An ID-reading system used by many bars records the name and address of everyone that enters. This should be illegal.

Making the system even nastier, a bar can blacklist anyone, who will then be denied entry to all of these bars, perhaps for decades. But that would never affect me — because the mere fact that the bar wants to run my ID through a system that will record who I am will convince me to refuse.

We should organize to regulate all such systems, both how they blacklist people and how they record information about customers who are not accused of anything. But until that happens, we must stand up for our rights.

Economists estimate that US sanctions on Venezuela have killed tens of thousands of people there.

Tory politicians in the 1950s and 60s wanted to ; exclude blacks from the Caribbean from moving to Britain, while permitting whites. Eventually they designed a system to have a discriminatory effect without acknowledging its racist purpose.

An investigation concludes that China is harvesting organs from prisoners. Perhaps mainly from Falun Gong practitioners.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to oppose certain proposed military spending.

If you sign, please spread the word!