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Momodou Taal’s First Amendment Case Against the Trump Administration Heard in Court

by Avery Wang and Benjamin Leynse, published by the Cornell Daily Sun, March 26, 2025 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The legal fight of Momodou Taal, a pro-Palestinian activist and international graduate student, began in court on Tuesday as a federal judge heard the first arguments of Taal’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. At the heart of the hearing was Taal’s possible[…]

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Momodou Taal On His Fight Against The Trump Administration

by D. Musa Springer, published on Popular Resistance, March 25, 2025 ‘This Fight Is Bigger Than Me, And We Can’t Afford To Lose It.’ In an interview with Mondoweiss, Momodou Taal discusses the threat of deportation for his Palestine activism, Cornell’s cooperation with the government crackdown on free speech, and what is at stake in his fight against the Trump[…]

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President Maduro Demands End to Persecution of Venezuelan Migrants

By Telesur and Resumen Latinoamericano , published in Workers World,, March 22, 2025. Translation: John Catalinotto Venezuela: President Maduro demands respect for national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants. On March 22, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro demanded respect for his country’s national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants, while denouncing arbitrary kidnapping[…]

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VSN Denounces Trump’s Targeting of Venezuelan Migrants

Statement by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network, March 2025 The Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN) denounces President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization as an outrageous and illegal action that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan migrants in the context  of an ongoing effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela. The VSN[…]

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Tren de Aragua: Reality and Propaganda

By Eligio Rojas, published on the Orinoco Tribune,  March 21, 2025 “Cosmic dust.” This is how President Nicolás Maduro described the defunct Tren de Aragua, the criminal gang whose name echoes across Latin America and beyond as if it was an organization with a central command, camps, and an arsenal. “The Tren de Aragua is cosmic dust in Venezuela; it[…]

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Bernie and AOC Sheepdog for the Democrats

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 26, 2025 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are trying to re-engage disaffected voters who are rightly disengaged from the Democratic Party. Big rallies can’t hide the fact that the Fighting Oligarchy Tour leads misguided people right back to oligarchy. “Bernie Sanders is this election’s Democratic sheepdog. The sheepdog is a card[…]

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Stop the Attacks on Palestinian Rights Activists

United National Antiwar Coalition, UNAC  Statement Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian born Palestinian and former graduate student at Columbia University, has been detained in a prison in Louisiana and threatened with deportation for his association with pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, where he was a negotiator between the University and the student activists.   He is not the only foreign student to[…]

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Podcasting Star Mario Nawfal Talks to Rawandan President Paul Kagame

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal recently produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. His team repeatedly asked me to record a six-minute response but then neither played it nor explained why. Mario Nawfal recently traveled to Rwanda to interview Rwandan President Paul Kagame,[…]

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Yale Purges Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, Another Targeted Palestine Activist

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, March 19, 2025 Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, was suspended, cut off from her information technology accounts and banned from campus in March of this year. She was accused of terrorism for allegedly belonging to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, by[…]

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