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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

Reparations Task Force Meeting – May 6, 2023

Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco?

African American Reparations Advisory Committee

DRAFT San Francisco Reparations Plan

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

Other Local News

The destruction of a community in Oakland

Antioch Community Mobilizes Against Racist Police

SF Mayor Breed Refuses To Support Reparations

San Francisco Street Sweeps Of The Unhoused Halted By Judge

The Mission’s “Crisis” Won’t Be Solved By More Policing

Stop Forced Evictions And Forced Displacement At Wood Street (Oakland)

Recent News

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

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)

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

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

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

Banko Brown’s family calls for accountability at supes meeting

Recent Articles

H.R. 2 Secure the border Act

Protest for Palestine

Recent Presentation on Human rights in Peru

Human Rights in Sudan

Calif. Reparations Task Force meeting Sat. May 6 at Mills College, Oakland

NLG Stands In Solidarity With Migrants And Their Families Killed At Ciudad Juárez Detention Center: Mexican And U.s Governments Share Responsibility, Must Be Held Fully Accountable For Migrant Genocide

Families of Guatemalans Killed in Migrant Center Fire Bury Their Dead

NLG News

NLG, HRW, and 40+ Human and Environmental Rights Organizations Condemn State Repression Against Cop City Protesters in Atlanta

International Solidarity - Peru Update

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

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

Peru’s Deteriorating Human Rights Situation Signals Deeper Political Crisis

Human Rights Watch

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

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

Peru: Infinite Protest and Indolent Elites

Political Repression Under Peruvian Coup Regime

People’s Dispatch

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

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

Law Student Chapter News

Us Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Student Debt Relief Cases

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

UN Experts Call For Independent Investigation Into Ciudad Juárez Migrant Massacre

CBP DEADLY FORCE SINCE 2020

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

Migrant child labor:

Migrant Boat Sinking

‘Slavery wages’ prompt hunger strike at ICE detention facilities

U.S. / Global NEws

The Abolitionist Struggle to Stop Cop City

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

Reject US Imperialism! Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace

Palestine, Israel, and the Changing Global Order

REPORT BACK FROM NLG EMERGENCY HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION TO PERU

How Peru Used Lethal Force to Crack Down on Anti-Government Protests

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

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

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

Al-Haq Calls for International Accountability Measures as Alarming Settler Attacks on Palestinians Leave Huwwara Properties Razed in Blistering Inferno

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

Colombia Political Prisoners On Hunger Strike

Hunger Strike @ Golden State Annex Ice Detention

Peruvian People’s Resistance Intensifies

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