Why Do We Hate Immigrants?
Kevin Powell | thenation.com | 2019-08-08
Why Do We Hate Immigrants?
thenation.com/article/immigrants-detention-centers-ice-el-paso/

French police assault Nantes protest against police drowning of Steve Caniàßo
wsws.org | 2019-08-08
Thirty people were arrested and 34 detained preventatively by police, who fired water cannon and waves of tear gas grenades against protesters.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/08/nant…

'Human rights crisis': Amnesty issues US travel warning, pushes for gun control after mass shootings
rt.com | 2019-08-08
Amnesty International has dived headlong into the US gun control debate, urging travelers to be cautious amid a "human rights crisis" they blame on "ubiquity of firearms" and government reluctance to confiscate them. | …
rt.com/usa/466022-amnesty-international-crisis-gun-violence/

Oil Rises More Than 2%, Expectations of More OPEC Cuts
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-08
Oil jumped more than 2 percent on Thursday on expectations that falling prices could lead to production cuts, coupled with a steadying of the yuan currency after a week of turmoil spurred by an escalation in U.S.-China trade tensions. | RELATED: | US Renews Chevron License in Venezuela Despite Trump Sanctions | Prices rebounded after tumbling nearly 5 percent to their lowest since January on Wednesday after data showed an unexpected build in U.S. crude stockpiles after nearly t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Oil-Rises-More-Than-2-Expectations-of-More-OPEC-Cuts-20190808-0018.html

Judge Won't Reconsider $1,000-Per-Day Fines for Chelsea Manning
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-08
| A federal judge denied Chelsea Manning's motion to reconsider fines imposed against her for refusing to testify before the grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. He also undermined due process and refused to hold a hearing. | "Manning has the ability to comply with the court's financial sanctions or will have the ability after her release from confinement," Judge Anthony Trenga ruled. "Therefore, the imposed fines of $500 per day after 30 days and $1,000 per day after 60 days is not so excessive as to re…
truthout.org/articles/judge-wont-reconsider-1000-per-day-fines-for-chelsea-manning/

Steps taken to end Saudi 'guardianship' system for women, 'encouraging' start
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-08
Allowing Saudi women to apply for passports and travel without their guardians' permission is "an encouraging move" towards the "complete abolition of the 'guardianship' system," independent United Nations rights experts said on Thursday, but more action is needed to fully dismantle these restrictions.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043941

What America Can Learn From Dick Gregory
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-08
One afternoon in New York City in the spring of 1964, I marched at the head of a small civil rights demonstration, one of the few white people in the group. I was carrying a watermelon. It was a Dick Gregory joke. | To say the least, not everyone liked that joke, but I thought it was hilarious, a jab by the hottest comedian in the country at one of the oldest racial stereotypes. Some of the black demonstrators in that little parade felt that Gregory's version of guerrilla theater (in which I was a bit…
truthdig.com/articles/what-america-can-learn-from-dick-gregory/

Facial Recognition Technology Is Aiding ICE in Sanctuary Cities
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-08
| Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the fourth U.S. city last week to ban the use of facial recognition software amid privacy and civil liberties concerns. Oakland, San Francisco and Somerville, Massachusetts, have passed similar bans, and ordinances are now pending in Berkeley, Califor…
truthout.org/articles/facial-recognition-technology-is-aiding-ice-in-sanctuary-cities/

Demonizing Immigrants and Mental Health Conditions is Not a Solution to Gun Violence
Amnesty International | indybay.org | 2019-08-08
Responding to President Donald Trump's speech following a spate of mass shootings over the weekend, Ernest Coverson, Amnesty International USA's End Gun Violence campaign manager said: "Gun violence reform cannot come at the expense of the human rights of any community. When President Trump links background checks for guns with immigration reform, he is once again demonizing immigrants and communities of color. The Trump administration will stop at nothing to shut down the border and limit safety to those who most need it. It is outrageous to denounce bigotry in one breath and terrorize the community that was tar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/05/18825225.php

Large turnout to view George Washington murals slated for destruction
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-08-08
Reese explains why all who defend democratic rights and artistic freedom must oppose the proposed destruction of the Victor Arnautoff murals at George Washington High School.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/07/18825257.php

The hidden refugee 'hell' in Melbourne
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-08
Located in the suburb of Broadmeadows, Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) has been described as a "hidden hell for refugees". | Addressing a forum organised by the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) on August 5 by video message, Iraqi refugee Ali Yousuf, who was previously in MITA and is now in an Adelaide detention centre, said MITA guards regularly provoke people, seeking any reaction as an excuse to attack them. Yousuf suffered a broken hand when assaulted by a guard. | Yousuf said that detention is a waste of money that could be spent on helping the sick and people with disabilities. | He said th…
greenleft.org.au/content/melbournes-refugee-hell

The real threat to free speech
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-08
greenleft.org.au/content/real-threat-free-speech

ICE Raids 7 Food Factories in MS, Promising Deportations
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-07
U.S. immigration authorities arrested nearly 700 people at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday in what federal officials said could be the largest worksite ICE raid to ever happen in a single state. | RELATED: | Guatemala Farmers Strike Against US Migration Deal | Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement they detained about 680 people who were working without proper documents. The agents said they also seized business records from the…
telesurenglish.net/news/ICE-Raids-7-Food-Factories-in-MS-Promising-Deportations-20190807-0033.html

Wednesday's Daily Brief: Syrian detainees, Zimbabwe hunger crisis, Kabul attack, Mexico disappearances, new tech to feed the world
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-07
Wednesday's top stories: Syrian detainees "failed by Security Council"; Zimbabwe experiencing "worst-ever hunger crisis"; Guterres welcomes new Mozambique peace accord; deadly Kabul attack; Mexico "responsible for enforced disappearances"; indigenous languages at risk; and how innovation should be used to feed the world.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043901

BAYAN-USA: Stop the Attacks on Human Rights Defenders Now!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-07
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from BAYAN-USA. | Threats and Harassment by Government Forces Foreshadowed Shooting of Human Rights Defender Brandon Lee | BAYAN-USA condemns the shooting of Brandon Lee, Cordillera Human Rights Alliance's paralegal volunteer and provincial human rights officer in Ifugao, on August 6 in Lagawe, Ifugao leaving him seriously injured. This attack is part of a spate of attacks on human rights defenders targeted by the U.S.-Duterte regime in its attempts to violently silence all opposition. It was Lee's dedication to seeking justice for victims of human ri…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/7/bayan-usa…

Global Human Rights Movement Issues Travel Warning for the U.S. Due to Rampant Gun Violence
commondreams.org | 2019-08-07
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/08/07/global-human-rights-movement-issues-travel-warning-us-due-rampant-gun-violence?cd-origin=rss

Four in 10 indigenous languages at risk of disappearing, warn UN human rights experts
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-07
Of 7,000 indigenous languages spoken today, four in 10 are in danger of disappearing, rights experts said on Wednesday, in a call for a decade of action to reverse the "historic destruction" of age-old dialects.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043871

BAYAN-USA: Stop the Attacks on Human Rights Defenders Now!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-07
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from BAYAN-USA. | Threats and Harassment by Government Forces Foreshadowed Shooting of Human Rights Defender Brandon Lee | BAYAN-USA condemns the shooting of Brandon Lee, Cordillera Human Rights Alliance's paralegal volunteer and provincial human rights officer in Ifugao, on August 6 in Lagawe, Ifugao leaving him seriously injured. This attack is part of a spate of attacks on human rights defenders targeted by the U.S.-Duterte regime in its attempts to violently silence all opposition. It was Lee's dedication to seeking justice for victims of human ri…
fightbacknews.org/2019/8/7/bayan-usa-stop-attacks-human-rights-defenders-now

More Sanctions Against Venezuela Means More Suffering
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-07
The Trump administration's new sanctions freeze all of Venezuela's U.S.-based assets and those of anyone who helps Maduro which will only increase poverty, says Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodriguez…
therealnews.com/stories/more-sanctions-against-venezuela-means-more-suffering

EU Opposes Recent US Total Blockade Against Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-07
The European Union said Wednesday it rejected new moves by the White House to impose a total blockade on Venezuela. Though the EU has also placed sanctions on the elected government of Venezuela, they oppose U.S. attempts to extend the sanctions 'extraterritorially'. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces the 'Imperialist' Total Blockade by US | "We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures," said EU spokesperson Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordejuela, spokesperson for the…
telesurenglish.net/news/EU-Opposes-Recent-US-Total-Blockade-Against-Venezuela–20190807-0006.html

Texas Police Captured Leading Black Man Through Streets on Rope
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-07
Galveston police Chief Vernon Hale III has issued a public apology for the officers' behavior. Civil rights leader say it's not enough.
truthdig.com/articles/texas-police-captured-dragging-black-man-through-streets-on-rope/

I Said No to a Netflix Series Audition Because I Support Palestinian Rights
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-07
| I'm an actor in the U.S. film and television industry. I've been around for more than 40 years. Recently, I was invited to audition for a new Netflix television series with the working title "Sycamore." The appointment sheet informed me that I would be trying out for the role of Martin Wexler, a series regular character described as an American politician, living in New York — "approachable, distinguished, practiced, and elusive." | I was intrigued by the role, and I was preparing…
truthout.org/articles/i-said-no-to-a-netflix-series-audition-because-i-support-palestinian-rights/

#WhiteSupremacyKills: 100+ civil rights groups rally to reject GOP's excuses for massacres and demand concrete action
Julia Conley | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-07
More than 100 civil rights groups rallied outside the White House Tuesday to unequivocally state that white supremacy, easy access to guns, and indifference from policymakers about both were to blame for the massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend. Gun control and racial justice advocates assembled in the nation's capital …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/07/whitesupremacykills-100-civil-rights-groups-rally-to-reject-gops-excuses-for-massacres-and-demand-concrete-action/

UN Security Council 'utterly failed' Syrian detainees; a victim voices her plea to 'end impunity and stop this horror'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-07
The Security Council has "utterly failed Syrian detainees and their families", Amina Khoulani, Co-founder of Families for Freedom, told the Security Council on Wednesday, during a meeting focussed on those who have been jailed or gone missing across Syria, during years of brutal conflict.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043891

Spooks behind Patriot Act, drone & torture programs unite to 'secure' US elections, free of charge
rt.com | 2019-08-07
A group of former intelligence agency directors and other trustworthy cybersecurity pros has launched a charitable initiative to protect US elections against foreign interference. So who are these noble guardians of democracy? | …
rt.com/usa/465938-cyberdome-election-meddling-cia-dhs/

Selected Articles: The US-China Trade War
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-what-future-us-china-trade-war/5685810

Demonizing Immigrants and Mental Health Conditions is Not a Solution to Gun Violence
Amnesty International | indybay.org | 2019-08-07
Responding to President Donald Trump's speech following a spate of mass shootings over the weekend, Ernest Coverson, Amnesty International USA's End Gun Violence campaign manager said: "Gun violence reform cannot come at the expense of the human rights of any community. When President Trump links background checks for guns with immigration reform, he is once again demonizing immigrants and communities of color. The Trump administration will stop at nothing to shut down the border and limit safety to those who most need it. It is outrageous to denounce bigotry in one breath and terrorize the community that was tar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/05/18825225.php

'US Doesn't Want Talks, They Want Violence:' President Maduro
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-06
In an interview published Monday, Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal sat down with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and discussed the state of the nations, touching on the effects of U.S. sanctions and the challenges being faced from the U.S. and within the Bolivarian ranks. The details are as follows. | RELATED: | Arreaza: US Total Blockade Will Make People Suffer But Won't Break Venezuela | Breaking out of U.S.-imposed isolation: | During the interview…
telesurenglish.net/news/The-KKK-in-White-House-Doesnt-Want-Talks-They-Want-Violence-President-Maduro-20190806-0018.html

Washington Escalates Venezuela Sanctions into Full-Fledged Embargo
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-08-06
The latest measures amount to a total trade embargo impacting both US and foreign entities.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14615

Intensified Al Qaeda and ISIL activity in Yemen 'deeply worrying', says UN Human Rights Office
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-06
Armed groups affiliated with the Al Qaeda and ISIL terror groups, appear to have intensified their activities in Yemen, Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) declared on Tuesday, describing the situation as an example of "deeply worrying developments" that have seriously impacted civilians over the past ten days.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043801

Trump announces total economic embargo on Venezuela, collectively punishing civilian population
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2019-08-06
On 5 August, Donald Trump used an executive order to announce a total economic embargo on Venezuela. The embargo comes after years of crippling and illegal US sanctions,…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/08/06/trump-announces-total-economic-embargo-on-venezuela-collectively-punishing-civilian-population/

US economic war on Venezuela an 'attack on private property and threat to world order'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-06
Venezuela's vice president has said the latest US sanctions freezing the assets of Nicolás Maduro's government are an attack on private property and a threat to world order. | Foreign companies which continue to do business with Venezuela's government can face retaliation in the US under the asset freeze, which was announced on Monday night. | Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez said: "The US has to understand once and for all that they aren't the owners of the world." | She said that "every country that has investments in t…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/08/06/us-economic-war-on-venezuela-an-attack-on-private-property-and-threat-to-world-order/

Tuesday's Daily Brief: Venezuela-Colombia baby breakthrough, Italy piles on rescue boat pressure, States must combat hate, Kashmir rights latest and a musical plea to combat CAR hunger
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-06
Tuesday's main stories: Colombia offers nationality to born of Venezuelan parents; '€1 million' fines for rescue boats; States must do more to stop hate attacks; Egypt terror attack condemned by Security Council, UN chief; Kashmir developments risk people's rights; and striking a chord for 1.8 million hungry Central Africans.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043821

Workers March in Brazil Against Government Pensions Reform
teleSUR, ao -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-06
Workers marched Tuesday through the streets of Sao Paulo against the pension reform proposed by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. | RELATED: | 'Criminals Must Die Like Cockroaches': Brazil President | The demonstrations, organized by Brazilian unions and social organizations, seek to prevent the approval of the pension reform, as Congress gets set for a second round of debates regarding the controversial bill. | The unions affirm that the bill violates workers' rights and, ther…
telesurenglish.net/news/Workers-March-in-Brazil-against-Governments-Pensions-Reform-20190806-0035.html

Colombia offers nationality rights to Venezuelan children born there: UN hails 'very important step'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-06
The UN migration agency, IOM, has welcomed Colombia's decision on Monday to grant nationality status to more than 24,000 Venezuelan babies born inside the country after their parents fled across the border.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043771

Tens of thousands of workers strike throughout Hong Kong
wsws.org | 2019-08-06
The ruling class throughout the world is deeply fearful of the spread of social discontent as the working class moves into open struggle for its democratic and social rights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/06/hong…

All States have 'primary responsibility' to protect against hate attacks
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-06
The UN's top rights official has added her voice to condemnation of the weekend mass-shootings in the cities of El Paso and Dayton, insisting on Tuesday that "not just the US, but all States" should do more to stop discrimination.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043791

#WhiteSupremacyKills: 100+ Civil Rights Groups Rally to Reject GOP's Excuses for Massacres and Demand Concrete Action
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-06
More than 100 civil rights groups rallied outside the White House Tuesday to unequivocally state that white supremacy, easy access to guns, and indifference from policymakers about both were to blame for the shootings. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/06/whitesupremacykills-100-civil-rights-groups-rally-reject-gops-excuses-massacres-and?cd-origin=rss

New Civil Rights Memorial to be installed on 54th anniversary of Voting Rights Act
splcenter.org | 2019-08-05
Jimmie Lee Jackson was beaten and shot by Alabama state troopers during a peaceful voting rights march on Feb. 18, 1965.
splcenter.org/news/2019/08/06/new-civil-rights-memorial-be-installed-54th-anniversary-voting-rights-act

Myanmar companies bankroll 'brutal operations' of military, independent UN experts claim in new report
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-05
Money earned by the Myanmar military from international and domestic business deals, "substantially enhances its ability to carry out gross violations of human rights with impunity" according to a report released on Monday by an independent United Nations group looking into military-business ties in the South East Asian country.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043701

The Forgotten Rohingya Refugees
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-05
Existence is resistance: a quarter of a million Rohingya refugees live in Malaysia with no legal rights or protections…
therealnews.com/stories/the-forgotten-rohingya-refugees

Amid Conservative Assault on Organized Labor, Democratic Lawmakers Are Advancing Laws to Expand Workers' Rights
Rachel M. Cohen | theintercept.com | 2019-08-05
Nevada and Delaware passed laws this summer giving public-sector workers the right to collectively bargain. Colorado is expected to follow suit next year.
theintercept.com/2019/08/05/unions-collective-bargaining-laws/

'You don't have any rights': CBP agents interrogate US citizen and seize his phone after Venezuela solidarity trip
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-03
The detention of a US citizen returning from Venezuela was an apparent extension of the US government's efforts to punish…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/03/cbp-agents-interrogate-us-citizen-venezuela/

The Lines Between Us: The Modern History of Baltimore Apartheid (2/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-02
In part two, Lawrence Lanahan says the fight for fair housing did not end after the civil rights movement.
therealnews.com/stories/the-lines-between-us-the-modern-history-of-baltimore-apartheid-2-2

Boycott HP products to show solidarity with Palestinians
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-02
Not many people know about the role of IT giant HP in Israel's grave violations of Palestinian rights and its system of military occupation, racial segregation and oppression. | Just as many companies profited from the South African Apartheid regime, HP is today profiting from Israel's apartheid policies towards Palestinians. It supplies Israel with technology, equipment and information that is used in its ongoing violations of Palestinians' rights. | July marked a year since Israel adopted its Jewish "nation-state" law, giving constitutional status to its apartheid policies towards Palestinian citizens of Israel…
greenleft.org.au/content/boycott-hp-products-show-solidarity-palestinians

Dolores Huerta & Cornel West Respond to Democratic Debate as Biden & Harris Face Harsh Scrutiny
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-01
Ten presidential hopefuls took the stage Wednesday evening for the second night of a Democratic debate in Detroit. During the night, former Vice President Joe Biden defended his record after facing numerous attacks on his record on criminal justice, the Iraq War, immigration and women's rights. Senator Kamala Harris also faced criticism over her record as California attorney general. We speak to the legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta, who is co-chair of Kamala Harris's campaign, and Harvard professor Cornel West, who has endorsed Bernie Sanders.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/1/seg_1

Dolores Huerta Accuses Biden of "Speaking Just Like a Republican" on Immigration
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-01
Immigration rights activists abruptly interrupted Joe Biden during last night's debate, chanting "3 million deportations!"–referring to the Obama administration's deportation of at least 3 million undocumented people. During the debate, Julián Castro repeatedly challenged Biden's record on immigration. "It looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't," Castro said. We speak to Dolores Huerta and Cornel West.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/1/dolores_hu…

US Sanctions Iran's Foreign Minister; Move Seen as Rebuke of Diplomatic Offer
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-08-01
The latest US sanctions on Iran are very specific, hitting FM Javad Zarif, blocking all property and financial interests he has in the US.

US Sanctions Iran's Foreign Minister; Move Seen as Rebuke of Diplomatic Offer

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson | progressive.org | 2019-08-01
A legendary civil rights organization comes face-to-face with white supremacy–again.
progressive.org/magazine/receiving-our-inheritance-woodard-henderson/

Candidates, Your Views on the Middle East? You Have 30 Seconds
Alex Emmons | theintercept.com | 2019-08-01
If you blinked, you might have missed it. | Across the five hours of Democratic primary debates split between two nights this week, the presidential hopefuls discussed the future of U.S. foreign policy for no more than 25 minutes. | Other policy areas had it worse. There were no questions either night on Puerto Rico, for example, or LGBT issues, or reproductive rights. But the scant attention to foreign policy was striking precisely because it's the area in which a president has the most power to change things on their own. If the next president wants to rejoin the Paris climate agreement or renegotiate the Iran…
theintercept.com/2019/08/01/candidates-your-views-on-the-middle-east-you-have-30-seconds/