Seattle Activists: Target ICE, Not Human Rights Defenders
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2018-12-03
On December 3, we, the members of the "Anti-ICE Nine," are headed to a pre-trial hearing. We are each facing two misdemeanor charges — which could result in up to one year of jail time and a $5,000 fine apiece — for blocking traffic outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) downtown offices in Seattle, Washington, this past June. We were arrested for exposing the existence of ICE's regional headquarters in downtown Seattle, and for opposing the Trump regime's horrific trea…
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How the FIRST STEP ACT Moves Criminal Justice Reform Forward
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-12-03
The FIRST STEP Act is a modest piece of legislation that tackles harsh sentencing while mostly failing to apply its reforms retroactively. | It's not often that you'll find the ACLU on the same side of an issue as President Donald Trump. | But in the waning days of the 115th Congress, lawmakers have the rare opportunity to show bipartisanship isn't completely dead. For months, advocates and lawmakers have worked together to craft a criminal justice reform bill, known as the FIRST STEP Act, that enjoys broad support from the White House and members of Congress in both parties. | Only one thing stands in the way…
aclu.org/blog/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/how-first-step-act-moves-criminal-justice-reform-forward
Standing Up against Racist, Fascist, Nazi, Swastikas in South L.A
LABOR | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-03
The defacing of an historical mural on Crenshaw Boulevard, Our Mighty Contribution," by placing swastikas over the faces of Black women members of the Black Panther Party, Thursday, November 29, is profoundly symbolic and real–a material reflection of the U.S. white settler state out of control. For us at the Strategy Center, the fight against racism, national oppression,…
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Hatewatch Headlines 12/3/2018
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-12-03
Black workers recount Tesla factory racism; Facebook report targeted George Soros; Milo's court documents reveal he is deep in debt; and…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/12/03/hatewatch-headlines-1232018
No One Knows What's Happening in This Tent City for Migrant Kids
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-12-03
This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast. | Tornillo, Texas — About 40 miles southeast of El Paso, past the billboards for fast food joints and rugged desert hills, residents of this small community sometimes can see the lights of the nearby detention camp glowing in the night. | Some of them h…
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Bush Sr.'s Ignored Legacy: War Crimes, Racism, Obstruction of Justice
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-12-03
George H.W. Bush died in Houston on Friday night at the age of 94. Bush was elected the 41st president of the United States in 1988, becoming the first and only former CIA director to lead the country. He served as Ronald Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989. Since Bush's death, the media has honored the former president by focusing on his years of service and his call as president for a kinder, gentler America. But the headlines have largely glossed over and ignored other parts of Bush's legacy. We look at the 1991 Gulf War, Bush's pardoning of six Reagan officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal and…
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There's No Real Difference Between Border Walls and Border Fences
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-12-03
Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer, are playing word games when it comes to funding Trump's border wall. | Sometime between now and Dec. 7, when the current appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security will expire, Congress needs to provide the agency with another's year's funds. A single word has become a sticking point for the politicians who will vote on that funding: "wall," as in President Trump's border wall. | Trump and his Republican allies are demanding billions of dollars for walls along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats, wanting to be seen as opposing Trump, say that they won't vote for bor…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/theres-no-real-difference-between-border-walls-and-border-fences
Mehdi Hasan on George H.W. Bush's Ignored Legacy: War Crimes, Racism and Obstruction of Justice
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-03
George H.W. Bush died in Houston on Friday night at the age of 94. Bush was elected the 41st president of the United States in 1988, becoming the first and only former CIA director to lead the country. He served as Ronald Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989. Since Bush's death, the media has honored the former president by focusing on his years of service and his call as president for a kinder, gentler America. But the headlines have largely glossed over and ignored other parts of Bush's legacy. We look at the 1991 Gulf War, Bush's pardoning of six Reagan officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal and ho…
www.democracynow.org/2018/12/3/mehdi_hasan_on_george_hw_bushs
SPLC brings first lawsuit challenging Florida sheriffs' latest collaboration agreements to detain people for ICE
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-12-03
The SPLC sued Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay today for illegally holding a U.S. citizen in the county jail on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold.
splcenter.org/news/2018/12/03/splc-brings-first-lawsuit-challenging-florida-sheriffs%25E2%2580%2599-latest-collaboration-agreements
The Government Is Trying to Keep Key NSA Spying Rules Secret
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-12-03
We're telling a federal appeals court that democracy has no room for secret law on surveillance of Americans. | A federal appeals court in New York will hear oral argument on Tuesday in our lawsuit fighting for the public's right to know the legal justifications for government spying. | The Freedom of Information Act suit seeks the release of secret memos written by government lawyers that provided the foundation for the warrantless surveillance of Americans' international communications. In essence, these memos serve as the law that gove…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/government-trying-keep-key-nsa-spying-rules-secret
Senators to Verizon subcontractor: End pregnancy discrimination
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-12-03
MEMPHIS — Nine U.S. senators, led by Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, demanded that Verizon and the subcontractor that runs its Memphis warehouse, XPO Logistics, answer published details about unusually high levels of pregnancy discrimination there — and take definitive detailed steps to stop it. In letters to Verizon CEO Hans …
peoplesworld.org/article/senators-to-verizon-subcontractor-end-pregnancy-discrimination/
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza to speak at GLIDE's Sunday Celebration, Decembe
Denise Lamott | indybay.org | 2018-12-03
Glide Memorial | 330 Ellis St | San Francisco…
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Trump says Michael Cohen should serve a 'full and complete' sentence for 'terrible' crimes
RT | rt.com | 2018-12-03
US President Donald Trump has called for his former attorney Michael Cohen to be jailed after he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a potential real estate deal in Moscow, tweeting that the lawyer "makes up stories." | …
rt.com/usa/445477-trump-cohen-serve-sentence/
Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated as new president of Mexico
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-03
Popular illusions in promises by the new president to end decades of poverty and oppression in Mexico will crash against his limited, bourgeois program.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/03/amlo-d03.html
Israeli Settlers Slash Tires in Kafr Qassem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2018-12-02
The Palestinian village of Kafr Qassem, east of Tel Aviv was stormed by Israeli settlers Sunday, who vandalized many cars, local sources told Maan News. Dozens of settlers reportedly punctured tires of 32 vehicles belonging to Palestinians, and spray painted threats and racist slurs. Some of the slogans that damaged …
America's Criminal "Injustice" System
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-12-01
Nina Turner, Cornel West, Danny Glover, Cynthia Nixon and Gus Newport on the roots of and solutions to America's addiction to mass incarceration at the Sanders Institute Gathering | The post America's Criminal "Injustice" System appeared first on The Real News Network.
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The Ignored Legacy of George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism, and Obstruction of Justice
Mehdi Hasan | theintercept.com | 2018-12-01
Hagiographies neglect to mention that Bush's presidency included a racist drug war, the Willie Horton ad, and massive civilian deaths in Iraq. | The post The Ignored Legacy of George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism, and Obstruction of Justice appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/12/01/the-ignored-legacy-of-george-h-w-bush-war-crimes-racism-and-obstruction-of-justice/
Mike Pence sparks QAnon theories after deleting tweet featuring badge
RT | rt.com | 2018-12-01
Vice President Mike Pence is fuelling QAnon conspiracists after he tweeted, and then deleted, a photograph of him standing next to a Florida sheriff deputy wearing a QAnon badge. | …
rt.com/usa/445328-pence-qanon-sheriff-twitter/
The five most compelling moments so far in the 'Unite the Right' murder trial
Brett Barroquere | splcenter.org | 2018-11-30
A juror clasped his hand over his mouth in court on Thursday as prosecutors played a video showing a young neo-Nazi sympathizer plowing his car into a group of anti-racist protestors after last year's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/11/30/five-most-compelling-moments-so-far-unite-right-murder-trial
Not So Black & White: NYT Touts Rural Voters, Buries Racism in Mississippi Election Analysis
Reed Richardson | fair.org | 2018-11-30
The New York Times ( 11/24/18) warns that Democrats speaking "boldly" risk turning off approximately one-seventh of the electorate. | Stop me if you've heard this one before: During a high-profile election, a major newspaper decides to stubbornly focus its coverage on an increasingly narrow sliver of white voters, while minimizing the racism that colors the electorate and the eventual Republican victor's campaign. | If this sounds like a repeat of the mainstream press's response to Trump's 2016 campaign, well, it is. B…
fair.org/home/not-so-black-white-nyt-touts-rural-voters-buries-racism-in-mississippi-election-analysis/
In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy's Law Gains Ground Nationwide
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-11-30
A growing movement wants to amend the US Constitution and weaken its due process protections in its ill-advised pursuit of victims' rights. | Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of the midterm elections, a quieter trend also gained momentum through the ballot box: a budding, national threat to due process and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. | On Nov. 6, six states adopted, through ballot initiatives, what is known as "Marsy's Law," which e…
aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/major-threat-due-process-marsys-law-gains-ground-nationwide
Thailand: Don't Send Back Bahraini Dissident
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2018-11-30
(New York ) — Thailand's government should ensure that Hakeem Ali Mohamed Ali al-Araibi, a recognized refugee, is not returned to Bahrain, Human Rights Watch said today. If returned, he would face an imminent risk of wrongful detention and ill-treatment by Bahraini authorities. | Hakeem Ali Mohamed Ali al-Araibi in detention at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok. | © 2018 Private | "The Thai government needs to realize the grave dangers facing Ha…
hrw.org/news/2018/11/30/thailand-dont-send-back-bahraini-dissident
Morocco: Torture Suspicions Mar Mass Trial Verdicts
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2018-11-30
Rabat, Morocco, July 15, 2018: demonstrators protest heavy jail sentences on imprisoned activists by wearing masks showing their faces. | © 2018 Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images | (New York) — The Casablanca Court of Appeals should weigh evidence that the police tortured the defendants when it reviews the convictions of protesters and activists from the Rif region, Human Rights Watch said today. The appeals case began on November 14, 2…
hrw.org/news/2018/11/30/morocco-torture-suspicions-mar-mass-trial-verdicts
Beaten and prosecuted for standing up to hate
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2018-11-30
Just over a year ago Elzbieta gathered with small group of women in central Warsaw with a large "Stop Fascism" banner. It was 11 November, Independence Day, and tens of thousands of people were marching through the city, many wielding flares and proudly displaying racist and fascist banners. The march – described by some journalists as "the biggest gathering of far-right activists in Europe in recent years"- might sound like an event best avoided, but not for Elzbieta. | She and 12 other women joined the march, and once in its midst, they unfurled their seven-metre long banner. Another woman from their group film…
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/beaten-and-prosecuted-for-standing-up-to-hate/
US condemned for tear-gassing refugees, children
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-30
Legal experts and human rights advocates have denounced the tear gassing of children and other asylum seekers by US forces at the Mexico border on November 25. | "The migrants at our southern border include mothers and small children exercising their legal, human right to seek asylum," declared the ACLU in a tweet on November 26. It told the US Customs and Border Protection agency: "Tear gassing children is out…
greenleft.org.au/content/us-condemned-tear-gassing-refugees-children
Labor's promise to deliver in Victoria may well be illusive
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-30
While the final results of Victoria's November 24 state elections are yet to be announced, Labor looks set to go from 47 to 52 seats in the state's Legislative Assembly, after receiving a primary vote of 43%. | It also appears Labor will have 19 seats in the new Legislative Council, up from 14 seats, though it may pay a heavy price for preferencing some racist and anti-worker micro parties ahead of the Greens. | The Coalition received a combined primary vote of 36%, representing a 6.2% swing against it, with the Liberals predicted to go from 14 to 9 seats. The Liberals lost all its marginal seats in the south-eas…
greenleft.org.au/content/labors-promise-deliver-victoria-may-well-be-elusive
Statement of Derrick Johnson on Postponement of Vote on Thomas Farr
Regan Farley | naacp.org | 2018-11-29
"The NAACP is encouraged by the Senate's decision today to postpone the vote on Thomas Farr's nomination to the Eastern District of North Carolina. The Senate does not have the votes to confirm Farr, and it hopefully it will never will. This week, a smoking gun was uncovered demonstrating that Farr himself coordinated voter suppression […] | The post Statement of Derrick Johnson on Postponement of Vote on Thomas Farr appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/statement-derrick-johnson-postponement-vote-thomas-farr/
Farr vote at noon TODAY
Adam Lee | naacp.org | 2018-11-29
Despite the fact that a large number of North Carolina NAACPers, led by North Carolina State Conference of NAACP branches President Rev. Anthony Spearman, spent all day yesterday on a bus to come the Washington, DC, to join President Derrick Johnson and others to express their strong opposition to the confirmation of Thomas Farr to a […] | The post Farr vote at noon TODAY appeared first on NAACP.
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NAACP Statement on Black Voter Turnout in Mississippi Elections
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-11-29
The incredible Black voter turnout in Mississippi on November 6 — and again in the November 27 runoff election — provides a powerful example of what can happen when African Americans and other voters of color are encouraged to participate actively in our democracy. This election illustrates what can happen when voters and politicians alike […] | The post NAACP Statement on Black Voter Turnout in Mississippi Elections appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-black-voter-turnout-mississippi-elections/
We're Suing the CIA to Find the Body of a Torture Victim
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-11-29
The U.S. government's obsessive secrecy has deprived a man's family of basic dignity and closure. | In November 2002, the CIA tortured Gul Rahman to death in a secret prison in Afghanistan. Sixteen years later, Rahman's family is still desperately trying to find out what the CIA did to his body. | To date, the CIA has told his loved ones nothing, and his daughter cannot even give her father a decent burial. | That same month, Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at a CIA black site in Tha…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/torture/were-suing-cia-find-body-torture-victim
Hatewatch Headlines 11/30/2018
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-11-29
Vote-suppressing judge's appointment falls shy; GOP offended by its racists being called out; Tucker Carlson is neo-Nazi site's favorite pundit; and…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/11/30/hatewatch-headlines-11302018
My Black Son Was Sent Home From First Grade Because of His Natural Hair
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-11-29
My 6-year-old was turned away from his school for the offense of wearing locs. | Six-year-olds never seem to run out of questions, and my son is no exception. But in August, CJ asked me a question that was harder than the rest: He wanted to know if there was something wrong with his hair. | As a father, I'd tried to shield him from racism for as long as I could. But we had just been turned away in humiliating fashion from A Book's Christian Academy in Apopka, Florida, on the first day of classes. The school's administrators, led by John Book, barred CJ from entering the building because of his locs. They treated…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-inequality-education/my-black-son-was-sent-home-first-grade-because-his
Farr vote postponed until next week
Adam Lee | naacp.org | 2018-11-29
Due to a serious personal matter which has taken a solid vote in support of the Farr nomination out of Washington, DC, until next week, Senate leadership has postponed the final vote on the Thomas Farr confirmation until next week. This gives us more time to contact our Senators and let them know of our deep […] | The post Farr vote postponed until next week appeared first on NAACP.
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State of Palestine: Social Justice Activist on Hunger Strike: Suha Jbara
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2018-11-29
Suha Jbara has been on hunger strike since 22 November in protest against her detention and torture by Palestinian security forces. Her next court hearing is scheduled for 6 December 2018.
amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/9478/2018/en/
Bangladesh: Further information: Activist released on bail after months in detention: Shahidul Alam
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2018-11-29
Shahidul Alam, photographer and outspoken social activist, has been freed on permanent bail after spending more than 100 days behind bars for comments he made in an interview with Al-Jazeera in August 2018. In detention, he was ill-treated and subjected to prolonged detention merely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.
amnesty.org/en/documents/asa13/9455/2018/en/
Amnesty International launches worlds biggest human rights campaign
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2018-11-29
Women human rights defenders around the world are facing unprecedented levels of abuse, intimidation and violence, said Amnesty International as it launched its global Write for Rights campaign, in a bid to shine a spotlight on brave women who have been harassed, jailed, tortured or even killed for their human rights work. | Women continue to face multiple forms of discrimination, targeted because of their gender and other characteristics, as well as for their human rights work. However, women refuse to stay silent and have been at the forefront of the battle for human rights in 2018. | "Across the world, women a…
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/amnesty-international-launches-worlds-biggest-human-rights-campaign/
Viet Nam: Ludicrous charge against activist accused of 'insulting national flag' must be dropped
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2018-11-29
A charge of "insulting the national flag" against prominent Vietnamese human rights activist Huynh Thuc Vy amounts to an attack on freedom of expression by the authorities and must be dropped, Amnesty International said ahead of her trial on Friday. | It is rare for the authorities to prosecute a human rights activist for this charge, which carries a maximum penalty of three years' imprisonment, in a disturbing sign of the intensifying crackdown against peaceful dissent in the country. | "This ludicrous charge must be dropped as it is aimed solely at silencing a dedicated, peaceful human rights activist. This is…
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/viet-nam-ludicrous-charge-against-activist-accused-of-insulting-national-flag-must-be-dropped/
NAACP YOUTH LEADERS COMMENT ON THE RESULTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI SENATORIAL RUNOFF ELECTION
Rachel Johnson | naacp.org | 2018-11-28
BALTIMORE — Youth leaders of the NAACP shared the following statements regarding the results of the Mississippi senatorial runoff election: "We are constantly in a war for a fair democracy, not only for voting rights but also for representation that is accountable to the people. Mississippi's election shows that we can't afford to ignore marginalized voters and young people […] | The post NAACP YOUTH LEADERS COMMENT ON THE RESULTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI SENATORIAL RUNOFF ELECTION appeared fi…
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How Trump Weaponized the Government's Refugee Resettlement Agency
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-11-28
The Office of Refugee Resettlement was supposed to protect vulnerable immigrant children. Now it's an arm of Trump's deportation force. | Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, both under the Department of Homeland Security, entered into a memorandum of agreement with an obscure government agency known as the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. The office, known by its initials ORR, had traditionally served vulnerable immigrant youth coming to the United States without an adult. The agency took custody of those c…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/how-trump-weaponized-governments-refugee
A Mexican Perspective on Trump's Border Crisis
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2018-11-28
"You've got a President of the United States who is a racist. Instead of having the United States be a world leader in human rights, Trump wants to be world leader of racism. It's very difficult."
progressive.org/dispatches/a-mexican-perspective-on-trumps-border-crisis-181128/
NAACP Statement on Recent Criminal Justice Reform Compromise Introduced in Senate
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-11-28
NAACP released the following statement in support of the Crimianl Justice Reform Compromise: Our American criminal justice system is broken. Sentencing is disproportionately weighted against African Americans, and the current political climate continues to devalue black lives by reviving the same failed policies of the war on drugs that fueled mass incarceration," said NAACP President […] | The post NAACP Statement on Recent Criminal Justice Reform Compromise Introduced in Senate appeared fir…
naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-recent-criminal-justice-reform-compromise-introduced-senate/
NAACP Comments on Mississippi Senatorial Runoff Election
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2018-11-28
BALTIMORE — The NAACP issued the following statement regarding the results of the Mississippi senatorial runoff election: While we are hopeful that the Senator-Elect will prove herself worthy of her new office, this election demonstrates the need to continue broadening the tent of civic and democratic participation in our nation. We must continue to organize, […] | The post NAACP Comments on Mississippi Senatorial Runoff Election appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/naacp-comments-mississippi-senatorial-runoff-election/
'Republicans Just Don't Want All the Votes to Count' – CounterSpin interview with Ari Berman on 2018 voter suppression
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2018-11-28
Janine Jackson interviewed Ari Berman about 2018 voter suppression for the November 16, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/republicans-just-dont-want-all-the-votes-to-count/
Headlines for November 28, 2018
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-28
U.N. Report Warns World Falling Far Behind on Paris Climate Goals, Mexico Agrees to U.S. Demand to Hold Asylum Seekers While Claims Are Decided, Trump Administration Defends Tear Gas Use at U.S.-Mexico Border, Border Patrol Fired Tear Gas Dozens of Times Under President Obama, U.S. Waived Background Checks for Staff at Jail for Migrant Children, Mississippi: GOP's Cindy Hyde-Smith, Who Posed as Confederate Soldier, Wins Senate Seat, Ukraine's President Warns of "Full-Fledged War" with Russia, Trump "Not Even a Little Bit Happy" with Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump Says "We're Not Necessarily Such Believers" in Cli…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/28/headlines
Hatewatch Headlines 11/28/2018
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-11-27
Facebook discrimination review still a mystery; Neuroscience explains bigotry's persistence; Proud Boys' new rules including less fighting; and…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/11/28/hatewatch-headlines-11282018
NAACP Calls for Withdrawal of Thomas Farr Nomination
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2018-11-27
Statement of Derrick Johnson Calling for Withdrawal of Thomas Farr Nomination Thomas Farr needs to withdraw his nomination immediately. We've always known Thomas Farr as the architect of the worst voter suppression law in the country, however, we have now found that he was more deeply engaged than anyone knew in intimidating Black voters during […] | The post NAACP Calls for Withdrawal of Thomas Farr Nomination appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/naacp-calls-withdrawal-thomas-farr-nomination/
U.S. Prisons Have a Mental Health Crisis. This Story of a New York Prisoner's Death Helps Reveal Why
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-27
A major new Marshall Project investigation looks at the the mental health crisis in U.S. prisons by diving deep into the story of Karl Taylor, a prisoner who died at a maximum-security prison in the Catskills of New York after an altercation with prison guards in 2015. Karl Taylor was serving out a minimum 27-year sentence for a rape conviction when his life came to a sudden end at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in April of 2015. The African-American prisoner had been diagnosed with delusional disorder and paranoid personality disorder when he was taken into custody in 1995. By April of 2015, Taylor was house…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/27/us_prisons_have_a_mental_health
Jeff Sessions' Legacy Is Full of Dangerous Successes
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-11-26
Attorney General Sessions proved how dangerous the nation's top prosecutor can be to criminal justice reform. | In his 636 days in office, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions secured a legacy that has been described as " unprecedented" and " dark." But Sessions' unwavering actions against criminal justice reform may also earn another descriptor for his time…
aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/jeff-sessions-legacy-full-dangerous-successes
SPLC vows to sue Trump administration again over second approval of Kentucky Medicaid waiver scheme
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-11-21
The SPLC said today that it will sue the Trump administration again for approving Kentucky's Medicaid waiver plan a second time. This lawsuit will be brought in collaboration with the National Health Law Program (NHELP) and the Kentucky Equal Justice Center (KEJC). The law firm Jenner & Block is representing NHELP in the lawsuit.
splcenter.org/news/2018/11/21/splc-vows-sue-trump-administration-again-over-second-approval-kentucky-medicaid-waiver
Love Bollywood, hate apartheid!
SAMIR | bdsmovement.net | 2018-11-12
Love Bollywood, hate apartheid!: Action AlertThe Israeli government wants to use Bollywood stars to whitewash its oppression against Palestinians. Join us in urging them to refuse to participate. | Cultural BoycottNovember 12, 2018 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
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