(2022-07-27). Why Former FBI Informant And Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall Hated Malcolm X. moguldom.com Thurgood Marshall and Malcolm X were two major figures in Black America. Yet it seems they often took jabs at each other. Marshall, the first Black American named to the Supreme Court, especially did not appear to be impressed by Malcolm X and his activist works. Marshall, a lawyer and civil rights activist, served as …
(2022-07-27). Cooperation highlighted at high-profile human rights forum. ecns.cn Participants at this year's Beijing Forum on Human Rights called for strengthened cooperation in global human rights governance.
(2022-07-27). Respect for diversity in advancing human rights a necessity, experts say. ecns.cn The international community needs to respect diversity in human rights development as different countries have different development paths and focus, Chinese and foreign human rights experts said on Tuesday.
(2022-07-27). How prison labor works in Arizona. workers.org 
The following article was excerpted from an Arizona Republic and KJZZ News July 22 investigative exposé revealing "what happens when a state exploits some of its poorest people for their labor." Full story at tinyurl.com/2p8ffmnn. Incarcerated women prisoners doing telemarketing. (Photo Credit: Merry Eccles/USA Today Network) After 15 months of . . . |
(2022-07-27). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place To Work For Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic scored 100% on the Disability Equality Index to achieve this recognition. The Disability Equality Index evaluates whether organizations are adopting emerging trends and pioneering measures to move from accommodating those with disabilities to inclusion and, ultimately, genuine…
(2022-07-26). Fox Seeks Allies Across The Political Spectrum To Shill For Bolsonaro. popularresistance.org It is no secret that, since the 2016 legislative coup against President Dilma Rousseff and 2018 arbitrary imprisonment of front-running presidential candidate Lula da Silva, multinational corporations have made billions of dollars from environmental deregulation, dismantlement of labor rights and privatization of Brazil's natural resources. It's also now known that corporate media outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post normalized the breakdown of Brazil's rule of law and rise of fascism by ignoring crimes committed by high-profile Judge Sergio Moro that were widely publicized in Brazilian media. | So…
(2022-07-26). Japan Faces Catastrophic Consequences of its anti-Russian Sanctions. journal-neo.org 
While the US and its allies in their Russophobic frenzy are actively discussing tougher anti-Russian sanctions and, in particular, the possibility of limiting the price of Russian oil, the said Western sanctions policy is doing more and more damage to the Western countries themselves. And this is already particularly evident in the global energy market, …
(2022-07-26). British Journalist Graham Phillips Added To UK SANCTIONS LIST — Inside Russia Report. marktaliano.net READ MORE:
(2022-07-26). The Whistleblower Crackdown. popularresistance.org This is National Whistleblower Week, with Saturday marking National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. The National Whistleblower Center in Washington has its annual lunch, seminar and associated events scheduled. Whistleblowers from around the U.S. attend, a couple members of Congress usually show up and we talk about how important it is to speak truth to power. | I've been attending these events for much of the past decade. But I'm not sanguine about where our efforts stand, especially on behalf of national security whistleblowers. Since I blew the whistle on the C.I.A.'s torture program in 2007 and was prosecuted…
(2022-07-26). FSU students fight for farmworker rights. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On, July 20, the student government of Florida State University passed Resolution 45, "A Resolution to bring attention to the Fair Food Program," in what comes as a major victory in the national Boycott Wendy's campaign. The university's Student/Farmworker Alliance had been pushing for this resolution since it formed as a chapter in 2020. Their reasoning is simple – Wendy's is profiting off of farmworker exploitation. | Over a decade has passed since Florida's agricultural fields were considered a "ground zero" for modern slavery. Now, Florida tomato farms in the Fair Food Program are leading ex…
(2022-07-26). The Chris Hedges Report: Breaking the Cycle of American Violence. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / American society is the most violent of any nation in the industrialized world. Nothing we do, from administrating the world's largest prison system to militarizing our police, seems to help. Dr. James Gilligan argues that childhood abuse, and the shame it engenders, is the engine that fuels America's deadliest epidemic. This abuse and shame, he argues, fosters a dangerous numbness that breeds a deep self-loathing and inchoate rage. It is only by understanding the c…
(2022-07-26). Black People Need Better Options than the Morgue or Mass Incarceration. cepr.net Rather than the gun lawlessness promoted by the extremists on the Supreme Court, Black Americans must insist on gun safety laws and an end to mass incarceration.
(2022-07-26). China continues to adapt border control to COVID-19 situation: authority. ecns.cn China's National Immigration Administration (NIA) will continue to adjust and improve entry-and-exit control measures in line with the changing COVID-19 situation to fully meet people's necessary need for cross-border travel.
(2022-07-26). It's Time to Break up the Secret Service and Send Its People to Jail for Their Role in the Jan. 6 Cover-Up. commondreams.org The Secret Service's missing Jan. 6 texts must be really bad, because agency higher-ups look to have committed a criminal cover-up to hide them.
(2022-07-26). State Lawmakers Must Act to Save Democracy From GOP Attacks. commondreams.org Our democracy is at its most vulnerable in decades with safeguards to protect voting rights and prevent partisan gerrymandering continuing to crumble, especially at the state level.
(2022-07-26). Open letter to UN High Commissioner for human rights. ecns.cn We call on you and the OHCHR to stand on the right side of history, and not to release an assessment full of lies.
(2022-07-26). Federal Guidance on HIPAA and Audio-Only Telehealth. jamanetwork.com The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a guidance on providing audio-only telehealth services that are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)—even when the COVID-19 public health emergency enforced by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) expires. HHS' guidance offers direction on how to use remote communication technologies in ways that conform to HIPAA's privacy, security, and breach notification rules.
(2022-07-25). 9 Arrested in Police Crackdown on Protests in Tunisia Ahead of Constitutional Referendum. towardfreedom.org Several human-rights defenders and progressive activists were detained during a mass protest against authoritarian moves by President Kais Saied, reports People's Dispatch.
(2022-07-25). Economic Theory and Community Development: Why Putting Community First Is Essential to Our Survival. transcend.org This book is not the boring, unreadable stuff I'd come to expect of economics. As Howard Richard's crowning masterpiece, it addresses hopes for a better world, the rights of everybody to dignity and a decent livelihood, and the need we all have to do things that matter to others, to contribute what we can.
(2022-07-25). The Martyrs of Apartheid in pre-1994 South Africa: Steve Biko (Part 3). transcend.org The Targeted, Severe Torture and Brutal Murder of Political Activists by the Agents of the South African Apartheid Regime…