Daily Archives: November 8, 2019

2019-11-08: News Headlines

RT (2019-11-08). 'Nazi turtles' with painted-on swastikas evade capture in Washington state park (PHOTOS). rt.com Police in Washington state are struggling to apprehend a pair of turtles spotted with swastikas painted on their shells in a bizarre act of vandalism. Despite their slow-moving reputation, the fugitive reptiles remain at large. | Startled visitors at Gene Coulon Park in the town of Renton notified police of the swastika-sporting reptiles earlier this week, but the Renton Police Department says it has been unable to catch the critters and wipe off the offensive symbols. | "Renton Police were made aware that two of our Gene Coulon turtles had some markings painted on their shells," the department said in a Faceb…

Paul Street (2019-11-08). The Real Constitutional Crisis: The Constitution. counterpunch.org It has been amusing to hear liberal commentators say over and over that the malignant racist rogue president Donald "I am the World's Greatest Person" Trump is precisely the sort of terrible tyrant the United States Founding Fathers had in mind when they devised their "genius" Constitutional system of "checks and balances." The Tiny-fingered, Tangerine-Tinted, More

Morning Star (2019-11-08). Lula freed after surprise Brazilian Supreme Court ruling. peoplesworld.org UPDATE: This story was first published just hours before former Brazilian President Lula was freed from prison. It has been updated to reflect this breaking news. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was released from prison today after a key Supreme Court ruling. The court ruled by six judges to five on Thursday …

Andrew Levine (2019-11-08). What Rises to the Level of Impeachability? counterpunch.org What is impeachable is whatever the House and Senate say is impeachable. According to any remotely plausible reading of a Constitution that all sides claim to regard as the supreme authority on the matter, there is no principled way to gainsay their judgment; they are, for all practical purposes, more infallible than the Pope. More

Jordan Smith (2019-11-08). Texas Prepares to Execute Rodney Reed Amid a Flood of New Evidence Pointing to His Innocence. theintercept.com Deke Pierce was wearing civilian clothes as he took to the lectern in a narrow press room inside the Texas Capitol in Austin last month, but it was still obvious that he was a cop. He stood with his feet wide and his arms slightly away from his body, a stance molded by years in a uniform encumbered by heavy gear. He was there to make an extraordinary announcement: He and 12 other members of law enforcement with more than 250 years of combined experience had filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of a Texas death row prisoner named Rodney Reed, slated for execution on November 20.

Staff (2019-11-08). Black Lawmakers Organize First-Ever Presidential Environmental Justice Forum. truthout.org The first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice takes place tonight in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where six presidential candidates will take to the stage at South Carolina State University. African-American communities and people of color on the frontlines in South Carolina have been fighting for justice in the face of extreme environmental racism for years. We host a roundtable with local leaders and environmental justice advocates to talk about the significance of the event, the i…

Staff (2019-11-08). The White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight. truthdig.com Formed in the aftermath of the "Unite the Right" rally, Patriot Front has emerged as the foremost network for a nascent American fascism.

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-08). Israel's Supreme Court — Upholding "Targeted Assassinations" and Torture. globalresearch.ca Time and again, Israel's high court upholds human and civil rights abuses committed by the state. | In 2006, the court upheld its targeted assassinations policy, claiming they're OK when no other choices exist to protect against dangers to national security …

No Nukes Action (2019-11-08). Screening of "Korean Schools in Japan 100 years of struggle against discrimination" indybay.org Berkeley Central Public Library, 3rd-Floor Meeting Room 2090 Kittridge St., Berkeley, CA 94704…

WSWS (2019-11-08). Jojo Rabbit: A misguided comedy about Nazis. wsws.org Jojo Rabbit is a would-be satirical comedy about Nazi Germany. Set in 1957, Motherless Brooklyn follows a gumshoe protagonist with Tourette syndrome on the trail of crimes that lead directly to New York's City Hall.

teleSUR (2019-11-08). Brazil: Lula's Defense Submits Request for Immediate Release. telesurenglish.net Brazil's former president Lula da Silva's lawyers on Friday morning filed in court a request for his inmediate release based on the decision adopted by the Supreme Court (STF) on Thursday. | RELATED: | Court Ends Early Prison Rule, Decision Could Free Lula | The Workers' Party leader, who has remained a political prisoner for one year and seven month…

teleSUR (2019-11-08). Lula is Free. telesurenglish.net Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was released on Friday, one day after Brazil's Supreme Court decided to end the mandatory imprisonment of convicted criminals after they lose their first appeal. | RELATED: | Brazil Court Ends Early Prison Rule, Decision Could Free Lula | Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva thanked on Friday all the peo…

WSWS (2019-11-08). Spanish election candidates denounce socialism, back repression in TV debate. wsws.org As Podemos and the social democrats back austerity, nationalism and militarism, the ruling class is creating the conditions for the fascistic Vox party to rise rapidly.

Julia Conley, staff writer (2019-11-08). #HereToStay: Student Walkouts Across US to Demand Supreme Court Defend DACA. commondreams.org Days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the first oral arguments regarding President Donald Trump's decision to rescind working permits for undocumented young people, thousands of high school and college students staged walkouts Friday to declare that DACA recipients are "here to stay." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Staff (2019-11-08). "We Can't Afford to Wait for the DNC": Why Black Lawmakers Organized an Environmental Justice Forum. democracynow.org The first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice takes place tonight in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where six presidential candidates will take to the stage at South Carolina State University. African-American communities and people of color on the frontlines in South Carolina have been fighting for justice in the face of extreme environmental racism for years. We host a roundtable with local leaders and environmental justice advocates to talk about the significance of the event, the issues their communities face and the 2020 candidates' platforms on environmental justice. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, president o…

Jason Hickel (2019-11-07). Apartheid in the global governance system. mronline.org In my research I have argued that rising global inequality is driven in large part by power imbalances in the global economy, in that rich countries have disproportionate influence when it comes to setting the rules of international trade and finance. | Source

Dorothee Benz (2019-11-07). Nazi-normalizing barf journalism: A brief history. mronline.org The article was met with howls of protest across Twitter, but among the many apt responses, Bess Kalb's description (11/25/17) captured my heart and gave me the single most useful phrase of the Trump era: "Nazi-normalizing barf journalism." | Source

Kiki Monifa (2019-11-07). The Reality of Everyday Racism. progressive.org For many black people, the most surprising thing about racism is that anyone is surprised it.

United Nations (2019-11-07). Antisemitism, intolerance, can be unlearned, Guterres tells New York commemoration. un.org Since nobody is born to hate, intolerance can be prevented and unlearned, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday, in a speech underlining his continued fight to stamp out antisemitism, racism and other forms of hatred.

Dov Khenin (2019-11-07). Protests Against Israel's Nation-State Law Proved a More Just State Is Possible. thenation.com Protests Against Israel's Nation-State Law Proved a More Just State Is Possible…

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-07). Anti-Trump Impeachment Scam Ignores What US Military Aid to Ukraine Goes For. globalresearch.ca Ukraine is a US client state, established by the Obama regime's 2014 coup — replacing democratic governance with a government integrated by Nazi elements. . | The US FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes $250 million in military aid …

The Canary (2019-11-07). Train companies to miss accessibility deadline. thecanary.co About 800 train carriages on Britain's railways fail to meet accessibility standards coming into force next year, according to the government. | At least eight rail companies are seeking permission from the Department for Transport (DfT) to continue running non-compliant trains from 1 January. | Some have blamed delays in the arrival of new or refurbished rolling stock. | It they fail to reach an agreement with the DfT then trains will be taken out of use, resulting in services being cancelled. | Legislation for accessibility of mainline trains dates back to 1998, with the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 stati…

IMEMC & Agencies (2019-11-07). Israel Approves Jerusalem Cable Car Plan. imemc.org Mustafa Abu Sneineh & Sondus Ewies — Middle East Eye Residents and archaeologists decry plan, saying it will promote illegal settlement and ruin the Old City. The skyline of Jerusalem's ancient Old City is set to be altered dramatically by a "racist" cable car that critics say would blight the …

Hannah Gais (2019-11-07). White Nationalist Richard Spencer Reportedly Spews Hate on Leaked Audio. splcenter.org A leaked audiotape attributed to white nationalist Richard Spencer depicts him as a suit-and-tie bigot who uses coded language to charm the masses but who deploys slur-laden, racist language with his followers.

teleSUR (2019-11-07). Trump Must Pay $2M for Misusing Namesake Charity: NY Judge. telesurenglish.net A New York state judge on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay US$2 million for misusing his namesake charitable foundation, resulting in funds being used to advance his 2016 presidential campaign. | RELATED: | Isabel Allende: Trump is a 'Fool' for Denying Climate Change | Justice Saliann Scarpulla, of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, directed the payment to eight non-profits, in connection with a lawsuit by the state's attorney general against the president and…

splcenter (2019-11-07). Criminalizing homelessness in the heart of Dixie. splcenter.org Jonathan sleeps under a bridge at night or on a friend's porch. During the day, he holds up a "homeless" sign in the grassy area near a highway exit and asks for money.

WSWS (2019-11-07). Largest Brazilian media group implicates Bolsonaro in death squad execution of Marielle Franco. wsws.org Every faction of the Brazilian political system, from the Army to the pseudo-left, fears that Bolsonaro's austerity measures and fascistic rhetoric may trigger a social explosion.

The Tricontinental (2019-11-06). Dossier 22: Latin America and the Caribbean: between the neoliberal offensive and new resistances. mronline.org Critical thought in our current political conjuncture faces a debate about the characteristics of the neoliberal and neofascist offensive and the challenges that these offensives raise. This debate engages three important dimensions: the character of contemporary capitalism, the new monsters that drive it, and the possibility of necessary alternative futures. | Source

Aaron Maté (2019-11-06). Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel. thegrayzone.com Dr. Gabor Maté, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, offers a personal and historical perspective on anti-Semitism, Zionism, and Israel-Palestine….

Peter Maass (2019-11-06). Why Did Nobel Winner Peter Handke Have a Secret Passport From Milosevic-Era Yugoslavia? theintercept.com The spring of 1999 was a busy time for Peter Handke, the controversial Austrian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last month. | Back then, Handke was already criticized for several books that were regarded as denying the Serb genocide of Muslims in Bosnia. But after the U.S. and its NATO allies began a bombing campaign against Serb targets on March 25, Handke stepped even more deeply into wartime politics by traveling to Belgrade to express his solidarity with the isolated country and its strongman, Slobodan Milosevic. "My place is in Serbia if th…

Staff (2019-11-06). Headlines for November 6, 2019. democracynow.org Democrats Take Virginia Legislature & Beat Trump-Backed Governor in Kentucky, NYC Approves Ranked-Choice Voting; Tucson Voters Reject Sanctuary City Measure, JPMorgan CEO Accuses Warren of "Vilifying" Richest Americans, Sondland Now Says There Was Quid Pro Quo on Ukraine, Scientists: Humanity Risks "Untold Suffering" from Climate Change, Brazilians Protest the Largest Oil Auction in Brazilian History, Activists Arrested After Blockading Port of Vancouver in Pipeline Protest, 9 Members of Mormon Family Murdered in Mexico, Pro-Beijing Lawmaker Stabbed in Hong Kong, Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Expelling…

PACBI (2019-11-05). Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel. bdsmovement.net Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel: Open LetterIn an open letter, Khadamat Rafah, the top Gaza League football team, urges Argentina and Uruguay national teams to cancel "friendly" match in apartheid Tel Aviv. Israel denied Khadamat Rafah permits to travel to the 2019 Palestine Cup, causing the finals…

Hatewatch Staff (2019-11-05). League of the South Resorts to Video Stunts as Membership Declines. splcenter.org The League of the South made a 25-second propaganda video over the weekend at the memorial of a civil rights icon in an apparent attempt to attract members to its neo-Confederate ideology.

Fight Back (2019-11-05). Defend DACA, Stop Trump & other Bigots. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by from the Legalization for All Network. | November 12, 2019 the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral-arguments to determine if the Trump attack on DACA is lawful. Trump filed a lawsuit to rescind DACA in 2017 after Ken Paxton Attorney General of Texas threatened to sue Trump. Paxton began with a coalition of 7 states countering DACA, but the 7 are now 10 — Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Kansas, Mississippi, and Maine. Since then, DACA has been under attack. | Trump and the coalition of 10 states have…

splcenter (2019-11-05). SPLC celebrates 30th anniversary of Civil Rights Memorial. splcenter.org The first African American elected mayor of Montgomery, Alabama — a city known as both the "Cradle of the Confederacy" and the "Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement" — urged those who gathered today to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial to ask themselves how they can make an impact on the lives of others.

Louise Melling (2019-11-05). Trump Wants to Allow Discrimination with Billions of Dollars of Federal Funding. aclu.org Last Friday, the Trump administration announced | an alarming new proposal that would strip away critical protections against discrimination | in grants funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. | Initially, we thought this proposal would serve to fulfill Trump's promise to give taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies a license to discriminate. This proposal does…

Staff (2019-11-04). Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight. democracynow.org Hundreds gathered this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre, when 40 Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five anti-racist activists in a span of 88 seconds. Those killed were members of the Communist Workers' Party. Ten other activists were injured. No one was convicted in the massacre, but a jury did find the Greensboro police liable for cooperating with the Ku Klux Klan in a wrongful death. Local pastors in Greensboro are now calling on the City Council to issue an apology for the events that led to the 1…

PACBI (2019-11-02). Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid. bdsmovement.net Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid: Action AlertUrge Argentina and Uruguay national football teams to stand with Palestinian footballers and cancel the "friendly" match in apartheid Israel. Red Card IsraelNovember 2, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Fight Back (2019-11-02). Condemn mass arrest and Duterte regime's heightened fascist drive. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 2 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the mass arrest of activist workers, peasants, women, and media practitioners over the past few days in Bacolod, Escalante and Manila. Police arrested and detained more than 60 people belonging to various sectoral organizations. More than five children were also accosted. | The CPP condemns the statement issued by Malacañang which makes the patently false claim that the arrested activists in Bacolod City were members of th…

Dorothee Benz (2019-11-01). Nazi-Normalizing Barf Journalism: A Brief History. fair.org by Dorothee Benz The New York Times' portrait ( 11/25/17) of what it called "the Nazi sympathizer next door." | In the beginning was the profile of the Nazi next door, an inexplicable decision by the New York Times ( 11/25/17) to profile a right-wing extremist in the most sympathetic light possible. It was the most outrageous example of an outrageous genre of MSM—and particularly NYT—reporting: the never-ending effort to profile…

Rann Miller (2019-11-01). Long Denied a Voice in Local Schools, Camden Citizens Ready for Historic Vote. progressive.org Past governance has been racist public policy in the form of municipal paternalism.

splcenter (2019-11-01). Civil Rights Memorial commemorates 30 years. splcenter.org Carolyn Wells Gee was in bed watching TV with her younger sister when she heard the shot that killed Medgar Evers.

Hatewatch Staff (2019-10-31). Trump Official Who Once Led Hate Group Resigns Ombudsman Role. splcenter.org Julie Kirchner, a nativist hard-liner with ties to an anti-immigrant hate group, has resigned as ombudsman at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

splcenter (2019-10-31). SPLC and partners sue South Carolina DMV for suspending driver's licenses of people who cannot afford traffic fines. splcenter.org During a traffic stop, Janice Carter learned for the first time that her license had been suspended for unpaid traffic tickets.

splcenter (2019-10-29). 'We Vote! Mississippi' encourages people to vote on Nov. 5. splcenter.org Lindsey Vaughn walked briskly along a curvy, tree-lined street in a quiet neighborhood of modest homes.

splcenter (2019-10-29). Anti-LGBTQ Group's Compound Ordered Sold for $2.8 million. splcenter.org A judge has ordered the remote compound of the anti-LGBTQ group Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps sold for $2.8 million.

splcenter (2019-10-25). Weekend Read: If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't fight so hard to block it. splcenter.org At the intersection of race and politics in the United States lies voter suppression — the array of laws and election practices intended to make it harder for people of color to vote.

Luz Lopez and Laura Rivera (2019-10-25). After another death, will ICE finally atone for its actions? splcenter.org Roylan Hernandez-Diaz, an asylum-seeker from Cuba, was found dead in his cell on Oct. 16 at Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana.

CounterSpin (2019-10-25). Dorothee Benz on LGBTQ Rights, Joe Emersberger on Ecuador Protests. fair.org Media…

Kathryn Casteel (2019-10-23). 'No rehabilitation,' just oppression, behind bars in Alabama. splcenter.org

2019-11-08: Social Media Postees

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Black Lawmakers Organize First-Ever Presidential Environmental Justice Forum
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-08
The first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice takes place tonight in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where six presidential candidates will take to the stage at South Carolina State University. African-American communities and people of color on the frontlines in South Carolina have been fighting for justice in the face of extreme environmental racism for years. We host a roundtable with local leaders and environmental justice advocates to talk about the significance of the event, the i…
truthout.org/video/black-lawmakers-organize-first-ever-presidential-environmental-justice-forum/

The White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-08
Formed in the aftermath of the "Unite the Right" rally, Patriot Front has emerged as the foremost network for a nascent American fascism.
truthdig.com/articles/the-white-supremacist-group-hiding-in-plain-sight/

The Real Constitutional Crisis: The Constitution
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-08
It has been amusing to hear liberal commentators say over and over that the malignant racist rogue president Donald "I am the World's Greatest Person" Trump is precisely the sort of terrible tyrant the United States Founding Fathers had in mind when they devised their "genius" Constitutional system of "checks and balances." The Tiny-fingered, Tangerine-Tinted,…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/the-real-constitutional-crisis-the-constitution/

Israel's Supreme Court — Upholding "Targeted Assassinations" and Torture
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
Time and again, Israel's high court upholds human and civil rights abuses committed by the state. | In 2006, the court upheld its targeted assassinations policy, claiming they're OK when no other choices exist to protect against dangers to national security …
globalresearch.ca/israel-supreme-court-upholding-abuses-human-civil-rights/5694365

Screening of "Korean Schools in Japan 100 years of struggle against discrimination"
No Nukes Action | indybay.org | 2019-11-08
Berkeley Central Public Library, 3rd-Floor Meeting Room 2090 Kittridge St., Berkeley, CA 94704…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/06/18827904.php

Jojo Rabbit: A misguided comedy about Nazis
wsws.org | 2019-11-08
Jojo Rabbit is a would-be satirical comedy about Nazi Germany. Set in 1957, Motherless Brooklyn follows a gumshoe protagonist with Tourette syndrome on the trail of crimes that lead directly to New York's City Hall.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/08/jojo…

'Nazi turtles' with painted-on swastikas evade capture in Washington state park (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2019-11-08
Police in Washington state are struggling to apprehend a pair of turtles spotted with swastikas painted on their shells in a bizarre act of vandalism. Despite their slow-moving reputation, the fugitive reptiles remain at large. | Startled visitors at Gene Coulon Park in the town of Renton notified police of the swastika-sporting reptiles earlier this week, but the Renton Police Department says it has been unable to catch the critters and wipe off the offensive symbols. | "Renton Police were made aware that two of our Gene Coulon turtles had some markings painted on their shells," the department said in a Faceb…
rt.com/usa/472892-nazi-turtles-swastika-shells/

Lula freed after surprise Brazilian Supreme Court ruling
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-08
UPDATE: This story was first published just hours before former Brazilian President Lula was freed from prison. It has been updated to reflect this breaking news. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was released from prison today after a key Supreme Court ruling. The court ruled by six judges to five on Thursday …
peoplesworld.org/article/lula-could-be-freed-after-surprise-brazilian-supreme-court-ruling/

Texas Prepares to Execute Rodney Reed Amid a Flood of New Evidence Pointing to His Innocence
Jordan Smith | theintercept.com | 2019-11-08
Deke Pierce was wearing civilian clothes as he took to the lectern in a narrow press room inside the Texas Capitol in Austin last month, but it was still obvious that he was a cop. He stood with his feet wide and his arms slightly away from his body, a stance molded by years in a uniform encumbered by heavy gear. He was there to make an extraordinary announcement: He and 12 other members of law enforcement with more than 250 years of combined experience had filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of a Texas death row prisoner named Rodney Reed, slated for execution on November 20.
theintercept.com/2019/11/08/rodney-reed-death-row-texas/

What Rises to the Level of Impeachability?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-08
What is impeachable is whatever the House and Senate say is impeachable. According to any remotely plausible reading of a Constitution that all sides claim to regard as the supreme authority on the matter, there is no principled way to gainsay their judgment; they are, for all practical purposes, more infallible than the Pope.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/what-rises-to-the-level-of-impeachability/

Lula is Free
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-08
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was released on Friday, one day after Brazil's Supreme Court decided to end the mandatory imprisonment of convicted criminals after they lose their first appeal. | RELATED: | Brazil Court Ends Early Prison Rule, Decision Could Free Lula | Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva thanked on Friday all the peo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Lula-is-Free-20191108-0009.html

Brazil: Lula's Defense Submits Request for Immediate Release
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-08
Brazil's former president Lula da Silva's lawyers on Friday morning filed in court a request for his inmediate release based on the decision adopted by the Supreme Court (STF) on Thursday. | RELATED: | Court Ends Early Prison Rule, Decision Could Free Lula | The Workers' Party leader, who has remained a political prisoner for one year and seven month…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Lulas-Defense-Submits-Request-for-Immediate-Release-20191108-0006.html

Spanish election candidates denounce socialism, back repression in TV debate
wsws.org | 2019-11-08
As Podemos and the social democrats back austerity, nationalism and militarism, the ruling class is creating the conditions for the fascistic Vox party to rise rapidly.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/08/spai…

#HereToStay: Student Walkouts Across US to Demand Supreme Court Defend DACA
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-08
Days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the first oral arguments regarding President Donald Trump's decision to rescind working permits for undocumented young people, thousands of high school and college students staged walkouts Friday to declare that DACA recipients are "here to stay." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/08/heretostay-student-walkouts-across-us-demand-supreme-court-defend-daca?cd-origin=rss

"We Can't Afford to Wait for the DNC": Why Black Lawmakers Organized an Environmental Justice Forum
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-08
The first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice takes place tonight in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where six presidential candidates will take to the stage at South Carolina State University. African-American communities and people of color on the frontlines in South Carolina have been fighting for justice in the face of extreme environmental racism for years. We host a roundtable with local leaders and environmental justice advocates to talk about the significance of the event, the issues their communities face and the 2020 candidates' platforms on environmental justice. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, president o…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/8/south_car…

Antisemitism, intolerance, can be unlearned, Guterres tells New York commemoration
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-07
Since nobody is born to hate, intolerance can be prevented and unlearned, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday, in a speech underlining his continued fight to stamp out antisemitism, racism and other forms of hatred.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1050911

Protests Against Israel's Nation-State Law Proved a More Just State Is Possible
Dov Khenin | thenation.com | 2019-11-07
Protests Against Israel's Nation-State Law Proved a More Just State Is Possible…
thenation.com/article/israel-palestine-knesset-racism/

The Reality of Everyday Racism
Kiki Monifa | progressive.org | 2019-11-07
For many black people, the most surprising thing about racism is that anyone is surprised it.
progressive.org/dispatches/the-reality-of-everyday-racism-monifa-191107/

Anti-Trump Impeachment Scam Ignores What US Military Aid to Ukraine Goes For
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Ukraine is a US client state, established by the Obama regime's 2014 coup — replacing democratic governance with a government integrated by Nazi elements. . | The US FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes $250 million in military aid …
globalresearch.ca/anti-trump-impeachment-scam-ignores-what-us-military-aid-ukraine-goes/5694243

Apartheid in the global governance system
Jason Hickel | mronline.org | 2019-11-07
In my research I have argued that rising global inequality is driven in large part by power imbalances in the global economy, in that rich countries have disproportionate influence when it comes to setting the rules of international trade and finance. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/07/apartheid-in-the-global-governance-system/

Train companies to miss accessibility deadline
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-07
About 800 train carriages on Britain's railways fail to meet accessibility standards coming into force next year, according to the government. | At least eight rail companies are seeking permission from the Department for Transport (DfT) to continue running non-compliant trains from 1 January. | Some have blamed delays in the arrival of new or refurbished rolling stock. | It they fail to reach an agreement with the DfT then trains will be taken out of use, resulting in services being cancelled. | Legislation for accessibility of mainline trains dates back to 1998, with the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 stati…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/07/train-companies-to-miss-accessibility-deadline/

Nazi-normalizing barf journalism: A brief history
Dorothee Benz | mronline.org | 2019-11-07
The article was met with howls of protest across Twitter, but among the many apt responses, Bess Kalb's description (11/25/17) captured my heart and gave me the single most useful phrase of the Trump era: "Nazi-normalizing barf journalism." | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/07/nazi-normalizing-barf-journalism-a-brief-history/

White Nationalist Richard Spencer Reportedly Spews Hate on Leaked Audio
Hannah Gais | splcenter.org | 2019-11-07
A leaked audiotape attributed to white nationalist Richard Spencer depicts him as a suit-and-tie bigot who uses coded language to charm the masses but who deploys slur-laden, racist language with his followers.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/07/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-reportedly-spews-hate-leaked-audio

Israel Approves Jerusalem Cable Car Plan
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-11-07
Mustafa Abu Sneineh & Sondus Ewies — Middle East Eye Residents and archaeologists decry plan, saying it will promote illegal settlement and ruin the Old City. The skyline of Jerusalem's ancient Old City is set to be altered dramatically by a "racist" cable car that critics say would blight the …
imemc.org/article/israel-approves-jerusalem-cable-car-plan/

Trump Must Pay $2M for Misusing Namesake Charity: NY Judge
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
A New York state judge on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay US$2 million for misusing his namesake charitable foundation, resulting in funds being used to advance his 2016 presidential campaign. | RELATED: | Isabel Allende: Trump is a 'Fool' for Denying Climate Change | Justice Saliann Scarpulla, of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, directed the payment to eight non-profits, in connection with a lawsuit by the state's attorney general against the president and…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Must-Pay-2M-for-Misusing-Namesake-Charity-NY-Judge–20191107-0011.html

Criminalizing homelessness in the heart of Dixie
splcenter.org | 2019-11-07
Jonathan sleeps under a bridge at night or on a friend's porch. During the day, he holds up a "homeless" sign in the grassy area near a highway exit and asks for money.
splcenter.org/news/2019/11/08/criminalizing-homelessness-heart-dixie

Largest Brazilian media group implicates Bolsonaro in death squad execution of Marielle Franco
wsws.org | 2019-11-07
Every faction of the Brazilian political system, from the Army to the pseudo-left, fears that Bolsonaro's austerity measures and fascistic rhetoric may trigger a social explosion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/07/braz…

Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-06
Dr. Gabor Maté, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, offers a personal and historical perspective on anti-Semitism, Zionism, and Israel-Palestine….
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/06/gabor-mate-on-the-misuse-of-anti-semitism-and-why-fewer-jews-identify-with-israel/

Why Did Nobel Winner Peter Handke Have a Secret Passport From Milosevic-Era Yugoslavia?
Peter Maass | theintercept.com | 2019-11-06
The spring of 1999 was a busy time for Peter Handke, the controversial Austrian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last month. | Back then, Handke was already criticized for several books that were regarded as denying the Serb genocide of Muslims in Bosnia. But after the U.S. and its NATO allies began a bombing campaign against Serb targets on March 25, Handke stepped even more deeply into wartime politics by traveling to Belgrade to express his solidarity with the isolated country and its strongman, Slobodan Milosevic. "My place is in Serbia if th…
theintercept.com/2019/11/06/nobel-prize-literature-peter-handke-yugoslavia-passport/

Dossier 22: Latin America and the Caribbean: between the neoliberal offensive and new resistances
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2019-11-06
Critical thought in our current political conjuncture faces a debate about the characteristics of the neoliberal and neofascist offensive and the challenges that these offensives raise. This debate engages three important dimensions: the character of contemporary capitalism, the new monsters that drive it, and the possibility of necessary alternative futures. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/06/dossier-22-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-between-the-neoliberal-offensive-and-new-resistances/

Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-05
Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel: Open LetterIn an open letter, Khadamat Rafah, the top Gaza League football team, urges Argentina and Uruguay national teams to cancel "friendly" match in apartheid Tel Aviv. Israel denied Khadamat Rafah permits to travel to the 2019 Palestine Cup, causing the finals…
bdsmovement.net/news/gaza-championship-football-team-urges-argentina-and-uruguay-national-teams-cancel-friendly

League of the South Resorts to Video Stunts as Membership Declines
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-11-05
The League of the South made a 25-second propaganda video over the weekend at the memorial of a civil rights icon in an apparent attempt to attract members to its neo-Confederate ideology.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/05/league-south-resorts-video-stunts-membership-declines

Defend DACA, Stop Trump & other Bigots
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-05
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by from the Legalization for All Network. | November 12, 2019 the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral-arguments to determine if the Trump attack on DACA is lawful. Trump filed a lawsuit to rescind DACA in 2017 after Ken Paxton Attorney General of Texas threatened to sue Trump. Paxton began with a coalition of 7 states countering DACA, but the 7 are now 10 — Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Kansas, Mississippi, and Maine. Since then, DACA has been under attack. | Trump and the coalition of 10 states have…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/5/defend-d…

SPLC celebrates 30th anniversary of Civil Rights Memorial
splcenter.org | 2019-11-05
The first African American elected mayor of Montgomery, Alabama — a city known as both the "Cradle of the Confederacy" and the "Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement" — urged those who gathered today to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial to ask themselves how they can make an impact on the lives of others.
splcenter.org/news/2019/11/05/splc-celebrates-30th-anniversary-civil-rights-memorial

Trump Wants to Allow Discrimination with Billions of Dollars of Federal Funding
Louise Melling | aclu.org | 2019-11-05
Last Friday, the Trump administration announced | an alarming new proposal that would strip away critical protections against discrimination | in grants funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. | Initially, we thought this proposal would serve to fulfill Trump's promise to give taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies a license to discriminate. This proposal does…
aclu.org/news/lgbt-rights/trump-wants-to-allow-discrimination-with-billions-of-dollars-of-federal-funding

Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-04
Hundreds gathered this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre, when 40 Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five anti-racist activists in a span of 88 seconds. Those killed were members of the Communist Workers' Party. Ten other activists were injured. No one was convicted in the massacre, but a jury did find the Greensboro police liable for cooperating with the Ku Klux Klan in a wrongful death. Local pastors in Greensboro are now calling on the City Council to issue an apology for the events that led to the 1…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/4/greensbor…

Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-02
Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid: Action AlertUrge Argentina and Uruguay national football teams to stand with Palestinian footballers and cancel the "friendly" match in apartheid Israel. Red Card IsraelNovember 2, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
bdsmovement.net/argentina-uruguay

Condemn mass arrest and Duterte regime's heightened fascist drive
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-02
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 2 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the mass arrest of activist workers, peasants, women, and media practitioners over the past few days in Bacolod, Escalante and Manila. Police arrested and detained more than 60 people belonging to various sectoral organizations. More than five children were also accosted. | The CPP condemns the statement issued by Malacañang which makes the patently false claim that the arrested activists in Bacolod City were members of th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/2/condemn-…

Nazi-Normalizing Barf Journalism: A Brief History
Dorothee Benz | fair.org | 2019-11-01
by Dorothee Benz The New York Times' portrait ( 11/25/17) of what it called "the Nazi sympathizer next door." | In the beginning was the profile of the Nazi next door, an inexplicable decision by the New York Times ( 11/25/17) to profile a right-wing extremist in the most sympathetic light possible. It was the most outrageous example of an outrageous genre of MSM–and particularly NYT–reporting: the never-ending effort to profile…
fair.org/home/nazi-normalizing-barf-journalism-a-brief-history/

Long Denied a Voice in Local Schools, Camden Citizens Ready for Historic Vote
Rann Miller | progressive.org | 2019-11-01
Past governance has been racist public policy in the form of municipal paternalism.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/denied-voice-schools-camden-historic-vote-miller-191101/

Civil Rights Memorial commemorates 30 years
splcenter.org | 2019-11-01
Carolyn Wells Gee was in bed watching TV with her younger sister when she heard the shot that killed Medgar Evers.
splcenter.org/news/2019/11/01/civil-rights-memorial-commemorates-30-years

Trump Official Who Once Led Hate Group Resigns Ombudsman Role
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-10-31
Julie Kirchner, a nativist hard-liner with ties to an anti-immigrant hate group, has resigned as ombudsman at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/31/trump-official-who-once-led-hate-group-resigns-ombudsman-role

SPLC and partners sue South Carolina DMV for suspending driver's licenses of people who cannot afford traffic fines
splcenter.org | 2019-10-31
During a traffic stop, Janice Carter learned for the first time that her license had been suspended for unpaid traffic tickets.
splcenter.org/news/2019/10/31/splc-and-partners-sue-south-carolina-dmv-suspending-drivers-licenses-people-who-cannot

'We Vote! Mississippi' encourages people to vote on Nov. 5
splcenter.org | 2019-10-29
Lindsey Vaughn walked briskly along a curvy, tree-lined street in a quiet neighborhood of modest homes.
splcenter.org/news/2019/10/30/we-vote-mississippi-encourages-people-vote-nov-5

Anti-LGBTQ Group's Compound Ordered Sold for $2.8 million
splcenter.org | 2019-10-29
A judge has ordered the remote compound of the anti-LGBTQ group Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps sold for $2.8 million.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/29/anti-lgbtq-groups-compound-ordered-sold-28-million

Weekend Read: If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't fight so hard to block it
splcenter.org | 2019-10-25
At the intersection of race and politics in the United States lies voter suppression — the array of laws and election practices intended to make it harder for people of color to vote.
splcenter.org/news/2019/10/26/weekend-read-if-your-vote-didnt-matter-they-wouldnt-fight-so-hard-block-it

After another death, will ICE finally atone for its actions?
Luz Lopez and Laura Rivera | splcenter.org | 2019-10-25
Roylan Hernandez-Diaz, an asylum-seeker from Cuba, was found dead in his cell on Oct. 16 at Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana.
splcenter.org/news/2019/10/25/after-another-death-will-ice-finally-atone-its-actions

YouTube Yanks Second Red Ice Channel
Hannah Gais | splcenter.org | 2019-10-23
YouTube has taken down a second Red Ice channel after the hate network tried to circumvent the media giant's initial ban.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/23/youtube-yanks-second-red-ice-channel

'No rehabilitation,' just oppression, behind bars in Alabama
Kathryn Casteel | splcenter.org | 2019-10-23
splcenter.org/news/2019/10/29/no-rehabilitation-just-oppression-behind-bars-alabama

YouTube Takes Down Red Ice's Main Channel
Hannah Gais | splcenter.org | 2019-10-18
YouTube removed one of the most prominent video news outlets for white nationalists, Red Ice, from its platform.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/21/youtube-takes-down-red-ices-main-channel