Gaza": Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide; "The IDF Should Not Exist": Meet Meital Yaniv, Former Israeli Soldier Turned Anti-Zionist Organizer; Ralp…

Chris Hedges (2024-01-05). Israel cannot be a colonial power and a democracy. therealnews.com Israel's status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the history and reality of Zionism calls this into question. After all, how can a democracy exist in a country constitutionally defined as an ethnostate that can only exist through the suppression and gradual elimination of its Others? Israeli historian Ilan Pappé joins The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on Israel as an inherently colonial, and therefore anti-democratic, project. | Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Ex…

Staff (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…

ecns.cn (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.

Jake Bolster, New Lines Magazine. (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…

Will Jones (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.

Staff (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…

teleSUR (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…

Victoria Law, Erica R. Meiners, Truthout. (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…

The Independent (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 …

Staff (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…

Editor (2024-01-04). A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder. scheerpost.com

Editor (2024-01-04). Prison Treats Me Like an Animal. I Write to Reclaim My Humanity. scheerpost.com

JANET (2024-01-04). Calendar of Resistance for Palestine! Events and actions around the world. iacenter.org