(2021-05-29). Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people. workers.org 
At every stage in the criminal injustice system, LGBTQ2S+ people are overrepresented, including within the juvenile justice system. Queers Demand a World Without Prisons: "We reject hate crimes legislation, 'gender-responsive' prisons, and all other measures that use gay rights rhetoric to expand the systems that murder and imprison us. We . . . |
(2021-05-28). Headlines for May 28, 2021. democracynow.org U.N. Human Rights Chief Says Israel May Have Committed War Crimes in Gaza, African Nations Need 20 Million AstraZeneca Doses Within Weeks to Complete Vaccinations , Public Citizen Says a $25 Billion Investment Could Vaccinate the World, Senate GOP Ready to Filibuster Commission on January 6 Insurrection , Biden Reportedly Offered Japan Ambassadorship to Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Amazon Announces Deal to Acquire MGM Studios; WarnerMedia to Merge with Discovery , Elizabeth Warren Grills Bank CEOs for Preying on Customers During Pandemic, San Jose Gunman Expressed Hate for Co-Workers for Years, Had History…
(2021-05-28). 'This Is the Price of War': Israeli Newspaper Publishes Photos of All 67 Palestinian Children Killed in Gaza Onslaught. globalresearch.ca Human rights advocates …
(2021-05-28). Roaming Charges: Back to the Future in Gaza. counterpunch.org It's been said many times but unfortunately can't be said often enough that the conflation of criticism of Israeli atrocities with anti-semitism is a deliberate tactic even though it demeans the toxicity of real anti-semitism. You almost get the sense that if anti-semitism didn't exist, it would serve Israel's strategic interest to bomb it into being, as a kind of permanent shield against popular outrage over its human rights crimes.
(2021-05-28). Israeli Bombs Killed 66 Kids in Gaza Including 12 Who Were Getting Help for Trauma from Past Attacks. democracynow.org 
As the United Nations human rights chief warns Israel may have committed war crimes in Gaza, we look at how Israel killed 12 Palestinian children being treated for trauma from past Israeli bombings. Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, says Gaza has become "the home of hopelessness," particularly for young people in the besieged territory. "We humanitarian workers are sick and tired of building and rebuilding and see it all torn down again," Egeland says of Israel's repeated attacks on Gaza. "We are accumulating rubble, we're accumulating dead children, and we're accumulating hopelessn…
(2021-05-28). May 29, Washington DC: National March for Palestine endorsed by 100+ organizations #March4Palestine. samidoun.net 
Saturday, May 29 3 pm — 8 pm Lincoln Memorial Washington, DC Info page: www.ampalestine.org/NationalMarch Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is honoured to join American Muslims for Palestine and over 100 organizations nationwide to march on Washington on Saturday, May 29 and demand to #SanctionIsrael. As the call to the rally notes: "We need to go big and bold right now for Palestinian liberation now that a ceasefire has gone into effect. No return to the status quo. It is time for Israeli settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, military occupation, and blockade to be dismant…
(2021-05-28). UN Human Rights Council forms commission to probe rights violations in Palestine; Israel won't cooperate. peoplesdispatch.org The commission will investigate violations of all humanitarian and human rights laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel over the past two months…
(2021-05-28). Community rallies in support of vandalized Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago. liberationnews.org 
This vandalism occurred as part of a broader nationwide assault on reproductive rights.
(2021-05-28). According to Reuters 500,000 Barrels of Diesel Arrived in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, May 27, Reuters news agency Venezuela's diesel shortage, another consequence of the "sanctions" imposed by the United States and promoted by the opposition sector and former deputy Juan Guiadó, primarily affects food transportation…
(2021-05-28). Mapping Faultlines: Battles over airspace, geopolitics in Belarus. peoplesdispatch.org Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent incident in Belarus where a plane carrying dissident and anti-government activist Roman Protasevich was made to land and he was detained…
(2021-05-28). Rights Groups Applaud Reintroduction of MORE Act to Reverse Harms of War on Drugs. commondreams.org Prioritizing marijuana reform that begins to undo the harm caused by the failed war on drugs "should be a no-brainer," said the Drug Policy Alliance. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-28). Video: US Civil Rights veteran Bob Zellner on 'Sons of the South'. greenleft.org.au A new film, Son of the South, tells the story of Bob Zellner who broke from his Alabama Ku-Klux-Klan heritage to become the first white Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organiser — and nearly got lynched for it. | Zellner spoke with Barry Healy, expanding on the film's story to include his radical trajectory from the 1960s onwards.
(2021-05-28). Here's How to End the Filibuster and Protect Democracy. commondreams.org "Code Red! Unless the filibuster is eliminated—at the very least as it pertains to Voting Rights and Civil Rights laws—what's left of American democracy is dead." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-28). An American Sports Icon's Legacy of LGBTQ Rights. thenation.com An American Sports Icon's Legacy of LGBTQ Rights…
(2021-05-27). Colombian Senators Do Not Remove Defense Minister From Office. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian Senate voted against the dismissal of Defense Minister Diego Molano, who has been accused by human rights defenders of allowing a wave of police brutality that has left 43 citizens dead so far. | RELATED: | With 69 votes against and 31 in favor, the Senate dism…
(2021-05-27). AU Day Celebration: Venezuelan Diplomat Calls on African Leaders to Resist Oppression. orinocotribune.com Today May 25, 2021 is being celebrated across the continent as Africa Day in commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. | As part of the celebration, many statements have been made to celebrate the continent and also tackle various issues happening within the continent. | Venezuela's Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union, Ambassador Alex Saab in a statement on the occasion of the celebration said it is a day of liberation from foreign control and oppression and is worth celebrating. | Citing himself as someone who has suffered injustice over his detention a…
(2021-05-27). 'We are Confident Cape Verde Constitutional Court will Finally Provide Alex Saab the Justice he has been Denied': Jose-Manuel Pinto Monteiro. orinocotribune.com By Jose-Manuel Pinto Monteiro — May 26, 2021 | Arbitrarily detained in Cabo Verde since June 12, 2020, pending his extradition to the United States of America, Ambassador Alex Saab tirelessly continues his fight for his freedom in the face of injustice. | Armed with courage and resilience, the Venezuelan diplomat has launched his appeal to the Constitutional Court of Cabo Verde, which has the power to render the justice which has been denied him this past one year. In this latest filing, Ambassador Saab pleads the abusive and unconstitutional nature of both his detention and the extradition procedure which e…
(2021-05-27). Israel Rejects UN Commission on Attacks to Gaza Strip. telesurenglish.net Israel rejected on Thursday the creation of a commission on the Gaza strip proposed by the United Nations Security Council. The UN aims to investigate massacres during the latest round of attacks despite Israel's maintaining that it has acted according to international law. | RELATED: | "Israel rejects outright the resolution adopted today (Thursday, 27 May 2021) by the United Nations Human Rights Council, a body with a built-in…
(2021-05-27). Selected Articles: The 'Great Reset': A Technocratic Agenda that Waited Years for a Global Crisis to Exploit. globalresearch.ca 
By Previously coined as the "Tulsa Riot", was in actuality a full-scale assault on the rights of African Americans to live in peace and stability in the …
(2021-05-27). Workers Stage Global Day of Action to #MakeAmazonPay. commondreams.org "Workers, not Bezos, make Amazon's world run," says @Progressive International's Casper Gelderblom. "Around the world, the workers producing Amazon's profits are standing up to claim their rights." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-27). A Caring World Needs a Sharing World to End the COVID-19 Pandemic. counterpunch.org After three months of dithering, the Biden administration eventually agreed to a temporary waiver of patent rights for the COVID-19 vaccines. The proposal by South Africa and India for a waiver on intellectual property rights in the World Trade Organization has found support from a large number of countries and more than 400 public health
(2021-05-27). US-funded Belarusian Regime-Change Activist Arrested on Plane Joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine. orinocotribune.com 
By Ben Norton — May 26, 2021 | Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government's media apparatus. | A high-profile Belarusian regime-change activist whose detention on a forcibly grounded airplane caused an international scandal has extensive links to neo-fascist groups, which his political sponsors in Western capitals have conveniently overlooked. | Right-wing activist Roman Protasevich was traveling on the Irish airliner Ryanair on May 23 when the plane crossed int…
(2021-05-27). Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism. peoplesworld.org 
Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall's The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955. Additionally, Swindall could not have picked two better organizations to illustrate the impact of mid-1930s to mid-1950s struggles for …
(2021-05-27). Recently Detained Belarussian neo-Nazi "Journalist" Protasevich Served in Canadian Backed neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. orinocotribune.com 
By Aidan Jonah — May 25, 2021 | Update: Purported "journalist" Protasevich confirmed beyond a doubt to be a neo-Nazi who fought with Canadian backed Azov Battalion for a year. | Belarusian "journalist" Raman Protasevich has come into the news after being arrested by Belarusian police on May 23. Protasevich has been described as a brave journalist fighting for democracy, the typical description of suspicious figures salivated over by mainstream media. | Notably, the Belarussian government argues that "The Ryanair plane made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat on 23 May in Minsk, which later turned out t…
(2021-05-27). Your National Political Committee newsletter — We must struggle together. dsausa.org 
Enjoy your May National Political Committee (NPC) newsletter! Our NPC is an elected eighteen-person body (including two YDSA members who share a vote) which functions as the board of directors of DSA. Read on for more! From the National Political Committee TONIGHT, Thursday 5/27 — Immigrants' Rights Working Group Farmworkers Act call PRO Act Weekend…
(2021-05-27). Syrian Mercenaries Are Faking Illness To Return From Libya: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries in Libya are faking illness in order to return to their country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on May 27. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the mercenaries are doing this because Turkey has not withdrawn any group from Libya in a while. | "A small number of mercenaries returned to Syria after they provided medical reports and falsified some of them by bribing the leaders of Turkish-backed factions, amid widespread discont…
(2021-05-27). Creating and Designing A Man Cave In 2021. southfront.org 
Sponsored post: | Illustrative image | If the lockdowns bored you to the bone and you want to spend time the productive way, there's a great lineup of projects you can do. One of them is a man cave with all the good stuff — a hidden retreat for every guy of culture. | With all that's occurred in the past year, everyone deserves a break. If travel to a pristine white beach is not an option due to outstanding restrictions, the only place you could turn to is your home. If you want a sanctuary to crash into, so…
(2021-05-27). As over 50 refugees drown, UN condemns EU's Mediterranean migrant policy. wsws.org The UN human rights commission branded the EU as jointly responsible for hundreds of entirely preventable deaths in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.
(2021-05-27). Sanders, Murphy Introduce Legislation to Allow College Athletes to Unionize. commondreams.org "College athletes are workers. Their lack of collective bargaining rights is a racial, civil, and labor rights issue." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-27). Sen. Markey's Online Civil Rights Bill Would Reduce Online Racial Discrimination and Address Artificial Intelligence Bias. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-05-27). Rep. Bowman, Sen. Murphy, and Sen. Sanders Introduce Legislation to Give College Athletes Collective Bargaining Rights. commondreams.org ______________________________…