Under the so-called “Leahy Law” the US government must automatically stop providing funding and training to foreign security forces where there is credible information they have committed gross violations of human rights.
The law, named after former Vermont Senator Patrick #Leahy, covers human rights violations including “torture, extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, and rape”.
San Francisco abandoned its plan to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves, but it will find a way to pay reparations to commuters inconvenienced by a protest. because San Francisco is not a serious place
@palvaro The US federal government is currently violating numerous laws (including, for instance, #Leahy laws about funding foreign military units credibly accused of #WarCrimes).
Can all the #SF citizens losing sleep and mental health (and in some cases, the lives of relatives in #Gaza) over their national government being complicit in an ongoing genocide get some kind of compensation?