(2023-01-30). Heard Museum in Phoenix Harbors O'otham and O'odham Remains. indybay.org While promoting itself as the premiere showcase of American Indian Art, the Heard Museum in Phoenix has harbored the remains of Native ancestors, and one of its board members has worked for the most protested companies in Indian country, violating human rights and sacred places. Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham elder said, "America and international collectors have a morbid pride in their exhibits of human remains and sacred items. They will never conquer the sacred essence of these people and items."
(2023-01-30). Reports: Airstrikes Hit Refrigerator Trucks on Syria-Iraq Border. news.antiwar.com Airstrikes targeting a convoy of trucks launched by unidentified aircraft were reported on the Syria-Iraq border on Sunday. According to The Times of Israel, Syria's Sham FM radio station and other local media reports said six refrigerator trucks were hit. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported six refrigerator trucks were targeted …
(2023-01-30). Heard Museum in Phoenix Harbors O'otham and O'odham Remains. indybay.org While promoting itself as the premiere showcase of American Indian Art, the Heard Museum in Phoenix has harbored the remains of Native ancestors, and one of its board members has worked for the most protested companies in Indian country, violating human rights and sacred places. Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham elder said, "America and international collectors have a morbid pride in their exhibits of human remains and sacred items. They will never conquer the sacred essence of these people and items."
(2023-01-30). Reports: Airstrikes Hit Refrigerator Trucks on Syria-Iraq Border. news.antiwar.com Airstrikes targeting a convoy of trucks launched by unidentified aircraft were reported on the Syria-Iraq border on Sunday. According to The Times of Israel, Syria's Sham FM radio station and other local media reports said six refrigerator trucks were hit. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported six refrigerator trucks were targeted …
(2023-01-30). Chris Hedges: Will Julian Assange Ever Be Freed? popularresistance.org The film Ithaka, the title taken from a poem by C.P Cavafy, chronicles the slow-motion torture and execution of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, currently awaiting extradition to the United States in a high security prison in London. It charts his journey from publisher of the most important revelations of our generation of fraud, war crimes, lies and corruption by the powerful to his refuge for seven years in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London from 2012 to 2019, his seizure and arrest by British police, who enter the embassy to detain him, and harsh imprisonment in Belmarsh prison where he currently fight…
(2023-01-30). Launch Of The International People's Tribunal On US Imperialism. popularresistance.org After two years of dedication, we are excited to officially announce the launch of the International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures. This project is a first-ever international effort to build systems of accountability—rooted in global cross-movement solidarity—both within and outside of the law, to challenge the violence of imperialism through sanctions. With an impressive group of internationally renowned jurists from across the world, we interrogate sanctions not from the perspective of those who enforce them, but from the perspective of t…
(2023-01-29). OAS urges Colombia to release people arrested over 2021 protests. colombiareports.com The human rights agency of the Organization of American States called on Colombia's authorities to release people who were jailed for their participation in anti-government protests in 2021. In a…
(2023-01-29). Argentine Organizations Demand Presidential Pardon for Indigenous Activist Milagro Sala. orinocotribune.com Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala has been imprisoned since January 2016 over charges that human rights and social activists allege are politically motivated. | January 16, 2023, marked seven years since the illegal arrest of Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala in Argentina. Sala was one of the first victims of the political persecution that characterized the far-right government of former president Mauricio Macri (2015—2019). | On the seventh anniversary of Sala's unjust imprisonment, members of various political, social, and human rights organizations held a press conference at the he…
(2023-01-29). The Weekly Round-up: Nadhim Zahawi, Windrush reforms, and accommodation for vulnerable children. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
30th January 2023 by Hal McNulty In the news Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked from the Cabinet after making what he calls a "careless and not deliberate" mistake with his taxes. He reportedly paid a 30% penalty fee on top of the money owed to HMRC in connection with his use of an offshore company …
(2023-01-29). Ilhan Omar does not belong on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. americanthinker.com And just to be clear, it's not a matter of her First Amendment rights…
(2023-01-29). Minneapolis Fight Back! fundraiser massive success. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Nearly 100 people joined together January 28 to celebrate the newspaper Fight Back! and to raise funds for the paper. Emcees Autumn Lake and Robyn Harbison led the night with toasts from Twin Cities movements that Fight Back! has covered over the last year and getting the crowd excited to aim to raise enough for one print edition of the paper. | Charlie Berg from the Climate Justice Committee started off the toasts, thanking the paper for publishing articles about the East Phillips struggle against pollution and the ongoing work of the CJC. Akhilesh Menawat from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights A…
(2023-01-29). Face-Off in San Francisco: Repro Rights v. Walk for Life and Other Extremists. indybay.org Activists on both sides of the reproductive rights issue faced off in San Francisco on January 21, the day before what would have been the th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. | Top photo by Stephanie Moran, ProBonoPhoto…
(2023-01-29). Is the Criminalization of Heterosexuality on the Agenda or Just the Denial of Equal Rights? thealtworld.com The normalization of sexual perversity is advancing across all fronts. Just as it has become hate speech to call a homosexual a queer instead of a proud gay, we are approaching the inability to call a pedophile a pedophile. The correct and safe name for a pedophile is "minor-attracted person." | First you take the sting out of the name. Then you normalize the perversity by scolding people for being "judgmental." | Consequently, today marriage is no longer between a man and a woman. It can be between two men or between two women, and before much longer between an adult and a child and a woman and a dog. Anything e…