Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Proposed Texas bills would undermine voting rights for millions

 

at 3/30/23 9:08pm

The most alarming of these bills, SB 2, would increase the charge of illegal voting from a Class A Misdemeanor to a second-degree felony, placing it on equal footing with manslaughter, aggravated assault and robbery.

[Category: Analysis, elections, texas, voting rights]

— In Memoriam: Melvin “Mel” King, Boston giant and committed fighter for Black liberation

 

at 3/29/23 8:39pm

After decades of commitment to the cause of Black liberation and resident-led community development, beloved Boston giant and the city’s first Black mayoral candidate, Melvin “Mel” King, has died at the age of 94.

[Category: Analysis, In Memoriam, boston, housing, in memoriam]

— Another Latina soldier dies at Fort Hood after reporting sexual harassment

 

at 3/29/23 8:36pm

While the U.S. Army has stated that Ruiz’s death was a suicide, the victim’s mother questions the claim.

[Category: Analysis, military, texas, women's rights]

— TikTok on trial: The latest front in the U.S. tech war on China

 

at 3/29/23 8:33am

Make no mistake: the TikTok hearings had nothing to do with the baseless threat of Chinese surveillance and everything to do with maintaining the dominance of American capitalism.

[Category: Analysis, China, Features, china, new cold war, tech]

— When killer cops evade accountability, victims’ families find other paths towards justice

 

at 3/28/23 11:25am

On Saturday, a crowd including many who had also lost loved ones to police brutality cheered as the sign marking “John Collado Way” was revealed at the intersection of Dyckman Street and Post Ave. Some had traveled as far as California to attend the ceremony. 

[Category: Militant Journalism, police brutality, new york city]

— Israel protests: “Democracy” in an apartheid regime?

 

at 3/28/23 7:48am

The glaring omission in the demonstrations has been any mention of those who are the primary targets of the new regime - the Palestinian people.

[Category: Analysis, Features, apartheid, Israel, palestine]

— Movement demands justice for Arif Sayed Faisal, killed by cops in Cambridge, Mass.

 

at 3/27/23 9:22pm

Cambridge Police shot and killed Arif Sayed Faisal in broad daylight on Jan. 4 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Almost three months later, city officials still refuse to answer a growing movement's questions or demands for justice. 

[Category: Militant Journalism, anti-racism, boston, cambridge, massachusetts, police brutality]

— Movement demands justice for Arif Sayed Faisal, killed by cops in Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

at 3/27/23 9:22pm

Cambridge Police shot and killed Arif Sayed Faisal in broad daylight on Jan. 4 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Almost three months later, city officials still refuse to answer a growing movement's questions or demands for justice. 

[Category: Militant Journalism, anti-racism, boston, cambridge, massachusetts, police brutality]

— Los Angeles public school workers continue to fight for fair wages in historic 3-day solidarity strike

 

at 3/23/23 6:32am

In a historic show of solidarity, 65,000 public school workers from Service Employees International Union Local 99 and United Teachers Los Angeles are striking for three days, from March 21-23. Local 99 represents cafeteria workers, custodians, bus drivers and many other service professions. The union is currently bargaining with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for a 30% wage increase, more full time positions, equitable access to health care, and more in an effort to provide a livable income and a better work environment.

[Category: Analysis, Features, education, labor, strike]

— Inmates go on hunger strike over conditions at Illinois jail

 

at 3/22/23 8:28pm

Hunger strikers' mothers speak to Liberation News

[Category: Militant Journalism, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, prisoners' rights]

— Indianapolis police killings underscore issues with mental health emergency response in United States

 

at 3/22/23 8:26pm

To meaningfully address the cascading mental health crises created by our society, a shift away from impatient, deadly police is desperately needed.

[Category: Analysis, Indianapolis, police brutality]

— Thousands march in Washington, D.C., to launch new movement against U.S. empire

 

at 3/20/23 7:10pm

Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House.

[Category: Features, Militant Journalism, anti-imperialism, anti-war]

— Despite record rainfall, California drought is far from over

 

at 3/19/23 10:32pm

You may get the impression from corporate media headlines that the decades-long megadrought in California is over. Unfortunately those headlines are misleading. 

[Category: Analysis, Climate Crisis, california, climate change, environment]

— Revolutionary socialist Chicago City Council candidate makes waves in election

 

at 3/19/23 10:21pm

Rather than running for her own personal political career, Santoyo made it clear from the start that she aimed to build a movement that demands justice and dignity for the working class.

[Category: Militant Journalism, chicago, elections, votepsl]

— The continued silent invasion of Haiti

 

at 3/19/23 9:51am

In coordination with Washington, Canada has begun a “significant military deployment in Haiti."

[Category: Analysis, anti-imperialism, anti-war, haiti]

— New attacks on trans rights, as struggle to protect trans youth broadens

 

at 3/18/23 9:23am

A far-right media figure has openly called for trans people to be “eradicated.”

[Category: Militant Journalism, trans rights, Trans rights]

— Texas man sues ex-wife’s friends for helping her to obtain an abortion

 

at 3/15/23 10:28pm

Under Texas’ extreme and layered anti-abortion laws, domestic abusers, anti-abortion activists and even complete strangers have a full legal arsenal at their disposal to attack abortion rights.

[Category: Analysis, abortion rights, texas, women's rights]

— Black South Carolina county has highest diabetic amputation rate in Deep South

 

at 3/15/23 8:22am

Zip-codes with high percent of poor, Black residents had the highest rate of diabetes-related amputations.

[Category: Analysis, health care, racism]

— Silicon Valley Bank: Canary in the coal mine? The banking crisis is a capitalist crisis

 

at 3/13/23 10:44pm

No matter what federal government says, this is a bailout and taxpayers are on the hook. 

[Category: Analysis, capitalism, economy, silicon valley bank]

— Family and community continue to demand justice for Matthew Felix, three years after murder

 

at 3/13/23 7:48am

"These past three years have definitely been the most difficult three years of me and my family's lives," Samantha Felix, Matthew Felix’s sister, told Liberation News, "And the fight for justice has not been linear, sometimes we are out fighting for him and it feels like no one is listening and that no one cares. But then there are days when I remember how many people showed up for Matthew."

[Category: Militant Journalism, new york city, police brutality]

— Private train companies threaten lives and livelihoods of working people

 

at 3/11/23 3:08pm

Train derailments are common, but they are not inevitable except under the profits-over-people system of capitalis.

[Category: Analysis, environment, ohio]

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