I don’t understand why we insist on gain of function research. Can someone give me the low down on what good would come out of this research? Because I don’t see it..
PETER PAN
Just keep playing with bugs whilst ratcheting the global pandemic emergency architecture toward rinse, repeat of the COVID-19 scam/grift Do you think RFK.Jnr and more critically minded folk in the Trump Administration will be a sufficient handbrake on the criminal nonsense?
Ten years later the Mexican Supreme Court has revoked the sentence against Indigenous Mazateco & political prisoner Miguel Peralta!
We now demand the courts of Oaxaca to grant Miguel full freedom!
We won’t stop taking the streets in solidarity. We want Miguel in the streets
AVISPA COMMUNITY
Mexico.. Demands for complete freedom for Indigenous Mazatec Community Organizer Miguel Peralta. The case of Miguel Peralta, community organizer and ex-political prisoner from the community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca.
The Supreme Court decided to put a definite end to the nearly ten years of political imprisonment and persecution if Miguel Peralt but he awaits confirmation by local Oaxaca Court controlled by ruling oligarchy.
Miguel is one of 35 members of the community assembly of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón criminalized in case number 02/2015, following a socio-political conflict in December 2014.
The conflict was a consequence of mounting tension between the community assembly and the interests of a far right ruling cacique group, backed by political party power, who’ve sought to maintain historic and racist control of the municipal government, municipal funds, and the exploitation of natural resources in the community.
Miguel became a symbol for all the political prisoners, especially all those indigenous activistas arbitrarily jailed in environmental and land disputes.
On December 14, 2014, the assembly was violently attacked by the cacique group led by Manuel Zepeda Cortés as they gathered in the town plaza to elect a community authority.
The ensuing violence left two dead, including the son of Manuel Zepeda.
Zepeda’s daughter, Elisa Zepeda Lagunas, would lead the criminalization efforts, fabricating crimes and using positions of political power in the municipality and then state government to influence the legal processes.
Miguel Peralta was arrested in April 2015 on charges related to the events on December 14.
Over two years later, on October 26, 2018, he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for homicide and attempted homicide.
Following an appeal from his legal team, his fifty-year sentence was absolved and his case returned to the final hearing, for the fact that he was denied his right to be at his first final hearing.
Prison authorities had used the excuse that they didn’t have gas money to transport him from prison in Cuicatlán to the court in Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca.
In October 2019, he was acquitted of the charges and released after spending almost 4.5 years in prison.
Following an appeal from the accusing party, on March 4, 2022, the fifty-year sentence was reaffirmed and a warrant put out for his arrest after less than two years of freedom.
Following an appeal to that decision, the collegiate court in Oaxaca returned his legal process back eight years, to the testimony stage, seeking again for Miguel to face this process from inside prison.
In the face of this decision, his legal team filed a request to the Supreme Court of the Nation for a review.
Miguel Peralta is currently free, but with a warrant out for his arrest.
All Eyes on the Supreme Court
“The court had a historic opportunity” explained Miguel Peralta’s lawyer, Araceli Olivos, in a press conference in Mexico City.
The court had the opportunity to set a different precedent in the relation between Indigenous peoples and the Mexican state; a relation that has historically been stained by oppression, exploitation, discrimination, and marginalization against Indigenous peoples.
With the decision to revoke Miguel’s sentence the court begins undoing the historical atrocitiess perpetrated against Indigenous peoples.
Palestinians react after a school sheltering displaced people was hit by an Israeli strike in Shati camp in Gaza City November 7, 2024 (REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa)
Later in the day, Al Jazeera reported that at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Thursday, including 42 in the north, where Israeli forces are carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign.
At least 12 were killed in a strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza
Palestine Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli forces killed 78 Palestinians and injured 214 in the previous 48-hour period as Israeli […]
Reuters reported that dozens of Palestinian families were pushed out of Beit Lahia, one of the cities where the ethnic cleansing campaign has been focused. Israeli forces have been destroying homes in Beit Lahia to ensure Palestinians don’t return.
“After they displaced most or all of the people in Jabalia, now they are bombing everywhere, killing people on the roads and inside their houses to force everyone out,” a displaced Palestinian man told Reuters.
In southern Gaza, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported three children were killed by an Israeli strike in
Gaza’s Health Ministry said that the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 43,469 and the number of wounded to 102,561.
The ministry only counts bodies brought to hospitals and morgues.
“There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry said.
A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza have estimated the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death.
El supuesto plan de Trump para una misión de mantenimiento de la paz de Occidente y la OTAN en Ucrania coloca a Rusia en el dilema de o bien prevenirlo con otra ofensiva a gran escala a nivel nacional, atacando a esas fuerzas después de que entren con el riesgo de desencadenar una guerra mundial. […]
Como tal, realmente sólo quedan tres opciones para Rusia:
1) escalar ahora antes de que las tropas occidentales/de la OTAN entren en Ucrania y obligar a Zelensky a aceptar estas demandas o capturar y mantener suficiente tierra para desmilitarizar la mayor parte posible del país;
2) escalar después de que entren con el riesgo de provocar una crisis de riesgo similar a la de Cuba que podría derivar en una Tercera Guerra Mundial; o
3) aceptar el hecho consumado de congelar el conflicto a lo largo de la Línea de Contacto y comenzar a preparar al público en consecuencia.
No está claro qué opción elegirá Putin, ya que todavía no ha dado señales de preferencia por ninguna de ellas.
Sin embargo, es oportuno citar al ministro de Asuntos Exteriores ruso del siglo XIX , Alexander Gorchakov, quien dijo la famosa frase “ Rusia no está de mal humor, se está recomponiendo ”.
Rusia sabe que el tiempo avanza para alcanzar sus objetivos máximos antes de que Trump probablemente ordene a las fuerzas de paz occidentales y de la OTAN que entren en Ucrania.
El Kremlin está en silencio por ahora precisamente porque los responsables políticos aún no han decidido qué hacer
The Hind Rajab Foundation, in partnership with the March 30 Movement, has taken an urgent legal step to combat rising instances of hate-fueled violence in Europe.
Hind Rajab: 70% of Israeli Genocide have been children and women
Following disturbing incidents in Amsterdam, the two organizations have submitted a formal criminal complaint to the Amsterdam Public Prosecutor’s Office, seeking immediate action against supporters […]
In the last week, six women were reported murdered, bringing the total to 91 women murdered in Oaxaca in 2024.
The organization Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity condemned the escalation of femicidal violence recorded in recent months due to the inaction of the Government of Oaxaca, which, it said, is responsible for guaranteeing the lives of Oaxacan women.
“We demand that Salomon Jara guarantee the safety of women and girls given the violence that permeates Oaxaca, which is reflected in 677 disappearances and 204 femicides during his government,” its members indicated.
It is also worth remembering that Datos de México Evalua, an organization dedicated to collecting data on government actions, indicates that in Oaxaca impunity for the crime of femicide reaches 100%, while in cases of disappearance it is 99.6%.
The Oaxaca (pronounced owachaka) local government is controlled by the entrenched white oligarchy which owns land, industry and the legal system, inheriting extreme racism and sexismo and dedicated to terrorist violence against the large and organised indigenous communities.
For more information… Feminicidios en Oaxaca a la alza; asesinan a dos mujeres triquis (Aristegui Noticias, 6 de noviembre de 2024)
Hundreds of mainly indigenous people DISAPPEARED by far right rulers in Oaxaca with ongoing Impunity
“The recognition of the human rights of kidnapped and murdered people has been slow; 147 cases registered so far iin 2024.
For many years there has been no will on the part of some institutions and public policies of the past were not appropriate.
In addition, the lack of legislation to address this social phenomenon has placed the victims in a state of vulnerability,” said Elizabeth Lara Rodriguez during her speech.
The majority are inhabitants of indigenous towns and communities.”
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The Mexican Supreme Court has revoked the sentence against Indigenous Mazateco & political prisoner Miguel Peralta! We now demand the courts of Oaxaca to grant Miguel full freedom! We won’t stop taking the streets in solidarity. We want Miguel in the streets with us!🔥🖤✊🏿🕊️🧵1/2
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