6abc digital staff (2024-01-18). Temple University joins list of colleges under investigation for alleged discrimination. whyy.org This story originally appeared on The U.S. Department of Education opened its probe into several schools and universities in November. | The department says the investigation comes after a rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia since the Israel-Hamas war began in October. | Officials have not relea…

aljazeera (2024-01-18). Israeli arrests of Palestinian journalists soared in 2023: CPJ. aljazeera.com More than a dozen Palestinian journalists held in Israeli jails since the start of the Gaza war on October 7.

Walaa Sabah (2024-01-18). War on Gaza: Palestinians fear ground raid on Nasser Hospital. middleeasteye.net War on Gaza: Palestinians fear ground raid on Nasser Hospital | Situation in Khan Younis rapidly deteriorating under intensified bombardment, as Arab nations develop 'plan to create Palestinian state' | Thu, 01/18/2024 – 15: 16 | This handout picture released on 18 January 2024 shows Israeli soldiers in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip (AFP/Handout/Israeli army) | Two consecutive nights of he…

The Independent (2024-01-18). CONFIRMED: President Museveni pardons ex-NSSF MD Jamwa, 12 others. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pardoned 13 convicts including the former Managing Director of National Social Security Fund (NSSF) David Chandi Jamwa who has been serving a 12-year jail term handed to him for causing government a financial loss of sh3 billion. Others pardoned are Vincent Ntale, Nelson Drabo …

Ann Brown (2024-01-18). After Settling Explosive Lawsuit From Cassie, Diddy, And CàÆroc Owner Diageo Settle Lawsuit. moguldom.com Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has withdrawn his lawsuit against Diageo, marking the end of a legal battle that stirred controversy in the spirits industry. The settlement, announced through a joint statement on Jan.17, sees Diageo emerging as the sole owner of CàÆroc vodka and DeLeon tequila, brands that were previously co-owned and promoted by …

MEE staff (2024-01-18). Lawsuit accuses New York County police of forcibly removing Muslim woman's hijab. middleeasteye.net Lawsuit accuses New York County police of forcibly removing Muslim woman's hijab | During an arrest, the Suffolk County Police Department allegedly took off a woman's hijab and did not give it back until her release | Thu, 01/18/2024 – 17: 03 | Two girls stand outside of a mosque on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn during funeral of a police officer on 09 February 2023 in New York City (AFP) | New York's…

Angela (2024-01-18). Friday 1/26: Teach-In and Rally for Biden Federal Court Lawsuit. indybay.org Oscar Grant Plaza | 14th & Broadway | Oakland, CA | Rain location: | First Unitarian Church of Oakland | 685 14th St | Oakland, CA…

C.J. Atkins (2024-01-18). Gerald Horne endows International Publishers research prize on Indigenous dispossession and Black oppression. peoplesworld.org At International Publishers' 100th anniversary symposium in New York in October, Dr. Gerald Horne announced a research prize for the best new manuscript submitted to International that reflects the links between Indigenous dispossession and slavery/Jim Crow. The Jerry and Flora Horne Scholarship will award $1,000 to the winning applicant. Horne—known for such books as Revolting …

Eds. (2024-01-18). Commune or Nothing! Communes Against Capitalism. mronline.org In this panel, Kali Akuno, John Bellamy Foster, Chris Gilbert, and M.E. O'Brien examine the commune and communal organizing as part of the project of revolutionary social transformation. The speakers address how socialist communes can be used to abolish the logic of capitalism, which is based on the exploitation of human beings, the expropriation of nature, and oppression.

Wyatt Reed (2024-01-18). Israeli army gassed my son 'like Auschwitz,' mother of slain Israeli soldier says. thegrayzone.com An outraged Israeli mom has sparked an uproar after accusing the Israeli army of deliberately gassing her son to death while he was being held in a Gaza tunnel. Now she says the Israeli military had her son's gravestone removed after her critical message went viral. His killing follows a pattern of Israeli military attacks on Israeli captives in Gaza, raising questions about the existence of a friendly fire policy to prevent prisoner swaps. The mother of a now-dead Israeli …

Staff (2024-01-18). US citizen Gonzalo Lira abandoned to die in Ukraine. youtube.com The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the shocking death of Gonzalo Lira, a US citizen imprisoned by Ukraine's regime for criticizing Kiev's war effort, and the Biden administration's abject refusal to intervene on his family's behalf. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: …

Editor (2024-01-18). Food Insecurity in Prison Makes People Like Me Vulnerable to Labor Exploitation. scheerpost.com

Ajamu Baraka (2024-01-18). Sekou Odinga has joined the ancestors but the spirit of the Black Liberation Army and African Resistance lives on! mronline.org A commemoration of the life of comrade Sekou Odinga, a lifelong New African revolutionary, former political prisoner, and unstoppable force in the Black liberation movement.

Staff (2024-01-17). 18 January, Athens: Free them All: Political Prisoners of Palestine and the Internationalist Struggle Against Imperialism. samidoun.net ATHENS, GREECE — Join us on Thursday, 18 January in Athens, Greece for a special panel on Palestinian political prisoners and the international struggle against imperialism, Zionism and Colonialism. Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of Samidoun, will speak on the panel with Fouad Baker, DFLP international relations officer, and Salah Hamouri, Palestinian lawyer and former political …

Mick Hall, Consortium News. (2024-01-18). Journalists Rebel Over Gaza Coverage In Australia. popularresistance.org A rash of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) staff departures and the suppression of journalists critical of their organisations' reporting on Gaza has been called a betrayal of the role of journalism in democracy. | Former Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) presenter Mary Kostakidis says the state-funded broadcaster and other news groups in Australia have refused to hold power to account by challenging official narratives by Israel and Western states supporting its attack on Gaza since Oct. 7. | Instead, the professional integrity of news staff battling to tell the truth is being challenged by their emplo…

MEE staff (2024-01-17). War on Gaza: Ben & Jerry's joins calls for 'permanent and immediate' ceasefire. middleeasteye.net War on Gaza: Ben & Jerry's joins calls for 'permanent and immediate' ceasefire | Ben & Jerry's becomes one of the first multinational companies to call for a 'permanent' end to violence in Gaza | Wed, 01/17/2024 – 11: 15 | A Ben & Jerry's ice cream truck at a Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle, Washington state, on 14 June 2020 (AFP) | Ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry's has joined the calls for a c…

Democracy Now! (2024-01-17). MLK Day Special/ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words. pressenza.com January 15 is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People's Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, which he delivered at New York City's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well as his last speech, "I've Bee…

Finian Cunningham (2024-01-16). Martin Luther King Would Condemn the U.S. Today. thealtworld.com The official dedication to MLK is more public relations than a genuine reflection of the man's principles and what he really stood for. | Like Thanksgiving Day, the United States indulges in another national fraud holiday called Martin Luther King Day. | We could add more such bogus ballyhoo and days of deception: Columbus Day, Labor Day, Independence, and Christmas too for that matter. | Monday, January 15, saw the annual federal holiday dedicated to the famed civil rights preacher who was assassinated in 1968. | MLK was bestowed in 2000 a federal holiday marking his life's struggle for overcoming racist inequal…

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, Other Words. (2024-01-16). MLK Would Have Been 95 This Year; Let's Make His Dream A Reality. popularresistance.org This January marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 95th birthday. Nearly a century after the late civil rights leader's birth, it's a good time to reflect on the work still to be done. | Just over 60 years ago, in his famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington, King declared: "We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice." | Sixty years on, as our report "Still A Dream" highlighted late last…

Ann Brown (2024-01-16). Black America Has Words For Jonathan Majors Comparing Blonde Girlfriend To Coretta Scott King. moguldom.com The assault case against Marvel star Jonathan Majors audio of him with his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, in which he said he needed her to act like Michelle Obama or civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. Many saw this as odd as Jabbari is a white woman. In December 2023, Jury found Majors guilty of assault …

Ann Brown (2024-01-16). Black America Has Words For Jonathan Majors Comparing Blonde Girlfriend To Coretta Scott King. moguldom.com The assault case against Marvel star Jonathan Majors may be over, but it was revealing. There was an audio of him with his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, in which he said he needed her to act like Michelle Obama or civil rights icon Coretta Scott King was presented to the jury. Many saw this as odd, …

It's Going Down (2024-01-17). "Fight For Others, Like You Would Fight For Your Own Freedom": Eric King on Building a Fighting Abolitionist Movement. itsgoingdown.org In this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we present an interview with former anarchist political prisoner Eric King along with Josh from the Certain Days calendar collective. During our interview, we speak with Eric about the impact and importance of prisoner support during his nearly 10 years of incarceration and his thoughts about…

A Guest Author (2024-01-16). Fighting for disability rights behind bars. workers.org By Billy Rinick and Joe Piette "The disproportionate incarceration of people with disabilities in the United States is a serious and growing problem. As the prison population ages, more inmates are reporting physical disabilities. The U.S. has also seen a rise in the number of people with mental illness and . . . |

Nikhil Mathew (2024-01-16). For Prabir: No jail can arrest the march of time towards a more just tomorrow. peoplesdispatch.org Prabir's ever-growing legacy continues to inspire the struggle for Indian intellectual and material self-reliance, regardless of the misguided attempts of the RSS-BJP to throttle and subjugate the masses' aspirations for a better and more inclusive tomorrow.

Adam Fishbein (2024-01-16). Ecuador News Round-Up No. 10: Noboa Declares War. cepr.net Fito's Escape On January 7, a combined police and military force entered the Regional de Guayaquil prison to transfer the inmate Adolfo Macías (alias "Fito"), leader of Los Choneros gang, and other inmates to the maximum security jail known as La Roca. Upon reaching his cell, security forces realized Fito was nowhere to be found. …

presstv.ir (2024-01-17). UK ministers, MPs sued for complicity in Israel's war crimes in Gaza. presstv.ir A Britain-based advocacy group filed the lawsuit with the Metropolitan Police's War Crimes Unit.

Angela (2024-01-17). Friday 1/26: Teach-In and Rally for Biden Federal Court Lawsuit. indybay.org Oscar Grant Plaza | 14th & Broadway | Oakland, CA | Rain location: | First Unitarian Church of Oakland | 685 14th St | Oakland, CA…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-16). Will the Law or Political Considerations Sway the ICJ Judges? libya360.wordpress.com Muhammad Jamil Judges take their seats prior to the hearing of Israel's defense at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against South Africa's genocide case in Gaza against Israel, in the Hague, Netherlands on January 12, 2024 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency] No lawsuit would ever be able cover all the details of the genocide to which…

teleSUR (2024-01-17). Israel Kills 7 Palestinians and Detains 85 People in West Bank. telesurenglish.net In the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces conducted raids from north to south of the West Bank, arresting 85 Palestinians and killing 7 people. | RELATED: | Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli offensive has been escalating in the West Bank, accompanied by the arrest of around 9,000 Palestinians, stated the Palestinian Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Qadoura Fares. | "The figure could be m…

Natalia Marques (2024-01-16). Sekou Odinga, Black liberation fighter and former political prisoner, passes at 79. peoplesdispatch.org Odinga leaves behind a legacy of resistance, having helped Assata Shakur escape prison and having been a member of the most notable Black liberation organizations…

jamanetwork (2024-01-16). Disproportionate Death Rates Reported in US Prisons Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic. jamanetwork.com COVID-19 was a principal driver behind a 77% higher mortality rate in 2020 than in 2019 among people incarcerated in US prisons, according to data from 48 Departments of Corrections. The researchers noted that increased mortality among the general population was much lower early in the pandemic—23% between 2020 and 2021.