It is important to monitor SARS-COV-2 in the human population in order to keep track of its mutations:
the Guardian
Political support for surveillance of Covid waning in Australia despite ‘waves of mutations’, scientists say
Active community testing required on an intermittent basis so see ‘the whole iceberg, not just the tip’, Prof Catherine Bennett says
[01/02] Black Britons convicted of a killing without evidence that they had anything directly to do with it are challenging the verdict:
the Guardian
Human rights group backs Manchester men who say racism led to murder convictions
Three black men jailed under joint enterprise law, which is often based on ‘dubious evidence’ of gang membership, says Liberty
 It may well be true that the practice of convicting people of murder by labeling them as gangsters because they are friends with a murderer is applied most often to blacks. Perhaps the decision to apply the practice is made in a biased manner. But the crucial problem with this practice is that it is fundamentally not a valid way to...
Georgia Republicans plan to set aside District Attorney Willis, who is prosecuting the insurrectionist, as a way to sabotage the case against him:
The Intercept
Georgia GOP Gears Up to Remove Atlanta Prosecutor Who Indicted Donald Trump
The Georgia prosecutor who indicted Trump, Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis, is being targeted by the GOP for removal under a new law.
 This uses a new law that Republicans adopted so as to protect racist killers from prosecution.
Various countries have passed or are considering passing laws against the crime of ecocide:
the Guardian
Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime
Mexico latest country where government is considering passing new laws to criminalise environmental destruction
Climate defenders call on the participants in the Federal Reserve's policy symposium to pay heed the need to defend Earth's climate: https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/in-a-summer-of-climate-chaos-fed-summit-ignores-risk-of-climate-crisis-to-global-economy
Everyone: call on the Argentine government and its oil company not to build a pipeline in Vaca Muerta:
Tell the Argentine government and YPF: no pipeline in Vaca Muerta!
Vaca Muerta Sur oil pipeline in Argentina is about to be approved. This project will export oil from Vaca Muerta in western Argentina to the San Ma...
Philadelphia thugs shot Eddie Irizarry inside his car, then lied about what they had done:
the Guardian
Philadelphia police change narrative in killing of Eddie Irizarry by officers
Authorities had earlier claimed the 27-year-old had lunged at officers with a knife, but now say he never stepped out of his car
 A body camera video proved they were lying. One of them has been fired, but what's needed is a prosecution.
US citizens: support the People's Response Act:
Sign on: Become a grassroots supporter of the People's Response Act!
Public safety is a matter of public health. However, for many communities, “public safety” translates to criminalization, surveillance, and bru...
 This plan, to send people with medically-oriented training rather than training in arresting criminals to help people who are flipping out, is — in substance — what was advocated under the misleading term "defund the police".
Patrick Braxton, a black man, was elected mayor of a small town in Alabama. The white men who used to be the town government used a series of mockeries of government procedure to deny that he had been elected:
the Guardian
He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out
For years the mayor in Newbern was appointed, not elected. When Patrick Braxton won the election, the outgoing mayor and his cronies refused to acc...
 Biden should do what Lyndon Johnson did: send the national guard to put a stop to this. Or perhaps federal marshalls would be sufficient.
West Virginia can restrict abortion pill sales, federal judge rules:
the Guardian
West Virginia can restrict abortion pill sales, federal judge rules
Judge says near-total abortion ban signed by governor in September 2022 takes precedence over FDA approvals
 This decision is logically consistent, but banning abortion is an injustice in any case, and the more methods it prohibits, the bigger the injustice.