Human Rights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables. At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that. We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide. It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students. This article will be updated as long as is necessary.
Israeli Olympic athletes aren’t just soldiers, they dedicate their medals to the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) and openly support the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, argued @richimedhurst on Twitter. He made an excellent point.
You can’t separate sports from politics when athletes openly glorify an army committing mass atrocities. Medals don’t wash away complicity. The Israeli Death Forces (IDF) are a bunch of baby killers and gang-rapists. They are a danger to other people. Never forget that Israel kidnapped over 5,000 people in Gaza for the organ trade, pedophilia, and Satanic rituals of human sacrifice.
To start GREEP Zoom #255 we visit with HEDY TRIPP in St. Cloud, followed by her own state rep.
From DR. MELISSA BIRD we get the latest news from Oregon’s anti-ICE resistance.
Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN tells us that ICE is assaulting our democracy 24/7.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces us to the great progressive US REP RO KHANNA (D-CA).
Rep. Khanna pledges to help stop funding ICE while also phasing out the Diablo Canyon nukes & lower rates in CA.
From Atlanta RAY MCCLENDON reports on the FBI raid against the election facility in Georgia.
Congressional candidate DR. MELISSA BIRD asks Rep. Khanna to consider Indigenous rights against the ICE attack.
MN State Sen. ARIC PUTNAM, Chair of the Ag Committee reports ICE attacks against the East African community.
With her brother kidnapped, MN resident MA ELENA GUTIERREZ reports on ICE’s gestapo tactics first hand.
From STEVE CARUSO we hear a report on the illegal intervention of spy chief Tulsi Gabbert.
Co-convenor MYLA RESON reminds us that Donald Trump personally called into the FBI raid against the raid against GA elections.
And here I am, an American, staring at the border again . . . and slowly coming to realize the paradox of it. Borders don’t actually exist. They’re invisible lies. They’re also virtually everywhere.
Consider the border Alex Pretti crossed on Jan. 24, on a street in Minneapolis, as he stepped between some U.S. Border Patrol agents and the woman they had just pushed down. He crossed the border that separates ordinary people from the federal Proud Boys (or whoever they are), the masked invaders who were occupying the city to enforce The Law. Pretti interfered with them! He dared to try to protect the fallen woman, who herself had just crossed the same border. In so doing, they both went from being ordinary citizens to “domestic terrorists.”
“Yet our greatest threat isn’t the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within.”
A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza is no longer a main focus in the news.
He hardly needed to say it. It is evident that Gaza has already been pushed to the margins of coverage — not only by mainstream Western media, long known for its structural bias in Israel’s favor, but also by outlets often described, accurately or not, as ‘pro-Palestine.’
At first glance, this retreat may appear routine. Gaza during the height of the genocide demanded constant attention; Gaza after the genocide, less so.
But this assumption collapses under scrutiny, because the genocide in Gaza has not ended.
A new Israeli law calls for all Palestinian hostages including children to be executed by hanging, electric chair, and/or poison has been passed. It would be carried out after 90 days of passing laws with no right for an appeal. The law also applies to 20 Lebanese hostages taken in Lebanon last year but the law does not apply to Israeli lawless settlers or IDF terrorist soldiers who murdered Palestinians.
Israel is currently holding about 9,300 Palestinian hostages for many years without charges or trial. 5,000 of them were detained in Gaza during the war while the others were arrested during raids in the West Bank or at checkpoint or re-arrested released prisoners.
These people are illegally held and they deserve the right to freedom from the Israeli concentration camps. Basic element of democracy required Israel to either charge or release them immediately.
GREEP Zoom #233 opens with HEDY TRIPP from St. Cloud, MN, & with a deeply disturbing report from the streets of Minneapolis as it’s assaulted by masked Hitlerian Gestapo storm troopers.
From Corvallis, Oregon, we hear a parallel report of the fascist invasion from Congressional candidate DR. MELISSA BIRD.
Dr. Bird’s report connects with the great JENNIE GAGE with her dire insider view of the MAGA cult & its fascist fanaticism for the Trump assault on public sanity & its abject hatred of all things empathetic.
Co-convenor MYLA RESON raises the vital issue of nuclear power, with an up close/personal eye on the aftermath of Chernobyl.
Atlanta-based organizer RAY MCCLENDON emphasizes the dire need for grassroots organizing in 2026, which could be the last set of elections ever in the US.
From the world of the internet we hear from Op Ed News creator ROB KALL on the need for courageous journalism in the face of fascist repression.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH raises the issue of how MAGA men focus on trying to break strong women whom they fear to the core.
Wy did the US president pardon a known drug trafficker while kidnapping a
legitimately elected sitting president of Venezuela right after meeting
with a fellow criminal Netanyahu? Why does a Nobel Peace commitee give a
peace prize to a women who supports the Israeli genocide and called for the
US to invade her own country of Venezuela? The connections to petrodollar,
oil, and Israel are now clearer than ever despite western mainstream media
and western leaders trying very hard to throw smoke in people's faces.....
but first.....
Here in Palestine, Israeli colonialists continue their genocide with
impunity. Just in the past 24 hours killing a fisherman at sea, bombing a
family killing children, abducting a journalist, torturing prisoners,
ethnically cleansing an area in Masafer Yatta, bombing a refugee tent,
taking over a house in Silwan, and two other people in Gaza died when their
home collapsed on them (bombed by Israel earlier). A few days ago, the
apartheid Israeli regime banned the work of 37 International organizations
that alleviate the suffering of our people, suffering caused by these
Enas Ikhlawi is a young Palestinian journalist committed to documenting and reporting about settlers' attacks against Palestinian villagers. Her goal is to inform the public, hold settlers and IDF attacks to account, and ensure that underrepresented voices of Palestinian villagers are heard. She also led a women's program in Hebron.
Sadly, that came abruptly to an end yesterday Monday January 5, when heavily armed IDF soldiers stormed her home in the town of Idana, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. According to her brother Raafat Ikhlawi, "After breaking down the doors and arresting my sister Enas in a brutal manner, she was dragged away violently without a hijab or warm clothing. After significant pressure, we were allowed to give her a coat. So far, we do not know her whereabouts or the reason for her arrest."
While activists link it to efforts silencing coverage of settler attacks, the arrest fits a pattern of over 21,000 detentions since October 2023 in Gaza and the West Bank, many without trial amid rising tensions and no immediate comment from Israeli forces.