Sweetwater Union High School District educators protest mass layoffs of teachers and librarians in February 2020Voting begins Tuesday and Wednesday for more than 1,500 teachers, librarians, nurses and speech pathologists at Sweetwater Union High School District (SUHSD) in San Diego, California, on a…
Palestinians pray over bodies of people killed in the Israeli bombardment who were brought from the Shifa hospital before burying them in a mass grave in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman) The âhumanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is getting…
On Monday morning, the Biden administration announced a raft of nearly 30 new measures aimed at securing US supply chains. One of these measures was the creation of a new White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience, which convened later that afternoon.The White House is positioning the moves as aimed…
The following letter from the Rail Action Committee is addressed to all members of the GDL train driversâ union.Dear colleagues of the GDL,The Rail Action Committee stands firmly by your side in the current wage dispute. Our action committee organises railway workers, both union members and non-members…
Recently, an international delegation traveled to Cairo, Egypt to visit the Rafah border crossing and pressure the United States to allow aid to be brought in to Gaza. Hundreds of trucks carrying aid are lined up at the border waiting for permission to enter. Clearing the FOG spoke with Sara Flounders…
Above photo: Palestinian prisoner Khalil Zama hugs a relative after being released from an Israeli jail in exchange for Israeli captives released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip at his home in Halhul Village near Hebron in the Occupied West Bank on November 27, 2023. Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images. International…
After the censorship campaign against Roger Waters in the US and Europe in the first half of this year because of his opposition to war, fascism and social inequality, the acclaimed 80-year-old singer has been targeted on the Latin American leg of his âThis is Not a Drillâ tour amid Israelâs genocide…
Did you know an international conference was held in France on November 9 under the title âInternational Humanitarian Conference for Gazaâs Civilian Populationâ? According to the French foreign ministry website, the conference âinvolved states, main donors, international organizations and NGOs…
Above photo: A group of Jewish activists demonstrate near the White House, calling for the ceasefire in Israel, in Washington D.C., on October 16, 2023. Celal Gunes / Anadolu / Getty Images. As the horrific siege against Gaza escalates, we need to confront the violence of Israelâs ethnonationalist…
Above photo: Jewish Voice for Peace on Twitter. @jvplive. A Pause In Genocide Is Not Enough. Amid a pause in Israelâs offensive on Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace is showing that the movement for Palestine will continue. Civil disobedience must lead to broad protests which bring all sectors of the movement…
Above photo: Palestinian journalists in Gaza attend a funeral for a colleague. During the seven weeks of Israeli bombing of Gaza, Israel has killed a record high number of journalists as well as their families. The world is waiting in cautious anticipation amid the four-day pause in hostilities in Gaza…
The Ashtar Theater, a non-profit Palestinian ensemble, based in Ramallah on the occupied West Bank, has issued a call for international readings and performances around the world of the play, The Gaza Monologues, on November 29.The Gaza Monologues was written and first performed in 2010 by Gazan youth…
Above photo: Part of a demonstration in London on Oct. 8,2022, to free Julian Assange. Alisdare Hickson / Flickr. The recent Appeal Court finding in the U.K.âs Rwanda deportation case that the court ultimately determines the worth of diplomatic assurances on good treatment could be greatly significant…
Above photo: Vladimir Putin. Wikimedia Commons. And Creating A Greater Russia. There is a growing body of compelling evidence showing that Russia and Ukraine were involved in serious negotiations to end the war in Ukraine right after it started on 24 February 2022 (see below). These talks were facilitated…
On Nov. 21, the world media announced a four-day cease-fire in Gaza, a pause in the Israeli genocidal assault on Gazaâs people. Should this cease-fire take place as announced, the movement of overwhelming global solidarity with and support for Palestine, including within the United States, must adjust…
The Central Media Department of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a call to action on the Resistance News Network on Nov. 25, 2023.The resistance is ready for all possibilities, including the renewal of aggression, and it has many strong cards. The Zionist enemy succumbed to the…
Last Thursday, on the growing concern over rising rates of âundiagnosed pneumoniaâ and hospitalization among children in northern China over the last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) held a teleconference with the countryâs National Health Commission (NHC) requesting more information…
A coalition of three union confederations in France â the CGT (General Confederation of Labor), the FĂ©dĂ©ration Syndicale Unitaire (FSU â mostly educational workers) and Solidaires have held major protests the first three weekends of November behind a banner reading âHalt the massacre in Gaza…
ClevelandAmid sustained chants of âFree free Palestine!â a huge crowd gathered in the Buffalo, New York, city center on Nov. 18 to join people worldwide in demanding âCease-fire now!â as well as âStop the Genocide!â and âEnd U.S. arms and money to Israel!â Buffalo, New York, Nov. 18…
Above photo: An ExxonMobil sign. @justinphoto/Unsplash. Attacks on Venezuela by the USA and its allies include 930 illegal sanctions that shut the country out from international finance blocking it from buying medicines, food or producing or selling its oil. Also there have been direct and indirect support…
Photo: A man mourns the victims of the Al Ahli Hospital strike. Credit: Screenshot from Democracy Now! Editorâs note: This is a statement by Palestinian organizations in response to Human Rights Watchâs newly released investigation of the Al Ahli Hospital strike, which concluded that the strike was…
The following speech was delivered by Comrade George on behalf of our party at the recent World Anti-imperialist Platform conference in Athens on 18 November 2023. ***** Comrades, since last we met, we cannot but feel the sea change in the conditions in which our struggles against imperialism and for…
âRubbertownâ as seen from the air. (The Courier Journal) M. A. Booth / Kentucky.For decades, âRubbertownâ in Louisville, Kentucky, has been a major source of concern for residents of the city. Despite the local government and corporations telling us that the level of Toxic Air Contaminants (TACs)…
Two Missiles Fired from Yemen toward US Ship in Gulf of Aden - Palestine Chroniclehttps://www.palestinechronicle.com/two-missiles-fired-from-yemen-toward-us-ship-in-gulf-of-aden/On November 19, Yemenâs Armed Forces, allied with the Ansarallah resistance movement, announced that they would target all…
Last week, the Student Parliament (StuPa) of Humboldt University (HU) rejected by a large majority a motion aimed at defending Israelâs genocide in the Gaza Strip and suppressing criticism of it. Many visitors attended the public meeting and rejected the war propaganda in harsh terms.The Juso university…