(2022-12-02). Sanctions: Dec. 10 webinar exposes U.S. economic warfare. workers.org 
Intensifying U.S. sanctions, imposed on a third of humanity, are sending shock waves through the world economy. Sanctions have boomeranged on the U.S. and EU countries through inflation, supply chain shortages and a looming recession — causing hardship at home. But by far the greatest burden is borne by the . . . |
(2022-12-02). Israel Set to Deport Palestinian-French Human Rights Defender Salah Hammouri. scheerpost.com 
Having spent nearly a decade in occupation prisons, Hammouri was most recently placed under administrative detention in March. In 2020, Israel revoked his residency status, an often-used tool of ethnic cleansing deployed against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
(2022-12-02). Friday 12/9: Unite and Fight for our Rights, Lives, and planet. indybay.org Gather at the New Federal Building 7th and Mission | March to Powell and Market and Union Square…
(2022-12-02). I'm Proud of My Transgender Son. The Health Care He Needs Shouldn't Be Up for Debate. aclu.org I have not always understood what it means to be transgender, and I did not always support transgender rights. But, as I watched my son Parker suffer, I learned more, and I keep trying every day to understand what he goes through. Seeing firsthand the benefits of gender-affirming healthcare for Parker has opened my eyes to see that this is definitely the right thing. | I wish I could say that my little dude has spent his entire life being comfortable in his own skin, but that is just not true for Parker. Before he started his gender-affirming medical care, Parker was depressed, anxious, and withdrawn. I worrie…
(2022-12-02). Rosa Louise McCauley Parks – Patron Saint – Women's Political Council of Montgomery, AL. indybay.org If the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama is known, then the efficacy of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement is placed in proper context, #Womanity.
(2022-12-02). Why the ACLU Supports the Electoral Count Reform Act. aclu.org 
As we near the end of 2022 and the second anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Congress has the opportunity to pass much-needed reforms to the Electoral Count Act of 1887. The Electoral Count Act governs the process of casting and counting the Electoral College votes for president and vice president. | As the events of January 2021 made clear, the current law contains poorly drafted language governing critical aspects of the election certification process, leaving it vulnerable to exploitation. Attempting to take advantage of the ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act on January 6, the former p…
(2022-12-02). Rain or Shine, Grannies Rage for Abortion Rights. indybay.org Action at Federal Building part of Nationwide Protest…
(2022-12-02). Congress and Biden override rail worker collective bargaining rights. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Giving in to pressure from Democratic President Joe Biden and corporate rail bosses, the Senate overwhelmingly imposed a four-year contract on 115,000 unionized freight railroad workers—without the seven paid sick days they sought. The contract, which a Biden board crafted, came in legislation the president signed this morning. Biden, in a speech this morning at …
(2022-12-02). Sunday 12/4: "Voting Rights: The Struggle To Be Counted" – History Film on Black Voter Suppression. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-12-02). Cleverly Executed Demo for Abortion Rights in Top San Francisco Mall. indybay.org Award winning Westfield Mall was already decorated in lights and Christmas colors when demonstrators arrived to "green it up" for abortion rights on busiest shopping day of the year.
(2022-12-02). Street Theater for Abortion Rights on Anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson. indybay.org Street theater and songs for abortion rights | 1 min mp4 video by Lis Cox.
(2022-12-02). Presidente Arce destaca que fallo de la CIJ ratifica derechos de Bolivia sobre aguas del Silala. telesurtv.net En 2016, Chile demandó a Bolivia ante la CIJ por el estatus y uso de las aguas del Silala y en 2018, Bolivia contrademandó a Chile.
(2022-12-01). Will Macron stop Israel's expulsion of Salah Hammouri? electronicintifada.net Palestinian-French human rights lawyer may be deported as soon as Monday.
(2022-12-01). Zionists backers in no position to talk about human rights. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 01 (MNA) — The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said the backers of occupying, terrorist and racist Zionist regime of Israel are in no position to comment on human rights in other places.
(2022-12-01). Paying for an Overheating Earth. tomdispatch.com On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay's oldest detainee, was finally released by U.S. authorities and flown home to his family in Karachi, Pakistan. He had been incarcerated for nearly two decades without either charges or a trial. His plane touched down in a land still reeling from this year's cataclysmic monsoon floods that, in July, had covered an unparalleled one-third of that country. Even his own family's neighborhood, the well-heeled Defense Housing Authority complex, had been thoroughly inundated with, as a reporter wrote at the time, "water gushing into houses." Having endured 19…
(2022-12-01). #JusticeForSalah: Massive banner unfurled in Paris urges freedom for Salah Hamouri #LiberezSalah. samidoun.net 
Photo credit: @tulyppe On Thursday December 1 in Paris, a huge banner was unfurled over a busy street, calling for the immediate release of Salah Hamouri, the French-Palestinian lawyer imprisoned without charge or trial under Israeli administrative detention regime since 7 March 2022. The banner was widely seen by many passers-by, both pedestrians and drivers …
(2022-12-01). Number of Immigrants Under Punitive Surveillance Quadrupled on Biden's Watch. truthout.org Over the past two years, despite President Joe Biden's campaign promises to bring fairness to the immigration system, the current administration has quadrupled the number of people enrolled in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) so-called "alternatives to detention" (ATD) surveillance program, and has doubled the number of people held in immigration jails. There is no acceptable… |
(2022-12-01). Critics Slam NYC Plan to Involuntarily Hospitalize Those With Mental Illness. truthout.org New York Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that police and emergency medical workers will start hospitalizing people with mental illness against their will, even if they pose no threat to others. Rights groups and community organizations have slammed the move as inhumane and are demanding better access to housing and other support for people struggling with mental illness and homelessness. |
(2022-12-01). Reproductive rights voter wave swamps MAGA trickle. peoplesworld.org 
On Election Day 2022, November 8, voters, defying political gravity and beltway pundit groupthink, struck a major blow against MAGA Republican extremism. The "blue wall" met the "red trickle" as voters turned out to defend constitutional democracy, the rule of law, the peaceful transfer of power, and, specifically, reproductive rights. The anti-MAGA majority in defense …
(2022-12-01). Green Protest on Black Friday. indybay.org Green abortion rights balloons fly at Westfield mall…
(2022-12-01). Congress could be ready to kill bargaining rights of rail workers. peoplesworld.org 
The late Auto Workers President Walter Reuther once warned that what workers won at the bargaining table workers "could be taken away at the stroke of a pen" by lawmakers. The congressional effort underway today, proves his point. Lawmakers may be about to do exactly what Reuther warned about. And it's not just Congress that …
(2022-12-01). Thursday 12/1: Street Theatre/Protest: Legal Abortion Nationwide! Rain or Shine. indybay.org Philip Burton Federal Courthouse 450 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA 940012…
(2022-12-01). Venezuela: Maduro Welcomes Chevron License, Demands All US Sanctions Lifted. venezuelanalysis.com Venezuela's PDVSA and Chevron will sign contracts in the coming days for oil extraction framed in the country's legislation.
(2022-12-01). US Imposes New Sanctions on North Korean Officials After ICBM Test. news.antiwar.com The US on Thursday imposed sanctions on three North Korean officials said to be tied to the country's weapons programs following Pyongyang's November 18 ICBM test. Since North Korea is under such heavy sanctions, the measures will have little impact, but they will ensure that tensions on the Korean Peninsula remain high. North Korea has …
(2022-12-01). 'Not a Choice, but Necessity:' Iran, India Recalibrating Ties Amid Geopolitical Shifts. libya360.wordpress.com Zafar Mehdi Following a drop in trade brought on by US sanctions, New Delhi and Tehran — boosted by their mutual strong relations with Moscow — are set to revamp ties in a new era of Eurasian multipolarity. "Not a choice, but a necessity." That's how Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani stressed the importance…
(2022-12-01). Venezuela Will Control Expenditure of Unfrozen Funds, Says Jorge Rodríguez (Mexico Talks). orinocotribune.com The head of the Venezuelan government delegation for the Mexico Talks, Jorge Rodríguez, highlighted that with the signing of the agreement in Mexico, the extremist sector of the opposition recognizes the negative effect that the sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe have had on the population. | "With this agreement, for the first time, this extremist sector of the Venezuelan opposition recognizes the existence of sanctions and the existence of frozen money that belongs to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," Rodríguez said during his participation in a press conference offered by President Nicolás…
(2022-12-01). Farewell to the unipolar world and Disaster capitalism: back to Marx! indybay.org The sanctions have already proved to be a dangerous boomerang because they hit Europe harder than Russia… It is a suicidal illusion to try to win a war against the raw materials giant Russia – which possesses more than a third of all fossil energies and raw materials on earth – and the world's largest high-tech workshop, China, which is united with it.
(2022-12-01). President Maduro Demands Lifting All Sanctions and Return of CITGO. orinocotribune.com The sanctions and unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States government against Venezuela must be completely lifted on the oil industry, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said on Wednesday, November 30. | During a press conference at the Miraflores Palace, with national and international media, the head of state stated that Venezuela "has the right to freedom of trade and production." | "All colonialist sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry must be lifted," he said, "because they violate the agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO)." | He added that "all the licenses (those tha…