Isheka N. Harrison (2022-11-22). Black Woman Wins Massive $366 Million Racial Discrimination Payout Against FedEx. moguldom.com A Black woman received a $366 million dollar jury award after suing her former employer for racial discrimination and retaliation. Jennifer Harris of Fort Worth, Texas, won the judgment after suing FedEx, her employer of 12 years, whom she accused of terminating her unjustly after she reported a supervisor's hostile behavior towards her. Harris worked …

WSWS (2022-11-22). "Somebody needs to stand up to all this": Workers back Will Lehman's lawsuit demanding extension of vote deadline in UAW election. wsws.org As a federal judge prepares to rule on a lawsuit defending the right to vote, autoworkers voiced their support for the stand being taken by Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman.

Dana Drugmand (2022-11-22). Judge deals latest blow to Big Oil in DC climate fraud caseÔøº. nationofchange.org Fossil fuel defendants in climate liability lawsuits keep losing in their bids to keep cases in federal courts.

WSWS (2022-11-22). Sri Lankan police brutally attack student protest demanding the release of political prisoners. wsws.org The fight against the repressive Wickremesinghe government is a political struggle against the capitalist system itself, which is in deep crisis.

Staff (2022-11-22). Family of British-Egyptian Political Prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah on Their Struggle for His Freedom. democracynow.org In a wide-ranging interview recorded in Cairo, we speak with Laila Soueif and Sanaa Seif, the mother and sister of British-Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, about his health, his case, his family and his hopes for freedom. After visiting him in prison, they describe how El-Fattah started a water strike on the first day of the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh to draw international attention to the country's human rights violations and protest his seemingly indefinite imprisonment. He paused after collapsing and suffering a "near-death experience" when prison officials appe…

Chelsea Tejada (2022-11-21). Biden Administration Issues Policy Protecting Access to Abortion for Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth. aclu.org Amidst the chaos and devastation caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's

Eva Lopez (2022-11-21). "Keep Our Families Together": A Law That Protects Native Families is at Risk. aclu.org The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) — which requires state courts to make active efforts to protect Native children and keep Native families together—is currently at risk of being gutted by the Supreme Court in

Jessica Corbett (2022-11-21). Rights Groups Demand Biden Close 'Inhumane' ICE Detention Centers. commondreams.org "We urge you to recognize that our shared values of humanity and compassion require the dismantling of our system of mass immigrant detention."

The Associated Press (2022-11-21). Mothers of LGBTQ Children Join Forces in Latin America. latinorebels.com Founded in 2017, the Latin American Movement of Mothers of LGTB+ Children lobbies governments to eliminate prejudicial laws and better enforce existing bans on violence and discrimination.

Jim Spellman (2022-11-21). Communities call for major reforms to U.S. justice system. america.cgtn.com The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Nearly 2 million people in the U.S. are in jail or prison on a given day.

Bilal G. Morris (2022-11-21). Hair Products Linked To Higher Cancer Rates Among Black Women, Lawsuit Claims. newsone.com Source: Iona Studio / Getty | Lawsuits have been filed against According to Reuters, the multiple suits claim products from major beauty companies caused cancer or other health problems. Victims are seeking damages to compensate for pain and suffering and economic damages for medical bills and the cost of the…

Jessica Corbett (2022-11-21). 225 Groups Urge Biden to Extend Student Loan Payment Pause During Court Fights. commondreams.org "We cannot allow these blatantly political lawsuits to throw millions of borrowers into financial catastrophe," argues a letter that also calls for ongoing legal action to ensure the relief plan can take effect.

WSWS (2022-11-21). Federal judge orders US secretary of labor to respond to Will Lehman's lawsuit. wsws.org The judge ordered the secretary of labor to take a position with regard to the issues raised by Lehman by close of business Monday.

Infobrics (2022-11-21). Kiev continues to commit war crimes against Russians. infobrics.org Recent video showing Ukrainian agents executing Russian prisoners of war shocks the world.

Linn Washington (2022-11-21). Judicial Persecution Corrupts The Case Of Mumia Abu-Jamal. thiscantbehappening.net Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons is the latest addition to an odious list of appellate court jurists who craftily construct legal barriers specifically to bludgeon evidence that undermines the corrupted conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the acclaimed writer/activist who millions worldwide consider a 'political prisoner.' The 1982 conviction of Abu-Jamal, for killing a Philadelphia … |

Scorinoco (2022-11-21). Lawyer Indhriana Parada: US Always Knew Alex Saab Was a Diplomat (Interview). orinocotribune.com At the time of writing this interview, Alex Saab has already been incarcerated for 885 days in a prison in Florida, United States, according to leaderboards laid out on the social media of the people campaigning for his release. Saab is being held there until the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida determines whether or not the United States accepts his diplomatic status; their acceptance would obligate them to release Saab, says his legal defense team. | Indhriana Parada, a lawyer who is part of Alex Saab's legal team, spoke to àöltimas Noticias about his case, where she discussed a decla…

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2022-11-21). The COVID Jabs' Mechanisms of Injury. "Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-11-21). Egypt's Repressive Regime Is Enabled By US And Allies. popularresistance.org Rania Khalek of BreakThrough News talks about the repressive Egyptian regime and how it is enabled by the US, its European allies and Israel. She explains the role played by the Egypt as a US proxy in the region and its role in various conflicts, including the brutal siege of Gaza. She also talks about how this enables the el-Sisi regime to continue its suppression of activists and clampdown of democracy.

Anoa Changa (2022-11-20). Civil Rights Leaders Call Out Trump's Twitter Reinstatement After 'Garbage' Poll. newsone.com Source: OLIVIER DOULIERY / Getty | A platform accountability group called out Elon Musk for breaking his word in reinstating previously banned accounts, including former President Donald Trump, without a straightforward process. Free Press, a media and technology advocacy organization, released a statement saying that Musk broke a promise to create a content-moderation council with input from the civil rights community and groups targeted by "hate-fueled" violence. | He also allegedly agreed only to allow people who were previously de-platformed back on the app after adopting a transparent process. But Musk throu…

Rebecca Chowdhury (2022-11-20). Haitian Deportees Face Indefinite Detention, Torturous Conditions. truthout.org This story was originally published at Patrick Julney was first detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2019. He had been living in the U.S. since he was a young child attending high school in New Jersey, where he played on the football team and fell in love with Laura Julney, who was a cheerleader at the time. They married in 2021. | Now, they interact over glitchy WhatsApp calls. Julney was deported to Haiti in July, where he faced four months of detention at Haiti's National Penitentiary. Ju…

_____ (2022-11-20). New School Adjuncts Strike For Higher Wages Amid Ongoing Labor Struggles. popularresistance.org New York City – On Wednesday morning, more than 1,300 adjunct faculty at The New School in New York City went on strike. They were joined in solidarity by hundreds of students, full-time faculty, and community supporters. The strike comes after five months of negotiations between the administration and part-time adjunct workers represented by the UAW whose demands include a meaningful increase in wages, no cuts to healthcare, and third-party mediation for harassment and discrimination in the workplace. | Students and workers walked the picket line holding signs with slogans like: "Where is my tuition going?" and…

Animal Liberation Press Office (2022-11-20). Animal Liberation Front Liberates Thousands of Captive Mink in Ohio. indybay.org Although no communique has yet been received by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) left their insignia at the sight in Ohio where perhaps tens of thousands of captive mink were liberated last night. Lion Farms, at 2707 Hoaglin Road in Van Wert, Ohio (shown here) was the mink prison targeted.

Anonymous103 (2022-11-20). Russian Military Reporter On Ukrainian Nazis Who Kill Russian Prisoners Of War. southfront.org

Contributing Writers (2022-11-20). Ukrainians from 80th Airborne Brigade brutally execute Russian prisoners of war/ Commentary by Max Blumenthal. marktaliano.net Max Blumenthal: Ukrainians from 80th Airborne Brigade brutally execute Russian prisoners of war. If Russians had committed this atrocity and documented war crime we'd see headlines in Western media for a week. READ MORE: Partnering with neo-Nazis in Ukraine: an inconvenient history Ukrainians Continue the Pogroms their Forefathers Began…

Philip Ball (2022-11-19). [Perspectives] The evolution of a family. thelancet.com In 2021, a report prepared by a committee called the History Group at Imperial College London, UK, recommended that the name of the 19th-century naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley be removed from the college building that now houses the mathematics and computing department. Huxley's racist ideas, said the group, made it no longer appropriate, in the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, to celebrate him in this way. According to the report, he "espouse[d] a racial hierarchy of intelligence, a belief system of 'scientific racism' that fed the dangerous and false ideology of eugenics; legacies of which are still felt…

_____ (2022-11-19). Texas Law Likely to Go to Supremes: Can Twitter and Facebook Censor Viewpoints? strategic-culture.org By Peter VAN BUREN | God bless Texas. A case the state recently won at the circuit level is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court. The Texas law, upheld, makes it illegal for social media giants to censor, delete, or otherwise interfere with viewpoints, what is known as content discrimination. If the Supreme Court stands with the circuit court decision, that means Twitter (Facebook, YouTube, Insta, et al…) would no longer be able to blanket ban "ideas" such as the Hunter Biden laptop story, or ban users simply because of the point of view they support about vaccinations. The challenges are mighty, but th…

WSWS (2022-11-19). Autoworkers voice support for lawsuit by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to defend right to vote. wsws.org Workers from Detroit, Warren, Chicago, Belvedere, Kansas City and Macungie, Pennsylvania spoke with the WSWS.

WSWS (2022-11-19). Will Lehman files lawsuit to oppose anti-democratic vote suppression by UAW apparatus. wsws.org Having been forced to accept direct elections, the Solidarity House apparatus was determined to organize it in a way to prevent the participation by the overwhelming majority of rank-and-file workers. It has sought to confine the vote largely to the bureaucracy itself.

Karleigh Webb, Rosa Astra, Morgan Artyukhina (2022-11-19). On Transgender Day of Remembrancea call for working class unity against all bigotry. liberationnews.org What's needed is militant movement with a clear political program for confronting and totally abolishing the material causes of trans oppression.

Editor (2022-11-18). Senate Investigation: Doctor Contracted By ICE Medically Abused Dozens of Women. scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Following an 18-month investigation, a subcommittee in the United States Senate released a report that further confirmed whistleblower allegations that female detainees in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were subject to invasive, harmful, and often unnecessary gynecological procedures. Women in custody at the Irwin County Detention …

_____ (2022-11-18). Bittersweet Freedom for Mutulu Shakur. popularresistance.org After 36 years of incarceration, political prisoner Mutulu Shakur was granted parole after having been denied on nine occasions. Invariably media accounts mention that he is the step-father of the late rapper and actor Tupac Shakur while saying little about his own history. Any of the elder Shakur's accomplishments are given short shrift in favor of an emphasis on pop culture celebrity. | In 1986 Shakur was arrested for his role in the 1981 robbery of a Brink's armored car which resulted in the deaths of three people. He managed to avoid capture for five years but was tried and in 1988 convicted under the Rackete…

Staff (2022-11-18). Headlines for November 18, 2022. democracynow.org Negotiations over "Loss and Damage" Dominate Final Hours of COP27 Climate Summit, Nancy Pelosi, First Woman House Speaker, Steps Down from Democratic Leadership After 2 Decades, Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, Famous for Her "Whiteboard of Justice," Wins Reelection, Reelection Bid of Far-Right Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert Headed for Recount, Kremlin Hints at Prisoner Swap Involving Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout, State Department Says Saudi Crown Prince Has Immunity from Lawsuit over Khashoggi Killing, Blaze Kills 21 People at Jabaliya Refugee Camp in Gaza, World Cup Kicks Off in Shadow o…

WSWS (2022-11-18). Video: Attorney for Will Lehman's statement on lawsuit against UAW and Monitor for violating members' right to vote in election. wsws.org "The rights of every single UAW member to participate in a meaningful election have been violated," Lehman's attorney, Eric Lee, declared in a statement Thursday in front of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

WSWS (2022-11-18). Detroit autoworkers support lawsuit to extend deadline on UAW election. wsws.org Workers at the Stellantis (Chrysler) Warren Truck Assembly Plant in suburban Detroit expressed their support for the lawsuit filed by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to guarantee the right of members to vote.

Jessica Corbett (2022-11-18). 'Egregious': Kaine Slams Biden Move to Shield Saudi Prince for Khashoggi Murder. commondreams.org "I am deeply disappointed in the State Department's decision to intervene in a federal lawsuit filed by the friends and family of Virginia resident and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi against Saudi defendants responsible for his gruesome execution."

Staff (2022-11-18). "A Near-Death Experience": U.K.-Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah Almost Dies on Prison Hunger Strike. democracynow.org The family of imprisoned British Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah visited him on Thursday for the first time since he ended his full hunger and water strike, which they say occurred after he collapsed inside his prison shower last week. El-Fattah had intensified his strike on the first day of the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh to draw international attention to the country's human rights violations and protest his seemingly indefinite imprisonment. We go to Cairo to speak with his aunt, Ahdaf Soueif, who was among the visitors and says El-Fattah may resume his hunger strike if t…

Stephanie Hedgecoke (2022-11-18). Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice rallies in D.C. for clemency. workers.org March to Justice in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13. The Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice marched over 1,100 miles from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C. — a march to demand President Joe Biden release 78-year-old Indigenous political prisoner and Native elder Leonard Peltier. On Nov. 13, marchers and supporters marched to the . . . |

WSWS (2022-11-18). Three death row prisoners executed over two days in the US. wsws.org The cases of the three individuals being given the ultimate, irrevocable penalty bear all the hallmarks of capital punishment in America, in which questions of legality and humanity are jettisoned in the interest of retribution and barbarism.