(2021-07-13). Israel denies Khalida Jarrar a final farewell to daughter. electronicintifada.net Suha Jarrar, who died unexpectedly, praised as innovative human rights defender.
(2021-07-13). Peace on the Korean Peninsula Needs to Be a Priority. counterpunch.org President Joe Biden deserves credit for successfully re-engaging in international diplomacy. Extending the New START nuclear arms control agreement with Russia, rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, World Health Organization and UN Human Rights Council, and especially (hopefully soon) getting the U.S. back into the Iran anti-nuclear deal are significant achievements. Policy experts, grassroots organizations and
(2021-07-13). Bangladesh factory owner among 8 detained on charge of murder after 52 workers die in fire. peoplesdispatch.org At least eight people have been detained by the Bangladeshi police under murder charges in connection with factory fire that broke out in a food processing factory in Rupganj. 52 people were killed in the incident…
(2021-07-13). Taking a Wrong Turn on Immigration Detention. counterpunch.org Last month, attorneys from the Department of Justice joined with counsel for the private prison corporation, the GEO Group, to present oral arguments supporting private immigration detention in California. Speaking before judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the attorneys appealed an earlier U.S. District Court ruling that largely upheld a 2019 California law
(2021-07-13). Saturday 7/17: Good Trouble Virtual Vigil for Democracy & Voting Rights. indybay.org Online call to action event…
(2021-07-13). Saturday 7/17: San Rafael: Good Trouble Vigil for Democracy & Voting Rights. indybay.org San Rafael City Plaza, 1000 4th Street, San Rafael 94901…
(2021-07-13). Saturday 7/17: Corte Madera: Good Trouble Vigil for Democracy & Voting Rights. indybay.org Corte Madera Town Park, 498 Tamalpais Dr., Corte Madera 94925…
(2021-07-13). Saturday 7/17: Oakland: Good Trouble Vigil for Democracy and Voting Rights. indybay.org Petaluma Fairgrounds Park & Ride, 100 Fairgrounds Dr., Petaluma 94952…
(2021-07-13). Webinar Thursday 15: Current Popular Struggles Against US Intervention: Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru and Chile. orinocotribune.com Join us in this new revised webinar with Dan Kovalik and please share this invitation. | We are faced with possible US intervention in Haiti after the murder of the president, a possible coup over the election results in Peru, new US backed protests in Cuba, the positive election results in Chile, the continued bloody repressions in Colombia, regime change plans against Sandinista Nicaragua, and the growing movement to free Venezuela's Alex Saab. Dan Kovalik, labor and human rights lawyer, has been on delegations to many of these countries, and he will review the present state of the popular struggles and Washing…
(2021-07-13). End the damn US embargo on Cuba already. therealnews.com 
This story appeared in Progressives in the U.S. and around the world on Monday demanded the Biden administration lift the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and hundreds of sanctions on the country after thousands of Cubans protested the country's economic crisis, which has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. | The protests in Havana and s…
(2021-07-13). AMLO Doubles Down in Defense of Cuba: Blockade Main Cause. telesurenglish.net "No one should be surrounded; they must be fully free; one should not act in this way because it violates human rights and is contrary to universal brotherhood. It is my position that there should be no interference, that the principles of non-intervention, self-determination or peaceful conflict resolution are respected," the head of state, known as AMLO, said.
(2021-07-13). 'Several' suspects in Haiti's presidential assassination were informants for US drug agency, FBI — reports. rt.com 
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) confirmed that at least one of the men arrested for the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise was their informant, according to CNN, while several others may have had ties to the FBI. | Moise was gunned down at dawn last Wednesday by attackers who reportedly claimed to be DEA agents raiding his home. Responding to an inquiry by CNN on Monday, the agency officially denied that the attackers were acting on its behalf, but confirmed that "at times, one of the suspects" detained by the Haitian authorities "was a confidential source to the DEA." | JUST IN: Several of the m…
(2021-07-13). Talk World Radio: Brian Concannon: Haiti Has Had All the U.S. Help It Can Stand. warisacrime.org 
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Haiti with human rights lawyer and activist Brian Concannon. He is Executive Director of Project Blueprint, which promotes a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy …
(2021-07-13). Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, but Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia? globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-13). Ongoing Israeli Genocide of Palestinians. dissidentvoice.org 
The world needs to know the horrendous dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, and of the gross Apartheid Israeli maltreatment of 5.2 million Occupied Palestinians and in particular of the 2 million inmates of the blockaded and bombed Gaza Concentration Camp. A numbers-based summary of these ongoing atrocities will strengthen global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions …
(2021-07-13). Poor People's Campaign launches civil disobedience actions for voting rights. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Stepping up its drive to force Congress, and in particular the 50-50 Senate, to pass voting rights legislation, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) announced July 12 it will launch a month of Moral Mondays, featuring peaceful civil disobedience in D.C. and state capitals, through August 2. The announcement was almost immediately followed by news that …
(2021-07-13). UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence. popularresistance.org Hailing the report as "a victory," the U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) issued a statement saying it "reflects the efforts of civil society to educate UN officials about human rights violations and the peoples' solutions … even convening a peoples' commission of inquiry to take on what the UN declined to do last year."
(2021-07-13). IMF Executive Board Approves Creation of $650 Billion Global Reserve Funds. indybay.org The International Monetary Fund Executive Board agreed to create $650 billion of emergency currency known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to help countries deal with the fallout from the coronavirus health and economic crises. The IMF's main governing body, the Board of Governors, will take a final vote in coming weeks to move forward the SDRs creation. In a statement, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva indicated she expects the allocation as soon as August.
(2021-07-13). My Black Generation Is Fighting Like Hell to Stop the Whitelash. thenation.com My Black Generation Is Fighting Like Hell to Stop the Whitelash…
(2021-07-13). Texas Democrats Have the Right Sense of Urgency for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0. thenation.com Texas Democrats Have the Right Sense of Urgency for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0…
(2021-07-13). The Community That May Be Hurt Most by Republican Voter Restrictions: Americans With Disabilities. thenation.com The Community That May Be Hurt Most by Republican Voter Restrictions: Americans With Disabilities…
(2021-07-13). Solidarity grows with stood-down pool workers. greenleft.org.au Workers at Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre in Marrickville who have been stood down without pay during the lockdown are organising for their rights. Isaac Nellist reports.
(2021-07-13). Texas Sued Over Law Enabling Harassment by Anti-Choice 'Vigilantes'. commondreams.org "He has to come out, explicitly, unequivocally, for overturning the filibuster in order to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act."
(2021-07-13). 'One Speech… Isn't Enough': Progressives Call on Biden to Get Tough on Voting Rights. commondreams.org "Children will die as a result," said U.K.-based group Save the Children.
(2021-07-13). Controlling Women: With Roe v. Wade in Peril, Authors Say Move Past Court to Save Reproductive Rights. democracynow.org 
The Supreme Court is set to review a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that intends to challenge Roe v. Wade, raising concern for advocates about how reproductive rights can be preserved without the landmark ruling. "I think it's very, very likely that the court will either eradicate the right to choose abortion as we now know it completely or so undermine it to make it meaningless for most of American women," says Kathryn Kolbert, longtime public interest attorney who argued the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the Supreme Court in 1992, which is credited with saving Roe v. W…
(2021-07-13). Biden Urged to Lift US Embargo on Cuba as Thousands Protest Critical Shortages. truthout.org 
Progressives in the U.S. and around the world on Monday demanded the Biden administration lift the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and hundreds of sanctions on the country after thousands of Cubans protested the country's economic crisis, which has been worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic. | The protests in Havana and several smaller cities and towns made headlines Sunday, with major international outlets reporting on Cubans taking to the streets to express outrage over food and medicine shortages…
(2021-07-13). House Democrats Push for Voting Rights Exception to Filibuster. truthout.org 
House leaders led by Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-South Carolina) are launching a campaign to urge the Senate and President Joe Biden to support carving out an exception to the filibuster rule in order to pass legislation protecting voting rights and other measures related to the Constitution. | As Republicans in state legislatures are slowly
(2021-07-13). Texas Gov Threatens to Arrest Dem Lawmakers Fleeing to Block Voter Restrictions. truthout.org 
Gov. Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, threatened to arrest Democratic legislators who have left the state to prevent quorum on a bill that would restrict voting rights. | Appearing on Fox News's "The Ingraham Angle,"
(2021-07-13). Russian Guantánamo Prisoner Released to UAE at Risk of Torture Upon Repatriation. truthout.org 
United Nations human rights special rapporteurs One of the last prisoners to be released the day before Obama's presidency ended in 2017, and o…
(2021-07-13). Roe v. Wade Is Under Attack. Organizers Say We Must Take Action Beyond the Court. truthout.org 
Image Credit: Facebook: Center for Reproductive Rights | The Supreme Court is set to review a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that intends to challenge Roe v. Wade, raising concern for advocates about how reproductive rights can be preserved without the landmark ruling. "I think it's very, very likely that the court will either eradicate the right to choose abortion as we now know it completely or so undermine it to make it meaningless for most of American women,"
(2021-07-13). Unequal Justice: Don't Count on the Supreme Court to Curb Gun Violence. progressive.org Now that conservatives hold a solid majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, we can expect that they will extend gun rights under the Second Amendment in the court's upcoming term.
(2021-07-13). Saudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked. juancole.com ( Human Rights Watch ) — (Beirut) — New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities failed to independently and credibly investigate allegations that Saudi authorities tortured Saudi women's rights activists and others detained in early 2018, including with electric shocks, beatings, …
(2021-07-12). Workers Are Funding The War On Themselves. popularresistance.org As the private equity industry launches ads to protect its lucrative tax preferences, we should remember that this industry is the unseen man behind the curtain driving many social ills — from high hospital prices to surprise medical bills to nursing home deaths to media layoffs to a housing crisis that has become a human rights emergency. A *Businessweek* cover put it best: You live in private equity's world, even if you don't know it. | But a series of new reports remind us that there is another person behind the monocled, mustache-twirling oligarch running the Emerald City's secret control panel —…
(2021-07-12). Podcast Ep 42: On the front lines of action for Palestine. electronicintifada.net Human rights defenders block Israeli cargo ships, protest at lawmakers' offices and shut down weapons factory.
(2021-07-12). President Maduro: Three Conditions for International Dialogue. telesurenglish.net The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, expressed his agreement to hold a new dialogue process in Mexico, sponsored by the government of this nation and the Kingdom of Norway. | RELATED: | However, the Venezuelan head of state stipulated three essential conditions for this international meeting to take place. | "One; that the United States of America and the European Union lift all sanction…
(2021-07-12). Freedom for Khalida Jarrar! Appeal for immediate release upon the passing of Suha Jarrar. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network extends its deepest condolences to Khalida, Ghassan and Yafa Jarrar upon the tragic passing of Suha Jarrar, who died on Sunday, July 11 at the age of 31. Suha, Khalida and Ghassan's daughter, Yafa's sister, was a tireless advocate for Palestinian rights and liberation, speaking around the world to advance Palestinian freedom. At this horrendous moment for her and her family, Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian leader, feminist, parliamentarian and organizer, remains imprisoned in Israeli jails as a political leader, denied even the comfort of her loved ones. We extend our…
(2021-07-12). PSL statement: U.S. imperialism seeks counter-revolution in Cuba. liberationnews.org 
The Party for Socialism and Liberation stands in full solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, its government and people in the struggle against the latest sinister counterrevolutionary efforts of U.S. imperialism. The sixty year old blockade and hundreds of sanctions imposed under the Trump administration have caused grave shortages of food, medicines, electricity and other necessities …
(2021-07-12). Why Human Rights in China and Tigray but Not in Haiti, Palestine, or Colombia? dissidentvoice.org 
U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democrats have been playing the "Black Lives Matter" tune on their fiddle. Biden even raised the issue of Black Lives Matter during his presidential campaign. But, just days after Biden was sworn into office, his administration lent support for the Haitian dictator, Jovenel MoàØse, who stayed in office past …
(2021-07-12). Haiti arrests 'Florida doctor' as alleged mastermind in president's murder, while US dispatches 'security team' to help the probe. rt.com 
A Haitian-born doctor with decades-old ties to Florida has been detained as a suspected mastermind behind the murder of President Jovenel Moise. Meanwhile, Washington has sent an expert team to Haiti to help with the probe. | Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 63, was arrested and named the "central figure" in the case, becoming the third US-linked suspect in the alleged plot. It is unclear if he actually holds US citizenship, but
(2021-07-12). Rallies in Bay Area for Voting Rights. indybay.org Bay Area residents mobilizing to demand Congress fight voter suppression and pass the For the People Act…
(2021-07-12). Gobierno argentino denuncia a Macri por envío de armas a Bolivia. cubadebate.cu El Gobierno de Argentina denunció al expresidente argentino Mauricio Macri por el presunto envío de material bélico a Bolivia, en el marco de la represión previa al golpe de Estado contra Evo Morales. La presentación lleva la firma de la ministra de Seguridad, la Administradora Federal de Ingresos Públicos y el ministro de Justicia y Derechos Humanos.
(2021-07-12). Texas Dems Plan to Leave the State to Thwart GOP Attack on Voting Rights. commondreams.org "Buildings are collapsing into the sea. Infrastructure is melting. Hundreds are dying from extreme heat. Millions are without power. The ocean is literally on fire. The climate crisis is here."
(2021-07-12). Case of Hervis Rogers 'Textbook Example' of Voting Injustice, Say Rights Advocates. commondreams.org One SEIU Local 73 strike leader said the 18-day action "is about basic dignity and respect for workers who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic and before."
(2021-07-12). 'Which Side Are You On?': Poor People's Campaign Pressures US Senate on Democracy and Justice. commondreams.org "This is a huge win for our rights."
(2021-07-12). The Laura Flanders Show: Sparking the Disability Revolution. roarmag.org Did a Summer Camp Help Spark a Disability Revolution? | Crip Camp is a Peabody Award-winning documentary from Netflix and Higher Ground Productions that tells the story of Camp Jened, a summer camp in the 1960s where disabled youth could be themselves. The film follows several former campers who went on to be leaders of the Disability Rights Movement. | Laura speaks with the directors and producers of Crip Camp about how they are using the film to advance the next step in the revolution: Disability Justice, a movement that centers the leadership of disabled queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and people of color. | I…
(2021-07-12). US imposes new sanctions on China over Uyghurs. wsws.org The bans are part of the escalating US confrontation with China, in which a propaganda campaign of lies and distortions is accompanying a relentless military build-up.
(2021-07-12). Democrats Should Carve Out Exemption in Filibuster to Protect Voting Rights. truthout.org 
The U.S. Senate is back in session today, as
(2021-07-12). The Weekly Round-Up: Proposed migrant legislation and reviews for convicted victims of coercive control. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the news: On Thursday, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that they would no longer prosecute migrants uninvolved in any criminal activity other than illegal entry to the UK. The development, supported by the notion that these cases can be better dealt with by administrative deportation than by prison overcrowding, is being widely reported as …
(2021-07-12). Weathering attacks from Israel and allies, BDS movement stands firm in building Palestinian resistance. peoplesdispatch.org The Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, which marked its 16th anniversary of July 9, has played a huge role in exposing and creating awareness about the apartheid policies of Israel…
(2021-07-12). Texas man faces 40 years in prison for voting while on parole. wsws.org The state's Republican attorney general has brought the charges in order to intimidate minority voters and support the push for more restrictions on voting rights in Texas.