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The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum buckets” and “hoes.”

by A.C. Thompson

July 1, 10:55 a.m. EDT

Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings….

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According to Middle East press reports, Israel warplanes over Lebanon unleashed missile attacks on Syrian military sites in Homs and the outskirts of Damascus, July 1.

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The Syrian Arab News Agency is reporting that a child was killed, and many more civilians were wounded.

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Israel has stepped up its attacks on Syria. With the backing of the Trump administration, Israel recently annexed a portion of Syria, the Golan Heights.

Call-in Day for Mumia’s Healthcare

This July 3, on the 37th anniversary of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s incarceration we are asking you to make calls and sign the petition below. In recent weeks the focus of https://www.Mobilaization4Mumia.com supporters nationwide has been to raise awareness of the medical crisis Mumia currently faces as the PA Department of Corrections (DOC) has delayed his access to cataract surgery. The petition below calls not only for this medically necessary procedure to be performed without delay, but also for the release of Mumia, a factually innocent man.

On July 3, 2019 please take time to make calls to the numbers below. Please sign the petition (on-line) if you haven’t and share it with your social media networks. Please download the petition and collect signatures that we will later deliver to Krasner and others. Take action in your community as part of a nationwide demonstration of support for Mumia.

Sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/emergency-appeal-for-mumias-health You can also print the petition from the pic in our discussion tab, for circulation.

Call:
Dr Courtney P Rodgers – 570-773- 7851 and
SCI Mahanoy Superintendent Theresa A. Delbalso – (570) 773-2158
Tell them to approve Mumia’s cataract surgery immediately

And also Call:
PA Gov. Tom Wolf – 717-787-2500
PA DOC Secretary John Wetzel – 717.728.2573
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner – 215-686-8000
Tell them to release NOW because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison and also because he is an innocent man!

Mumia Abu-Jamal should receive cataract surgery immediately!

Mumia should be released now not only because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison but also because he is an innocent man!

Message from Mumia to Prison Radio:

Now, cataracts: Do you know what cataracts are? Imagine you’re wearing a very dark pair of sunglasses; Now smear the lenses with thick swabs of Vaseline. That’s cataracts–from the inside. But it doesn’t end, for there is no pair of glasses to remove. It’s… your eyes. They don’t work anymore like they used to.

There’s a man here, an “Old Head” who is functionally blind (although he has some vision in one eye). One of his eyes is as blue as a robin’s egg, but it’s dead. He has no vision in it. Imagine that; a Black man with a blue eye! That’s what prison eye care can get you! alla best, maj♪”

And last, please consider making a donation or a regular monthly contribution to further the work to free Mumia. Go to https://mobilization4mumia.com/donate-1

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From: Close the Camps Protest

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Listen to the Sun. June 30, 2019 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the mass demonstrations held today in Sudan demanding the resignation of the Transitional Military Council (TMC); the situation in Ethiopia following an attempted coup last week has been discussed in neighboring East African states; the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is planning a military offensive in the northeast of the country in the aftermath of a series of criminal attacks; and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has agreed to establish a single currency for the region. In the second and third hours we conclude our commemoration of Black Music Month where we will honor the life, times and contributions of Langston Hughes, John Sellers, James Cotton, Otis Spann and Bessie Smith.

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Chrystul Kizer Birthday Gathering

310 Locust Street, MLK Library, 5-7 P.M.

All ages event, children welcome, wheelchair accessible, FREE!

Join us as we celebrate Chrystul’s 19th birthday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library on 3rd and Locust Street Monday July 1st. We will be sharing cake, updating folks on how to get involved with Chrytsul’s self-defense campaign and contextualize her story in the larger historical narrative of the criminalization of self-defense in the United States.

Before heading over to the library, we will be engaging in a visibility demonstration on the intersection of 3rd street and Locust Avenue by caring signs of support and passing out literature about Chrystul’s story.

More information about Chrystul’s story may be found here:
Chrystul Kizer is a black teenage survivor of violence. At only 17-years old, she was charged with multiple felonies for defending herself from an older white man who has been accused of ongoing physical and sexual abuse of not only Chrystul, but multiple other young girls. A resident of Milwaukee, WI, Chrystul spent her 18th birthday incarcerated in the Kenosha County Jail, where she remains confined. If convicted, Chrystul could face a sentence of life in prison. Chrystul needs the opportunity to be supported in safe, healing spaces in the community – not the prospect of additional trauma, assault, and solitary confinement in a Wisconsin penitentiary.

Recent campaigns to free criminalized survivors have highlighted how gender-based violence such as sexual assault is linked to the prison industrial complex. Survived and Punished cites ACLU figures in reporting that almost 60% of people confined in women’s prisons across the United States and up to 94% of some women’s prison populations have a history of physical or sexual abuse prior to incarceration. In addition, we know that policing and prisons disproportionately impacts communities of color. However, these campaigns have illustrated the power of people to raise awareness, make demands, and free survivors.

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