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TATANKA BRICCA opens with a report on LEONARD PELTIER and the desperate need to get him out of prison alive.
Petition: https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier
MYLA RESON follows up with a key point of information on how, hopefully, to do that.
Our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives our GREEP Zoom #204 a perfect opening poem.
MIKE HERSH hearkens back to the formation of the US republic with a warning on the horrors of fascism.
DAVID SALTMAN explains Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, banning insurrectionists from holding public office.
From western Massachusetts, ANNA GYORGY reminds us (https://www.traprock.org) that Inauguration Day, 2025, (Jan. 18 event Poster at bottom) will be Martin Luther King Day.
BARBARA HARRISON adds a plea to fight for democracy
MELISSA HALL asks about calling the White House to help free Leonard.
CATHERINE STEARNS lets us in on resistance organizations in Oregon….including the Civil Liberties Defense Center.
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research laboratory, is located on Long
Island, New York, where I live. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book, “Long
Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance.”
The book, by Mark A. Torres, an attorney as well as an author, will be released by The
History Press on January 21st. Torres also wrote the 2021 book “Long Island Migrant Labor
Camps: Dust for Blood,” an examination of the plight of migrant farmworkers on Long Island,
published, too, by The History Press.
Torres is general counsel of Teamsters Local 810, a union that covers Long Island, and as
an attorney has long specialized in labor and employment law in federal and state courts. He is
also a professor at Hofstra University.
As an author, he excels at in-depth research. Earlier this year the Association of Public
Historians of New York awarded Torres its Joseph F. Meany Award (named for former New York
State Historian Joseph F. Meany, Jr.) for his book on migrant farmworker camps on Long Island.
Most Long Island residents know little about the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
The PA security forces used similar tactics as used by the Israeli occupation forces in their routine attacks on the area.
The camp, which is a mere half a square kilometer in size, hosts an ever-growing population of 24 thousand refugees, mostly the descendants of Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias during the great catastrophe, or Nakba, of 1948.
Syria, known throughout history as the “crossroads of civilization,” now finds itself at a crossroads of its own. After 54 years, the Assad family’s brutal dictatorship in Syria has finally ended.
“I never thought I’d live to see this day,” said my dad, who left Aleppo as a teenager. My parents grew up there.
The early November detention of Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, indicted in a federal national security court in the Eastern District of Virginia on two counts of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act,” was largely downplayed in the national media. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday November 5th at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh in Cambodia where he was stationed and was sent to appear in the nearest federal court in Guam on Thursday the 7th to be charged. After his initial court appearance and indictment, Rahman, was transferred to a federal prison in Virginia.
