(2024-05-02). We Need To Strike For Palestine: Why UAW 4811 Matters. popularresistance.org Workers across the U.S. labor movement, including the United Auto Workers (UAW), are mobilizing for Palestine. From the strong resolutions passed at Ford UAW Local 551 (representing workers at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant), to UAW 4811 at UC Berkeley's resolution to commit union resources to make Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) a bargaining demand, to the historic vote from the UAW International Executive Board (IEB) last November to investigate the union's ties to Israel's apartheid regime, workers in the U.S. are advancing the demands of their Palestinian allies.
(2024-05-02). The Little Flotilla that Almost Could. dissidentvoice.org 
The flotilla cargo ship in Istanbul (Photo credit: Medea Benjamin) Two gutsy activists from the Twin Cities flew to Istanbul, Turkey April 17 to join over three-hundred others from about 40 countries on an eleven-hundred mile voyage across the Mediterranean Sea to raise awareness and bring lifesaving aid to Gaza. Vietnam Vet and member of …
(2024-05-02). Penn For Palestine Encampment Still Going Strong. popularresistance.org Joining around 80 college campuses across the United States, University of Pennsylvania students, faculty and staff established a Penn for Palestine encampment on the campus April 25 to demand: the administration disclose what companies they have invested billions of endowment funds in and that they divest from any that do business with Israel. | Earlier in the day, demonstrators marched from Philadelphia City Hall, led by students from Temple University and activists with the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition to UPenn. En route to UPenn, several hundred people marched through Center City and received an overwhelm…
(2024-05-02). Washington Is Trying To Divide Revolutionary Forces In Bolivia. popularresistance.org The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, warned that the United States intends to divide the popular and revolutionary forces in Bolivia in order to recolonize Latin America. | "The main goal of the US empire and the Bolivian fascists is to divide the Bolivian socialist and revolutionary forces, and to turn them against each other to a point impossible to reconcile the leadership of comrade Evo Morales, the leadership of President Lucho Arce, that is the plan," said the Venezuelan president on Monday, April 29, during the 43rd episode of his TV program Con Maduro+.
(2024-05-02). Occupation At Johns Hopkins University Protests For Palestinians. popularresistance.org Activists and organizers who set up an encampment at Johns Hopkins University said that school officials threatened to call the police on them if they didn't leave last night. They said that school officials also threatened them with academic sanctions. | "We have been clear that the consequences of violating our policies and creating unsafe conditions include academic discipline, which is determined by University officials, and trespass, which is handled by local law enforcement," a representative for the school said in an email to Baltimore Beat. | Organizers launched the encampment on Monday, April 29.
(2024-05-01). President Maduro: El Aissami Knew About Several Assassination and Coup Attempts. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated that "there will be surprises in the operation Caiga quien Caiga [Fall Who They May]," referring to new revelations in the PDVSA-Crypto investigation, which were presented this Monday by Attorney General Tarek William Saab. He explained that former Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami and his group knew about the foiled assassination attempt of August 2018, the coup attempt of April 30, 2019, and the invasion attempt Operation Gideon of May 2020. | "I can say with absolute knowledge all this evidence that this is barely 1% of what we have," President Maduro commented o…