(2023-01-12). RV Human Rights Activists Challenges Santa Cruz City Police Violations. indybay.org Reggie Meisler, civil liberties defender of unhoused rights, is waiting for an answer to his January 9th letter to Santa Cruz City Manager Matt Huffaker, Mayor Fred Keeley, Police Chief Rudy Escalante, and the S.C. City Council. Meisler calls for Huffaker to direct his SCPD to stop harassing and uprooting those whose vehicles are their shelter by misusing the "abandoned vehicle" tagging law.
(2023-01-12). Poverty, violence and Colombia's State failures main human rights concerns in 2022: HRW. colombiareports.com 
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that high levels of poverty and violence, and failures in the justice system were the main human rights concerns last year. In its annual report…
(2023-01-12). Local Code Pink Joins Organizations World Wide To Demand Closure of US Guantanamo Prison. indybay.org Action at UC Berkeley law school also demands prosecution for John Yoo, provider of legal "rational" for torture…
(2023-01-12). What Will Happen after the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel's Occupation of Palestine. dissidentvoice.org 
Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will offer a legal opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. A historic United Nations vote on December 31 called on the ICJ to look at the Israeli Occupation in terms of legal consequences, the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the …
(2023-01-12). Don't Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms. dissidentvoice.org 
How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can't. When you consider all the ways "we the people" are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that you shouldn't trust the government with your privacy, …
(2023-01-12). UN to monitor indigenous rights and land reform in Colombia. colombiareports.com The United Nations will expand its monitoring of the implementation of a 2016 peace deal between Colombia's government and the now-defunct FARC guerrilla group. The UN's Security Council on Wednesday…
(2023-01-12). Housing activists occupy NYS legislature, demand eviction protections for tenants. peoplesworld.org 
ALBANY, N.Y.—If housing and tenants' rights organizations have their say, it will soon be harder for landlords in New York State to kick renters out of their homes without a valid reason. That's the goal of new proposed legislation, officially known as "Prohibition of Eviction Without Good Cause," or Bill S2892B, introduced by State Sen. …
(2023-01-11). Palestinian Journalism Faces Ruthless Censorship in Israel and US. truthout.org Journalists covering Palestine experienced an extremely difficult and horrific terrain in 2022. It was a year filled with human rights violations, censorship, detentions and outright killing. In this interview, international relations and legal expert Richard Falk discusses the growing awareness of the plight of the Palestinians and the ways repressive states have clamped down on a flow of… |
(2023-01-11). Canadian Tire Fire #51: New Years Noise Demos, a Deadly Month Inside Canadian Prisons. itsgoingdown.org 
This week, we recap New Years Eve prison noise demos that took place across so-called Canada. We also look at a string of recent deaths in prisons and migrant detention centres, as well as prisoners' ongoing struggles to keep each other safe and have their voices heard. New Years Eve Noise Demonstrations This year, cities…
(2023-01-11). Aisha (2022): Despair and Desperation in Ireland's Detention Centres. globalresearch.ca
(2023-01-11). How Carrefour profits from Israel's war crimes. electronicintifada.net Labour unions and rights groups in France and Palestine want the retailer to end its partnership with settlement profiteers.
(2023-01-11). Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers strike against austerity measures. wsws.org The strike was the first this year and expressed the growing anger of workers over the deepening assault on their basic social and democratic rights by the government as it imposes the IMF's austerity agenda.
(2023-01-11). Zelensky government expands media censorship. wsws.org Amidst death and destruction at the front, the Zelensky government is engaged in far-reaching attacks on democratic rights.
(2023-01-11). Press Conference: Defend the African Community's Right to Economic Self-Determination. indybay.org What: Press Conference: Defend the African Community's Right to Economic Self-Determination, and Human and Civil Rights on this MLK Day! | When: Friday, January 13th, 2023 at 10am | Where: Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles, 3742 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA 94610 | Who: African People's Education & Defense Fund and Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles | Black Star Industries and Uhuru Foods and Pies…
(2023-01-11). 'No Time to Lose': 300+ Groups Push Biden to End Drilling on Public Lands, Waters. popularresistance.org More than 300 environmental and Indigenous rights groups said Wednesday that the Biden administration must take a number of concrete actions to protect the nation's public lands and waters from fossil fuel industry exploitation and bring U.S. policy into line with climate science—and the president's own campaign pledges. | In a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the climate coalition noted that President Joe Biden "made a bold promise to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters, and within days of taking office issued his Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Hom…
(2023-01-11). Farm Workforce Modernization Act's failure reveals division in immigrant rights movement. peoplesworld.org 
For the United Farm Workers and its allies on Capitol Hill, the failure of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (FWMA) was a defeat for their campaign to win legal immigration status for undocumented field laborers. Teresa Romero, UFW President, called it "a very bitter disappointment for farm workers across the country who have more than …
(2023-01-11). For Lula, Fighting Against Fascism and For Economic Justice is Nothing New. scheerpost.com 
Having fought for labor rights under a dictatorship, the Brazilian president once again faces a violent far-right movement bent on blocking his pro-worker, pro-democracy agenda.
(2023-01-11). Greece: Militant musical protest of artists' unions and art schools. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the influential Greek labor organization, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME). | A massive, militant, musical protest took place on Tuesday, January 10 at the Ministry of Education in Athens against the Presidential Decree 85 that downgrades the degrees of Art Schools and the working rights of artists. | Students and teachers of Art Schools, musicians, dancers, actors and more protested in front of the Ministry with music, dance and banners with paintings demanding recognition of their education and studies, demanding to be free and public. | T…
(2023-01-11). More Than 300 Groups Push Biden to End Drilling on Public Lands and Waters. truthout.org More than 300 environmental and Indigenous rights groups said Wednesday that the Biden administration must take a number of concrete actions to protect the nation's public lands and waters from fossil fuel industry exploitation and bring U.S. policy into line with climate science — and the president's own campaign pledges. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland… |
(2023-01-11). Two wins in the fight for abortion rights. liberationnews.org 
There is widespread animus towards the Supreme Court's antiquated, undemocratic Dobbs ruling. The people in great force have defended abortion rights…
(2023-01-11). The Best Decision: How Abortion Changed These Lives for the Better. aclu.org 
For the first time in nearly years, state legislatures will go into session this year without the guardrails of the landmark Roe v. Wade precedent protecting abortion rights. We're preparing to face even more attacks on abortion access in the coming year, but this fight goes far beyond any single committee hearing or court argument. The ability to access abortion care is fundamentally about whether people can control their lives and livelihoods, their dreams and autonomy, and the future they want to create. | Sharing your abortion story is a critical part of this fight. It's how we show the world the long-te…
(2023-01-11). This MLK Day, Let's Learn the Right Lessons from History. otherwords.org Every year, the arrival of the Martin Luther King holiday calls us to pause and reflect on Dr. King's legacy. And every year, I'm struck by the same thing: as sincere as we are in our reverence for Dr. King, we keep learning the wrong lessons not just from his life but from history writ large. | Let me explain. | In my life, in our lives as Americans, there are people and stories that inspire us. The stories go something like this: "Abraham Lincoln freed enslaved people," or "Dr. King gave a wonderful speech and we had civil rights in our nation." | They are nice stories. But Lincoln didn't end slavery alone. And…
(2023-01-11). Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy. popularresistance.org Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they could be legally imposed on South Africa by a resolution of the UN General Assembly in 1962, but are unlawful when imposed by one government, often with selected allies, against any other country, for whatever reason. Known correctly as "unilateral coercive measures," such actions are not only contrary to international law in themselves, but may lead to other breaches of the law if their effects are so severe as to become "crimes against humanity." | The report, Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, is a comprehensive ove…
(2023-01-11). How Western Sanctions Blow Back. popularresistance.org Economic coercion, through the imposition of sanctions, is an act of war. Many of these sanctions have caused hardship, especially for the civilian populations of targeted countries. | But just as a rifle recoils on the shooter's shoulder, potentially causing injury, so too can sanctions backfire on the user. That is the title of a new book, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests." | This is not to say that sanctions don't cause suffering, but they have a mere 13% success rate in altering a targeted state's behavior in the way desired. | The failure of sanctions has long been recognized…
(2023-01-11). Nicaragua is world's #1 country where citizens feel at peace, Gallup poll shows. mronline.org 
A poll by mainstream firm Gallup found that Nicaragua is the No. 1 country in the world where citizens feel at peace. Nine of the top 14 countries are in Latin America. But the U.S. constantly attacks the Sandinista government and imposes sanctions on it.
(2023-01-11). US threatens African countries, demanding to end relations with Russia. infobrics.org Washington maintains an interventionist stance towards emerging states, ignoring their position of not adhering to anti-Russian sanctions.
(2023-01-11). US Threatens African Countries, Demanding They End Relations with Russia. libya360.wordpress.com Lucas Leiroz South Africa's Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thandi Modise © Twitter / South African Government Even with the emerging countries several times making clear their solid position of not supporting the sanctions against Russia, the US remains with an absolutely interventionist foreign policy, threatening the states that maintain relations with "blacklisted" nations….