The Rojava Information Center-RIC is one of local press centers which following the situation on the ground and documenting the crimes committed by Turkey in the region. They published this report as a preliminary outcome: https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2023/12/turkeys-christmas-airstrikes-targeting-nes-civilian-service-facilities-and-infrastructure/

While we are writing this email, we hear the sounds of the planes and the number of attacks is increasing everywhere.

As we know, on December 13th, the Democratic Autonomous Administration of NE Syria announced the new Social Contract, which is considered a great model for building a free and dignified life based on the principles of direct democracy, ecological economy, freedom of religions and beliefs, and ensuring the freedom of women in all areas of life. People of all nationalities and ethnicities organize themselves into communes, councils, cooperatives, and academies, building hope and inspiring other communities. (See the new Social Contract here:

https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2023/12/aanes-social-contract-2023-edition/)

[11:31 AM]What has become clear is that these attacks are part of a systematic war aimed at destroying the lives of people here in Rojava, and ultimately destroying the hope they spread. This new wave of attacks targets critical infrastructure and, in addition to the siege, threatens survival due to shortages of water, fuel and electricity. We should read this strategy as part of Erdogan’s long-term plans for the occupation, the same Erdogan who hypocritically describes attacks on infrastructure, schools, hospitals and churches in Gaza as genocide.

We see that the whole world is now under attack from the dominant, fascist and capitalist states. We call for a united struggle against the war of occupation and genocide.
Let’s rise up against fascism and occupation! Civil Diplomacy Center- NE Syria

A week before the crowds arrived in Montgomery for the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a monument to victims of lynching in the United States, Alabama prepared to kill 83-year-old Walter Moody.
Continue reading: The Intercept

The Guantanamo military commissions, the scheme created by the government to try 9/11 and other detainees, have devolved into an unacceptable and alarming assault on defense lawyers attempting to provide fair representation to their clients.

Continue reading: ACLU

When a white person kills a black man in America, the killer often faces no legal consequences.

In one in six of these killings, there is no criminal sanction, according to a new Marshall Project examination of 400,000 homicides committed by civilians between 1980 and 2014.

Continue reading: The Marshall Project

Farmworkers are transported to the fields crowded into the back of a truck in Mexico’s tomato fields in a photo from the Los Angeles Times’ devastating 2014 exposé on labor conditions in the Mexican produce industry.

Meanwhile, at last month’s annual meeting, Wendy’s execs tell shareholders concerned about labor rights abuses that the company is “perfectly happy with the quality and taste of the tomatoes [we are sourcing] from Mexico.”

And OSU administrators condone their corporate neighbor’s callous indifference…

Late last month, news broke of the disappearance of 80 indigenous Mexican farmworkers who vanished from a farm near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after they reported illegal wage deductions for food and housing that cut in half their already desperately low wages.  When the authorities arrived to the farm to investigate the complaint, all 80 workers had disappeared, along with the unidentified recruiter who had originally brought them from the small indigenous town of Camargo.

Here is the full translated report from El Proceso from May 29:

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (apro).- One week after  being removed from a farm where they worked as day laborers, the Labor and Social Security Secretariat (STPS) of Chihuahua reported that Monday it began to search for 80 indigenous people who were exploited at work.

According to information released by El Diario Mx, staff from the STPS and other agencies came to the Camargo shelter for temporary workers to investigate the report of labor abuse that they received on Sunday the 21st, but the farmworkers had already been taken away and could not be located…

Get the full story on this latest reminder of unchecked farm labor exploitation in Mexico over at the CIW website…

“The Red Warrior Sioux are asking for donations to keep their encampment going.  Here is an official donation site. In addition, they want communities to organize to come to North Dakota as well as to take action in their own communities to support the Water Protectors.”

. . . To present a fuller picture of crime in America, The Marshall Project collected and analyzed 40 years of FBI data on the most serious violent crimes in 68 police jurisdictions. . . . In the process, we were struck by the wide variation from community to community. To paraphrase an aphorism about politics, all crime is local. Each city has its own trends that depend on the characteristics of the city itself, the time frame, and the type of crime.

Read the entire article: the Marshall Project