2023-06-13: News Headlines

Urooba Abid (2023-06-13). Donated Blood or an Organ? Police Shouldn't Have Easy Access to Your DNA. aclu.org

Laura Moraff (2023-06-12). Core First Amendment Rights are Implicated in This Supreme Court Case about True Threats. aclu.org The internet is full of strong, impassioned, sometimes offensive language. In response to an activist's post about being choked by a sheriff's deputy, someone

Harshawn Ratanpal (2023-06-12). These Companies Condemned Anti-LGBTQ Bills But Funded the Bills' Sponsors Anyway. truthout.org Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights advocacy organization in the United States, declared a "state of emergency" Tuesday for the first time in its 40-year history following an "unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year." State lawmakers who played a key role in passing 62 "anti-LGBTQ" bills in the first six months of… |

WSWS (2023-06-13). More information that Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan were covered up. wsws.org In one incident, an elderly imam was allegedly shot and killed, despite being unarmed and in detention. The military command and the government defended the conduct of the soldiers involved.

Dana Sanchez (2023-06-12). JP Morgan Settles Jeffrey Epstein Lawsuit Alleging Bank Helped Finance Sex-Trafficking Operation. moguldom.com JPMorgan Chase has settled a lawsuit for an undisclosed amount brought by multiple women who allege the bank helped its client, the disgraced late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, run his sex-trafficking operation and profit from it by enabling him to pay them for sex. A woman listed anonymously as Jane Doe filed the 2022 lawsuit in …


Dharna Noor, The Guardian. (2023-06-12). Young Montana Residents Bring Climate Change Case To Court. popularresistance.org A groundbreaking climate change trial will begin on Monday in a courtroom in Montana's capital city, involving 16 young residents who allege state officials violated their constitutional rights to a healthy environment. | Filed in March 2020, the lawsuit, Held v Montana, will mark the first-ever constitutional climate trial in US history. | "We're asking the government and the courts to do their job and protect us, along with the rest of Montana's citizens and our incredible home state; this case is one big opportunity for the state to become a leader in preserving a safe, beautiful and prosperous future for Mont…

Sharon Zhang (2023-06-12). US's Largest Lobbying Group Sues to Stop Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Plan. truthout.org The U.S.'s largest lobbying group, the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has become the second prominent group to file a lawsuit to stop a plan for Medicare to be able to negotiate the prices for a handful of drugs, joining pharma giant Merck in alleging that the plan is unconstitutional. The group announced in a statement on Friday that it is filing a lawsuit against Health and Human… |

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-06-13). Moroccan agents assault former Sahrawi political prisoner Mahfouda Lefkir, besiege her house in occupied territory. peoplesdispatch.org A trade unionist and prominent human rights defender, Mahfouda has been unrelentingly participating in the struggle for Western Sahara's liberation from Moroccan occupation despite torture, imprisonment, and threats of rape…

Tareq Haddad, Consortium News. (2023-06-13). Jonathan Swift's Lilliputian Reasoning. popularresistance.org Four years into Julian Assange's imprisonment at H.M.P. Belmarsh and four years since plain-clothed officers from London's Metropolitan Police Service dragged the WikiLeaks journalist and publisher out of Ecuador's London embassy, taking him from Kensington to a maximum-security prison, a British judge last week rejected two separate applications made by Assange's lawyers to appeal his extradition to the United States — striking down all submitted grounds. | In making his judgements, Justice Jonathan Swift, formerly a lawyer for the British government [whose favourite clients he says were the intelligence s…

Fight Back (2023-06-13). Free the Santa Marta 5, environmentalist political prisoners in El Salvador. fightbacknews.org Santa Marta, Cabañas, El Salvador – On January 11, 2023, five environmental activists and community leaders from Santa Marta, Cabañas, El Salvador were arrested on bogus charges in a clear case of political persecution. They are still detained five months later and the movement to free them is growing around the world. | The men arrested – Antonio Pacheco, Saúl Rivas, Pedro Antonio Rivas, Alejandro Laínez and Miguel Gámez – are prominent leaders of the grassroots movement that won the world's first ban on metallic mining. The organization they're part of, the Association for Social Economic Development (ADES…


Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-13). Swaziland: Campaign launched for release of political prisoners. greenleft.org.au The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) is set to launch a "Break the Chains" campaign to demand the release of political prisoners, including its Central Committee member Mvuselelo Mkhabela, reports Peoples Dispatch.

Anonymous103 (2023-06-12). Moscow And Kiev Exchanged Almost 200 Prisoners On The Eve Of Russia's National Holiday. southfront.org

Mansa Musa (2023-06-12). US Sentencing Commission could reduce prison time for thousands. therealnews.com

Staff (2023-06-12). Charleroi, Belgium, solidarity action calls for freedom for Georges Abdallah and Walid Daqqah. samidoun.net On a sunny, hot day in Charleroi, Belgium, approximately a dozen members of the Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine, an affiliate organization of the Samidoun Network, organized a public action on Saturday, 10 June, calling for the release of Walid Daqqah, Georges Abdallah and the nearly 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons. The Plate-Forme set up a large …

Staff (2023-06-12). Paris rally demands liberation for Georges Abdallah, Walid Daqqah and all Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net On the afternoon of Saturday June 10, CAPJPO-EuroPalestine organized a rally at the Fontaine des Innocents in downtown Paris to demand the release of Walid Daqqah and the 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners. At the beginning of this mobilization, Olivia Zémor, the president of EuroPalestine, intervened, highlighting the various forms of colonial violence escalating against the Palestinian people. …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-13). Swaziland: Campaign launched for release of political prisoners. greenleft.org.au The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) is set to launch a "Break the Chains" campaign to demand the release of political prisoners, including its Central Committee member Mvuselelo Mkhabela, reports Peoples Dispatch.

Anonymous103 (2023-06-12). Moscow And Kiev Exchanged Almost 200 Prisoners On The Eve Of Russia's National Holiday. southfront.org

Mansa Musa (2023-06-12). US Sentencing Commission could reduce prison time for thousands. therealnews.com

Staff (2023-06-12). Charleroi, Belgium, solidarity action calls for freedom for Georges Abdallah and Walid Daqqah. samidoun.net On a sunny, hot day in Charleroi, Belgium, approximately a dozen members of the Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine, an affiliate organization of the Samidoun Network, organized a public action on Saturday, 10 June, calling for the release of Walid Daqqah, Georges Abdallah and the nearly 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons. The Plate-Forme set up a large …

Staff (2023-06-12). Paris rally demands liberation for Georges Abdallah, Walid Daqqah and all Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net On the afternoon of Saturday June 10, CAPJPO-EuroPalestine organized a rally at the Fontaine des Innocents in downtown Paris to demand the release of Walid Daqqah and the 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners. At the beginning of this mobilization, Olivia Zémor, the president of EuroPalestine, intervened, highlighting the various forms of colonial violence escalating against the Palestinian people. …

Tanupriya Singh (2023-06-12). A deadly fight: Senegal's political crisis escalates after repression of protesters. peoplesdispatch.org At least 16 people were killed after protests broke out in Senegal following the sentencing of leading opposition figure Ousmane Sonko to two years in prison. Mass public unrest has grown against President Macky Sall and the continued neo-colonial exploitation of the country by France…

WSWS (2023-06-12). UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer slanders Roger Waters, demands censorship. wsws.org Waters' steadfast criticism of NATO's war in Ukraine, defence of the Palestinians from Israeli state repression and support for the imprisoned anti-war journalist Julian Assange has earned him the ire of imperialist governments everywhere.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-06-12). Statement from Miguel Peralta for June 11th, 2023. itsgoingdown.org Statement from ex-political prisoner and currently persecuted anarchist Miguel Peralta in solidarity with Marius Mason and all long-term anarchist prisoners. Don't give up compas, resist. We are here on the outside thinking about you. We are thinking of all of you. We know how hard it is to be isolated, restricted, watched. We understand…

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