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URGENT UPDATE FROM UN EXPERTS ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE CRISIS

Israel/occupied Palestinian territory: UN experts deplore attacks on civilians, call for truce and urge international community to address root causes of violence

Free Leonard Peltier: 79th Birthday Action

Today, far from his traditional homelands and relatives, Mr. Peltier (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Lakota/Dakota) turns 79 years old. Despite his innocence, Mr. Peltier has spent nearly five decades of his life in a maximum security prison. He is the longest-serving Political Prisoner in United States history.

Today, we again join the resounding voices of our relatives around the world: #FreeLeonardPeltier. The time for his freedom is now.

As a legal organization devoted to fighting for the sovereignty and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples, we will continue to support the work to free Mr. Peltier no matter the odds.

Urgent update from Haiti Action Committee:

Stand with the Haitian People! Oppose Foreign Intervention in Haiti!

The more widespread our actions, the more support we give to the people of Haiti

*Protest the Next Day If The UN Security Council Authorizes Another Military Invasion of Haiti!

In the SF/Bay Area come join the protest at the SF Federal Bldg, 90-7th Street, San Francisco, time TBA

*Take Action Now To Stop The Invasion!
CONTACT: UN Secretary-General António Guterres Twitter: @antonioguterres Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General (212) 963-7160

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Twitter: @SecBlinken Phone: (202) 456-1111; 202-647-4000 email https://register.state.gov/contactus/contactusform

President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Forces William Ruto, PhD, CGH Phone: (202) 387-6101 Twitter: @WilliamsRuto @KenyaembassyDC Email: information@kenyembassydc.org or complaints@kenyaembassydc.org

DEMANDS:

Stop supporting the Ariel Henry dictatorship.
No to another US/UN/foreign military intervention in Haiti.
No more arms shipments from the US to Haiti.
Stop funding the brutal Haitian police.
Yes to democracy. Respect for human rights and Haitian sovereignty!
Hashtags:StandwithHaiti, AlloutforHaiti, USstopfundingmassacresinHaiti,
Notoforeignintervention,SupportHumanrights, SupportDemocracy,US/UNOutofHaiti, NotanotherinvasionofHaiti

Background: Haiti is back in the headlines. As the US, UN and their international accomplices continue their reckless interventionist policies in Haiti, the crisis deepens. 200,000 Haitians have been displaced by paramilitary gang violence, 2500 have been killed this year and a thousand more have been kidnapped. Almost half the population is facing starvation.

Who are the paramilitaries who have overrun Haiti, terrorizing the people with house burnings, kidnappings, rape and murder? They are the outcome of two decades of US/UN/foreign intervention and destabilization of Haitian society that began with the 2004 armed overthrow of the democratic progressive government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. These death squads are the henchmen of a series of unelected puppet governments put in place by the US after the coup – governments headed by corrupt Haitian officials willing to prioritize foreign profits over the lives of their own people.

Why is foreign military invasion not the answer? Because the US cannot fix what it has broken – the arsonists cannot put out the fire. Haiti has had enough of foreign invaders with military troops seizing land, resources, and labor to benefit themselves while conducting armed assaults against the population, undermining Haitian institutions and spreading sexual violence and cholera in their path. Rather than respecting the will of the people by withdrawing support for the unpopular right-wing regime, the US is doubling down, pressuring the UN Security Council to authorize more occupation, militarism and invasion. They have enlisted the government of Kenya to help do their dirty work by fronting a new invasion. They are determined to prop up the government they imposed on Haiti.

The solution put forth by the majority of Haitian people is an end to US/UN support for the illegitimate, unpopular PHTK regime. Broad sectors of Haitian civil society propose a transitional government of their own choosing to guarantee security, enable people to return to homes, school and work, and plan for future elections.

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STOP US-BACKED INTERVENTION BY KENYA IN HAITI 

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In response to a recently published article by  SF Chronicle, NLGSF Executive Director Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, calls out stigmatization of Honduran migrants.

The Chronicle sadly continued to avoid accountability for its irresponsible stigmatization of Honduran migrants, at Tuesday’s forum at Manny’s, as demanded by leading immigrant rights organizations such as CARECEN and ILRC. The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild joins in their demand for deeper public dialogue, way beyond yesterday’s failed public relations exercise, including full acknowledgment by editor Emilio García Ruiz of the damage that has been done and adequate measures to redress these harms. The crucial guiding thread missing from your utterly decontextualized coverage is critical examination of the decisive role played by U.S intervention and domination in Honduras and regionally, which has been the ultimate root cause of the mass migration which has resulted from the impositions of the drug war and of extractivist “development” policies. This is sadly the story you chose not to tell. All of this is especially outrageous and unacceptable as we mark the continuing toll in 2023 of 200 years of the Monroe Doctrine, and as yet another U.S-supported intervention is about to unfold in Haiti. Enough! The Chronicle can and must do much better.

– Camilo Pérez-Bustillo

NLG Condemns Georgia Indictments of Stop Cop City Protesters

Remembering Karen Jo Koonan

Karen Jo Koonan’s Obituary
Read More (SFChronicle)
 

NLG Demands End To Racist Policing In The Mission And Criminalization Of Immigrants Amid San Francisco's Intensified War On The Unhoused And Drug Trafficking

Parents, livid over SFPD arrests of teens at Dolores hill bomb, vow lawsuits

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Teens, parents, commissioners blast SFPD for Dolores hill bomb arrests

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Supervisor defends Hondurans, economic impact of immigrants

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Hill bomb: SF plans to drop cases against majority of youth

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Police Commission hears community outrage—and two members call for investigation
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The Chronicle sends a dangerous message about immigrants and crime

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Urgent Declaration in Defense of Democracy, the Rule of Law and the Right to a Dignified Life: STOP the Criminalization of Social Protests and Mobilization in Perú
By: National Lawyers Guild International Committee
Please join us to stand with our neighbors and community organizations against continued racist police violence at this week’s san francisco police commission meeting at city hall, room 400, wed. July 19 at 5:30 pM:

GLOBAL MIGRANT JUSTICE

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2023/06/greece-shipwreck-un-committee-dismayed-rising-death-toll-calls-international

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/23/greece_migrant_shipwreck_media_coverage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNUC9WyoZI

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/world/europe/greece-migrants-abandoned.html

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/22/spain/morocco-no-justice-deaths-melilla-border

Palestinian Liberation Struggle Update

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian towns in West Bank

Watch (YT)

‘Clashes is the wrong word for Israel-Palestine violence’

Watch (YT)

 

Mexico Human Rights- Important New Developments In Ayotzinapa Case:

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Mexico asks Israel for second time to extradite ex-official accused of torture

Read More (Reuters) 

 

Iran Updates:

Escalating Intimidation Targets Families of 2022 Protest Victims in Iran

Read More (HRANA)

WEBINAR, COVERAGE OF NLG MIGRANT RIGHTS COMMUNITY EVENT IN SF:

Webinar in commemoration of El Paso Massacre, in collaboration with Witness at the Border, moderated by NLG-SFBA ED: 

Watch (YT)

The Border is Everywhere: Bay Area stands up for the right to asylum

Read More (El Tecolote) 

 

PERU UPDATES:

Peru extends state of emergency in key mining region ahead of fresh protests
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White House deploys troops to bolster Right-wing coup regime in Peru

Read More (mronline.org)

Approval of US Troops to Train Peruvian Armed Forces Proves US Behind Coup

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Journalists for Sale: US Troops to Peru, Castillo’s Coup and the Future of Latin America

Read More (Scheerpost)

 

Support Struggle for the Oakland People's Budget/Defund the Police

Federal Civil Rights Complaint Challenges Harvard’s Legacy Admissions

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African American Reparations Advisory Committee Final Report

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‘We’re going to wake up the world’: San Francisco’s bold reparations plan has a revolutionary spirit

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Oakland Community Leaders Unite in Support of a “People’s Budget” That Invests in Real Community Safety

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Anti-Police Terror Project (Posters/News)

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Defund OPD (Video)

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San Francisco Street Sweeps Of The Unhoused Halted By Judge

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OAKLAND IS REimagining PUBLIC SAFETY

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Open Budget Oakland

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Oakland City Council Meeting 5/30

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Cali/SF Reparations News

California’s reparations process wasn’t pretty — but could yield important lessons for the rest of the country

Read more (SF Chronicle)

Reparations Task Force Meeting – May 6, 2023 

Read more (oag.ca.gov)

Read more (NY Times)

African American Reparations Advisory Committee

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DRAFT San Francisco Reparations Plan

Read more (sf.gov)

California task force approves proposal for state reparations to Black Descendants of enslavement.

Read More (PBS News)

Read More (NPR)

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Recording of Historic Decision (Youtube)

 

Recent News

The Border is Everywhere: Bay Area stands up for the right to asylum

Read More (El Tecolote)

ATLANTA POLICE ARREST ORGANIZERS OF BAIL FUND FOR COP CITY PROTESTERS

Read More (The Intercept)

Mission Local Presents: Banko Brown Shooting and the Layers of SF Injustice

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Banko Brown’s Black Trans Life Mattered

Read More (KQED)

What does accountability now look like for the killing of Banko Brown? (SF Chronicle)

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D.A. Brooke Jenkins fumbled a chance to bring S.F. together after Banko Brown’s death (SF Chronicle)
 
Banko Brown Shooting: Protesters Decry DA’s Decision Not to Prosecute Guard (The San Francisco Standard)

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The US Failed Jordan Neely and Banko Brown Long Before They Were Murdered (truthout)

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Real SF dystopia: Two Black men fighting to death over Walgreens snacks

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Killed over ‘$14 of candy’: Banko Brown’s death is a tragedy of San Francisco’s making

Read More (SF Chronicle)

Banko Brown’s family calls for accountability at supes meeting

Read More (missionlocal.org)

Recent Articles

We Must Fight Poverty, Not the Poor

Read More (El Tecolote)

Wanted for War Crimes: Henry Kissinger

Watch here (Youtube MSNBC)

Read More (The Intercept)

Oxfam: G7 Countries Owe the Global South More Than $13 Trillion in Development & Climate Assistance

Read More (Oxfam)

H.R. 2 Secure the border Act

Title 42 Was Inhumane and Illegal. So Are Biden’s New Border Policies.

Written By: Camilo Pérez Bustillo

Migrant Massacre in Ciudad Juárez Is Rooted in US-Mexico Border Policing

Written By: Camilo Pérez Bustillo

International Solidarity - Peru Update

Peru: UN experts call for end to violence during demonstrations, urge respect for human rights

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Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Advances in Promoting Gender Equality, Raise Issues Concerning the Trial of Former President Pedro Castillo 

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Peru’s Deteriorating Human Rights Situation Signals Deeper Political Crisis

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Human Rights Watch

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House Dems Push Biden to Cut Off Security Aid to Peru Over ‘Violent Repression of Protests’

Read More (Common Dreams)

We call for a condemnation and diligent investigation into the human rights violations in Peru

Read More(CEJIL.org)

Peru: Infinite Protest and Indolent Elites

Read More (NACLA.org)

Political Repression Under Peruvian Coup Regime
People’s Dispatch

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Peru: Referral to the UN mechanisms about the human rights violations and repression of social protest

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Peru: Lethal state repression is yet another example of contempt for the Indigenous and campesino population

Read More(Amnesty International)

Law Student Chapter News

Us Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Student Debt Relief Cases

Migrant Justice News

Migrants Died In Detention Fire Because They Couldn’t Pay $200 Bribe to Be Released

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UN Experts Call For Independent Investigation Into Ciudad Juárez Migrant Massacre

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CBP DEADLY FORCE SINCE 2020

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MOBILIZE YOUR SOLIDARITY NOW!! ICE detainee hunger strikers updates:

Read More (Facebook)

Migrant child labor:

Read More (NYtimes)

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Migrant Boat Sinking

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‘Slavery wages’ prompt hunger strike at ICE detention facilities

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U.S. / Global NEws

The Abolitionist Struggle to Stop Cop City

Watch Video

New Cold War: U.S, Russia, and China Today

Watch Video

Reject US Imperialism! Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace

Watch Video

Palestine, Israel, and the Changing Global Order

Watch Video

REPORT BACK FROM NLG EMERGENCY HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION TO PERU

Read More (NY Times)

In Peru’s Andes, scars of protest deaths cut deep as families seek justice

Read More (Reuters)

Misión internacional de abogados: En Perú hay grave vulneración de derechos humanos

Read More (La República)

Conciencia de los Pueblos brinda conferencia de prensa para presentar informe preliminar sobre los DDHH en el Perú

Watch Here (FB Live)

Resistance News

FREE PALESTINE! END THE OCCUPATION
Al-Haq Calls for International Accountability Measures as Alarming Settler Attacks on Palestinians Leave Huwwara Properties Razed in Blistering Inferno

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B’Tselem Accuses Israel Government of Backing Pogrom in West Bank Town of Huwara

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Colombia Political Prisoners On Hunger Strike

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Hunger Strike @ Golden State Annex Ice Detention

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Peruvian People’s Resistance Intensifies

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Asylum Related News

National Immigration Project’s (NIPNLG) Comment on the Proposed Rule by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)

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Witness at the Border – Virtual Event 

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Biden Asylum Ban Will Endanger Refugees

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March 27 deadline for asylum ban comments:

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IRAN NEWS

58 Citizens Sentenced to Death or under the Impending Threat of Death Sentence

Iran Protests: at Least 458 People Killed &
11 Officially Sentenced to Death

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In Honor of Indigenous Peoples

Please join us in observing Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day in the Bay Area with the International Indian Treaty Council’s annual sunrise gathering on Alcatraz Island (details below; will be live-streamed via KPFA), and stand together with us in solidarity with the National Day of Mourning that has been observed since 1970 at Plymouth, Massachusetts by the United American Indians of New England (see details below).
 
Please also join us Dec. 5 for a special film screening at the New Parkway Theater (474 24th Street, Oakland)
honoring the life and work of one of our chapter’s founding members, Steve Bingham.

Movie synopsis:

A Double Life, winer of an audience favorite award, unveils the gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971. Forced into a life on the run, Bingham spends 13 years underground, eluding capture while fiercely determined to clear his name.

Steve Bingham, Abby Ginzberg and Susan Rutberg will be doing a Q and A after the screening. Please let your friends know about this screening.

In Honor of Indigenous Peoples

54th Annual National Day of Mourning

Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Indigenous ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against the racism and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide.

Time: 12:00 Noon

Place: Cole’s Hill (above Plymouth Rock), Plymouth, MA

View Youtube Livestream here

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