2019-06-29: Social Media Postees

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EU meeting on Iran ends with no agreement to prevent US war
wsws.org | 2019-06-29
The Iranian government reportedly objected to the European powers' refusal to defy crippling US sanctions on Iran's oil exports.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/29/iran…

Video of Obama-appointed lawyer defending the denial of child detainees soap, toothpaste sparks outrage
wsws.org | 2019-06-29
Justice Department attorney Sarah Fabian argued that it is legal to deny immigrant children in detention soap, toothpaste, blankets, and a place to sleep for days or weeks on end.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/29/immi…

Stop ICE Raids/Stop Detentions–planning meeting for July 5 protest
Bob Price | indybay.org | 2019-06-29
New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk Street (near Ellis), San Francisco | (near Civic Center BART, on/near Muni #19, 31, 38, 47, 49)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/27/18824262.php

Tech privacy pioneer Ola Bini released after 70 days of extrajudicial detention in Ecuador
Zoe PC | mronline.org | 2019-06-29
After 70 days in preventive detention without formal charges, Ola Bini's request for habeas corpus was granted, and shortly after, he was released from prison. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/28/tech-privacy-pioneer-ola-bini-released-after-70-days-of-extrajudicial-detention-in-ecuador/

#CloseTheCamps: National Protests Against Inhumane Detention of Children & Families
Moveon.org, Families Belong Together, others | indybay.org | 2019-06-29
Protests around San Francisco Bay Area, throughout California, and nationwide | Find an event in your area (keep checking back as new events are being added): act.moveon.org/event/close-camps-now_att……
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/28/18824274.php

Nationwide 'Close the Camps' Demonstrations Announced to Protest Horrific Conditions at Trump Detention Centers
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-29
"We need to fight for immigrant families and stop Donald Trump's racist policies, and we can only do it together." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/29/nationwide-close-camps-demonstrations-announced-protest-horrific-conditions-trump?cd-origin=rss

LGBTQ Activists Demand an End to the Pinkwashing of Militarism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-28
Fifty years ago, the Stonewall uprising — whose leaders prominently included Black trans women and trans women of color — took the fight for LGBTQ liberation to the next level. It was a rebellion against police violence and the state-sanctioned oppression of LGBTQ people. This type of state-sanctioned oppression includes imperialism and war all over the world, which is why many LGBTQ activists are also challenging the actions of the U.S. military. | Given this history, on the anniversary of Stonewall, it's worth lo…
truthout.org/articles/lgbtq-activists-demand-an-end-to-the-pinkwashing-of-militarism/

Trump Admin. Ratchets Up Tensions With Threat to Sanction Any Nation That Imports Iranian Oil
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
"Sanctions aren't [an] alternative to war; they ARE war," said Iranian foreign minister after U.S. imposed new economic penalties | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/28/trump-admin-ratchets-tensions-threat-sanction-any-nation-imports-iranian-oil?cd-origin=rss

US Threatens to Sanction Any Nation That Imports Iranian Oil
Andrea Germanos | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-28
(CD) — President Donald Trump's special envoy for Iran further stoked tensions between Iran and the U.S. on Friday when he said the United States will sanction any country that imports Iranian crude oil. Envoy Brian Hook, in his comments to reporters in London, said that there were no exemptions, reiterating a threat the Trump administration made two months earlier. …

US Threatens to Sanction Any Nation That Imports Iranian Oil

'Hands off Venezuela' forum calls for solidarity
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-28
"We are resisting", is the answer that Venezuelan-Australian activist Eulalia Reyes receives when she speaks to friends and family back home. "Right now, international solidarity is so important for the Venezuelan people, who are fighting against US sanctions and threats of military intervention", she said. | Reyes was speaking at a "Hands off Venezuela" public meeting held at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) offices on June 25. The forum addressed the current crisis in Venezuela and the US-led campaign for "regime change" against President Nicolas Maduro. | The meeting opened with an Acknowledgement of Cou…
greenleft.org.au/content/hands-venezuela-forum-calls-solidarity

Working in Prison, I Witnessed the Inhumane Conditions of Solitary for Incarcerated Women
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
Solitary confinement can amount to torture. One practitioner witnessed this first hand, and shares her story and her journey to action. | At the first checkpoint at Tennessee Prison for Women, there was a large, scrolling television screen behind the desk displaying the image of two pairs of hands — one pair with a key and one pair in handcuffs. The message read, "You can either be one of us or one of them." I had been working in the facility for less than a year, but this message exemplified an uneasiness I had long felt without articulating: The prison's faàßade of "rehabilitation" masked a system s…
aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinement/working-prison-i-witnessed-inhumane-conditions-solitary

Families Torn Apart by the US's Deadly Immigration Policy
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-28
From babies to teenagers, the Trump administration continues to rip thousands of immigrant children away from their parents at the border. Despite a court order to halt the process, this inhumane policy of family separation continues. Six immigrant children have died in U.S. detention since Trump took office. Six families will never be reunited. | Families belong together. What will it take to stop the Trump administration and it's racist policies? Visit Brave New Films to discover actions you can take to help reunite immigrant families now.
truthout.org/video/families-torn-apart-by-the-u-s-s-deadly-immigration-policy/

Stop ICE Raids/Stop Detentions–planning meeting for July 5 protest
Bob Price | indybay.org | 2019-06-28
New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk Street (near Ellis), San Francisco | (near Civic Center BART, on/near Muni #19, 31, 38, 47, 49)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/27/18824262.php

Florida Governor Introduces a Poll Tax, Curtailing Amendment 4
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
The law forces returning citizens with criminal records to pay for the right to vote. | On November 6, 2018, nearly 65 percent of Florida voters–more than 5 million people–resoundingly approved Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to over a million of their fellow citizens. By passing Amendment 4, Floridians successfully ushered in the largest expansion of the electorate in nearly 50 years. The people of Florida did it on their own, using a constitutional ballot initiative, to finally achieve change where Florida politicians had failed. | Instead of celebrating this progress, Florida politicians are t…
aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/voter-restoration/florida-governor-introduces-poll-tax-curtailing-amendment-4

Harry Hay: Communist pioneer in the fight for gay liberation
Norman Markowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-28
Beginning with the "ghetto riot" at the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village in 1969, an open gay liberation movement came into existence which has been a significant force in the larger peoples' movements for almost a half-century. While most people identify gay liberation with the "New Left" of the 1960s, it, like the civil rights, …
peoplesworld.org/article/harry-hay-communist-pioneer-in-the-fight-for-gay-liberation/

'Beyond Spin Control': Anti-Busing Past Not Going Away as Biden and Staff Dig Themselves Deeper
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
"Joe Biden's campaign going all in on states rights in the civil rights debate. Just rejecting the entire premise of the civil rights movement!" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/28/beyond-spin-control-anti-busing-past-not-going-away-biden-and-staff-dig-themselves?cd-origin=rss

'Fiasco for democracy' as right-wing supreme court gives green light to partisan gerrymandering
Jake Johnson | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-28
In a decision voting rights advocates warned could open the floodgates for even more extreme and undemocratic redistricting than what is already in place throughout the nation, the right-wing Supreme Court effectively condoned partisan gerrymandering Thursday by ruling that the practice is beyond its constitutional reach. The ruling was 5-4 along party lines, with conservative …
nationofchange.org/2019/06/28/fiasco-for-democracy-as-right-wing-supreme-court-gives-green-light-to-partisan-gerrymandering/

'That Little Girl Was Me': Watch Kamala Harris Confront Joe Biden Over Opposition to School Busing and Praise for Segregationists
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
Harris pointed to her personal experience as a child who was "bused to school every day" and slammed Biden's "hurtful" comments on his relationship with senators who built careers on opposition to civil rights | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/28/little-girl-was-me-watch-kamala-harris-confront-joe-biden-over-opposition-school?cd-origin=rss

We are Fighting for Immigrants' Rights. Here's What You Can Do
aclu.org | 2019-06-28
We know that a better future is possible, and we at the ACLU, along with our supporters and allies, are daring to create it. | The images of Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, who lost their lives trying to seek refuge in the United States, have left us haunted. They serve as an ever-important reminder of the urgency of the fight for immigrant justice on our southern border and the need to stand up to the Trump administration's policies denying humanitarian protection and basic due process to families fleeing for their lives. | We remain at the frontlines of the family separation fight…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/we-are-fighting-immigrants-rights-heres-what-you-can-do

SCOTUS Hands GOP Gerrymandering Victory, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging"
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-28
The Supreme Court hands down two major decisions. The first is a victory for Republicans, allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocks the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We get response from Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. He says the ruling that federal courts can't resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is "almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future." | TR…
truthout.org/video/scotus-hands-gop-gerrymandering-victory-ensuring-massive-election-rigging/

Liberty Has Lost Its Protection
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-28
July 4 should be a day of mourning. The rights our ancestors fought for have been taken away. | Over the course of my lifetime there has been a fundamental shift in the attitude of the judiciary toward Constitutional rights. I …
globalresearch.ca/liberty-has-lost-its-protection/5682003

Joe Biden, Get Out of Stonewall
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-28
On Tuesday, June 18th presidential candidate Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to the Stonewall Inn. He smiled, took selfies with the staff, and spoke about his support for LGBTQ+ rights. This very public visit, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots, seems meant to shore up Biden's liberal bonafides and follows closely the recent apology by the NYPD police chief for the police brutality executed that night. | Biden talked specifically about the need for workplace protections for LGBTQ+ workers and his on-going suppor…
truthout.org/articles/joe-biden-out-of-stonewall/

'The Damage Has Been Done': Despite Court Ruling, Experts Say Trump Succeeded in Making Immigrant Communities Fearful of Census
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-28
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of the Trump administration's attempt to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, rights advocates said Friday, the damage to immigrant communities across the country is likely already done. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/28/damage-has-been-done-despite-court-ruling-experts-say-trump-succeeded-making?cd-origin=rss

The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World
Ian Lekus | thenation.com | 2019-06-28
The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World…
thenation.com/article/international-lgbtq-rights-legacy-imperialism/

Supreme Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-28
The Supreme Court hands down two major decisions. The first is a victory for Republicans, allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocks the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We get response from Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America." He says the ruling that federal courts can't resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is "almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future."
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/28/supreme_c…

The Honorable Course in Iran Starts With Ending Sanctions
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-27
Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for example, is in danger of losing access to medicines because sanctions against Iranian banks make it nearly impossible to pay for imported goods, includi…
truthout.org/articles/the-honorable-course-in-iran-starts-with-ending-sanctions/

UK betting companies hit with fines of £19.6m over a year
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-27
Betting companies in the UK have paid out £19.6m in penalties over the course of a year for failing to protect problem gamblers and stop money launderers. | The Gambling Commission said it had carried out more than 160 investigations in the 2018/2019 financial year and had imposed a variety of sanctions on operators, including the financial penalties. | Among the firms to be fined were online casino company Daub Alderney, which was ordered to pay £7.1m, and Paddy Power Betfair — now known as Flutter Entertainment — which was fined £2.2m. | The regulator's second annual enforcement re…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/06/27/uk-betting-companies-hit-with-fines-of-19-6m-over-a-year/

101 Central American Migrants Detained After Raids in Mexico
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-27
Mexico's Federal Police Wednesday detained 101 migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua in two surveillance operations carried out at Veracruz, a southern Mexican state which is about 450 miles from the border with Guatemala. | RELATED: | Mexico Will Not Detain Migrants at US Border: President AMLO | In the first operation, the police arrested 86 migrants who were hiding in a cargo truck that was crossing through the Tierra Blanca municipality. According to aut…
telesurenglish.net/news/101-Central-American-Migrants-Detained-After-Raids-in-Mexico-20190627-0001.html

Argentina Dismantles International Arms Trafficking Gang
plenglish.com | 2019-06-27
27 de junio de 2019, 08: 56Buenos Aires, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) At least 23 people were detained in a major operation by the Argentine public force, which managed to find the whereabouts of an international gang dedicated to arms trafficking.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

MintPress Reporter Detained Amid Honduran Police Crackdown on Coup Anniversary Protests
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-06-27
Police have been relying on heavy-handed tactics to repress protests for over a month, including the use of live rounds and tear gas. In the past week, the situation has only worsened.
mintpressnews.com/mintpress-journalist-honduras-police-coup-protest/260048/

A Whistleblower Pointed to ICE Abuse of Solitary Confinement. Now Pressure Mounts for Congressional Investigation
Maryam Saleh | theintercept.com | 2019-06-27
A government watchdog wants a full accounting for abuses against people detained by ICE — and how an internal whistleblower came to be ignored.
theintercept.com/2019/06/27/ice-solitary-confinement-abuse-watchdog/

House Sends Trump $4.6B Border Bill, Yielding to Senate
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-27
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to send President Donald Trump a bipartisan, Senate-drafted, $4.6 billion measure to care for migrant refugees detained at the southern border, capping a Washington skirmish in which die-hard liberals came out on the losing end in a battle with the White House, the GOP-held Senate and Democratic moderates. | The emergency legislation, required to ease overcrowded, often harsh conditions at U.S. holding facilities for migrants seeking asylum, mostly from Central American nations like Honduras and El Salvador, passed by a bipartisan 305-102 vote. Tru…
truthdig.com/articles/house-sends-trump-4-6b-border-bill-yielding-to-senate/

Drowned Migrant Father-Daughter Left Home For Better Life
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-27
The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil, becoming a global symbol of the perils of migration, said she had urged her son not to leave, fearing danger would meet him on the long journey north. | RELATED: | 101 Central American Migrants Detained After Raids in Mexico | "I had a fee…
telesurenglish.net/news/Father-Daughter-Left-Home-in-Search-of-Better-Life-Instead-Met-Death-20190627-0008.html

Most of Those Involved in Attempted Coup in Venezuela Detained
plenglish.com | 2019-06-27
27 de junio de 2019, 09: 00Caracas, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Most of those involved in the new attempted coup against the Venezuelan government were detained by the country"s authorities, the president of the National Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, said.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

'Words must never be met with violence' urges UN, following Taliban threat to journalists
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-27
Following last week's public threats by Taliban militants to deliberately target media outlets in Afghanistan, the United Nations mission chief in the country reiterated his call on Thursday for journalists' rights to be protected, underlining the power of press freedom to advance peace, justice and human rights.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1041441

NIAC Applauds Open Letter Signed by Over 100 Iranian Human Rights Defenders Expressing Concern over U.S.-Iran Tensions
commondreams.org | 2019-06-27
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/06/27/niac-applauds-open-letter-signed-over-100-iranian-human-rights-defenders?cd-origin=rss

Thursday's Daily Brief: dire living conditions in Idlib, migrants at US southern border, end in sight for trachoma, Human Rights Council
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-27
This Thursday, we cover: the dire humanitarian situation in Syria's Idlib; living conditions at the US-Mexico border denounced by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF); trachoma-related blindness on the verge of being eliminated; and updates from the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1041501

Protecting encryption is about protecting democracy
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-27
Lawyer, writer and digital rights activist Lizzie O'Shea has been named a 2018 Human Rights Hero by Access Now for her leading role in highlighting, analysing and protesting expansive surveillance laws in Australia. Below is an edited version of her acceptance speech on June 11. | *** | Thanks so much to Access Now for this wonderful award. It's such a great initiative to support activists in the field doing important work. Awards usually go to famous people at the top of their fields, and the challenging activist work of mobilising people and community building is rarely acknowledged. I feel honoured, especially…
greenleft.org.au/content/protecting-encryption-about-protecting-democracy

New Details of Horrific Child Abuse Cited in Emergency Restraining Order Request for 'Torture Facilities' Run by US Border Agency
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-27
"The preventable physical and mental health harms class members are suffering may be long-lasting, or in some cases, permanent." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/27/new-details-horrific-child-abuse-cited-emergency-restraining-order-request-torture?cd-origin=rss

What the Concentration Camps of Bosnia Can Teach Us About the Abuse of Immigrants on the U.S. Border
Peter Maass | theintercept.com | 2019-06-27
I never thought the pattern of abuse and deceit that I saw at Serb-run prison camps in the 1990s would be relevant to America — but it is.
theintercept.com/2019/06/27/immigration-detention-bosnia/

Julián Castro Challenges Democrats to End the Criminalization of Immigration
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-27
The Democrats' first debate was held in Miami, Florida. The venue was less than an hour away from Homestead, Florida, where more than 2,000 unaccompanied minors are incarcerated in a for-profit detention center run by Caliburn. Trump's former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly sits on its board. Prior to the debate, Senators Warren and Klobuchar visited the facility. During the debate, Julián Castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development, criticized the immigration policies of fellow Texan, former Congressmember Beto O'Rourke. We air part of the debate and speak to Ana María Archila o…
truthout.org/video/julian-castro-challenges-democrats-to-end-the-criminalization-of-immigration/

20 ways you can help immigrants now
Julia Travers | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-27
Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets–and the Trump administration says that's fine. Trump threatened then delayed mass immigration raids across the country, using the plan as a bargaining chip with Congress, while families are left in an ever-heightened state of uncertainty. While Congress is continually being …
nationofchange.org/2019/06/27/20-ways-you-can-help-immigrants-now/

'We Owe These Vulnerable Populations More': California Lawmakers Call on Gov. Newsom to Divest State From Child Detention Profiteers
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-27
The open letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom cited the #WayfairWalkout as the impetus for the request | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/27/we-owe-these-vulnerable-populations-more-california-lawmakers-call-gov-newsom-divest?cd-origin=rss

AOC was actually facing an empty parking lot during emotional border protest photo op
rt.com | 2019-06-27
Clutching her face in despair and weeping, photos of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemingly show her strong reaction to a horrific scene of US migrant detention. However, new angles reveal she may have played things up a bit. | …
rt.com/usa/462837-aoc-parking-lot-detention-center/

Boston: Hundreds protest Wayfair's profiting from sales to immigrant detention centers
wsws.org | 2019-06-27
Employees learned last week that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture from Wayfair was placed by a private contractor for a detention facility.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/27/wayf…

What Should We Do About Concentration Camps in Trump's America?
Jennifer Lunden | progressive.org | 2019-06-27
Portland, Maine is welcoming a wave of migrants with kindness as the administration comes under fire for its cruelty at immigrant detention centers.
progressive.org/dispatches/concentration-camps-in-trumps-america-lunden-190627/

AOC was actually facing an empty parking lot during emotional border protest photo op
rt.com | 2019-06-27
Clutching her face in despair and weeping, photos of Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemingly show her strong reaction to a horrific scene of US migrant detention. However, new angles reveal she may have played things up a bit. | …
rt.com/usa/462837-aoc-parking-lot-detention-center/

After Rio Grande tragedy, UNICEF chief highlights 'dire' detention centres on US-Mexico border
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-27
The shocking image of a drowned Central American migrant and his infant daughter on the banks of the river dividing Mexico and the United States, continues to evoke strong reactions, the latest from the head of the UN Children's Fund.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1041421

In First Debate, Julián Castro Challenges Democrats to End the Criminalization of Immigration
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-27
The Democrats' first debate was held in Miami, Florida. The venue was less than an hour away from Homestead, Florida, where more than 2,000 unaccompanied minors are incarcerated in a for-profit detention center run by Caliburn. Trump's former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly sits on its board. Prior to the debate, Senators Warren and Klobuchar visited the facility. During the debate, Julián Castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development, criticized the immigration policies of fellow Texan, former Congressmember Beto O'Rourke. We air part of the debate and speak to Ana María Archila of the Center for…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/27/in_first_…

In First Debate, Julián Castro Challenges Democrats to End the Criminalization of Immigration
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-27
The Democrats' first debate was held in Miami, Florida. The venue was less than an hour away from Homestead, Florida, where more than 2,000 unaccompanied minors are incarcerated in a for-profit detention center run by Caliburn. Trump's former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly sits on its board. Prior to the debate, Senators Warren and Klobuchar visited the facility. During the debate, Julián Castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development, criticized the immigration policies of fellow Texan, former Congressmember Beto O'Rourke. We air part of the debate and speak to Ana María Archila of the Center for…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/27/in_first_…

Last Process: 50 Postees: 2019-06-29 14:31 GMT (10:31 EST)

2019-06-27: News Headlines

Fred_F (2019-06-27). Protecting encryption is about protecting democracy. greenleft.org.au Lawyer, writer and digital rights activist Lizzie O'Shea has been named a 2018 Human Rights Hero by Access Now for her leading role in highlighting, analysing and protesting expansive surveillance laws in Australia. Below is an edited version of her acceptance speech on June 11. | *** | Thanks so much to Access Now for this wonderful award. It's such a great initiative to support activists in the field doing important work. Awards usually go to famous people at the top of their fields, and the challenging activist work of mobilising people and community building is rarely acknowledged. I feel honoured, especially…

Michael Galant (2019-06-27). Time for a Global Minimum Wage. counterpunch.org The International Labour Organization (ILO) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this June. In the wake of a devastating world war, its mission was transformational: to realize social justice and the rights of workers everywhere. But now, 100 years later, exploitative working conditions remain the norm, more people than ever live in poverty, and the richest More

WSWS (2019-06-27). Boston: Hundreds protest Wayfair's profiting from sales to immigrant detention centers. wsws.org Employees learned last week that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture from Wayfair was placed by a private contractor for a detention facility.

Robert C. Koehler (2019-06-27). American Concentration Camps. commondreams.org A bus transporting immigrants leaves a temporary facility at a US Border Patrol Station in Clint, Texas, on June 21, 2019. – Lawyers who were able to tour the facility under the Flores Settlement, which governs detention conditions for migrant children, said they witnessed inhumane conditions of overcrowding, and about 250 children being held over the limit of 72 hours, some saying they were there for weeks in overcrowded cells. (Photo: Paul Ratje / AFP) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

plenglish (2019-06-27). Argentina Dismantles International Arms Trafficking Gang. plenglish.com 27 de junio de 2019, 08: 56Buenos Aires, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) At least 23 people were detained in a major operation by the Argentine public force, which managed to find the whereabouts of an international gang dedicated to arms trafficking.

plenglish (2019-06-27). Most of Those Involved in Attempted Coup in Venezuela Detained. plenglish.com 27 de junio de 2019, 09: 00Caracas, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Most of those involved in the new attempted coup against the Venezuelan government were detained by the country"s authorities, the president of the National Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, said.

Senator Tammy Baldwin (2019-06-26). It's 2019: Why Do LGBTQ Americans Still Lack Basic Civil-Rights Protections? thenation.com It's 2019: Why Do LGBTQ Americans Still Lack Basic Civil-Rights Protections?

Cassie Miller (2019-06-26). White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating. splcenter.org Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.

ACLU (2019-06-26). I've Lived on the Border My Entire Life. The Courts Must Shut Down Trump's Border Wall. aclu.org Communities, public lands and property are threatened by the president's abuse of emergency powers. | The ecological destruction of Arizona, New Mexico, and California hangs in the balance as courts decide whether to block President Trump's abuse of emergency powers to secure funds for a border wall Congress denied. | On Feb. 15, 2019, President Trump declared a national emergency so that he could raid the military budget for billions of dollars for border wall construction. The declaration came after the president put the country through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history over Congress's refusal to…

United Nations (2019-06-26). Wednesday's Daily Brief: migration tragedy in the Rio Grande, drugs report, Torture Victims Day. un.org Top news, this Thursday are: the migration debate spurred by the tragic image of a drowned man and his daughter in the Rio Grande; the Khashoggi killing discussed at the Human Rights Council; key findings from the latest UN report on drugs; updates from South Sudan and Mali; International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; and an event on tolerance in at UN headquarters in New York.

Binoy Kampmark (2019-06-26). Violent Voyeurism: Surveillance, Spyware and Human Rights. counterpunch.org Surveillance is merely a variant of violent voyeurism, the human behind the camera or visual apparatus observing behaviour in a setting, often private. Its premise is privacy's violation; its working assumption is privacy's irrelevance; officially tolerated such a concept is unofficially repudiated. Studies on surveillance do as much to reveal its problems as accommodate them: More

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2019-06-26). With New 'Imposed Contract,' Trump's EPA Tries to Neuter Worker Rights. commondreams.org Agency announces new collective bargaining agreement—which was not agreed upon | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Staff (2019-06-26). NRA Breaks With Its PR firm, Lobbyist and TV Station. truthdig.com Infighting at the organization erupts at a time when its ability to influence the 2020 election could decide the fate of gun rights.

United Nations (2019-06-26). 'Summon the spirit of San Francisco', says General Assembly President on UN Charter anniversary. un.org Reaffirming faith in human rights, promoting social justice and saving the world from the "scourge of war": just some of the founding principles of the United Nations, which appear in the Organization's bedrock Charter, signed exactly 74 years ago in San Francisco.

Special To The Black Star News (2019-06-26). New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Macy's Over Criminal History Screening Policy. blackstarnews.com The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP (O&G), and Youth Represent (YR) filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York against Macy's, Inc. (Macy's), challenging its use of an unnecessarily punitive criminal history screening policy. | According to the lawsuit, the policy disproportionately disqualifies Black and Latinx applicants and employees from job opportunities in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the New York City Human Rights Law. | Plaintiffs, The Fortune Society, Inc. (Fortune) and Ms. Jenetta Rolfer,…

teleSUR (2019-06-26). Scotland's Environmental Rights at Risk if Brexit Passes. telesurenglish.net Scotland is set to lose anti-pollution and environmental protection laws if Brexit is approved, activists say. | RELATED: | Johnson To Support Hard Brexit Without Another Option | Despite numerous requests and meetings with Scottish ministers, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Scotland says new legislation to provide the same rights enjoyed in the country provided within the European Union has not been created. | Consequently, conservation groups like the WWF will have a difficult time maintai…

ACLU (2019-06-26). Raising our Voices for Equality at Stonewall and the Supreme Court. aclu.org 50 years after the riots at Stonewall, we are telling the Supreme Court not to roll back protections for LGBTQ people. | It's been half a century since the Stonewall uprising began on June 28, 1969, the reason we celebrate Pride each June. But there's another fitting date to commemorate this month, and it falls just two days before the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. | June 26 marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 2003 striking down state laws that criminalized same-sex intimacy. T…

Staff (2019-06-26). The Problem With Child Detention Isn't That It's Private. It's That It Exists. truthout.org The House passed a bill on Tuesday that would allocate $4.5 billion to cover the burgeoning costs of Trump's internment of migrant children, teens and adults along the border. While the legislation was characterized as an "aid package," Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ihan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib voted against the bill. In a statement explaining her position, Omar stated, "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abuses — and the very Administration directing these human rights abuses — is not a solution." This congressional drama occurred on the same da…

Barbara Boland (2019-06-26). Arms Dealers and Lobbyists Get Rich as Yemen Burns. globalresearch.ca Chronic human rights violator Saudi Arabia is using American-made weapons against civilians in the fifth-poorest nation in the world, Yemen. And make no mistake: U.S. defense contractors and their lobbyists and supporters in government are getting rich in the process….

Special To The Black Star News (2019-06-26). AFT's Weingarten On Public Service Freedom To Negotiate Act And Protecting Employee Rights. blackstarnews.com AFT members, including AFT President Randi Weingarten, at townhall with 2020 presidential candidate California Senator Kamala Harris… | WASHINGTON—American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in support of the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, reintroduced today in the House of Representatives, which will guarantee collective bargaining rights for public sector employees across the country: | "Public workers educate our students, treat our patients and keep our communities strong and safe. But in many states, they have been denied their basic freedom to…

Mark Gruenberg (2019-06-26). Pro-worker Dems mistrust Trump, want worker rights written into 'new NAFTA'. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—A coalition of pro-worker House Democrats, led by veteran Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., opened talks on June 25 with President Donald Trump's trade negotiator about writing strong and specific worker rights straight into Trump's "new NAFTA," rather than just into U.S. legislation to implement the controversial "free trade" pact. "We have made it clear from …

teleSUR (2019-06-26). Women Accuse Gambia's Former President of Rape, Assault. telesurenglish.net Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is being accused by various women of forcing them into having sex with him, using moral, financial and physical pressure. | RELATED: | Mauritania: Ruling Party Claims Victory, Opposition Contests | The facts go back to the time when the former dictator was running the country from 1996 until 2016, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Wednesday. | After an 18 month investigation, the organization published a statement alleg…

teleSUR (2019-06-26). Mobile World Congress at China Displays 5G Tech Advances. telesurenglish.net The leading tech companies are gathered at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Shanghai, the most important Asian telephony fair where the 5G tech is being displayed as a reality. | RELATED: | US: Trump Sanctions More Chinese Tech Companies for 'Security' | The main telecommunications companies have focused their efforts on exhibiting their advances in this technology which will transform societies in areas ranging from medicine to transportation. | The 5G tech goes far beyond mob…

Bill Van Auken (2019-06-26). Trump Imposes New Sanctions Amid Continuing War Threat Against Iran. globalresearch.ca President Donald Trump and his treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, unveiled Monday what the US administration had touted as new "harsh" and "hard-hitting" economic sanctions against Iran in the wake of last week's Iranian shoot-down of a sophisticated US drone …

Kathy Kelly (2019-06-26). An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue. dissidentvoice.org Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for example, is in danger of losing access to medicines because sanctions against Iranian banks make it nearly impossible to pay for …

CGTN Africa (2019-06-26). U.S. threatens Sudan with sanctions if violence continues. cgtn.com A top U.S. State Department official who deals with Sudan said on Tuesday that Washington was possible sanctions if there was more violence. | Sudanese protesters close Street 60 with burning tyres and pavers on June 3, 2019 (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) | "We're looking at all options, including sanctions down the line should there be any kind of repeat of violence," Makila James, deputy assistant secretary for East Africa and the Sudans, told a U.S. House of Representatives hearing. | She said they could include visa sanctions or economic sanctions. "We want to use the right tool and we want to target the ri…

Albert Bender (2019-06-26). Trump's prisons for migrant children are "torture chambers" — shut them down. peoplesworld.org …

United Nations (2019-06-26). Vile act of torture prohibited 'under all circumstances', UN chief affirms on International Day to support victims. un.org While the prohibition of torture is "absolute, under all circumstances", UN Secretary-General António Guterres bemoaned the fact that "this core principle is undermined every day" – in detention centres, prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions and other places where captor can prey on captive.

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2019-06-26). 'It is a Stain on Our Country': Warren Joins Protest Outside Child Detention Facility in Florida. commondreams.org "There are a lot of different ways that we get in the fight. And one of them is that you show up." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Staff (2019-06-26). Juan González: There Are Refugees in Desperate Need of Help in Airports Across the United States. democracynow.org Co-host Juan González was at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport this past Sunday, where he encountered Central American refugee families recently released from detention centers. The families, who were from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, had been left there by Immigration and Customs Enforcement without guidance or a translator to help them navigate their flight information. The families were likely traveling to cities where they could reunite with loved ones already in living in the U.S. In the case of the Guatemalan families, most of them didn't speak Spanish, but indigenous languages. None of them spoke Engli…

splcenter (2019-06-26). Horrific detention center conditions expose Trump's true immigration policy: unmitigated, unrelenting cruelty. splcenter.org A year ago, America awoke to the shocking images of children being held in cages — children who had been stolen from their asylum-seeking parents at the border by an administration that had no plan to reunite them.

Staff (2019-06-26). Refugees in Desperate Need of Help in Airports Across the United States. truthout.org Co-host Juan González was at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport this past Sunday, where he encountered Central American refugee families recently released from detention centers. The families, who were from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, had been left there by Immigration and Customs Enforcement without guidance or a translator to help them navigate their flight information. The families were likely traveling to cities where they could reunite with loved ones already in living in the U.S. In the case of the Guatemalan families, most of them didn't speak Spanish, but indigenous languages. None of them s…

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2019-06-26). At #WayfairWalkout Actions, Workers Denounce Company Profiting From Child Detention. commondreams.org "The safety and well-being of immigrant children is always worth fighting for." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Zoà´ Carpenter (2019-06-26). Democrats Confront the Horror at the Border. thenation.com Democrats Confront the Horror at the Border…

Staff (2019-06-26). Survivor of WWII Internment Camp Speaks Out: Japanese Americans Know the Trauma of Child Detention. democracynow.org Amid reports of inhumane and degrading conditions at child immigration jails along the southern border, we speak with Satsuki Ina, a Japanese-American psychotherapist who was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a maximum-security internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. "After decades of living our lives as compliant and quiet, and demonstrating and proving ourselves as good citizens, many of us have felt that it's time for us to speak out, to protest, to resist, and to speak out in ways that we haven't in the past, because we know what these children are experiencing," Ina said. "We know what it…

Staff (2019-06-26). Headlines for June 26, 2019. democracynow.org DHS Moves 100 Children Back to Texas Border Patrol Station Deemed Unsafe and "Inhumane", House Passes Contentious $4.5 Billion Emergency Border Bill, "Defund Hate Campaign" Activists Call for Action on Migrant Deaths and Detention, Trump Threatens to "Obliterate" Iran as Bipartisan Reps Seek to Avoid Unauthorized Strikes, Robert Mueller to Testify Before House in July, Tiffany Cabán Leading Queens DA Race, U.S. and N. Korea in Talks for Third Summit, Pompeo Says U.S. Hoping for a Peace Deal and Ready to Pull Out Troops in Afghanistan, Spanish Supreme Court Ups Conviction of Men Who Raped and Filmed Teenager in 20…

The Canary (2019-06-26). US border official resigns amid uproar over children in detention. thecanary.co The acting head of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has resigned amid an uproar over the discovery of children being held in pitiful conditions at one of the agency's stations in Texas.John Sanders's departure deepened the sense of crisis and added to the rapid turnover inside the agencies responsible for enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration priorities as the US deals with record numbers of families coming across the southern border.In a message to employees, Mr Sanders said he would step down on July 5. He did not give a reason for leaving. | "Although I will leave it to you to determine whether…

Staff (2019-06-26). DHS Whistleblower Who Spoke Out Against Obama-Era Immigration Jails Condemns Conditions on Border. democracynow.org Immigration jails along the southern border are facing heightened scrutiny following horrific reports of dirty and unhygienic conditions at a detention center in Clint, Texas, and other facilities. We speak with government whistleblower Dr. Scott Allen, who was hired in 2014 to inspect facilities where immigrant families are incarcerated, who says degrading conditions for jailed migrants date back to Obama's presidency. He is calling for more government transparency about conditions in immigration facilities, saying, "I think most Americans, if they were confronted with the humanity of what we are doing here, wou…

Zoà´ Carpenter (2019-06-26). Democrats Confront a Dilemma at the Border. thenation.com Democrats Confront a Dilemma at the Border…

Joe Piette (2019-06-26). Hundreds protest ICE in Philly. workers.org Just a few days after President Trump announced and then postponed his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, about 200 people protested at Philadelphia's Immigration and Customs Enforcement center on June 24. "Show Up: When Trump Cracks Down, Community Fights Back!" was called by the New Sanctuary Movement/Nuevo Movimiento Santuario, . . . | Continue reading Hundreds protest ICE in Philly at Workers.org

teleSUR (2019-06-26). Nicaragua Arrests Four Suspected of Being IS Group Members. telesurenglish.net Nicaragua's national police have detained four individuals who they suspect to have links to the Islamic State group. Inspector General of the Police Jaime Vanegas, announced at a press conference Tuesday adding that the individuals were arrested crossing the border from Costa Rica. | RELATED: | ISIS Chief Vows Revenge in First Video in Five Years | "On June 25, at 10: 00 in the morning, members of the Nicaraguan Army carrying out border security tasks captured 4 suspects, allegedly link…

Leon Kunstenaar (2019-06-26). Marin Residents Meet To Plan More Anti ICE Pressure. indybay.org Unlike San Francisco, Marin County Sheriff Delivers Detainees to ICE…

Joe Emersberger (2019-06-26). So Who Is Reporting That Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans? fair.org FAIR.org ( 6/14/19) | I wrote on June 14 about Reuters burying (for over a month) a study (CEPR, 4/25/19) by prominent economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot that links economic sanctions President Donald Trump imposed on Venezuel…

Kathy Durkin (2019-06-26). Women Strike" el 14 de junio en Zurich, Suiza. workers.org Salario. Tiempo. Respeto. Ese fue el lema de la "Huelga de las Mujeres" de 24 horas por la igualdad salarial de género, la igualdad de derechos, el respeto y el fin de la violencia de género, que barrió Suiza el 14 de junio. "Women Strike" on June 14 in Zurich, . . . | Continue reading Women Strike" el 14 de junio en Zurich, Suiza at Workers.org

plenglish (2019-06-25). Ombudsman's Office of Colombia Concerned about Political Violence. plenglish.com 25 de junio de 2019, 14: 29Bogota, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) The Colombian Ombudsman"s Office has expressed deep concern about the ongoing murders of social leaders and human rights defenders in the country.

Rashad Robinson (2019-06-25). The LGBTQ Struggle Has Always Been Intertwined With the Fight for Voting Rights. thenation.com The LGBTQ Struggle Has Always Been Intertwined With the Fight for Voting Rights…

teleSUR (2019-06-25). Mexico Deploys Nearly 15,000 Troops to US Border. telesurenglish.net The Mexican military has deployed nearly 15,000 soldiers and National Guardsmen to their northern border with the United States, the head of the army said on Monday. | RELATED: | NGO Dubs Mexico-El Salvador Migrant Plan 'Superficial', Not Up to Human Rights Standards | According to the head of the army, the Mexican military is deploying these soldiers to the U.S. border to curb the surge of migrants entering the U.S. | Mexico has not traditionally used s…

CGTN Africa (2019-06-25). Malawi electoral chief says court to decide on her resignation. cgtn.com Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Jane Ansah said Monday that she would resign only if the country's constitutional court orders that the electoral process had irregularities. | In an interview with a local TV and radio, Ansah responded to calls from the country's Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) led by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC), and opposition leaders who were demanding her resignation on claims that the May 21 presidential elections were fraudulently managed. | The HRDC on Thursday organized mass protests in the country's four cities of Mzuzu, Lilongwe, Blantyre and Zomba w…

United Nations (2019-06-25). UN chief praises impact of Palestine refugee agency as 'our common success', at key pledging conference. un.org The work of the UN body responsible for assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which has allowed millions of children to receive an education that promotes UN values of human rights and tolerance, as well as democracy and conflict resolution, should be viewed "not only as our common responsibility, but as our common success", said Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday.

Rima Najjar (2019-06-25). U.S. Rejectionist Policy Toward Palestinian Participation, Rights. globalresearch.ca Upon hearing the news that Palestinian diplomat Dr. Hanan Ashrawi had been denied entry to the United States on a speaking engagement, my husband wrote an e-mail to Indiana Senator Mike Braun titled, 'Tell State Dept & Trump to give …

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