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URGENT UPDATE FROM UN EXPERTS ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE CRISIS

Israel/occupied Palestinian territory: UN experts deplore attacks on civilians, call for truce and urge international community to address root causes of violence

Free Leonard Peltier: 79th Birthday Action

Urgent update from Haiti Action Committee:

Stand with the Haitian People! Oppose Foreign Intervention in Haiti!

STOP US-BACKED INTERVENTION BY KENYA IN HAITI

STOP US AND FRENCH-BACKED INTERVENTION BY ECOWAS IN NIGER

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NLG Condemns Georgia Indictments of Stop Cop City Protesters

Remembering Karen Jo Koonan

Karen Jo Koonan’s Obituary

NLG Demands End To Racist Policing In The Mission And Criminalization Of Immigrants Amid San Francisco's Intensified War On The Unhoused And Drug Trafficking

Parents, livid over SFPD arrests of teens at Dolores hill bomb, vow lawsuits

Teens, parents, commissioners blast SFPD for Dolores hill bomb arrests

Supervisor defends Hondurans, economic impact of immigrants

Hill bomb: SF plans to drop cases against majority of youth

Police Commission hears community outrage—and two members call for investigation

The Chronicle sends a dangerous message about immigrants and crime

GLOBAL MIGRANT JUSTICE

Palestinian Liberation Struggle Update

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian towns in West Bank

‘Clashes is the wrong word for Israel-Palestine violence’

Mexico Human Rights- Important New Developments In Ayotzinapa Case:

Arrest of Mexican Army General Ordered in Case of Missing Students

Mexico asks Israel for second time to extradite ex-official accused of torture

Iran Updates:

Escalating Intimidation Targets Families of 2022 Protest Victims in Iran

WEBINAR, COVERAGE OF NLG MIGRANT RIGHTS COMMUNITY EVENT IN SF:

Webinar in commemoration of El Paso Massacre, in collaboration with Witness at the Border, moderated by NLG-SFBA ED:

The Border is Everywhere: Bay Area stands up for the right to asylum

PERU UPDATES:

Peru extends state of emergency in key mining region ahead of fresh protests

White House deploys troops to bolster Right-wing coup regime in Peru

Approval of US Troops to Train Peruvian Armed Forces Proves US Behind Coup

Journalists for Sale: US Troops to Peru, Castillo’s Coup and the Future of Latin America

Support Struggle for the Oakland People's Budget/Defund the Police

Federal Civil Rights Complaint Challenges Harvard’s Legacy Admissions

African American Reparations Advisory Committee Final Report

‘We’re going to wake up the world’: San Francisco’s bold reparations plan has a revolutionary spirit

Oakland Community Leaders Unite in Support of a “People’s Budget” That Invests in Real Community Safety

Anti-Police Terror Project (Posters/News)

Defund OPD (Video)

San Francisco Street Sweeps Of The Unhoused Halted By Judge

OAKLAND IS REimagining PUBLIC SAFETY

Open Budget Oakland

Oakland City Council Meeting 5/30

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.

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The Border is Everywhere: Bay Area stands up for the right to asylum

ATLANTA POLICE ARREST ORGANIZERS OF BAIL FUND FOR COP CITY PROTESTERS

Mission Local Presents: Banko Brown Shooting and the Layers of SF Injustice

Banko Brown’s Black Trans Life Mattered

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

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Iran Protests: at Least 458 People Killed &
11 Officially Sentenced to Death