(2024-04-26). Columbia Students File Civil Rights Complaint After NYPD Arrests, National Guard Threat. indybay.org April 25, New York, NY — Today, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), demanding an investigation into Columbia University's discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear — for the first time in decades — to arrest over a hundred students peacefully protesting Israel's genocide last week.
(2024-04-26). Hands off the heroic student uprising in solidarity with Gaza! To resist police repression is justified! workers.org 
Workers World is in full support of the heroic U.S. student uprising that has mushroomed in the form of Gaza solidarity encampments. This national uprising was sparked on April 17, Palestinian Prisoners' Day, by Columbia University students in Harlem, New York, demanding that this Ivy League school divest all its . . . |
(2024-04-26). Manipulation Politics: Israeli Gaslighting in the United States. counterpunch.org 
The Middle East will not be the same in the wake of 7 October 2023. More was breached on that day than the prison wall that Palestinian fighters burst through. The fantasy Israel has staged-managed, and the United States has parroted, for over seven decades has finally seen the light of day. The global community can no
(2024-04-26). EMTRASUR Case: International Civil Aviation Organization Accepts Venezuela's Lawsuit Against Argentina. orinocotribune.com The secretary general of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Juan Carlos Salazar Gómez, has announced that the body had accepted the lawsuit filed by Venezuela against Argentina for serious violations of international law, which allowed the US government to carry out the theft and subsequent scrapping of a aircraft that legitimately belonged to the Venezuelan people. Venezuela has condemned these violations and the illegal unilateral restrictive measures enabling them on multiple occasions. | In a memorandum sent to the members of the ICAO Council on Thursday, April 25, Salazar noted that the la…
(2024-04-26). Russia Freezes Assets of Largest US Bank. orinocotribune.com A court ruling supported the lawsuit filed by state bank VTB, which seeks to recover funds blocked under Western sanctions | A St. Petersburg court ordered the freezing of funds owned by US banking giant JPMorgan Chase in Russia on Wednesday. The ruling was made in favor of the country's second-largest lender VTB, which ha filed a lawsuit seeking to recover $439.5 million that is blocked abroad under US-led sanctions. | VTB sued JPMorgan and its subsidiaries in the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region on April 17, court filings showed on Monday. The order targeted funds in JPMorgan's Russian a…
(2024-04-26). EMTRASUR Case: International Civil Aviation Organization Accepts Venezuela's Lawsuit Against Argentina. orinocotribune.com
(2024-04-26). Alabama House Passes Bill That Could Be Used to Criminalize Librarians. truthout.org The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state's criminal obscenity laws to public libraries, public school libraries, and the people who work there. Critics, including the Alabama Library Association, have warned that the bill could see librarians jailed and argued that it violates the First Amendment. "This is a pig," Rep. |
(2024-04-26). 4 States Tell Schools to Ignore New Title IX Rules That Protect LGBTQ Students. truthout.org On Friday, the Biden administration released its final Title IX rules, which include protections for LGBTQ+ students by clarifying that Title IX forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The rule change could have a significant impact as it would supersede bathroom bans and other discriminatory policies that have become increasingly common in Republican states within… |
(2024-04-26). Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests. aclu.org Dear College and University Presidents: | We write in response to the recent protests that have spread across our nation's university and college campuses, and the disturbing arrests that have followed. We understand that as leaders of your campus communities, it can be extraordinarily difficult to navigate the pressures you face from politicians, donors, and faculty and students alike. You also have legal obligations to combat discrimination and a responsibility to maintain order. But as you fashion responses to the activism of your students (and faculty and staff), it is essential that you not sacrifice prin…
(2024-04-26). Manufacturing Consent in the 21st Century. counterpunch.org 
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman wrote Manufacturing Consent in the late 1980s to describe the structural forces which cause an otherwise free media—one lacking government censorship, fear of prison for journalists (aside from those sharing designated government secrets), and staffed with people who genuinely see themselves as holding power accountable—can nonetheless produce systematic propaganda, with a highly
(2024-04-26). New Lawsuits Target Universities As Palestinian Protests Ramp Up. trofire.com via WEAR-TV: PENSACOLA, Fla. — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says there's zero-tolerance for hatred against Jewish people. The governor addressed the campus protests on Wednesday, saying students and administrators at Florida colleges and universities will be expelled for pro-Palestinian demonstrations that cause violence or spark hate speech. Pensacola Attorney Mike Papantonio says he and other …
(2024-04-26). U.S. Supreme Court discusses Trump immunity claim. america.cgtn.com 
Former President Donald Trump's immunity from prosecution claim is one of the most important ever being heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, just across the street from the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Nathan King has more. | Trump is charged with trying to overturn the election that was certified in Congress. He is facing trial and potentially prison, but Trump and his lawyers claim as president, he had "absolute immunity" from prosecution for any acts taken while in office. His lawyers claimed in front of the Supreme Court justices that he could only be prosecuted if he had been impeac…
(2024-04-26). Justice For George Floyd Timeline: Witness Who Tried To Stop Murder Wins $150K Settlement. newsone.com 
Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty | UPDATED: 4: 15 p.m. ET, April 26, 2024 | An eyewitness who tried to help prevent George Floyd's murder has settled a lawsuit with the city of Minneapolis after police assaulted him during the 2020 incident. | On Thursday, the Minneapolis City Council agreed to pay Donald Williams a $150,000 settlement, approving the money without much discussion, Williams, who sued the city last year, alleged his encounter with police caused post-traumatic stres…
(2024-04-26). 'I couldn't remain silent': Son fights for Uyghur journalist's release from Chinese prison. Iris Hsu 
(2024-04-26). Ugandan military court frees 32 Kenyans jailed for illegal possession of firearms. independent.co.ug 
KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | A Ugandan military court has ordered the release of 32 Kenyan nationals who were previously sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. The decision by the General Court Martial (GCM), which convened late Wednesday, overturned an earlier ruling by a lower court. The GCM …
(2024-04-26). Palestinians released from Israeli jails recount horrible ordeal. presstv.ir Israel has released some Palestinians from several jails who were taken away in the wake of the aggression against Gaza early October.
(2024-04-26). In Nigeria, more than 100 inmates escape after rain damages prison. presstv.ir At least 118 inmates escaped from the facility in Suleja.
On what basis do we call the Civil Rights Movement a revolution? And will there be one to follow?The year is 2024. America is today engulfed in its greatest political crisis perhaps since the Civil War. The blatant hypocrisy and contempt shown by our elites, decades of deindustrialization, neglect, and downward economic mobility, cities and towns overrun by deaths of despair, and America's most recent proxy wars in Gaza and Ukraine have, in unprecedented fashion, driven Americans aw …
Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling US soldiers guarding them at Iraq's Now, three survivors of Abu Ghraib will finally get their day in US court against the military contractor they hold responsible for their mistreatment. | The trial is scheduled to begin Monday in