'Policing the womb' in Alabama
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2019-07-10
Marshae Jones The intensified attack on women, the gender-oppressed and reproductive justice, denounced as "policing the womb" by reproductive rights advocate and activist Michelle Goodwin, has reached a new level of violence in Alabama. On July 3, Marshae Jones, a young pregnant African-American woman, was arrested after being indicted by . . . | Continue reading 'Policing the womb' in Alabama at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/09/policing-the-womb-in-alabama/

Jewish protesters stand in solidarity with detainees in S. California
Cynthia Kao | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-10
"All of our liberation is connected."
liberationnews.org/jewish-protesters-stand-in-solidarity-with-detainees-in-s-california/

Immigrant Rights Activists Renew Push Against Palantir to Cancel ICE Contract
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-10
Organizers with Mijente, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the Tech Workers Coalition, and other groups mobilized in New York and Washington D.C. to demand Palantir Technologies, a surveillance company, cancel its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). | In New York, people stood outside the Palantir office and chanted, "Immigrants are welcome here! Time to cancel, Palantir!" | Activists with Mijente, an immigration and Latinx-focused organization, attempted to give workers entering the New York office a flier that ur…
truthout.org/articles/immigrant-rights-activists-renew-push-against-palantir-to-cancel-ice-contract/

UN experts voice 'deep concern' over Iran's 'consistent pattern' of denying life-saving medical treatment to detainees
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-10
Despite repeated calls, Iran continues to deny medical treatment to detainees in what amounts to "a consistent pattern", according to eight UN human rights experts, in a statement on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042141

Brazil: Glenn Greenwald Invited to Students Union Event
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
More than 18,000 delegates from universities are gathering Wednesday in Brasilia to attend the 57th edition of the National Union of Students (UNE) Congress, an event whose central theme is the defense of education, employment and social security. | RELATED: | Sergio Moro Asks for a 5-Day Leave During Lava Jato Case | "In times of crisis, when there are attempts to restrict political participation, attacks on acquired rights and other setbacks happening across the country, Brazilian…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Glenn-Greenwald-To-Join-18000-Students-for-Their-Union-Meeting-in-Defense-of-Democracy–20190710-0004.html

Iran Rightfully Increases Uranium Stockpiles and Enrichment Beyond JCPOA Limits
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Iran recently increased its enriched uranium stockpiles and uranium enrichment levels beyond JCPOA limits in response to Washington's unilateral withdrawal and increased sanctions. | Fourteen months ago, Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive …
globalresearch.ca/iran-rightfully-increases-uranium-stockpiles-enrichment-beyond-jcpoa-limits/5683172

Acts of solidarity with migrants grow
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2019-07-10
The United States government is waging a white-supremacist, imperialist, neocolonial war on multiple fronts. While this war on oppressed people rages on, people across the country and the world are taking a stand against state violence. Violence abroad can take many forms like resource extraction, economic sanctions and regime change. . . . | Continue reading Acts of solidarity with migrants grow at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/09/acts-of-solidarity-grow-for-migrants/

CIA Torture Unredacted: Four-Year Investigation Reveals What Was Hidden in US Senate Torture Report
Crofton Black | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
New report is the most comprehensive public account of one of the most disturbing elements of America's so-called 'War on Terror' | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/10/cia-torture-unredacted-four-year-investigation-reveals-what-was-hidden-us-senate?cd-origin=rss

The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New. It's a Key Part of a Decades-Old Bipartisan Policy
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to sufficient food, water, beds or medical care now has a spreading outbreak of scabies, shingles and chickenpox, according to border agents. In Yuma, Arizona, NBC reports that jailed migrant children have been subjected to mistreatment and sexual…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/10/john_carl…

SF Jews Demand Closure of Detention Camps
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
"We've Seen This before, Never Again is Now" | Photos and Text: Leon Kunstenaar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/06/18824488.php

'Just as We Said They Would,' Says Ocasio-Cortez as ICE Opens Three New Detention Centers in Defiance of Congress
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
"DHS and ICE are flagrantly violating congressional orders." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/10/just-we-said-they-would-says-ocasio-cortez-ice-opens-three-new-detention-centers?cd-origin=rss

Nicki Minaj Cancels Saudi Concert Citing Women, LGBT Rights
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
U.S. rapper Nicki Minaj said she was pulling out of a planned concert in Saudi Arabia next week, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBTQ community, which are gravely lacking in the ultra-Islamist country, according to a report by the Associated Press published Tuesday. | RELATED: | Runaway Saudi Sisters Urge Google, Apple to Remove Gov't-made Women-Monitoring App | "After careful reflection I have decided to no longer move forward with my sch…
telesurenglish.net/news/nicki-minaj-canceled-show-in-saudi-arabia-concert-women-lgbtq-20190710-0005.html

'Only the Tip of the Iceberg': Outrage Over Border Abuses Grows Amid Reports of Sexual Assault and Retaliation by CBP Agents
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it was investigating allegations the border agents sexually assaulted children in at least one migrant detention center and retaliated against children who spoke out about the conditions they've been forced to live in. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/10/only-tip-iceberg-outrage-over-border-abuses-grows-amid-reports-sexual-assault-and?cd-origin=rss

Day of Action: 2nd Detention Camps Protest
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
Protests Resume at SF Federal Building | Photos and text: Leon Kunstenaar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/07/18824521.php

Lights for Liberty Vigil to end detention camps and family separation
Carina Merrick | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
In front of the main Redwood City Public Library | 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/08/18824548.php

South Africa Condemns the US Blockade Against Cuba
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Pretoria, July 10 (Prensa Latina) The US aggressions against Cuba were strongly condemned on Wednesday in this capital as a violation of international law and a transgression of the rights of peace, development and security of such a sovereign State.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Venezuelan Constituents Reject UN Human Rights Report
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
10 de julio de 2019, 02: 57Caracas, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela"s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) MP Mercedes Gutierrez has rejected on Wednesday the report presented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Diaz-Canel: Investors Still in Cuba Despite US Pressures
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Havana, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Most of foreign investors keep their business in Cuba in spite of pressures and sanctions of the US blockade, President Miguel Diaz-Canel affirmed this Wednesday.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

UN human rights chief denounces "outrageous conditions" for immigrants in US concentration camps
wsws.org | 2019-07-10
Indicating that the US government has no intention of heeding Bachelet's statement, DHS has requested another 1,000 National Guard troops on the border between Texas and Mexico.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/10/bach…

The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-09
The seizure of an Iranian oil tanker allegedly bound for Syria by British Royal Marine commandos off Gibraltar is the latest episode in the long and disastrous history of economic sanctions in the Middle East. The UK claims that it is implementing EU sanctions on Syria, but the act will be seen by Tehran — and most other states — as the British enforcing US sanctions on Iran that the EU said it opposes. An Iranian official said a British tanker should be seized in retaliation.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/09/the-seizure-of-an-iranian-tanker-and-the-lethal-toll-of-sanctions/

Entry Ban at Israeli City Park Provokes Apartheid Warnings
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-09
The barring of a lawyer and her infant from a public park in the Galilee last week has triggered a legal battle over whether local authorities in Israel can segregate citizens on a racial basis. Human rights groups have warned that the ban marks a growing trend by local authorities representing the Jewish majority towards …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/entry-ban-at-israeli-city-park-provokes-apartheid-warnings/

Tuesday's Daily Brief: #GlobalGoals progress, essential meds, updates from Cox's Bazar, Sudan and DR Congo
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-09
This Tuesday's UN top stories are: high-level discussions on the progress made towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals; falling behind on universal education dream; the UN list of essential medicines updated; life-threatening floods in Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh; and human rights in Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042101

"This Is Not a Surprise": U.S. Sanctions and Saber Rattling Led to Iran's Renewed Uranium Enrichment
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-09
In ongoing fallout from the Trump administration's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed on Monday that Iran has begun enriching uranium above the level agreed to by the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has threatened to continue to increase their production of enriched uranium if European signatories of the nuclear deal do not help ease the impact of the U.S. sanctions. We speak with Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the new think tank, the Quincy Institute, and author of "Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy."
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/9/trump_admi…

It is not the Non-existent Iranian Bomb; it is the Other Existing Bombs
Dan Lieberman | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-09
United States (US) demands that Iran promise to halt pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile developments distract from the real intent of the US actions. Knowing that the Islamic Republic is not pursuing nuclear weapons and will react aggressively to sanctions, the US ploy deters other nations from establishing more friendly relations with Iran …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/it-is-not-the-non-existent-iranian-bomb-it-is-the-other-existing-bombs/

Detained Journalist Manuel Duran's Case Ordered Reopened
splcenter.org | 2019-07-09
The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered detained journalist Manuel Duran's case reopened, paving the way for an asylum claim and possible release after over 15 months in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/09/detained-journalist-manuel-durans-case-ordered-reopened

Hong Kong protesters appeal to mainland Chinese for support
wsws.org | 2019-07-09
The unity of the Chinese working class as a whole is a prerequisite for the struggle for democratic rights and social equality.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/09/hong…

On First Anniversary of Kavanaugh Nomination, Groups Demand Democrats Follow Through on Promise to Probe Perjury and Assault Accusations
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-09
Progressive and women's rights groups on Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court by demanding Congress open an investigation into the judge's conduct during his confirmation hearings—as Democrats promised they would last fall. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/09/first-anniversary-kavanaugh-nomination-groups-demand-democrats-follow-through?cd-origin=rss

US steps up threats as Iran exceeds uranium enrichment cap
wsws.org | 2019-07-09
Iran's government deliberately breached the agreement to pressure remaining signatories to the nuclear accord to counter crippling US economic sanctions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/09/iran…

Georgian protests, military parade, Libya and Turkey
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-08
Georgian protests New protests took place this week in Georgia. On July 4, the Georgian Interior Ministry announced the detention of four people accused of assaulting police officers during rallies in central Tbilisi on June 20-21. On Thursday, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it was investigating a meeting about organizing mass riots and an …
uwidata.com/4172-georgian-protests-military-parade-libya-and-turkey/

Socialists on Chicago City Council Fight for Affordable Housing, Immigrant Rights
Aída Chávez | theintercept.com | 2019-07-08
Democratic socialists now make up 12 percent of the City Council, the highest number that any major American city has seen in more than a century.
theintercept.com/2019/07/08/socialism-conference-chicago-city-council/

Monday's Daily Brief: global homicide figures, neo-Nazi recruitment, Kashmir, and migrants' plight in USA
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-08
This Monday, we cover: a record high number of civilian casualties in Kashmir this year; a new UN study showing that more people die due to homicide than war; how neo-Nazis target children online to expand their ranks; and condemnation by the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, over detention conditions for migrants in the USA.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042021

Venezuela: The Bachelet Lie
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-08
When reading the Bachelet Report on Human Rights, following HR High Commissioner's 3 day visit to Venezuela, published on Venezuela's National Holiday, 5 July, I saw that it makes hardly any reference to the deadly sanctions and blockades imposed by the United States. How is that possible? The High Commissioner for Human Right does not …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/venezuela-the-bachelet-lie/

Charges Dropped Against Pregnant Shooting Victim Amid Outcry over the Criminalization of Pregnancy
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-08
Following immense public pressure, prosecutors in Alabama have dropped manslaughter changers against Marshae Jones, a 28-year-old African-American woman whose pregnancy ended after she was shot in the stomach by a coworker. Local police accused Jones of starting the fight that led to the shooting in the parking lot of a Dollar General store outside of Birmingham. A grand jury then indicted Jones on manslaughter but dismissed any charges against the shooter. The case drew national outcry from women's rights advocates concerned about the criminalization of pregnant women and the legal implications of so-called feta…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/8/seg_3

UN rights chief 'appalled' by US border detention conditions, says holding migrant children may violate international law
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-08
Conditions in which migrants and refugees are being held in the United States are appalling, said the UN human rights chief on Monday, underscoring that children should never be held in immigration detention, or separated from their families.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041991

Putting the Brakes on the Deportation Machine
James Goodman | progressive.org | 2019-07-08
A determined detainee stands up for her rights, with a little help from her friends.
progressive.org/dispatches/putting-the-brakes-on-the-deportation-machine-goodman-190808/

'Horrified at the sights': Coloradans protest ICE facilities and detention profiteers
Jonathan Flowers | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-07
Human rights abuses are not just restricted to the border.
liberationnews.org/horrified-at-the-sights-coloradans-protest-ice-facilities-and-detention-profiteers/

Venezuelan Government Slams 'Biased' UN Human Rights Report
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-07
Despite recognizing the negative impact of US sanctions, the report contains no recommendation for the measures to be lifted.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14575

Nurses picket in Long Beach, Calif., for workers' rights
Ian Matthews | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-07
"The hospital is trying to get as much out of them, with as little resources as possible."
liberationnews.org/nurses-picket-in-long-beach-ca-for-workers-rights/

More Details Emerge About Horrible Conditions at Immigration Detention Centers
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-07
A DHS Inspector General report and a visit by members of Congress to detention centers, the inhumane conditions become clearer and spark more outrage…
therealnews.com/stories/more-details-emerge-about-horrible-conditions-at-immigration-detention-centers

'Weaponizing human rights': UN chief Bachelet's Venezuela report follows US regime change script
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-06
Former UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas slams UN High Commissioner Bachelet's report on Venezuela as a politicized collection of…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/weaponizing-human-rights-un-high-commissioner-bachelets-venezuela-report-follows-us-regime-change-script/

Medicare for all means radical change, not just reforms
Esteban Guevara | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-06
Healthcare, along with education, jobs, and affordable housing, are essential human rights indispensable for everyone.
liberationnews.org/medicare-for-all-means-radical-change-not-just-reforms/

Over 1000 union educators protest Houston Detention Center
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-05
Houston, TX – July 4 saw union educators push for freedom for refugees and undocumented families. After a daylong meeting of the annual National Education Association's annual Representative Assembly, a massive group of educators demonstrated their anger at Trump's concentration camps for children and families. | Rank-and-file education workers organized the protest within less than 48 hours of arriving at the convention. The group marched around a detention center located in downtown Houston, holding signs reading "Free the children!" and "Close the camps!" As they marched, they chanted "Up up with education! Do…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/5/over-1000…

New report: French Insurer AXA Complicit in Israel's War Crimes
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-07-05
New report: French Insurer AXA Complicit in Israel's War Crimes: UpdateGlobal coalition demands AXA divest from companies violating Palestinian rights | Economic Boycott Military EmbargoJuly 8, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
bdsmovement.net/news/new-report-french-insurer-axa-complicit-israel%E2%80%99s-war-crimes

Iran Threatens Seizure of UK Oil Tanker if Iranian Oil Tanker Not Released
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-05
(ZH) — Iran has called for the "immediate release" of its oil tanker after British Royal Marines boarded and seized it off Gibraltar a day ago after it took a long 90-day trek around the tip of Africa, presumably to evade sanctions enforcement en route to Syria. Authorities had accused the Grace 1 supertanker of illegal smuggling …

Iran Threatens Seizure of UK Oil Tanker if Iranian Oil Tanker Not Released

Six children among 53 confirmed fatalities after Libya detention centre airstrikes: Security Council condemns attack
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-05
The toll from Tuesday's reported airstrikes on a detention centre in the suburbs of Tripoli has risen to 53 dead and more than 130 injured among the "severely traumatized" surviving migrants and refugees, UN aid agencies said on Friday, reiterating their appeal to close all such facilities in the embattled country.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041911

Friday's Daily Brief: Sudan power-sharing deal welcomed, hope for Venezuela talks, Rohingya camps flooded, Libya airstrikes update
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-05
Friday's main news stories include: Guterres welcomes Sudan power-sharing deal; six children are among 53 confirmed dead after Libya detention centre airstrikes; Monsoon rains wreak havoc in Rohingya camps; and Bachelet calls for "time and space" in Venezuela.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041951

Brazil: Millions strike against Bolsonaro's pension reforms
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-05
The streets answered with a resounding "no" to Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform proposition, to his intentions of restraining rights, and to the continuity of attacks against the people since former president Michel Temer's coup d'etat in 2016. | The protests, part of a general strike called by national union organisations, mobilised millions of people in 360 cities from north to south, across 26 states and the Federal district. | The general strike on June 14 developed out of the unified struggle of national unions, popular movements and progressive sectors fighting for public education and ag…
greenleft.org.au/content/brazil-millions-strike-against-bolsonaro%E2%80%99s-pension-reforms

Venezuela: Amid crisis and sanctions, LGBTI activists continue to demand change
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-05
One of the sectors hardest hit by Venezuela's economic crisis is the nation's LGBTI community. Lacking access to life-saving medicines and denied certain rights, activists say there is still much to be done within the revolution. | A recent report by the Washington-based Centre for Economic and Policy Research found that there are more than 300,000 people at risk of death in Venezuela due to a lack of access to medicines or treatment. This includes about 80,000 people living with HIV, many of whom are LGBTI or sexual and gender diverse — the term commonly used in Venezuela. | United States sanctions ha…
greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-amid-crisis-and-sanctions-lgbti-activists-continue-demand-change

Immigration Detention Center Conditions Cause Massive Outcry
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-05
The revelation of extreme immigration detention center conditions for exhausted asylum seeking children, who are separated from their relatives, sparked outrage nationwide. In Phoenix, Arizona, Jews for Justice demonstrated, demanding permanent medical staff for Border patrol's Provisional Detention Centers…
therealnews.com/stories/immigration-detention-center-conditions-cause-massive-outcry

UN human rights chief 'hopeful' Venezuelan authorities are ready to address violations, calls for dialogue
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-04
"The only way out of this crisis is to come together, in dialogue": that was the clear message delivered by Michelle Bachelet, the UN human rights chief, to the Government of Venezuela on Friday, during an address to the Human Rights Council, coinciding with the publication of a new UN report on Venezuela.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041902