(2022-01-16). Monday 1/17: Voting Rights Now! MLK Holiday Virtual Action Rally w/ Indivisible. indybay.org Virtual rally and online actions for voting rights…
(2022-01-16). Sunday 1/16: Voting Rights Now! MLK Weekend Virtual Action Rally w/ Indivisible. indybay.org Virtual rally and online actions for voting rights…
(2022-01-16). Tuesday 2/15: Voting Rights Speaker: Activist LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-16). Monday 1/17: MLK Day Peace Walk for Voting Rights in Washington D.C. w/ King Family (livestream). indybay.org Livestream of D.C. Voting Rights Event (recording to be available)…
(2022-01-16). Tuesday 1/18: Freedom to Vote: Phone Banking for Voting Rights w/ End Citizens United & Let America Vote. indybay.org Online/virtual action for voting rights…
(2022-01-16). China has unique path of human rights progress. ecns.cn China's unique path of human rights development has much to offer to the world, Chinese experts said on Friday at a conference on the country's human rights concepts and practices in the new era.
(2022-01-16). Monday 1/17: Civil Rights Through Art and Music w/ MoAD. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…
(2022-01-15). Iran calls for intensified UN efforts to remove Syria bans. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) — A senior Iranian diplomat has met with a UN special envoy for Syria calling for the intensified UN efforts to remove foreign sanctions on the deprived Syrian nation.
(2022-01-15). Victoria Nuland has 18 scenarios for dealing with Russia if war erupts. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. prepares 18 scenarios in case of Russian invasion of Ukraine, — Secretary of StateSource According to her, the United States is ready to impose new sanctions against Russia if it decides to invade The United States of America has prepared 18 scenarios in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. But so far …
(2022-01-15). US seeking ways to profit should Russia-Ukraine conflict break out — reports. rt.com 
Washington is predicting a probable military assault despite firm denials by Russia | The US State Department has reportedly held talks with international energy majors on the possibility of contingency supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe if conflict between Russia and Ukraine disrupts deliveries. | Over the past several months, the White House has repeatedly expressed the concern that Russia is preparing to launch a military assault on Ukraine. Russia has made it clear it has no such plans. | The US administration has threatened Moscow with another round of "crippling" sanctions in the event of…
(2022-01-15). Sanders Says Manchin and Sinema Are Undermining US Democracy. truthout.org 
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday that by vowing to uphold the archaic Senate rule standing in the way of voting rights legislation, his Senate colleagues Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are putting "the future of American democracy" at risk. | "It is a sad day when two members of the Democratic caucus are prepared to allow the Freedom to Vote Act to fail," the Vermont senator
(2022-01-15). Democrats launch attack on rights, Constitution, claim to 'save democracy'. themilitant.com Since before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, the Democrats have campaigned nonstop to paint him as a criminal, outside the pale of normal bourgeois political dispute, bar him from office and demonize his working-class supporters. This drive reached a fever pitch for the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building. | The liberals' witch hunt against Trump is at the heart of their election campaign strategy in 2022 as they desperately try to hold onto control of at least the House of Representatives as the Joseph Biden presidency becomes less and less popular. And they dream of barring…
(2022-01-15). Martin Luther King, Jr., Internationalist. popularresistance.org We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day not only to commemorate King's historic role in overcoming racism and other injustice, but because his work and vision remain relevant. | Today's persistent racism in policing, health care, housing, and elsewhere, and attacks on voting rights — particularly for Black Americans — show that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is not just about the past or the South. | King got arrested in Alabama. He marched in Chicago. He spoke truth to power in Washington. He worked with countless activists and ordinary people to take action that transformed the Jim Crow South and impa…
(2022-01-15). Mike Pence Says Capitol Riot, Voting Rights Act are Both 'Power Grabs'. sputniknews.com 6 January 2022 marked the first anniversary of the Capitol riot, which saw scores of Trump supporters attempting to stop Congress from certifying the results of what former US President Donald Trump slammed as "the most corrupt election" in American history.
(2022-01-15). Tuesday 2/15: Voting Rights Speaker: Activist LaTosha Brown, BLack Voters Matter. indybay.org Online event…
(2022-01-15). Iran hopes to pay its membership fee to UN ASAP. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) — Referring to the suspension of Iran's voting rights and depositing its membership fee with the United Nations, Iran's envoy to the United Nations said that consultations with the United Nations are ongoing in this respect.
(2022-01-15). The Heat: U.S. Voting Rights. america.cgtn.com 
As the U.S. Congress struggles to pass voting rights laws, how will this define Joe Biden's presidency?
(2022-01-15). [Correspondence] The UK People's Covid Inquiry. thelancet.com The People's Covid Inquiry anticipated that any official public investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic would be much delayed. It was a citizens' tribunal —ie, part legal proceedings, part theatre, part publicly speaking truth to power—aimed at raising issues to more visible levels than government or the media were prepared to do on their own. The renowned human rights barrister, Michael Mansfield, acted as chair. A final report in December, 2021, set out conclusions and recommendations on the basis of the evidence collected.
(2022-01-15). China has unique path of human rights progress. ecns.cn China's unique path of human rights development has much to offer to the world, Chinese experts said on Friday at a conference on the country's human rights concepts and practices in the new era.
(2022-01-15). Enduring Stain: The Guantánamo Military Prison Turns Twenty. dissidentvoice.org Anniversaries for detention centres, concentration camps and torture facilities are not the relishable calendar events in the canon of human worth. But not remembering them, when they were used, and how they continue being used, would be unpardonable amnesia. On January 11, 2002, the first prisoners of the absurdly named "War on Terror", declared with …
(2022-01-15). Conoce 7 frases del luchador por los derechos civiles Martin Luther King. telesurtv.net Por sus causas de lucha y activismo social y antirracista Martin Luther King mereció el premio Nobel de la Paz en 1964.
(2022-01-15). Rechazan nuevos hechos de violencia en departamento colombiano de Arauca. telesurtv.net Demandan a los grupos armados ilegales dejar al margen de sus acciones a la población civil y respetar los derechos humanos.
(2022-01-15). COVID-19 cases surge 340 percent among ICE detainees in one week. wsws.org According to the most recent federal data, an estimated 1,254 people currently held in US immigrant detention centers have tested positive for COVID-19.
(2022-01-15). Djokovic Is Obnoxious, But His Story Highlights Cruelty of Australian Detention. truthout.org 
Tennis player Novak Djokovic's refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19 — and his subsequent efforts to manipulate Australia's medical exemption system so as to be allowed a visa to enter the country and compete in the first Grand Slam of the year — is one of the most surreal developments in tennis history. | As of this writing, the stubbornly unvaccinated Djokovic is still in Australia, and still slated to play in the championships starting on Monday. Yet, for days now, he's…
(2022-01-15). In The Latest Rights Of Nature Case, A Tribe Is Suing On Behalf Of Salmon. popularresistance.org Salmon—the fish—are suing the City of Seattle in Sauk-Suiattle tribal court, seeking recognition of their legal rights to exist, flourish and regenerate. | The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe filed the complaint earlier this month on behalf of the fish following the city's construction and operation of off-reservation hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River. The tribe, also asserting claims based on rights the tribe holds, alleges that the city constructed the dams, beginning in the first half of the 20th century, without the tribe's consultation or consent. | The case is the latest in a series of rights of…
(2022-01-15). Minneapolis trial prosecution deals blows to workers' rights. themilitant.com MINNEAPOLIS — After a 24-day trial here, former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter was found guilty Dec. 23 on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old African American Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last April. When Wright moved to drive off to avoid arrest on outstanding weapons charges, Potter mistakenly drew her Glock pistol and shot Wright, thinking she was firing her Taser. | The trial conduct of the prosecutors and judge violated key legal rights that protect working people against the state and are needed as our class battles to defend our inter…
(2022-01-15). The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society. globalresearch.ca The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
(2022-01-15). Monday 1/17: Civil Rights Through Art and Music w/ MoAD. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…
(2022-01-15). Mali Cancels Military Agreements with France. libya360.wordpress.com Voltairenet On 10 January 2022, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided to close land and air borders between member-countries and ali and to freeze assets of the Republic of Mali in ECOWAS Central Banks, as sanctions in response to the announcement by the transitional authorities to postpone the presidential election to the…