‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

When she asked why she was being detained, an officer told her his supervisor had instructed him to hold her. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

#EU #TravelWarning #USA #EconomicAssault #Kidnapping #Bonuses #Travelers #Retirees #TravelIndustry #Impoverishment #Detention

Climate activists have told openDemocracy they are being hit with “crippling” bills totalling thousands of pounds because of legal action brought by government and public bodies to prevent protests and protect planet killers.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/civil-injunctions-just-stop-oil-insulate-britain-extinction-rebellion-punishment-protests/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=content_studio

“This government in particular doesn't like being challenged by groups such as Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.”
#Fascism #EcocideProtection #ProfitPolicy #BillionsSuffer #Corruption #EconomicAssault #EnvironmentalAssault #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #PlanetDefenders

WHY #CAPITALISM #SUCKS AND WON'T GET BETTER
Richard D. Wolff reveals the incredible things he’s seen in board room meetings...

#manipulation #ride #nostopping #increasingexploitation #economicassault #governmentcollusion #makethepoorpay

National Rent Control? It’s Closer Than You Think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlF6a0JLsYc&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion

A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it.
They're a part of a coalition of massive landlords, baks, and investors who are pooling resources to block rent control and renter protection policies.
One of the biggest landlord industry lobbying groups is called the National Multifamily Housing Council. That group has spent almost $10 million lobbying against rent control.
Despite this opposition, we're seeing one of the largest upticks in tenant organizing since the 1970s, as renters across the country face worsening housing crisis. Groups like KC Tenants are at the forefront of this movement, fighting to stop unfair rent hikes and corporate slumlords..

#pricegouging #pricefixing #abusiverent #slumlords #economicassault #tenantorganizing #renterprotection #rentcontrol #rent

POVERTY BY AMERICA
Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond
Capitalisn’t S2E78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZP48gQbsE&ab_channel=StiglerCenter

Poverty will be abolished in America only when a mass movement demands it," writes Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond in his new book, "Poverty, by America." Building on his own lived experiences of growing up poor and continued contact with impoverished communities that "forces [him] to be intellectually honest," he claims that poverty persists in America not because we are incapable of preventing it but because society - and especially the wealthy - benefits from it at the expense of the poor.

#designerpoverty #control #optimumbusinessclimate #classwar #impoverishment #economicassault #exploitation #enslavement