(2021-09-17). Legal observers sue the NYPD over assault and detention at Bronx Protest. mronline.org 
Police violated the constitutional rights of National Lawyers Guild observers during racial justice protests in Mott Haven, a new lawsuit alleges.
(2021-09-17). Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic. counterpunch.org Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; a climate crisis with lives and livelihoods upended in the Gulf Coast and the Northeast by extreme weather events and in the West by a stunning fire season; and an economic crisis in which millions are being cut off from
(2021-09-17). The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless: Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic. juancole.com 
( Tomdispatch.com) — Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; a climate crisis with lives and livelihoods upended in the Gulf Coast and the Northeast by extreme weather events and in the West by a stunning fire season; and an …
(2021-09-17). Sunday 10/3: The Fight Continues for Abortion Rights! indybay.org 1101 El Camino Real | Redwood City, CA | corner of El Camino and Jefferson near Old Navy…
(2021-09-17). US Civil Rights Leader Applauds Police Chokehold Ban, Urges Congress to Move on Floyd Act. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik), Barrington M. Salmon – The US Justice Department's decision to ban law enforcement from using chokeholds is a welcome step but more needs to do be done to curb police violence against Black people, including the passage of the George Floyd Act, National Urban League CEO and former New Orleans Mayor, Marc Morial, told Sputnik.
(2021-09-17). Saturday 10/2: Women's March San Francisco: Community March for Reproductive Justice & Rights. indybay.org Begins at Grove St. and Hyde St. near Civic Center Area, then march down Market Street to end at Embarcadero Plaza (NO RALLY) | **Masks Required**; WMSF COVID pandemic resources page: womensmarchsf.org/resources-cv19…
(2021-09-17). Monday 9/27: LatinX Communities & the Equal Rights Amendment (Part 2). indybay.org Livestream on Instagram…
(2021-09-17). Monday 9/20: LatinX Communities & the Equal Rights Amendment (Part 1). indybay.org Livestream on Instagram…
(2021-09-17). UN Considers Lifting Some Sanctions, Removing Taliban From Terrorist List. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for exceptions in the sanctions regime against the Taliban in order to facilitate interaction with them. | Asked if he considers it appropriate at some point to exclude the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations, Guterres noted that the organization's member countries will decide when the right moment will come. | At the same time, the official recalled that he advocates a flexible approach and pointed to precedents in the past."As you…
(2021-09-17). Activists denounce AUKUS alliance as a possible new Cold War and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the military pact signed between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States; the sanctions against the leaders of Guinea's military junta announced by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); the fines imposed against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in the US state of Minnesota for violating environmental laws; and the growing agribusiness sector in Brazil as deforestation in the Amazon reaches record levels.
(2021-09-17). New Research At Harvard Shows Psychological Harms Of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Last. indybay.org PHYSICAL HARMS OF THE PROCEDURE * Extreme Pain and Torture of the Procedure * Children Strapped Down or Restrained Creating Additional Trauma * Severe Bleeding Leading to Hemorrhagic Shock * Infections Septicemia and Even Death are Possible and common * Reduced Sexual Pleasure and Fulfillment * Painful Scars * Repeated Tears…
(2021-09-16). Algerian journalist Mohamed Moulouj placed in pre-trial detention on terrorism charges. peoplesdispatch.org Mohamed Mouloudj faces charges such as spreading false news, harming national unity, and belonging to a terrorist group. The authorities also arrested several prominent civil society figures, including academics, journalists and a Hirak activist…
(2021-09-16). UN Human Rights Chief Calls For Venezuela Sanctions Relief. popularresistance.org Mexico City, Mexico – Michelle Bachelet, United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on Monday for sectoral sanctions against Venezuela to be lifted. | "I reiterate my call for sectoral sanctions to be lifted," the former Chilean president said, recalling the negative impact of the measures on the Caribbean nation's economy. | The High Commissioner's call came during the opening of the 48th session of the Human Rights Council where she presented her report on the human rights situation in Venezuela. Bachelet also expressed her support for the ongoing dialogue between the government and the US-b…
(2021-09-16). UN Rapporteur Denounces Negative Impact of Sanctions on Venezuelan People. orinocotribune.com 
The special rapporteur of the United Nations (UN), Alena Douhan, confirmed on Wednesday, September 15, that illegal sanctions and blockades imposed against Venezuela have had a devastating effect on the population. | In a report presented at the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Douhan explained that the sanctions imposed against Venezuela do not correspond to the requirements of international law. | In that sense, she detailed with figures, studies, and examples, how the different measures imposed by the United States and its allies in relation to the Venezuelan oil, gold, and mining sectors, the econ…
(2021-09-16). The Real Criminals General Milley Exposed? Every Republican in the US Senate. commondreams.org Without a ban on Pegasus and spyware like it, human rights defenders, journalists, and others will continue to be targeted, spied on, beaten, arrested, and killed.
(2021-09-16). Urgent Appeal To Safeguard Palestinian Prisoners' Rights. popularresistance.org On Saturday 11 September, Al-Haq and partners submitted an urgent appeal to the UN special procedures calling for their urgent intervention to protect the lives of Palestinian prisoner escapees. On the evening of Friday 10 September, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) captured two of the six Palestinian prisoners' escapees from Gilboa Prison on Monday 6 September, Yacoub Qadri, 49 years old, and Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Aridah, 46 years old, in Al-Qafzeh Mountain, Nazareth city, and earlier this morning, Zakaria Zubeidi, 46 years old, and Mohammad Qasem Al-Aridah, 39 years old, were also captured near Al-Tur Mountain…
(2021-09-16). Podcast Ep 44: Musicians make noise for Palestinian rights. electronicintifada.net Author Mona Hajjar Halaby retraces her mother's footsteps in Jerusalem.
(2021-09-16). Black America Tells The NAACP There Is No Such Thing As A Black Agenda Without Reparations. moguldom.com Black America seems to be losing patience with longtime civil rights organization the NAACP over the issue of reparations. The group is promoting a Black Agenda and has publicly announced it is pro-reparations, but many say it isn't doing much to push the issue forward. This sentiment played out recently on Twitter. The NAACP tweeted, …
(2021-09-16). The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless. tomdispatch.com Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; a climate crisis with lives and livelihoods upended in the Gulf Coast and the Northeast by extreme weather events and in the West by a stunning fire season; and an economic crisis in which millions are being cut off from Pandemic Unemployment Insurance, even as August job gains proved underwhelming. There's also a crisis taking place in state legislatures with an ongoing attack on women's autonomy over our own bodies. The Supreme Court let a law go into effect that makes…
(2021-09-16). 2020 Sets 'Stark' Record For Murders Of Environmental Activists. popularresistance.org A record 227 activists working to protect environmental and land rights were murdered in 2020, says the latest in a series of annual reports from Global Witness. | "Almost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource exploitation—logging, mining, large-scale agribusiness, hydroelectric dams, and other infrastructure," writes BBC News in its coverage of the research. | Global Witness calculated that, since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, an average of four activists have been murdered every week. And "shocking" as that number is, Global Witness says an accelerating crackdow…
(2021-09-16). Workers Are Being Put in "The Line of Fire": Organized Labour and Mandatory Vaccines. globalresearch.ca The assault on people's rights is now being extended into the imposition of vaccine mandates. Working people are now being put squarely in the line of fire. They are facing ultimatums from employers that they will lose their jobs if they do not accept the injection.
(2021-09-16). The Other Afghan Women: Rural Areas Hope Taliban Rule Will End Decades of U.S. & Warlord Violence. democracynow.org 
Violence in Afghanistan's countryside has reportedly dropped after the Taliban takeover and the withdrawal of U.S. troops, but the country continues to face an ongoing humanitarian and economic crisis, with millions of children at risk of starvation. Joining us from Kabul, New Yorker reporter Anand Gopal says he was shocked by the "sheer level of violence" Afghan women outside the cities have experienced in the last two decades of war. "The level of human loss was really extraordinary," Gopal says. "I think we've grossly undercounted the number of civilians who died in this war."
(2021-09-16). Friday 9/17: Abortion Rights Film on Zoom — "Reversing Roe" indybay.org Here's the Zoom link to the film on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021: us02web.zoom.us/j/81483938785?pwd=aS9iYU… Meeting ID: 814 8393 8785 Passcode: 215376…
(2021-09-16). Indian court exhorts Modi to "protect Hindu rights" with further communalist "cow protection" legislation. wsws.org The Allahabad High Court judgment is emblematic of the extent to which the vile Hindu communalism promoted by Modi and his BJP has become firmly entrenched in India's supposedly secular judiciary.
(2021-09-16). 400+ Economists Press Congress to Permanently Expand Child Tax Credit. commondreams.org "This is not the end of the battle against this practice," said one rights group, "but it is a major step to ensure that the U.S. welcomes these asylum-seeking families—as we should."
(2021-09-16). Venezuela: Oil Sector Stagnant as US Chamber of Commerce Calls for Sanctions 'Overhaul'. venezuelanalysis.com The business guild complained that the blockade has hurt US corporations.
(2021-09-16). Julio Borges: Assets Abroad 'Should Never Have been Managed by Opposition'. orinocotribune.com No one can forget that opposition leader Julio Borges was one of the main promoters of the anti-national strategy of demanding illegal sanctions against Venezuela and seizure of its resources to bring about the departure of the elected government of President Nicolás Maduro, always stressing that these decisions would not affect the Venezuelan people. | Now that anti-Chavismo has been forced to sit down with the government to negotiate in Mexico, since the time invested in defending the "sanctions" only brought loss of political strength to the radical opposition, Borges now says that assets abroad "should never…
(2021-09-16). Thousands protest wage cuts and neoliberal reforms in Uruguay and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the general strike against wage cuts in Uruguay, the ITJP report on the custodial torture of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and more…