2021-10-01: News Headlines

Ana Perdigón (2021-10-01). Spanish Right-Wing Politician Criticizes Pope Francis, Meets with Guaidó's 'Ambassador'. orinocotribune.com A new controversy was created by the extreme-right president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, after she questioned the apologies offered by Pope Francis to Mexico. Díaz Ayuso was criticized for claiming that Spain "brought civilization to America." Critics recalled that the Spanish conquistadors actually brought disease, slavery, and death. | Since 2019, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has urged both the Church and the Spanish monarchy to apologize for the grievances committed during the colonial era. This follows in the steps of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, who was the first So…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-10-01). Communities and Collectives of Oaxaca Denounce the State-Organized "Indigenous Encounters Canada-Oaxaca 2021" itsgoingdown.org Communique from communities and collectives of Oaxaca denouncing the state-organized "Indigenous Encounters Canada-Oaxaca 2021," and calling for the construction of affinity and reciprocity between Indigenous peoples of so-called Mexico and Canada through solidarity and resistance To the Media To the General Public To our Brothers and Sisters of Turtle Island Within the context of the…

In Contempt (2021-10-01). In Contempt #9: Running Down the Walls 2021; Eric King Trial, Hunger Strikes in Texas & Oregon. itsgoingdown.org In this month's column, we roundup the recent #ShutEmDown actions, Running Down the Walls events, and offer updates on ongoing hunger strikes, political prisoners like Eric King, resistance at the border as the settler-State brutally cracks down on Haitian migrants, and we also bring you an updated list of political prisoner birthdays and defendants facing…

Staff (2021-10-01). Protesters demanding US citizenship for ALL illegal aliens shut down rush-hour traffic on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. rt.com San Francisco commuters found themselves stranded on the city's iconic Golden Gate Bridge for over an hour after protesters created a blockade to halt traffic while they agitated for legislation protecting illegal migrants. | The demonstrators

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2021-10-01). Tuesday 11/9: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Steve Wasserman: Not a Nation of Immigrants. indybay.org Online webinar…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-30). Canadian Court Strikes Down Trudeau's Appeal against Compensation to Indigenous Children. libya360.wordpress.com Anish R M Memorial held in Vancouver, shortly after the discovery of the 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2020. Photo: GoToVan/Flickr The Justin Trudeau government has been stalling efforts by Indigenous groups to secure compensation to survivors of Canada's discriminatory child services that has pushed…

_____ (2021-09-30). New Evidence In Ayotzinapa Disappearance Case. popularresistance.org On September 21, five days before the seventh anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 students of the Rural Teachers' College in the town of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, the federal authorities revealed new evidence in the case, which contradicted the official version of the truth presented by the previous government. | At a press conference, the special prosecutor for the case, Omar Gómez Trejo, and the Undersecretary for Human Rights, Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, reported that the search for evidence in the La Carnicería ravine located in Cocula town, in the state of Guerrero, had concluded. They reported that in…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-09-30). México dará refugio a 13 mil migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net La mayoría de migrantes haitianos que llegaron a México provenía de Chile y Brasil.

sputniknews (2021-09-30). Biden Administration to Issue New Memo to Terminate Trump-Era Remain in Mexico Policy. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release it will issue a new memorandum to terminate the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols after a Texas judge ordered the federal government to reinstate the rule, which required asylum-seeking migrants to stay in Mexico while awaiting court proceedings.

teleSUR- lvm, JL (2021-09-30). Pdte. de México pide perdón por masacre contra indígenas yaqui. telesurtv.net El mandatario criticó la persecución de indígenas bajo la dictadura de Porfirio Díaz (1877-1911).

scorinoco (2021-09-30). Borders, Blackness, and Empire. orinocotribune.com By Jemima Pierre — Sep 22, 2021 | It took two days. It took two days for the United States government to deport more than 6,000 asylum seekers to Haiti. Almost 15,000 people, all presumably Haitian, have been encamped on the banks of the Rio Grande River between Del Rio, Texas and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. On September 18, the mainstream media of the US proclaimed a border "crisis" with "Haitian migrants" flooding the border; by September 20, the Biden administration moved to get rid of them, deploying hundreds of Homeland Security agents, supported by both the US Coast Guard and the Department of Defense. "This…

sputniknews (2021-09-30). ABC Cuts Obama's Critique of 'Open Borders' From TV Interview, Airs Criticism of GOP Instead. sputniknews.com Over 200,000 encounters were registered at the US southwest border in August alone. This number is expected to rise even further in September as border authorities are battling a dramatic surge in Haitian migrants, who are seeking asylum in the United States.

The Associated Press (2021-09-30). New Biden Rules Would Limit Arrest, Deportation of Migrants. latinorebels.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing bipartisan criticism over its approach to immigration, the Biden administration on Thursday announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.

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