2023-07-01: News Headlines

Rhoda Wilson (2023-07-01). UN SDGs implant "human rights" and attempt to override our inalienable rights. expose-news.com The United Nations claims that the purpose of Sustainable Development Goal 16, or SDG16, is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies and to provide access to justice for all. Hiding behind the …

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-01). Trans rights are human rights, protesters say. greenleft.org.au

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-06-30). Spirit of Mandela – International Tribunal – People's Senate. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode, we talk about the 2021 international tribunal on the human rights, abuses against black, brown, and indigenous peoples. Its history and its importance must be understood. We then talk about the spirit of Mandela briefly and the people senate initiate which more info on both can be found at Spiritofmandela.org…

Anonymous669 (2023-06-30). ISIS Cells Carried Out 29 Operations, Killed 30 People In Syria During June: Monitoring Group. southfront.org File image. | ISIS cells carried out a total of 29 operations in Syria during June, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a report released on the 30th of the month. | The London-based monitoring group said that the terrorist group was most active in the areas held by the United States-led coalition and its proxy, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in northeastern Syria. | ISIS carried out 21 operations in the region over the past 30 days, killing four civilians and ten personnel of…

Editor (2023-07-01). New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-07-01). Torture with Impunity Runs Rampant in ICE Facilities. scheerpost.com

teleSUR, JDO (2023-07-01). Papa Francisco sostiene encuentro con familia de Julian Assange. telesurtv.net Recibió en audiencia privada a su esposa Stella Assange y sus dos hijos. La abogada ha encabezado la lucha por restituir los derechos al fundador del portal Wikileaks.

Anonymous669 (2023-06-30). Mossad Says It Detained Iranian Agent Who Plotted Attacks Against Israelis In Cyprus (Video). southfront.org Alleged Iranian terror operative Yousef Shahbazi Abbasalilo, in a photo released by the Mossad spy agency on June 29, 2023. | On June 30, the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency announced that it had captured an agent of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who plotted attacks against Israeli targets in Cyprus. | In a statement, the agency said that the agent, identified as Yousef Shahbazi Abbasalilo, was captured during a special operation inside Iran. | Abbasalilo…

Amy Chen (2023-07-01). The ACLU is Committed to Protecting Your Personal Information. aclu.org Privacy laws serve as vital guardrails against the potential abuse of personal information in an increasingly interconnected world. As a nationwide organization dedicated to defending civil liberties, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recognizes the paramount importance of privacy in today's digital age, and we firmly believe that transparency and accountability are necessary to protect all of our rights to privacy. | Right now, Americans risk being tracked and surveilled without any notice every time we open an app, walk into a store carrying a phone, or do an online search. As Congress works to…

WSWS (2023-07-01). Mobilize the working class against French police murders and state repression! wsws.org Opposing police murders and attacks on democratic rights draws workers into a struggle against the capitalist state, requiring a revolutionary perspective for a struggle for workers' power.

Morgan Artyukhina (2023-07-01). Supreme Court rules anti-LGBTQ discrimination is legal. liberationnews.org The entire case was theoretical, crafted so that the far-right could present the conservative-majority Supreme Court with an opportunity to rule against LGBTQ rights.

Keerti Gopal (2023-07-01). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Youth Climate Activists Turn Up The Heat. levernews.com This week, we're starting with our boat-rockers: Climate Defiance, a new youth-led org that's bringing disruptive, direct action to our nation's most influential leaders and fossil fuel enablers. Read on for a look inside their movement and why it has a real shot at facilitating change. Plus, a chemical giant pays up, and the Supreme Court refrains from stripping state courts of crucial rights.Chuck Out Of Luck: On Tuesday, youth-led direct action organization Climate Defiance shut down a 2024 swing state fundraiser at the Harvard Club in New York City, headlined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…

Staff (2023-06-30). Is Supreme Court's "Gay Wedding" Case Built on a Lie? Man at Center of the Story Says He's Straight. democracynow.org In one of the last cases in the Supreme Court's current session, the justices ruled in favor of a wedding website designer who wants to be allowed to refuse service to same-sex couples. Lorie Smith of Colorado filed the lawsuit with help from the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom as part of the group's ongoing attempt to roll back the rights of LGBTQ people. But as reporter Melissa Gira Grant discovered, part of the case may be built on a lie. Smith has never actually built a wedding website; the lone request Smith claims to have received from a gay couple supposedly originated with a straight man…

Chris Walker (2023-06-30). SCOTUS Sides With Website Creator Seeking to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People. truthout.org On Friday, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado website designer who argued that a state law barring discrimination against LGBTQ people violates her First Amendment speech rights. The case in question, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, examined the complaints of website creator Lorie Smith, who owns a graphic design firm and sued the state over a law called the Colorado Anti… |

Dr. Melinda Brennan (2023-06-30). Wisconsinites Delivered a Pivotal Win for Abortion Access and Democracy. aclu.org At the ACLU of Wisconsin, our focus recently turned to two electoral cycles: the gubernatorial election in November 2022, and the April 2023 state supreme court election. I'm proud to say that there were many lessons learned, capacity built, and positive outcomes that we are happy to share with our teammates in the ACLU universe. | The outcomes of this work include a crucial veto for defending against assaults on our rights and a pivotal turn towards a court that will protect abortion access and democracy. | The collapse of abortion rights in Wisconsin was devastatingly painful — almost too painful to c…

Lylla Younes (2023-06-30). On the Cusp of Cleaning Up "Cancer Alley," the EPA Caved to GOP Pressure. truthout.org Pastor Philip Schmitter waited more than 20 years for the Environmental Protection Agency to do its job. In 1992, he'd filed a civil rights complaint to halt the construction of a power station that would spew toxic lead into the air of his predominantly Black community in Flint, Michigan. Decades passed without a response, so he joined four other groups around the country in a lawsuit to compel… |

Mike Ludwig (2023-06-30). Advocates for Racial Equity on Campus Say SCOTUS Ruling Won't Deter Their Fight. truthout.org Bucking decades of consensus and precedent rooted in efforts to advance racial equality and desegregate schools, the Supreme Court's conservative majority struck down race-conscious admissions policies at two major universities on Thursday in a contentious ruling that advocates say will unfairly restrict but not end affirmative action in higher education. Major civil rights groups and advocates… |

Sophia Ebanks (2023-06-30). What Trans Youth Want You to Know. aclu.org As Pride month comes to a close, the ACLU is shining the spotlight on those who are often at the center of harmful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discourse: transgender youth. | Unfortunately, trans youth continue to face malicious attacks on their safety and dignity as lawmakers actively seek to invalidate and infringe upon their right to live and express themselves as they choose. With

Taya Graham, Stephen Janis (2023-06-30). Do you know your rights? What to do if cops stop, search, or arrest you unjustly. therealnews.com Too often, the rule of law just means the rule of police—but knowing your rights can still be an important way to protect yourself from police injustice. Here on Police Accountability Report, we often document how frequently the police conduct unjust and illegal stops, searches, seizures, and even arrests. But the significance of being educated on your rights isn't just important because of rampant police abuse; there's also a lot of misinformation out there. And when it comes to keeping yourself safe from capricious cops, disinformation is just as bad, if not worse, than no information. Legendary cop…

teleSUR (2023-06-30). Bolsonaro is Out of Brazilian Politics for 8 Years. telesurenglish.net On Friday, with the vote of Judge Carmen Antunes, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) achieved a majority to strip former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro of all political rights for eight years. He was found guilty of abuse of power during his administration (2019-2023). | RELATED: | "I want to state that I fully support Judge Benedito Goncalves," Antunes said at the beginning of her vote reading, which adds to the o…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-07-01). Haitian Prosecutor to investigate nationals sentenced by US, Canada. plenglish.com Port-au-Prince, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) The government commissioner in the Haitian capital, Edler Guillaume, will investigate those nationals sanctioned in the United States, Canada and the Dominican Republic for allegedly promoting corruption and financing gangs, it was reported.

Staff (2023-06-30). Venezuela's Anti-Blockade Observatory: US Flight Ban Has Not Been Lifted. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's vice minister of anti-blockade policies, William Castillo, has rejected the idea that the sanctions imposed by the United States on commercial flights bounding to and from Venezuela were lifted. | "No sanctions have been lifted against Venezuela's aeronautical sector," Castillo announced via social media this Thursday, June 29. "Shortly, the Venezuelan Anti-Blockade Observatory will update information regarding unilateral coercive measures against the aeronautical sector." | No han sido levantadas sanciones al sector aeronáutico de Venezuela. En breve el Observatorio Venezolano Antibloqueo actualizará…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-06-30). Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria's Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis. covertactionmagazine.com Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age. Following a devastating earthquake in February that displaced thousands of people …

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