(2019-06-29). EU meeting on Iran ends with no agreement to prevent US war. wsws.org The Iranian government reportedly objected to the European powers' refusal to defy crippling US sanctions on Iran's oil exports.
(2019-06-29). Video of Obama-appointed lawyer defending the denial of child detainees soap, toothpaste sparks outrage. wsws.org Justice Department attorney Sarah Fabian argued that it is legal to deny immigrant children in detention soap, toothpaste, blankets, and a place to sleep for days or weeks on end.
(2019-06-29). Nationwide 'Close the Camps' Demonstrations Announced to Protest Horrific Conditions at Trump Detention Centers. commondreams.org "We need to fight for immigrant families and stop Donald Trump's racist policies, and we can only do it together." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-29). Tech privacy pioneer Ola Bini released after 70 days of extrajudicial detention in Ecuador. mronline.org 
After 70 days in preventive detention without formal charges, Ola Bini's request for habeas corpus was granted, and shortly after, he was released from prison. | Source
(2019-06-29). Stop ICE Raids/Stop Detentions–planning meeting for July 5 protest. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk Street (near Ellis), San Francisco | (near Civic Center BART, on/near Muni #19, 31, 38, 47, 49)…
(2019-06-29). #CloseTheCamps: National Protests Against Inhumane Detention of Children & Families. indybay.org Protests around San Francisco Bay Area, throughout California, and nationwide | Find an event in your area (keep checking back as new events are being added): act.moveon.org/event/close-camps-now_att……
(2019-06-28). New coup attempt and 'bloodbath' foiled, according to Venezuelan government. thecanary.co On 26 June, the Venezuelan government revealed that it had foiled a renewed coup plot. The plan allegedly involved the assassination of the country's elected president, Nicolás Maduro, and other high-rank…
(2019-06-28). 'Hands off Venezuela' forum calls for solidarity. greenleft.org.au 
"We are resisting", is the answer that Venezuelan-Australian activist Eulalia Reyes receives when she speaks to friends and family back home. "Right now, international solidarity is so important for the Venezuelan people, who are fighting against US sanctions and threats of military intervention", she said. | Reyes was speaking at a "Hands off Venezuela" public meeting held at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) offices on June 25. The forum addressed the current crisis in Venezuela and the US-led campaign for "regime change" against President Nicolas Maduro. | The meeting opened with an Acknowledgement of Cou…
(2019-06-28). Trump Admin. Ratchets Up Tensions With Threat to Sanction Any Nation That Imports Iranian Oil. commondreams.org "Sanctions aren't [an] alternative to war; they ARE war," said Iranian foreign minister after U.S. imposed new economic penalties | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-28). US Threatens to Sanction Any Nation That Imports Iranian Oil. theantimedia.com (CD) — President Donald Trump's special envoy for Iran further stoked tensions between Iran and the U.S. on Friday when he said the United States will sanction any country that imports Iranian crude oil. Envoy Brian Hook, in his comments to reporters in London, said that there were no exemptions, reiterating a threat the Trump administration made two months earlier. …
(2019-06-28). LGBTQ Activists Demand an End to the Pinkwashing of Militarism. truthout.org Fifty years ago, the Stonewall uprising — whose leaders prominently included Black trans women and trans women of color — took the fight for LGBTQ liberation to the next level. It was a rebellion against police violence and the state-sanctioned oppression of LGBTQ people. This type of state-sanctioned oppression includes imperialism and war all over the world, which is why many LGBTQ activists are also challenging the actions of the U.S. military. | Given this history, on the anniversary of Stonewall, it's worth lo…
(2019-06-28). Working in Prison, I Witnessed the Inhumane Conditions of Solitary for Incarcerated Women. aclu.org Solitary confinement can amount to torture. One practitioner witnessed this first hand, and shares her story and her journey to action. | At the first checkpoint at Tennessee Prison for Women, there was a large, scrolling television screen behind the desk displaying the image of two pairs of hands — one pair with a key and one pair in handcuffs. The message read, "You can either be one of us or one of them." I had been working in the facility for less than a year, but this message exemplified an uneasiness I had long felt without articulating: The prison's faàßade of "rehabilitation" masked a system s…
(2019-06-28). Stop ICE Raids/Stop Detentions–planning meeting for July 5 protest. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk Street (near Ellis), San Francisco | (near Civic Center BART, on/near Muni #19, 31, 38, 47, 49)…
(2019-06-28). Families Torn Apart by the US's Deadly Immigration Policy. truthout.org From babies to teenagers, the Trump administration continues to rip thousands of immigrant children away from their parents at the border. Despite a court order to halt the process, this inhumane policy of family separation continues. Six immigrant children have died in U.S. detention since Trump took office. Six families will never be reunited. | Families belong together. What will it take to stop the Trump administration and it's racist policies? Visit Brave New Films to discover actions you can take to help reunite immigrant families now.
(2019-06-28). Now We Know. counterpunch.org 
Perhaps you can commiserate. For the past few weeks I've felt an aching in my chest; an angst I cannot escape. The darkening skies of an ever besieged biosphere aside, the specter of rising fascism undoubtedly looms large now, and war, a global war, now seems inevitable. It's true that the saber rattling has been More
(2019-06-28). 'Fiasco for democracy' as right-wing supreme court gives green light to partisan gerrymandering. nationofchange.org In a decision voting rights advocates warned could open the floodgates for even more extreme and undemocratic redistricting than what is already in place throughout the nation, the right-wing Supreme Court effectively condoned partisan gerrymandering Thursday by ruling that the practice is beyond its constitutional reach. The ruling was 5-4 along party lines, with conservative …
(2019-06-28). 'Beyond Spin Control': Anti-Busing Past Not Going Away as Biden and Staff Dig Themselves Deeper. commondreams.org "Joe Biden's campaign going all in on states rights in the civil rights debate. Just rejecting the entire premise of the civil rights movement!" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-28). The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World. thenation.com The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World…
(2019-06-28). Joe Biden, Get Out of Stonewall. truthout.org On Tuesday, June 18th presidential candidate Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to the Stonewall Inn. He smiled, took selfies with the staff, and spoke about his support for LGBTQ+ rights. This very public visit, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots, seems meant to shore up Biden's liberal bonafides and follows closely the recent apology by the NYPD police chief for the police brutality executed that night. | Biden talked specifically about the need for workplace protections for LGBTQ+ workers and his on-going suppor…
(2019-06-28). Supreme Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging" democracynow.org 
The Supreme Court hands down two major decisions. The first is a victory for Republicans, allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocks the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We get response from Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America." He says the ruling that federal courts can't resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is "almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future."
(2019-06-28). SCOTUS Hands GOP Gerrymandering Victory, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging" truthout.org The Supreme Court hands down two major decisions. The first is a victory for Republicans, allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocks the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We get response from Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. He says the ruling that federal courts can't resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is "almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future." | TR…
(2019-06-28). Five trans women making Pride history. peoplesworld.org 
June marks the month-long celebration of Pride, a global acknowledgment of the social progress made by LGBTQ communities. The founding history of what we now know as Pride is largely rooted in the work of Black and brown trans women and the festivities serve as a commemoration of the Stonewall riots that sparked the gay …
(2019-06-28). 'That Little Girl Was Me': Watch Kamala Harris Confront Joe Biden Over Opposition to School Busing and Praise for Segregationists. commondreams.org Harris pointed to her personal experience as a child who was "bused to school every day" and slammed Biden's "hurtful" comments on his relationship with senators who built careers on opposition to civil rights | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-28). We are Fighting for Immigrants' Rights. Here's What You Can Do. aclu.org We know that a better future is possible, and we at the ACLU, along with our supporters and allies, are daring to create it. | The images of Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, who lost their lives trying to seek refuge in the United States, have left us haunted. They serve as an ever-important reminder of the urgency of the fight for immigrant justice on our southern border and the need to stand up to the Trump administration's policies denying humanitarian protection and basic due process to families fleeing for their lives. | We remain at the frontlines of the family separation fight…
(2019-06-28). Florida Governor Introduces a Poll Tax, Curtailing Amendment 4. aclu.org The law forces returning citizens with criminal records to pay for the right to vote. | On November 6, 2018, nearly 65 percent of Florida voters—more than 5 million people—resoundingly approved Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to over a million of their fellow citizens. By passing Amendment 4, Floridians successfully ushered in the largest expansion of the electorate in nearly 50 years. The people of Florida did it on their own, using a constitutional ballot initiative, to finally achieve change where Florida politicians had failed. | Instead of celebrating this progress, Florida politicians are t…
(2019-06-28). Liberty Has Lost Its Protection. globalresearch.ca July 4 should be a day of mourning. The rights our ancestors fought for have been taken away. | Over the course of my lifetime there has been a fundamental shift in the attitude of the judiciary toward Constitutional rights. I …
(2019-06-28). Harry Hay: Communist pioneer in the fight for gay liberation. peoplesworld.org 
Beginning with the "ghetto riot" at the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village in 1969, an open gay liberation movement came into existence which has been a significant force in the larger peoples' movements for almost a half-century. While most people identify gay liberation with the "New Left" of the 1960s, it, like the civil rights, …
(2019-06-28). 'The Damage Has Been Done': Despite Court Ruling, Experts Say Trump Succeeded in Making Immigrant Communities Fearful of Census. commondreams.org Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of the Trump administration's attempt to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, rights advocates said Friday, the damage to immigrant communities across the country is likely already done. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-27). The Honorable Course in Iran Starts With Ending Sanctions. truthout.org Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for example, is in danger of losing access to medicines because sanctions against Iranian banks make it nearly impossible to pay for imported goods, includi…
(2019-06-27). UK betting companies hit with fines of £19.6m over a year. thecanary.co Betting companies in the UK have paid out £19.6m in penalties over the course of a year for failing to protect problem gamblers and stop money launderers. | The Gambling Commission said it had carried out more than 160 investigations in the 2018/2019 financial year and had imposed a variety of sanctions on operators, including the financial penalties. | Among the firms to be fined were online casino company Daub Alderney, which was ordered to pay £7.1m, and Paddy Power Betfair — now known as Flutter Entertainment — which was fined £2.2m. | The regulator's second annual enforcement re…
(2019-06-27). Argentina Dismantles International Arms Trafficking Gang. plenglish.com 27 de junio de 2019, 08: 56Buenos Aires, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) At least 23 people were detained in a major operation by the Argentine public force, which managed to find the whereabouts of an international gang dedicated to arms trafficking.
(2019-06-27). MintPress Reporter Detained Amid Honduran Police Crackdown on Coup Anniversary Protests. mintpressnews.com Police have been relying on heavy-handed tactics to repress protests for over a month, including the use of live rounds and tear gas. In the past week, the situation has only worsened.
(2019-06-27). A Whistleblower Pointed to ICE Abuse of Solitary Confinement. Now Pressure Mounts for Congressional Investigation. theintercept.com A government watchdog wants a full accounting for abuses against people detained by ICE — and how an internal whistleblower came to be ignored.
(2019-06-27). Most of Those Involved in Attempted Coup in Venezuela Detained. plenglish.com 27 de junio de 2019, 09: 00Caracas, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Most of those involved in the new attempted coup against the Venezuelan government were detained by the country"s authorities, the president of the National Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, said.
(2019-06-27). House Sends Trump $4.6B Border Bill, Yielding to Senate. truthdig.com 
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to send President Donald Trump a bipartisan, Senate-drafted, $4.6 billion measure to care for migrant refugees detained at the southern border, capping a Washington skirmish in which die-hard liberals came out on the losing end in a battle with the White House, the GOP-held Senate and Democratic moderates. | The emergency legislation, required to ease overcrowded, often harsh conditions at U.S. holding facilities for migrants seeking asylum, mostly from Central American nations like Honduras and El Salvador, passed by a bipartisan 305-102 vote. Tru…
(2019-06-27). Drowned Migrant Father-Daughter Left Home For Better Life. telesurenglish.net The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil, becoming a global symbol of the perils of migration, said she had urged her son not to leave, fearing danger would meet him on the long journey north. | RELATED: | 101 Central American Migrants Detained After Raids in Mexico | "I had a fee…
(2019-06-27). 101 Central American Migrants Detained After Raids in Mexico. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Federal Police Wednesday detained 101 migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua in two surveillance operations carried out at Veracruz, a southern Mexican state which is about 450 miles from the border with Guatemala. | RELATED: | Mexico Will Not Detain Migrants at US Border: President AMLO | In the first operation, the police arrested 86 migrants who were hiding in a cargo truck that was crossing through the Tierra Blanca municipality. According to aut…
(2019-06-27). NIAC Applauds Open Letter Signed by Over 100 Iranian Human Rights Defenders Expressing Concern over U.S.-Iran Tensions. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-06-27). Thursday's Daily Brief: dire living conditions in Idlib, migrants at US southern border, end in sight for trachoma, Human Rights Council. un.org This Thursday, we cover: the dire humanitarian situation in Syria's Idlib; living conditions at the US-Mexico border denounced by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF); trachoma-related blindness on the verge of being eliminated; and updates from the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
(2019-06-27). Protecting encryption is about protecting democracy. greenleft.org.au 
Lawyer, writer and digital rights activist Lizzie O'Shea has been named a 2018 Human Rights Hero by Access Now for her leading role in highlighting, analysing and protesting expansive surveillance laws in Australia. Below is an edited version of her acceptance speech on June 11. | *** | Thanks so much to Access Now for this wonderful award. It's such a great initiative to support activists in the field doing important work. Awards usually go to famous people at the top of their fields, and the challenging activist work of mobilising people and community building is rarely acknowledged. I feel honoured, especially…
(2019-06-27). 'Words must never be met with violence' urges UN, following Taliban threat to journalists. un.org Following last week's public threats by Taliban militants to deliberately target media outlets in Afghanistan, the United Nations mission chief in the country reiterated his call on Thursday for journalists' rights to be protected, underlining the power of press freedom to advance peace, justice and human rights.
(2019-06-27). New Details of Horrific Child Abuse Cited in Emergency Restraining Order Request for 'Torture Facilities' Run by US Border Agency. commondreams.org "The preventable physical and mental health harms class members are suffering may be long-lasting, or in some cases, permanent." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-27). Julián Castro Challenges Democrats to End the Criminalization of Immigration. truthout.org The Democrats' first debate was held in Miami, Florida. The venue was less than an hour away from Homestead, Florida, where more than 2,000 unaccompanied minors are incarcerated in a for-profit detention center run by Caliburn. Trump's former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly sits on its board. Prior to the debate, Senators Warren and Klobuchar visited the facility. During the debate, Julián Castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development, criticized the immigration policies of fellow Texan, former Congressmember Beto O'Rourke. We air part of the debate and speak to Ana María Archila o…
(2019-06-27). AOC was actually facing an empty parking lot during emotional border protest photo op. rt.com 
Clutching her face in despair and weeping, photos of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemingly show her strong reaction to a horrific scene of US migrant detention. However, new angles reveal she may have played things up a bit.
(2019-06-27). 'We Owe These Vulnerable Populations More': California Lawmakers Call on Gov. Newsom to Divest State From Child Detention Profiteers. commondreams.org The open letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom cited the #WayfairWalkout as the impetus for the request | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-27). In First Debate, Julián Castro Challenges Democrats to End the Criminalization of Immigration. democracynow.org 
The Democrats' first debate was held in Miami, Florida. The venue was less than an hour away from Homestead, Florida, where more than 2,000 unaccompanied minors are incarcerated in a for-profit detention center run by Caliburn. Trump's former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly sits on its board. Prior to the debate, Senators Warren and Klobuchar visited the facility. During the debate, Julián Castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development, criticized the immigration policies of fellow Texan, former Congressmember Beto O'Rourke. We air part of the debate and speak to Ana María Archila of the Center for…
(2019-06-27). 20 ways you can help immigrants now. nationofchange.org Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says that's fine. Trump threatened then delayed mass immigration raids across the country, using the plan as a bargaining chip with Congress, while families are left in an ever-heightened state of uncertainty. While Congress is continually being …
(2019-06-27). Boston: Hundreds protest Wayfair's profiting from sales to immigrant detention centers. wsws.org Employees learned last week that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture from Wayfair was placed by a private contractor for a detention facility.
(2019-06-27). After Rio Grande tragedy, UNICEF chief highlights 'dire' detention centres on US-Mexico border. un.org The shocking image of a drowned Central American migrant and his infant daughter on the banks of the river dividing Mexico and the United States, continues to evoke strong reactions, the latest from the head of the UN Children's Fund.
(2019-06-27). What Should We Do About Concentration Camps in Trump's America? progressive.org Portland, Maine is welcoming a wave of migrants with kindness as the administration comes under fire for its cruelty at immigrant detention centers.