(2024-02-12). When Florida Officials Tried to Silence Our Pro-Palestinian Student Group, We Sued. aclu.org 
While studying abroad a couple of years ago, I heard first-hand accounts from Jordanian-Palestinian friends about the displacement their families, and families like theirs, experienced during the 1948 Nakba (Arabic for "catastrophe"). Moved by the painful memories they shared, I started researching student organizations advocating for Palestinian rights, and came across the Instagram of the University of Florida (UF) chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). When I enrolled at UF a few months later, I immediately joined. | As a member of UF SJP, it was devastating when top Florida officials ordered p…
(2024-02-13). World Cancer Day: Making a commitment to close the cancer care gap. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) recognizes World Cancer Day annually on February 4. The UICC's 2024 theme for World Cancer Day is "Close the Care Gap." The care gap is the gap between people who can obtain healthcare related to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer and those who cannot. The factors that create this gap include income, education and geographical location barriers. Discrimination based on ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age,…
(2024-02-12). World Cancer Day: Making a commitment to close the cancer care gap. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) recognizes World Cancer Day annually on February 4. The UICC's 2024 theme for World Cancer Day is "Close the Care Gap." The care gap is the gap between people who can obtain healthcare related to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer and those who cannot. The factors that create this gap include income, education and geographical location barriers. Discrimination based on ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age,…
(2024-02-13). Solidarity With Mass Prison Strike In Alabama. popularresistance.org The Center for Constitutional Rights stands in solidarity with the Free Alabama Movement (FAM) and incarcerated people in Alabama who announced a mass prison strike today. We unequivocally support the organizers' demands for legislative reforms—including repealing the Habitual Felony Offender Act, abolishing death by incarceration (also known as life without parole), and reversing the near complete abandonment of parole—and their call for an end to the torture and dehumanizing treatment exacted on incarcerated people by the State of Alabama. Our solidarity with Alabama prison organizers dates back to…
(2024-02-13). Baltimore's 'Downward Spiral' Of Poverty, Disinvestment, And Policing. popularresistance.org The crisis of mass incarceration is about more than the conduct of police officers—it's a question of public expenditures, and how pouring taxpayer money into incarceration at the expense of other, more humanizing ventures takes a toll on society at large. As public schools and public health programs across the nation grapple with a host of preventable problems arising from underinvestment, state and local governments across the nation spend over $200 billion each year on prisons, jails, and police. Now, a new report from the Justice Policy Institute, "The Right Investment 2.0", takes a detailed look at the…
(2024-02-13). Cashing in on Racist Bail. counterpunch.org 
Most Americans have not considered "cash bail" as critical to equality and freedom. The term is an esoteric one but is increasingly central to the ongoing battle over racial capitalism, policing, and mass incarceration, especially in an election year as critical as 2024. Here's what cash bail means: When arrested by police on suspicion of
(2024-02-13). It's Known As 'Death By Incarceration'; People Want To End It. popularresistance.org "My life is either going to be a testimony or a warning," said Derek Lee. | Lee was speaking on a video chat from behind the walls of SCI Smithfield in central Pennsylvania. Now 35 years old, Lee has been imprisoned since he was 29. If nothing changes, he will grow old and die in prison. | In 2016, a Pennsylvania court sentenced Lee to life without parole for a burglary two years earlier that ended with his accomplice fatally shooting the homeowner. Lee was not involved in the killing, but he was convicted of second-degree or felony murder—an unintentional death that happens when the defendant is committing…
(2024-02-12). No end in sight to ever-rising Indigenous incarceration numbers. independentaustralia.net 
(2024-02-13). Infighting in Pakistan's ruling elite intensifies following shock election result. wsws.org The PTI of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan won the most seats, even though its candidates were obliged to run as independents.
(2024-02-12). Why Exxon Is Suing Its Shareholders. popularresistance.org Last month, ExxonMobil sued two of its "activist investors" — groups that try to use shareholder resolutions to pressure companies into taking action on social and environmental problems — in an attempt to block a proposal for the oil giant to limit its climate pollution from coming to a vote at an upcoming shareholder meeting. | Follow This and Arjuna Capital announced on February 2 that they would withdraw their proposal from the ballot and promised not to refile. But Exxon says it will move forward with its lawsuit anyway. | "We believe there are still important issues for the court to resolve," an…
(2024-02-12). Ecuador, ninth nation worldwide in legalizing euthanasia. plenglish.com The CC's ruling responded to a lawsuit filed by Ecuadorian Paola Roldán, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a catastrophic, degenerative and incurable disease that has destroyed the nerve cells controlling muscles that execute voluntary movements. | Euthanasia is also legal in Spain (2021), Colombia (2014), New Zealand (2021), Portugal (2023), the Netherlands (2002), Canada (2016), Luxembourg (2009) and Belgium (2022). | In the Court's ruling, issued past Wednesday, the CC pointed out that the right to life, understood as subsistence, is inviolable. | However, in the analyzed case, the conduct…
(2024-02-13). Saturday 2/24: Night of Cultural Revolt to Free Toomaj and All Iran's Political Prisoners. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Ave. | Berkeley, CA…
(2024-02-13). Could Marwan Barghouti be the key to a ceasefire in Gaza?>. newarab.com 
Whenever Hamas and Israel negotiate on prisoner exchanges, the name of In 2011, his name was put forward to be part of an exchange deal that saw over 1,000 Palestinians freed for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but Israel refused to release him. | It was in this deal that now Hamas leader in Gaza
(2024-02-13). 'Israel humiliates Palestinian prisoners from Gaza by torturing them in front of settlers'. presstv.ir A human rights organization says the Israeli regime allows settlers to watch the torture and humiliation of Palestinians abducted from Gaza.
(2024-02-13). Australian Indigenous leader Nova Peris promotes fascistic Zionism, calls for pro-Palestinian activists to be "imprisoned" wsws.org Peris was reading from the script of the most right-wing Zionist settlers, who claim a providential right to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians.
(2024-02-12). 'Transported in Cages' — Shocking Details of How Israel Treats Female Gaza Prisoners. transcend.org This is a difficult, but critical read. The collective hardship experienced by Gaza's female prisoners in Israel is unprecedented even within the tragic history of Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
(2024-02-12). Israel kills its captives in Gaza once again. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – In the last 96 hours, Hamas' military wing, the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, revealed that two prisoners died and eight were seriously injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.The conflict between Israel and Gaza has been ongoing for 128 days, resulting in more casualties among prisoners in Israeli attacks. According to the al-Qassam Brigades, in the recent 96-hour period alone, two prisoners were killed, and eight others were badly hurt in Israeli bombings.The statement emphasized the challenges in providing medical assistance to the injured prisoners due to continuous airstrikes. It stressed t…
(2024-02-12). U.S. questions Pakistan election process amid Imran Khan allies lead. mronline.org 
This comes as candidates aligned with imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan maintained a lead in election results thus far.
(2024-02-12). Saturday 2/24: Night of Cultural Revolt to Free Toomaj and All Iran's Political Prisoners. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Ave. | Berkeley, CA…
(2024-02-12). Like Prison Visiting Rules, Use Of The Espionage Act Is Arbitrary, Punitive. popularresistance.org In Mid-December 2023, Charles Glass, the esteemed writer, journalist, broadcaster, and publisher visited with Julian Assange, an inmate at Belmarsh Prison in the U.K. Assange has been confined there since April, 2019. He is awaiting his final appeal to quash U.S. efforts to extradite him to face some of the same Espionage Act charges I was confronted with. Glass chronicles the visit in a recent piece in The Nation. His account took me right back to prison. Glass's visit with Assange could have been a visit with me. | I fondly remember Charles Glass. He wrote to me while I was in FCI Englewood, the prison I was bo…