Thousands from New York City to Seattle went on January 28 to the nation’s major airports to protest President Donald’s Trump’s order banning for 120 days Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven nations, an order issued that same day. The protests, initiated by immigrant rights groups through (...)
RASMEA ODEH, THE Palestinian community activist in Chicago who was convicted in 2015 for “fraudulent procurement of naturalization” when she obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2004, has won a new trial.
This is an important victory for Odeh and her defense team, who successfully argued on appeal (...)
As a close ally and early supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions has emerged as an early favorite to secure a spot in Trump’s cabinet, with recent speculation being that he will be nominated as attorney general.
Sessions defended Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims (...)
A British woman who was set on fire while wearing Islamic clothing in New York was not targeted in a hate attack, police have said.
American authorities confirmed they are no longer probing the case as a hate crime after linking the case to similar assaults on non-Muslims, Sky News reported. (...)
We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a nation of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that it is clearer than ever that you, white America, will always struggle to understand us.
Like you, we don’t all think the same, feel the same, love, learn, live or even (...)
Three young African American women started a blog in 2013 entitled “Black Lives Matter” in the wake of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a racist vigilante backed by the police, in the murder of Travon Martin. Martin, an unarmed Black youth, was walking home from a store when Zimmerman shot him (...)
FIVE YEARS INTO her 35-year military prison sentence, Chelsea Manning was threatened with indefinite solitary confinement — a form of torture as identified by international human rights organizations. However the August 18th closed disciplinary hearing, after convicting her on four counts, did (...)
RASMEA ODEH, A Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader who turns 68 in May and has lived in the United States for the past 20 years, faces 18 months in federal prison and deportation, following her March 12 sentencing in Detroit for “unlawful procurement of naturalization.”
Odeh was (...)
JAMES KILGORE IS is a longtime activist, writer and researcher. He currently lives in Urbana, Illinois, where has been involved in local movements to pass a Ban the Box initiative (taking questions about criminal background off employment applications) and opposing the building of a new county (...)
A month after her conviction and imprisonment for “unlawful procurement of naturalization,” Rasmea Odeh’s release on $50,000 cash bond was secured on December 11, 2014.
Observers and supporters of the 67-year-old Palestinian community leader were stunned immediately after a federal jury in (...)
Two current high-profile stories—police killings of Black people and the secret torture prisons run by the U.S. military and CIA in the “war on terror”— might seem separate and distinct. In truth, the path between them is short. A system that tortures prisoners abroad will murder people at home, (...)
People across New York City and around the country erupted in shock and anger December 3 when another grand jury decided not to indict another killer cop for yet another murder of an unarmed African American man.
In August, officer Daniel Pantaleo strangled Eric Garner to death, using a banned (...)
“Nearly two times a week in the United States a white police officer kills a Black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.
“While the racial analysis is striking, the database it’s based on has been long (...)
ON JULY 29, after national and international outcry against shutting off the water of thousands of Detroit residents, governor-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr turned over management of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department to mayor Mike Duggan. Under legislation that has been overturned (...)
The “botched” execution of Clayton Lockett should shatter the illusion that lethal injection is neither cruel nor unusual.
The killing of Clayton Lockett by the State of Oklahoma has been widely characterized as a “botched execution.” The truth of this description is, on one level, self-evident. (...)
Last week, Alexis Tsipras (SYRIZA’s chair) gave a talk at the Kreisky Forum, in Vienna. In it he addressed Austrian social democrats, in Bruno Kreisky’s old residence. I post Tsipras’ speech here for two reasons: First, because it sends an interesting message to central European social democrats (...)
For years I have written about mass incarceration, while staying mute about drones and other injustices. It is time to connect the dots.
For the past several years, I have spent virtually all my working hours writing about or speaking about the immorality, cruelty, racism and insanity of our (...)
While the mainstream press has focused on the decision of the judge in the military courts-martial of Bradley Manning to find him not guilty of aiding the enemy, her conviction of him for 20 other charges amounts to a full-scale assault on democratic rights. The courts-martial now enters the (...)
When the “not guilty” verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman for murdering Trayvon Martin was announced late July 13, spontaneous demonstrations of protest were held in cities and towns across the country, and have continued in the days since.
The day after the verdict, there was a big march (...)
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Last Saturday, a jury declared George Zimmerman not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin. Thousands of people in cities across the (...)
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