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Prosecute a Cop? You’ll Face Removal From Office
Two unions representing police and state troopers in Minnesota wrote a letter to Gov. Tim Walz last friday. An elected prosecutor in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, was prosecuting one of their own, and they wanted her removed from the case — immediately.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/22/mary-moriarty-minnesota-reform-police-union-removal/
https://archive.is/o9zTN

North Carolina court rules landlord had no repair duty before explosion
In the majority opinion that sided with then-Durham County Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson’s ruling to dismiss Terry’s lawsuit, Associate Justice Tamara Barringer said that the common law created no duty for a landlord to inspect a leased property. Lucas hadn’t inspected the furnace or and other portion of the property since Terry and his family occupied it, she wrote. Terry’s wife signed a lease for the home in the mid-2000s.
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-landlord-tenant-explosion-supreme-court-37356107c0041838346424786afdb103

Texas troops clash with migrants over barbed-wire breach at US border
A group of migrants clashed with Texas national guard troops over a breach of barbed wire fencing in El Paso on Thursday as they waited to turn themselves in to federal border agents – underscoring the power struggle between the state and federal government over immigration law enforcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/texas-troops-clash-migrants-border-el-paso

FBI: Alaska Airlines passengers may be victims of a crime after Boeing blowout
The Justice Department investigation adds to the legal peril Boeing is facing. The company also is the subject of ongoing probes by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/fbi-investigation-boeing-alaska-airlines-passengers

Dismay as Louisiana lookback law for child sexual abuse victims struck down
In a split ruling that has major implications for hundreds of child sexual abuse victims, the Louisiana state supreme court has struck down a law that allowed victims to file civil lawsuits over molestation that happened decades ago. Child molestation victims and their advocates were devastated by the 4-3 ruling from a court whose members are elected.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/louisiana-lookback-law-child-sexual-abuse-victims

Chicago voters reject ‘mansion tax’ to fund homeless services during Illinois primary
It’s a loss for first-term Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who championed the so-called “mansion tax.”The proposal would have incrementally raised the city’s real estate transfer tax on properties valued at more than $1 million. Supporters estimated it would have generated $100 million annually for homeless services, including for mental health care. There are roughly 68,000 homeless people in Chicago on any given night.
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-mansion-tax-e67972192317186fd41988bdfbd6348a

From Ang Bayan: Women Bear Half The Imperialist Sky
Filipino women bear the worst effects of the neo-liberal policies imposed by US imperialism and its puppet state in the past four decades. Due to policies of liberalization, deregulation and privatization, they are further marginalized to the fringes of society, where they are forced to endure informal, insecure and jobs with slave-like wages. The majority of women belong to the most exploited and oppressed sectors of society—workers, farmers and indigenous people, the rural and urban poor. In the past decade, more than half of them, age 15 and older, have not been counted as part of the labor force because of the nature of the jobs they perform. Among them are the millions of housewives who engage in farm work and accept “sideline” jobs while burdened with heavy housework and childcare. In 2022, about 20 million were excluded from the labor force, unemployed and underemployed.
https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/from-ang-bayan-women-bear-half-the-imperialist-sky/

As VP Harris Visits Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans Call for End to US Colonialism
Vice President Kamala Harris is on her way to Puerto Rico, which is marking two historic events this week: the abolition of slavery and a United States-backed massacre that left 21 Puerto Ricans dead. … On March 21, 1937, Puerto Rican nationalists assembled for a peaceful march on Palm Sunday in the city of Ponce to commemorate the abolition of slavery and protest the imprisonment of their leader, Pedro Albizu Campos. Like the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover, then U.S.-appointed Gov. Blanton Winship saw Puerto Rican independence activists and groups as a threat to U.S. economic and military control of the island. On his watch, local police fired at and brutalized the marchers, with 21 killed, nearly all civilians, and 200 wounded. A U.S. commission found that Winship lied about marchers initiating the violence, but he was never prosecuted for that or for reportedly ordering the Ponce massacre. The violence of white supremacy and its iterations today, and the violence against pro-independence advocates have been constants, whether under Spanish or U.S. rule.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-vp-harris-visits-puerto-rico-puerto-ricans-call-for-end-to-us-colonialism/

Counter-Thesis 1 PSR: The Semifeudal Alibi for Protracted War A critique of Sison's book Philippine Society and Revolution
Lenin, more than once, described Russian society as semifeudal, and even barbaric, because of the widespread survivals of serfdom and the autocratic rule of Tsarism. But these peculiar features of Russian society did not prevent him from going deeper and penetrating into the very core of the question in an attempt to understand the basic process determining the socio-economic evolution of Russian society. And his essential conclusion was, the mode of production of Russian society was basically bourgeois and capitalist, despite, and through all, its medieval features and stages of transition. But for Sison, he is fully contented, and very proud of himself, with his “semicolonial and semifeudal” sketch of Philippine society, emphasizing every line and feature in bold strokes, and for the past 25 years, has vehemently insisted that this is the only way Philippine society should be drawn. He has given his semicolonial and semifeudal “analysis” of Philippine society a life of its own, its own theoretical rationalization. He makes the impression that he has concatenated it into a distinct mode of production, into an economic category, even raised it to the level of a “basic principle” of Marxism-Leninism that should be “reaffirmed” in the decade of the 1990’s up to the new century by every Filipino proletarian revolutionary. Ask any comrade “faithful” to the Party line what the prevailing mode of production in the country is, and his ready reply will be: “Philippine society is neither feudal nor capitalist but semicolonial and semifeudal.” This is our prevai-ling understanding of the mode of production dominant in Philippine society. But is this the “official Party line”? Let us review the “Party Bible”—Sison’s Philippine Society and Revolution—to ascertain what truly is his analysis of the prevailing mode of production.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lagman/works/psr.htm

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