On International Human Rights Day, Chileans demand release of political prisoners
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-11
This December 10, on International Human Rights Day, hundreds of Chileans took to the streets to demand the release of all political prisoners in the country. There was special emphasis on the demand to release the protesters arrested during the protests of October 2019 and in demonstrations in the following months as well as the Indigenous Mapuche political prisoners. | Several small demonstrations were c…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/11/on-international-human-rights-day-chileans-demand-release-of-political-prisoners/

Migrant smugglers exploiting Covid-19 pandemic, Interpol warns
rt.com | 2020-12-11
Interpol has made more than 200 arrests as part of an international operation to bring down criminal smuggling networks, and warned human traffickers are exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic. | The one-week op, named Operation Turquesa II, saw officials in 32 countries conduct more than 50,000 checks. The massive crackdown lead to the identification of around 3,500 irregular migrants and the detention of over 200 people linked to migrant smuggling and human trafficking. | Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock warned that the operation "shows how organized crime groups continue to take advantage of vulnerable pe…
rt.com/news/509429-migrant-smugglers-coronavirus-interpol/

Biden Must Restore Citizenship for Black and Brown People
Manar Waheed | aclu.org | 2020-12-11
President Trump's relentless destruction of our immigration system is well documented. However, the myriad ways in which he attacked and targeted Black and Brown people seeking immigration benefits or citizenship, and even U.S. citizens is less discussed. , , There have been three substantial attacks on citizenship for Black and Brown immigrants: | Indefinite delays of immigration benefits, including citizenship, through the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), which has targeted Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries since 2008;Blocking the expedited path to citizenship fo…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/biden-must-restore-citizenship-for-black-and-brown-people

PA prisons: Disdain, distrust and deprivation
Bryant Arroyo | workers.org | 2020-12-11
Incarcerated workers across Pennsylvania are demanding that Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reverse his disastrous decision to begin mass transfers of prisoners during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The following commentary is part 2 from an interview by Joe Piette with jailhouse organizer and environmentalist Bryant Arroyo, who . . . | Continue reading PA prisons: Disdain, distrust and deprivation at Workers.org…
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PW Podcast: Rev. Liz Theoharis talks voter suppression and poverty
Chauncey K. Robinson, Matt Bernico | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
Beyond the Page is a companion podcast to the award-winning publication People's World. With every episode, we'll take you deeper into the topics covered at PeoplesWorld.org. Our program brings you in-depth interviews with journalists and activists on the most pressing stories in progressive politics, labor, and the struggle for socialism in the United States. As …
peoplesworld.org/article/pw-podcast-rev-liz-theoharis-talks-voter-suppression-and-poverty/

Glennon Doyle on Telling Loved Ones Hard Truths
aclu.org | 2020-12-11
On our podcast, At Liberty, we learn a lot about history, civil rights and civil liberties issues, and how we can use legal advocacy to move the needle. This week, we spent time talking about how we can best share that knowledge with others, especially the people in our lives who may not be as tuned into these conversations. , , Bestselling author Glennon Doyle, who knows a thing or two about difficult truth-telling, joined us to break down how those of us who are invested in civil rights work can better draw the people closest to us into our fights for justice and equality. Doyle is also the founder and presi…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/glennon-doyle-on-telling-loved-ones-hard-truths

Iran's 'Corpse Bride' Angelina Jolie look-alike sentenced to 10 YEARS in prison for 'corrupting the youth,' says journalist
rt.com | 2020-12-11
Claiming that the Instagram model whose heavily edited snaps made her world-famous as an Angelina Jolie lookalike was sentenced to a decade in prison by morality police, an Iranian journalist begged the actress for assistance. | Fatemeh Khishvand from Tehran, who goes by Sahar Tabar on Instagram, was just sentenced to ten years in prison for "promoting public corruption," journalist Masih Alinejad claimed on Friday. | I call on Angelina Jolie to help an Iranian 19-year-old girl who received 10 years prison sentence for using makeup & Photoshop to turn herself into Angelina. | Islamic Republic has a history of…
rt.com/news/509440-iran-angelina-corpse-bride-jailed/

Turkish lawyer on hunger strike sent back to prison after release
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-11
Turkish lawyer on hunger strike sent back to prison after release | Aytac Unsal re-arrested as a flight risk despite being released on health grounds in September after 213-day hunger strike | Alex MacDonald | Fri, 12/11/2020 – 11: 44 | Aytac Unsal recovering in bed following his hunger strike (People's Law Bureau) | A Turkish lawyer who was released from prison on medical grounds after spending more than seven…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkish-lawyer-hunger-strike-released-rearrested

Trustbusters target Facebook, but anti-monopoly effort shores up capitalism
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
Coming on the heels of a Justice Department lawsuit against Google filed in October, social networking giant Facebook is now in the crosshairs of the trustbusters at the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of more than 48 state and territorial governments. Anti-monopoly momentum is picking up as regulators, long regarded as asleep at the …
peoplesworld.org/article/trustbusters-target-facebook-but-anti-monopoly-effort-shores-up-capitalism/

Prison Staff Force Prisoners to Accept Liability For Their Own Deaths
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
Prisoners at San Quentin State Prison are reporting that, over the past week, San Quentin medical staff have been pressuring prisoners to sign waiver forms accepting legal responsibility for their own deaths from COVID-19. | That, despite more than 10 months of continuous neglect and Eighth Amendment violations by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) which has, so far, killed 28 prisoners at the prison. | Multiple prisoners — many are refusing to cooperate — at San Quentin tell the same story.
popularresistance.org/prison-staff-force-prisoners-to-accept-liability-for-their-own-deaths/

Rebuilding the Solidarity Economy During COVID-19
Annie Levin | progressive.org | 2020-12-11
The pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have shown New York's mutual aid collectives how to navigate the line between mutual aid, solidarity, and charity.
progressive.org/dispatches/solidarity-economy-during-covid-levin-201211/

McConnell's virus lawsuit ban far worse than advertised
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
WASHINGTON–Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's ban on lawsuits through 2024 against firms that don't protect workers and consumers from the coronavirus is even worse than advertised, the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health reports, and an inspection of the measure's underlying text confirms. The GOP Majority Leader's bill is actually S4317, introduced July 27 by …
peoplesworld.org/article/mcconnells-virus-lawsuit-ban-far-worse-than-advertised/

Wednesday 12/16: NAACP Town Hall: Slowing Pandemic Spread, #COVID19 Vaccine, & Health of Black Community
NAACP | indybay.org | 2020-12-11