(2023-05-08). Protecting affirmative action is key to protecting democracy. cpusa.org 
There is a multi-dimensional attack on affirmative action underway today. Affirmative action represents a group of wins by the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and worker-led civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s addressing the enforced denial of access for African Americans and others to voting, jobs, education, and housing. Affirmative action was a step …
(2023-05-08). Sacrifices for capital: The millions who vanish into the abyss of mass incarceration. peoplesworld.org 
A new collection of essays and interviews by Ruth Wilson Gilmore titled Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation demands the never-slackening attention of today's readers. This book will make you angry. It should spur you to action. In a recent viral social media post, a self-identified Euro-American woman wonders, "How do I teach my white child …
(2023-05-08). Sister Helen Prejean on Richard Glossip's Stay of Execution: I Believe He Will Walk Out a Free Man. democracynow.org 
Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip's execution was stayed by the Supreme Court on Friday, marking the ninth time he had an execution date put on hold. Glossip has maintained his innocence throughout his 25 years of incarceration; his accuser has previously attempted to recant his testimony. In an unprecedented move earlier this month, Oklahoma's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a joint motion with Glossip's defense team to halt his May 18 execution, saying he did not receive a fair trial. For more, we are joined in Oklahoma City by Sister Helen Prejean, one of the worl…
(2023-05-07). Are the Best Years of My Country Behind Me? tomdispatch.com I turn 60 this year. My health is generally good, though I have aches and pains from a form of arthritis. I'm not optimistic enough to believe that the best years of my life are ahead of me, nor so pessimistic as to assume that the best years are behind me. But I do know this, however sad it may be to say: the best years of my country are behind me. Indeed, there are all too many signs of America's decline, ranging from mass shootings to mass incarceration to mass hysteria about voter fraud and "stolen" elections to massive Pentagon and police budgets. But let me focus on just one sign of all-American madness tha…
(2023-05-07). Australia's PM 'Frustrated' US Won't Drop Charges Against Assange. news.antiwar.com Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed frustration over the Biden administration's efforts to convict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. "There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration," Albanese said Friday while in the UK. The Australian leader noted Assange had already spent years incarcerated, as he has been held in …
(2023-05-07). Psychiatric Incarceration Isn't Treatment. popularresistance.org The horrific choking murder of 30-year-old Jordan Neely by a white MTA rider on May 1, 2023, in the New York City subway sparked mass outrage, with demonstrators converging on subway stations while cops brought "force and chaos" to a vigil in his memory. The murder has put a renewed spotlight on carceral logics of the state that assume the disposability of Black, poor and unhoused people — in particular those said to be in "mental health crisis." | New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's response to Neely's killing deflects from the white supremacist violence and ongoing lack of accountability for the killer, and inst…
(2023-05-08). Ultra-right in U.S. exports anti-gay hate to Uganda. peoplesworld.org 
On May 2, Uganda's parliament passed one of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ bills. The Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 includes long jail terms and the death penalty for those caught engaging in "aggravated homosexuality" and other so-called offenses. Contrary to what much of the media is saying, anti-LGBTQ laws are not something that are necessarily ingrained …
(2023-05-08). Former Palestinian prisoner Etaf Alayan launches hunger strike to demand the release of Khader Adnan's body and the detained martyrs' bodies. samidoun.net 
Former Palestinian prisoner and long-term hunger striker Etaf Alayan launched a hunger strike on Sunday, 7 May, outside the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Al-Bireh, occupied Palestine, to demand the release of the body of Khader Adnan and his fellow detained martyrs in the occupation's morgues. "I will not stop …
(2023-05-08). Palestinian prisoners under attack: Ahmad Sa'adat, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Walid Hanatsheh transferred to isolation. samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoner leaders are once again under attack inside occupation prisons today, as Zionist repressive forces invaded sections 5 and 7 of Ramon prison and transferred three prominent Palestinian prisoners to solitary confinement and potential interrogation in an unidentified location: Ahmad Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and …
(2023-05-08). Thursday 5/11: #HumanRights: Ending Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Centering Disability. indybay.org Livestream event…
(2023-05-08). Die Jim Crow Records Releases New Music From Hip-Hop Artist Wrongfully Convicted And Imprisoned For 25 Years. shadowproof.com Die Jim Crow Records, the first record company to work exclusively with musicians impacted by the United States prison system, has collaborated with another formerly incarcerated artist named EL BENTLY 448.
(2023-05-08). Washington obstructs Yemen-Saudi prisoner exchange: Ansarallah. thecradle.co
(2023-05-08). Media Monopolies and Prosecution of Assange Drive Drop in US Press Freedom Rank. truthout.org CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin interrupted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Washington Post-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event on May 3, taking the stage where a Post journalist was interviewing Blinken. Benjamin demanded that the U.S. and United Kingdom free imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A group of men in suits, presumably Secret Service agents… |
(2023-05-08). Venezuela: Humanitarian Prisoner Exchange a Valid Mechanism for Release of Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Vice Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies and director of the Venezuelan Anti-Blockade Observatory William Castillo said that he would agree with any method that allows the release of the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, including a humanitarian prisoner exchange. | "It is a valid mechanism. I don't quite understand why the United States doesn't do it, I don't have the mind to think about the gringos or the clumsiness they commit, but obviously it would be a valid option for Venezuela," he said this Friday, May 5, during an interview for the program A Pulso, broadcast on Venezolana de Televisión. | Castill…
(2023-05-08). Discover "Hidden Figures" California Slavery to Freedom Story – 2023 California Juneteenth. indybay.org Initial prisoners of War in the 15th Century and Trans Atlantic Trade in Human Cargo – Slavery in Alta California (1840-1875) the authentic story soon come alive near Murphy's Corral at the dawn of California's Bear Flag Revolt.
(2023-05-07). Julian Assange invites King Charles to visit His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh. expose-news.com Julian Assange wrote a letter to King Charles ahead of his coronation inviting him to visit the UK prison where Assange has been captive for more than four years. "I implore you, …
(2023-05-08). Media Monopolies and Prosecution of Assange Drive Drop in US Press Freedom Rank. truthout.org CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin interrupted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Washington Post-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event on May 3, taking the stage where a Post journalist was interviewing Blinken. Benjamin demanded that the U.S. and United Kingdom free imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A group of men in suits, presumably Secret Service agents… |
(2023-05-08). Venezuela: Humanitarian Prisoner Exchange a Valid Mechanism for Release of Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Vice Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies and director of the Venezuelan Anti-Blockade Observatory William Castillo said that he would agree with any method that allows the release of the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, including a humanitarian prisoner exchange. | "It is a valid mechanism. I don't quite understand why the United States doesn't do it, I don't have the mind to think about the gringos or the clumsiness they commit, but obviously it would be a valid option for Venezuela," he said this Friday, May 5, during an interview for the program A Pulso, broadcast on Venezolana de Televisión. | Castill…
(2023-05-08). Discover "Hidden Figures" California Slavery to Freedom Story – 2023 California Juneteenth. indybay.org Initial prisoners of War in the 15th Century and Trans Atlantic Trade in Human Cargo – Slavery in Alta California (1840-1875) the authentic story soon come alive near Murphy's Corral at the dawn of California's Bear Flag Revolt.
(2023-05-07). Julian Assange invites King Charles to visit His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh. expose-news.com Julian Assange wrote a letter to King Charles ahead of his coronation inviting him to visit the UK prison where Assange has been captive for more than four years. "I implore you, …