Trump's Fascist Efforts to Demolish Democracy
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2018-11-30
Fascist politics is once again on the rise in the United States, Europe and Latin America. | As an echo from the past, its principles and attitudes are re-emerging in a populist rhetoric that embraces extreme forms of nationalism, the cult of the leader, systemic racism, a culture of fear, a hatred of dissent and an utter disdain for the truth. | Driven by a hatred of "the other" and infused with narratives of decline and victimization, fascist politics trade in an incendiary rhetoric of fear, d…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-fascist-efforts-to-demolish-democracy/

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

Blind man suing Playboy for not letting him enjoy its online magazine
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-30
A blind man has filed a lawsuit against Playboy for discrimination because its online publication isn't compatible with his screen-reading software, meaning he can't enjoy the publication to its fullest. | …
rt.com/usa/445276-playboy-lawsuit-blind-nixon/

Israeli Colonialist Settlers Puncture Tires, Write Racist Graffiti, Near Bethlehem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-11-30
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers infiltrated, on Friday at dawn, into a Palestinian village near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, punctured tires of several cars, and wrote racist graffiti. Media sources said the Israeli assailants infiltrated into al-Jab'a village, west or Bethlehem, before puncturing the tires of …

Israeli Colonialist Settlers Puncture Tires, Write Racist Graffiti, Near Bethlehem

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

US prison inmates sue for 'constitutional right' to pornography
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-30
A group of Iowa prison inmates are suing to block a new law banning pornography in the state's prisons, dismissing the rule as an unconstitutional act of "religious tyrants" trying to impose morality by force. | …
rt.com/usa/445197-prison-inmates-sue-porn/

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 elusive
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

Blacks are fighting back against privatization & systemic racist attacks on SF City Workers
Steve Zeltzer | indybay.org | 2018-11-30
SF African American city workers have forced the second hearing by the City and County of SF to expose the systemic racism and to demand that managers and executives including HR Director Micki Callahan be held accountable for their support for racist practices and systemic discrimination.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/27/18819428.php

Oakland renters are wondering why landlord Elizabeth Williams is not in jail
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2018-11-30
According to an October 26, 2018 investigative report from Milad Dalju, Chief Enforcement, and Simon Russell, Investigator, to the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, allegedly former Oakland Inspector, Thomas Alton Espinosa, accepted a number of payments totaling $176,000 from landlord Elizabeth Williams, which reportedly may have been illegal bribes made to Espinosa!
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/29/18819447.php

Micki Callahan Has To Go! SF SEIU1021 Rank & File Leaders/Members Speak Out Against Racism
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2018-11-30
San Francisco SEIU 1021 African American workers and other SF public workers spoke out about the systemic racism, workplace bullying and privatization and outsourcing before a SF Board Of Supervisors Audit meeting on systemic racism in the City and County of SF. They also called for the removal of SF Department of Human Resources Director Micki Callahan.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/28/18819434.php

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/

Faculty protest hits NYU's coverup for UAE in Matthew Hedges case
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-11-30
Faculty and PhD students at New York University have demanded that NYU President Andrew Hamilton condemn the imprisonment of UK academic Matthew Hedges by the United Arab Emirates.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/30/nyua-n30.html

US immigration policy leaves millions in limbo
Danica Jorden | zcomm.org | 2018-11-29
As non-citizens or residents, immigrants in US detention centers are not afforded the basic rights and accommodations that are supposed to be provided to regular prisoners. Samuel's case is revealing…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/us-immigration-policy-leaves-millions-in-limbo/

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.
naacp.org/latest/farr-vote-noon-today/

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

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

Worst serial killer? Elderly man in jail for murder confesses to taking 90 lives across the US
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-29
A convicted killer serving three life sentences in a Texas prison has confessed to killing 90 women over the course of almost four decades. If proven true, it would make him one of the worst serial killers in US history. | …
rt.com/usa/445185-us-serial-killer-90-murders/

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.
naacp.org/latest/farr-vote-postponed-next-week/

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/

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

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/

Trump: Ex-lawyer Cohen a 'weak person', he's 'lying' to get a reduced sentence
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-29
Donald Trump has accused Michael Cohen of lying about the US president working on a Moscow real estate project, saying he's seeking a reduced jail sentence. | …
rt.com/usa/445159-trump-says-michael-cohen-lying/

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/

Transgender asylum seeker beaten in US custody before her death, according to autopsy
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-11-29
Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez died weeks after turning herself in at the San Ysidro port of entry in California seeking asylum from the discrimination and abuse she faced in Honduras.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/29/immi-n29.html

The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show: Weeks of November 12 and 19, 2018
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-11-28
Dharna Noor and Khalilah Harris talk about federal police oversight, Bloomberg's gift to Johns Hopkins University, a pipeline set to be built through Maryland, and global struggles against racism and fascism | The post The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show: Weeks of November 12 and 19, 2018 appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/the-baltimore-bureau-podcast-show-weeks-of-november-12-and-19-2018

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

'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/

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 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/

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…
naacp.org/latest/naacp-youth-leaders-comment-results-mississippi-senatorial-runoff-election/

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 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/

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

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

Radical black feminism and the simultaneity of oppression
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-11-27
As the word intersectionality falls from the lips of Hillary Clinton and increasingly is normalized and sanitized, we should be clear about its radical moorings. | Source…
mronline.org/2018/11/27/radical-black-feminism-and-the-simultaneity-of-oppression/

Russian National Dies After Detention by US Immigration
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2018-11-27
Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. | © Nathalie Graham/The Stranger | Over Thanksgiving weekend, another person who was in US immigration detention died. | Mergensana Amar, a Russian national who had been detained at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, was taken off life support on Saturday, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE stated he had attempted suicide on November 15; the…
hrw.org/news/2018/11/27/russian-national-dies-after-detention-us-immigration

Court sides with L.A. cop who murdered Jesse Romero
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-11-26
Los Angeles, CA – In an outrageous decision, the jury sided with two-time killer and Los Angeles Police Department officer Eden Medina. The civil rights violations trial on 14-year-old Jesse Romero's killing started November 13 and lasted only six days. Early in the preceding, a judge ruled to exclude key evidence from the proceedings. | Killed on August 9, 2016 Jesse Romero was visiting his friends at the apartment complex in Boyle Heights. Someone inside of the apartment complex called 911 saying Romero and another teen were potentially smoking marijuana and graffitiing. LAPD officers Eden Medina and backu…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/11/26/court-sides-la-cop-who-murdered-jesse-romero

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

Minnesotans to rally in support of migrant caravan
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-11-25
Minneapolis, MN – As national attention has focused on the caravan of Central American refugees winding its way through Mexico towards the U.S.-Mexico border, immigrants and their allies in Minnesota will rally in support of the caravan on Friday, November 30. | Organizers are planning for a robust turnout in solidarity with the caravan. The rally will start at 5: 15 p.m. in front of the Minneapolis Federal Building at 4th Street and 4th Avenue. Afterwards, organizers will lead a march towards Wells Fargo to highlight the complicity of the banking industry in supporting for-profit detention centers across the U.S.
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/11/24/minnesotans-rally-support-migrant-caravan

Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara–A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-23
In this special rebroadcast of a Democracy Now! exclusive documentary, we break the media blockade and go to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle for freedom and Morocco's violent crackdown. Morocco has occupied the territory since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. Thousands have been tortured, imprisoned, killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation. A 1,700-mile wall divides Sahrawis who remain under occupation from those who fled into exile. The international media has largely ignored the occupat…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/23/four_days_in_occupied_western_sahara

Boston Police Has a Secret Point System That Turns Normal Teenage Behavior Into Gang Membership
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-11-21
The department arbitrarily labels immigrant teenagers as gang members and helps the federal government deport them. | In the face of the Trump administration's stepped-up deportation efforts, officials in Boston and other progressive cities have declared their communities safe spaces for immigrants. But behind the scenes, progressive havens like Boston are facilitating the deportations of some of our most vulnerable young people. | As the federal government's rhetoric and action around immigration have sharpened and hardened, young immigrants are being systematically slandered and deprived of their rights here in…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/boston-police-has-secret-point-system-turns-normal-teenage-behavior-gang

Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Anti-Immigrant Military Enlistment Policy
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-11-21
Last year, the Pentagon implemented a background investigation process that effectively banned green card holders from serving in the military. | Despite attacking family members of fallen war heroes, criticizing Sen. John McCain for being captured in war, and recently deploying troops…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-anti-immigrant-military-enlistment-policy

I May Have to Quit Harvard Because the TSA Won't Stop Searching Me
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-11-21
The TSA has repeatedly questioned a Muslim-American journalist about her religion and criticism of the government. We're demanding answers from DHS. | This piece was originally published by The Washington Post in August. | I realized my life had entered a new phase while crossing into the United States from Canada in September 2016. | "You both have to come inside," the border officer sa…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/i-may-have-quit-harvard-because-tsa-wont-stop