The Empire's "Left Intellectuals" Call for Regime Change. The Role of "Progressives" and the Antiwar Movement
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-01-28
What is now unfolding in both North America and Western Europe is fake social activism, controlled and funded by the corporate establishment. This manipulated process precludes the formation of a real mass movement against war, racism and social injustice. | The post The Empire's "Left Intellectuals" Call for Regime Change. The Role of "Progressives" and the Antiwar Movement appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-empires-lefty-intellectuals-call-for-regime-change-the-role-of-progressives-and-the-antiwar-movement/5625333

Why More Americans Are Breaking Their Silence on Israel
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-01-28
Most folk outside the United States — and until this month, most Americans — won't have heard of Michelle Alexander. She's a civil rights lawyer and academic and has written a book called The New Jim Crow, and a few months ago The New York Times took her on as a regular columnist. Like millions of black — and…
counterpunch.org/2019/01/28/why-more-americans-are-breaking-their-silence-on-israel/

Remembering Ramona Ripston, the ACLU Leader Who Reimagined Civil Liberties
Danny Goldberg | thenation.com | 2019-01-28
Remembering Ramona Ripston, the ACLU Leader Who Reimagined Civil Liberties…
thenation.com/article/ramona-ripston-aclu-obituary/

Indian politician jailed for Facebook post on PM Narendra Modi
aljazeera | aljazeera.com | 2019-01-28
A politician from southern India arrested for lampooning prime minister in what critics say is clampdown on free speech.
aljazeera.com/news/southasia/2019/01/indian-politician-jailed-facebook-post-pm-narendra-modi-190128131746935.html

Those MAGA-Hatted Covington Kids
David Underhill | counterpunch.org | 2019-01-28
Yes, the Black Hebrew Israelites spat racist taunts at the MAGA-hatted Kentucky high school kids. And yes, the drumming Native American inserted himself between the two groups. But the head MAGA boy did block the drummer's path and stood there with a defiant smirk that exactly duplicated the sneers of his predecessors a couple generations…
counterpunch.org/2019/01/28/those-maga-hatted-covington-kids/

7 Racist Exclusions that Reveal America's Ugly Side
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-01-28
The two-year anniversary of Trump's Muslim visa ban and Holocaust Remembrance Day have arrived more or less together, and it is worthwhile reviewing how they reveal an ugly side to America. US history is replete with racism as public policy. It has been more often our history than not, and the era since 1965 has been unusual inasmuch as there has been widespread public pushback against the use of race for policy purposes. Trump's movement is an attempt to see whether that widespread US consensus of the past few decades can be reversed. Just as the Ku Klux Klan took over the Democratic Party in the 1920s, includin…
truthdig.com/articles/7-racist-exclusions-that-reveal-americas-ugly-side/

China: Disgraceful 4 and a half years prison term for human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2019-01-28
| Responding to the 4 and a half years prison sentence handed down by a Chinese court to human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who was found guilty of "subverting state power", Doriane Lau, China Researcher at Amnesty International, commented: | "Today's verdict is a gross injustice. It's outrageous that Wang Quanzhang is being punished for peacefully standing up for human rights in China.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/01/china-disgraceful-prison-term-fo-human-rights-lawyer-wang-quanzhang/

Yemeni Mothers Protest Detentions of Sons in UAE-run Prisons
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-01-27
Women are demanding Yemen's officials deliver information on their imprisoned sons detained in an UAE-run prison, the Association of Mothers of Abductees said during a protest in Aden Sunday. | RELATED: | Yemen: Saudi-led Coalition Bombs Capital, Residents Say 'Deadliest in a Year' | "We call on the government, the minister of the interior and the Attorney-General to reveal the fate of the dozens of missing prisoners a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Yemeni-Mothers-Protest-Detentions-of-Sons-in-Infamous-UAE-run-Prisons-20190127-0025.html

New Yorkers rally for Marzieh Hashemi
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-01-27
New York, NY — On January 25 several dozen activists gathered in Grand Central Station to bring attention to the case of Marzieh Hashemi. Hashemi is a Muslim, African-American journalist who was imprisoned on January 13 when she was arrested by the FBI at the Saint Louis International Airport. She was on her way to visit her sick brother in Denver. For almost two weeks she as held as a "material witness" for an undisclosed investigation. | Hashemi was finally released shortly before the protest, but her family asked for the protesters who were mobilizing to continue their plans, so they could bring awarenes…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/1/27/new-yorkers-rally-marzieh-hashemi

Netanyahu Forms Alliances with Far-Right Authoritarian Leaders
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-01-27
Shir Hever says Netanyahu is abusing his image as a protector of the Jewish people, and cuts deals with far-right and anti-Semitic heads of state, absolving them of their racism towards Jews in exchange for their superficial support for the State of Israel. All this, to win the upcoming Israeli elections | The post Netanyahu Forms Alliances with Far-Right Authoritarian Leaders appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/netanyahu-forms-alliances-with-far-right-authoritarian-leaders

What the mountain taught the mouse
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-01-26
Inequality is sexist. It is also transphobic and racist. This is a reality demonstrated by Oxfam's recent report on wealth and inequality, and a reality well understood by the people who live it. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/01/26/what-the-mountain-taught-the-mouse/

Silence of the Lambs: The Case of Marzieh Hashemi
Rannie Amiri | counterpunch.org | 2019-01-25
In the wake of the outcry after the abduction and murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi–in a foreign country and under the directive of a rogue Crown Prince–one would think the threshold to condemn the detention of an American journalist in the United States without charge or trial would be quite low. Unfortunately, it has…
counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/silence-of-the-lambs-the-case-of-marzieh-hashemi/

Trump Administration Puts Religious Beliefs Over the Best Interests of Children
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-25
The Department of Health and Human Services has exempted South Carolina from federal nondiscrimination requirements for child welfare programs. | Across the United States, there are over 440,000 children in the public child welfare system. Nearly a quarter of these children are awaiting adoption with many living in group homes because no family is available to care for them. In the end, too many of these children will age out of the system without ever becoming part of a loving family. Despite these facts, the Trump administration this week made it even harder for these children to find foster and adoptive parent…
aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/using-religion-discriminate/trump-administration-puts-religious-beliefs-over

It's Time to Update Aging Voting Equipment Before the 2020 Election
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-25
Sixteen million voters encountered problems voting in 2016. A big culprit was aging voting equipment. | When Ronald Campbell went to his polling location in Horry County, South Carolina, to vote in the 2018 midterms, he wasn't expecting it to become an odyssey. But when he and his wife arrived at their polling location, the lines were so long that Ronald feared he and his wife wouldn't be physically able to stand for the amount of time it would take to get to the voting booth. Nevertheless, they returned to the polling location four separate times throughout the day until the line had become reasonable — th…
aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/its-time-update-aging-voting-equipment-2020-election

Data Reveals Driving as a Person of Color in Illinois Leads to More Unjustified Searches
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-25
Baseless traffic stops and inconsistent search standards harm the public trust and damage police-community relationships. | In January 2016, Richard Jackson, a Black man, was driving to his home on Chicago's West Side when he noticed a car trailing him. As he turned into the alley leading to his driveway, the unmarked police car pulled him over and four officers leapt out, demanding that he lower all four of his car's windows. Jackson's grandparents, who live with him, watched from their home's window in fear. | After running his license, one officer told Jackson he would be let go with a warning. But when Jackso…
aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/data-reveals-driving-person-color-illinois-leads

Roaming Charges: American Hunger Games
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-01-25
Gary Webb and I both grew up in Indianapolis. As teens we spent a lot of time in the nearby cultural mecca (for baseball fans) of Cincy. One of Webb's first gigs as a young reporter was covering crime and politics in Covington, just across the Ohio River. He said it was one of the most corrupt & racist cities in the US and told me those years in northern Kentucky were the best training he got for probing the CIA. The antics of those punks wouldn't surprise him.
counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/roaming-charges-american-hunger-games/

'You're Going to Let Me Die From This': Prisoners Fight to Access a Hepatitis-C Cure
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg | thenation.com | 2019-01-25
'You're Going to Let Me Die From This': Prisoners Fight to Access a Hepatitis-C Cure…
thenation.com/article/prisons-hepatitis-c-treatment/

Weekend Read: 'I'm going to be paying it down until I die.'
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-01-25
The women incarcerated in Corinth, Mississippi, have a phrase for it: "sitting it out." We have another name for it: "debtors' prison."
splcenter.org/news/2019/01/25/weekend-read-i%25E2%2580%2599m-going-be-paying-it-down-until-i-die

My Time as an NAACP LAW Fellow
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2019-01-25
I applied for the NAACP's law fellows program because of the organization's legacy in protecting the rights of people of color and in doing so the rights of all people. Law school has allowed me to more fully contextualize the history of race in the United States, and I recognized the crucial role the NAACP has played […] | The post My Time as an NAACP LAW Fellow appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/time-naacp-law-fellow/

South Dakota Rejects Restrictions on Trans Athletes
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-25
Rainbow flags for sale are photographed on June 24, 2017. | © 2017 Reuters | South Dakota lawmakers have rejected a bill which would have barred transgender students from participating in athletics consistent with their gender identity. | The ACLU and other organizations spoke out against the bill, with the South Dakota High School Activities Association, the Association of School Boards in South Dakota, the South Dakota Education Associa…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/25/south-dakota-rejects-restrictions-trans-athletes

Saudi Arabia: Access for independent monitors urgently needed amid more reports of torture of activists
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2019-01-25
Amnesty International has obtained new reports of torture and abuse inflicted on a group of Saudi Arabian human rights activists who have been in arbitrary detention since May 2018. These reports follow similar testimonies from November 2018 into the torture of a number of the activists, and highlight the urgent need to allow independent monitors access to those in detention, the organization said today. | According to the testimonies, a total of ten human rights defenders were tortured, sexually abused, and subjected to other forms of ill-treatment during their first three months of detention, when they were hel…
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/01/saudi-arabia-access-for-independent-monitors-urgently-needed-amid-more-reports-of-torture-of-activists/

Egypt's LGBT Crackdown Expands to Stifle Journalists
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-25
Screenshot of an August 2018 television segment in which Egyptian anchor Mohamed Al-Ghaity interviewed an unidentified gay guest. Al-Ghaity was sentenced to one year in prison for the interview in January 2019. | © 2018 LTC TV/YouTube | An Egyptian television anchor was unexpectedly sentenced to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man on TV last week. The conviction of Mohamed Al-Ghaity,…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/25/egypts-lgbt-crackdown-expands-stifle-journalists

Arizona Provides Me Unequal Healthcare Because I'm Transgender
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-24
I'm part of a class-action lawsuit to ensure that the state of Arizona includes transition-related health care in its insurance coverage. | I'm a professor of family studies and human development at the University of Arizona, and I have dedicated my career to studying how discrimination impacts LGBTQ adolescents. I'm also transgender, and I know from experience that growing up is different — and still much more difficult — for LGBTQ youth. So it came as a disappointment when I learned that the state university where I work does not cover transition-related healthcare for its employees or their depende…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/arizona-provides-me-unequal-healthcare-because-im-transgender

A Disturbing Number of Missouri Towns Evict Residents for Calling the Police
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-24
The ACLU is urging towns across Missouri to repeal unjust 'nuisance ordinances.' | Over the last few decades in towns and cities across America, local authorities have passed laws that punish people for calling 911 with steep fines and eviction, even when they are seeking police protection. Known as nuisance ordinances, these laws present victims of crime with an impossible choice. As a domestic violence survivor in St. Louis put it: "If I…
aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/violence-against-women/disturbing-number-missouri-towns-evict-residents-calling

A Trans Woman Was Charged With 'False Personation' for Giving the NYPD Her Real Name
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-24
While in custody, officers cuffed Linda Dominguez to her cell using pink handcuffs and repeatedly called her by her old first name. | On her way home from the bus stop on a spring night in the Bronx last year, Linda Dominguez cut across a park because it was the most direct route to her apartment. Even though others leaving the bus were also crossing the park, three officers from the New York City Police Department singled out and arrested Linda, a Latina transgender woman, and took her to the precinct. | Linda, who doesn't speak English, had no idea why the police had stopped her or what they were arresting her…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/trans-woman-was-charged-false-personation-giving-nypd-her-real

My NAACP Law Fellowship
Rachel Johnson | naacp.org | 2019-01-24
I thoroughly enjoyed my 1L summer at the NAACP and I cannot speak highly enough about my experience there. I decided to go to law school because I wanted to learn how to address the ways systemic issues such as housing discrimination and mass incarceration adversely affect the African American community. Working for the NAACP […] | The post My NAACP Law Fellowship appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/naacp-law-fellowship-blog/

3 Members of a Kansas Militia Once Plotted To Bomb a Mosque, Now Are Going to Prison
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-01-24
Three members of a militia group known as "the Crusaders" were sentenced Friday to a total of 81 years in prison for plotting to bomb Somali and Muslim communities in Kansas.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/25/3-members-kansas-militia-once-plotted-bomb-mosque-now-are-going-prison

Lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck: Bush, Rumsfeld & Cheney Are a Troika of Tyranny & Should Be in Prison
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-01-24
As Venezuela faces an attempted coup supported by the U.S., Brazil and the European Union, we speak with human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck. In November, John Bolton accused Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua of being part of a "troika of tyranny." Kaleck says the real "troika of tyranny" is George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who should be in prison for war crimes. Kaleck is a human rights attorney who for decades has been at the forefront of the legal fight to hold powerful actors and governments around the world accountable for human rights abuses. His new book, titled "Law Versus Power: Our Global…
www.democracynow.org/2019/1/24/lawyer_wolfgang_kaleck_bush_rumsfeld_cheney

Decades of Financial Deregulation & Racist Housing Policy Brought Us 2007 Meltdown, with More to Come (Pt 1/3)
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-01-24
Carter, Reagan, Clinton, the Bushes, Obama, and now Trump deregulated Wall Street and did nothing to help Black and Brown homeowners in America. White collar criminologist Bill Black discusses the social structure of mortgage discrimination. Part 1: The History | The post Decades of Financial Deregulation & Racist Housing Policy Brought Us 2007 Meltdown, with More to Come (Pt 1/3) appeared first on The Real News Network…
therealnews.com/stories/decades-of-financial-deregulation-racist-housing-policy-brought-us-2007-meltdown-with-more-to-come-pt-1-3

Russian Federation: Human rights defender under house arrest: Anastasia Shevchenko
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2019-01-24
On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko, an Open Russia human rights defender from Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia, was put under house arrest and may face up to six years in prison if convicted. This is the first time the Russian authorities have opened a criminal case under the repressive "undesirable organizations" law. It is a worrying precedent and could open the floodgates to the prosecution of hundreds of Open Russia members across the country. Anastasia Shevchenko is a prisoner of conscience. She must be immediately and unconditionally released.
amnesty.org/en/documents/eur46/9737/2019/en/

China: Secret detention places writer at risk of torture
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2019-01-24
Responding to the Chinese authorities' confirmation that Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun has been detained on suspicion of "endangering national security", Joshua Rosenzweig, East Asia Research Director at Amnesty International commented: | "The Chinese authorities have serious questions to answer over the detention of Yang Hengjun, but it could be months before we find out anything more about his condition or what they're accusing him of doing. | "If it's true that Yang is being held under 'residential surveillance in a designated location', then there is cause for serious concern over his wellbeing. Faci…
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/01/china-yang-hengjun-secret-detention-torture/

Iran: Prominent Labor Activist Rearrested
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-24
(Beirut) — Iranian authorities on January 20, 2019 arrested two activists who had alleged that authorities tortured them in detention, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests of Ismael Bakhshi, a prominent labor rights activist, and Sepideh Gholian, a journalist and labor rights activist, came the day after Iranian state television broadcast confessions that they said they were forced to make in detention. | Screen shot from Islamic Republic of Iran Broad…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/24/iran-prominent-labor-activist-rearrested

Decades of Financial Deregulation & Racist Housing Policy Brought Us 2007 Meltdown, with More to Come (Pt 2/3)
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-01-24
Carter, Reagan, Clinton, the Bushes, Obama, and now Trump deregulated Wall Street and did nothing to help Black and Brown homeowners in America. White collar criminologist Bill Black discusses the social structure of mortgage discrimination. Part 2: The Effects | The post Decades of Financial Deregulation & Racist Housing Policy Brought Us 2007 Meltdown, with More to Come (Pt 2/3) appeared first on The Real News Network…
therealnews.com/stories/decades-of-financial-deregulation-racist-housing-policy-brought-us-2007-meltdown-with-more-to-come-pt-2-3

Five Years After Ferguson, St. Louis County's New Prosecutor Confronts a Racist Criminal Justice System
Alice Speri | theintercept.com | 2019-01-24
The 2014 police killing of Michael Brown inspired a nationwide movement to elect progressive prosecutors. Now, Wesley Bell will try to reform St. Louis. | The post Five Years After Ferguson, St. Louis County's New Prosecutor Confronts a Racist Criminal Justice System appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2019/01/24/wesley-bell-st-louis-prosecutor-ferguson/

ACLU: Trump's Anti-Trans Ban Has No Military Justification, Is Driven by Animus & Discrimination
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-01-23
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court revived President Donald Trump's plan to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court lifted two lower court rulings that had blocked the ban from going into effect on constitutional grounds. Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented. A third injunction remains in place for now. We speak to Chase Strangio, staff attorney at the ACLU, which is challenging the Trump administration's ban on servicemembers who are transgender.
www.democracynow.org/2019/1/23/aclu_trumps_anti_trans_ban_has

In Montana, the Practice of Suspending People's Licenses for Outstanding Court Debt Could Soon Be Over
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-23
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would repeal a Montana policy that permits driver's licenses to be suspended for failure to pay court debt. | In more than 40 states across the country, state governments suspend people's driver's licenses for outstanding court debts, a practice that disproportionately harms low-income people. But if a Republican legislator has his way, this destructive and counterproductive policy may soon be null and void in Montana. | On Jan. 9, Rep. Casey Knudsen (R-Malta) introduced a bill…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/montana-practice-suspending-peoples-licenses

Angola Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-23
LGBT Rainbow Flag | © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) | Angola has finally shed the divisive "vices against nature" provision in its law, widely interpreted to be a ban on homosexual conduct. | Taking things one step further, the government has also prohibited discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation. And so anyone refusing to employ or provide services to individuals based on their sexual o…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/23/angola-decriminalizes-same-sex-conduct

Baltimore Rejects Plan to Arm School Police During School Day
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-01-23
The Baltimore school board rejected the proposal amid heated debate. Meanwhile, we get a response to an ACLU and NAACP-LDF letter demanding Maryland adequately fund Baltimore schools | The post Baltimore Rejects Plan to Arm School Police During School Day appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/baltimore-rejects-plan-to-arm-school-police-during-school-day

Indonesia: Ex-Governor's Blasphemy Sentence Ends
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-23
Former Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is released from prison but Indonesia keeps its notorious blasphemy law. | ©2019 Toni Malakian/Human Rights Watch | (Jakarta) — The expected release of the former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama from a Jakarta prison on January 24, 2019 underscores Indonesia's dangerous and discriminatory blasp…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/23/indonesia-ex-governors-blasphemy-sentence-ends

Uniting against racism
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-01-22
A collective of alt-right and neo-Nazi groups organised what they called a "political meeting" at St Kilda beach on January 5. It was done a week after the neo-Nazi Neil Erikson led a group of acolytes down to the same beach to harass and film African Australians in an attempt to incite violence. | Various hate-filled Facebook pages promoted the "meeting", including one described as "Rise Up Australia — Romper Stomper 2.0", a reference to a film about white supremacists in Footscray who attacked and violently assaulted Vietnamese Australians. | The event was not a "political meeting" nor was it ever intende…
greenleft.org.au/content/uniting-against-racism

MLK Day Special: Rediscovered 1964 King Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation & Apartheid South Africa
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-01-21
As the nation marks 90 years since the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we air a rediscovered speech he delivered on December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. In a major address in London, King spoke about segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The speech was recorded by Saul Bernstein, who was working as the European correspondent for Pacifica Radio. Bernstein's recording was rediscovered by Brian DeShazor, director of the Pacifica Radio Archives.
www.democracynow.org/2019/1/21/mlk_at_90_a_rediscovered_1965

How to Spend MLK Day
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2019-01-20
Tomorrow, our nation will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose dream of an America that was truly equal for all its people has inspired generations of people to fight to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott to marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, […] | The post How to Spend MLK Day appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/spend-mlk-day/

For the People Act
Adam Lee | naacp.org | 2019-01-19
The first legislation to be introduced in the 116th Congress is H.R. 1, the For the People Act. H.R. 1 is a comprehensive bill with provisions to protect and support eligible American citizens to cast a free and unfettered vote and for the American people to be sure their vote was counted. The For the […] | The post For the People Act appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/for-the-people-act/

NAACP to Participate in Women's March to Empower and Uplift Black Women Voices
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2019-01-18
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BALTIMORE (January 18, 2019) –NAACP is proud to support the Women's March and uplift the voices of all black women, and as such, Spelman NAACP Chapter President, Amari Fennoy, will speak at the Women's March in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, January 19. Fennoy will be speaking to ensure that the voice of […] | The post NAACP to Participate in Women's March to Empower and Uplift Black Women Voices appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/naacp-participate-womens-march-empower-uplift-black-women-voices/

Oppose William Barr Nomination
Adam Lee | naacp.org | 2019-01-18
The United States Senate is considering the nomination of William P. Barr to be the next Attorney General of our United States in extraordinary times. The next Attorney General of our United States has the opportunity to reverse course and place the Justice Department back on track to fulfill its historic role in safeguarding our civil […] | The post Oppose William Barr Nomination appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/oppose-william-barr-nomination/

Spectre Unmasked: Racist 'Alt-Right' Podcaster Used To Be Local Reporter
Michael Edison Hayden | splcenter.org | 2019-01-18
A notorious white nationalist podcaster with a history of instigating harassment campaigns and threats of violence against reporters is in fact a journalist himself, Hatewatch has learned.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/18/spectre-unmasked-racist-alt-right-podcaster-used-be-local-reporter

Campaign to free Aboriginal women jailed for unpaid fines
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-01-17
An online crowdfunding campaign set up to help Aboriginal women in Western Australia avoid jail for unpaid fines has raised $230,000 in its first four days and already settled the debts of 30 imprisoned women, with another 50 expected to be free in coming weeks. | The campaign is being organised by the Queensland-based Sisters Inside advocacy group. | In a statement calling for donations, Sisters Inside explained: "Western Australia refuses to change the laws where people who have no criminal convictions are imprisoned if they do not have the capacity to pay a fine. | "Single Aboriginal mothers make up the majori…
greenleft.org.au/content/campaign-free-aboriginal-women-jailed-unpaid-fines

Imprisoned Neo-Nazi Leader Says His Hate Group Is a Religion, Court Says No
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-01-16
A federal appeals court has ruled that Matthew Hale's hate philosophy, Creativity, isn't a religion because it focuses almost exclusively on preserving the white race and lacks a coherent set of "ultimate ideas."
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/16/imprisoned-neo-nazi-leader-says-his-hate-group-religion-court-says-no

At Root a Radical. A New Book Re-Examines Martin Luther King's Quest for Economic Justice
Norman Stockwell | progressive.org | 2019-01-15
He refused to choose between economic equality and an end to racially-based discrimination.
progressive.org/dispatches/at-root-a-radical-new-book-martin-luther-king-jr-stockwell-190115/

SPLC statement on U.S. Rep. Steve King
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-01-15
If Republicans think they deserve applause for condemning Congressman Steve King's racism, they're sorely mistaken.
splcenter.org/news/2019/01/15/splc-statement-us-rep-steve-king