2019-07-06: Social Media Postees

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Australian Student Expelled From North Korea For 'Spying Acts'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-06
The official news agency for North Korea stated on Saturday that an Australian student was expelled from the country after spending ten days in detention for "spying acts" through his work with foreign media. | RELATED: | Nuclear Talks To Resume After Surprise Trump-Kim Meeting | The student,Alek Sigley, who had been held in North Korea since June 25, was an active social media user and also a regular contributor to international media organizations including NK News about his time in…
telesurenglish.net/news/Australian-Student-Expelled-From-North-Korea-For-Spying-Acts-20190706-0003.html

Six children among 53 confirmed fatalities after Libya detention centre airstrikes
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.
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Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Detention Centers
Jake Johnson via Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2019-07-05
Reposted from Common Dreams under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/04/18824445.php

Another Whitewashed Trial of War Crimes by USA Invader
DLI | indybay.org | 2019-07-05
The latest acquittal (except for an "unauthorized posing of a photo of a prisoner" charge) of a Navy SEAL is another case of Imperialist impunity of war crimes in America's global "War on Terror." Special Op. Chief Edward Gallagher was cleared of all other far more serious charges, including one for killing an injured teenage ISIS fighter in Iraq in 2017. He was released without having to serve any more time, since his sentence of 4 months for the "photo posing" charge has been offset by his pretrial detention. Apparently, this is a prime example of "victor's justice" in America's long history of overseas Imperia…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/04/18824437.php

In Palo Alto, 300 Demonstrators Protest Detention Camps
Text: RR Photos: Jack Owicki, Pro Bono Photo | indybay.org | 2019-07-05
On July 2, tens of thousands of people attended over 175 protests across the US to call on the Trump administration to close detention camps where migrants are being held under horrific conditions. Palo Alto, California, the site of one such protest, is the location of grassroots effort Caravan to Clint, a group that goes on trips to a children's detention facility outside El Paso.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/05/18824448.php

The Nonprofits and Businesses Making Millions From Detaining Migrant Children
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-05
This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge.A new report from the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns of "dangerous overcrowding" and "prolonged detention" at several Customs and Bor…
truthout.org/articles/the-nonprofits-and-businesses-making-millions-from-detaining-migrant-children/

Abu Graib at Home in America
Barbara Nimri Aziz | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-05
"This is not what America is about" argues a U.S. reporter referring to revelations of misogynist, violent, racist behavior by employees of the U.S. Border Patrol 'guarding' migrants held in detention centers.Sorry Mr. Thompson (Pro Publica reporter who broke this story); THIS IS what America is about. Vulnerable people, i.e. women, men and children held…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/abu-graib-at-home-in-america/

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 Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer replies to feminist legal critics on Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-05
Melzer refutes the claim that he had belittled or denied the role of consent in the legal definition of rape.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/05/melz…

After UK seizure of Iranian tanker, ex-official says Iran should seize an 'English tanker' in response
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-05
On 4 July, Royal Marines helped to seize an Iranian oil tanker heading to Syria in order to enforce European sanctions on the war-torn country. Now, a former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard ( IRGC) says his country should seize a British tanker in response. | Rezaei, who led the IR…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/05/after-uk-seizure-of-iranian-tanker-ex-official-says-iran-should-seize-an-english-tanker-in-response/

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

What Sanctions Mean for My Iranian-American Family
Mina Shahinfar | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-05
What's wrong?" I asked my mother, as I saw her broken expression. She was on the phone, speaking with my grandparents in Iran. "A terrible thing has happened," she replied. My grandparent's home in Tehran had been broken into. The thieves took everything they could carry — my grandmother's jewelry, my uncle's prized watch collection,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/what-sanctions-mean-for-my-iranian-american-family/

Canadian Firm's Lobbying Contract with Sudan Military Rulers May Face Police Probe
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-05
Canada's government has referred a lobbying contract between a Montreal-based firm and Sudan's ruling military council to federal police to determine whether the deal violates Canadian sanctions on the country. | A spokeswoman for the Canadian foreign ministry, Global Affairs Canada, …
globalresearch.ca/canadian-firms-lobbying-contract-sudan-military-rulers-may-face-police-probe/5682799

Sanctions: Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-05
President Donald Trump's meeting with North Korea's Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, on June 30th may turn out to be more than just another publicity stunt similar to the failed "summit" held in Vietnam in February — a political fiasco. The New York Times and other media report that Trump is planning to revise the terms of U.S.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/sanctions-failure-of-u-s-foreign-policy/

Venezuelan Human Rights Network regrets UN discriminatory report
plenglish.com | 2019-07-05
Caracas, July 5 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan Human Rights Network regretted the discriminatory content of the report of the high commissioner of the United Nations Organization, Michelle Bachelet.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

How businesses have changed since the #metoo movement
Avery T. Phillips | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-05
Equal treatment for women in the workplace has been a point of contention since the advent of the women's rights movement a half-century ago. In more recent years, in-person and online activism have made it possible for women and allies to stand against abuse, harm, harassment and inequality with the #MeToo movement. Studies reveal that 81 …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/05/how-businesses-have-changed-since-the-metoo-movement/

Love and Rights: Contingent or Unconditional?
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-05
Kali Akuno asks an important question: where would we be as a world today if people of the left had been as organized in 2008 when the financial crash hit as they'd been in 1980 before thirty years of neoliberalism? Akuno, a co-founder and co-coordinator of Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, asked this question this past…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/love-and-rights-contingent-or-unconditional/

Europeans Witness Climate Change, It's Only the Beginning: WWF
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-05
Record-breaking temperatures, droughts and heatwaves across Europe represent the reality of climate change, the global conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said Thursday. | RELATED: | Scotland's Environmental Rights at Risk if Brexit Passes | The region hasn't witnesses seasonal changes at this level since the 1940's, researchers said. | In Ge…
telesurenglish.net/news/Europeans-Witness-Climate-Change-Its-Only-the-Beginning-WWF-20190705-0022.html

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

Reasons for the 1776 Revolution
Prof. Matthew Stanton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-05
"Before the Constitution and before the Bill of Rights there was the Declaration of Independence. The founders took little time to enshrine in the Declaration of Independence the most fundamental and primary right from which all other rights flow: that …
globalresearch.ca/reasons-1776-revolution/5682747

Spain: Spear-Studded Activists Protest Pamplonan Bullfights
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-05
Animal rights activists lay nearly naked and prostrate in the San Fermin Square of Pamplona Friday on the eve of the traditional running of the bulls and subsequent bullfight that takes place each year in the Spanish city. | RELATED: | Spain: Supreme Court Rules 'Wolf Pack' Case Is Rape | This year, however, the event was marked by 54 protesters laying still…
telesurenglish.net/news/Spain-Spear-Studded-Activists-Protest-Pamplonan-Bullfights-20190705-0020.html

Paediatricians share children's drawings after release from 'inhumane' US detention camps
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-04
Pictures drawn by children recently detained by the United States border force depict their "inhumane" treatment, with figures of people in cages.The pictures were drawn by children following their release by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).Detention centres are the first places children go after they are picked up by customs officials.Immediate past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Collen Kraft said: "The cages they are kept in are metal cells. They are kept cold, there is not enough food or water, and they are crowded. There are open toilets and the lights are kept on 24/7."A picture…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2019/07/04/paediatricians-share-childrens-drawings-after-release-from-inhumane-us-detention-camps/

Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Border Patrol Migrant Jails
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-04
In response to photos, news reports, and first-hand accounts of the horrific conditions inside Border Patrol detention centers in Texas, President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired off a tweet blami…
truthout.org/articles/trump-blames-migrants-for-appalling-conditions-at-border-patrol-migrant-jails/

Bombing of detention center in Libya kills at least 44 refugees
wsws.org | 2019-07-04
The tragedy is the product of the 2011 US-backed war for regime change which has plunged Libya into nearly a decade of civil war and the EU's war on refugees.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/04/liby…

Amid Revelations of Fascist Network at Customs and Border Protection, Ocasio-Cortez, Other Congress Members Threatened by Border Police
Barry Grey | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-04
A delegation of more than a dozen members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus reported feeling unsafe and facing taunts and ridicule from Border Patrol agents during a visit Monday to immigrant detention facilities in Texas. | The Democratic legislators included Representative …
globalresearch.ca/amid-revelations-fascist-network-customs-border-protection-ocasio-cortez-other-congress-members-threatened-border-police/5682687

Abu Graib at Home in America
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-04
"This is not what America is about" argues a reporter referring to revelations of misogynist, violent, racist behavior by employees of the U.S. Border Patrol 'guarding' migrants held in detention centers. | Sorry Mr. Thompson (Propublica journalist who broke this story); …
globalresearch.ca/abu-graib-home-america/5682706

Pediatricians Release Migrant Children's Drawings of Their Time in US Border Prisons
The Mind Unleashed | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-04
(TMU) — Pediatricians have shared harrowing images drawn by migrant children separated from their parents while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention camps that show people in prison-like conditions. The drawings were released by a social worker at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas to the American Academy of Pediatrics, who …

Pediatricians Release Migrant Children’s Drawings of Their Time in US Border Prisons

After Aerial Bombing Kills Dozens of Migrants in Libya, 82 More Reported Missing at Sea
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-04
On the heels of a fatal air raid on a migrant detention center in Libya that triggered fresh calls for the global community to improve its response to the refugee crisis, 82 migrants are missing and feared dead after a boat that departed from the North African country capsized in the Mediterranean Sea. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/04/after-aerial-bombing-kills-dozens-migrants-libya-82-more-reported-missing-sea?cd-origin=rss

Mexico deploys National Guard, detains immigrants at record levels
wsws.org | 2019-07-04
Mexico launched its 70,000-member National Guard as immigrant detentions rose by a third since May.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/04/mexi…

Libyan Guards Reportedly Shot at Migrants Fleeing Airstrike: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-04
The United Nations (U.N.) Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Thursday in a document published on its website, it had information that Libyan guards shot at migrants and refugees trying to flee from Tuesday's bombings on a migrant detention facility in Tripoli. | RELATED: | Air Strike on Libya's Migrant Center Is a 'War Crime': UN | "There a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Libyan-Guards-Shot-Migrants-After-Airstrike-20190704-0027.html

New Poll: Most Americans Across Party Lines Against Trump's Racist Treatment Of Immigrants
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-07-04
New CNN poll: Most Americans favor a more humane immigration policy than Trump's racist divisive child separation tactics… | Washington, DC — As President Trump gets ready for his tanks and airplane-filled ego trip on the National Mall, millions of Americans are rightfully outraged about the human rights crisis on display in detention facilities and holding cells along our border. | The report issued yesterday by the Department of Homeland Security's internal investigators adds ugly new details about the scope and nature of the squalor and is directly linked to the choices and callousness of this ad…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/white-…

American Concentration Camps, Then and Now
Foreign Policy in Focus | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-04
(FPIF) — In our history textbooks, "Japanese internment," as it's carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens — can be more accurately described as one of the worst …

American Concentration Camps, Then and Now

Latest Office of Inspector General report reveals inhumane conditions at US immigrant detention centers
wsws.org | 2019-07-04
Children are being detained without access to showers or hot meals and in one instance adult immigrants were held in standing room only conditions for a full week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/04/repo…

Libya's Civil War is Becoming a Proxy War
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-04
The shooting down of a Turkish drone near Tripoli and the capture of six Turkish sailors by Gen. Haftar's forces reveals the Turkey's and Egypt's involvement on both sides of the civil war. Meanwhile Haftar's forces are accused of bombing a migration detention center near Tripoli, killing 44 and injuring 130…
therealnews.com/stories/libyas-civil-war-is-becoming-a-proxy-war

An Open Letter to Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers Regarding the Humanitarian Crisis at the Border
Eric W. Maroney | commondreams.org | 2019-07-04
That collective imagination, that boldness to dream, is exactly what is needed in this moment of national crisis when families and children are being detained at the border, kept in squalid conditions and held, in what Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rightly calls, concentration camps. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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British Marines Seize Oil Tanker Suspected of Bringing Iranian Oil to Syria
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-04
(ANTIWAR.COM) — British Royal Marines seized an oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday. They suspected the tanker was headed to Syria, which would be a violation of US and EU sanctions. The Grace 1 oil tanker was believed to have started its journey in Iran. "That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European …

British Marines Seize Oil Tanker Suspected of Bringing Iranian Oil to Syria

Trump's 180-degree turn on the S-400: a tactical move or a distraction?
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-04
The multi-month crisis between the US and Turkey on the purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems recently took an unexpected turn. According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Donald Trump said that Washington would not impose sanctions over the deal during the summit in Japan. The statements were greeted with amazement all over …
uwidata.com/4135-trumps-180-degree-turn-on-the-s-400-a-tactical-move-or-a-distraction/

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.
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Venezuela Issues 70 Objections to UN's Human Rights Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-04
The Venezuelan government issued a statement Thursday rejecting the findings of a report released by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, questioning the methodology used to collect the data. | RELATED: | President Maduro Ratifies Commitment to Dialogue in Norway | "The report presents a selective and openly biased view of the true human rights situation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Issues-70-Objections-to-UNs-Human-Rights-Report-20190704-0009.html

'A Brutal Violation of Press Freedom': Glenn Greenwald Targeted With Investigation by Brazilian Government After Reporting on Corruption
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-04
"Criminally investigating journalist Glenn Greenwald for reporting on corruption within the Bolsonaro government is a shocking violation of his rights as a reporter." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/04/brutal-violation-press-freedom-glenn-greenwald-targeted-investigation-brazilian?cd-origin=rss

Plans for Prison on Mountaintop-Removal Site in Kentucky Scuttled. Maybe
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-04
The Federal government's plan to build a maximum-security prison on a former mountaintop-removal coal-mining site in eastern Kentucky has been one of those zombie-like bad ideas that simply refuses to die. But after years of fierce opposition by environmental, prisoner rights, and local citizen rights groups, it appears that the controversial project might finally be buried forever. | Last month, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) formally withdrew its plan for the $510 million project in Kentucky's Letcher County based on what it clai…
truthout.org/articles/plans-for-prison-on-mountaintop-removal-site-in-kentucky-scuttled-maybe/

Egypt: Footballer to Play Despite Sexual Harassment Accusations
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-04
After getting kicked off the national squad for alleged sexual harassment accusations, Egyptian footballer Amr Warda has been reinstated in order to play in the African Cup of Nations amid a heated debate about women's rights. | RELATED: | Women Accuse Gambia's Former President of Rape, Assault | The midfielder was sidelined by the Egyptian football federation (EFA) last week, but in a stunning reversal, that took less than 48 hours, he was on the pi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Warda-Egypt-Play-African-Cup-Sexual-Harassment-20190704-0014.html

The New Bill of Rights
Steve Brodner | thenation.com | 2019-07-04
The New Bill of Rights…
thenation.com/article/the-new-bill-of-rights/

Tucson protest tells Trump: No raids! No deportations! No family separations!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-03
Tucson, AZ – Over 100 people braved the intense desert sun Tuesday morning, July 2, to demonstrate their anger at Trump's threat for ICE raids aimed at thousands of undocumented families. Many demonstrators also expressed their demand to reunite families and to close the concentration camps operating as detention centers. | Outside the federal building protesters held signs reading "Close the camps!" and "Dismantle ICE!" The group then marched to the Pima County Office to demand an end to the Sheriff's collaboration with ICE and Border Patrol. Organizer from Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Isabel Garcia, said "The…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/2/tucson-pr…

Libya detention centre airstrike could amount to a war crime says UN, as Guterres calls for independent investigation
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-03
An airstrike on a detention centre in Tripoli that killed scores of migrants and refugees "deserves more than condemnation", UN agencies said on Wednesday, as both the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), insisted that it may amount to a war crime.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041792

As Trump Announces Mass Immigration Raid, Documents Show How ICE Uses Arrest Quotas
Maryam Saleh | theintercept.com | 2019-07-03
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at the behest of President Donald Trump, plans mass raids following the July Fourth holiday, newly released documents shed light on the tactics the agency employs during such operations. | The documents, released Wednesday by the immigrant rights groups Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Detention Watch Network, show that ICE officials are building arrest target lists for mass raids to meet specific numbers, even as the agency continues to internally and publicly stress a "public safety" rationale for immigration arrests. | Most…
theintercept.com/2019/07/03/ice-raids-arrest-quotas/

Restrictions, unmet promises, unbridled violence in Sudan, a 'recipe for disaster', says Bachelet
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-03
After nationwide protests across Sudan on Sunday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday called on Sudanese authorities to lift restrictions on the internet and launch independent investigations into all acts of violence against demonstrators, and allegations of excessive force, including attacks on hospitals.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041802

Grievous violations continue against Myanmar civilians, Human Rights Council hears
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-03
Marginalized communities in Myanmar still face "grievous human rights violations" at the hands of security forces, a UN-appointed independent expert said this week, while repeating her call for an international and independent probe into the 2017 exodus from Rakhine state.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041812

Thousands of Voices Are Telling the Supreme Court: Don't Roll Back LGBTQ Rights
aclu.org | 2019-07-03
Businesses, women CEOs, civil rights organizations, Republicans tell the Supreme Court to protect LGBTQ employees like Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda. | President Trump has told the Supreme Court it should be legal to fire someone just because they're LGBTQ. The President may be a bully, but he's just one voice. Today, more than 2,000 voices from across the country joined together to tell the Supreme Court: Don't roll back our rights. | The message came in the form of friend-of-the-court briefs–nearly 50 in all–filed in a…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/lgbt-nondiscrimination-protections/thousands-voices-are-telling-supreme-court-dont

I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement and Now I'm Fighting to End It
aclu.org | 2019-07-03
A new report proves that the degrading conditions in solitary confinement continue to harm people and communities. | I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in "Camp J," one of the most severe lockdown units at one of America's most brutal prisons, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I languished in solitary for 16 months. | Back then I didn't know that Louisiana was the solitary confinement capital of the world. All I knew was that I'd been convicted of a crime I didn't commit, and I had to maintain my humanity in one of the most dehumanizing places on earth. | It's called "23 and…
aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinement/i-spent-16-months-solitary-confinement-and-now-im

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2019-07-04: News Headlines

Jake Johnson, staff writer (2019-07-04). 'Monstrous': Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Border Patrol Detention Centers. commondreams.org "It's hard to overstate the level of venality and depravity this man is capable of." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

pip.hinman (2019-07-04). Why is it so easy to monetise hate? greenleft.org.au The rapidity with which homophobic rugby player Israel Folau raised $2.2 million for his fight against Rugby Australia is just the latest example of how easy it is to monetise hate these days. It is a morbid symptom of a capitalist system plumbing the depths of moral bankruptcy. | Folau has taken Rugby Australia to the Fair Work Commission after he was sacked for breaching his contract by posting offensive public attacks against homosexual people on social media. | Folau's celebrity hate crusade has garnered a lot of the attention — but his is just one of many well-monetised hate campaigns. | For insta…

DLI (2019-07-04). Another Whitewashed Trial of War Crimes by USA Invader. indybay.org The latest acquittal(except for an "unauthorized posing of a photo of a prisoner" charge) of a Navy SEAL is another case of Imperialist impunity of war crimes in America's global "War on Terror." Special Op. Chief Edward Gallagher was cleared of all other far more serious charges, including one for killing an injured teenage ISIS fighter in Iraq in 2017. He was released without having to serve any more time, since his sentence of 4 months for the "photo posing" charge has been offset by his pretrial detention. Apparently, this is a prime example of "victor's justice" in America's long history of overseas Imperial…

The Mind Unleashed (2019-07-04). Pediatricians Release Migrant Children's Drawings of Their Time in US Border Prisons. theantimedia.com (TMU) — Pediatricians have shared harrowing images drawn by migrant children separated from their parents while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention camps that show people in prison-like conditions. The drawings were released by a social worker at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas to the American Academy of Pediatrics, who …

CGTN Africa (2019-07-04). UN says Libyan guards reportedly shot at migrants during airstrikes. cgtn.com The United Nations said on Thursday it had information that Libyan guards shot at refugees and migrants trying to flee from airstrikes that killed at least 53 people, including six children, in a migrant detention centre late on Tuesday. | Blood stains are seen at a detention centre for mainly African migrants that was hit by an airstrike in the Tajoura suburb of Tripoli, Libya July 3, 2019. | A U.N. humanitarian report said there were two airstrikes, one hitting an unoccupied garage and one hitting a hangar containing around 120 refugees and migrants. | "There are reports that following the first impact, some re…

Foreign Policy in Focus (2019-07-04). American Concentration Camps, Then and Now. theantimedia.com (FPIF) — In our history textbooks, "Japanese internment," as it's carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens — can be more accurately described as one of the worst …

WSWS (2019-07-04). Mexico deploys National Guard, detains immigrants at record levels. wsws.org Mexico launched its 70,000-member National Guard as immigrant detentions rose by a third since May.

Staff (2019-07-04). Libya's Civil War is Becoming a Proxy War. therealnews.com The shooting down of a Turkish drone near Tripoli and the capture of six Turkish sailors by Gen. Haftar's forces reveals the Turkey's and Egypt's involvement on both sides of the civil war. Meanwhile Haftar's forces are accused of bombing a migration detention center near Tripoli, killing 44 and injuring 130…

WSWS (2019-07-04). Latest Office of Inspector General report reveals inhumane conditions at US immigrant detention centers. wsws.org Children are being detained without access to showers or hot meals and in one instance adult immigrants were held in standing room only conditions for a full week.

WSWS (2019-07-04). Bombing of detention center in Libya kills at least 44 refugees. wsws.org The tragedy is the product of the 2011 US-backed war for regime change which has plunged Libya into nearly a decade of civil war and the EU's war on refugees.

plenglish (2019-07-04). Maduro Highlights Strength of Venezuelan Financial System. plenglish.com 04 de julio de 2019, 08: 11Caracas, Jul 4 (Prensa Latina) President Nicolas Maduro highlighted the strength of the country"s public and private financial system facing the economic sanctions imposed against Venezuela.

unitedEditor (2019-07-04). Trump's 180-degree turn on the S-400: a tactical move or a distraction? uwidata.com The multi-month crisis between the US and Turkey on the purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems recently took an unexpected turn. According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Donald Trump said that Washington would not impose sanctions over the deal during the summit in Japan. The statements were greeted with amazement all over …

Fight Back (2019-07-03). Tucson protest tells Trump: No raids! No deportations! No family separations! fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – Over 100 people braved the intense desert sun Tuesday morning, July 2, to demonstrate their anger at Trump's threat for ICE raids aimed at thousands of undocumented families. Many demonstrators also expressed their demand to reunite families and to close the concentration camps operating as detention centers. | Outside the federal building protesters held signs reading "Close the camps!" and "Dismantle ICE!" The group then marched to the Pima County Office to demand an end to the Sheriff's collaboration with ICE and Border Patrol. Organizer from Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Isabel Garcia, said "The…

United Nations (2019-07-03). Libya detention centre airstrike could amount to a war crime says UN, as Guterres calls for independent investigation. un.org An airstrike on a detention centre in Tripoli that killed scores of migrants and refugees "deserves more than condemnation", UN agencies said on Wednesday, as both the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), insisted that it may amount to a war crime.

Special To The Black Star News (2019-07-03). Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights "Pleased" Justice Department Will Print 2020 Census Questionnaire Without Bigoted Citizen Question. blackstarnews.com In response to the Department of Justice confirming the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement: | "The Supreme Court's ruling left little opportunity for the administration to cure the defects with its decision to add a citizenship question and, most importantly, they were simply out of time given the impending deadline for printing forms. We are…

ACLU (2019-07-03). I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement and Now I'm Fighting to End It. aclu.org A new report proves that the degrading conditions in solitary confinement continue to harm people and communities. | I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in "Camp J," one of the most severe lockdown units at one of America's most brutal prisons, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I languished in solitary for 16 months. | Back then I didn't know that Louisiana was the solitary confinement capital of the world. All I knew was that I'd been convicted of a crime I didn't commit, and I had to maintain my humanity in one of the most dehumanizing places on earth. | It's called "23 and…

Victoria Shineman (2019-07-03). Florida makes the restoration of voting rights contingent on criminal debt payments. nationofchange.org Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure approved by state lawmakers that makes the restoration of voting rights for people convicted of felonies contingent on having paid off all criminal debt associated with their conviction. A coalition of civil rights groups immediately filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the new law by having it declared unconstitutional. I'm …

teleSUR (2019-07-03). Migrants Denounce 'Psychological Abuse' in US Detention Centers. telesurenglish.net Central Americans allege they were victims of "psychological abuse" by U.S. federal authorities at detention centers in Arizona, which human rights defenders have described as "concentration camps." | RELATED: | 'Help, 40 Days Here!', Migrants in US Border Facilities: Images | Javier Torres, a Honduran father who crossed the border with his wife and his 5-year old son, stayed at three detention centers, where he was kept in extremely cold rooms, with music at full volume, perm…

Maryam Saleh (2019-07-03). As Trump Announces Mass Immigration Raid, Documents Show How ICE Uses Arrest Quotas. theintercept.com As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at the behest of President Donald Trump, plans mass raids following the July Fourth holiday, newly released documents shed light on the tactics the agency employs during such operations. | The documents, released Wednesday by the immigrant rights groups Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Detention Watch Network, show that ICE officials are building arrest target lists for mass raids to meet specific numbers, even as the agency continues to internally and publicly stress a "public safety" rationale for immigration arrests. | Most…

ACLU (2019-07-03). Thousands of Voices Are Telling the Supreme Court: Don't Roll Back LGBTQ Rights. aclu.org Businesses, women CEOs, civil rights organizations, Republicans tell the Supreme Court to protect LGBTQ employees like Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda. | President Trump has told the Supreme Court it should be legal to fire someone just because they're LGBTQ. The President may be a bully, but he's just one voice. Today, more than 2,000 voices from across the country joined together to tell the Supreme Court: Don't roll back our rights. | The message came in the form of friend-of-the-court briefs—nearly 50 in all—filed in a…

teleSUR (2019-07-03). US: Case Dropped Against Woman Who Lost Fetus After Being Shot. telesurenglish.net Prosecutors in the U.S. state of Alabama dropped charges against a woman who lost her unborn baby in her fifth month of pregnancy when she was shot during a quarrel. | RELATED: | Thousands of Rights Advocates Against Alabama Abortion Law | "It is the appropriate decision, both for our client and for the state of Alabama," said Attorney Mark White, who represents Marshae Jones. | The woman was indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter on May 1, concluding she intentionally caused t…

teleSUR (2019-07-03). Ecuador: Security Forces Deployed Against Illegal Gold Mining. telesurenglish.net More than two thousand police and military were deployed Tuesday for an operation against illegal mining in the Imbabura province, just a few hours after President Lenin Moreno decreed a 60-day state of emergency at the Buenos Aires parish. | RELATED: | Ecuador: Ola Bini Released as Court Grants Habeas Corpus | Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo admitted…

United Nations (2019-07-03). Wednesday's Daily Brief: Libya 'war crime' attack, Sudan, Myanmar rights violations continue, 'xenophobia' in Assam, South Sudan update. un.org In the news this Wednesday: "Outraged" Guterres demands independent inquiry into fatal Libya migrant centre airstrike deaths; Violence and broken promises in Sudan and South Sudan, while Rohingya violations continue in Myanmar; "xenophobia" and citizenship in India's Assam state.

Bobbie Stein (2019-07-03). An Alabama Shooting Shows How Badly We Need Reproductive Rights. progressive.org What has happened here portends an uncertain future for women's reproductive rights throughout the nation.

teleSUR (2019-07-03). As Drivers Sleep in Cars, Uber Co-Founder Buys a $72.5M Mansion. telesurenglish.net While Uber and Lyft drivers in the United States and around the world continue to struggle to fight for decent wages and dignified work conditions, Uber's co-founder Garrett Camp has purchased a record-breaking US$72.5 million dollars mansion in Beverly Hills (Los Angeles). | RELATED: | Portugal's Doctors, Nurses Strike to Defend Health System, Demand Labor Rights | Drivers from ride-sharing apps, many of whom are homeless and with no other choice than to live in…

teleSUR (2019-07-03). Portugal's Doctors, Nurses Strike to Demand Labor Rights. telesurenglish.net Portugal's Independent Physicians Union (SIM), the National Federation of Physicians (FNAM) and the Democratic Union of Nurses (Sindepor) began Tuesday a four-day nationwide strike in the defense of the National Health Service (SNS). | RELATED: | Portugal: First Eurozone Country to Issue 'Panda Bonds' in Yuan | "Doctors are striking as a form of open protest against the degradation of work, welfare state and health services, which has been brought about by years of an uncontrolle…

Staff (2019-07-03). Is US Democracy Dying a Slow and Barely Visible Death? therealnews.com Ret. Col. Larry Wilkerson examines the dangers that Republican efforts to abridge voting rights and that Trump's racist and violent exhortations represent to US democracy…

Staff (2019-07-03). Scott Warren Faces Retrial for Providing Humanitarian Aid to Migrants in Arizona. truthout.org Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian aid volunteer and immigration rights activist Scott Warren on two charges related to aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes just a few weeks after a jury refused to convict Warren for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Eight jurors found Warren not guilty; four said he was. Federal prosecutors will make their case against Warren again in an 8-day jury trial in November. They have dropped a conspiracy charge against him. If convicted on the…

United Nations (2019-07-03). Restrictions, unmet promises, unbridled violence in Sudan, a 'recipe for disaster', says Bachelet. un.org After nationwide protests across Sudan on Sunday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday called on Sudanese authorities to lift restrictions on the internet and launch independent investigations into all acts of violence against demonstrators, and allegations of excessive force, including attacks on hospitals.

United Nations (2019-07-03). Grievous violations continue against Myanmar civilians, Human Rights Council hears. un.org Marginalized communities in Myanmar still face "grievous human rights violations" at the hands of security forces, a UN-appointed independent expert said this week, while repeating her call for an international and independent probe into the 2017 exodus from Rakhine state.

Whitney Webb (2019-07-03). How the Third Temple Movement in Israel Rebranded Theocracy as "Civil Rights" mintpressnews.com The Temple Activist movement is now more mainstream than ever before and its effort to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, has advanced with great rapidity since the year began and has picked up precipitously in recent weeks.

Marilyn Bechtel (2019-07-03). California gig workers eye a win if landmark bill passes state Senate. peoplesworld.org SAN FRANCISCO—If a law now wending its way through the state legislature passes its final hurdles this summer, hundreds of thousands of California workers now called "independent contractors" will be poised to gain essential benefits like Social Security, unemployment insurance, overtime pay, and workers' compensation, as well as vital rights like collective bargaining. Assembly Bill …

Staff (2019-07-03). Scott Warren of No More Deaths Faces Retrial for Providing Humanitarian Aid to Migrants in Arizona. democracynow.org Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian aid volunteer and immigration rights activist Scott Warren on two charges related to aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes just a few weeks after a jury refused to convict Warren for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Eight jurors found Warren not guilty; four said he was. Federal prosecutors will make their case against Warren again in an 8-day jury trial in November. They have dropped a conspiracy charge against him. If convicted on the tw…

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2019-07-03). 'Chuck Schumer Has Some Dinner Guests': Protesters Outside of Minority Leader's Home Demand Action on Detention Camps. commondreams.org "He's afraid to take a stand for immigrants, because he's afraid of how it's going to come off to white moderates." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

commondreams (2019-07-03). Nurses Redouble Commitment to Provide Critical Medical Aid to Migrants and Asylum Seekers as Details Emerge of Inhumane and Brutal Conditions in Federal Detention. commondreams.org ______________________________…

commondreams (2019-07-03). Abhorrent Attack on Migrant Detention Center in Libya Must Be Investigated as a War Crime. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Harry Blain (2019-07-03). American Concentration Camps, Then and Now. counterpunch.org In our history textbooks, "Japanese internment," as it's carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens — can be more accurately described as one of the worst More

commondreams (2019-07-03). Airstrike on a Detention Centre in Tripoli Leave More Than Forty Migrants Dead Hundreds Injured. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Staff (2019-07-03). Headlines for July 3, 2019. democracynow.org DHS Watchdog: "Dangerous Overcrowding" and Dire Conditions at Texas Migrant Jails, 30-Year-Old Honduran Migrant Dies in U.S. Custody, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Deny Bail to Asylum Seekers, DHS Fining Immigrants Up to $500,000 for Not Leaving the U.S., Nationwide Protests Demand Lawmakers #CloseTheCamps, Cory Booker Vows to End Immigrant Detention in 2020 Proposal, In Defeat for Trump Admin, 2020 Census Will Not Include Citizenship Question, House Dems Sue Treasury and IRS over Trump's Tax Returns, Airstrike Hits Migrant Detention Center in Libya, Killing At Least 40, Ethiopian-Israeli Community Protests…

Staff (2019-07-03). Reporting a Rape in Immigration Jail: One Asylum Seeker's Fight for Justice. truthout.org Content note: This article contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault.In a shaky, melancholy voice over a staticky phone line from the Yuba County Jail in northern California, Rene Lopez told Rewire.News she is depressed, scared, and alone. | The gender-nonconforming 24-year-old, who identifies as a gay boy and uses she/her pronouns, said she was raped by another detainee this past spring. | Lopez and her attorney have sought justice without success. They have struggled to access basic information from officials at the jail and within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who are investigating t…

Lizet Ocampo (2019-07-03). Our Immigrant Prisons Are an Atrocity. commondreams.org This administration is moving full speed toward atrocity and the government-sanctioned traumatization of an entire community. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

teleSUR-EF-mrs (2019-07-03). Cuba: Presents Economic Plan 2020, Includes Cryptocurrency. telesurenglish.net Cuba's Councils of States and Ministers met Tuesday to discuss the nation's economy and provide plans around the worsening and illicit economic sanctions by the United States on the island. | RELATED: | Cuba Condemns US Siege, Stresses Commitment to Socialism | Economic and Planning Minister Alejandro Gil said his department has come up with measures in its National Development Plan 2030 that are broad and "not static, and that can be changed depending the context" when he spoke at…

Mina Shahinfar (2019-07-03). What Sanctions Mean for My Iranian-American Family. commondreams.org Iranians and Americans alike deserve diplomacy, not war — and that includes war by economic means. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Fight Back (2019-07-03). Minneapolis: 4000 march against Trump's separation of families, concentration camps at the border. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On June 30, 4000 people marched in South Minneapolis to stand with immigrants and Muslims who are under attack by the Trump administration. | The skies cleared from an earlier downpour as marchers went from Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue in the heart of the immigrant community, through Uptown and to the First Universalist Church, where there was an indoor rally. The church sanctuary as well as an overflow room were filled to capacity, with more people continuing to rally outside. | The huge protest came together quickly as word of the horrific conditions in the border concentration camps spread…

Julia Conley (2019-07-03). In photos: As fury grows, tens of thousands rally across us demanding immediate action to #ClosetheCamps. nationofchange.org Tens of thousands of Americans showed up at rallies across the country on Tuesday to demand the Trump administration close the detention centers and prison camps where migrants are being held. The "Close the Camps" rallies were organized by MoveOn and other progressive organizations in response to growing public outrage over the Trump administration's treatment of asylum …

Austyn Ross (2019-07-02). Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Speak During NAACP's 110th National Convention. naacp.org Speaker of the House of Representatives to deliver remarks at 110th NAACP National Convention BALTIMORE (July 2, 2019) — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost civil rights organization, has announced that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will give remarks at the 110th National Convention in Detroit on July 22, 2019. …

Special To The Black Star News (2019-07-02). "THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN:" TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION XENOPHOBIA IS BEING IMPLEMENTED BY ROTTENLY RACIST BORDER GUARDS. blackstarnews.com Trump's racist immigration detention and child separation policy is causing death and misery… | Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America's Voice: "We are witnessing a human rights crisis in real time, the magnitude of which should shake us to our core. | As the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down. And Donald Trump has failed and corrupted the system from top to bottom, emboldening an already out of control agency, and advancing policies and actions that are resulting in a callous disregard for basic humanity and exacting a terrible toll that…

Robert Mackey (2019-07-02). 2020 Census Form Will Not Include Citizenship Question, Trump Administration Says. theintercept.com The Trump administration admitted defeat on Tuesday, confirming that forms for the 2020 U.S. census will not include a question asking residents who respond to the survey if they are U.S. citizens. The change of plans follows last week's Supreme Court decision that the Commerce Department had failed to provide a valid reason for adding the question. | The news was conveyed in an email from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to lawyers who had contested the effort in lawsuits, and confirmed to The Intercept by…

United Nations (2019-07-02). Tuesday's Daily Brief: Hunger crisis in DR Congo, Swine Fever in Asia, Venezuela death investigation call, updates on Eritrea and Syria. un.org This Tuesday, UN News covers: Growing food crisis in DR Congo; Swine Fever threatens millions of livelihoods in Asia; Human Rights Council told of persistent violations in Eritrea; and the humanitarian impact of on-going fighting in Syria.

splcenter (2019-07-02). SPLC sues Florida officials to keep citizens from losing right to vote again. splcenter.org After completing her prison sentence and probation time, Rosemary McCoy had her voting rights restored and cast a ballot in the Jacksonville, Florida, runoff city council election earlier this year.

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