Daily Archives: August 7, 2023

2023-08-07: News Headlines

Fight Back (2023-08-07). San Jose community celebrates removal of Thomas Fallon statue. fightbacknews.org San Jose, CA – On August 4, around 70 people gathered to celebrate the removal of the Thomas Fallon statue that had stood at the corner of West Julian Street and Notre Dame Avenue in San Jose for over 20 years. Fallon was a captain of the U.S. military during the Mexican-American War and captured San Jose in 1846. In the 1850s, he returned to the area and began a political career, culminating in a one-year term as mayor of San Jose in 1859. His time in public office took place during a period of genocide against the indigenous peoples of California, as well as the oppression and disenfranchisement of Mexican peop…

teleSUR, SH (2023-08-07). Hombres armados raptan a siete policías en Zacatecas, México. telesurtv.net Elementos del Ejército Mexicano, Guardia Nacional y la Fuerza de Reacción Inmediata Zacatecas (FRIZ) se han desplegado en la zona para intentar dar con los policías secuestrados.

teleSUR (2023-08-07). Mexico: Gunmen Group Kidnapped 7 Police Officers in Zacatecas. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, at least seven Mexican police officers were kidnapped when a group of armed men broke into the police headquarters in the municipality of Villa Hidalgo, in the state of Zacatecas. | Related: | Through a communiqué, the State Round Table for the Construction of Peace informed that the whereabouts of the police officers are still unknown. | The text indicated that elements of the Mexican Army, National Guard and the Immediate Reaction Fo…

Derrick Broze (2023-08-06). Mexican Presidential Candidate Marcelo Ebrard Announces "Angel Plan" Surveillance State Nightmare. thelastamericanvagabond.com Mexican Presidential candidate Marcelo Ebrard recently announced a security plan which calls for using several digital technologies with the potential to create a nationwide surveillance state. On July 10th, Mexican politician Marcelo Ebrard announced the Angel Plan, a security program which would use eight digital technologies in an attempt to end the infamous instability and

Editor (2023-08-07). Obama, Trump, Biden — share blame for Abbott's border horrors. workers.org Reports in recent weeks from a whistleblowing Texas Department of Public Safety trooper have laid bare the state-sponsored, inhumane, anti-migrant policies confronting families seeking asylum at the Texas/Mexico border. Migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico are confronted by large razor-wired buoys used as a border barrier along the . . . |

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-08-07). Hallan cadáveres en camioneta en frontera de México con EE.UU. telesurtv.net Los propios vecinos de la localidad descubrieron la camioneta y al hacérseles sospechosa se comunicaron con las autoridades.


Ad Hoc march support group (2023-08-07). Monday 8/7: A walk for Immigrant Justice. indybay.org March from Golden Gate Bridge Vista Point to S.F. Civic Center…

Eunice Cho (2023-08-07). Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention, Three Years Into the Biden Administration. aclu.org Three years into the Biden administration, the number of people held in ICE detention continues to grow, and private prison companies hold an increasingly tight grip on the mass immigration detention system. | As the ACLU has

WSWS (2023-08-07). The bodies of two migrants found in the Rio Grande, one in buoy barrier set up by Texas governor. wsws.org Abbott announced the deployment of the marine barrier in the Rio Grande last month.

Staff (2023-08-07). Mueren dos migrantes en dos naufragios en las costas de Lampedusa. telesurtv.net Las operaciones de salvamento siguen todavía en marcha este domingo dada la enorme dificultad que comporta alcanzar a los supervivientes por las duras condiciones del mar.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-08-07). Italy: 69 migrants rescued after shipwrecks on Lampedusa island. plenglish.com Rome, Aug 7 (Prensa Latina) Italian rescue teams managed to rescue 69 people in the last hours in waters near the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, after two shipwrecks in which at least two people died, a report said.

Martin Hacthoun (2023-08-06). U.S. returns more irregular migrants to Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) The US Coast Guard returned to Cuba one more group, this of 27 illegal emigrants, who were involved in four illegal exits from the island, the Interior Ministry reported today on Twitter.


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