At least 8 reported dead, shooter detained at Pittsburgh synagogue (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-27
A suspect has been detained following a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At least eight people have been reported dead and three officers injured. | …
rt.com/usa/442435-active-shooter-synagogue-pittsburgh/

Another Indigenous Rights Activist Killed in Oaxaca, Mexico
teleSUR rfpl-SH | telesurtv.net | 2018-10-27
This is the fifth member of the Indigenous Rights Defense Committee to be killed in 2018.
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Another-I…

Major Defeat For Trump: Int'l Court Of Justice Rules For Iran In Lifting Sanctions
TeleSur | iranian.com | 2018-10-27
Iran brought a complaint to the ICJ on grounds that U.S. President Donald Trump's sanctions violated the 1955 Treaty of Amity signed between the two countries. On Wednesday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague issued a court ruling ordering the United States to remove sanctions imposed on Iran which affect humanitarian trade, food, […] | The post Major Defeat For Trump: Int'l Court Of Justice Rules For Iran In Lifting Sanctions appeared first on The I…
iranian.com/2018/10/27/international-court-of-justice-rules-for-iran-in-lifting-sanctions/

Trans Rights Are Human Rights
DCTP | indybay.org | 2018-10-27
Santa Cruz Town Clock | Water St. & Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz…
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Colombian Women's Rights Activist Found Dead in River
teleSUR | telesurtv.net | 2018-10-27
The police launched an investigation into the events surrounding the grassroots leader's abduction and subsequent murder.
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombian…

Iran Sanctions Could Hurt European Economy
Oil Price | iranian.com | 2018-10-27
Europe's economy could suffer from the refusal of European companies to work with Iran under pressure from the U.S. sanctions on Tehran, Rosneft Oil Company's chief executive Igor Sechin said at the Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona, Italy, on Thursday. Sechin, who has been on the U.S. list of sanctioned individuals in his personal capacity since 2014, criticized in […] | The post Iran Sanctions Could Hurt European Economy appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/26/iran-sanctions-hurt-european-economy/

Can ICE Legally Force Immigrants to Cheer for Donald Trump?
Nick Pinto | theintercept.com | 2018-10-27
Do the First Amendment's protections prevent the government from targeting its most vocal critics for deportation? That's the central question that three judges for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will be considering Monday, when lawyers for Ravi Ragbir, a New York City immigration activist, will argue for a preliminary injunction to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from deporting him before he can press his First Amendment claim in court. | In the case, which comes before judges Christopher Droney, Pierre Leval, and John Walker Jr., the government contends that Ragbir's situation is straightfo…
theintercept.com/2018/10/27/ice-first-amendment-rights-ravi-ragbir/

Mission Neighbors: Stand Up for Sex Workers' Rights and Safety!
Rachel West | indybay.org | 2018-10-27
Redstone Building 2940 16th Street, #217 @Capp Street…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/25/18818486.php

International declaration against fascism in Brazil
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-26
Five hundred academics, Nobel prize winners, human rights activists and celebrities have released an international statement against the rise of fascism in Brazil. | Among the initial signatories are: Argentine Nobel Peace prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, African-American rights activist Angela Davis, US Senator Bernie Sanders, US actor Danny Glover, Chilean socialist academic Marta Harnecker, US academic Noam Chomsky, British-Pakistani writer Tariq Ali and economist Thomas Piketty. | A number of former heads of state have also signed on including: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Argentina), Eduardo Duhalde (A…
greenleft.org.au/content/international-declaration-against-fascism-brazil

A Chance for the US to Distance Itself from Saudi Arabia
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-26
The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi now seems very likely to prompt Congress to impose some sanctions on the Saudi government, and it may finally act to end the active US role in the Saudi-UAE war on Yemen. | Perhaps … | The post A Chance for the US to Distance Itself from Saudi Arabia appe…
globalresearch.ca/a-chance-for-the-us-to-distance-itself-from-saudi-arabia/5658138

Repeal of Workers' Rights in Ontario? Ford Government Takes on Bill 148, But There is Resistance
Chloe Rockarts | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-26
When the Tories were elected to govern Ontario this past June, it was a day that many were both dreading and expecting. | The Ontario government has finally unveiled their legislation that would repeal the gains workers made from Bill 148. … | The post Repeal of Workers' Rights in Ontario? Ford Government Takes on Bill 148, But There is Resistance appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/repeal-of-workers-rights-in-ontario-ford-government-takes-on-bill-148-but-there-is-resistance/5658105

FBI detains mail bomb suspect, seizes white van with pro-Trump posters
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-26
Federal agents have arrested and detained a suspect in connection with a string of suspicious packages sent to prominent Democratic and left-wing figures over the last week. | …
rt.com/usa/442371-mail-bomb-suspect-detained-/

Despite Trump's Best Efforts, Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants Earn Reprieve From Deportation
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-26
The Trump administration's attacks on the Temporary Protected Status program have been stopped — for now. | Last week, Jeff Sessions attacked a court ruling that gave a temporary reprieve to hundreds of thousands of immigrants facing imminent deportation after years of living lawfully in this country. | "Federal district court judges are not empowered to fashion immigration policy," Sessions said. "The Legislative and Executive branches — of federal and state government — a…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/deportation-and-due-process/despite-trumps-best-efforts-hundreds-thousands

How can we make "Abolish ICE" a reality?
David L. Wilson | mronline.org | 2018-10-26
Two of the immigrant rights movement's historic demands provide a basis for actually closing the agency, and beyond that for building a movement to demand more fundamental changes. | Source…
mronline.org/2018/10/25/how-can-we-make-abolish-ice-a-reality/

Florida Man Detained in Sweeping Mail-Bomb Case
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-26
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities arrested a man in Florida on Friday in connection with the mail-bomb scare that widened to 12 suspicious packages, the Justice Department said. | Law enforcement officers were seen on television examining a white van, its windows covered with an assortment of stickers, in the city of Plantation. They covered the vehicle with a blue tarp. | The man was in his 50s, a law enforcement official said, but his name and any charges he might face were not immediately known. | Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said authorities planned to announce more information at a press co…
truthdig.com/articles/florida-man-detained-in-sweeping-mail-bomb-case/

EU Mechanism For Iran Trade To Be Ready On Nov. 4
Tehran Times | iranian.com | 2018-10-26
A new European Union mechanism to facilitate payments for Iranian exports should be legally in place by Nov. 4, when the next phase of U.S. sanctions hit, but it will not be operational until early next year, three diplomats said. The mechanism, a so-called special purpose vehicle (SPV), is designed to circumvent the sanctions, under […] | The post EU Mechanism For Iran Trade To Be Ready On Nov. 4 appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/26/eu-mechanism-for-iran-trade-to-be-ready-on-nov-4/

CIA director briefs Trump on Khashoggi torture tape
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-26
CIA Director Gina Haspel, dispatched to Turkey to investigate the murder of the Saudi journalist, has intimate familiarity with acts of torture and tapes recording them.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/26/gina…

Israel is Lobbying Europe to Declare BDS "Fundamentally Anti-Semitic"
Middle East Monitor | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-26
In its ongoing battle against the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign Israel is pushing for European political parties to declare the movement "fundamentally anti-Semitic." The latest drive saw Israel's Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ze'ev Elkin, attending a conference in Brussels backed by the Israeli government which proposed a text for prospective MEPs and political parties to sign up to before European elections in May next year. | The text, the Guardian reported, urges European parties to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) "working definition of anti-Se…
mintpressnews.com/israel-is-lobbying-europe-to-declare-bds-fundamentally-anti-semitic/251082/

Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi Murder
Robert Fantina | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
Is there no crime so obvious, so egregious and so blatant that it won't be overlooked by United States President Donald Trump, if doing so suits his twisted needs? He looks past Israeli barbarity, despite the obvious, unspeakable human rights abuses that that rogue, racist apartheid nation commits. He ignores the abject suffering caused by…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/trump-saudi-arabia-and-the-khashoggi-murder/

Trump's HHS and the Renewed Culture Wars
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
The New York Times recently reported on a secret memo circulating within the Trump bureaucracy seeking to narrow the definition of gender to "a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth." The Times considers this "the most drastic move yet in a government wide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law."
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/trumps-hhs-and-the-renewed-culture-wars/

Anti-War Voices Applaud 'Must-Read' Sanders Op-Ed Demanding End to Yemen War
Jessica Corbett | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-26
(CD) — Anti-war voices are praising a new "must-read" New York Times op-ed in which Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Congress "to redefine our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and to show that the Saudis do not have a blank check to continue violating human rights" by revoking U.S. support for the Saudi and UAE-led war in Yemen. Noting that …

Anti-War Voices Applaud 'Must-Read' Sanders Op-Ed Demanding End to Yemen War

European Union steps up Internet censorship in the name of opposing "disinformation"
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-26
The EU summit threatened with sanctions and penalties any party that diverges from the prescribed political line in the 2019 European election campaign.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/26/euro…

Will Israel's Gaza Massacres Finally Prod the ICC into Action?
Joe Catron | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-26
Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, normally reserved in their criticism of Israel, have accused the occupying state of "war crimes." Some hope the sheer scale of Israeli fire against unarmed civilians, along with the copious documentation of it, will prod the ICC to action. | The post Will Israel's Gaza Massacres Finally Prod the ICC into Action? appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/will-israels-gaza-massacres-finally-prod-the-icc-into-action/251074/

White Ribbon's failures go well beyond reproductive rights backflip
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-26
Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi must have been furious when, in the space of less than 24 hours, White Ribbon Australia (WRA) back flipped on its decision to drop support for what he claimed was a "radical abortion policy". | WRA initially redacted its 2017 statement supporting reproductive rights on October 18, with CEO Tracy McLeod telling Buzzfeed that day that the organisation was now "agnostic" on reproductive…
greenleft.org.au/content/white-ribbons-failures-go-well-beyond-reproductive-rights-back-flip

Hatewatch Headlines 10/26/2018
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-10-26
Judge restores funding to sanctuary cities; Civil rights groups call for tech hate-group crackdown; Shea wants to create a 51st state; and…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/26/hatewatch-headlines-10262018

Anti-War Voices Applaud 'Must-Read' Sanders Op-Ed Demanding End To Yemen War
Jessica Corbett | iranian.com | 2018-10-26
Anti-war voices are praising a new "must-read" New York Times op-ed in which Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Congress "to redefine our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and to show that the Saudis do not have a blank check to continue violating human rights" by revoking U.S. support for the Saudi and UAE-led war in Yemen. Noting that […] | The post Anti-War Voices Applaud 'Must-Read' Sanders Op-Ed Demanding End To Yemen War appeared first on The Iranian…
iranian.com/2018/10/26/anti-war-voices-applaud-must-read-sanders-op-ed-demanding-end-to-yemen-war/

Two Stories from the Propaganda War
Philip M. Giraldi | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-25
Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National Rifle Association. Maria, a graduate student at American University, is now in detention in a federal prison, having been charged with collusion and failure to register as an agent of the Russian Federation. She has been in prison since July, for most of the time in solitary confinement, and has not been granted bail because, as a Russian citizen, she i…
mintpressnews.com/two-stories-from-the-propaganda-war/251040/

Tampa students stand against attacks on trans rights
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-25
Tampa, FL — More than 50 Tampa area students and community activists gathered at the University of South Florida's MLK Plaza, October 24, for a rally against Trump's attacks on transgender rights. The protest was organized by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | Earlier this week it was announced that Trump administration officials were moving to alter Title IX rules to exclude trans people from basic services and protection from discrimination. This is only the latest attack on the LGBTQ+ community from the Trump administration. | "We need to organize against Trump's attacks on trans righ…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/24/tampa-s…

ACTION ALERT: While Rangers Fight Wildfires, USA Today Fans Flames of Gun Paranoia
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2018-10-25
The story under this USA Today headline ( 10/25/18) never mentions the Second Amendment–because it's not relevant to the topic at hand. | The main front-page headline on USA Today's October 25 print edition reads: | Is the Second Amendment Under Fire in the West? | Online, the story's headline ( 10/24/18) asks a similarly alarmist headline–"Gun Rights Unde…
fair.org/home/action-alert-while-rangers-fight-wildfires-usa-today-fans-flames-of-gun-paranoia/

My Boss Fired Me From My Funeral Home Job for Being Transgender
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-25
Aimee Stephens spent most of her life struggling with her gender identity. When she finally came out to her boss, she was fired. | I was in funeral services for nearly three decades before I was fired in 2013 for being transgender. In March, a federal appeals court agreed that it was wrong to fire me just because of who I am. Now, the Supreme Court will consider whether to review that court ruling. | While studying to be a pastor in college, I needed a job, and I found one in a funeral home. There are a lot of different ministries people can pursue, and I realized comforting people during one of the most vulnerab…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/my-boss-fired-me-my-funeral-home-job-being-transgender

NAACP Partners with Members of the Faith Community to Galvanize Black Voters Ahead of Midterms
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-10-25
In less than two weeks, Americans from coast to coast will take part in one of the most important elections of a generation, and as the nation's largest and foremost civil rights organizations, NAACP has partnered with its allies in the faith community to ensure the Black community is mobilized and ready to vote. Bishop […] | The post NAACP Partners with Members of the Faith Community to Galvanize Black Voters Ahead of Midterms appeared first on NAACP.
naacp.org/latest/naacp-partners-members-faith-community-galvanize-black-voters-ahead-midterms/

Post-Khashoggi: Israel's Loss, Bin Salman's Retreat And Erdogan's Advance
Abdel Nasser Issa | iranian.com | 2018-10-25
The usually-talkative Israel when it comes to claims of democracy and human rights has been silent over what it fears to be the dangerous retreat, or even collapse, of one of the pillars of its camp in the region and its most important ally, who Trump described as "our boy" — Saudi Arabia. This is […] | The post Post-Khashoggi: Israel's Loss, Bin Salman's Retreat And Erdogan's Advance appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/25/post-khashoggi-israels-loss-bin-salmans-retreat-and-erdogans-advance/

Sciences of inequality
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2018-10-25
Last month, Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (whose important work I have written about before), issued a tweet about the new poverty and healthcare numbers in the United States along with a challenge to the administration of Donald Trump (which in June decided to voluntarily remove itself from […] | Source…
mronline.org/2018/10/25/sciences-of-inequality/

Privatisation harms poor and needy, says UN poverty expert
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-10-24
Widespread privatisation of public goods in many societies is systematically eliminating human rights protections and further marginalising those living in poverty, according to a hard-hitting new report. The report was transmitted to the UN General Assembly on 19 October. | Source…
mronline.org/2018/10/24/privatisation-harms-poor-and-needy-says-un-poverty-expert/

Aimee Stephens Was Fired Because She Is Transgender. That's Sex Discrimination
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-24
The ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to let stand a lower court ruling that Aimee's firing was unlawful. | Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump think federal law shouldn't protect transgender people. They think it should be legal to fire someone just because she's trans. Five federal appeals courts disagree. On Wednesday, the ACLU asked the Supreme Court to let stand one of those rulings, in the case of Aimee Stephens. | Aimee had worked at a funeral home in Detroit for nearly six years when she wrote a letter telling her boss and coworkers that she is transgender. Two weeks after she came out as a woman to her employe…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/aimee-stephens-was-fired-because-she-transgender-thats-sex

Stacey Abrams Stands By Burning the Racist, Segregationist Georgia State Flag in 1992
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-24
During Tuesday's debate, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams defended her actions in 1992 when she helped burn the Georgia state flag, which at the time contained a prominent Confederate battle flag. In a victory for civil rights advocates, the flag was later changed. We speak to Leah Wright Rigueur, professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/24/stacey_a…

City Officials Stoke Mob Mentality in Front of Sex Offender's Home
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-24
The city government of Providence, Rhode Island, is ignoring its own law on residential protests and feeding vigilantism. | When Richard Gardner, a convicted child sex offender, was released from prison after serving almost 30 years, he quietly moved into the Washington Park neighborhood in Providence. One would not have expected a welcome wagon — but an angry mob should not have been the result either. | Because his crimes were committed so long ago, Gardner is not subject to the community notification provisions that apply to more recent offenders under the state's Megan's Law. But the police leaked his a…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/city-officials-stoke-mob-mentality-front-sex-offenders-home

NAACP Sues Shelby County Over Allegedly Defective Voter Registration Applications
Rachel Johnson | naacp.org | 2018-10-24
Tennessee County Should Allow Voters to Fix Applications and Vote Regular Ballots on Election Day BALTIMORE (October 24, 2018) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), America's foremost civil rights organization, announced today that its Memphis Branch filed suit yesterday against the Shelby County (TN) Election Commission for its refusal to allow […] | The post NAACP Sues Shelby County Over Allegedly Defective Voter Registration Applications appeared first on…
naacp.org/latest/naacp-sues-shelby-county-allegedly-defective-voter-registration-applications/

Who's Behind ICE? How Amazon, Palantir, Microsoft & Tech Giants Are Powering Trump's Deportations
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-24
A shocking new investigation by immigrant rights groups reveals how corporations like Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are profiting from and expediting Trump's incarceration and deportation operations. Some 10 percent of the Department of Homeland Security's $44 billion budget is dedicated to data management. The report was published as new documents obtained by the Project on Government Oversight show Amazon is pushing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to start using its controversial facial recognition technology that could identify immigrants in real time by scanning faces in a video feed. We speak with Jacin…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/24/whos_beh…

Thousands rally in Sydney for workers' rights
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-23
Thousands of trade unionists marched through Sydney streets on October 23 as part of nationwide "Change The Rules" mobilisations coordinated by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). | The spirit of the marchers was buoyed by the federal Coalition government's loss of its one-seat parliamentary majority after its defeat in the October 20 Wentworth byelection. | Several union leaders, including Maritime Union of Australia assistant national secretary Warren Smith and ACTU president Michele O'Neil, warned that this was not an "elect Labor campaign", but a campaign to change the rules that are currently stac…
greenleft.org.au/content/thousands-rally-sydney-workers-rights-change-the-rules

Fred Nile's foetal personhood bill is going to parliament, again
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-23
News that NSW MLC Fred Nile is using the last sitting weeks of state parliament before the March 2019 election to push his "Zoe's law" bill — which would give foetuses legal rights — should alarm us all. | Women's rights activists emailed MPs and organised a snap action outside NSW Parliament on October 25, the day Nile tried, but failed, to introduce his private member's bill. Greens MLCs Cate Faehrmann and Jenny Leong and Labor MLC Penny Sharpe joined the action, comm…
greenleft.org.au/content/fred-nile-foetal-personhood-bill-could-be-put-parliament-again-week

"Reminiscent of South Africa's Grand Apartheid": Israeli Human Rights Group Slams Israel at U.N
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-22
Shortly after Israel announced a new "zero tolerance" policy toward demonstrations in Gaza, some 130 Palestinians were injured Friday while protesting ongoing Israeli occupation and demanding the right of return. Four paramedics and 25 children were among the injured. Ten thousand protesters gathered along Israel's heavily militarized separation barrier with Gaza as part of the weekly Great March of Return protests that began March 30. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured thousands more. We speak with Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/22/reminisc…

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Erase Trans People, but the Law Clearly Protects Them
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-22
A recently leaked memo is attempting to undermine decades of court decisions saying federal law protects transgender and nonbinary people. | Over the weekend, The New York Times revealed that officials within the Trump administration are pushing for a definition of the term "sex" in federal civil rights laws that would eliminate non-discrimination protections for transgender people. Transgender people and their families understandably panicked at that news. | The reality, though, is that transgender pe…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/trump-administration-trying-erase-trans-people-law-clearly

FRSO leader condemns Trump administration's attacks on transgender rights
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-22
Minneapolis, MN — Steff Yorek, the Political Secretary of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, sharply condemned the Trump administration, October 22, for orchestrating attacks on the democratic rights of transgender people. | According to widespread media reports, officials in the Trump admiration are moving to alter Title IX rules to exclude transgender people for any legal protections. | "The reactionary and right-wing bigots of the Trump administration are preparing an attack on the democratic rights of transgender people. They are attempting to erase people's existence, and roll back the framework fo…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/22/frso-le…

Trump Admin Attempts to Erase Existence of Trans People After Years of GOP-Led Attacks on Freedoms
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-22
The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is attempting to eliminate the rights of transgender people by creating a narrow legal definition of gender. Citing a government memo, the Times reveals that the Department of Health and Human Services has undertaken an effort across several government agencies to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex. That definition would be either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals a person is born with. The Times reports that the memo says, "Sex means a pers…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/22/trump_ad…

SPLC statement on Trump administration's efforts to remove civil rights protections from transgender Americans
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-10-22
The Trump administration has apparently redoubled its efforts to exclude transgender Americans from the protection of federal civil rights laws.
splcenter.org/news/2018/10/22/splc-statement-trump-administration%25E2%2580%2599s-efforts-remove-civil-rights-protections-transgender

Children march for refugees in Melbourne
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-22
More than 4000 young people and adults packed into Birrarung Marr park on October 21 for a Children's March for Nauru, to demand all refugees imprisoned on the Pacific island be resettled in Australia. | Chanting "nurture not torture" and "kids out, all out", participants marched into the city. | The action was organised by the Artists' Committee and Melbourne Youth with Refugees. | Artists' Committee's Kylie Wilkinson told Green Left Weekly: "It was so heartening to see so many people come out in support of people trapped in Australia's offshore prisons. | "People genuinely wanted to give young people a ch…
greenleft.org.au/content/children-march-refugees-melbourne

Netanyahu Attacks Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem for Criticizing Israeli Occupation at U.N
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-19
Fears are growing as Israel escalates its military presence along its heavily militarized separation barrier with Gaza. Israel has deployed 60 tanks to meet Palestinian protesters gathering today to protest the ongoing Israeli occupation and demand the right of return for those displaced from their homes. Israel has announced it is implementing a "zero tolerance" policy toward protesters in Gaza, who have been staging weekly Friday protests since March 30 under the banner of the Great March of Return. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured at…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/19/netanyah…

Don't Board Our Buses Without Probable Cause or a Warrant
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-19
The president of the Greyhound bus drivers' union urges management to stand up to Trump's deportation machine. | When I first started working at Greyhound 28 years ago, I was told that I would never be able to drive a bus. I'm a woman of color. But I got trained, and I became a bus driver. Soon after, I joined Local 1700 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, and today I am the local's president. | Local 1700 represents 3,500 Greyhound drivers, mechanics, and terminal workers. My job, as the president, is to advocate on behalf of our members for fair pay, safety, and wellbeing. But today, I'm advocating for our custom…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/dont-board-our-buses-without-probable-cause-or

Spain Pushes Dialogue Instead of Sanctions Against Venezuela
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-10-17
The policy represents a radical change from the sanctions wanted by previous Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, imposed by Brussels last January, and reinforced last June.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14100