(2019-07-03). Libya detention centre attack could amount to a war crime says UN, as Guterres calls for independent investigation. un.org A missile attack on a detention centre in Tripoli that killed scores of migrants and refugees "deserves more than condemnation", UN agencies said on Wednesday, as both the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), insisted that it may amount to a war crime.
(2019-07-03). Tucson protest tells Trump: No raids! No deportations! No family separations! fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – Over 100 people braved the intense desert sun Tuesday morning, July 2, to demonstrate their anger at Trump's threat for ICE raids aimed at thousands of undocumented families. Many demonstrators also expressed their demand to reunite families and to close the concentration camps operating as detention centers. | Outside the federal building protesters held signs reading "Close the camps!" and "Dismantle ICE!" The group then marched to the Pima County Office to demand an end to the Sheriff's collaboration with ICE and Border Patrol. Organizer from Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Isabel Garcia, said "The…
(2019-07-03). Air Strike on Libya's Migrant Center Is a 'War Crime': UN. telesurenglish.net United Nations Libya envoy Ghassan Salame condemned Tuesday an attack on a migrant center which killed 44, saying it "clearly amounts to the level of a war crime." | RELATED: | Libya: UN-Backed Gov't Retakes Key City South of Tripoli | An air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late Tuesday, killing at lea…
(2019-07-03). Airstrike on a Detention Centre in Tripoli Leave More Than Forty Migrants Dead Hundreds Injured. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-07-03). Tucson protest tells Trump: No raids! No deportations! No family separations! fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – Over 100 people braved the intense desert sun Tuesday morning, July 2, to demonstrate their anger at Trump's threat for ICE raids aimed at thousands of undocumented families. Many demonstrators also expressed their demand to reunite families and to close the concentration camps operating as detention centers. | Outside the federal building protesters held signs reading "Close the camps!" and "Dismantle ICE!" The group then marched to the Pima County Office to demand an end to the Sheriff's collaboration with ICE and Border Patrol. Organizer from Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Isabel Garcia, said "The…
(2019-07-03). American Concentration Camps, Then and Now. counterpunch.org 
In our history textbooks, "Japanese internment," as it's carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens — can be more accurately described as one of the worst More
(2019-07-03). 'This Attack Clearly Could Constitute a War Crime,' Says UN Envoy After at Least 44 Killed in Bombing of Libyan Migrant Detention Center. commondreams.org The overnight bombing of a migrant detention center in Tajoura, Libya that killed at least 44 people and severely injured 130 more elicited sharp criticism from United Nations officials and drew global attention to the war-torn North African nation's role in the global refugee crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-07-03). As Trump Announces Mass Immigration Raid, Documents Show How ICE Uses Arrest Quotas. theintercept.com As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at the behest of President Donald Trump, plans mass raids following the July Fourth holiday, newly released documents shed light on the tactics the agency employs during such operations. | The documents, released Wednesday by the immigrant rights groups Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Detention Watch Network, show that ICE officials are building arrest target lists for mass raids to meet specific numbers, even as the agency continues to internally and publicly stress a "public safety" rationale for immigration arrests. | Most…
(2019-07-03). Headlines for July 3, 2019. democracynow.org DHS Watchdog: "Dangerous Overcrowding" and Dire Conditions at Texas Migrant Jails, 30-Year-Old Honduran Migrant Dies in U.S. Custody, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Deny Bail to Asylum Seekers, DHS Fining Immigrants Up to $500,000 for Not Leaving the U.S., Nationwide Protests Demand Lawmakers #CloseTheCamps, Cory Booker Vows to End Immigrant Detention in 2020 Proposal, In Defeat for Trump Admin, 2020 Census Will Not Include Citizenship Question, House Dems Sue Treasury and IRS over Trump's Tax Returns, Airstrike Hits Migrant Detention Center in Libya, Killing At Least 40, Ethiopian-Israeli Community Protests…
(2019-07-03). Abhorrent Attack on Migrant Detention Center in Libya Must Be Investigated as a War Crime. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-07-03). Reporting a Rape in Immigration Jail: One Asylum Seeker's Fight for Justice. truthout.org Content note: This article contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault.In a shaky, melancholy voice over a staticky phone line from the Yuba County Jail in northern California, Rene Lopez told Rewire.News she is depressed, scared, and alone. | The gender-nonconforming 24-year-old, who identifies as a gay boy and uses she/her pronouns, said she was raped by another detainee this past spring. | Lopez and her attorney have sought justice without success. They have struggled to access basic information from officials at the jail and within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who are investigating t…
(2019-07-03). Australian workers and youth speak out in defence of Assange at SEP rally. wsws.org "No other political party, none of the human rights groups are acting. Amnesty is doing nothing! Getup is doing nothing!"
(2019-07-03). Grievous violations continue against Myanmar civilians, Human Rights Council hears. un.org Marginalized communities in Myanmar still face "grievous human rights violations" at the hands of security forces, a UN-appointed independent expert said this week, while repeating her call for an international and independent probe into the 2017 exodus from Rakhine state.
(2019-07-03). Restrictions, unmet promises, unbridled violence in Sudan, a 'recipe for disaster', says Bachelet. un.org After nationwide protests across Sudan on Sunday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday called on Sudanese authorities to lift restrictions on the internet and launch independent investigations into all acts of violence against demonstrators, and allegations of excessive force, including attacks on hospitals.
(2019-07-03). Minneapolis: 4000 march against Trump's separation of families, concentration camps at the border. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On June 30, 4000 people marched in South Minneapolis to stand with immigrants and Muslims who are under attack by the Trump administration. | The skies cleared from an earlier downpour as marchers went from Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue in the heart of the immigrant community, through Uptown and to the First Universalist Church, where there was an indoor rally. The church sanctuary as well as an overflow room were filled to capacity, with more people continuing to rally outside. | The huge protest came together quickly as word of the horrific conditions in the border concentration camps spread…
(2019-07-03). Minneapolis: 4000 march against Trump's separation of families, concentration camps at the border. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On June 30, 4000 people marched in South Minneapolis to stand with immigrants and Muslims who are under attack by the Trump administration. | The skies cleared from an earlier downpour as marchers went from Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue in the heart of the immigrant community, through Uptown and to the First Universalist Church, where there was an indoor rally. The church sanctuary as well as an overflow room were filled to capacity, with more people continuing to rally outside. | The huge protest came together quickly as word of the horrific conditions in the border concentration camps spread…
(2019-07-03). How the Third Temple Movement in Israel Rebranded Theocracy as "Civil Rights" mintpressnews.com 
The Temple Activist movement is now more mainstream than ever before and its effort to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, has advanced with great rapidity since the year began and has picked up precipitously in recent weeks.
(2019-07-03). Scott Warren of No More Deaths Faces Retrial for Providing Humanitarian Aid to Migrants in Arizona. democracynow.org 
Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian aid volunteer and immigration rights activist Scott Warren on two charges related to aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes just a few weeks after a jury refused to convict Warren for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Eight jurors found Warren not guilty; four said he was. Federal prosecutors will make their case against Warren again in an 8-day jury trial in November. They have dropped a conspiracy charge against him. If convicted on the tw…
(2019-07-03). Is US Democracy Dying a Slow and Barely Visible Death? therealnews.com 
Ret. Col. Larry Wilkerson examines the dangers that Republican efforts to abridge voting rights and that Trump's racist and violent exhortations represent to US democracy…
(2019-07-03). California gig workers eye a win if landmark bill passes state Senate. peoplesworld.org 
SAN FRANCISCO—If a law now wending its way through the state legislature passes its final hurdles this summer, hundreds of thousands of California workers now called "independent contractors" will be poised to gain essential benefits like Social Security, unemployment insurance, overtime pay, and workers' compensation, as well as vital rights like collective bargaining. Assembly Bill …
(2019-07-03). Outrage over manslaughter charge facing Alabama woman who miscarried after shooting. wsws.org The case of Marshae Jones is part of the escalating attacks on abortion rights and the criminalization of the poor.
(2019-07-03). Thousands of Voices Are Telling the Supreme Court: Don't Roll Back LGBTQ Rights. aclu.org Businesses, women CEOs, civil rights organizations, Republicans tell the Supreme Court to protect LGBTQ employees like Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda. | President Trump has told the Supreme Court it should be legal to fire someone just because they're LGBTQ. The President may be a bully, but he's just one voice. Today, more than 2,000 voices from across the country joined together to tell the Supreme Court: Don't roll back our rights. | The message came in the form of friend-of-the-court briefs—nearly 50 in all—filed in a…
(2019-07-03). Portugal's Doctors, Nurses Strike to Demand Labor Rights. telesurenglish.net Portugal's Independent Physicians Union (SIM), the National Federation of Physicians (FNAM) and the Democratic Union of Nurses (Sindepor) began Tuesday a four-day nationwide strike in the defense of the National Health Service (SNS). | RELATED: | Portugal: First Eurozone Country to Issue 'Panda Bonds' in Yuan | "Doctors are striking as a form of open protest against the degradation of work, welfare state and health services, which has been brought about by years of an uncontrolle…
(2019-07-03). Florida makes the restoration of voting rights contingent on criminal debt payments. nationofchange.org Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure approved by state lawmakers that makes the restoration of voting rights for people convicted of felonies contingent on having paid off all criminal debt associated with their conviction. A coalition of civil rights groups immediately filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the new law by having it declared unconstitutional. I'm …
(2019-07-03). Tehran To Reopen Nuclear Reactor If EU Backs out of Iran Deal. telesurenglish.net Iran is ready to reopen the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor if the EU fails to live up to its commitments in the Iran nuclear deal known as JCPOA, President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday. | RELATED: | Iran Increases Uranium Production Beyond Nuclear Deal's Limit | Iran had agreed to shut down and repurpose the plant in 2015 due to the JCPOA, but the government now says it is ready to restart nuclear activities if the deal is not respected. | Rouhani said that his country is re…
(2019-07-03). In photos: As fury grows, tens of thousands rally across us demanding immediate action to #ClosetheCamps. nationofchange.org 
Tens of thousands of Americans showed up at rallies across the country on Tuesday to demand the Trump administration close the detention centers and prison camps where migrants are being held. The "Close the Camps" rallies were organized by MoveOn and other progressive organizations in response to growing public outrage over the Trump administration's treatment of asylum …
(2019-07-02). Amnesty International Condemns U.S. Attacks on Border Journalists and Human Rights Defenders. theintercept.com The shape of the Trump administration's approach to policing immigration is at this point familiar. Since January 2017, federal agents and officers have been under orders to enforce a harsh interpretation of immigration laws without restraint. The result has most infamously manifested in the forced separation of immigrant parents from their children and, more recently, a series of horrific reports detailing conditions in border-area detention centers. | Though undocumented people have always been the core target of this campaign, the blast radius of the government's hyper-politicized crackdown has steadily expand…
(2019-07-02). Libya: 40 Dead and 80 Wounded in Airstrike on Migrant Center. telesurenglish.net At least 40 people have been killed and 80 injured on Tuesday due to an airstrike on a migrant detention center situated in the suburb ofTajoura, in the east of Tripoli, where several military camps of forces allied to Libya's United-Nations (U.N.)-backed government are located, according to Malek Mersek, a spokesman for state emergency medical services. | RELATED: | Libya's UN-Backed Gov't Says US Missiles Found at LNA Base | The Tripoli-based government National Accord (GNA) blamed the eastern forces…
(2019-07-02). Girl recalls abuse in Texas border station. peoplesworld.org 
For almost two weeks, a 12-year-old migrant girl said she and her 6-year-old sister were held inside a Border Patrol station in Texas where they slept on the floor and some children were locked away when they cried for their parents. She was one of hundreds of migrant children who have been held this year …
(2019-07-02). "THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN:" TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION XENOPHOBIA IS BEING IMPLEMENTED BY ROTTENLY RACIST BORDER GUARDS. blackstarnews.com 
Trump's racist immigration detention and child separation policy is causing death and misery… | Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America's Voice: "We are witnessing a human rights crisis in real time, the magnitude of which should shake us to our core. | As the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down. And Donald Trump has failed and corrupted the system from top to bottom, emboldening an already out of control agency, and advancing policies and actions that are resulting in a callous disregard for basic humanity and exacting a terrible toll that…
(2019-07-02). In Photos: As Fury Grows, Tens of Thousands Rally Across US Demanding Immediate Action to #CloseTheCamps. commondreams.org Tens of thousands of Americans showed up at rallies across the country on Tuesday to demand the Trump administration close the detention centers and prison camps where migrants are being held. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-07-02). "It's Time to Fight Back": Hundreds of #CloseTheCamps Rallies Planned Across the Country Amid Reports of Abuse in Detention Centers. commondreams.org Amid reports of severe abuse and neglect in the immigrant detention centers the Trump administration is running, human rights campaigners are planning hundreds of demonstrations on Tuesday to demand the closing of the prisons and the reunification of all families who have been separated by the government. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-07-02). Inside the Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths. truthout.org Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings. | In one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to…
(2019-07-02). Venezuela: 'Shocked' by alleged torture, death of navy captain, UN human rights chief urges 'in-depth' investigation. un.org The UN human rights chief has expressed her deep concern over the alleged torture and subsequent death of a retired navy captain who had been imprisoned in Venezuela, urging authorities to conduct a prompt, thorough, independent, and transparent investigation into his death.
(2019-07-02). UN Investigator Reports Possible New War Crimes in Myanmar. telesurenglish.net Myanmar security forces and insurgents are committing human rights violations against civilians in restive western states that may amount to fresh war crimes, a United Nations investigator said on Tuesday. | RELATED: | Reuters Journalists Jailed for Reporting on Rohingyas, Freed | Yanghee Lee, the U.N. independent expert on human rights in Myanmar, said last week the army may be committing gross human rights violations under cover of a mobile phone blackout in Rakhine and Chan, bu…
(2019-07-02). Tuesday's Daily Brief: Hunger crisis in DR Congo, Swine Fever in Asia, Venezuela death investigation call, updates on Eritrea and Syria. un.org This Tuesday, UN News covers: Growing food crisis in DR Congo; Swine Fever threatens millions of livelihoods in Asia; Human Rights Council told of persistent violations in Eritrea; and the humanitarian impact of on-going fighting in Syria.
(2019-07-02). Human rights imperialism, social media censorship and the fraud of Facebook's "Oversight Board" wsws.org Behind the recent report on the creation of an Oversight Board to oversee "content decisions" at Facebook is a plan for social media censorship in defense of the global capitalist system.
(2019-07-02). SPLC sues Florida officials to keep citizens from losing right to vote again. splcenter.org After completing her prison sentence and probation time, Rosemary McCoy had her voting rights restored and cast a ballot in the Jacksonville, Florida, runoff city council election earlier this year.
(2019-07-02). 2020 Census Form Will Not Include Citizenship Question, Trump Administration Says. theintercept.com The Trump administration admitted defeat on Tuesday, confirming that forms for the 2020 U.S. census will not include a question asking residents who respond to the survey if they are U.S. citizens. The change of plans follows last week's Supreme Court decision that the Commerce Department had failed to provide a valid reason for adding the question. | The news was conveyed in an email from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to lawyers who had contested the effort in lawsuits, and confirmed to The Intercept by…
(2019-07-02). Florida Makes Voting Restoration Contingent on Criminal Debt Payment. truthout.org Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure approved by state lawmakers that makes the restoration of voting rights for people convicted of felonies contingent on having paid off all criminal debt associated with their conviction. | A coalition of civil rights groups immediately filed a lawsuit in federal court t…
(2019-07-02). Census Will Be Printed Without Citizenship Question. truthdig.com WASHINGTON — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query. | Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would be starting, said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. | Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco confirmed there would be "no citizenship question on…
(2019-07-02). UK: GCHQ/MI5 admit illegally spying on millions. wsws.org Their admissions were the result of a court case brought by the civil rights group Liberty.
(2019-07-02). The Social Movement Photography of David Bacon: Part Four, United Fruit Workers Tell the World, "We're Still Here." progressive.org A year after the death of labor rights activist Cesar Chavez, United Fruit Workers organize a march and 15,000 workers join in.
(2019-07-02). The Social Movement Photography of David Bacon: Part Four, United Fruit Workers Tell the World, "We're Still Here." progressive.org A year after the death of labor rights activist Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers organize a march and 15,000 workers join in.
(2019-07-02). Eastern N.C. union organizing blitz for workers' rights. workers.org 
From June 9 to 14, over 40 union activists from United Electrical Workers (UE) and Unifor Canada gathered in rural eastern North Carolina for an organizing blitz. The workers targeted 10 workplaces for reaching out to non-union workers about joining the union. This was part of a North Carolina Public . . . | Continue reading Eastern N.C. union organizing blitz for workers' rights at Workers.org
(2019-07-02). Community Land Trusts Are a Model for Reparations. truthout.org This year has already seen more Democrats talking about reparations than ever, including several running for the presidency. Now, rather than writing checks to individuals, more and more people are talking about collective strategies for repair and reparation. Community land trusts, cooperatives and mutual housing associations, for example, might offer a way to transfer some long-promised land and rights to Black communities while making today's housing economy less speculative. | Joining us to discus…
(2019-07-02). 2020 Census Form Will Not Include Citizenship Question, Trump Administration Says. theintercept.com The Trump administration admitted defeat on Tuesday, confirming that forms for the 2020 United States census will not include a question asking residents who respond to the survey if they are U.S. citizens. The change of plans follows last week's Supreme Court decision that the Commerce Department had failed to provide a valid reason for adding the question. | The news was conveyed in an email from the Justice Department's Civil Rights division to lawyers who had contested the effort in lawsuits, and confirmed to The Inte…
(2019-07-02). Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Speak During NAACP's 110th National Convention. naacp.org 
Speaker of the House of Representatives to deliver remarks at 110th NAACP National Convention BALTIMORE (July 2, 2019) — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost civil rights organization, has announced that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will give remarks at the 110th National Convention in Detroit on July 22, 2019. …
(2019-07-02). Menstrual Pain Impacts Women's Productivity, Well-Being: Study. telesurenglish.net Nine days per year and per woman may be lost in terms of productivity due to menstrual symptoms which include pain, heavy bleeding, headaches, and fatigue among many others, according to a new peer-reviewed study published this week by the British Medical Journal. | RELATED: | Rwanda: Feminists Dialogue on Women's Rights | The researchers surveyed 32,748 Dutch women aged between 15 and 45 whose productivity while having their period has be…
(2019-07-01). Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back. thenation.com Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back…