Daily Archives: August 13, 2021

2021-08-13: News Headlines

Asa Winstanley (2021-08-13). Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Civil rights group slams "illegal measures" on the pretext of coronavirus.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-08-13). Apartheid tech is no climate change solution. electronicintifada.net Israel finds opportunity to rebrand itself in wake of new IPCC report.

John Pilger (2021-08-13). A Day in the Death of British Justice. counterpunch.org I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange's partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in court by a barrister and a judge, forgettable people were it not for the power of their endowed privilege.

RobertAlvarez (2021-08-13). Two Years After the Largest Workplace Raid in U.S. History, a Path Forward for Undocumented Workers. ips-dc.org Immigration agents arrested over 600 undocumented workers at a poultry plant in Jackson, Mississippi two years ago in what remains the On the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates are demanding that U.S. officials take action to repair the harms inflicted on the workers and their communities. | Some 230 of the workers have already been deported but another 400 are still waiting for their day in court. And while they wait, many are unable to provide for themselves because…

_____ (2021-08-13). Scheer Intelligence: Prisons Enable America's Obscene Wealth. popularresistance.org The story of Marshall "Eddie" Conway, a military veteran and former Black Panther who was imprisoned for 43 years for a crime he didn't commit, is one that gets to the heart of systemic racism in the United States. Despite grueling conditions, in prison Conway pursued three college degrees, and was considered an "exemplary" prisoner for starting a prison literacy program and organizing the prison library. On the other hand, his efforts to organize a union among his fellow convict laborers was crushed by the authorities. After being released in 2014 following an appellate court judgment that his jury had been give…

Monica Johnson (2021-08-13). #JusticeForDeaundrePhillips: Atlanta DA Fani Willis again declines to charge killer cops. liberationnews.org "How can this man change his story two and three times and not be charged… with this murder?" asked Tyvonna Phillips,mother of Deaundre Phillips.

John Bachtell (2021-08-12). 'People's Vaccine' needed to break monopoly profiteering and end vaccine apartheid. peoplesworld.org As the COVID-19 pandemic rages and new, more dangerous variants emerge, demands are growing for a "people's vaccine" to counter the chief obstacle to global vaccination—Big Pharma profiteering. Public health officials and infectious disease specialists all agree: The pandemic will not end until most of the world is vaccinated. Poor and medium-income countries face a …

Staff (2021-08-12). Algeria says 22 arsonists arrested for string of 'disaster' wildfires that killed at least 65. rt.com Algerian authorities have arrested 22 suspects believed to have set off dozens of deadly wildfires across the country's north, in which at least 65 people have perished as soldiers and first responders race to battle the flames. | President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced the arrests on Thursday during a televised address, saying that "justice will perform its duty" after some 50 separate fires erupted simultaneously earlier this week, most near Tizi Ouzou east of the Alergian capital. | "Some fires have been caused by high temperatures, but criminal hands were behind most of them," the president said. "We have…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-12). Targeting the Medical Evidence: The US Challenge on Assange's Health. southfront.org WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in a police van after was arrested by British police outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Britain on April 11, 2019. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | The desperate attempt by the US imperium to nab Julian Assange was elevated to another level on August 11 in a preliminary hearing before the UK High Court. The central component to this gruesome affair was the continuing libel of the expert witness upon which District Justice Vanessa Baraitser placed so m…

_____ (2021-08-12). Study Warns 'Blue Hydrogen' Funded in Bipartisan Plan More Polluting Than Coal. commondreams.org "The fact that MPD attacked, arrested me, and then held my camera for nearly a year for no reason sends a chilling message to everyone of what is at risk," one of the plaintiffs in the suit warned.

_____ (2021-08-12). ACLU Sues DC, Cops Over Attacks on Journalists at 2020 Racial Justice Protests. commondreams.org "It is highly dangerous and irresponsible to allow the surveillance technology and trade sector to operate as a human rights-free zone."

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