Fighting for water
December 29, 2020
For the families of eight water protectors in Honduras, there will be no holiday season this year. They will continue to fight for the freedom of their loved ones who have each been jailed for up to two years for participating in a struggle to keep iron ore mining out of the headwaters of the rivers they depend on.
“It is the start of a new stage of struggle, a stage of unity and we are not going to stay at home,” said Juana Zúniga, the wife of one of the eight imprisoned water protectors, during a December 21 press conference, “The joy of spending Christmas with family has been taken away from us, but we will nonetheless continue fighting. We will continue struggling for the freedom of our compañeros.”
Last Thursday – International Human Rights Day 2020, and a day after International Anti-Corruption Day – the government of United States President Donald Trump announced travel and other sanctions against six present and past Jamaican policemen who were part of the controversial Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit (CMU). According to The Gleaner of December 11, 2020, the CMU was criticised as a “trigger-happy police squad that committed multiple extrajudicial killings”, and the State Department revealed that the six were targeted by Washington for their involvement in gross violations in human rights in Jamaica”, citing the extrajudicial killings of four people – two men and two women – on May 7, 2003 at Kraal in Clarendon.
December 15, 2020
A team of Cornell faculty, graduate students and undergraduates is fighting to save Lisa Montgomery from federal execution next month, supporting her bid for clemency from courtrooms to recording studios to a social media campaign urging followers to #SaveLisa and consider #HerWholeTruth.
They hope a more complete understanding of Montgomery’s severe mental illness and history of relentless sexual and physical abuse – never fully disclosed at trial and dismissed by prosecutors as an “abuse excuse” – will persuade President Donald Trump to grant her a reprieve from becoming the first woman put to death by the U.S. government in nearly 70 years.
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