Lucy Trieshmann (2023-08-14). Hotel Accessibility Reaches the Supreme Court. aclu.org As a wheelchair user with multiple disabilities, travel is unpredictable at best and completely inaccessible at worst. In order to book my trips, I have to trust the accuracy of the websites run by hotels, airlines, car rental companies, and more to learn whether I can use their services (i.e., have the honor of paying them my hard-earned money.) The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires hotels to include enough of their accessibility features on their website that a person with a disability can judge whether their hotel would be safe and usable. Unfortunately, the features they include are often inco…

Catalina Adorno (2023-08-14). New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It. truthout.org "There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. That's what they're talking about — private detention centers. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them." That's what President Joe Biden said during an April 2021 speech in Georgia, where he found himself confronted by immigrant rights activists. Two years later, it's clear that those were just empty words: The Biden… |

Winn Ellinger (2023-08-15). Family seeks justice for Joshua Wright, shot in the back while shackled in Texas hospital. liberationnews.org On July 28, the family of Joshua Wright filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Isaiah Garcia, the now-fired and indicted former Hays County, Texas jailer who killed Wright last December.

teleSUR (2023-08-14). South African Opposition Denounces Favoritism for Zuma. telesurenglish.net Former South African President Jacob Zuma was released from prison two hours after he was sentenced to 15 months in jail. In this time frame, a program aimed at reducing overcrowding in the country's prisons was enabled. | Related: | The liberal Democratic Alliance party described the measure as a "real joke," which could mean that former president Zuma is receiving preferential treatment, which also seeks to postpone or eliminate the sentence to w…

oliviaalperstein (2023-08-15). Final report of International Mission to #StopISDS recommends Colombia's withdrawal from system of corporate abuse and impunity by way of a Citizens Audit. ips-dc.org The report highlights how lawsuits and the threat of lawsuits are endangering vulnerable peoples and ecosystems.

ecns.cn (2023-08-15). Beijing sets up environmental tribunals targeting polluters. ecns.cn Beijing opened its first tribunals dedicated to handling lawsuits related to the environment on Monday, in the capital's latest step in advancing the concept of ecological civilization using the rule of law.

Staff (2023-08-15). Montana youth climate litigation win raises hopes for other US climate accountability cases. thecanary.co On Monday 14 August, a group of young people won a landmark US climate accountability lawsuit. The Held v. State of Montana case was brought by 16 plaintiffs ranging in age from 5 to 22. In a US first, the sixteen young Montanans have held their state government to account for violating their constitutional rights …

Hal McNulty (2023-08-14). Weekly Round-up: Presidential assassination; sewage lawsuit; lefty lawyers. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news One of the candidates running in Ecuador's upcoming presidential election has been assassinated. Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead at a campaign rally in Quito. His election platform addressed the issues of corruption and government links to organised crime. There is speculation that the powerful Los Lobos gang is behind the killing. This …

Chris Hedges (2023-08-14). Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the Israel lobby's useful idiot. canadiandimension.com "The Kennedy Promise." Illustration by Mr. Fish. | The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a

repost (2023-08-15). Why Is KPFA's Manager Keeping Mark Mericle On The Air & Costing the Station Thousands? indybay.org KPFA's manager continues to keep KPFA news director on the air even though he faces serious charges of sexual harassment. The same KPFA manager put pro-war propagandist and Philadelphia police supporter Ian Masters on the air or 9 hours a week. Masters is for the continued imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal. What is going on at KPFA?>

Fidencio Aldama Support Group (2023-08-15). Fidencio Aldama: Freedom as a Bargaining Chip used by the Government. indybay.org So long as Fidencio has to set foot in a prison, he is not free and remains a political prisoner and a hostage of the state.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-14). 14 Palestinian administrative detainees are on hunger strike. peoplesdispatch.org The detainees are demanding their immediate release from prison and an end to mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli occupation authorities. Some of them have been on hunger strike for more than two weeks…

Editor (2023-08-14). How Palestinians Started Smuggling Their Sperm Out of Israeli Prisons. scheerpost.com

Steven Sahiounie (2023-08-14). Five for Five: US-Iran Prisoner Swap and the Nuclear Deal. globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2023-08-14). US Ambassador to Australia Hints at Plea Deal for Julian Assange. news.antiwar.com US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy indicated in comments to the Sydney Morning Herald that Washington might be open to a plea deal for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that could keep him from being extradited and imprisoned in the United States for exposing US war crimes. When asked if the US and Australia could reach …

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-08-14). Caroline Kennedy Says United States Is Open To Assange Plea Deal. popularresistance.org The U.S. ambassador to Australia believes a plea bargain could free imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, allowing him to serve a shortened sentence for a lesser crime in his home country. | Caroline Kennedy told The Sydney Morning Herald in a front-page interview published Monday that the decision on a plea deal was up to the U.S. Justice Department. "So it's not really a diplomatic issue, but I think that there absolutely could be a resolution," she told the newspaper. | Kennedy noted the firm comments by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on July 31 in Brisbane.

WSWS (2023-08-15). US Labor Department uses spurious arguments to reject Will Lehman's election complaint, sanctions disenfranchisement of UAW members. wsws.org The August 8 letter from the Office of Labor-Management Standards Enforcement ignores the widespread evidence of voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy.

WSWS (2023-08-15). Biden's Labor Department uses spurious arguments to reject Will Lehman's election complaint, sanctions disenfranchisement of UAW members. wsws.org The August 8 letter from the Office of Labor-Management Standards Enforcement ignores the widespread evidence of voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy.

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-08-13). The 14th Amendment's Requirement of Equality Under Law Is a Dead Letter Constitutional Guarantee. thealtworld.com I explained and documented in my 1995 book, The New Color Line, that the EEOC had created in defiance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment a two-tier legal system in which "preferred minorities" enjoyed rights superior to those of white American citizens to university admissions, employment, and promotion. Less qualified blacks according to the objective admission scores can be admitted at the exclusion of more qualified whites, and less qualified blacks can be hired and promoted at the expense of more qualified whites. I have stressed for many years that the failure of the courts to defend the 14t…

Staff (2023-08-13). 14 Palestinian prisoners now on hunger strike to confront administrative detention as movement grows in occupation jails. samidoun.net As the struggle continues inside occupation prisons for justice and liberation, there are currently 14 Palestinian prisoners engaged in an open hunger strike to demand freedom from administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. There are over 1100 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under such orders, over one-fifth of all Palestinian prisoners (approximately 5,000) …

Hal McNulty (2023-08-14). Weekly Round-up: Presidential assassination; sewage lawsuit; lefty lawyers. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news One of the candidates running in Ecuador's upcoming presidential election has been assassinated. Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead at a campaign rally in Quito. His election platform addressed the issues of corruption and government links to organised crime. There is speculation that the powerful Los Lobos gang is behind the killing. This …

Editor (2023-08-14). Chris Hedges: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — The Israel Lobby's Useful Idiot. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of U.S. dollars, on the indigenous population of Palestine. It is the all powerful against the all powerless. Israel uses its modern weaponry …

Eleanor J. Bader (2023-08-13). New Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls. truthout.org "The precariat is not the equivalent of what we used to call the working class," National Book Critics Circle award recipient Eula Biss writes in the introduction to American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. "More common now is gig work, with no set hours, no potential for advancement, work done through the interface of an app by workers who don't know the people for whom they're working. |

People's Dispatch. (2023-08-14). US-Based Organizations Demand Blackrock Cancel Zambia's Debt. popularresistance.org On August 14, progressive organizations, led by the ANSWER Coalition and the Peoples Forum, will rally outside of the BlackRock global headquarters in New York City to demand that the multinational investment company cancel Zambia's debt. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, holds the largest privately-owned share of Zambia's debt at a staggering USD 220 million. BlackRock is not starved for funds, owning USD 10 trillion in assets and dividends and investing in industries such as private prisons, fossil fuels, and pharmaceutical giants. | "[BlackRock's] refusal to cancel or negotiate a restructuring of t…

Editor (2023-08-14). How Palestinians Started Smuggling Their Sperm Out of Israeli Prisons. scheerpost.com

_____ (2023-08-13). Five for five: U.S.-Iran prisoner swap and the nuclear deal. strategic-culture.org The U.S. and Iran are in a negotiation to swap five prisoners held in Iran for five prisoners held in the U.S. | Join us on , , and . | The U.S. and Iran are in a negotiation to swap five prisoners held in Iran for five pris…

JANET (2023-08-13). Wars against Black history. iacenter.org By Mumia Abu-Jamal August 9, 2023 This slightly edited July 21, 2023 commentary was recorded on prisonradio.org. Mumia Abu-Jamal And now we see, perhaps for the first time in modern days, states like Florida waging war against Black history by passing laws against what teachers can teach, and, perhaps more importantly, what they cannot. In the land that brags about First Amendment laws of free speech, teachers are threatened to be silent about any Black history after 1875, or the time of Reconstruction. It's as if, for Black people, history stopped at Reconstruction and nothing happened in their lives. To add mor…

Andrew Korybko (2023-08-13). Kyrgyzstan Is The US' Next Regime Change Target. thealtworld.com What Senator Menendez demands is nothing short of a soft coup brought about by voluntarily reversing Kyrgyzstan's recent "Democratic Security" successes under the Damocles' sword of "security and economic" consequences if it dares to refuse. If he has his way, then suspected Color Revolutionaries will be released from prison, Western "NGO" intel fronts will be allowed to meddle with impunity, and their allied propaganda outlets will once again incessantly spew anti-state disinformation for provoking riots. | Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez conveyed his country's intentions to overt…