anonimo (2023-08-10). Barcena continues Mexico-US talks on migration and drugs. plenglish.com Washington, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena continues today her official visit to Washington with talks on migration and drugs and meetings with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Alessandra Bergamin, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-08-09). Survivors Of Oppenheimer's Trinity Test Are Still Fighting For Justice. popularresistance.org Eighteen years ago, as Tina Cordova read her local newspaper in the town of Tularosa, New Mexico, she noticed a letter to the editor that made her pause. It was written by the now late Fred Tyler, a fellow New Mexican, about his mother's recent passing from cancer, after having suffered from several types over the course of her life. "I'm wondering," Cordova recalled Tyler writing, "when we are going to hold our government accountable for the damage they did by detonating an atomic bomb in our backyard?" | In south-central New Mexico, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945.

Mary Hudetz, Pro Publica. (2023-08-09). We Carry The Burden Of Repatriating Our Ancestors. popularresistance.org We had reached the top of a sandstone mesa when Theresa Pasqual set down her hiking pole and scanned the storied canyon before us. | We could see the centuries-old buildings of Chaco Canyon, a site in northwest New Mexico that her tribe's ancestors, the Ancestral Puebloans, had occupied before eventually establishing other communities in the region. Pueblo Bonito, the canyon's largest structure, sprawled from near the base of the bluff where we stood, its walls arcing around hundreds of hollowed rooms. | Two colleagues and I had traveled to the canyon with Pasqual as part of our reporting on how the nation's most…

Staff (2023-08-09). Conviasa Makes Historic First International Flight With All-Women Crew. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan state-owned airline Conviasa made history by registering its first international flight with an all-female crew. | The airline reported through social media, "This Monday, our first all-women international flight crew took off. The Embraer ERJ-190 aircraft, V0 3736, flew the Caracas, Venezuela — Cancún, Mexico route." | Venezuelan Minister for Transportation and President of Conviasa Ramón Celestino Velásquez stated, "Venezuelan women are taking over the skies," referring to the first flight crewed solely by women. | #07Ago °Nuestra Tripulación de Mujeres! teleSUR (2023-08-10). Twenty-Seven Migrants Found Dead in Libyan Desert. telesurenglish.net The crisis began at the beginning of July, when at least 1,200 migrants and asylum seekers of sub-Saharan origin were detained in mass raids in the city of Sfax, the main starting point of the migratory route by sea, and expelled to border areas, also with neighboring Algeria. | The crisis began at the beginning of July, when at least 1,200 migrants and asylum seekers of sub-Saharan origin were detained in mass raids in the city of Sfax. Aug. 10, 2023.

teleSUR, dcdc, DRL (2023-08-10). Naufragio deja 41 migrantes muertos cerca de Lampedusa, Italia. telesurtv.net El pasado sábado, otros dos naufragios frente a Lampedusa dejaron al menos 34 personas fallecidas.

teleSUR, dcdc, DRL (2023-08-10). Papa Francisco exige actuación ante naufragio de migrantes. telesurtv.net Más de 1.800 personas han perdido la vida en lo que va de año en la travesía del norte de África a Europa.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-10). At least 27 migrants expelled from Tunisia found dead in Libyan desert. peoplesdispatch.org Libyan authorities claimed on Wednesday, August 9, to have found at least 27 dead bodies, including some of children, in the desert near the border with Tunisia. The bodies were of migrants who were likely expelled from Tunisia. | The migrants were reportedly forced to wander in the blazing heat of the desert for days without enough food, water, and shelter after being forced across the Libyan border by the Tunisian authorities. They died due to dehydration and starvation. | Most of the dead bodies were found south of the Tunisia-Libya border crossing and have been identified as Sub-Saharan African migrants. Thes…

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-08-09). How immigrant warehouse workers in Minnesota took on Amazon and won. therealnews.com "I've never been an organizer," Khali Jama says, "but I've always fought." As a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker living in Minnesota, Jama has always had to fight for the life she, her family, and her fellow workers deserve. And earlier this year, after bringing that fight to the Minnesota state legislature, Khali and her coworkers achieved a major victory. "On May 16," Lisa Kwon reports in PRISM, "Minnesota lawmakers passed the nation's strongest Amazon warehouse worker protection legislation with the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which ensures that workers can take breaks during th…

teleSUR (2023-08-10). Argentine Campaign Halted Due to Violent Death of Girl. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the violent death of an 11-year-old girl paralyzed the electoral campaign in Argentina, a country that is holding primary elections next Sunday. | RELATED: | Morena Dominguez was going to her school when she was attacked by two individuals on a motorcycle who wanted to steal her backpack. The girl was dragged along the ground and received a strong blow to the liver that caused internal bleeding. She later di…

Nathan Erderof, Left Voice. (2023-08-08). Sink The Floating Migrant Prisons, Let Them All In. popularresistance.org A large "barge" (read: prison) for asylum seekers has recently arrived in the port of Portland, on the south coast of England in Dorset. The floating facility is called "Bibby Stockholm" and, beginning this summer, will "accommodate" around 500 male migrants between the ages of 18 to 65 for approximately 18 months. The aim is to keep these migrants offshore (preventing them from setting foot on English soil) while they wait for their cases to be processed. | To counter immigration, the European Union and its Western allies — from Calais to the Greek islands, all the way to the Mexican border — have al…

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…

Staff (2023-08-08). Will Biden Stop Texas from Separating Asylum-Seeking Families at Border Under Operation Lone Star? democracynow.org We get an update from the Texas border, where human rights advocates are condemning Republican Governor Greg Abbott's "Operation Lone Star" for its human rights abuses. Texas troopers have reportedly separated over two dozen migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in a major change of policy. This comes amid a deadly heat wave and after the first deaths linked to floating barrels wrapped in razor wire that Abbott put in the Rio Grande to block asylum seekers from crossing. "We're calling for an end to the use of all of these detractions that are getting in the way of people being…

teleSUR, JCM, JGN (2023-08-08). El legado de la lucha de Emiliano Zapata en América Latina. telesurtv.net Zapata nació en Anenecuilco, en el estado de Morelos, el día 8 de agosto de 1879 y fue asesinado el 10 de abril de 1919, a la edad de 39 años.

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 . . . |

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

Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. (2023-08-08). World's Richest City Says 'No More Room' Left For Desperate Migrants. popularresistance.org For the first few days of August, migrants seeking asylum from around the world converged outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, waiting for shelter openings. Around 200 migrants coming from countries such as Mauritania, Ecuador, Chad, Venezuela, Burundi, Peru, and Colombia resorted to sleeping outside on the city streets as they were denied entry into the overcrowded hotel. The city cleared the migrants and moved them using MTA buses to different city shelters on August 3. | New York City has a unique "right to shelter" law, which means that the city is legally required to provide shelter to those who ask.

Staff (2023-08-08). "Broken System": NYC Says It Has No More Room for Asylum Seekers as Advocates Demand Long-Term Shelter. democracynow.org New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a plan to house as many as 2,000 asylum seekers at a tent complex on Randalls Island in the East River. Tens of thousands of asylum seekers have been sent to New York since last year and must wait 150 days to file for a work permit, leaving them no options to make a stable living. As the Adams administration claims the city has surpassed its ability to shelter new arrivals, migrants have been stuck in the city's shelter system for months or repeatedly been forced to sleep in the streets, including last week when dozens waited outside Manhattan's Roosevelt H…

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-08-08). Interceptan cerca de 148 haitianos en Islas Turcas y Caicos. telesurtv.net La Policía ha interceptado en este año 23 embarcaciones en las que viajaban 2.408 hombres inmigrantes, 622 mujeres y 21 menores de edad.

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

teleSUR (2023-08-07). Fifty Missing and Four Dead After Shipwreck off Tunisian Coasts. telesurenglish.net The Canary Islands route continues to be the most deadly, because people are exposed to open ocean crossings that can exceed a distance of 450 kilometers and can reach up to 1000 kilometers. | The Tunisian coast guard has recovered 901 bodies of migrants drowned off its coasts between January 1 and July 20 this year. Aug. 7, 2023.

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.