Anita Little (2023-09-15). On the Frontlines of the Fight Against Classroom Censorship. aclu.org When Anthony Crawford was in junior high school, he was kicked out of his AP History class one February after he asked the teacher when the class would learn about Black History Month. | "My question made the teacher uncomfortable. I remember his face turning red. He said, 'You're not going to disrupt my class, so please step out.' So I tossed the books on the floor and left the class." | Crawford never forgot the incident. | Two decades later, he proudly educates ninth graders about the very issues his teachers refused to teach him. At Millwood High School in Oklahoma City, he has crafted a curriculum that ex…

TASS (2023-09-15). New charges filed against Ukrainian tycoon Kolomoysky. tass.com Kolomoisky was informed about the new charges in the pre-trial detention center, in the presence of his lawyer…

Tamara Nassar (2023-09-14). Ben-Gvir seeks to tighten noose around prisoners. electronicintifada.net Rights groups protest "vengeful discrimination" against political detainees.

Allen Forrest (2023-09-15). What Was Obedience to the COVID-19 Mandates? dissidentvoice.org

L. Matthijs Van den Dop, Sarah Van Egmond, Jort Heijne, Joost van Rosmalen, Barry de Goede, Arthur R. Wijsmuller, Gert-Jan Kleinrensink, Pieter J. Tanis, Johannes Jeekel, Johan F. Lange, INCA Trialists' Collaboration (2023-09-15). Articles] Twelve-year outcomes of watchful waiting versus surgery of mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic inguinal hernia in men aged 50 years and older: a randomised controlled trial. thelancet.com During 12-year follow-up, most WW patients crossed over to surgery, significantly earlier with mildly symptomatic hernia. Considering the relatively low incarceration rate, WW might still be an option in asymptomatic patients with a clear preference and being well-informed about pros and cons.

ecns.cn (2023-09-15). Students jailed for luring clients to overseas casino. ecns.cn At least two students from a vocational school in Changde, Hunan province, have been sentenced to eight months to a year in prison by a court in Henan province for luring people to gamble at a casino in the Philippines.

Staff (2023-09-15). Hunter Biden Is Indicted on Gun Charges as House GOP Launch Impeachment Inquiry into Joe Biden. democracynow.org For the first time in U.S. history, the Justice Department has criminally charged the child of a sitting president. Federal prosecutors have indicted President Biden's son Hunter Biden on felony charges of illegally possessing a handgun and making false statements in order to obtain a revolver in 2018. Special counsel David Weiss brought the charges after a Trump-appointed federal judge in July rejected a deal that would have seen Hunter Biden plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts in order to avoid jail time. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and fines of up to $750,000. This comes a…

Editor (2023-09-15). Colorado Lawsuit's Strategy for Keeping Trump Off Ballot Is Starting to Spread. scheerpost.com

Zane McNeill (2023-09-14). 8 Women File Lawsuit After Being Refused Abortions in Medical Emergencies. truthout.org Eight women across three states — Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma — have filed legal actions to ensure that pregnant people with dangerous complications can access abortion care in those states. "The Supreme Court's unwarranted reversal of Roe v. Wade has led repeatedly, in multiple states, to women being denied abortion care when they face serious complications in their pregnancies," Nancy Northup… |

WSWS (2023-09-14). Public meeting: For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum! wsws.org In the struggle to end the oppression of Aboriginal people, the critical issue is the development of an independent political movement of the working class, directed against the entire political establishment, its program of war and austerity, and the capitalist system itself.

Editor (2023-09-15). Chris Hedges: Stella Assange Speaks Out on the Conditions of Julian Assange's Imprisonment. scheerpost.com

Collective (2023-09-15). Solidarity call for Can Atalay! internationalviewpoint.org "Can Atalay is unconstitutionally detained in prison based on politically charged 'Gezi Park Trials' after being unjustly convicted of 'attempting to overthrow the government'." | – | / |

Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-15). A Justice System That Is Not Fair and Just For Everyone Is Not Fair and Just For Anyone. popularresistance.org Enrique Tarrio , the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced on September 5, 2023, to 22 years in prison. He was convicted in May on seditious conspiracy and other charges for the central role he played in organizing Trump followers to attack the Capitol on January 6, 2021, while Congress was certifying the electoral results of the 2020 presidential election. | Until now, the longest prison term connected to the January 6 events had been 18 years. That sentence was issued to co-defendant Ethan Nordean. Three other men in the case — Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola — were each sen…

Unicorn Riot (2023-09-15). Report: Prisoners Strike at Oak Park Heights Canteen. unicornriot.ninja

Canadian Tire Fire (2023-09-14). Canadian Tire Fire #64: Fairy Creek Updates, Radical Pride, Migrant Prison Hunger Strike and #SearchTheLandfill Solidarity. itsgoingdown.org In August, wildfires continued to burn across Canada. By mid-August, the amount of land burnt by wildfires this season amounted to 15.3 million hectares, which is 10 times more than 2022. On August 18th, British Columbia declared a state of emergency in response to a fire near Kelowna, which required more than 35,000 people to…

Collective (2023-09-14). Solidarity call for Can Atalay! internationalviewpoint.org "Can Atalay is unconstitutionally detained in prison based on politically charged 'Gezi Park Trials' after being unjustly convicted of 'attempting to overthrow the government'." | – | / |

Céline Martelet (2023-09-14). France: Algerian woman who moved to IS-controlled Raqqa as minor faces deportation. middleeasteye.net France: Algerian woman who moved to IS-controlled Raqqa as minor faces deportation | The woman born and raised in France was 15 when she was taken to Islamic State territory by her mother and uncle | Thu, 09/14/2023 – 13: 53 | A woman carries her child at a prison camp for IS-linked detainees in northeastern Syria (AFP/Delil Souleiman) |

Kirill Medvedev (2023-09-14). Russia Policing and Repression Prisons The Persecution of Azat Miftakhov Is Designed to Silence Russia's Left. internationalviewpoint.org

Paulo Cabral (2023-09-14). Brazil's Jan. 8 trials: Day two. america.cgtn.com Eight months after die-hard supporters of Brazil's defeated former president Jair Bolsonaro rioted through federal buildings in the capital, Brasilia, the first batch of nearly 14,000 people accused of taking part in the riots are being brought to justice before Brazil's Supreme Court. | CGTN's Paulo Cabral reports, the first defendant tried was handed a 17-year prison sentence…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-14). Israeli forces kill one Palestinian protester and injure several others near Gaza border. peoplesdispatch.org The protest was organized to oppose Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories, the mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, and the 17-year long blockade of Gaza…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-14). Hunter Biden Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison in Latest Indictment. sputnikglobe.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A US federal court released a three-count indictment against the US president's son Hunter Biden, court documents revealed on Thursday.

TASS (2023-09-14). Suspected member of 'Freedom to Russia' legion detained in Moscow. tass.com He could face up to 20 years in prison…

| AFP | (2023-09-14). Biden's son Hunter indicted on gun charges. tribune.com.pk US President Joe Biden's son Hunter was indicted Thursday for illegally buying a gun five years ago at a time when he admits he was using drugs heavily. | Hunter Biden was charged with two counts of making false statements, for claiming on forms that he was not using drugs illegally at the time he bought a Colt revolver in Delaware. | A third charge said that, based on the false statements, he illegally possessed the gun — a charge that can bring up to 10 years in prison. | The charges were filed by Justice Department Special Counsel David Weiss, who has been investigating Biden since 2018. | It came two mont…

Meghan Krausch, Truthout. (2023-09-12). Grassroots Organizing In Red States Is At The Heart Of Abolitionist Struggle. popularresistance.org In Republican-controlled regions across the country, people are engaged in abolitionist organizing: Even though conditions vary, people are organizing for freedom virtually everywhere. This is nothing new. The South, for example, has been a site for abolitionist organizing for centuries, and it continues to be one, despite the attacks on long-settled civil rights being organized by Republican supermajorities in statehouses. | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is the first Black woman to codirect the Highlander Research and Education Center, a century-old nexus for abolitionist and labor organizing in Tennessee and beyond…

Ann Brown (2023-09-11). Bernice King Tells America: Reparations Are Warranted, My Father MLK Would Have Supported Them. moguldom.com In recent years, the idea of reparations for descendants of slaves has sparked debates across the country. Dr. Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., has voiced her support for reparations and believes they are not only "warranted" but also have the capacity to address various societal issues. Dr. …

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-12). Socialists slam Queensland Labor for locking up children indefinitely. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-11). Socialists slam Queensland Labor for locking up children indefinitely. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2023-09-11). Supporters of the "Last Generation" climate action group held in preventive detention in Bavaria. wsws.org The campaign against the climate activist group is part of building up a police state to criminalise and intimidate peaceful protests, civil disobedience and other forms of resistance.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-11). Finnish Left slams government's decommunization attempts in the name of anti-discrimination. peoplesdispatch.org The government has been widely criticized for defending two ministers in the right-wing coalition with a history of making racist comments and for trying to use a recently announced anti-discrimination drive to ban communist symbols…

Staff (2023-09-12). Coffee & Chavistas with Elida Polanco: 'Capriles and Machado Should be in Jail'. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( Elida Polanco is a Venezuelan alternative communicator. She is co-founder of Radio Perola and Voces Libertarias, two notable community…

Hal McNulty (2023-09-11). The Weekly Round-up: Terrorist convict escapes Wandsworth, lawsuit against Google and Strasbourg questions conditions in UK prisons. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news Questions have been raised over the state of the British prisons system after the escape of Daniel Khalife. The 21 year-old former soldier who had been convicted for terrorist offences escaped from Wandsworth prison by hiding under a food delivery lorry, reportedly, but was later recaptured by police on a Chiswick towpath. …

Anonymous Contributor (2023-09-12). Letter from Anarchist Prisoner Jorge "Yorch" Esquivel. itsgoingdown.org Update from Mexican anarchist prisoner Jorge "Yorch" Esquivel. Hi compas, As you know, they prolonged my legal process once again. This makes me angry, sad, and distressed because I don't know when they are going to tell me if I will stay here or if I will be freed. Now I have another hearing scheduled…

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-09-12). The Pedagogy Of Power. popularresistance.org I am standing in a classroom in a maximum security prison. It is the first class of the semester. I am facing 20 students. They have spent years, sometimes decades, incarcerated. They come from some of the poorest cities and communities in the country. Most of them are people of color. | During the next four months they will study political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolà≤ Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and John Locke, those often dismissed as anachronistic by the cultural left. | It is not that the criticisms leveled against these philosophers are incorrect. They wer…

IEC (2023-09-12). Friday 9/15: Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now! indybay.org The Pedestrian Bridge over Geary Blvd @ Webster, near Japantown…

Connor Freeman (2023-09-11). Iran, US Prisoner Swap and Funds Release Imminent in Qatari-Mediated Deal. news.antiwar.com As the result of a deal made possible by at least eight rounds of shuttle diplomacy mediated by Doha, the US and Iran may soon be conducting a prisoner swap. This agreement will additionally see $6 billion in previously frozen funds belonging to Iran transferred to banks in Qatar, where that money will be spent …

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). U.S. citizen sentences to life in prison for espionage. ecns.cn A citizen of the United States has been given a life sentence by a Chinese court for espionage, China's national security agency released on Monday.

ecns.cn (2023-09-11). China's security authorities disclose details of a U.S. meritorious medal-awarded spy. ecns.cn China's national security authorities on Monday released details about the case of John Shing-Wan Leung, who holds permanent residency in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and a U.S. passport, and was sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges.

Editor (2023-09-11). 86 Cents For a Day of Work Is a Reality For Most Incarcerated People. scheerpost.com

IEC (2023-09-11). Friday 9/15: Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now! indybay.org The Pedestrian Bridge over Geary Blvd @ Webster, near Japantown…

Staff (2023-09-11). "The Other 9/11": Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende. democracynow.org We look at the 50th anniversary of what is sometimes called the "other 9/11" — the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, when General Augusto Pinochet ousted President Salvador Allende and inaugurated almost two decades of brutal military rule. Allende died in the presidential palace on September 11, 1973, marking the end of Chile's first socialist government. During Pinochet's military dictatorship, more than 3,000 people were disappeared or killed, and some 40,000 more were tortured as political prisoners as Chile remained a close partner to the United States during the Cold War. "We&#8…