Staff (2021-08-30). Frankfurt Palestine stand highlights struggles of imprisoned Palestinian women. samidoun.net Samidoun Deutschland organized a Palestine Stand in central Frankfurt on Sunday, 29 August 2021. The action, organized at Hauptwache, highlighted the cases of several Palestinian women prisoners, including Israa Jaabis, Anhar al-Deek, Fadwa Hamadeh and Yasmin Jaber. Organizers set up a display of photos and calls to action highlighting imprisoned Palestinian students and calling for […] | The article

Staff (2021-08-30). Remembering Gloria Richardson. therealnews.com TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway talks to author and activist Dominque Conway about Gloria Richardson, a fierce activist who led a multi-year campaign against segregation in Cambridge, Md. Richardson, who died July 15, 2021, was not as widely known as other civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. or Fannie Lou Hamer. Nevertheless, she was an important figure in the story of the struggle for civil rights both in the United States and all over the globe.

Mike Garrity (2021-08-30). Fighting to Protect the Grizzlies of the Cabinet-Yaak Region isn't "frivolous" counterpunch.org Montana's Governor Greg Gianforte and U.S. Senator Steve Daines recently claimed "frivolous" lawsuits had to be stopped so more logging could occur in our dwindling National Forests. But there's nothing frivolous about the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filing a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue the Forest Service to stop the Ripley logging project

_____ (2021-08-30). Preventing A Dystopian Future: New Campaign To Ban Killer And Surveillance Drones. popularresistance.org Drones are being used as weapons of terror and oppression throughout the world. Not only do they make it possible for the United States to colonize and occupy other countries, but police departments in the US have access to surveillance and weaponized drones to target civilians. As the technology evolves, drones have the potential to lead to greater wars, including a war between major powers. To prevent this dystopian future, anti-drone activists are organizing an international campaign to ban drones. Clearing the FOG speaks with Nick Mottern, one of the founders of the Ban Killer Drones campaign, about the impac…

Editor (2021-08-30). Harm reduction guided by the coal of the abolition of prisons and capitalism: an interview with former Direct Action member and ex-prisoner Ann Hansen. mronline.org I am active with the Prison for Women (P4W) Memorial Collective which has been fighting for a Memorial Garden at the site of the now closed Prison for Women, and a Gallery where the women's art and writing can be seen in order to give some context to their lives and deaths. We also agitate to improve prison and parole conditions as a harm reduction tactic in order to alleviate some of the suffering, but always within the context of the abolition of prisons and capitalism as the goal, the light that guides us through the darkness.

Staff (2021-08-30). The Court Knew She Didn't Commit the Murder. They Sentenced Her for It Anyway. truthout.org After nearly 15 years behind bars, 39-year-old mother and domestic violence survivor Erika Ray will soon get another day in court to attempt to gain her freedom. | Ray is currently sentenced to remain in prison until 2049. But on August 3, she appeared in court to argue that her defense attorneys provided ineffective assistance at her 2010 trial and that one of the actions for which she was convicted — armed robbery — did not occur at all. On September 1, she will return to court f…

Murtaza Hussain (2021-08-30). Post-9/11 Stings Targeted People Who Posed No Threat. zcomm.org They Remain in Prison…

Bob Moses (2021-08-29). Returning to 'Normal' in Education is Not Good Enough. zcomm.org The nation needs a federal civil rights bill for education, one that opens up the funding and policies needed to assure full access for all students…

Staff (2021-08-29). I Wanted to Join the Legal Cannabis Industry. Now I'm Sitting in Prison. truthout.org I've been incarcerated for the last 12 months at the Chesapeake Detention Facility, a supermax security lock up in Baltimore, Maryland, while awaiting my May 2022 trial in federal court. If convicted, I stand to be sentenced to anywhere from 10 years to life in prison without any possibility of parole. | The alleged offense that the federal government is squandering tax-payers' money on confining and prosecuting me for is "conspiring to distribute cannabis" for transporting over 1,000 kilograms of c…

Bob Moses (2021-08-29). Returning to 'Normal' in Education is Not Good Enough. zcomm.org The nation needs a federal civil rights bill for education, one that opens up the funding and policies needed to assure full access for all students…

Rainer Shea (2021-08-28). Mercenaries in US Borders: A Sign of a Rapidly Declining Empire. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Aug 27, 2021 | More keeps getting revealed about the contractors from the mysterious mercenary company—or, as we've found out, companies—that have shown up in Minneapolis during this summer's Black Lives Matter protests. The most widely recognized of these companies, whose contractors have been reported to profile, inflict head trauma upon, grab, and surveil peaceful demonstrators, initially didn't have its name known to the public due to the contractors refusing to reveal what their employer is called. But as I've seen reported by one Minneapolis resident who has personal experi…

Pip Hinman (2021-08-28). Campaign secures release of last family from Darwin detention. greenleft.org.au After a heroic effort by the Darwin community, the last family of refugees was freed from unjust detention. But they are not stopping there. Pip Hinman reports.

Kameron Hurt (2021-08-28). Los Angeles PSL holds month-long commemoration of Black August. liberationnews.org The legacy of police brutality, mass incarceration, and repression of the Black liberation movement in Los Angeles meant that addressing this history was a vital task of the branch.

Kameron Hurt (2021-08-28). Los Angeles PSL holds month-long celebration of Black August. liberationnews.org The legacy of police brutality, mass incarceration, and repression of the Black liberation movement in Los Angeles meant that addressing this history was a vital task of the branch.

_____ (2021-08-28). Only Those Taking Action Against Climate Violence Are Labeled 'Terrorist'. popularresistance.org Floods, fires, ice caps melting, hurricanes—all attest to the violence of human-caused climate disruption. It's undeniable and undeniably fatal, and the only question for historians will be not what mysterious "factors" prevented humans from responding, but which political structures prevented the humans that wanted to respond meaningfully from doing so. When those books are written, at least a chapter will be devoted to cases like that of Jessica Reznicek, the activist now facing eight years in federal prison for damaging equipment at the Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa. | In 2016, Reznicek, with fellow act…

Staff (2021-08-28). Parole board votes to release Robert F. Kennedy's assassin following his 16th parole hearing. rt.com A California parole board has voted to release Sirhan Sirhan — who killed US Senator Robert F. Kennedy — from prison after more than 50 years behind bars. The 77-year-old has said he shot the lawmaker over his support for Israel.

WSWS (2021-08-28). Man sentenced to six years in prison for role in Michigan governor kidnap plot. wsws.org Ty Gerard Garbin received a sentence much shorter than recommended by federal guidelines.

Linda Kramer Jenning (2021-08-28). How young voters are fighting back against voter suppression. nationofchange.org "Young voters have so much power."