2020-04-16: Social Media Postees | Positive Practices: Human Rights Monitor

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Bolivian coup leader freaks out on The Grayzone for 'fascist' label in complaint to OAS 'human rights' arm
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-16
The director of far-right Bolivian coup leader Camacho's presidential campaign threw a slander-laced tantrum against The Grayzone in a letter…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/16/bolivia-coup-the-grayzone-cidh-camacho-maclean/

What about Beslan? Russian Human Rights Council fears change in WWII end date may overshadow anniversary of massacre
rt.com | 2020-04-16
Most of the world recognizes September 2, 1945 as the day World War II concluded. Following Victory Day in Europe that May, the conflict continued in Asia for four more months, until Japan formally surrendered. | In Russia, a plan to move the date has upset some activists. On Tuesday, the national parliament (State Duma) passed a law changing the final day of the Second World War to September 3. However, this coincides with another devastating tragedy – the Beslan School Massacre. | According to Chairman of the State Duma's Defense Committee Vladimir Shamanov, moving the date matches the reality in the Soviet…
rt.com/russia/486012-wwii-end-date-change/

Australian police use COVID-19 emergency powers to ban refugee detention protest
wsws.org | 2020-04-16
The police action, which state Premier Daniel Andrews' Labor government must have authorised, constitutes a direct attack on the right to protest.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/16/prot…

Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
As the entire world grapples with the most devastating pandemic of the modern era, the United States is pouring kerosene on the fire in Iran and Venezuela. The U.S. government has maintained punishing sanctions against the people of Iran and …
globalresearch.ca/intensifying-sanctions-iran-venezuela-trump-weaponizing-coronavirus/5709831

Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-04-16
As the entire world grapples with the most devastating pandemic of the modern era, the United States is pouring kerosene on the fire in Iran and Venezuela…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/intensifying-sanctions-on-iran-and-venezuela-trump-is-weaponizing-coronavirus/

Bachelet: Countries Must Allow Safe Return of Its Citizens
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-16
Latin American governments must allow the return of their countries' citizens despite the COVID-19, urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Thursday. | RELATED: | Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination | Even though the borders of many nations in the world and Latin America are closing, to stop the advance of COVID-19, "everyone has the right to refresh their country of origin," Bachelet said. | Bachelet's statements c…
telesurenglish.net/news/bachelet-countries-must-allow-save-return-of-its-citizens-20200416-0008.html

Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to "normalize" the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump. | "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-crisis-african-american-human-rights/5709781

Donetsk, Kiev complete 1st E. Ukraine prisoner swap this year
rt.com | 2020-04-16
The first prisoner exchange in 2020 between the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Ukraine has been completed, according to an envoy to the Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup and DPR Human Rights Commissioner Darya Morozova. "The exchange is over," she was quoted as saying on Thursday. | The prisoner swap took place in the area close to the Gorlovka-Mayorsk checkpoint on the contact line and no incidents were reported. Due to risks relating to coronavirus, law enforcement officers and prisoners wore protective masks and tried to maintain the necessary social distance. | During the swap, Donetsk handed over…
rt.com/newsline/485973-donetsk-ukraine-complete-swap/

The U.S. Opposes the IMF to Create Liquidity to Help Countries
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-16
The United States Thursday rejects the possibility that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) creates liquidity by issuing Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and argued that such nominal currency will not be effective in solving the pandemic-induced economic crisis. | RELATED: | IMF Approves Debt Relief for 25 Countries Due to COVID-19 | "A number of IMF countries support a general delivery of SDRs to the membership. In our view, an SDR allocation is not an effective tool to respond to urgent…
telesurenglish.net/news/The-U.S.-Opposes-the-IMF-to-Create-Liquidity-to-Help-Countries-20200416-0010.html

Rouhani vows continuation of country's development despite outbreak
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-16
TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA)

MP says sanctions cause resistance of nation against external pressure
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-16
TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA)

Caricom Demands End of US Sanctions Against Cuba and Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-16
The members of the Caribbean Community -CARICOM-, called this Wednesday for the lifting of the U.S. sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela. | RELATED: | Caricom: 'Only With Unity, We Can Fight Against Imperialism' | "All countries must be part of the global effort to combat Covid-19," the region's heads of government agreed during the emergency Summit convened by Caricom. | The meeting, which took place via videoconference, also condemned the U.S. decision to suspend funding to the Wo…
telesurenglish.net/news/caricom-demands-end-us-sanctions-against-cuba-and-venezuela-20200416-0001.html

MP says sanctions cause resistance of nation against external pressure
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-16
TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA)

As pandemic rages, U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba are getting deadlier
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-16
We know that for almost 60 years the U.S. government has blockaded Cuba and, in the process, has damaged Cuba's economy and threatened the health and safety of the Cuban people. We know that the Cuban people are now defending themselves against the COVID-19 virus and know, too, that COVID-19 often causes death. We know …
peoplesworld.org/article/as-pandemic-rages-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba-are-getting-deadlier/

Cuba Prioritizes Food Production During COVID-19 Outbreak
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-16
Cuban farmers are contributing to the national food production to alleviate the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the island. | RELATED: | Caricom Demands End of US Sanctions Against Cuba and Venezuela | According to Rafael Santiesteban Pozo, President of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), the contribution of the Cuban food producers to the national economy and to the consumption of the population in these times of pandemic has become more than strategic,…
telesurenglish.net/news/cuba-prioritizes-food-production-during-covid19-outbreak-20200416-0009.html

Teen Detained in Russia's Siberia for Preparing Armed Attack on School – Security Service
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-16
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A teenager has been detained in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for preparing an armed attack on a school, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday.
sputniknews.com/russia/202004161078983002-teen-detained-in-russias-siberia-for-preparing-armed-attack-on-school/

Will The US Launch Another War Against Iraq?
Elijah J. Magnier | iranian.com | 2020-04-16
The US administration views Iraq as an arena for confrontation with Iran, with the aim of subjugating the country to its hegemony and dominance. The US imposes harsh sanctions on Iran and is trying to close the Iraqi market to prevent Tehran from smuggling its oil through Mesopotamia, and to obstruct the sale of gas …
iranian.com/2020/04/15/will-the-us-launch-another-war-against-iraq/

Zarif lauds China COVID19 aid to Iran
IRNA | iranian.com | 2020-04-16
Iranian Foreign Minister in a message on Thursday thanked China for providing medical aid to Iran in time of coronavirus outbreak and slammed US sanctions that hindered Iran's fight against pandemic. "I am very happy to talk to my old friend, Wang Yi, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister again," Zarif said in a Twitter …
iranian.com/2020/04/15/zarif-lauds-china-covid19-aid-to-iran/

Corporate Media Cover for US Mob Threats Against Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2020-04-15
The Trump administration unveiled on March 31 a "democratic transition" plan to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from office, in favor of a "council of state" composed of both opposition and ruling party loyalists. | The plan was, however, less an offer to negotiate than a diktat, with the US State Department ( 3/31/20) vowing that "sanctions will remain in effect, and increase, until the Maduro regime accepts a genuine political transition." | Despite the obvious mafioso over…
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Beyond Bernie: The Next Challenge for Progressives
Christopher D. Cook | commondreams.org | 2020-04-15
Whoever wins the presidency, the millions of people who voted and worked for Bernie Sanders will need to plow their energies and talents into creating serious political pressure to win gains for climate action, health care access, people power, workers' rights, corporate accountability, and much more. (Photo: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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WATCH: Sanders to Hold Livestream Discussion on Future of US Economy
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-15
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be joined by labor rights advocates and progressive economists Wednesday night for a livestream on the future of the U.S. economy after the coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/15/watch-sanders-hold-livestream-discussion-future-us-economy?cd-origin=rss

"I Want an Apology": Black Doctor Who Tests Homeless for Coronavirus Handcuffed by Miami Police
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-15
We speak with Dr. Armen Henderson, an African-American doctor who was handcuffed and detained outside his home Friday as he was wearing a mask and preparing for a volunteer shift to test homeless people for COVID-19. "I want the officer held accountable. There's no way that you racially profile me and then you arrest me, detain me, during a pandemic, when you have no mask on, where hundreds of police officers throughout Miami-Dade County have tested positive," says Dr. Henderson, who is an internal medicine physician, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami and an organizer with Dream Defenders…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/15/dr_armen_…

COVID-19 environmental roll back 'irrational' and irresponsible': rights expert
news.un.org | 2020-04-15
Countries must not use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to weaken environmental protection and enforcement, a UN independent human rights expert said on Wednesday.
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Australia Opens 1st "Virtual Hospital" for COVID-19 Patients
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-15
Australia has started a trial of its first "virtual hospital" for COVID-19 patients in the State of New South Wales (NSW), a local television network reported on Wednesday. | Armidale hospital in NSW began the trial on Wednesday which would allow COVID-19 patients with moderate symptoms to return home with a monitoring device to report on their vital life signs. | RELATED: | Solidarity vs. Sanctions in Times of a Global Pandemic | With the help of artificial intell…
telesurenglish.net/news/Australia-Opens-1st-Virtual-Hospital-for-COVID-19-Patients-20200415-0024.html

The Endless Cruelty of US Sanctions: The US Interception of Chinese Medical Supply to Cuba
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-15
Enhanced transcript on an interview with PressTV Background Cuba complained recently that a shipment of test kits, masks and respirators, donated by the Chinese Alibaba group, didn't arrive because the American company tasked with transportation feared breaching US sanction rules. Washington imposed an embargo on Cuba in 1962 after the island nation nationalized its oil …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/the-endless-cruelty-of-us-sanctions-the-us-interception-of-chinese-medical-supply-to-cuba/

Black Doctor Who Tests Homeless for Coronavirus Handcuffed by Miami Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-15
We speak with Dr. Armen Henderson, an African-American doctor who was handcuffed and detained outside his home Friday as he was wearing a mask and preparing for a volunteer shift to test homeless people for COVID-19. "I want the officer held accountable. There's no way that you racially profile me and then you arrest me, detain me, during a pandemic, when you have no mask on, where hundreds of police officers throughout Miami-Dade County have tested positive," says Dr. Henderson, who is an interna…
truthout.org/video/black-doctor-who-tests-homeless-for-coronavirus-handcuffed-by-miami-police/

Week of action demands that all immigrants detained in Minnesota be released
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-14
Minneapolis, MN – In a press conference held by video on April 14, several immigrant rights organizations announced a week of action happening this week to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and elected officials at the state and county level take action now to free all immigrants held in ICE detention in the state. | Immigration detainees are detained on civil charges and ICE has broad leeway to release people. In the current situation with the rapid spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus, the conditions in Minnesota jails are ripe for the infection and death to spread quickly. Speakers at the p…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/4/14/week-act…

Colombia: Security Council hears of 'epidemic of violence' against civil society and ex-combatants
news.un.org | 2020-04-14
While political actors in Colombia are uniting to confront COVID-19, they must also work together to fight "the epidemic of violence" against civil society leaders, human rights defenders and former combatants, the head of the UN mission in the country said on Tuesday during a Security Council meeting held by videoconference.
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There's one response from people feeling 'cheated' after Labour Leaks that should really worry Starmer & co
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-04-14
Left-wingers around the UK are feeling cheated and betrayed in the wake of the Labour Leaks scandal. And there's one particular response to the apparently consistent undermining of former leader Jeremy Corbyn that should really worry the party's new leadership.The campaign to undermine Corbyn: On 12 April, Sky News revealed that Labour lawyers had essentially stopped the party from sending a highly revealing internal investigation to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. This has…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/04/14/theres-one-response-from-people-feeling-cheated-after-labour-leaks-that-should-really-worry-starmer-co/

Survivor tells of friendship with British soldier after Bergen-Belsen liberation
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-14
A Holocaust survivor has paid tribute to the "remarkable" British soldier who came to liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 75 years ago.Mady Gerrard, 90, has a picture of Lieutenant John Randall

Progressive lawmakers say pandemic underlines need for Workers' Bill of Rights
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-14
WASHINGTON–Progressive lawmakers are using workers' sacrifices due to the coronavirus pandemic

Kyoto Mayor offers concerns over US ant-Iran sanctions in time of COVID-19
IRNA | iranian.com | 2020-04-14
Mayor of Kyoto Daisaku Kadokawa, who is also chairman of the Union of Historical Towns, in a message to people and Mayor of Shiraz expressed concerns over the US sanctions imposed against Iran in time of coronavirus outbreak. In his message to Heydar Eskandarpour, Kadokawa said he had received the letter regarding the removal of …
iranian.com/2020/04/14/kyoto-mayor-offers-concerns-over-us-ant-iran-sanctions-in-time-of-covid-19/

Iranian American Organizations Urge ICE to Immediately Release Dr. Sirous Asgari
The Iranian | iranian.com | 2020-04-13
Iranian American organizations PAAIA, NIAC, IABA have come together to campaign for the release of Dr. Sirous Asgari from Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Dr. Asgari is currently unjustly detained in a civil immigration detention center in Louisiana, which has put his health at serious risk amidst the likelihood of COVID-19 exposure. We, the undersigned …
iranian.com/2020/04/13/iranian-american-organizations-urge-ice-to-immediately-release-dr-sirous-asgari/

Congressman John Lewis shares message of support for SPLC's work
splcenter.org | 2020-04-13
Congressman John Lewis has been a tireless champion for equal rights and justice for more than six decades.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/14/congressman-john-lewis-shares-message-support-splcs-work

Federal Wardens Must Immediately Flatten the Curve in our Nation's Prisons
Kanya Bennett | aclu.org | 2020-04-13
With 10 deaths and more than 500 positive COVID-19 cases in the nation's federal prisons, wardens must " move with dispatch" to " move vulnerable inmates out of these institutions." These are the words that Attorney General William Barr used on April 3rd when he directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to reduce the federal prison population in the wake of COVID-19…
aclu.org/news/prisoners-rights/federal-wardens-must-immediately-flatten-the-curve-in-our-nations-prisons

Mike Elk on Frontline Worker Rights, Joe Emersberger on Pandemic Sanctions
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-04-10
Media…
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Civil Liberties Never Sleep: The ACLU in the Pandemic
David Cole | aclu.org | 2020-04-10
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed down many businesses, but the work of preserving civil liberties and civil rights continues, as essential as ever. Reports of courts closing down can be misleading. While public trials that require jurors and in-person testimony have been suspended, most courts and lawyers can do their work remotely. The filing of legal briefs continues, and oral arguments and hearings are being held remotely. The work of securing justice continues., , At the ACLU, our most immediate focus has been on civil liberties and civil rights issues arising from the government's response (or lack thereo…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/civil-liberties-never-sleep-the-aclu-in-the-pandemic

Get-out-the-vote effort goes digital for COVID-19 pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-04-10
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexis Carr was able to knock on doors in Montgomery, Alabama, register people to vote, instruct them on voting rights and encourage them to cast their ballots on Election Day.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/11/get-out-vote-effort-goes-digital-covid-19-pandemic

I'm Queer and I've Been in Solitary. Ellen Isn't Experiencing What I Did
Dominique Morgan | aclu.org | 2020-04-09
On Monday, I ended a 12-hour day returning emails to incarcerated queer folks, providing direct aid for housing to folks living with HIV & AIDS who have been incarcerated and challenging the state of Nebraska to provide humane conditions for incarcerated individuals and decided to mindlessly scroll on Twitter. , , I found the quote from the show Ellen DeGeneres filmed from her multimillion-dollar, multi-room mansion: "One thing that I've learned from being in quarantine is that people

Nativist Hate Groups Want to Keep People in ICE Detention Despite COVID-19 Threat
splcenter.org | 2020-04-08
Anti-immigrant think tanks are pushing for the U.S. to detain immigrants and asylum seekers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, even as prisoners stage hunger strikes and other protests in response to what they describe as deteriorating health conditions in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/09/nativist-hate-groups-want-keep-people-ice-detention-despite-covid-19-threat

"They Don't Care if You Die": Immigrants in ICE Detention Fear the Spread of COVID-19
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2020-04-08
Mario Rodas, Sr. first found out there was a deadly virus spreading through the country while he was watching television at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts. In early March, Rodas had been pulled over and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while driving to the supermarket with his wife, a legal resident and the mother of his three U.S. citizen children. Since then, he'd been in the custody of ICE, mostly at Plymouth. | The more Rodas heard about the disease, the more fearful the 59-year-old became. | "I was scared for my health," he told the ACLU. "I was worr…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/they-dont-care-if-you-die-immigrants-in-ice-detention-fear-the-spread-of-covid-19

Billionaire-backed Human Rights Watch lobbies for lethal US sanctions on leftist governments as Covid crisis rages
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-08
Regime change-hungry HRW is proudly taking credit for crushing new US sanctions on Nicaragua while pushing to escalate Washington's economic…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/08/billionaire-human-rights-watch-sanctions-nicaragua-venezuela/

Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws: A Humanitarian Message
Kathy Kelly | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
One way to help others survive is to insist that the United States lift sanctions against Iran and instead support acts of practical care…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/stop-tightening-the-thumb-screws-a-humanitarian-message/

Detained immigrants across Deep South feel like 'sitting ducks' as ICE ignores their safety amid global pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-04-03
COVID-19 began to infect the nation at rapid speed in March, reaching every corner of the country and taking the lives of more than 6,000 people by April 3. The United Nations has dubbed the coronavirus the "most challenging" crisis the globe has witnessed since World War II.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/03/detained-immigrants-across-deep-south-feel-sitting-ducks-ice-ignores-their-safety-amid

Amazon on strike: what workers need to know about their rights
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-03
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Kevin Gustafson, an organizer with Democracy at Work and host of the Sensible…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/03/amazon-strike-workers-rights/

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