Notices by Maeve (acrata@anarchism.space)

#Barcelona brought to a state of paralysis by marchers protesting sentencing of #Catalonia independence leaders, and the calling of a general strike. Police say 500k have joined protest march, so we may assume a number close to a million https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50098268

#FIFA boss, as well as #France president #Macron, booed at the closing ceremony for the Women's World Cup, over FIFA's discriminatory behavior towards women athletes. Megan #Rapinoe had recently blasted FIFA on the issue https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-worldcup-usa-nld-booed/fifa-boss-and-macron-booed-at-world-cup-final-ceremony-idUSKCN1U20P6

#Google to limit access to modern ad blocking extensions in #Chrome to enterprise users who pay for Chrome. Users are not pleased https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/

US presidential candidate Bernie #Sanders proposes a ban on for-profit charter schools, and a moratorium on the use of public funds for charter schools https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/18/18630435/bernie-sanders-charter-schools-2020-presidential-candidates-policies

Tifany #Abreu, the first #transgender woman to play in #Brazil's premier women's volleyball league, is running to become the 1st transgender woman in the national legislature https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45731951

US 9th District Appeals Court rules that prosecuting #homeless persons for sleeping in public violates the US Constitution's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/us/-homeless-sleeping-on-street-ruling.html

#Thailand's Junta charges founders of Future Forward party, which opposes military government with violations of the Computer Crime Act for Facebook Live post. The Act is intentionally vague. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2161067/founders-thailands-newest-political-party-charged-computer

US Federal Judge says "ignorance and bigotry", otherwise #transphobia, led #Florida to illegally deny medical treatment to a #transgender inmate https://thinkprogress.org/federal-judge-rules-transgender-inmate-deserves-proper-medical-treatment-5aa6486934fc/

#Philippines: Imee Marcos, daughter of the dictator, advises Filipinos to put the crimes of the dictatorship behind them, raising considerable ire. The #Duterte regime has worked to rehabilitate the dictator https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/world/asia/imee-marcos-ferdinand-marcos-philippines.html

#California's strict #netneutrality bill, the strongest in the country, is close to final passage. Such passage would, of course, have national implications https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/californias-strict-net-neutrality-bill-is-close-to-final-passage/

Newly released documents show that current #CIA chief Gina Haspel personally supervised #torture in a #Thailand black site, and that Senators from both parties on the Intelligence Committee engineered a coverup http://raymcgovern.com/2018/08/10/newly-released-official-documents-show-cia-head-gina-haspel-directly-supervised-waterboarding-at-black-site-in-thailand-sen-intelligence-committee-chair-richard-burr-and-vice/

Recent polling indicates that voters across #Europe are inclined to vote for #authoritarian candidates, and shrug off threats to what remains of their democracies. Much of this is driven by anti- #migrant rhetoric, casting White citizens as imperiled https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/15/anti-immigrant-message-resonates-european-voters/776432002/

#Facebook removed a post quoting the Declaration of Independence on July 4 for violating standards against hate speech, which the Declaration did, indeed, contain https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/07/05/facebook-removes-post-declaration-independence/759939002/

US #immigration authorities temporarily close #Portland, #OR #ICE office in the face of strident protests. Good on Stumptown, a city for which I retain , considerable affection, having lived there 9 years https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622243400/ice-temporarily-closes-portland-office-amid-tumult-of-protests-across-u-s

#UK: London #Anarchist Federation invites folk weary of #tankies on #MayDay to an #antiauthorian social on May 5 (which amusingly is #Marx's 200th birthday) http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos37034.html