On International Human Rights Day, Chileans demand release of political prisoners
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-11
This December 10, on International Human Rights Day, hundreds of Chileans took to the streets to demand the release of all political prisoners in the country. There was special emphasis on the demand to release the protesters arrested during the protests of October 2019 and in demonstrations in the following months as well as the Indigenous Mapuche political prisoners. | Several small demonstrations were c…
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Jon Wiener: What Aaron Sorkin Got Wrong in 'The Trial of the Chicago 7'
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-12-11
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play " The Trial of the Chicago 7," an Aaron Sorkin film that recently aired on Netflix, brought an important chapter in the history of American activism to screens around the globe. Based on real events, the film dramatizes the 1969 trial of eight activists who were arrested during the Vietnam War protests that took place in Chicago at the 1968… | Source…
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Turkish lawyer on hunger strike sent back to prison after release
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-11
Turkish lawyer on hunger strike sent back to prison after release | Aytac Unsal re-arrested as a flight risk despite being released on health grounds in September after 213-day hunger strike | Alex MacDonald | Fri, 12/11/2020 – 11: 44 | Aytac Unsal recovering in bed following his hunger strike (People's Law Bureau) | A Turkish lawyer who was released from prison on medical grounds after spending more than seven…
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Rebuilding the Solidarity Economy During COVID-19
Annie Levin | progressive.org | 2020-12-11
The pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have shown New York's mutual aid collectives how to navigate the line between mutual aid, solidarity, and charity.
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Portland Community Beats Back Eviction, Erects Barricades
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
On Tuesday morning, Portland community members successfully repealed heavily armed and militarized Multnomah County Sheriffs backed by Portland police officers, who were attempting to evict the Afro-Indigenous Kinney family, who has lived in the "Red House on Mississippi" in the North Portland neighborhood for 65 years. The eviction began in the early morning, after officers officers "violently dismantled the 75+ day "Red House" [support] encampment," and then "entered the home itself, destroying its interior, and violently arrested two residents — injuring at least one."
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One Question: How Have the Black Lives Matter Protests Impacted the Prison Abolition Movement?
progressive.org | 2020-12-10
Q: How Have the Black Lives Matter Protests Impacted the Prison Abolition Movement?
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Mass incarceration is declining — but not for women
Robert P. Alvarez | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-10
Election after election, voters are turning against mass incarceration and the war on drugs that sustains it. In 2020, the people of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota voted to legalize marijuana, joining 11 other states and the District of Columbia. In Oregon, voters opted to decriminalize possession of all drugs. And even during the deeply divisive …
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Iran Arrests People Involved in Killing of Nuclear Scientist
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-09
The Special Aide to the President of the Parliament in International Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, claimed that Iranian authorities had arrested people involved in the murder of scientist nuclear Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Nov. 27. | RELATED: | The US Imposes Sanctions on Iran's Ambassador to Yemen | "The perpetrators of this assassination, some of whom have been identified and even arrested by our security apparatus, will not escape justice and will be dealt with severely," Abdollahia…
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