Harms Committed

"Keir Starmer's claim that he is only letting Donald Trump use British bases for 'defensive' airstrikes on Iran is a 'fiction', a former Royal Air Force officer has told Declassified."
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Title: Starmer's 'defensive strikes' on Iran are a 'fiction', air force veteran warns
Author: Phil Miller
Publication: Declassified UK
April 7, 2026
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#UK #USA #Iran #Military #Weapons
https://www.declassifieduk.org/starmers-defensive-strikes-on-iran-are-a-fiction-air-force-veteran-warns/

"Land means everything to me."

"We bitterly endured all of this so as not to lose our land."

"Clutching to land is like clutching to life itself — and giving it up is like ripping the soul from the body."
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Title: Israel Has Buried Gaza in Rubble, But Our Love for the Land Will Always Survive
Author: Hend Salama Abo Helow
Publication: Truthout
April 7, 2026
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#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #DeathPenalty #Protest
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-has-buried-gaza-in-rubble-but-our-love-for-the-land-will-always-survive/

"People don't realize this isn't a done deal."

"It doesn't matter if they award the construction contract. They cannot build until they have the land."

"So don't give it to them. Don't make it easy for them. Fight for your land."
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Title: DHS plans to build a border wall in the Rio Grande are 'a matter of life and death'
Author: ray levy uyeda
Publication: Prism
April 8, 2026
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#Texas #USA #Water #Climate #Immigration #Border
https://prismreports.org/2026/04/08/dhs-rio-grande-border-wall/

"[B]rutally demoralizing."

"[E]scorted to the solitary confinement unit where they work as custodians."

"[P]rison administration tried to force work crews to clean blood and bodily fluids without compensation."
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Title: They Had to Clean Solitary Cells. What They Saw Forced Them to Quit.
Author: Antoine E. Davis
Publication: Solitary Watch
April 7, 2026
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#Washington #USA #Labour #Incarceration #Solitary #Suicide #Torture #SexualViolence
https://solitarywatch.org/2026/04/07/they-had-to-clean-solitary-cells-what-they-saw-forced-them-to-quit/

"[M]ajor announcements that will militarize and mine the Arctic."

"Carney's costly, carbon-intensive plan will degrade the oceanic ecosystem, accelerate climate breakdown, and increase conflict."
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Title: Carney's plan to militarize the melting Arctic threatens peace at the top of the world
Author: Tamara Lorincz
Publication: Ricochet Media
April 8, 2026
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#NorthwestTerritories #Nunavut #Yukon #Canada #Climate #Mining #Military
https://ricochet.media/climate/carneys-plan-to-militarize-the-melting-arctic-threatens-peace-at-the-top-of-the-world/

"Arizona is just the alarm bell."

"This is likely going to happen in every state."

"The drop represents nearly 47% of the state's participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children."
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Title: "The Alarm Bell": Arizona's Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation
Author: Nicole Santa Cruz
Publication: ProPublica
April 8, 2026
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#Arizona #USA #Labour #Food
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-snap-benefits-trump-legislation

"No first responders working in southern Lebanon are under any illusions as to the risks associated with their work."

"When you start working, you forget yourself. Totally. You start thinking: Does this casualty have children? Is this martyr a child?"
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Authors: Jahan de Bellaigue & Pau Alarcón
Publication: New Lines Magazine
April 8, 2026
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#Lebanon #Israel #Healthcare #Military
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/inside-a-volunteer-paramedic-unit-risking-everything-in-southern-lebanon/

"For over a week, Malik Muhammed effectively vanished inside the prison system."

"No answers. No confirmation. Just a string of contradictions."

"Remove them. Isolate them. Disrupt their support. Increase pressure."
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Title: From "Confidential Location" to South Carolina: The Escalating Isolation of Malik Muhammed
Author: Alissa Azar
Publication: We Will Free Us
April 7, 2026
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#Oregon #SouthCarolina #USA #Incarceration
https://www.wewillfreeus.org/from-confidential-location-to-south-carolina-the-escalating-isolation-of-malik-muhammad/

"Republican-led state legislatures are passing a slate of laws that effectively shield oil and gas companies from legal claims that they are responsible for the destruction and mounting toll caused by climate change."

"This is economic civil war."
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Author: Abrahm Lustgarten
Publication: ProPublica
April 7, 2026
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#USA #FossilFuels #Nonprofit #Climate #Courts
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity

Salah Sarsour "is the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee."

"We consider him a political prisoner, targeted [..] for speaking out against the injustices that have taken place in Gaza."
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Title: Supporters say Wisconsin mosque president was detained over Israel criticism
Author: Michael Arria
Publication: Mondoweiss
April 7, 2026
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#Wisconsin #USA #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Incarceration #Genocide #Torture
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/04/supporters-say-wisconsin-mosque-president-was-detained-over-israel-criticism/

"In the three years since Maryland legalized recreational cannabis, Baltimore has received more than $35 million in tax revenue to reinvest in communities devastated by the War on Drugs."

"[N]ot a single dollar has reached the people it was meant to help."
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Author: Jaisal Noor
Publication: Baltimore Beat
April 7, 2026
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#Maryland #USA #Policing #Drugs #Taxes
https://baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-has-more-than-35-million-in-cannabis-reparations-money-but-none-of-it-has-reached-residents/

University College Dublin "has a selective approach to 'academic freedom.'"

"[S]upport Israel or the arms industry [and] enjoy freedom."

"[P]rotest against UCD's partnerships with Israel [and] get disciplined."
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Author: Joshua Lobo
Publication: The Electronic Intifada
March 24, 2026
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#Ireland #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Protest #Education #Genocide
https://electronicintifada.net/content/dublin-denies-freedom-students-protesting-against-genocide/51305

"I decided to join the Handala after trying to move the system from the inside."

"I was contacting the deputy Secretary General to send UN observers."

"It was difficult for me to understand why there was so much lack of courage."
———————————————
Authors: Ramsey Hanhan & Chloé Ludden
Publication: Mondoweiss @mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net
March 24, 2026
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#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Water #Military #Genocide
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/why-i-resigned-from-the-un-to-join-the-gaza-freedom-flotilla/

"Munition remnants pictured at the site of a strike that killed at least 17 people in the town of Tiné, Chad, last week appear to match a weapon previously used by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces."

"'[A]lmost certainly' been re-exported to the group by the UAE."
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Authors: Sebastian Vandermeersch, Trevor Ball, & Carlos Gonzales
Publication: Bellingcat
March 24, 2026
———————————————
#Chad #Sudan #UAE #Military #Weapons
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/24/munition-remnants-pictured-at-site-of-deadly-chad-strike-match-weapon-previously-used-by-sudans-rsf/

"At every level of organizing, and in every role, trans and queer Mainers showed up, a microcosm of trends that seem to hold across the country."

"[T]hose with the most to lose are often the ones risking it all."
———————————————
Author: Evan Urquhart
Publication: Assigned Media
March 24, 2026
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#Maine #USA #MutualAid #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-ice-resistance-lgbtq-queer-portand-lewiston-maine

"Carlos arrived at an [ICE] office in New Mexico in December, believing he was one step closer to reuniting with his children."

"[T]hey stripped off his clothes [..] and chained him by the neck, waist, and legs."

"They tricked me."
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Authors: Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Renuka Rayasam, & Amanda Seitz
Publication: KFF Health News
March 24, 2026
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#NewMexico #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-deportation-immigration-unaccompanied-children-bait-parent-arrests-hhs/

"Over 82,000 civilian structures have been damaged by U.S. and Israeli bombardments."

"62,000 homes, 498 schools, and 281 medical centers, hospitals, and pharmacies."

"[D]irect assaults on the lifelines that save human lives."
———————————————
Author: Sharon Zhang
Publication: Truthout
March 24, 2026
———————————————
#USA #Israel #Iran #Housing #Education #Healthcare #Military
https://truthout.org/articles/us-israeli-attacks-have-damaged-nearly-500-schools-300-health-centers-in-iran/

"[M]uzzling the process."

"Ontario has not been involved in the federal government's regional assessment of the Ring of Fire, withholding scientific data and funding needed to understand the impact of mining development, even as the province ushers it through."
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Authors: Fatima Syed & Carl Meyer
Publication: The Narwhal @thenarwhal@mstdn.ca
March 24, 2026
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#Ontario #Canada #Climate #Mining
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-federal-ring-of-fire-assessment/

"The right-wing media ecosystem that enabled Trump's political ascendancy found, in expatriate Persian-language media, remarkably fertile soil."

"The minimum obligation of those of us outside Iran is to [..] refuse to amplify the war's propaganda."
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Author: Nahid Siamdoust
Publication: New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag@mastodon.world
March 23, 2026
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#Iran #USA #Israel #Media #Protest #Military
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/a-anguished-debate-among-iranians/

"Over 165 schoolgirls buried. 66 schools bombed."

"The capitalist imperialist forces that bomb children abroad are the same ones that starve our children."

"Empire does not stop at the border. It starts at home."
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Author: Ryan S.
Publication: The Kansas City Defender
March 23, 2026
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#Missouri #USA #Iran #Israel #Education #Military
https://kansascitydefender.com/global-briefing/%f0%9f%9a%a8-kill-the-imperialist-lies-the-truth-on-the-u-s-war-against-iran/

"[A]ggressive attacks on the health care system, on ambulances, on health care workers."

"[T]he attacks put a strain on Lebanon's medical infrastructure, similar to how Israel targets Gaza's health care system."
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Title: Health care workers in Lebanon face Israel's illegal attacks
Author: Neha Madhira
Publication: Prism
April 7, 2026
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#Israel #Lebanon #Healthcare #Military
https://prismreports.org/2026/04/07/health-care-workers-lebanon-israel-illegal-attacks/

"Six men began their abuse of young orphans on one coast of Canada, then by a travesty of justice were sent to the opposite side of the country, where they allegedly abused [200] more boys."
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Author: Michael Harris
Publication: The Tyee @thetyee@mstdn.ca
March 23, 2026
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#BritishColumbia #NewfoundlandLabrador #Canada #Housing #Policing #Education #Courts #SexualViolence
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/23/Mount-Cashel-Continuing-Saga-Abuse-Conspiracy/

"Their friend died in front of them."

"Six months later, the five young people, still affected by the events, sued the City of Longueuil and its police department."

"At night, 'he has nightmares where the police show up at his house and kill him.'"
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Authors: Lela Savić & Elsa Iskander
Publication: La Converse
March 23, 2026
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#Quebec #Canada #Policing #Courts
https://www.laconverse.com/en/articles/mort-de-nooran-rezayi---quatre-meres-et-leurs-adolescents-poursuivent-la-ville-de-longueuil-et-son-service-de-police-et-reclament-des-reponses

"Democrats recently touted Pope Leo XIV as a hero for [..] a vaguely positive comment about the right to universal healthcare."

"Trans care, as it far too often is, was completely ignored."

"[G]et angry and, please, stop praising the damn papacy."
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Author: David Forbes
Publication: Trans News Network
March 23, 2026
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#USA #Healthcare #Genocide
https://transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nightmare-the-human-toll-of-the-catholic-church-s-trans-healthcare-ban

"Documentation of births, if it existed at all, was written down in a family Bible."

"That absence of a legal record [..] is now part of a bitter political fight over voter eligibility."

"SAVE America Act, would narrow ballot access, especially for Black communities."
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Author: Brandon Tensley
Publication: Capital B
March 24, 2026
———————————————
#USA #Voting #Identification
https://capitalbnews.org/black-elders-save-america-act-voting/

"[G]rowing up as a hijabi here, you always know you're not fully seen as a Québécois."

"Bill 21 has effectively 'erased' a generation of hijabi educators from Quebec's classrooms."

"Supreme Court hearings this week remain the last hope."
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Author: Lucas-Matthew Marsh
Publication: The Rover
March 23, 2026
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#Quebec #Canada #Apartheid #Education #Courts
https://therover.ca/will-bill-21-erase-a-generation-of-muslim-teachers-from-quebec/

"Arms industry executives have been given direct influence over British university courses."

"BAE Systems, Leonardo, Thales and Rolls-Royce are among the firms who have been invited to sit on at least 53 university advisory committees across the country."
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Title: Arms industry given direct influence over university courses
Author: Martin Williams
Publication: Declassified UK
April 8, 2026
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#UK #Military #Weapons #Education
https://www.declassifieduk.org/arms-industry-given-direct-influence-over-university-courses/

"[A]waiting a court decision that will have serious ramifications for voter rights in Florida."

"[P]laintiffs argue that lawmakers drew districts by linking disparate neighborhoods [..] and treating Latinx voters as though they form a single political bloc."
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Author: Alexandra Martinez
Publication: Prism
March 23, 2026
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#Florida #USA #Voting #Courts
https://prismreports.org/2026/03/23/south-florida-organizers-await-ruling-in-gerrymandering-lawsuit/

Due to an upcoming deadline, Harms Committed will be on a brief hiatus until Saturday, April 4th.

When I return, I'll catch up on everything I've missed to ensure there are no gaps in the archive.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who supports this project!

"In ordinary times, legal visits are essential."

"In times of crisis, they are indispensable."

"Her case is an example of the mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons that has become systematic."
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Author: Janan Abdu
Publication: +972 Magazine
March 23, 2026
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#Israel #Palestine #Incarceration #Apartheid #Food #Healthcare #Surveillance #Torture
https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-woman-israeli-prison/

"[N]ew antifascist consensus."

"What does antifascism look like when the fascists have state power, and when their foot soldiers don't have Patriot Front shields, but [..] qualified immunity?"

"[W]e have power when we choose to act together."
———————————————
Author: Shane Burley @Shane_Burley@journa.host
Publication: In These Times @InTheseTimesMag@flipboard.com
March 23, 2026
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#USA #Protest #MutualAid #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-new-antifascist-consensus-ice-rapid-response-community-defense

"Especially in some of these rural communities, where voter fraud narratives are so ingrained, what if a vigilant poll worker questions you?"

"Anytime you out yourself can be very risky."

"I have to be able to vote to get my rights back."
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Title: A New Law Voids IDs of Transgender Kansans. It Also Threatens Their Voting Access.
Author: Alex Burness
Publication: Bolts
April 7, 2026
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#Kansas #USA #Identification #Voting #Genocide
https://boltsmag.org/kansas-transgender-license-law-also-threatens-voting-rights/

"Canadian unions and workers have nothing to gain from war in the Middle East."

"Their interests lie with workers in Iran and across the world."

"[C]alls for peace, de-escalation and solidarity with workers in Iran need to be paired with action."
———————————————
Author: Adam D.K. King
Publication: The Maple
March 23, 2026
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#Canada #USA #Iran #Israel #Labour #Military
https://www.readthemaple.com/canadas-unions-should-mobilize-against-the-iran-war/

"[O]ver 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide."

"The first two weeks of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran released a deluge of carbon emissions equivalent to the combined yearly climate warming pollution output of the lowest 84 emitters."
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Author: Sharon Zhang
Publication: Truthout
March 23, 2026
———————————————
#Iran #USA #Israel #Climate #Military #FossilFuels
https://truthout.org/articles/2-weeks-of-iran-war-released-more-carbon-emissions-than-84-countries-do-yearly/

"March 21 marked the two-year anniversary of Dexter Reed's death."

"[T]wo uncomfortable realities remain: one, the standardized practice of pretextual traffic stops contributed to Mr. Reed's death; two, pretextual stops are still rampant across Chicago."
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Authors: Olatunji Oboi Reed & Lisa Sharon Harper
Publication: The TRiiBE
March 23, 2026
———————————————
#Illinois #USA #Transportation #Policing
https://thetriibe.com/2026/03/letter-chicago-we-must-end-pretextual-stops/

"In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children."

"[A]verage of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention."
———————————————
Authors: Jeff Ernsthausen, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Mica Rosenberg, & Gabriel Sandoval
Publication: ProPublica
March 23, 2026
———————————————
#USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #DomesticViolence
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids

"Johnson decided to delay a vote on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act."

"If the bill ultimately advances to the House floor, however, some top Democrats [..] are already lobbying colleagues to vote for Trump's request."
———————————————
Author: Matt Sledge
Publication: The Intercept @TheIntercept@flipboard.com
March 23, 2026
———————————————
#USA #Iran #Surveillance #Voting
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/23/trump-domestic-spying-fisa-702-democrats/

"The presence of ICE was certainly not helping anyone, it wasn't speeding up security lines, and at worst it was making people uncomfortable."

"[I]t certainly added to the feeling that everything is on fire."
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Author: Marisa Kabas @marisakabas@journa.host
Publication: The Handbasket
March 23, 2026
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#USA #Transportation #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents-airport-homan-atlanta-houston

"Girls in Afghanistan can't go to school."

"For the family, it was a choice between crushing their two daughters' dreams and staying alive."

"Roughly 2,000 Afghans are crossing back to Afghanistan daily, around 70% of them women and children."
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Author: Arwa Damon
Publication: New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag@mastodon.world
March 23, 2026
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#Afghanistan #Iran #USA #Israel #Military #Education
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/irans-afghan-refugees-flee-homeward/

"You good here."

"In a place where LGBTQ offenders are targeted because of their identity, The Circle protects those in the dorm from uncomfortable conversations or physical altercations."

"It's just a place to sit and talk safely."
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Author: B Speaks
Publication: Assigned Media
March 23, 2026
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#Georgia #USA #Incarceration
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/value-routines-community-prison

"Ending these modern-day witch trials demands repealing laws that criminalize the aftermath of pregnancy, rejecting prenatal personhood as a tool for prosecutors, and affirming that pregnancy loss should never be recast as a nefarious and criminal act."
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Title: Arrests for Pregnancy Loss Are Little More Than Modern Witch Trials
Author: Kulsoom Ijaz
Publication: Autonomy News
April 8, 2026
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#USA #Healthcare #Courts #Slavery #Torture
https://www.autonomynews.co/arrests-for-pregnancy-loss-are-little-more-than-modern-witch-trials/

"536 miles of buoys that the federal government plans to stretch from the Gulf of Mexico deep into South Texas."

"Federal agencies have not made any environmental assessment or flood modeling for the border buoys available to the public."
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Author: Martha Pskowski
Publication: Inside Climate News @InsideClimate@flipboard.com
March 23, 2026
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#Texas #USA #Mexico #Immigration #Protest #Water #Climate
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23032026/texas-rio-grande-border-buoy-environmental-risks/

"After 35 years of defending Palestinian children's rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel's targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations."
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Title: Top Palestinian Children's Rights Group Shutters After Being Targeted By Israel
Author: Sharon Zhang
Publication: Truthout
April 7, 2026
———————————————
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide #Torture
https://truthout.org/articles/top-palestinian-childrens-rights-group-shutters-after-being-targeted-by-israel/

"The Canadian government has criticized the racist death-by-hanging bill."

"These words ring hollow."

"In the very same week, Canada forcibly dissolved an important support network for Palestinian political prisoners."
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Title: As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity
Author: Owen Schalk
Publication: Canadian Dimension
April 8, 2026
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#Canada #Israel #Palestine #Apartheid #Incarceration #DeathPenalty #Torture
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/as-israel-eyes-executions-canada-targets-palestine-solidarity

"[P]olitical education is imperative as a partner to political action."

"We cannot make the mistake of taking one without the other."

"Abolition School [..] tackles this informative work by training next generation leftist organizers."
———————————————
Title: Philadelphia's Abolition School taps the 'radical potential' of political education
Author: Adryan Corcione
Publication: Prism
April 8, 2026
———————————————
#Pennsylvania #USA #Incarceration #Slavery #Education
https://prismreports.org/2026/04/08/philadelphia-abolition-school-political-education/

"The Maine Wire launched in 2011."

"[D]eveloped a fixation on Maine's Somali community."

"[M]illions of dollars in donations from [..] Leonard Leo, the judicial activist widely credited with the conservative takeover of the Supreme Court."
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Title: GOP Megadonor Leonard Leo Is Bankrolling a Website on the Warpath Against Somalis
Author: Noah Hurowitz
Publication: The Intercept
April 8, 2026
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#Maine #USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/08/maine-wire-conservative-news-leonard-leo-somalis/

"Crime prediction algorithms [..] should more accurately be called crime production algorithms."

"Fighting to ban facial recognition is not enough; it must be part of the larger fight to stop carceral biometrics and advance digital abolition."
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Title: Precrime Is No Longer Science Fiction
Author: Sarah Fathallah
Publication: Inquest
April 7, 2026
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#USA #Policing #Technology #Surveillance #Incarceration
https://inquest.org/precrime-is-no-longer-science-fiction/

Newsom said "that he 'reveres' Israel."

"The interviewer [..] then asked if the Democratic governor regrets using the word 'apartheid' to describe Israel."

"'I do,' said Newsom."
———————————————
Author: Sharon Zhang
Publication: Truthout
March 24, 2026
———————————————
#California #USA #Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Genocide #Apartheid #EthnicCleansing
https://truthout.org/articles/newsom-says-he-reveres-the-state-of-israel-says-he-regrets-apartheid-label/