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The Shift: The DNC hits Chicago Amid Protest Over Gaza

by Michael Arria, published on Mondoweiss, August 20, 2024 The Democratic National Convention has hit Chicago amid Israel’s unrelenting genocide on Gaza. Protests rage outside the convention, with activists demanding that the Biden-Harris administration end its military support for Israel. “We have accomplished something already. There will be thousands of Black, Asian, Latino and Native people saying the central issue[…]

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Israel’s Ambassador Pushes to shut Down Pro-Palestinian Activism

by Yves Engler, published on The Canada Files,  October 20, 2023 Israel wants Canada to criminalize growing displays of solidarity with Palestinians. In a bid to amplify calls to ban Palestine solidarity marches, Israel’s ambassador Iddo Moed told the Canadian Press on Thursday, “I don’t think that democracies allow people to hate and to incite, and I think that that is something that is[…]

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Activists Demand Biden and Congress End War on Korea

by Joe Piette, published on Workers World, August 2, 2023 Washington D.C.~ A National Mobilization to End the Korean War drew hundreds of people to several events here on July 27 and 28. July 27 was the 70th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended combat in the Korean War. That agreement — among the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea[…]

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Peace Activist Sentenced for Criticizing German War Policy in Ukraine

by Justus Leicht, published on the World Socialist Web Site, January 31,  2023 My information is that  Heinrich Bücker has appealed his conviction and is waiting for the court to set a new date for his appeal hearing.  [jb] The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker in January for speaking out in public against Germany’s war policy in[…]

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Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany

by Phil Wilayto, December 31, 2022 June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion to publicly question why the German government is now supporting neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine. As a result, that activist is now facing the possibility of up to three years in[…]

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Snakes in the Garden

by Luis H. Francia, published on Inquirer.Net, August 24, 2020 (recommended by Malaya Movement Northeast) NEW YORK—Zara Alvarez, a 39-year-old human rights worker, single mother, and former political prisoner, was shot and killed the evening of August 17 in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental. That she was slain in such a fashion was not completely unexpected: having a[…]

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Congolese Youth Face Repression for Speaking Up

Young activists who are in the forefront of challenging the Joseph Kabila regime have been subjected to indefinite detention By Kate Janse van Rensburg, originally published on The Dawn News, April 10, 2018 Christian Lumu Lukusa and James Katshingu were kidnapped by the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa on November 22, 2017. They[…]

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South Korean Progressives to Washington: Support Peace Talks and Halt the War Exercises

by Zoom In Korea staff, published on Zoom In Korea, March 27, 2018 Kim Jong-hoon, a member of South Korea’s National Assembly and co-chair of the progressive Minjung Party, led a delegation to Washington on March 20-21 to appeal to U.S. lawmakers about supporting efforts for peace on the Korean Peninsula. The U.S. Congress and Senate should not just watch[…]

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