(2022-07-15). Minneapolis police murder Tekle Sundberg. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Minneapolis police once again proved that Black lives in this city do not matter when they shot and killed a 20-year-old man, Tekle Sundberg, who was having a mental health crisis, July 14. MPD officers Aaron Pearson and Zachary Seraphine shot him early Thursday morning after a six-hour standoff at an apartment building in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis. Both officers were also part of the SWAT team that murdered Amir Locke in Minneapolis in February of this year. | A vigil Thursday night outside the apartment building where Tekle was killed and was attended by around 100 people. Tekle'
(2022-07-15). FBI Still Targets Black People For Entrapment. popularresistance.org Romeo Langhorne is the latest victim of an FBI phony terror entrapment scheme. On July 7, 2022 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for uploading a bomb making video. Langhorne didn't make a bomb. He uploaded a video while under the direction of an FBI informant. The video had in fact been produced by the government. | More than 20 years after September 11, 2001 Americans are still being told that they are at risk of terrorist attacks. The color coded risk assessments, NSA surveillance of all electronic and internet activity continues. The threat of terror attacks is the justification for encroaching on civil l…
(2022-07-15). The Biden-Lapid "Jerusalem Declaration": Strategic partnership of imperialism, Zionism and settler colonialism. samidoun.net 
Below are key points identified by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in responding to the Biden-Lapid Declaration ("The U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration") issued on Thursday, 14 July 2022. While the declaration largely holds nothing new, it once again reveals the joint commitment to imperialism and Zionism that is responsible for the past 75 years …
(2022-07-15). Six Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Surveillance Technology. aclu.org 
If police in your community are saying they want to install a new surveillance technology — face recognition, cameras, or license plate scanners, for example — they're likely to be touted as the way to prevent all manners of evil, from terrorism to street crime to fraud to package theft. If we just record everything, surveillance boosters would have us believe, we can stop or solve crimes and life will be better. The authorities will also probably have specific stories they tell you — hypothetical or real — in which the technology saved the day. | How should we process those claims? If…
(2022-07-15). UK bill threatens journalist with life in prison. mronline.org 
Journalists And Publishers Could Face Life Sentences If National Security Bill 2022, Being Debated In The U.K. Parliament, Becomes Law.
(2022-07-15). Black America Goes Off Over Hunter Biden's Flamboyant Crack Use And Joe Biden-Led Mass Incarceration. moguldom.com It's no secret that President Joe Biden's son Hunter battled a crack cocaine addiction. Dr. Boyce Watkins recently wondered in an article for LinkedIn how Hunter would have been treated if he were a Black man. Dr. Watkins earned a Ph.D. in finance and founded the podcast, "The Dr. Boyce Breakdown." He's asking the question out loud …
(2022-07-15). Black Man Who Did 25 Years In Prison To Get $7.5M Settlement, Crooked Cops Planted Fake Bullets. moguldom.com Desmond Ricks spent 25 years in prison, and he claims police set him up for a murder he didn't commit in 1992. Detroit has now agreed to settle a lawsuit he filed against the city. Detroit will pay $7.5 million to Ricks, who said police switched bullets that were used as evidence against him. He was released …
(2022-07-15). Calling On Russia to Free Brittney Griner, Bishop Barber Seeks 'Humanitarian Visit'. commondreams.org "She's been kept from her family. From her wife. From her profession. From her friends," the activist pastor said of the U.S. Olympian jailed in Russia. "It's time for her to come home."
(2022-07-15). Interviews with AFSCME workers: Mixed election outlook, major voter suppression worries. peoplesworld.org 
PHILADELPHIA—With approximately four months to go until the November off-year election, interviews with a selection of union members—whose organization, AFSCME, is among the most politically active in the U.S.—show a mixed outlook. Several cited instances of voter repression in Texas and Florida as particularly worrying. The talks with the unionists about their views and especially …