Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration. — Read on http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

More than 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor in support of detained children, mother – syracuse.com — Read on http://www.syracuse.com/state/2025/04/more-than-1000-march-in-sackets-harbor-in-support-of-detained-children-mother.html

Federal Investigations of UC Faculty Members – The Council of UC Faculty Associations — Read on cucfa.org/2025/04/cucfa-letter-on-eeoc-investigation/

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. — Read on arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

Underneath the mirage, the reality of growing Chinese investment in Africa is not nearly so clear cut. — Read on spectrejournal.com/a-tale-of-two-ports/

In an interview with Mondoweiss, Momodou Taal discusses the threat of deportation for his Palestine activism, Cornell’s cooperation with the government crackdown on free speech, and what is at stake in his fight against the Trump administration. — Read on mondoweiss.net/2025/03/this-fight-is-bigger-than-me-and-we-cant-afford-to-lose-it-momodou-taal-on-his-fight-against-the-trump-administration/

Cooperation Jackson hosted Grassroots Economics in Jackson, MS from Monday, March 10th  through Thursday, March 14th. The purpose of this encounter was to set up our own Mutual Exchange and Rotational Labor Association (ROLA) system in Jackson.  — Read on cooperationjackson.org/blog/creatingcommunityassetvouchersinjacksonms

Molly Wickham joins The Breach Show to discuss a recent court ruling that found the RCMP breached her Charter rights but upheld her conviction for blocking the CGL pipeline — Read on breachmedia.ca/wetsuweten-leader-land-defending-inherently-racist/

The Salvadoran president wanted the U.S. off his back. He got his wish. — Read on http://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-21/bukele-biden-el-salvador-us-relations