Last week, one of the most important digital rights cases took place in Quito, Ecuador. Ola Bini, a software designer who makes tools for activists to protect their privacy, was arrested at the Quito airport in April, 2019 just hours after Julian Assange was taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Bini has been detained in Quito for almost three years. His prosecution has been fraught with irregularities. Clearing the FOG speaks with Veridiana Alimonti, a human rights lawyer and the Associate Director for Latin American Policy for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about the case, its connections to the Julian Assange […]
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January 28-30 – Call to Action to #EndEthnicCleansing On 28, 29, 30 January 2022, we call for a global mobilization in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their steadfast resistance against Israel’s forced displacement in Jerusalem’s neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, in Al-Naqab, the Jordan Valley, the southern Hebron Hills and beyond. These Global Days of Action are in response to the call by the Bedouin-Palestinian community of Al-Naqab for international solidarity to support their struggle against Israel’s ongoing Nakba. The last week has seen a dramatic escalation in the intensity and brutality of Israel’s relentless policy of expulsion that still threatens to expel thousands of Indigenous […]
Above Photo: Wright County District Court in Iowa, where Direct Action Everywhere investigator Matt Johnson was prosecuted (Screen shot from Google View). An Iowa judge upheld one of the state’s “ag-gag” laws in a case brought against an animal rights activist, hours before dismissing all charges. In Iowa, a person may be criminalized for “food operation trespass” if they enter or remain on the property of a factory farm “without the consent of a person who has real or apparent authority to allow the person to enter or remain on the property.” Matt Johnson, an investigator with the grassroots animal rights […]
Above Photo: A young fingerling Chinook salmon leaps out of the water on May 16, 2018 in Half Moon Bay, California. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images). The Rights Of Nature Movement, Which Seeks To Give Animals And Other Entities In The Natural World The Same Legal Protections As Human Beings, Is Spawning Laws And Lawsuits All Over The World. Salmon—the fish—are suing the City of Seattle in Sauk-Suiattle tribal court, seeking recognition of their legal rights to exist, flourish and regenerate. The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe filed the complaint earlier this month on behalf of the fish following the city’s construction and operation of […]
Above photo: Protesters demand the closure of Guantanamo Bay in Washington in 2019. MEE/Ali Harb. Geneva – On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, UN experts* condemned the facility as a site of “unparalleled notoriety” and said its continued operation was a stain on the US Government’s commitment to the rule of law. “Twenty years of practising arbitrary detention without trial accompanied by torture or ill treatment is simply unacceptable for any government, particularly a government which has a stated claim to protecting human rights,” said the independent experts, appointed […]
On 12 July 2007, two US AH-64 Apache helicopters fired 30-millimetre cannon rounds at a group of Iraqi civilians in New Baghdad. These US Army gunners murdered at least a dozen people, including Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his driver Saeed Chmagh. Reuters immediately asked for the US to conduct a probe into the killing. Instead, they were fed the official story by the US government that soldiers of Bravo Company, 2-16 infantry had been attacked by small arms fire as part of their Operation Ilaaj in the al-Amin al-Thaniyah neighbourhood. The soldiers called in air strikes, which came in and […]
Above Photo: Tiffany Crutcher speaks during the Juneteenth celebration in the Greenwood District on June 19, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Crutcher is the twin sister of Terence Crutcher who was killed by a Tulsa police officer in 2016. She is an advocate for police reform and racial justice. Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images. ‘Who defines what peaceful is?’ A deep divide over protests. Tiffany Crutcher was worried. Oklahoma lawmakers had passed a new measure stiffening penalties for protesters who block roadways and granting immunity to drivers who unintentionally hit them. The state NAACP, saying the law was passed in response to racial justice demonstrations and […]
The West’s fiction of “human rights” has been weaponized by neoliberals to rationalize naked imperialist interventions. But if human rights are to have any relevance for the oppressed, they must be “de-colonized” and given meaning by the oppressed themselves: a People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR). “Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.” ~Frantz Fanon International Human Rights Day is December 10. On that day in 1948 the […]
Since prime minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, he has pushed an agenda to deliver Indian agriculture to the large corporate houses. But the farmers fought him then and continue to fight him now. On November 19, 2021, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi said, “[W]e have decided to repeal all three agricultural laws.” The prime minister was referring to the three agriculture laws that were rushed through the parliament in 2020. During his speech to announce the rollback, Modi told the farmers that they “should return to [their] homes, fields and to [their] families. Let’s make a fresh start.” At no point […]
We are very worried for the safety and security of Centro Pazífico coordinator, Darnelly Rodriguez. On November 19 2021, she received the second of two death threats in two weeks. This threat came from the AGC paramilitary group. She was listed along with several other social movement and union leaders in a pamphlet that was left under the door of Cali’s largest labor federation. A translation of the threat is included at the end of the page. Darnelly is also the coordinator for the Francisco Isaías Cifuentes Human Rights Network (REDDHFIC)’s Valle Del Cauca chapter. Threats against Darnelly have increased over the […]
Above Photo: Israel’s designation of six Palestinian rights groups as “terrorist” should not deter pro-Palestine solidarity groups in the US. Dominick SokotoffZUMA. It was a move quite aptly characterized as “authoritarian and repressive” by Palestinian poet and writer Mohammed El-Kurd in The Nation. On 19 October, the Israeli settler-colonial state designated six Palestinian human rights groups as “terror organizations.” At the time, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz claimed that Addameer, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International – Palestine, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees are tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP.) But recent reporting in +972 Magazine revealed that […]
Above Photo: Thousands of people protest against racism, injustice and police brutality. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press via AP) Black America And White Supremacy. The United States is a contradiction. From the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution to the Statue of Liberty beckoning the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” the U.S. trumpets to the world – and does not hesitate to export at gunpoint – the ideals of democracy, freedom, and unbridled capitalism; yet, it is a nation that is also based upon the murderous oppression of Black, Indigenous and other […]
Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian writer, and activist, and founder of the rights group Al-Haq, talks about the recent Israeli decision to designate six organizations as terrorists. He explains the context for the Israeli move, the long history of repression of Palestinian activists, and the resistance put up by these groups and the Palestinian people. Source link
Above Photo: International Federation For Human Rights Washington, D.C. ‒ A broad coalition of more than 288 U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights organizations is calling on the Biden administration to condemn the Israeli government’s decision last week to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organizations.” In a letter issued today, the organizations say the Biden administration has no choice but to condemn and push back against this move if it is to fulfill its avowed commitment to human rights. “These actions by the Israeli government are a clear attack on human rights,” the letter reads. “As […]
Above Photo: By U.S. Government Accountability Office from Washington, DC, United States – Figure 1: Map of the Navajo and Hopi Reservations with 521 Abandoned Uranium Mines, Four Former Uranium Processing Sites, and Other Key Sites, Public Domain. For decades, the people on Navajo Nation have had no drinking water, due to uranium mining. Today, the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) submitted the additional documents needed for a petition it filed in 2011 against the United States over the issue, to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In a Washington Post Live program on Tuesday, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said […]
Above photo: Paha Sapa (Black Hills). “Is President Biden’s Proclamation only Empty Words?” On Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, United States President Joe Biden issued a first-ever Proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The first two sentences state: “Since time immemorial, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians have built vibrant and diverse cultures – safeguarding land, language, spirit, knowledge, and tradition across the generations. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, our Nation celebrates the invaluable contributions and resilience of Indigenous peoples, recognizes their inherent sovereignty, and commits to honoring the Federal Government’s trust and treaty obligations to Tribal Nations.” Right off the bat, that second […]
Above Photo: AFP. “A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.” – President of the United States Joseph Biden, January 20th, 2021 The human rights of our Haitian brothers, sisters and siblings are being violated. Point blank. These are the contradictions of the United States, and many of its inhabitants. Not facing and not talking about the contradictions at hand. While the United States considers itself one of the highest defender of human rights, its administration and management of immigration in all its essence leads […]
Above photo: Jonathan McIntosh, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. Samuel Moyn’s vicious and unprincipled attack on Michael Ratner, one of the finest human rights attorneys of our time, was published in the New York Review of Books (NYRB) on September 1. Moyn singles out Ratner as a whipping boy to support his own bizarre theory that punishing war crimes prolongs war by making it more palatable. He disingenuously claims that enforcing the Geneva Conventions and opposing illegal wars are mutually exclusive. As Dexter Filkins noted in the New Yorker, Moyn’s “logic would favor incinerating entire cities, Tokyo style, if the resulting spectacles of agony lead more people to oppose […]
Above Photo: https://www.prc.ps/. Deep Concern at the Use of Collective Punishment by the Israeli Prison Services. On Saturday 11 September, Al-Haq and partners submitted an urgent appeal to the UN special procedures calling for their urgent intervention to protect the lives of Palestinian prisoner escapees. On the evening of Friday 10 September, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) captured two of the six Palestinian prisoners’ escapees from Gilboa Prison on Monday 6 September, Yacoub Qadri, 49 years old, and Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Aridah, 46 years old, in Al-Qafzeh Mountain, Nazareth city, and earlier this morning, Zakaria Zubeidi, 46 years old, and Mohammad Qasem […]
Above photo: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet prepares to address the 48th session of the Human Rights Council. MPPRE. Caracas nonetheless took exception to the “politicization” of the High Commissioner’s report for its “use of sources with little credibility.” NOTE: Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impacts of Unilateral Coercive Measures, visited Venezuela in February of this year and recently published her report on that visit. Here is the summary: The Special Rapporteur undertook an official visit to Venezuela from 1 to 12 February 2021 to assess the impact of unilateral sanctions imposed by […]
Will The Supreme Court Overrule Farmworker Union Rights? By David Bacon, Labor Notes. December 4, 2020 Will The Supreme Court Overrule Farmworker Union Rights?2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/farmworkers.jpg200px200px Above photo: A D’Arrigo Brothers worker with a union button on her cap talks at lunchtime with an organizer. Companies are trying to shut down such access to workers through the courts. David Bacon. Not long before Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit against California’s farmworker access rule in federal court on behalf of two companies—Cedar Point Nursery in Siskiyou County and the Fowler Packing Company in Fresno. The foundation is a conservative libertarian […]
City Workers Push For Collective Bargaining Rights By Brett Hall and Jane Alvarez-Wertz, WAVY. November 19, 2020 City Workers Push For Collective Bargaining Rights2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/vabeach.jpeg200px200px Above photo: WAVY. Virginia Beach, VA – While local government employees are not legally allowed to engage in collective bargaining in the commonwealth until May 1, a group of workers from public utilities and public works making known their desire to have “a seat at the table” as soon as possible. On Tuesday evening, ahead of City Council’s formal session at the convention center, roughly 30 members of the city workforce chanted about the desire for hazard […]
Human Rights, Terrorism And Organized Crime By Stephen Sefton, Global Research. October 30, 2020 Human Rights, Terrorism And Organized Crime2020-10-302020-10-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/nicaragua-1-1-e1604069679466.jpg200px200px An outstanding characteristic of the Western human rights industry has long been the way it politicizes its production to serve the foreign policy needs of its countries’ governments. To that end corporate and government investors fund leading industry producers like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House or the International Federation for Human Rights. The formal reports and social media content of these producer organizations downplay abuse and violations by governments supported by NATO and allied country governments. By contrast, these […]
Pandemic Transforms People Into Voting Rights Activists October 28, 2020 Pandemic Transforms People Into Voting Rights Activists2020-10-282020-10-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/dropbox.png200px200px Above photo: A voter places their ballot in a curbside ballot drop box to help prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the Maryland U.S. presidential primary election as other voters stand in a long line waiting to cast their votes in College Park, Maryland, U.S., June 2, 2020. Reuters/Jim Bourg. Fear of the novel coronavirus has cast some Americans into an unfamiliar role: litigants in an unprecedented wave of court battles over voting procedures. For Regina Root, 53, the journey to suing […]
Massive Rally In Support Of Sipekne’katik Harvesters, Treaty Rights By Elizabeth McSheffrey, Global News. October 19, 2020 Massive Rally In Support Of Sipekne’katik Harvesters, Treaty Rights2020-10-192020-10-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/halifax-e1603109587268.jpg200px200px Above photo: About a thousand people rallied in Halifax’s Grand Parade on Oct. 18, 2020, to show their support for Mi’kmaq harvesters exercising their treaty rights on Nova Scotia’s southwestern shore. Elizabeth McSheffrey/Global News. Halifax, Nova Scotia – About a thousand people gathered in Grand Parade on Sunday, singing, drumming and voicing their support for Indigenous harvesters on Nova Scotia’s southwestern shore, who are exercising their right to fish — outside the commercial season. It’s […]
The last few months of reproductive rights in America have looked like a cheap Handmaid’s Tale rip-off: a rushed nomination of a conservative judge to the Supreme Court; the president spreading lies about “late-term” abortions; and, in a cinematic flourish, the spread of a deadly pandemic that shuttered abortion clinics in multiple states. But amid this reproductive dystopia, abortion-access organizations have quietly introduced modern solutions to an increasingly regressive present. Abortion funds—dozens of groups around the country that help people fund and access abortions—are rolling out programs and applications to make their work easier, even as politicians to try to make […]
Persecuting Assange Is A Blow To Reporting And Human Rights Advocacy By Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. October 17, 2020 Persecuting Assange Is A Blow To Reporting And Human Rights Advocacy2020-10-172020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/chip-speaks-e1602896241320.jpg200px200px Above photo: Chip Gibbons. CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on Assange extradition. Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent’s Chip Gibbons about Julian Assange’s extradition hearing for the October 9, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: If it were not for a tiny handful of journalists—ShadowProof’s Kevin Gosztola preeminent among them—Americans might be utterly unaware that a London magistrate, for the last month, has been considering nothing less than […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107919/17/1079191708_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_6d60462159b904abeda55a74fde54046.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010141080763098-us-deeply-disappointed-after-russia-china-elected-to-un-human-rights-council-state-department-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US government has expressed deep disappointment over the election of Russia, China and Cuba to the governing board of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the body, Department of State spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a statement. Russia, China, Cuba, and 12 other states, were elected to serve as members of the UNHRC after obtaining the required majority of 97 votes. “The United States is deeply disappointed by the election of China, Russia and Cuba to seats on the UN Human Rights Council”, Ortagus […]
The model recently took to social networks calling on the public to urge Congress and the White House to force the sides to cease hostilities in the Armenian-majority region, blaming them on Azerbaijan. Emmy-nominated film producer and human rights advocate Eric Esrailian is the person behind reality television star of Armenian descent Kim Kardashian West’s push for the US to weigh in and support Armenia amid an outbreak of fierce fighting with its neighbour and long-time adversary Azerbaijan, The Hill reported. Esrailian is said to have been drafting statements for Kardashian West, her celebrity family, and other high-profile American Armenians, calling […]
Labor Unions File UN Complaint Over ‘Outrageous’ Violations Of Workers’ Rights By Kenny Stancil, Commondreams. October 8, 2020 Labor Unions File UN Complaint Over ‘Outrageous’ Violations Of Workers’ Rights2020-10-082020-10-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/dept_of_labor.jpg200px200px Above photo: The U.S. Department of Labor building is pictured in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images. Covid-19 “has demonstrated that not only is the U.S. violating workers’ rights, but those violations are resulting in people dying.” United States labor leaders representing workers in several trade unions on Wednesday filed a complaint with the United Nations’ labor agency, making the case that under the […]
Human Rights Defenders Sue German Parliament Over Anti-BDS Resolution By Adri Nieuwhof, Electronic Intifada. October 6, 2020 Human Rights Defenders Sue German Parliament Over Anti-BDS Resolution2020-10-062020-10-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/bds-e1601997227610.png200px200px Three human rights defenders are mounting a court challenge to the German parliament’s resolution condemning BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights. The BDS supporters are suing the German parliament for violation of their rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Based on the widely criticized IHRA definition that is promoted by Israel and its lobby, the resolution passed by the Bundestag in May 2019 smears BDS activism as anti-Semitic. The IHRA definition deliberately conflates […]
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued a broadside against the high court’s 2015 gay marriage decision on Monday when the court declined to hear a case brought by a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue a marriage license for same-sex couples. The two justices agreed with the decision not to hear the case, but used the occasion to take a legal baseball bat to the court’s 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which declared that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry under the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee to equal protection of the law. Writing for himself and […]
UN Report On Venezuela Omits The Greatest Violation Of Human Rights By Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. October 3, 2020 UN Report On Venezuela Omits The Greatest Violation Of Human Rights2020-10-032020-10-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/fundalatin-e1601770541525.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fundalatin President María Eugenia Russián outside of the United Nations. US Aggression. On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela’s oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an attempt by a UNHRC fact-finding mission to erase people who were “lynched, burned alive, decapitated and murdered by extremist sectors of the Venezuelan opposition.” This fact-finding mission had published a report a […]
Using Human Rights To Promote War October 2, 2020 Using Human Rights To Promote War2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/redfish-e1601661254553.png200px200px Debunking UN’s New Venezuela Report Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right’s Council which accuses Venezuela’s government of “crimes against humanity”. She points out major flaws in the report’s methodology and exposes one of its authors as a defender of Chilean fascists. She explains that the US and its allies are weaponizing human right in order to drum up support for a war on Venezuela. Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone […]
Fierce fighting continues over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, as casualties mount daily. Daniel Lazare, investigative journalist and author of “America’s Undeclared War,” joins us to discuss the the longest-running land conflict in the former Soviet Union, occurring in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Since Sunday, Azerbaijani troops have been fighting forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian military, leaving nearly 100 people dead and perhaps hundreds more injured so far. What’s behind the madness? Shelly Martin, who made history last year as the first Mi’kmaq woman to be appointed as adjudicator of the Small Claims Court of Nova Scotia, joins us to discuss the […]
Local councils and refuges continue to lack the necessary funding to assist victims of domestic abuse in the UK, and while the upcoming Domestic Abuse Bill offers some important developments it doesn’t go far enough, argues Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape. Britain’s House of Lords is due to start debating a new domestic abuse bill in October 2020, with the proposed law having already passed through the House of Commons in July of this year. While the legislation has some support a key grass-roots victims’ rights organisation is one of several that remains critical of many aspects of the bill. Lisa Longstaff is […]
President Trump and Judge Amy Coney Barrett walk to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC., on Sept. 26. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images President Trump and Judge Amy Coney Barrett walk to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC., on Sept. 26. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has made no secret of his intentions regarding the U.S. Supreme Court and abortion rights. During a presidential debate in 2016, Trump vowed to appoint justices who’d vote to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision […]
Armenia has asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to pressure Azerbaijan into stopping its military operation against the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan is violating basic human rights by targeting the civilian population and infrastructure and using indiscriminate weapons, Armenia argued. As a top European body tasked with defending those rights, the ECHR can pressure Baku into halting the hostilities, Yerevan believes. A request to do so has been lodged with the court, the office of Armenia’s representative at the ECHR said on Facebook. Also on rt.com 16 killed & 100+ injured in clashes with Azeri troops – Armenia’s Defense Ministry […]
Workers’ Rights In Globalised Industry By Ben Chacko, Morning Star Online. September 26, 2020 Workers’ Rights In Globalised Industry2020-09-262020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/bangladesh.jpg200px200px How can we protect them? Over the summer the Morning Star reported on a new study showing that major fashion brands were complicit in union-busting by Third World suppliers in the garment industry. Editor Ben Chacko spoke to IndustriALL general secretary VALTER SANCHES to find out what trade unions can do to tackle abuses stretching across international supply chains. The Covid-19 crisis and the lockdowns imposed as a result hit the garment industry hard, causing order cancellations and job losses in producer countries. […]
Civil rights groups and other critics say the social network has not done enough to curb misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption toggle caption Thibault Camus/AP Civil rights groups and other critics say the social network has not done enough to curb misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Thibault Camus/AP The civil rights groups behind this summer’s Facebook advertiser boycott are joining other critics to pressure the social network to do more to counter hate speech, falsehoods about the election and efforts to delegitimize mail-in […]
Over the course of several years, dozens of dogs were raped on a weekly basis by a criminal group, which produced many videos of the abuse. After a shocking case in which about a dozen people were charged with sexual abuse of dogs in Norway, the animal rights organisation Noah has demanded stricter punishment for animal cruelty. The police have, by their own admission, never seen such a comprehensive and severe case of repeated animal abuse. Over several years, at least 24 dogs were raped, and some of the animals had to be put down, TV2 reported. The case started in […]
Billionaire ex-presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has raised over $16 million to pay the fees keeping some felons out of Florida’s voting booths, touting the apparent votes-for-cash trade as a cost-effective route to victory. The money will go to pay off court fees, restitution costs, and other fines for 32,000 black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions, clearing the way for their return to participatory democracy – and, the former NYC mayor hopes, guaranteeing a win for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in a critical swing state. While convicted felons who’ve served their sentences have been allowed to vote in Florida since […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202009221080539281-switzerland-calls-for-28-month-jail-sentence-for-paris-saint-germain-president-in-tv-rights-trial/ Last week, Paris Saint-Germain President Nasser Al-Khelaifi went on trial on charges of corruption in the attribution of World Cup TV rights. Swiss prosecutors have called for a 28-month prison term for Paris Saint-Germain President Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is accused of inciting a former top FIFA official to commit “aggravated criminal mismanagement”. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
San Francisco may become the first city to set a new trend of voting at the age of 16 and 17. While some San Franciscans believe the measure is justified and is likely to make voting a habit from an early age, others warn against burdening teenagers with decisions they are too young to make. In November, San Franciscans will cast their ballots to determine whether 16 and 17-year-old teens can be allowed to vote in local elections. A similar measure was put forward in the city in 2016 but failed narrowly, with 48% of the vote in favour versus 52% […]
‘We Have To Be Ever More Vigilant’ About The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples By Joaqlin Estus, Indian Country Today. September 21, 2020 ‘We Have To Be Ever More Vigilant’ About The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples2020-09-212020-09-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/nid-e1600690647492.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesting against pipelines in Canada. The standard in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is Free, Informed and Prior Consent. Creative Commons. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples took 25 years of diplomacy until 144 nations agreed to sign it on September 13, 2007. Nations around the world are failing to meet the standards they set for themselves in the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202009161080477539-un-rights-investigators-claim-maduro-ordered-arbitrary-detention-of-venezuelan-opposition-leaders/ Earlier this week, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet praised the Venezuelan government for making progress in cooperating with her office over the past year. Source link
Venezuela Rejects US Hostilities Before UN Human Rights Council September 16, 2020 Venezuela Rejects US Hostilities Before UN Human Rights Council2020-09-162020-09-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/vzun-e1600260690111.jpg200px200px Above photo: People take to the streets to reject U.S. sanctions, Caracas, Venezuela, Feb.10, 2020. EFE. Under the Trump administration, Washington has stolen over US$30 billion from Venezuela. Venezuela’s representative before the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council Jorge Valero Tuesday rejected Donald Trump administration’s unilateral coercive measures which violate the human rights of his compatriots. He recalled that the United States has looted over US$ 30 billion from the Venezuelan people in the last 4 years. “This is an amount that the […]
The US Has Long Led The Assault On Human Rights By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. September 5, 2020 The US Has Long Led The Assault On Human Rights2020-09-052020-09-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/the-us-has-long-led-the-assault-on-human-rights-from-black-agenda-report.jpeg200px200px The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration. “Europeans on both sides of the Atlantic reconciled slavery with human rights by declaring non-whites non-human.” The idea of human rights is premised on the position that human beings come into society with the expectation that the society they are born into will recognize their inherent dignity. That assumption is supposed to be […]
Know Your Rights – Don’t Talk To Cops At The Airport By John Kiriakou, Consortium News. August 31, 2020 Know Your Rights – Don’t Talk To Cops At The Airport2020-08-312020-08-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/airport-police-officers.-by-teagasc-cc-by-sa-3.0-wikimedia-commons.jpg200px200px Above photo: Airport police officers. By Teagasc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. When an ICE officer stopped me after I got off the plane I knew the harassment was about to begin. But I was ready for it. I confess to a dislike of the police; any police at any level. I dislike equally local cops, state troopers, federal law enforcement from a myriad of agencies and prison guards. I’ve always said, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0f/1079886590_0:207:3097:1949_1200x675_80_0_0_46917906be67f9b74685455db3373545.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202008301080318958-china-warns-against-foreign-meddling-as-france-laments-about-human-rights-in-xinjiang-hong-kong/ Western countries earlier condemned alleged human rights violations in the Chinese region of Xinjiang and in Hong Kong, the latter following Beijing’s adoption of a new national security law affecting the semi-autonomous island. Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi has condemned the attempts of foreign governments to meddle in the domestic affairs of Beijing, warning them against interfering in the situation in China’s Xinjiang region and in Hong Kong. His warning came in the wake of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian saying that he had raised the issue of Xinjiang and Hong […]
Kenosha police officers’ shooting of unarmed African American man Jacob Blake late last week has reignited race-related demonstrations and nationwide calls for police reform in the United States. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a civil rights probe into Sunday’s shooting of African American man Jacob Blake who currently remains in hospital in serious condition. The DOJ said in a statement on Wednesday that the investigation will be carried out by the FBI in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI). © REUTERS / BRENDAN MCDERMID People take cover during a protest following the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1a/1080278520_0:171:3111:1921_1200x675_80_0_0_bb53811cd062d0decd23b0f58f48e4db.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/europe/202008261080278579-precious-liberty-french-interior-minister-supports-topless-sunbathing-rights/ French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin rose to protect topless sunbathers, after police in France’s Sainte-Marie-la-Mer last week asked three women to cover their breasts while enjoying the sun. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin rose up to protect what he characterized as the “fundamental liberty” of topless sunbathing, after several women complained about police officers preventing them from laying in the sun with their breasts exposed. The incident took place in Sainte-Marie-la-Mer, where police offcers asked three women to put their tops back on while they were sunbathing, drawing harsh criticism and accusations of “undermining the French way […]
Documentary Chronicles Students’ Fight For Black Rights During ‘Freedom Summer’ : NPR Documentary Chronicles Students’ Fight For Black Rights During ‘Freedom Summer’ Freedom Summer, now streaming on PBS, focuses on the 1964 movement to get Black people to vote in Mississippi. Director Stanley Nelson and organizer Charles Cobb discussed the film in 2014. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107776/42/1077764229_0:0:1920:1081_1200x675_80_0_0_1b612823e3fa13a86b1e764c47a7365e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202008191080204359-fantasy-gaming-platform-dream11-wins-title-sponsorship-rights-for-worlds-richest-cricket-league/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The 13th edition of the world’s richest cricket tournament – the Indian Premier League – will get underway on 19 September. IPL’s governing body is all set to release the schedule of the IPL 2020, which will be played in the United Arab Emirates. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has awarded the title sponsorship rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 to China’s Tencent funded fantasy cricket league platform Dream11. The move comes days after Chinese mobile giant Vivo had backed out of sponsoring the multi-billion dollar league […]
How Socialists Won Our Democratic Rights By Adam J. Sacks, Tribune Magazine. August 10, 2020 How Socialists Won Our Democratic Rights2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/fight-for-democracy-from-tribune-magazine-e1597090706842.jpg200px200px Above photo: The fight for Democracy from Tribune Magazine. The myth of modern democracy is that it was handed down from on-high. In fact, the ruling class resisted extending the franchise at every turn – and it was socialists who fought them for the right to vote. Since the advent of the modern state, ruling classes have tried to restrain the voting power of workers and those not “well-born.” Contrary to the mainstream story that capitalism naturally gave rise to […]
Amnesty International’s latest report details that it has logged at least 125 separate cases of police violence against US residents within two weeks of the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Officers across the nation were accused by Amnesty on Tuesday of violating the human rights of peaceful protesters, bystanders and members of the press 125 times between May 26 and June 5. According to the international human rights organization, these incidents occurred in 40 US states and the US capital of Washington, DC, while demonstrators were mourning the killing of Floyd, whose death has since been declared […]
Washington on Friday imposed sanctions on a powerful Chinese company in the Xinjiang province and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities. The move is the latest blow to US-China relations. The US Treasury Department said it blacklisted the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), along with Sun Jinlong, former party secretary of the XPCC, and Peng Jiarui, deputy party secretary and commander of the XPCC, over accusations they are connected to “serious human rights abuse” against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. The action freezes any US assets of the company and officials, […]
Human Rights Fraud From Ukraine To Nicaragua By Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. July 30, 2020 Human Rights Fraud From Ukraine To Nicaragua2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2013/12/1humanrights-150×45.jpg200px200px Current Western human rights industry practice has nothing to do with establishing the truth. Increasingly in recent years, US and allied elites have sought to legitimize illegal aggression by exploiting human rights motifs in their attempts to recolonize the majority world. In any given crisis, human rights NGOs funded by the US and allied corporate elites and governments deploy sensationalist false claims, for example of police murdering peaceful protestors, so as to create a cognitive limbo of doubt and […]
Portland: Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights By Dara Lind, ProPublica. July 30, 2020 Portland: Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/portland-protester-enveloped-in-tear-gas-hold-american-flag.-e1595781541158.jpg200px200px Above photo: Portland protester enveloped in tear gas holds US flag on July 21. By Nathan Howard/Getty Images. “Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests.” A dozen protesters facing federal charges are barred from going to “public gatherings” as a condition of release from jail — a tactic one expert described as “sort of hilariously unconstitutional.” Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon: arrest them on offenses as minor as “failing to obey” an […]
A mourner pauses by the casket of Rep. John Lewis lying in repose at the state capital on Wednesday in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died on July 17. John Bazemore/AP hide caption toggle caption John Bazemore/AP A mourner pauses by the casket of Rep. John Lewis lying in repose at the state capital on Wednesday in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died on July 17. John Bazemore/AP The funeral for […]
Members of the so-called “men’s rights” movement want to get one thing straight: while a prominent member allegedly killed a judge’s son, seriously wounded her husband, and was implicated in the killing of another activist, it should not reflect badly on their community. In fact, the most deranged strand of the insular crowd’s alternately panicked and dismissive reaction to a bizarre internal beef spilling out into spectacular murders was the idea that all the shootings were a conspiracy to make men’s rights activists look bad. Roy Den Hollander, 72, is accused of targeting the family of a judge who was presiding […]
The Rev. Darryl Caldwell speaks as the casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lies in repose during a service at Troy University in Troy, Ala., on Saturday. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP The Rev. Darryl Caldwell speaks as the casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lies in repose during a service at Troy University in Troy, Ala., on Saturday. Brynn Anderson/AP Rep. John Lewis is being remembered this weekend in multiple memorial services across the state of Alabama, where he was born. Lewis died this month after more than 30 years of service as […]
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court in a rule 5-4 against a Nevada church, Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, released Friday night. Calvary Chapel sought to have the same standards of occupancy that casinos have under Nevada pandemic rules mandated by Governor Steve Sisolak that limit houses of worship to 50 people regardless of size, compared to casinos and restaurants that have higher limits set at fifty percent of capacity. No supporting opinion was released by the Court, just the decision: “The application for injunctive relief presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred […]
The United Nations has denounced heavy-handed police tactics used against demonstrators in Portland and other US cities during ongoing protests, taking aim at what it called baseless arrests and unnecessary violence by officers. “Peaceful demonstrations that have been taking place in cities in the US, such as Portland, really must be able to continue without those participating in them… risking arbitrary arrest or detention, being subject to unnecessary, disproportionate or discriminatory use of force, or suffering other violations of their rights,” Liz Throssell, spokesperson for the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said on Friday. Among dozens […]
Border Patrol Violently Assaults Civil Rights And Liberties By Andrea Flores and Shaw Drake, ACLU.org. July 24, 2020 Border Patrol Violently Assaults Civil Rights And Liberties2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/wmilitarized-federal-agent-e1595617967743.jpg200px200px Above photo: Dave Killen, the Oregonian. Ending Border Patrol’s long-standing abuses and impunity requires divestment, accountability, and removing the agency from U.S. communities. In the past week, unidentified federal officers in camouflage fatigues, labeled only “police,” abducted people off the streets of Portland in unmarked vehicles and threatened the “Wall of Moms” standing up for our Constitution. The administration later confirmed the unidentified officers were Border Patrol agents. This blatant demonstration of unconstitutional authoritarianism is demonstrating to the entire country […]
New Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Federal Law Enforcement By Jonathan Levinson, Oregon Public Broadcasting. July 23, 2020 New Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Federal Law Enforcement2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/intpress-e1595537495251.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police stand as protesters gather during a demonstration, Thursday, July 16, 2020 in Portland, Ore. Federal officers deployed tear gas and fired less-lethal rounds into a crowd of protesters. The actions came just hours after the head of the Department of Homeland Security called the protesters “violent anarchists.” Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP. The federal government is facing another lawsuit over its law enforcement activities in Portland. The Western States Center, the First Unitarian Church […]
Protesters Attacked By Police Are Suing To Vindicate Their Constitutional Rights By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. July 21, 2020 Protesters Attacked By Police Are Suing To Vindicate Their Constitutional Rights2020-07-212020-07-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/nypd-approach-protest-outside-of-city-hall-july-1-2020-e1595348264323.png200px200px Above photo: NYPD approach protest outside of City Hall, July 1, 2020. By David Dee Delgado for Getty Images. Protesters demonstrating against white supremacy and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s public lynching have been met with illegal repression by law enforcement. Police have utilized toxic chemical and sonic weapons, dangerous projectiles, intrusive surveillance, physical violence and “kettling” to trap demonstrators after dispersal orders are given. In a study conducted by the University of Chicago Law School’s International […]
Appeals Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company ‘Trampled’ Landowners’ Rights By the Center for Constitutional Rights. July 21, 2020 Appeals Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company ‘Trampled’ Landowners’ Rights2020-07-212020-07-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/bbp-e1595360504597.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Julia Dermansky. Landowners Awarded $10,000 Each Plus Attorneys Fees. July 16, 2020, Lake Charles, LA – Today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeal for the State of Louisiana ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company (BBP) violated the due process rights of landowners when it constructed an oil pipeline across their property before acquiring the legal rights to do so. The construction – including clearing trees, trenching, and laying pipe […]
Singer Madonna has boasted about an unpaid “one million dollar fine,” which she says the Russian government slapped her with for speaking in favor of gay rights at a concert. The only problem is, the story is completely false. “I made this speech in St. Petersburg eight years ago,” the musician posted to her social media this week. Included was footage from the 2012 concert where she says “gay people, here and around the world” deserve the “same rights” as everyone else. “I was fined one million dollars by The government for supporting the Gay community. I never paid,” she proudly […]
In a screed against cancer doctors, “men’s rights” attorney Roy Den Hollander saved some venom for a particular woman judge. “All of this was a nice stressful addition since it occurred in the middle of preparing for oral argument in a federal case before a lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama,” he wrote. Den Hollander did not name the judge, but he might as well have, for he says the proceedings were held on Dec. 4, 2018. That is the date that he had a 90-minute hearing in Newark federal court before Judge Esther Salas. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007201079938147-us-blacklists-11-chinese-entities-over-alleged-rights-abuses-in-xinjiang/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has added 11 Chinese entities to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, a document scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 22 July but made available online revealed on Monday. “These eleven entities have been determined by the United States Government to be acting contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States and will be listed on the Entity List under the destination of the People’s Republic of China (China)”, the document said. The release added that all […]
In November 2016, Congressman John Lewis viewed for the first time images and his arrest record from a March 5, 1963 nonviolent sit-in at Nashville’s segregated lunch counters. Rick Diamond/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rick Diamond/Getty Images In November 2016, Congressman John Lewis viewed for the first time images and his arrest record from a March 5, 1963 nonviolent sit-in at Nashville’s segregated lunch counters. Rick Diamond/Getty Images Longtime Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis has died after a battle with stage four pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis was a […]
Florida Senator Marco Rubio was among many in Washington paying tribute to Rep. John Lewis. However, Rubio posted a picture of himself alongside the late Elijah Cummings, another civil rights leader who shares Lewis’ skin color. Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, passed away on Saturday after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. As news of his death spread, lawmakers and public figures in Washington paid tribute to the longtime civil rights champion, who’d marched alongside Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama in 1965, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. READ MORE: Rep. John Lewis, iconic civil rights leader, dead […]
John Lewis, who spent his life and career as a civil servant battling tirelessly for civil rights, died Friday at the age of 80. Late Saturday morning, after hours of silence, the White House issued a proclamation calling for the flag to fly at half-staff on White House and public grounds, military posts, and more. The document, made public as the president golfed at his club in Virginia, is about as impersonal as it gets. “As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding public service of Representative John Lewis, of Georgia” the statement reads, “I hereby order, by the […]
Throughout his long career in Congress, which began in 1987, John Robert Lewis served as a reminder of his country’s past and how far his country has come. Born in Troy, Alabama, in 1940, the son of sharecroppers, he died at age 80 on Friday a revered civil rights icon, the acknowledged conscience of Congress for more than 30 years. His death comes just a few months after he revealed he’d been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer, which he vowed to fight. “I have been in some kind of fight—for freedom, equality, basic human rights—for nearly my entire life. I have […]
Rep, John Lewis, who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, said it was moral obligation to stand up for his beliefs. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Rep, John Lewis, who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, said it was moral obligation to stand up for his beliefs. Susan Walsh/AP John Lewis — an icon of the civil rights movement, congressman and for decades a force in Democratic politics — has died at age 80. Lewis died after a battle with advanced-stage pancreatic cancer. Lewis began treatment for the disease after being diagnosed during a routine medical […]
__________Friendly AtheistSecretary of State Unveils Christian Nationalist Agenda in Commission Report By Hemant Mehta Yesterday, during an event at the National Constitution Center, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke about a new report from the “Commission on Unalienable Rights,” a group he assembled in May of 2019. That announcement was disturbing on its own because Pompeo spoke fondly of the country’s “founding principles of natural law and natural rights.” Natural. That’s a word conservatives have regularly used to block trans people from serving in the military, oppose marriage equality, and prevent women from controlling their own bodies. In other words, Pompeo […]
The Rev. C.T. Vivian, seen in a 2012 portrait at his Atlanta home, has died at the age of 95. David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP The Rev. C.T. Vivian, seen in a 2012 portrait at his Atlanta home, has died at the age of 95. David Goldman/AP For the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a jail cell was about as familiar as a police officer’s fist. For his work during the height of the civil rights movement, the minister and activist was arrested more times than he cared to count and suffered several brutal beatings at the hands of officers […]
Senator Josh Hawley asked the Department of Justice Thursday to open a civil rights investigation on St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and her office for violating the rights of local residents Mark and Patricia McCloskey. The McCloskeys made headlines after they defended their home from a mob of hundreds of Black Lives Matter activiststs who broke into the gated community in June. Gardner has sent police to their home at least twice with search warrants. This morning I have asked the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the St Louis Circuit Attorneys Office. Targeting law abiding […]
Cryptocurrency users in the U.S. remember July 26, 2019, as the day the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) came out swinging. It now turns out the agency may have been hitting below the belt. That day, for the first time in its history, the IRS demanded thousands of virtual currency-holding taxpayers fess up to unreported crypto trading gains. “We have information” on your cryptocurrency accounts, the agency warned these presumably tax-flouting taxpayers in a so-called “soft letter” that took an oddly hard line for being a compliance-promoting mass mailing. What this “information” was or how the IRS had gotten it was left […]
On Monday, the British government imposed sanctions against two North Korean ministries that London suspects of being involved in forced labour, torture, and murder in the DPRK’s prison camps. Pyongyang has slammed the UK for slapping sanctions against North Korea, accusing Britain of meddling in the Communist nation’s domestic affairs. “This act of the UK is a despicable political scheme which follows in the footsteps of the hostile US policy towards the DPRK. The UK will be definitely made to pay the price”, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday, dubbing London Washington’s “puppet”. The spokesperson […]
Nicaragua: How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered A US-Targeted Nation By Stefan Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. July 11, 2020 Nicaragua: How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered A US-Targeted Nation2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/06/1nic3-e1528758293472.jpg200px200px Above photo: Masked protesters sit with their mortars on a stoop in the Monimbo neighborhood in Masaya, Nicaragua, Saturday, June 2, 2018. Alfredo Zuniga for AP. Nicaragua’s case is a text-book example of how genuine human rights research has been subverted so as to produce highly biased reports. “The human rights industry markets itself dishonestly, but very powerfully, as if it were driven by humanitarian concern rather than ideological bias.” Ever since January 2007, […]
Beijing said on Friday it will impose reciprocal measures in response to US sanctions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing that the US action represented serious interference in China’s affairs and was deeply detrimental to bilateral relations. On Thursday, Washington blacklisted Xinjiang region’s Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo, a member of China’s Politburo, and three other officials. A senior administration representative described Chen as the highest ranking Chinese official ever sanctioned by the United States, Reuters said. China’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Chen […]
Earlier today we reported that Facebook and Instagram deleted Roger Stone’s personal accounts. Tonight we have an exclusive statement from Roger Stone regarding these social media giants taking way his free speech rights. Earlier today Jacob Engels at TGP reported Facebook and Instagram have deleted the verified personal account of Roger Stone on Facebook, his media outlet Stone Cold Truth, and even his Instagram account ahead of his July 14th surrender date to a Coronavirus infested prison in Georgia. Stone is currently appealing Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s decision to deny him a reprieve due to concerns over his history of respiratory […]
Facebook had the chance to curb voter suppression targeting Black Americans ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Instead, it stumbled on that and other civil liberties issues, according to a new independent civil rights audit released on Wednesday. The audit, commissioned by Facebook and conducted over two years by civil rights experts and lawyers, comes as Facebook faces public ire for racism and disinformation on the site, with major advertisers cutting ties with the company. Although the social media giant took some steps to curb hate speech and prevent election meddling after the 2016 election, it also committed significant oversights, the […]
Facebook failed to remove three posts by the US President Donald Trump that “allowed the propagation of hate/violent speech and facilitated voter suppression,” causing concern among the civil rights community, a new report says. A fresh audit of Facebook’s policies and practices, commissioned by the world’s largest social media platform itself in 2018, has on 8 July yielded results. The Civil Rights Audit, led by Laura W. Murphy, a civil rights and civil liberties leader, among others, have analysed Facebook’s impact on civil rights and argued that the company needs to do more to suppress hate. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg commented on […]
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the American Studies Association (ASA), its executive director, and eight former ASA officers or committee members: Lisa Duggan, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Sunaina Maira, Curtis Marez, Jasbir Puar, Chandan Reddy, Steven Salaita, and Neferti Tadiar. The definitive judgment rebukes the arguments advanced in the federal courts by four persons (Simon Bronner, Michael Rockland, Michael Barton, and Charles Kupfer) who have disputed the ASA’s endorsement of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The decision on June 19, […]
Frederick Douglass was a black man in 19th-century America, a social reformer, outstanding orator and a national leader of the abolitionist movement that sought to end enslavement in the United States, after escaping from slavery himself. A monument to US anti-slavery icon Frederick Douglass in the city of Rochester, New York, was violently removed from its pedestal over the 4th July weekend, according to police. The statue, earlier standing at Maplewood Park, was torn from its base in a way that reportedly has made repair of the monument impossible. Photos were shared in social media displaying the vandalized base, with remnants of […]
The ACLU and other groups have sued Graham, North Carolina, calling the city’s ban on “demonstrations of two or more people” while under a declared emergency unconstitutional. They’ve remained silent on similar laws, though. Graham violated protesters’ First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly and speech with the law, which bars two or more people (or even a single person carrying a sign) from assembling without a protest permit during a declared state of emergency, the suit, filed on Thursday, states. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office announced last Friday that no further protest permits would be issued “for the foreseeable future” […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis The collapse of the black family we alluded to in an earlier article is inextricably linked to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. In his sociological study “The Origins of African-American Family Structure,” sociologist and historian Steven Ruggles of the University of Minnesota documents that from 1880 until 1960, married households with two-parent homes were the general rule of the black family structures.[1] Others have argued that in 1880, black families were nuclear families in places like Philadelphia. “Two parent households were generally more common among ex-slaves. Taken together, two-parent households were found 80 percent of […]
The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana abortion law that opponents say would have closed all but one abortion clinic in the state and had lasting repercussions for reproductive rights across the country. The Louisiana law, known as Act 620, would have required abortion providers to have the ability to admit patients at local hospitals. Supporters said the legislation promoted safety and continuity of care; abortion-rights advocates say it was a medically unnecessary restriction would force abortion clinics to shutter because many abortion providers have been denied such privileges. In a 5-4 decision issued Monday, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the […]
The UN’s top human rights official has condemned Israel’s plans to take over parts of the occupied West Bank, warning that the move would undermine peace efforts, and saying: “Annexation is illegal. Period.” Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Chile, described Israel’s annexation project as contrary to international law regardless of “whether it is 30 percent from the West Bank or 5 percent.” She urged Israel to halt its plans, warning that the shockwaves of such a move would “last for decades” and cause lasting damage for both sides. “This is a highly […]
The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start The Gay Rights Movement By Greggor Mattson, JStor Daily. June 28, 2020 The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start The Gay Rights Movement2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/stonewall_riots-e1593362906531.jpg200px200px Above photo: A Gay Pride parade in London, July 6, 1996/Getty. Despite what you may hear during this year’s fiftieth anniversary commemorations, Stonewall was not the spark that ignited the gay rights movement. The story is well known: A routine police raid of a mafia-owned gay bar in New York City sparked three nights of riots and, with them, the global gay rights movement. In fact it is conventional to date LGBTQ history into “before Stonewall” and “after Stonewall” […]
June 23, 2020By Gwilym McGrew PHOENIX AZ – Thousands of Trump supporters, both college students and other adults, waited hours in scorching Arizona heat that reached 109 degrees to see President Donald Trump at the Turning Points USA “Students For Trump” Convention. The sold out event in north Phoenix hosted a massively enthusiastic crowd of young adults who’s cheers for Trump and boos for Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders rose the roof during a video introduction hours before Trump spoke. Congressman Gaetz and Rick Grennell we’re introduced to a standing ovation and crazy enthusiasm and applause. Gaetz posed questions to Grennell […]
On Friday, the Human Rights Council moved to commission an investigation into systemic racism and discrimination against Black people around the world after failing to approve a probe specifically focused on the killing of African Americans, and US law enforcement’s suspected violence against protesters. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has lashed out at the UN’s top human rights watchdog, accusing the body of serving as a “haven for dictators and the democracies that indulge them.” “If the Council were serious about protecting human rights, there are plenty of legitimate needs for its attention, such as the systemic racial disparities in places […]
Several civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), have urged corporations to boycott advertising on Facebook in July because they believe the platform has failed to address hate speech. The boycott campaign, dubbed “#StopHateForProfit,” calls on Facebook advertisers to show that they will not support a company that has not “meaningfully” addressed the “vast proliferation of hate on its platforms.” “The campaign is a response to Facebook’s long history of allowing racist, violent and verifiably false content to run rampant on its platform. The campaign will organize corporate and […]
On Tuesday, Melissa Zarda was dealing with two things at home in Kansas City, Missouri: the loud barking and mischief of her new foster puppy Winnie, a cattle dog/pitbull mix, while—above the din—relishing the hard-fought, historic victory she had just won in the Supreme Court in the memory of her beloved, deceased brother Donald. His was one of three cases featuring LGBTQ people fired for their sexual orientation or gender identity that SCOTUS yesterday ruled, 6-3, were illegal under the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The ruling—embracing the cases of gay men Zarda and […]
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of LGBTQ Rights By Bil Browning, LGBTQ Nation. June 16, 2020 Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of LGBTQ Rights2020-06-162020-06-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/supreme-court-rainbow-e1592323987558.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jaquelyn Martin/ AP. Landmark decision. Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear.” The Supreme Court just issued a landmark decision penned by Neil Gorsuch, a conservative justice appointed by President Donald J. Trump, deciding that “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII.” “Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The […]
The International Olympic Committee is standing by its long-held stance that politics should be kept out of sports. That rule prohibits wearing political signs and kneeling, but activists are pressuring the organisation to change its mind in light of mass anti-racism protests. An international athlete-led movement has accused the Olympic Games’ governing body of violating human rights over its commitment to political neutrality. “The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) recent statement that athletes who ‘take a knee’ in solidarity with the anti-racism movement will face bans is a clear breach of human rights,” the Global Athlete movement […]
Human Rights Expert Hopes COVID-19, Climate Change And Racial Injustice Are A ‘Wake-Up Call’ By Ilana Cohen, Inside Climate News. June 14, 2020 Human Rights Expert Hopes COVID-19, Climate Change And Racial Injustice Are A ‘Wake-Up Call’2020-06-142020-06-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2015/08/Seattle-Racism-Protest-holding-the-elephant1-150×112.jpg200px200px Above photo: The US is facing up to one elephant in the room, racism, will it face up to the climate crisis as well? New York University law professor and former U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, fears “a sort of crisis fatigue.” Philip Alston spent years at the United Nations confronting the vast societal injustices that have brought millions of demonstrators out […]