Photo: Abolitionist Law Center
Former Black Panther Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Freed From Prison After 49 Years Truthout
David Gilbert Granted Parole After 40 Years In Prison KPIX
A Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks to Have Her Record Cleared NYTimes
Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court system is overdue.
Kyle Rittenhouse judge Bruce Schroeder says men shot are ‘rioters,’ ‘looters,’ but not ‘victims’ Washington Post
Puerto Rican Electrical Workers Union Fights Privatization of Island’s Grid Labor Notes
#STRIKETOBER!
Workers Are Furious. Their Unions Are Scrambling to Catch Up Time
McDonald’s Workers Join ‘Striketober’ and Walk Out Over Sexual Harassment Common Dreams
Survey Shows Broad Support For Worker Strikes HuffPost
NYC’s food delivery workers are organizing for their lives Peoples Dispatch
Registered nurses at Community First Medical Center reach tentative agreement National Nurses United
SEIU workers at U of R, Strong Hospital, issue picket notice
Bomb cyclone tears through California Cal Matters
Venezuela
South Florida protesters unite to free Alex Saab FightBack! News
Sudan
Black Alliance for Peace & the U.S. Out of Africa Network Stand with the People of Sudan
Deadly US Sanctions Are Exacerbating the Pandemic Globally Margaret Flowers
Biden’s $500m Saudi deal contradicts policy on ‘offensive’ weapons, critics say Guardian
China
U.S. backs Taiwan re-entering United Nations 50 years after expulsion UPI
Taiwan Has No Right to Join United Nations: China VOA
China calls on the US to remove its illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe Global Times
Billions of euros to “innovate” the nuclear NATO Manlio Dinucci
A Global Oil Shortage Is Inevitable OilPrice
France displays Benin’s ‘Abomey Treasures’ for final exhibition ahead of return Washington Post
#COVID19
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 this year could pay thousands in bills Healthcare Finance
Preventing transmission requires air sanitation, which means that everyone would have to address the miserable indoor air quality we have, especially in airtight buildings.
It’s like we are trying to vaccinate ourselves out of cholera, rather than cleaning the water.
— Denise Dewald, MD 🗽 (@denise_dewald) October 19, 2021
The internet utopia that never was Yasha Levine
These are just a few vignettes from a forgotten history of the internet. As retell them, I think its clear why it never lived up to its democratic promise. It wasn’t created for it—it was created to strengthen the power of America’s Cold War bureaucracy.
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