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Two Years After Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, What's Changed Inside
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t r u t h o u t | 07.08
Two Years After Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, What's Changed for People Inside=
the Prison?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31778-two-years-after-pelican-bay-hunger=
-strike-what-s-changed-for-people-inside-the-prison
Victoria Law, Truthout: People inside the Pelican Bay State Prison's securi=
ty housing unit say they remain locked in their cells for at least 23 hours=
per day, despite the supposed implementation of reforms over the past few =
years. After hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013, prisoners and their families =
continue to protest solitary confinement.
One Year After Gaza Massacre, UN Exposes Likely War Crimes
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31766-one-year-after-gaza-massacre-un-ex=
poses-likely-war-crimes
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: The UN Human Rights Council's commissioned report =
on the 2014 conflict in the Gaza Strip shows that Israel, and to a lesser e=
xtent, Palestinian armed groups, likely violated international humanitarian=
legal principles and may have committed war crimes.
=20
The Business Is Death, and Business Is Good
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31763-the-business-is-death-and-busin=
ess-is-good
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Some 25 years after the slaughter of the fir=
st Gulf War, the re-invasion of Iraq, the ultimate creation of ISIS in the =
aftermath and the daily body count that never seems to end, a small group o=
f people you will never meet continue to profit, and one wonders what the n=
ext 25 years will hold.
=20
Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel: Austerity Has Failed
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31767-thomas-piketty-to-angela-merkel=
-austerity-has-failed
Thomas Piketty, Jeffrey Sachs, Heiner Flassbeck, Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren=
-Lewis, The Nation: "Now is the time for a humane rethink of the punitive a=
nd failed program of austerity of recent years and to agree to a major redu=
ction of Greece's debts in conjunction with much needed reforms in Greece,"=
five leading economists write in an open letter to the German chancellor.
The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/31764-the-ghosts-of-stonewal=
l-policing-gender-policing-sex
Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock, Beacon Press: The polici=
ng of queer sexualities has been arguably the most visible and recognized p=
oint of contact between LGBT people and the criminal legal system. In this =
excerpt from Queer (In)Justice, the authors reveal how police continue to f=
acilitate the oppression of queer people.
Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31765-four-ways-alec-tried-to-ruin-your-=
state-this-year
Jessica Mason, PR Watch: The American Legislative Exchange Council has focu=
sed on blocking action on climate change, thwarting local democracy, attack=
ing labor unions and further privatizing public education in the United Sta=
tes. Here are some of the worst policies ALEC legislators tried to push int=
o binding law in state legislatures this year.
KKK Schedules Rally on South Carolina Statehouse Grounds
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31769-kkk-schedules-rally-on-south-carol=
ina-statehouse-grounds
s.e. smith, Care2: Escalating racial tensions in the United States feel lik=
e history repeating itself - right down to church burnings perpetrated by w=
hite supremacist groups in the civil rights era. Now, the KKK is hoping to =
exploit the situation with a rally calculated to escalate the tensions.
Child Labor: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31768-child-labor-a-hidden-atrocity-of-t=
he-syrian-crisis
Kanya D'Almeida, Inter Press Service: Syria's civil war is today one of the=
world's most bitter conflicts, and displaced children are among the most a=
ffected. An estimated 2.7 million Syrian children are currently out of scho=
ol, and many are becoming the sole breadwinners for their families.
New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31770-new-internet-censorship-law-cou=
ld-be-coming-to-south-africa
Jeremy Malcolm, Electronic Frontier Foundation: South Africa is one of Afri=
ca's largest and fastest growing economies, and for it to adopt such an ext=
reme preemptive internet censorship regulation would be a serious setback f=
or the country's burgeoning online industry, as well as a serious blow to h=
uman rights.
US Still Won't Confirm Israeli Nukes
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31774-us-still-won-t-confirm-israeli-=
nukes
Sam Husseini, Consortium News: Among the more absurd aspects of US foreign =
policy is the persistent refusal to confirm that Israel has a nuclear arsen=
al, even as US officials threaten and even attack other countries for alleg=
edly harboring the intent to build a single bomb.
=20
The End of Encryption? NSA and FBI Seek New Backdoors
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31779-the-end-of-encryption-nsa-and-fbi-=
seek-new-backdoors-against-advice-from-leading-security-experts
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonz=C3=A1lez, Democracy Now!: While US and UK intelli=
gence agencies push for "exceptional access" to encrypted communications, t=
he world's preeminent cryptographers, computer scientists and security spec=
ialists argue that such access would endanger all confidential data, as wel=
l as broader communications infrastructure.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Santa Cruz County Won't Do Business With Big Banks That Act Like Crooks
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/santa-cruz-county-won-t-do-bu=
siness-with-big-banks-that-act-like-crooks
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervis=
ors is hopefully setting a precedent by hitting banks that engage in risky =
and harmful activity right in the pocketbook.
Where Did the President of a Racist Organization Get Money to Donate to Rep=
ublicans?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/where-did-the-president-of-a-=
racist-organization-get-money-to-donate-to-republicans
New York City to End Bail for Nonviolent Crimes
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/13db62fb0947428499cf007a16c3cc06/apnewsbreak=
-nyc-eliminate-bail-non-violent-suspects
Nationwide Protests Call for Immediate Ban on Oil Bomb Trains
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/nationwide-protests-call-for-=
immediate-ban-on-oil-bomb-trains
Is Bernie Sanders Really a Socialist? Or Just Redefining Socialism for the =
US?
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/democratic-candidate-bernie-=
sanders-socialist
Why Dylann Roof's Racism Will Only Be Nurtured in Prison
Read the Article at The Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/08/why-dylann-roof-s-racism-will=
-only-be-nurtured-in-prison
Baltimore Restaurant Shuts Down for Five Days to Feed the Homeless Free Foo=
d
Read the Article at True Activist
http://www.trueactivist.com/baltimore-restaurant-shuts-down-for-5-days-to-f=
eed-the-homeless-free-food/
Waiting to Die in Prison - for Selling a Couple of Bags of Pot
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/life-sentence-marijuana-pot-pri=
son-commuted
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors is hopefully setting a precedent by hitting banks that engage in risky and harmful activity right in the pocketbook.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SGpL2hgNIfndaNQv5qBGTYeET75e0Sxg"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>New York City to End Bail for Nonviolent Crimes</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Is Bernie Sanders Really a Socialist? Or Just Redefining Socialism for the US?</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Why Dylann Roof's Racism Will Only Be Nurtured in Prison</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Baltimore Restaurant Shuts Down for Five Days to Feed the Homeless Free Food</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Waiting to Die in Prison - for Selling a Couple of Bags of Pot</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Victoria Law, Truthout:</strong> People inside the Pelican Bay State Prison's security housing unit say they remain locked in their cells for at least 23 hours per day, despite the supposed implementation of reforms over the past few years. After hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013, prisoners and their families continue to protest solitary confinement.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tdOibJLW%2B%2BNlj1A5%2FTOge4eET75e0Sxg"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0wSXFqaWOaTnmnJrPYl8eoJiHQ8q9KAV"><strong>One Year After Gaza Massacre, UN Exposes Likely War Crimes</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Marjorie Cohn, Truthout:</strong> The UN Human Rights Council's commissioned report on the 2014 conflict in the Gaza Strip shows that Israel, and to a lesser extent, Palestinian armed groups, likely violated international humanitarian legal principles and may have committed war crimes.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HbrdqWZSNm6XYcpnTTr1Wy6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=v73cdvJpjJjjPetjaJPGQC6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>The Business Is Death, and Business Is Good</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> Some 25 years after the slaughter of the first Gulf War, the re-invasion of Iraq, the ultimate creation of ISIS in the aftermath and the daily body count that never seems to end, a small group of people you will never meet continue to profit, and one wonders what the next 25 years will hold.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VzlF%2FGlT72hO2qGujTMizy6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9ze9QN%2BVtSBfhKGiXhyWcC6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel: Austerity Has Failed</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Thomas Piketty, Jeffrey Sachs, Heiner Flassbeck, Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren-Lewis, The Nation:</strong> "Now is the time for a humane rethink of the punitive and failed program of austerity of recent years and to agree to a major reduction of Greece's debts in conjunction with much needed reforms in Greece," five leading economists write in an open letter to the German chancellor.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cyovM3NTg3jOZNeLk7Dn1i6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cyovM3NTg3in2koLvDQzbi6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock, Beacon Press:</strong> The policing of queer sexualities has been arguably the most visible and recognized point of contact between LGBT people and the criminal legal system. In this excerpt from <i>Queer (In)Justice</i>, the authors reveal how police continue to facilitate the oppression of queer people.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L0yCQKb6CkYZ0kFlLT1cVi6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Read the Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Xuw%2F5Sll8eNddXve2biXei6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jessica Mason, PR Watch:</strong> The American Legislative Exchange Council has focused on blocking action on climate change, thwarting local democracy, attacking labor unions and further privatizing public education in the United States. Here are some of the worst policies ALEC legislators tried to push into binding law in state legislatures this year.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ITgfy9uGtlKEbgxGmBFK1S6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>KKK Schedules Rally on South Carolina Statehouse Grounds</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>s.e. smith, Care2:</strong> Escalating racial tensions in the United States feel like history repeating itself - right down to church burnings perpetrated by white supremacist groups in the civil rights era. Now, the KKK is hoping to exploit the situation with a rally calculated to escalate the tensions.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2B%2F%2Bn%2Bb%2BKIRyq9N5ZKAbNGIeET75e0Sxg"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H7XUaUbk%2FBo8MYlziDTjSS6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Child Labor: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kanya D'Almeida, Inter Press Service:</strong> Syria's civil war is today one of the world's most bitter conflicts, and displaced children are among the most affected. An estimated 2.7 million Syrian children are currently out of school, and many are becoming the sole breadwinners for their families.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Zy3P8q76ZVfyjMgOlVUH4C6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UCuX0dWavBwzbNOtPCj9Yi6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jeremy Malcolm, Electronic Frontier Foundation:</strong> South Africa is one of Africa's largest and fastest growing economies, and for it to adopt such an extreme preemptive internet censorship regulation would be a serious setback for the country’s burgeoning online industry, as well as a serious blow to human rights.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=87ufCJ9%2BI5jR%2F9a1hJRXDC6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xCbIdqP4WyH4mhrJot%2BP6C6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>US Still Won't Confirm Israeli Nukes</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Sam Husseini, Consortium News:</strong> Among the more absurd aspects of US foreign policy is the persistent refusal to confirm that Israel has a nuclear arsenal, even as US officials threaten and even attack other countries for allegedly harboring the intent to build a single bomb.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lsHmXO8X0o4ncz9T4IA%2Fuy6yaj0JhQG7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!:</strong> While US and UK intelligence agencies push for "exceptional access" to encrypted communications, the world's preeminent cryptographers, computer scientists and security specialists argue that such access would endanger all confidential data, as well as broader communications infrastructure.</p>
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