Staff (2024-01-04). AMC Theater Tosses Bishop William Barber for Bringing Disability Chair to See "The Color Purple" democracynow.org Civil rights leader Bishop William Barber joins us to discuss his calls for more awareness and justice for disabled people after he was kicked out of a Greenville, North Carolina, AMC movie theater last week when he went to see The Color Purple with his 90-year-old mother. Barber was threatened with trespassing and police forcibly removed him from the theater when the manager refused to allow him to use a specialized chair he carries to assist with an arthritic condition. "There was no attempt to accommodate," Barber says of the theater's discrimination on the basis of disability and the danger…

ecns.cn (2024-01-04). Names in Epstein court documents released (not including suspects). ecns.cn The names of nearly 200 friends, associates, victims and opponents of Jeffrey Epstein, the accused sex offender who hanged himself in a jail cell in 2019, were made public Wednesday by a U.S. District Court judge.

Jake Bolster, New Lines Magazine. (2024-01-04). The Quest To Make Big Oil Pay For Climate Change. popularresistance.org Three years before the Marshall Fire, Boulder and San Miguel counties had filed a lawsuit seeking damages from the oil companies Exxon and Suncor by claiming much the same thing. Changes in the climate — driven, at least in part, by the burning of Exxon and Suncor's fossil fuels — have harmed their citizens and damaged their infrastructure, economies and natural environment, entitling them to compensation from the oil companies for those damages, the two counties claim. | Together, Boulder and San Miguel are part of a small but growing number of cities, states and counties seeking to hold fossil fuel…

Will Jones (2024-01-04). Epstein Files: Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield and Michael Jackson Named in Unsealed Documents. dailysceptic.org Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield, Michael Jackson and Alan Dershowitz have been named in relation to a lawsuit filed against Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Staff (2024-01-04). Headlines for January 4, 2024. democracynow.org Iran Mourns as Death Toll from Kerman Explosions Reaches 84, Hezbollah's Nasrallah Vows Revenge After Killing of Hamas Official in Beirut, Israel Kills More Palestinians in Attacks on Civilian Homes, Strikes Jabaliya Water Collection Site, Education Dept. Official Resigns in Protest, Saying Biden Ignoring His Staff, Public Opinion on Gaza, Activists in California Shut Down State Capitol to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. and Allies Threaten Military Action Against Houthis for Red Sea Attacks, Ukraine and Russia Exchange 500 Prisoners as Both Parties Intensify Attacks, DOJ Sues Texas over New Migration Law as…

teleSUR (2024-01-04). Israeli Army Arrests 51 Palestinian Women From Gaza. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Palestine Liberation Organization's Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club denounced that 51 Palestinian women were being held in Israel's Damon prison. | RELATED: | They said the detainees included an 82-year-old woman and several of her relatives. The actual number of female detainees from Gaza was higher, but they only had clear data on those in Damon prison. | The Palestinian women fac…

Victoria Law, Erica R. Meiners, Truthout. (2024-01-04). Abolition Is A Global Movement; What We Learned From Allies Worldwide. popularresistance.org In 1992, formerly incarcerated women created Sisters Inside to advocate for the rights of women and girls behind bars in Queensland, Australia. While other grassroots groups and ad hoc campaigns had formed to work with incarcerated women, Sisters Inside remains the country's first organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated women. Over the last 31 years, the organization has provided legal and logistical support to currently and formerly incarcerated women and pushed to end policies that cage people, such as imprisoning people for nonpayment of fines. | In November, Sisters Inside held its 10th conferen…

The Independent (2024-01-04). Ukraine, Russia carry out largest prisoner swap. independent.co.ug KIEV | Xinhua | Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest prisoner swap since February 2022, the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said Wednesday. Under the exchange, 230 Ukrainian captives, including six civilians, had been returned from Russian custody, the agency said. Among those freed are service people from the Ukrainian …

Staff (2024-01-04). Can Russia Be Defeated? Nina Khrushcheva on Why "the West Must Face Reality in Ukraine" democracynow.org As Ukraine and Russia complete an exchange of nearly 500 prisoners amid ongoing hostilities, American news outlets are reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be open to ceasefire talks behind the scenes. But in Moscow, "That's not how we see it," says Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School and the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. "Putin has been quite clear from the beginning that Russia is going to achieve all its goals," and, despite international sanctions, the majority sentiment in Russia is that even c…

Editor (2024-01-04). A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder. scheerpost.com

Editor (2024-01-04). Prison Treats Me Like an Animal. I Write to Reclaim My Humanity. scheerpost.com

JANET (2024-01-04). Calendar of Resistance for Palestine! Events and actions around the world. iacenter.org

Claudia Van Wyk (2024-01-02). Another Year of America's Failed Experiment: The Death Penalty in 2023. aclu.org In the 1920s and 30s, a stark white-on-black banner would sometimes appear in front of NAACP headquarters in Manhattan. It read simply, "A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY." The proliferating southern NAACP branches of the time would relay information about lynchings back to New York, where Walter White's NAACP would broadcast the news by hanging out the banner. | The death penalty is out of step with the fundamental values of our democratic system: it is barbaric, inequitable, and unjust. | In 2023, the ACLU, inspired by that broadcast, initiated a digital campaign to memorialize the lives of death-sentenced individ…

Peoples Dispatch (2024-01-02). Belgian women's rights platform Zelle resolves to continue struggle for equality and against discrimination. peoplesdispatch.org The Belgian progressive women's rights group, Zelle, vowed to continue the struggle against femicide, harassment against women, and other forms discrimination and oppression…

Editor (2024-01-02). Dems Claim to Oppose Mass Incarceration, But Blue State Commutations Are Falling. scheerpost.com

Staff (2024-01-02). Headlines for January 2, 2024. democracynow.org Death Toll in Gaza Tops 22,000 as Biden Bypasses Congress to Send More Munitions to Israel, Israel Kills Five Palestinians in West Bank; Seventh Palestinian Dies in Israeli Jail Since Oct. 7, South African Files Genocide Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice, Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Part of Netanyahu's Judicial Reform, Pro-Palestine Protests Disrupt Rose Bowl & JFK Airport, U.S. Kills 10 Houthi Fighters as Tensions Grows in Red Sea, Putin Vows to Intensify Strikes on Ukraine After 25 Die in Missile Attack on Russian City, Death Toll from Japanese Earthquake at 48 as Rescue Efforts Con…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-03). Google settles privacy washing lawsuit for an undisclosed amount. expose-news.com Google, owned by Alphabet, settled a lawsuit alleging the secret tracking of internet use of millions of users who were led to believe their browsing was private. If a web browser tells …

Ann Brown (2024-01-02). The New York Times Launches Legal War With Microsoft And ChatGPT Owner Over AI Training. moguldom.com The New York Times has taken legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement related to the use of its articles in training artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. The newspaper contends that millions of its articles were employed to train AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, …

Ann Brown (2024-01-02). ABC News: Former President Bill Clinton Mentioned 50 Times As 'Doe 36' In Jeffrey Epstein Report. moguldom.com Former President Bill Clinton has been identified as "Doe 36" and mentioned more than 50 times in recently unsealed court documents related to a 2015 lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre. While Clinton's name appears frequently in the documents, there is currently no indication of illegal conduct on his part, ABC News reported. …

MEE staff (2024-01-02). Israel-Palestine war: Survivors of 7 October rave attack sue Israeli security forces. middleeasteye.net Israel-Palestine war: Survivors of 7 October rave attack sue Israeli security forces | Supernova musical festival attendees file $56m lawsuit against Israeli authorities, accusing them of 'negligence and gross oversight' | Tue, 01/02/2024 – 09: 47 | An Israeli soldier patrols near kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel on 12 October 2023, close to where revellers were killed (AFP/Aris Messinis) | A group of…

Kiji Noh, Consortium News. (2024-01-03). Pilger's Rap Sheet On The Criminal Elite. popularresistance.org John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its violent predations — war, genocide, exploitation — as well as its endless lies and propaganda. | Till his death on Saturday, he fought tirelessly for the freedom of Julian Assange, and his last article, "We are all Spartacus," published in Consortium News, was a call to stand with the imprisoned publisher. | Pilger gave voice to the invisible and the voiceless: the hungry, the poor, the handicapped, the conscripted, the sanctioned and bombed, the dispossessed, refugees, the chemically experimented on, the structurally…

Mustafa Abu Sneineh (2024-01-02). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 88: Israeli army kills 4,000 students in Gaza, detains hundreds in torture camps. mondoweiss.net Israel's opposition welcomes Supreme Court ruling against Netanyahu's law restricting judicial powers. Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in a single West Bank village, and a seventh Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli prisons.

Staff (2024-01-02). Video: Abdul-Rahman al-Bahsh's father speaks on the torture and abuse of prisoners and his son's martyrdom. samidoun.net As the new year dawns on 2024, amid the ongoing Zionist genocide in occupied Palestine — and the heroic resistance confronting the occupation war machine — the Israeli occupation forces are continuing their war on the Palestinian detainees and the prisoners' movement. On 1 January 2024, 23-year-old Palestinian detainee, Abdul-Rahman Bassem Al-Bahsh was assassinated by …

Kevin Gosztola (2024-01-02). From Prison, Assange Expresses Regret That WikiLeaks Can No Longer Expose War Crimes. thedissenter.org Support independent journalism on press freedom, whistleblowers, and government secrecy.  In

In Contempt (2024-01-02). In Contempt #36: Hunger Strikes at Red Onion Prison and NWDC, Eric King Released. itsgoingdown.org In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There's a lot happening, so let's dive right in! New Year's Eve Noise Demos This new year's eve, people in over 20 cities across the…

Staff (2024-01-02). January 1-7: National Week of Action (U.S.) for Palestine. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins the US Palestinian Community Network, National SDS and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in calling for the 1-7 January Week of Action for Palestine. Read the call below — all updates at: uspcn.org/weekofaction24/ The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR), and Students …

Tony D. Vick (2024-01-02). Prison Treats Me Like an Animal. I Write to Reclaim My Humanity. truthout.org Many times, throughout the day, I forget that I am human. After 27 years of confinement in a concrete box looking out a sliver of a window, it's easy to forget. When I try to remember, prison staff won't let me forget that I'm just another number. For the most part, I'm used to it. I'm like a worn-out penny. People don't stoop over to pick me up. A penny costs more to print than its actual value… |

Staff (2024-01-02). The assassination of Saleh al-Arouri: Resistance never dies! samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins Palestinian prisoners, their organizations and institutions, those imprisoned and those released, in mourning the martyrdom and saluting the life in struggle of Palestinian national leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri and his comrades, including leaders Samir Afandi (Abu 'Amer) and Azzam al-Aqra', and the martyrs Zaki Shahin, Mohammed al-Reis, Mohammed Bshasha …