(2023-05-04). Haiti 'dangling over an abyss', UN human rights chief says. telesurenglish.net Anarchy in Haiti sums to a "human rights emergency", the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has cautioned, urging for immediate action in the Caribbean country. On Wednesday, via video during a UN Security Council session, Volker Turk cautioned that Haiti is "dangling over an abyss." | Related: | "The state's lack of capacity to fulfill human rights has completely eroded people's confidence. The social contract has…
(2023-05-03). There is a palpable sense of anger among people of Balochistan, says fact finding report. peoplesdispatch.org 
The latest report by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) notes that there is no respite in rights abuse which has led to palpable sense of anger among the people of Balochistan…
(2023-05-03). UN Human Rights Council begins U.S. tour focusing on racial justice and policing. america.cgtn.com 
An independent panel of experts, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, is on a six-city tour of the United States. Their focus is on racial justice and equality in the U.S. On Tuesday, the group stopped in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CGTN's Dan Williams …
(2023-05-03). Remembering The Civil Rights Movement As A Labor And Economic Movement. moguldom.com The civil rights movement was, of course, a push for equal human rights, but the scope was much more extensive. The push encompassed economic equality as well. It was, in true essence,a labor and economic movement. Just examine the context of the speeches by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., and there is evidence …
(2023-05-03). Migrant Defenders Slam Biden's Plan to Deploy 1,500 Troops to Southern Border. truthout.org Human rights defenders on Tuesday condemned the Defense Department's plan to deploy 1,500 active duty soldiers to the southern border for "non-law enforcement duties," with numerous activists urging the Biden administration to instead address the root causes of migration and improve the process for people seeking asylum in the United States. Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. |
(2023-05-04). Pro-ISIS Fighter in Ukraine Received UK Missiles and 'SAS Training'. libya360.wordpress.com Phil Miller Daniil Lyashuk received US and UK arms. (Photo: Deni Vendetti / Telegram) A convicted torturer and supporter of Islamic State obtained British and US rocket launchers and claims to have been instructed by the SAS. A Belarusian criminal who was reported dead last month in Ukraine claimed to have received training from Britain's…
(2023-05-04). Haiti 'dangling over an abyss', UN human rights chief says. telesurenglish.net Anarchy in Haiti sums to a "human rights emergency", the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has cautioned, urging for immediate action in the Caribbean country. On Wednesday, via video during a UN Security Council session, Volker Turk cautioned that Haiti is "dangling over an abyss." | Related: | "The state's lack of capacity to fulfill human rights has completely eroded people's confidence. The social contract has…
(2023-05-03). There is a palpable sense of anger among people of Balochistan, says fact finding report. peoplesdispatch.org The latest report by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) notes that there is no respite in rights abuse which has led to palpable sense of anger among the people of Balochistan…
(2023-05-03). UN Human Rights Council begins U.S. tour focusing on racial justice and policing. america.cgtn.com An independent panel of experts, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, is on a six-city tour of the United States. Their focus is on racial justice and equality in the U.S. On Tuesday, the group stopped in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CGTN's Dan Williams …
(2023-05-03). Remembering The Civil Rights Movement As A Labor And Economic Movement. moguldom.com The civil rights movement was, of course, a push for equal human rights, but the scope was much more extensive. The push encompassed economic equality as well. It was, in true essence,a labor and economic movement. Just examine the context of the speeches by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., and there is evidence …
(2023-05-03). Migrant Defenders Slam Biden's Plan to Deploy 1,500 Troops to Southern Border. truthout.org Human rights defenders on Tuesday condemned the Defense Department's plan to deploy 1,500 active duty soldiers to the southern border for "non-law enforcement duties," with numerous activists urging the Biden administration to instead address the root causes of migration and improve the process for people seeking asylum in the United States. Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. |
(2023-05-04). Pro-ISIS Fighter in Ukraine Received UK Missiles and 'SAS Training'. libya360.wordpress.com Phil Miller Daniil Lyashuk received US and UK arms. (Photo: Deni Vendetti / Telegram) A convicted torturer and supporter of Islamic State obtained British and US rocket launchers and claims to have been instructed by the SAS. A Belarusian criminal who was reported dead last month in Ukraine claimed to have received training from Britain's…
(2023-05-04). Flood waters, torture: Demand Corcoran prisons be shut down. workers.org 
Banner at protest outside of Corcoran State Prison, February 2019. Oakland, California The big news coming out of California is about the flooding of the Central Valley where multi-million dollar agribusiness makes its money. Missing from this headline story is the imminent danger faced by over 8,000 incarcerated people at . . . |
(2023-05-04). Members of youth delegation to Cuba detained on return to US. peoplesdispatch.org 150 young leaders from the United States took part in a 10-day delegation to Cuba to exchange and learn from the Cuban people. On their return, many of them were detained at US airports and their devices were searched…
(2023-05-04). Cuban President, supports US youth, detained, on their return. plenglish.com Havana, May 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel today offered his support to the members of the delegation of young people who visited our country and were taken in detention for several hours on their return to the United States.
(2023-05-03). Israel agrees to ceasefire after bombing Gaza overnight, one Palestinian killed and five injured. peoplesdispatch.org 
Israel started bombing the besieged Palestinian territory after Hamas and Islamic Jihad launched rockets inside Israel following the death of Khader Adnan. Adnan, an administrative detainee, was on a hunger strike in prison for 87 days…
(2023-05-03). '501s' demand Labor keep its promise to end indefinite detention. greenleft.org.au People in indefinite detention across the country held peaceful protests demanding their release. Chloe DS reports.
(2023-05-03). Khader Adnan, who yearned to live free, dies in Israeli prison. greenleft.org.au Khader Adnan died after 86 days of refusing food in protest of his detention by Israel, writes Tamara Nassar. He is the first Palestinian to die during a hunger strike in almost 40 years.
(2023-05-04). Chicago: Over 30 Organizations March for Unity in May Day Celebration. orinocotribune.com By Kobi Guillory — May 1, 2023 | Chicago, IL — 400 people rallied in the rain on Saturday, April 29 to celebrate recent victories in the people's movements and uplift their present demands. After an hour-long program, the crowd marched from Union Park to five different politically significant locations. Among other chants in English and Spanish, the crowd declared "The people united will never be defeated!" | The rally was called by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), and endorsed by 31 organizations including the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (IC…
(2023-05-04). Activists and rights groups in the UK slam police action on pro-Palestine protests. peoplesdispatch.org The Palestine Action solidarity group is in the middle of a week-long demonstration and sit-in campaign in front of a subsidiary of the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, UAV tactical systems, in the city of Leicester…
(2023-05-04). U.N. Warns Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Still Urgent as Taliban Expands Crackdown on Women's Rights. democracynow.org 
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned this week that Afghanistan continues to face the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today, with a two-day summit in Doha ending without formal recognition of the Taliban government that has ruled the country since August 2021. Since their return to power, the Taliban have cracked down on women's rights, including restricting access to education and banning women from working with international aid groups. Poverty has skyrocketed in Afghanistan as years of conflict, corruption and international sanctions have battered the economy. We speak with F…
(2023-05-04). Africans In The United States Are A Colonized People. popularresistance.org In the colonial context, the colonized have no rights that the colonizer ever really needed to recognize. Therefore, any social space that Africans in the U.S. experienced were won through resistance. The historic fight for African self-determination and liberation from the anti-human colonial/capitalist system has been an uninterrupted feature of what we claim as the "Black Radical Tradition." | An unapologetic opposition to the U.S. colonial/capitalist project and U.S. imperialism centers the Black radical tradition, along with internationalism and a commitment to socialist transformation. It is this tradition…
(2023-05-04). Tuesday 5/9: Realizing American Democracy: Climate Justice & Voting Rights. indybay.org Online teach-in…
(2023-05-04). UNICEF highlights Costa Rica's achievements and persisting challenges. plenglish.com San José, May 4 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) highlighted achievements in the promotion and fulfillment of the rights of children and adolescents in Costa Rica, but assured that challenges persist in achieving their well-being.
(2023-05-03). Indian workers remain alive to the class struggle despite decades of neoliberal onslaught. peoplesdispatch.org A new dossier by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research examines the impact of years of neoliberal policies on the Indian working class and the long struggle by workers across sectors to protect their basic rights…
(2023-05-03). The Artist Who Taught Me About Justice. otherwords.org Some know the late Harry Belafonte for his In activist circles, he's revered for supporting his good friend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the civil rights movement, funding voter registration drives in Mississippi, and financing the Freedom Riders and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), among…
(2023-05-03). Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, and Dismantle the Standing Army. dissidentvoice.org 
There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army. — Thomas Jefferson, 1789 What …
(2023-05-03). Now Reintroduced, The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. scheerpost.com 
KOSA's burdens will affect adults, too, who will likely face hurdles to accessing legal content online as a result of the bill.
(2023-05-03). Hundreds march in Minneapolis on International Workers Day. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On May 1, International Workers Day, approximately 500 people marched in support of immigrant workers, unions and indigenous sovereignty, in the East Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis. | On a very windy day, hundreds gathered together in front of the Minneapolis Public Schools Adult Education Center, where just over a year ago the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers were striking. The crowd listened to speakers including Rachel Thunder from the American Indian Movement, William Martinez of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, Greg King of the Interfaith Coalition on Immigration, a…
(2023-05-03). Milwaukee: Hundreds march for immigrant rights on May Day. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – As has been the case all spring across the Midwest, cold rain and winds greeted hundreds of youth, workers and trade unionists, community organizers and faith leaders on May 1 as they gathered outside the headquarters of Voces de la Frontera (VDLF) for their annual May Day "Day Without Latinx and Immigrants'' action. All told, more than 400 people joined the ensuing march that ended downtown at Zeidler Square. | The primary demands of this year's rally and march related to a number of campaigns being organized by VDLF and their student arm, Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES). The…
(2023-05-03). Judge Denies Zooey Zephyr's Legal Bid to Return to Montana House. truthout.org A Montana judge on Tuesday rejected Rep. Zooey Zephyr's legal bid to return to the state House, a decision that the transgender lawmaker decried as a "dangerous and undemocratic continuation" of Republicans' attempts to silence anyone who speaks out against their attacks on marginalized groups and efforts to roll back basic rights. Zephyr, who Montana Republicans silenced and barred from the state… |
(2023-05-03). Over 300 Missourians rally in support of trans rights at State Capitol. liberationnews.org 
Demonstrators opposed an order meant to stop gender affirming care to any trans people, including adults.
(2023-05-04). Iran and Syria call for end of Western economic domination, withdrawal of all foreign troops from the region. peoplesdispatch.org Both the countries signed numerous agreements to boost their economic cooperation and called it a joint effort to face the impact of unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and its allies on their economies…
(2023-05-04). Fostering Partnerships with BRICS Energy Investors. infobrics.org South Africa took over as the chair of BRICS on Jan. 1, 2023, during a challenging economic period, both domestically and globally. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the West's sanctions have worsened the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies globally, leading to soaring energy and food prices, which have had a disproportionate effect on the global South…
(2023-05-04). Sandu and EU conspiring to sanction Moldova's opposition. infobrics.org The EU supports Moldova's dictatorial policies against the opposition and citizens alike.
(2023-05-04). Resistance to sanctions: three components. workers.org 
Panelists and participants at the Americas Policy Forum "Burying 200 years of the U.S. Monroe Doctrine," held April 29, 2023, at American University, Washington, D.C. Below is a talk given by Sara Flounders to the Americas Policy Forum "Burying 200 Years of the U.S. Monroe Doctrine," held at American University . . . |
(2023-05-03). A new world order is emerging. journal-neo.org 
The special military operation in Ukraine has served as a watershed moment in the evolution of new international relations. The West, led by the United States, was able to rally behind the imposition of unprecedentedly broad sanctions against Russia. At the same time, our adversaries applied immense strain on emerging economies, coercing them to align […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ
(2023-05-03). Threats to the hegemony of the dollar. mronline.org 
JANET Yellen, the U.S. treasury secretary, has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to most people for quite some time, namely that the imposition of sanctions against countries that the U.S. is hostile to, runs the risk of jeopardizing the hegemony of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.