(2023-05-14). United Nations panel investigates U.S. political prisoners. iacenter.org May 11, 2023 By Efia Nwangaza This article, published in Black Agenda Report via Popular Resistance, reports on a United Nations panel of experts in the U.S. that is investigating the condition of political prisoners held in the United States. Black Agenda Report Greenville, South Carolina — An April 26th U.N. Delegation session, bearing the 2010 human rights campaign theme "Putting COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Exiles on the Global Agenda," and held in Atlanta, featuring PP/POWs/Exiles in person, their relatives, and former co-defendants, has generated a buzz that w…
(2023-05-15). Witness to a social crime: The reality of US immigrant child detention. wsws.org American imperialism justifies its military provocations against Russia by claiming to defend "democracy" and "freedom" abroad. This WSWS article provides a detailed review of conditions at one immigrant child detention facility.
(2023-05-15). Khader Adnan's martyrdom and Israel's abuse of Palestinian prisoners. therealnews.com 
The death of Khader Adnan in Israeli detention during a hunger strike on May 2 of this year sparked mourning worldwide and a general strike in occupied Palestine. The 45-year-old Adnan was on his 87th day of hunger strike while serving a sentence for his 12th arrest by the Israeli state at the time of his death. A baker by trade and a father to nine children, Adnan was the first Palestinian to die of hunger strike in an Israeli prison since 1992. As a spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Adnan first captured the world's attention when he launched a hunger strike from behind bars in 2011, sparking a g…
(2023-05-14). Martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan after 86 days of hunger strike: latest target of Israeli assassinations. iacenter.org May 12, 2023 Published by Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, May 1, 2023. Sheikh Khader Adnan Sheikh Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner, hunger striker and resistance leader, was martyred in the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 2, after 86 days of hunger strike demanding his freedom. Adnan, 45, was married to Randa Musa and is the father of nine children. A leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, he became one of the most prominent symbols of the Palestinian prisoners' movement and ongoing resistance, after winning his liberation from administrative detention four times through hu…
(2023-05-15). Australian Government Settles Contamination Class Action. telesurenglish.net The government of Australia has agreed to reach a settlement in a class action lawsuit concerning toxic contamination from firefighting foam. | Related: | On Sunday, the Australia government agreed to pay a sum of 132.7 million Australian dollars (88.3 million U.S. dollars) to 30,000 inhabitants residing in seven communities dispersed throughout Australia. These residents had initiated a lawsuit against the Department of Defense, h…
(2023-05-14). On the Eve of "Mother's Day" We Demand Liberation for All! podcasters.spotify.com Tomorrow is Mother's Day, but what does that mean in a capitalist society? What does it mean to get your mom a card and a box of chocolates when she literally brought you to life? In this episode, we talk about the oppression of women generally, and especially the particular oppression of those who give birth, who are not women, the struggle of LGBTQ+ folks for liberation and freedom, over their own lives, and their own bodies. Check it out and let me know what you think!
(2023-05-15). Moving Toward a Global Empire: Humanity Sentenced to a Unipolar Prison and a Digital Gulag. globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-15). A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again. transcend.org 10 May 2023 – It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, venal incompetence. In the customary script, they habitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses. Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie low, and return to repeat their sins.
(2023-05-15). First Time Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Details His Abuse in Damning Report. globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-14). Political prisoners? The U.S. emperor has no clothes. iacenter.org By Julia Wright May 11, 2023 Julia Wright A delegation from the UN Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement (UN EMLER) visited the United States between April 24 and May 5, 2023, to review the status quo of law enforcement and police brutality in advance of the third commemoration of the murder of George Floyd — a murder which led to UN EMLER's inception. This visit should be viewed not as an isolated event but as the tip of the iceberg of decades of work by relentless abolitionist spokespersons, NGOs and civil organizations, for the ever-larger segments of our society incr…
(2023-05-14). "Young people should have the right to a good life": Asylum seekers in open air camps along US/Mexico border speak out. wsws.org Thousands of asylum seekers, including children, are being held in open-air prison camps at the US border with Mexico.