Daily Archives: September 17, 2022

2022-09-17: News Headlines

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-17). US House Of Representatives Finally Passes Whistleblower Protection Bill With Access To Jury Trials. thedissenter.org

Lowkey (2022-09-16). No Tech For Apartheid Israel: Google Whistleblower Ariel Koren Exposes Project Nimbus. mintpressnews.com Former Google employee Ariel Koren joins Lowkey and articulates her experience at the big tech giant, claiming it has gradually developed an institutionalised pro-Israeli bias. She also reveals ways in which employees attempting to hold the company accountable for unethical contracts, such as that of Project Nimbus, are being targeted and intentionally silenced.

_____ (2022-09-16). Groups Urge UN To Call For Abolition Of 'Death By Incarceration'. popularresistance.org Several human rights organizations submitted a 31-page complaint to United Nations experts today, alleging that the United States is committing torture and violating the prohibition against racial discrimination by condemning people to death by incarceration through extreme sentences including life and life without possibility of parole (LWOP). The groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Drop LWOP Coalition and the Abolitionist Law Center, are urging the UN to call for the abolition of all death by incarceration sentences. | "Death by incarceration is the devastating consequence of a cruel and…

Staff (2022-09-15). México entrega Llaves de la Ciudad a familiares de Julian Assange. cubadebate.cu La jefa de Gobierno de la capital de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, entregó las llaves de la Ciudad y el pergamino de Huésped Distinguido a familiares del fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, el pasado martes. La funcionaria señaló que se trata de "un acto simbólico de lo que representa la Ciudad de México (…) que ha sido siempre una ciudad refugio y hospitalaria".

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