Daily Archives: October 1, 2021

2021-10-01: News Headlines

In Contempt (2021-10-01). In Contempt #9: Running Down the Walls 2021; Eric King Trial, Hunger Strikes in Texas & Oregon. itsgoingdown.org In this month's column, we roundup the recent #ShutEmDown actions, Running Down the Walls events, and offer updates on ongoing hunger strikes, political prisoners like Eric King, resistance at the border as the settler-State brutally cracks down on Haitian migrants, and we also bring you an updated list of political prisoner birthdays and defendants facing…

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-01). Policía reprime a campesinos e indígenas en Paraguay. telesurtv.net Organizaciones campesinas e indígenas afirman que la nueva ley busca criminalizar la lucha por el derecho a la tierra.

Staff (2021-10-01). Protesters demanding US citizenship for ALL illegal aliens shut down rush-hour traffic on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. rt.com San Francisco commuters found themselves stranded on the city's iconic Golden Gate Bridge for over an hour after protesters created a blockade to halt traffic while they agitated for legislation protecting illegal migrants. | The demonstrators

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2021-10-01). Tuesday 11/9: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Steve Wasserman: Not a Nation of Immigrants. indybay.org Online webinar…

scorinoco (2021-09-30). Borders, Blackness, and Empire. orinocotribune.com By Jemima Pierre — Sep 22, 2021 | It took two days. It took two days for the United States government to deport more than 6,000 asylum seekers to Haiti. Almost 15,000 people, all presumably Haitian, have been encamped on the banks of the Rio Grande River between Del Rio, Texas and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. On September 18, the mainstream media of the US proclaimed a border "crisis" with "Haitian migrants" flooding the border; by September 20, the Biden administration moved to get rid of them, deploying hundreds of Homeland Security agents, supported by both the US Coast Guard and the Department of Defense. "This…

Anonymous669 (2021-09-30). Hezbollah Shot Down Never-Seen-Before Israeli Drone Over South Lebanon (Photos). southfront.org A Hezbollah fighter stands at a watch tower at Juroud Arsal, the Syria-Lebanon border. Photo: REUTERS | On September 30, Hezbollah announced that its fighters had shot down an Israeli drone over its heartland, South Lebanon. | In a statement, Hezbollah said that the drone was targeted with "suitable weapons" while it was flying over Maryamen valley near the town of Yater. | The Lebanese group shared photos of the small drone that was clearly made up of commercially-available parts. The drone is powered by five elec…

sputniknews (2021-09-30). ABC Cuts Obama's Critique of 'Open Borders' From TV Interview, Airs Criticism of GOP Instead. sputniknews.com Over 200,000 encounters were registered at the US southwest border in August alone. This number is expected to rise even further in September as border authorities are battling a dramatic surge in Haitian migrants, who are seeking asylum in the United States.

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-30). Indestructible Brotherhood: Azerbaijan, Turkey continue war games near Armenian border (video). antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijan continues military exercises jointly with Turkey in Nakhchivan Regular tactical and special exercises on combating terrorism were held in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Separate Combined Arms Army, Trend reports via Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. The exercises were observed by the commander of a Separate Combined Arms Army, Colonel-General Kerem Mustafayev and representatives of the Turkish …

Ann Brown (2021-09-30). Louisville Council Votes To Support Federal Reparations Study. moguldom.com Louisville, Kentucky — home of the late Breonna Taylor, an emergency room technician who died in a hail of gunfire during a botched police raid — has joined a list of cities moving forward to support reparations for the Black descendants of American slaves. The Louisville Metro Council doesn't plan to set aside money for …

Jesse Jackson (2021-09-30). The US Needs a Deep Reassessment of Its Immigration Policies. zcomm.org The U.S. needs to make its asylum policy clear. It needs to define who it will allow to seek asylum and apply that standard without discrimination…

Thomas Knapp (2021-09-30). "Language" Arguments Against Immigration Freedom are a Tower of Babble. counterpunch.org When debating immigration policy with people who have deluded themselves into believing that it's any of their business where other people choose to live or work, I run into a lot of bad arguments. Of all those arguments, probably the silliest is "but they don't speak English." The simplest, and most appropriate response to that

The Associated Press (2021-09-30). New Biden Rules Would Limit Arrest, Deportation of Migrants. latinorebels.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing bipartisan criticism over its approach to immigration, the Biden administration on Thursday announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-09-30). México dará refugio a 13 mil migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net La mayoría de migrantes haitianos que llegaron a México provenía de Chile y Brasil.

sputniknews (2021-09-30). Biden Administration to Issue New Memo to Terminate Trump-Era Remain in Mexico Policy. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release it will issue a new memorandum to terminate the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols after a Texas judge ordered the federal government to reinstate the rule, which required asylum-seeking migrants to stay in Mexico while awaiting court proceedings.

Ashley Curtin (2021-09-30). Biden administration reverses rule that gutted protections for migratory birds. nationofchange.org The "now-defunct rule" will continue to protect birds from incidental take and other activities specifically intended to kill birds.

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