“How on Earth,” asked the UN’s top Palestine expert, “is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe?”
https://therealnews.com/piracy-israel-seizure-gaza-flotilla?utm_source=mastodon
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“It’s time to build communities, not data centers,” said one local activist.
https://therealnews.com/new-jersey-residents-defeat-ai-data-center?utm_source=mastodon
“Nobody else is coming to save us. It is our world that we're going to fight for. And May Day is the day that we have set to lead that fight.”
Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.
https://therealnews.com/resist-data-center-organizers-share-how?utm_source=mastodon
“The prison facility itself is maximum security, but society is just an extension; it's a minimum-security prison. And that [radical insight] is at the core of Black anarchism.”
https://therealnews.com/black-anarchism-in-the-us-a-rich-radical-tradition?utm_source=mastodon
Rep. LaMonica McIver says ICE detainees who agreed to voluntarily leave the country and signed their deportation papers are still being held for months in detention centers, while private prison contractors report growing revenues and lucrative government contracts.
Activists say ending local and state cooperation with ICE is a key way to obstruct Trump’s mass deportation machine.
Last month, 3,800 meatpacking workers in UFCW Local 7 in Greeley, Colorado launched the industry’s first major strike in 40 years.
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.
https://therealnews.com/how-democrats-helped-clear-trumps-path-back-to-power?utm_source=mastodon
“She was very much ahead of her time… this is a formerly enslaved Black woman who was speaking with an unfettered, unrestrained radicalism.”
“Trump is right. A pointless war or universal daycare,” said one Democratic politician. “He’s right: That’s the choice.”
Just as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was set to shutter, it was purchased by the Venetoulis Institute, which also owns the Baltimore Banner. Then, they fired most of the union workers who participated in the recently ended strike at the PPG.
“Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to buy beef at the grocery store and not have to buy Top Ramen.”
“Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer?” asked US Sen. Chris Murphy.
“If you understand what an organization like ICE is doing, and you can quantify it… you can resist effectively,” says Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box.
https://therealnews.com/meet-the-data-analysts-exposing-ices-plans?utm_source=mastodon
“The vast majority of Americans, Europeans, Iranians, of people in the Global South, who now see increases in the price of food because fertilizers are going up, because oil is going up, because natural gas is going up—the workers of the world are united in being the losers of this war.”
https://therealnews.com/yanis-varoufakis-iran-war-losers?utm_source=mastodon
Revelations that the co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union sexually abused young girls and women, including fellow civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, has set off a bomb in Latino communities and movement spaces.
https://therealnews.com/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-dolores-huerta?utm_source=mastodon
An Ecuadorian human rights group has called for a probe after “bombings, burning of homes, arbitrary detentions, torture, and threats against the civilian population” by the joint US-Ecuadorian military operation.
“I'm going to show you our tent, where I live with my family and my sisters... As you can see, our lives are a real tragedy.”
“We are in the imperial core. We are the only ones that can actually change this. The rest of the world's been ready. They are waiting for us because they don't want to fucking die at the hands of our insane, belligerent military empire.”
https://therealnews.com/abby-martin-the-us-military-is-earths-greatest-enemy?utm_source=mastodon
Today people are marching to remember the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Argentine coup, honoring the victims of the military dictatorship. This is a special bonus episode of Stories of Resistance.
“As the president becomes more unpopular, his actions will become more extreme, but that doesn't mean they're going to be any more successful,” Ari Berman of Mother Jones tells us.
“As a union, we have it on the books. We do not collaborate… If ICE shows up, I don't know anything. If the cops show up, if you don't have a court order, I have no idea who you're talking about, I'm not talking to you, leave me alone.”
https://therealnews.com/us-postal-workers-ice?utm_source=mastodon
Award-winning journalist and former TRNN board member Dimitri Lascaris is reporting on the ground in Iran right now. You need to see his coverage.
https://therealnews.com/canadian-journalist-iran-war-corporate-media?utm_source=mastodon
The president’s decision means the US “will not illegally intercept and seize the entirely legal and legitimate sovereign trade in oil,” said one observer.
https://therealnews.com/trump-cuba-russian-oil-tanker-illegal-us-blockade?utm_source=mastodon
The announcement of a permanent FBI office in Quito is the latest iteration of the US using security cooperation to intervene in the country’s domestic politics.
https://therealnews.com/fbi-return-to-ecuador?utm_source=mastodon
“Real people have paid the price of this war,” said Rep. Don Beyer. “Civilians have been killed throughout the Middle East, including the US missile strike that killed more than 150 schoolchildren.”
https://therealnews.com/trump-bored-with-iran-war?utm_source=mastodon
A look back at devastating history of foreign intervention in Mexico amid Trump’s present-day threats against the region. This is episode 9 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
https://therealnews.com/how-the-united-states-stole-mexico?utm_source=mastodon
The comments marked the second time in just two months that Bannon has floated having ICE illegally monitor US elections.
“The most corrupt presidency ever—and it’s not even close,” said one critic.
70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about Iran’s “nuclear program.” This is not an accident.