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Workers’ party leader had been held for 580 days for corruption.
Court rules incarceration unlawful until appeals exhausted.
Lula’s accusers are desperately trying to get him out of prison, while he insists on staying there until he’s fully exonerated.
“His death highlights how standing up for environmental and indigenous rights protection can cost people their lives.”
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Reader Comments: Climate Strike demands; Immigrant detention; Labor movement - responses to multiple Portside posts; Germany; Venezuela; China; Trade War; Cuba; Lebanon; Russiagate; How to Help the Bahamas; Resources; Announcements; and more...
Reader Comments: Case for Impeachment; Climate Strike; Tax Scam; State of Labor Unions; Sara Nelson; Ilhan Omar; Bernie Sanders; Amazon Fires; German Greens; Puerto Rico; Cuba Tourism; Protest Songs; Resources, Announcements; more...
Bolsonaro didn’t pour lighter fluid to ignite the flames now raging, but with his policies and rhetoric, he might as well have. Firms owned by a top donor to Trump and McConnell are significantly responsible for the destruction of the rainforest.
Reader Comments: Sanders Political Revolution; Global Authoritarianism; White Supremacy and Terrorism; Immigrant Workers; Jews Disloyal ?!?; David Koch; Puerto Rico; Kashmir; Neoliberalism; Socialist Labor Activism; Climate Strike; Fall Calendar;
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