Investigative Psychogeographer Stephen Duplantier of WakiLeaks made history by leaking today’s Times-Picayune yesterday, and now he is leaking tomorrow’s T-P today!!! Both amazing issues are attached, compliments of the Surregional Press Service. Unless you are one of the five remaining subscribers to the Times-Picayune, you will probably not see these literally incredible headlines elsewhere!!! — Max Cafard (Unmanageable Editor, Surregional Press Service)

New Orleans’ Black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city’s police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause. Activists hope that public outrage at recent revelations of widespread police violence and corruption offer an opportunity to make changes in police behavior and practice.

（This is the translated version of a comment from a former employee of Foxconn, which is helpful for us to understand workers’ miserable life at Foxconn: ）

Operating in a climate permeated by violence and impunity, Mexico City based investigative journalist Laura Castellanos continues to be subjected to acts of intimidation because of her reporting on armed groups and radical movements. The continued harassment of journalists highlights the urgent need for the Mexican State to implement an emergency mechanism to protect journalists at risk.

Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights held a public lecture by Gautam Navlakha and Arundhati Roy on the 2nd of June in Mumbai.

This was purportedly Arundhati Roy’s first public meeting in India after her visit to Maoist controlled territories in Dantewada. She outlines her views and clarifies a lot of her ’controversial’ opinions and paints it in the larger canvas of the nation and the globe as a whole. What comes out from this series of videos is her appreciation for the wide spectrum of resistance against state oppression and brutality that is being waged by different types of people in India of which the Maoist resistance is at one extreme.

Gautam Navlakha, another writers and a passionate opponent of state brutalities on people and who has also lived amongst the Maoists and written a beautiful essay, puts across his views.

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