Russian Drone Attacks Kill One In Kyiv: Mayor
UPDATES with 1 killed, 20 evacuated At least one person was killed Monday night in a “massive attack” by Russian drones on the Ukrainian capital, the city’s mayor said. Rescuers evacuated three injured people and 20 others from a multi-storey building in a southern area of Kyiv after falling debris caused a fire, Vitali Klitschko… […]
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One civilian has died in Kyiv after a “massive” drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said Sunday. “A 35-year-old woman was hospitalised, a 41-year-old man died,” the mayor and former boxer said on Telegram, reporting that drone wreckage had crashed near a petrol station. He said Kyiv’s air defences had […]
Read MorePrisoners face deadly retaliation for their strike – People’s World | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- October 7, 2022
- Alabama
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- prisoner rights
- Prisons
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- U.S.
Prisoners at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Ala. in 2011. Cell phone footage of an attack in Donaldson that left one man dead surfaced this weekend. | Dave Martin/AP Last Friday, five days after Alabama prisoners launched a statewide labor strike, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey assured reporters that the head of the state’s beleaguered corrections […]
Read MoreThe Stunning Neglect and Racist Politics Behind Alabama’s Prison Strike | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- October 7, 2022
- Alabama
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- mass incarceration
- parole
- Prisons
- Racism
- strikes
On September 26th, prisoners in Alabama began a work stoppage to protest their living conditions and several of the state’s tough sentencing and parole laws. (It’s one of only seven states that do not pay prisoners for their labor.) In response to the strike, Kay Ivey, the state’s Republican governor, called the prisoners’ demands “unreasonable.” […]
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