Artificial Intelligence Is Failing Humans
Patricia J. Williams | thenation.com | 2019-07-16
Artificial Intelligence Is Failing Humans…
thenation.com/article/ai-algorithm-race-discrimination/
#Resistance fawns over Antifa 'martyr' killed while attempting to set ICE facility on fire
rt.com | 2019-07-16
Impassioned tributes for Willem Van Spronsen, the seasoned Antifa activist who was shot dead by police after attacking an ICE detention center in Tacoma on Saturday, have flooded Twitter, praising him as a "hero" and a "martyr." | …
rt.com/usa/464256-activist-attack-ice-praised/
Hundreds gather in Appleton, Wisc. to protest Trump's immigrant concentration camps
David Fields | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-15
APPLETON, Wisc.– Houdini Plaza here was one of over 700 sites around the world where rallies against immigrant concentration camps and detention centers for those seeking asylum were held under the banner of "Lights for Liberty" this weekend. On Friday, July 12, over 300 participants showed and several speakers shared their thoughts. The speeches were …
peoplesworld.org/article/hundreds-gather-in-appleton-wisc-to-protest-trumps-immigrant-concentration-camps/
The U.S. Is Quietly Opening Detention Camps for Small Children
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-15
A new investigative report finds a Phoenix facility is holding 12 boys and girls as young as three months old–all without their mothers.
truthdig.com/articles/the-u-s-is-quietly-opening-detention-camps-for-small-children/
Three Months Since Arrest of WikiLeaks Publisher: UK Government Holds "Media Freedom" Conference While Imprisoning Assange
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Thursday marked three months since WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and into London's Belmarsh Prison, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States and a drumhead trial on Espionage Act charges …
globalresearch.ca/three-months-since-arrest-wikileaks-publisher-uk-government-holds-media-freedom-conference-while-imprisoning-assange/5683650
US: Prominent Civil Rights Activist Killed in Louisiana
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
United States police in the state of Louisiana are investigating the murder of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, a prominent civil rights activist and founder of an African-American history museum, whose body was found in the trunk of her car in Baton Rouge, officials reported Sunday. | RELATED: | Trump Says 'The Squad' Hates the US, Asks Them to Leave Again | Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was killed by "traumatic asphyxia, including suffocation" before her body was found in the trunk of her car…
telesurenglish.net/news/African-American-Sadie-Roberts-Killed-Louisiana-20190715-0023.html
Anarchist Activist Killed for Fighting US 'Concentration Camps'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
United States Anarchist and anti-fascist activist, Will Van Spronsen, was killed Saturday by the police in the state of Washington while trying to take direct action against a migration concentration camp, by setting up migrants deportation buses on fire. | RELATED: | Small Scale Immigration Raids in US as Migrants Hide in Fear | The killing occurred a few hours after a peaceful demonstration against the migrants' detention camp when four police officers shot the 69-year-old campaigner in t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Anarchist-Killed-Fighting-US-Concentration-Camps-20190715-0027.html
ACLU Comment on New Trump Asylum Restrictions
commondreams.org | 2019-07-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/07/15/aclu-comment-new-trump-asylum-restrictions?cd-origin=rss
Close the concentration camps
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-15
The U.S. government is detaining thousands of migrants, in what can only be described as a system of 21st century concentration camps. Justin Akers Chacón–professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego and author, with Mike Davis, of No One is Illegal–examines the background to this horrific story, suggesting that Trump's detention centres […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/15/close-the-concentration-camps/
Hundreds join united action in Palo Alto, Calif., to shut down Palantir Technologies for complicity with ICE
Jon Britton | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-15
In a great show of unity in action, more than a dozen groups from all over the San Francisco Bay Area joined together July 19 to protest at Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto for the company's provision of software facilitating ICE raids, detentions and deportations.
liberationnews.org/hundreds-join-united-action-in-palo-alto-calif-to-shut-down-palantir-technologies-for-complicity-with-ice/
Cruelty Is the Point: Communities Fight Back as Threat of ICE Raids Terrorize Immigrant Families
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-15
This weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a handful of raids across the country as part of President Trump's push to detain and deport thousands of undocumented migrants in 10 major cities. Agents in Chicago reportedly arrested a mother and her children only to quickly release them. Arrests were also attempted in New York City, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where immigrants reportedly refused to open their doors to ICE agents because they did not have warrants. Authorities say more raids are planned this week, prompting fear but also generating mass protests on the ground. We speak…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/15/immigration_detention_ice_raids_elora_mukherjee
Amazon Prime Day Strike: Workers say no to overwork and discrimination
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-15
SHAKOPEE, Minn.–Amazon Prime Day is becoming Amazon Strike Day. Amazon is forcing its workers at its monster warehouse in Shakopee, Minn., to walk out again. The 1,500 workers, one-third of them migrants and refugees from Somalia and other nations of East Africa are walking off the job for six hours today, July 15. That's the …
peoplesworld.org/article/amazon-prime-day-strike-workers-say-no-to-overwork-and-discrimination/
How Some Florida Prosecutors Are Pushing Back Against GOP Voter Suppression Efforts
Maryam Saleh | theintercept.com | 2019-07-15
The GOP legislature is trying to take the vote away from people with past legal woes — and some prosecutors are looking for ways around a new restriction.
theintercept.com/2019/07/15/florida-voting-rights-amendment-4/
U.S. citizen and her child arrested in Egypt over Facebook posts
Aboulfotouh Kandil | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-15
On Sunday, July 7, Egyptian authorities arrested a U.S. citizen, Reem Mohammed El-Desoky, and her 12-year-old son when they arrived at the airport in Cairo. The mother and her son live in Lancaster, Penn. After being held for 12 hours, El-Desoky was sent to jail and her child was delivered to the family who had …
peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-citizen-and-her-child-arrested-in-egypt-over-facebook-posts/
Voting matters: How are your Congressmembers doing? Ask the NAACP
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-15
Voting matters. That simple but evocative sentence could sum up whole epochs of American history. It certainly helps to define what happened in 2016. And the midterm elections of 2018 prove it. As we head into the presidential election season and the fateful date of November 3, 2020, let's take a look at how Congressmembers …
peoplesworld.org/article/voting-matters-how-are-your-congressmembers-doing-ask-the-naacp/
Thousands march in Chicago to demand end to US immigrant detention camps, raids and deportations
wsws.org | 2019-07-15
The event was aimed at containing the enormous social opposition to the extreme-right policies of the Trump administration and the Republicans, within the confines of the Democratic Party,…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/15/chic-j15.html
Activists in Oshkosh, WI call for closure of Trump's concentration camps
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-14
Oshkosh, WI – On the evening of July 12, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Students for a Democratic Society (UWO SDS) hosted a Lights for Liberty rally, demanding an end to the Trump administration's detention policy and the closure of the concentration camps, where tens of thousands of immigrants are being held in clear breach of international law. The call to action drew roughly 30 people from Oshkosh and the surrounding Fox Valley area. | The event started with a silent candlelight vigil to help bring awareness to the disastrous conditions in the camps. The action featured 12 different people speaking…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/14/activists-oshkosh-wi-call-closure-trumps-concentration-camps
Embargoes and Other Acts of War
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-13
The war between the United States and Japan began with a US-enforced oil embargo against the Japanese Empire. Right now, in the United States, huge detention camps are being constructed for the increasingly criminalized refugee and migrant population, a campaign of government-sponsored domestic terror run by a supposedly temporary, "acting" head of the department created …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/embargoes-and-other-acts-of-war/
Pompeo's New "Human Rights" Commission is Up To No Good
aclu.org | 2019-07-12
The Trump administration appears to be trying to find new moral footing for the president's discriminatory policies. | This week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo formally announced the creation of a "Commission on Unalienable Rights." Its stated purpose, according to a notice published in the Federal Register in May, is to provide "fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation's founding principles of natural law and natural rights." | Th…
aclu.org/blog/human-rights/pompeos-new-human-rights-commission-no-good
In aftermath of Libya airstrike deaths, UN officials call for refugees and migrants to be freed from detention
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-12
"As a priority, we ask that 5,600 refugees and migrants currently held in centres across Libya be freed in an orderly manner and their protection guaranteed" the UN refugee and migrants chiefs said in a joint statement, released on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042321
UN Human Rights Council stands firm on LGBTI violence, Syria detainees and Philippines 'war on drugs'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-12
The 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council ended on Friday with measures taken to address worrying developments in Eritrea, Syria and the Philippines, along with other issues of global concern, such as violence and discrimination against the LGBTI community.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042381
CBP Can't Detain Domestic Flight Passengers for Refusing Suspicionless ID Checks
aclu.org | 2019-07-11
The Constitution protects passengers deplaning domestic flights just as it protects people on the street or in a car. | In February 2017, two U.S. CBP officers stood on a jet bridge at New York's JFK Airport to meet Delta Flight 1583 as it taxied to the gate upon arrival from San Francisco. As passengers prepared to deplane, they were told by flight attendants — at the direction of the two officers — that all passengers would have to show identification documents to the officer…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks
Im/migrants and the repressive state
Editor | workers.org | 2019-07-11
A grassroots movement has been growing across the U.S. to counter the government's brutal campaign targeting im/migrants. As more people of all ages die horrible deaths in the desert north of the border, in the border rivers and in detention camps — including the hellholes set up to warehouse small . . . | Continue reading Im/migrants and the repressive state at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/11/im-migrants-and-the-repressive-state/
"Unconscionable & Unacceptable": Rep. Barragán Decries Detention of Migrant Children in Prison Cells
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-11
Yazmin Juárez, the Guatemalan mother whose child died from a lung infection after being held in an ICE detention center, testified before members of a congressional panel Wednesday. She shared the story of her daughter, 19-month-old Mariee, who died last year shortly after being released from the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. Juárez filed a $60 million lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services. The House subcommittee convened to examine the treatment of refugees in U.S.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/11/nanette_barragan_immigration_jails_dismantling_dhs
Manuel Duran, journalist who reported on ICE, freed from detention
splcenter.org | 2019-07-11
Manuel Duran, an investigative journalist who was detained after reporting on the collusion between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local law enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee, was released today from ICE detention and will be reunited with his fiancée.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/11/manuel-duran-journalist-who-reported-ice-freed-detention
Activists, students protest outside largest ICE prison in California
Cristian Alcaraz | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-11
Demonstrators call for the abolition of ICE, closure of concentration camps.
liberationnews.org/activists-students-protest-outside-largest-ice-prison-in-california/
The U.S. Women's Soccer World Cup Win Was a Victory for Title IX & the Fight for Equal Pay
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-11
Thousands gathered in Manhattan Wednesday to celebrate the U.S. women's national soccer team's fourth World Cup championship at a ticker tape parade that stretched up Broadway and past Wall Street. Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Rose Lavelle and their teammates rode floats through New York City's Canyon of Heroes, ending their celebrations at a ceremony at City Hall. Supporters chanted "U.S.A.!" and "Equal pay!" The U.S women's World Cup victory came just months after members of the 2015 women's team sued the U.S. Soccer Federation over gender discrimination. Their high-profile fight for pay equity is focusing the s…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/11/uswnt_world_cup_win_title_ix
The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New. It's a Key Part of a Decades-Old Bipartisan Policy
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to sufficient food, water, beds or medical care now has a spreading outbreak of scabies, shingles and chickenpox, according to border agents. In Yuma, Arizona, NBC reports that jailed migrant children have been subjected to mistreatment and sexual…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/10/john_carlos_frey_immigration_detention_conditions
Wednesday's Daily Brief: Guterres in Kenya, Prisoners sick in Iran, #GlobalGoals, Myanmar, Ukraine updates, and new space partnership
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-10
This Wednesday's UN top stories are: latest global terror warnings; political prisoners denied health access in Iran; high-level discussions on Sustainable Development Goals; continued abuse of Rohingya in Myanmar; Odessa killings in Ukraine; and partnering with NASA.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042201
Georgian protests, military parade, Libya and Turkey
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-08
Georgian protests New protests took place this week in Georgia. On July 4, the Georgian Interior Ministry announced the detention of four people accused of assaulting police officers during rallies in central Tbilisi on June 20-21. On Thursday, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it was investigating a meeting about organizing mass riots and an …
uwidata.com/4172-georgian-protests-military-parade-libya-and-turkey/
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Wins World Cup, Condemning Pay Discrimination and President Trump
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-08
The U.S. national women's soccer team made history by winning its record fourth World Cup after defeating the Netherlands 2 to 0 on Sunday in Lyon, France. The U.S. women's World Cup victory came just months after members of the 2015 women's team sued the U.S. Soccer Federation over gender discrimination. Following the victory, audience members began to chant "equal pay" in solidarity with the team's demands for an equal salary to their male counterparts. Prize money for this year's Women's World Cup is just $30 million compared to $400 million for the 2018 men's World Cup. Co-captain Megan Rapinoe was awarded th…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/8/seg_1
'Horrified at the sights': Coloradans protest ICE facilities and detention profiteers
Jonathan Flowers | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-07
Human rights abuses are not just restricted to the border.
liberationnews.org/horrified-at-the-sights-coloradans-protest-ice-facilities-and-detention-profiteers/
Over 1000 union educators protest Houston Detention Center
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-05
Houston, TX – July 4 saw union educators push for freedom for refugees and undocumented families. After a daylong meeting of the annual National Education Association's annual Representative Assembly, a massive group of educators demonstrated their anger at Trump's concentration camps for children and families. | Rank-and-file education workers organized the protest within less than 48 hours of arriving at the convention. The group marched around a detention center located in downtown Houston, holding signs reading "Free the children!" and "Close the camps!" As they marched, they chanted "Up up with education! Do…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/5/over-1000-union-educators-protest-houston-detention-center
I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement and Now I'm Fighting to End It
aclu.org | 2019-07-03
A new report proves that the degrading conditions in solitary confinement continue to harm people and communities. | I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in "Camp J," one of the most severe lockdown units at one of America's most brutal prisons, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I languished in solitary for 16 months. | Back then I didn't know that Louisiana was the solitary confinement capital of the world. All I knew was that I'd been convicted of a crime I didn't commit, and I had to maintain my humanity in one of the most dehumanizing places on earth. | It's called "23 and…
aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinement/i-spent-16-months-solitary-confinement-and-now-im
Japanese Internment Camp Survivor: 'Never Again Is NOW!'
Dennis J Bernstein | progressive.org | 2019-07-03
A filmmaker and therapist tells of her family's internment in a maximum security camp during World War II, and her views on the current imprisonment of people from south of the border.
progressive.org/dispatches/never-again-is-now-internment-camps-protest-bernstein-190703/
Thousands of Voices Are Telling the Supreme Court: Don't Roll Back LGBTQ Rights
aclu.org | 2019-07-03
Businesses, women CEOs, civil rights organizations, Republicans tell the Supreme Court to protect LGBTQ employees like Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda. | President Trump has told the Supreme Court it should be legal to fire someone just because they're LGBTQ. The President may be a bully, but he's just one voice. Today, more than 2,000 voices from across the country joined together to tell the Supreme Court: Don't roll back our rights. | The message came in the form of friend-of-the-court briefs–nearly 50 in all–filed in a…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/lgbt-nondiscrimination-protections/thousands-voices-are-telling-supreme-court-dont
SPLC sues Florida officials to keep citizens from losing right to vote again
splcenter.org | 2019-07-02
After completing her prison sentence and probation time, Rosemary McCoy had her voting rights restored and cast a ballot in the Jacksonville, Florida, runoff city council election earlier this year.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/02/splc-sues-florida-officials-keep-citizens-losing-right-vote-again
Smart Ass Cripple: Happy Birthday Olmstead
Mike Ervin | progressive.org | 2019-06-29
Twenty years ago, a civil rights victory helped disabled people escape institutional life.
progressive.org/dispatches/smart-ass-cripple-happy-birthday-olmstead-ervin-190629/
How to Help Families at the Border Right Now
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
We know that a better future is possible, and we at the ACLU, along with our supporters and allies, are daring to create it. | The images of Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, who lost their lives trying to seek refuge in the United States, have left us haunted. They serve as an ever-important reminder of the urgency of the fight for immigrant justice on our southern border and the need to stand up to the Trump administration's policies denying humanitarian protection and basic due process to families fleeing for their lives. | We remain at the frontlines of the family separation fight…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/how-help-families-border-right-now
Why the ACLU Is Suing Florida For Its New Poll Tax
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
The law forces returning citizens with criminal records to pay for the right to vote. | On November 6, 2018, nearly 65 percent of Florida voters–more than 5 million people–resoundingly approved Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to over a million of their fellow citizens. By passing Amendment 4, Floridians successfully ushered in the largest expansion of the electorate in nearly 50 years. The people of Florida did it on their own, using a constitutional ballot initiative, to finally achieve change where Florida politicians had failed. | Instead of celebrating this progress, Florida politicians are t…
aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/voter-restoration/why-aclu-suing-florida-its-new-poll-tax
Georgia Tried to Ban Abortion, So We Sued
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
Abortion bans place people in danger, and Georgia's is no exception. | Alabama. Arkansas. Kentucky. Ohio. And today, Georgia. That's the list of states where the ACLU has had to go to court over the last few months to challenge laws banning abortion. | The Georgia law bans abortion at six weeks of pregnancy and is in clear violation of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade. In fact, that is the whole point of the law. Georgia politicians, including Governor Brian Kemp, emboldened by President Trump's appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court, think this is their chance to get the court to take aw…
aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/abortion/georgia-tried-ban-abortion-so-we-sued
Working in Prison, I Witnessed the Inhumane Conditions of Solitary for Incarcerated Women
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
Solitary confinement can amount to torture. One practitioner witnessed this first hand, and shares her story and her journey to action. | At the first checkpoint at Tennessee Prison for Women, there was a large, scrolling television screen behind the desk displaying the image of two pairs of hands — one pair with a key and one pair in handcuffs. The message read, "You can either be one of us or one of them." I had been working in the facility for less than a year, but this message exemplified an uneasiness I had long felt without articulating: The prison's faàßade of "rehabilitation" masked a system s…
aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinement/working-prison-i-witnessed-inhumane-conditions-solitary
Charlottesville Federal Court Sentences James Alex Fields to Life in Prison for 'Unite the Right' Killing
splcenter.org | 2019-06-28
A neo-Nazi sympathizer from Ohio received two consecutive and 27 concurrent life sentences in federal prison for killing a counterprotester and injuring others in the aftermath of 2017's racist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/06/28/charlottesville-federal-court-sentences-james-alex-fields-life-prison-unite-right-killing
SPLC: Sentencing of James Alex Fields Jr., who killed Heather Heyer at 'Unite the Right,' will not heal victims or their families
Keegan Hankes, Intelligence Project | splcenter.org | 2019-06-28
James Alex Fields Jr., who was sentenced to life in prison today for murdering a woman who was protesting a white supremacist rally two years ago, is a remorseless killer and a domestic terrorist.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/28/splc-sentencing-james-alex-fields-jr-who-killed-heather-heyer-unite-right-will-not-heal
Horrific detention center conditions expose Trump's true immigration policy: unmitigated, unrelenting cruelty
splcenter.org | 2019-06-26
A year ago, America awoke to the shocking images of children being held in cages — children who had been stolen from their asylum-seeking parents at the border by an administration that had no plan to reunite them.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/26/horrific-detention-center-conditions-expose-trumps-true-immigration-policy-unmitigated
UN Human Rights Head Visits Venezuela, Meets Maduro and Guaido
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-06-24
Michelle Bachelet commented on access to food and medicine, allegations of political prisoners, and the impact of sanctions, among other issues.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14554
Brian Mier on Brazilian Political Scandal
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-06-21
The Brazilian anti-corruption crusade, called Car Wash or Lava Jato, that put popular ex-president Lula da Silva in prison and paved the way for fascist president Jair Bolsanaro–all while being celebrated in the US corporate press–was actually, as critics contended, less interested in corruption than in keeping Lula's Workers Party out of power.
fair.org/home/brian-mier-on-brazilian-political-scandal/