Support Larry Herbert, on hunger strike to oppose the genocide in Palestine
By Veterans for Peace
Support Larry Hebert, VFP member and Senior Airman who took a month’s leave from his duty station in Rota, Spain, to start a “Fast for Gaza” in front of the White House.
Read MoreLawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
By Kim Kelly, In These Times
Ten plaintiffs in a landmark class-action lawsuit are challenging what they and their supporters describe as an unconstitutional forced labor scheme in Alabama’s state prisons. Incarcerated workers save prisons $9+ billion a year in operational costs and earn them $2+ billion in sales of goods and services, while the prisoners make pennies per hour.
Read MoreCANADA – Support regularisation of ALL undocumented migrants
By GWAD & Payday
Ever since the Canadian government promised a programme of regularisation for undocumented migrants in 2021, the movement of migrants and supporters has not stopped to press them to fulfil this promise. “We are close to winning, we need you to join us. Tell the government to “Leave no one behind.”
Read MoreBill to regularize 500,000 migrants in Spain, admitted to Congress with votes of Junts and ERC
By Marti Odriozola i Marcé (El Nacional)
In Spain, following a Popular Legislative Initiative, Congrès has agreed to regularise up to 500,000 undocumented migrants. RegularizacionYa led a campaign that involved 700,000 signatories and 900 organisations supporting the demand for #PapelesParaTodos (Papers for all).
Read MoreI Made 13 Cents an Hour as a Prison Janitor. Here’s Why I Donated My Wages to Gaza Relief
By Hamzah Jihad Furqaani as told to Aala Abdullahi, The Marshall Project
It’s a common misconception that once someone enters jail or prison, they lose their interest in the outside world… For me, at age 56, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Read MoreMore than 10 days of hunger strike at a detention center for migrants in the US
By Carlos Soledad, El Salto
229 immigrants detained inside the Northwest Detention Centre in Tacoma, Washington, continue their hunger strike in response to the death of Trinidadian Charles Leo Daniel for unknown reasons.
Read MoreSupport Hunger Strike at the North West Detention Centre, Tacoma, US
By Global Women Against Deportations & Payday
Please support the hunger strike inside and outside the detention centre, protesting the death of Mr Charles Leo Daniel, in solitary for almost 4 years, and against detention conditions.
Read MoreHelp! Leonard Peltier needs medical transfer
By Leonard Peltier Official Ad Hoc Committee
Imprisoned Indigenous elder Leonard Peltier is in urgent need of medical care. Peltier was falsely convicted and imprisoned and has been kept there as revenge for his community daring to resist. He has withstood decades of torture in US prisons, taking a terrible toll on him physically.
Read MoreAaron Bushnell was my friend. May he never be forgotten
By Levi Pierpont, conscientious objector
Aaron is by no means the only United States military member who has felt complicit in the military’s violence, powerless to change anything, and stuck waiting until the end of a four- or six-year contract. There are thousands of military members similarly distraught, having thoughts of taking extreme actions to escape something that feels inescapable.
Read MoreRelease Tal Mitnick! Our letter to the Israeli Defence minister
By Payday
Tal Mitnick has been imprisoned for his refusal to participate in genocide against the Palestinian people. We therefore urge you to release Mr Mitnick, recognise his conscientious objection and stop punishing him for refusing to join the IDF.
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