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Pro-Palestine Academics Have Been Fighting the New McCarthyism
The Trump administration has been going on an offensive to suppress social movements. From unprecedented criminal sentences against immigrant rights activists to a recent State Department report trying to link prominent left-wing figures and organizations to the Cuban government, the administration’s actions harken back to an era of “McCarthyism” in which the government ostracized left-wing activists, intellectuals, and artists.
Sentencing of the Prairieland Defendants Necessitates a Massive Movement against ICE and Repression
Prairieland Defendants. Image: Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Trump 2.0 has been marked by a barrage of attacks on social movements. A key pillar of this repression has been the use of extreme legal measures against individuals who represent broader progressive sentiments.
In Japan, Raves And Tea Parties Become Sites Of Protest
Above photo: Thousands of ravers dance and wave glow sticks during a “protest rave” at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on March 29. Yui Hasegawa. Japanese artists are finding creative ways to foster a stronger culture of political dissent. As Japan deepens its allegiance to US military interests. Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is thebusiest railway stationin the world. On a given day, roughly 2.7 million passengers pass through.
In Japan, raves and tea parties become sites of protest
Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest railway station in the world. On a given day, roughly 2.7 million passengers pass through. On March 29, they were joined by a stream of ravers, who danced while holding signs opposing the genocide in Palestine, xenophobia, queerphobia, fascism and war.
Workers, students, and indigenous movements shut down Bolivia in popular rebellion
This article was originally published by Truthout on May 28, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. For more than a week, the nation of Bolivia has been in a state of full-on revolt.
Workers, students, and indigenous movements shut down Bolivia in popular rebellion
1 day ago President Rodrigo Paz warned Wednesday that Bolivia was at a "breaking point" after nearly a month of protests that have caused shortages of food, fuel and life-saving medicine. The US-backed Paz, who took office six months ago amid the worst economic crisis here in four decades, is battling a …
Workers, Students, and Indigenous Movements Shut Down Bolivia in Popular Rebellion
By Sam Carliner This article was originally published by Truthout The popular revolt has mounted a broader challenge to neoliberalism, austerity, and US imperialism in Latin America. For more than a week, the nation of Bolivia has been in a state of full-on revolt.
Workers, Students, and Indigenous Movements Shut Down Bolivia in Popular Rebellion
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. For more than a week, the nation of Bolivia has been in a state of full-on revolt.
Trump’s extreme use of military is stirring a crisis of conscience among troops
This article was originally published by Truthout on April 13, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. As President Donald Trump increasingly uses the U.S. military to carry out his agenda through brute force, organizations that provide counseling services for U.S. servicemembers are reporting growing numbers of calls. These calls have further spiked in response to Trump’s war on Iran, one of the most unpopular in U.S. history.
Trump’s Extreme Use of Military Is Stirring a Crisis of Conscience Among Troops
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. As President Donald Trump increasingly uses the U.S. military to carry out his agenda through brute force, organizations that provide counseling services for U.S. servicemembers are reporting growing numbers of calls. These calls have further spiked in response to Trump’s war on Iran, one of the most unpopular in U.S. history.
Javier Milei Is Set to Roll Back Argentina’s Historically Strong Labor Rights Original
The DNC commissioned an autopsy—they called it an “after action report”—of the 2024 election, that found the party’s support for genocide in Gaza had materially harmed Kamala Harris. But we don’t know anything more than that, because DNC Chair Ken Martin has refused to release it. Without transparency there can be no serious democracy. Drop Site partnered with Breaking Points to put together a petition calling on the DNC to release the autopsy. The DNC knows Gaza cost Harris the election.
Don’t Let the Democrats Co-opt the Movement Against ICE Again
The movement for immigrant rights is at a crossroads. At its epicenter in Minneapolis, the Trump administration claims that Operation Metro Surge is ending, albeit with caveats that suggest otherwise. Nationally, however, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expanding its operations. And in Washington, DC, the two major parties are supposedly battling over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
After Trump's Bailout, Argentina's So-Called Libertarian President Issues Emergency Decree to Ramp Up Surveillance
Argentine President Javier Milei, October 26, 2025. Photo: Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images. Argentine President Javier Milei closed out 2025 by quietly issuing a decree that centralizes the country’s vast intelligence apparatus and give its intelligence agencies authority to apprehend individuals without prior judicial order.
Trump’s Operation Southern Spear is a New Front in His Widescale Militarization
In an escalation of militarism toward Latin America, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the start of Operation Southern Spear to target so-called “narco-terrorists.” This comes as the United States deploys Marines, naval assets, and even the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Southern Caribbean. The primary target of this aggression is Venezuela.
“We Keep Us Safe is the Mantra”: Chuck Modi on Resistance in Washington, DC
Left Voice interviewed Washington, DC-based journalist Chuck Modi about the federal takeover of the city. Modi spoke about how the carceral system has paved the way for Trump’s militarization of DC, different ways the community is resisting, and how activists resisting militarization across the country can learn from one another. ZNetwork is funded solely through the generosity of its readers. Donate
U.S. Attacks on Venezuela Are a Threat to All of Latin America and the Caribbean
One of President Trump’s first executive orders since returning to the presidency in January was the designation of certain drug cartels as “terrorist” organizations. In doing this, Trump signaled a renewed war on drugs with the possibility of the United States military acting unilaterally throughout Latin America.
Trump’s War on Immigrants Is a Trojan Horse to Normalize Domestic Use of the Military
While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faces growing scrutiny for its role in brutally carrying out Trump’s mass-deportation agenda, another institution’s involvement has received less attention: the U.S. military. Trump’s use of the military in the war on immigrants garnered some mainstream backlash when he provocatively deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers and Marines to the streets of Los Angeles.
New Jersey’s Break The Bonds Campaign Adds Pressure On States To Divest From Israel
On July 13, roughly 100 people convened in Military Park in Newark, New Jersey for the launch of Break the Bonds, a new statewide campaign in solidarity with Palestine. Inspired by the BDS Movement — a call from Palestinian civil society organizations to boycott and divest from Israel’s economy — the activists in New Jersey vowed to get their state to divest from Israel Bonds.
Break The Bonds Campaign Adds Pressure On States To Divest From Israel
Above photo: Palestine solidarity activists marching in Newark, New Jersey on July 13. WNV / Sam Carliner. Palestine solidarity organizations in New Jersey launched the latest expression of what has become a growing national campaign to halt investments in Israel Bonds. On July 13, roughly 100 people convened in Military Park in Newark, New Jersey for the launch of Break the Bonds, a new statewide campaign in solidarity with Palestine.
New Jersey's Break the Bonds campaign adds pressure on states to divest from Israel
On July 13, roughly 100 people convened in Military Park in Newark, New Jersey for the launch of Break the Bonds, a new statewide campaign in solidarity with Palestine. Inspired by the BDS Movement — a call from Palestinian civil society organizations to boycott and divest from Israel’s economy — the activists in New Jersey vowed to get their state to divest from Israel Bonds.
NEA Leadership Rejects Member Vote To Sever Ties With ADL
Above photo: Campaign to Drop the ADL from Schools. But Teachers Hail Rising Member Support For Palestine. On July 18, the NEA Board of Directors voted to ignore a vote by 7,000 NEA members to end ties with the ADL. Still, union members are celebrating the original vote as a major shift among the rank and file toward Palestine and pledge to move forward.
NEA leadership rejects member vote to sever ties with ADL, but teachers hail rising member support for Palestine
In one of the biggest displays of labor organizing against anti-Palestinian racism, the National Education Association’s (NEA) policymaking body voted on July 5 to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The vote was a product of years of grassroots organizing within the NEA.
New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away
New Jersey’s newest immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall, sits deep in the arteries of Newark, where shipping containers are stacked on top of each other in every direction. The air smells like sewage and the roads surrounding the center are constantly filled with truckers driving around. None of this has deterred activists from holding daily vigils outside of Delaney Hall.
New Jersey’s Movement Against ICE Detention Is Not Going Away
Above photo: Rosa Santana from First Friends speaks at a protest outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in New Jersey in May. Twitter/New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. A growing coalition in New Jersey is galvanizing national opposition to ICE’s immigrant detention centers. New Jersey’s newest immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall, sits deep in the arteries of Newark, where shipping containers are stacked on top of each other in every direction.
New Jersey’s Movement Against ICE Detention Is Not Going Away
New Jersey’s newest immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall, sits deep in the arteries of Newark, where shipping containers are stacked on top of each other in every direction. The air smells like sewage and the roads surrounding the center are constantly filled with truckers driving around. None of this has deterred activists from holding daily vigils outside of Delaney Hall.
New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away
New Jersey’s newest immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall, sits deep in the arteries of Newark, where shipping containers are stacked on top of each other in every direction. The air smells like sewage and the roads surrounding the center are constantly filled with truckers driving around. None of this has deterred activists from holding daily vigils outside of Delaney Hall.
Military Seizing Large Tracts of Public Land Near Border
The Trump administration has transferred thousands of acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be controlled by the Department of Defense (DoD). The transfer is part of an ongoing expansion of the military’s presence along the border which the administration claims is necessary to “control” illegal immigration.
Military seizing massive swaths of public lands at the border
The Trump administration has transferred thousands of acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be controlled by the Department of Defense (DoD). The transfer is part of an ongoing expansion of the military’s presence along the border which the administration claims is necessary to “control” illegal immigration.
The Battle Over New Jersey’s 'ICE Detention Ban' Moves to Federal Court
This week on May 1 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will hear oral arguments which could determine the fate of New Jersey’s immigrant detention ban. New Jersey enacted the ban in 2021, but the law was challenged and overturned by the for-profit prison company CoreCivic in 2023. In the years since then, immigrant rights activists in the Garden State have been fighting to get the decision reversed.
France Looks to Imprison Pro-Palestine Activists
Attacks on the movement for Palestine are escalating. Following the high profile detainment of political prisoner and Palestine movement activist, Mahmoud Khalil, several other pro-Palestine students and researchers across the United States have been abducted by federal agents and threatened with deportation by the Trump administration. The escalation of attacks on the movement for Palestine is not confined to the United States.
How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Fighting Attacks on the Palestine Movement
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s upcoming immigration hearing to take place in New Jersey, rather than Louisiana where a judge is more likely to go along with the Trump administration’s political persecution of Khalil.
How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Fighting Attacks on the Palestine Movement
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s upcoming immigration hearing to take place in New Jersey, rather than Louisiana where a judge is more likely to go along with the Trump administration’s political persecution of Khalil.
Immigrant Rights Activists Fight Attacks On The Palestine Movement
Above photo: The Palestine movement, immigrant rights groups, and community members gathered together in Newark, NJ on March 28, 2025 to protest the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. Sam Carliner. ‘Every Arrest That ICE Has Made Is A Political One.’ “This is about Palestine and this is not about Palestine,” said New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice director Amy Torres at a recent rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil. “This is about this administration. . .
‘Every arrest that ICE has made is a political one’: How immigrant rights activists are fighting attacks on the Palestine movement
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s upcoming immigration hearing to take place in New Jersey, rather than Louisiana where a judge is more likely to go along with the Trump administration’s political persecution of Khalil.
How Pro-Palestine Student Activists Are Fighting Increasing Repression
The student movement for Palestine is once again in the news following reports that ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine organizing at Columbia University. The Trump administration appears to be delivering on its promise to go after foreign students who participate in the movement for Palestine. Trump has already passed several executive orders as part of this McCarthyist attack on universities. The outrage against Khalil’s detention is clear.
How Pro-Palestine Student Activists Are Fighting Increasing Repression
Above photo: Hundreds of protesters call for the release of Mahmoud Khalil at Foley Square in New York City on March 10. Twitter/@pro_nyc. Universities and the government are cracking down on the student movement for Palestine. Activists are organizing broad campaigns to get their charges dropped. The student movement for Palestine is once again in the news following reports that ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine organizing at Columbia University.
Trump Officials Crack Down On Media Sources
The following article was made possible by paid subscribers of The Dissenter. Become a subscriber and support independent journalism on whistleblowers and freedom of the press. For the past month, national security officials in President Donald Trump's administration have expressed anger over alleged leaks involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids throughout the country, including in California, Chicago, the greater Denver area in Colorado, and northern Virginia.
How pro-Palestine student activists are fighting increasing repression
The student movement for Palestine is once again in the news following reports that ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine organizing at Columbia University. The Trump administration appears to be delivering on its promise to go after foreign students who participate in the movement for Palestine. Trump has already passed several executive orders as part of this McCarthyist attack on universities. The outrage against Khalil’s detention is clear.
Princeton Students Head to Trial Nearly a Year After Gaza Encampment
Nearly one whole year after students at Princeton University held an encampment on their campus in solidarity with Gaza, 12 students and one postdoctoral fellow will head to trial.
Princeton Students Behind Gaza Solidarity Encampment Head to Trial
Nearly one whole year after students at Princeton University held an encampment on their campus in solidarity with Gaza, 12 students and one postdoctoral fellow will head to trial.
Princeton Students Go To Trial Nearly A Year After Gaza Encampment
Above photo: Students at Princeton University protest for divestment in solidarity with Palestine, on April 19, 2024. Twitter / PtonDivestNow. Princeton students are heading to trial over charges from the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment last spring. Despite intimidation from the university, the activists are insisting on defending their right to protest for Palestinian liberation.
Princeton Students Head to Trial Nearly a Year After Gaza Encampment
By Sam Carliner / Mondoweiss Nearly one whole year after students at Princeton University held an encampment on their campus in solidarity with Gaza, 12 students and one postdoctoral fellow will head to trial.
Princeton students head to trial nearly a year after Gaza encampment
Nearly one whole year after students at Princeton University held an encampment on their campus in solidarity with Gaza, 12 students and one postdoctoral fellow will head to trial.
NJ Activists Brace to Fight Trump Immigration Agenda After Setbacks Under Biden
Help us Prepare for Trump’s Day One Trump is busy getting ready for Day One of his presidency – but so is Truthout. Trump has made it no secret that he is planning a demolition-style attack on both specific communities and democracy as a whole, beginning on his first day in office.
Trumps neue Monroe-Doktrin: Lateinamerika wieder im Visier der USA
Neue Strategien, alte Doktrin? Welche Auswirkungen Trumps zweite Amtszeit auf die Region haben könnte. Ein Gastbeitrag. Während die USA mit Konflikten in Europa und im Nahen Osten beschäftigt sind, könnte Lateinamerika für die kommende Trump-Administration zu einem wichtigeren Schwerpunkt werden. Anzeige Die Region, die von politischen Entscheidungsträgern manchmal als "Hinterhof der USA" bezeichnet wird, wurde von Donald Trump, Joe Biden oder Kamala Harris im Wahlkampf kaum direkt angesprochen.
Trumps neue Monroe-Doktrin: Lateinamerika wieder im Visier der USA
Neue Strategien, alte Doktrin? Welche Auswirkungen Trumps zweite Amtszeit auf die Region haben könnte Ein Gastbeitrag. Während die USA mit Konflikten in Europa und im Nahen Osten beschäftigt sind, könnte Lateinamerika für die kommende Trump-Administration zu einem wichtigeren Schwerpunkt werden. Anzeige Die Region, die von politischen Entscheidungsträgern manchmal als "Hinterhof der USA" bezeichnet wird, wurde von Donald Trump, Joe Biden oder Kamala Harris im Wahlkampf kaum direkt angesprochen.
Trump's 2nd term: A harder line on Latin America looms
While the United States has its hands full with conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, Latin America may become a region of greater focus for the incoming Trump administration. The region, sometimes derided by policymakers as the “United States’ backyard,” was hardly brought up directly by Donald Trump, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris on the campaign trail.
US: Anti-war organisers mobilise against Kamala Harris ahead of presidential debate in Pennsylvania
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will face off on Tuesday night in the swing state of Pennsylvania to kick off the first debate between the two since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee. But pro-Palestine activists throughout the country have signalled their intention to boycott Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election over US support for Israel's war in Gaza - and voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania are no exception.
Remote Southwest Communities Resist Dangerous Combat Flight Training Expansion
Remote Southwest Communities Resist Dangerous Combat Flight Training Expansion Increased military flight trainings would have dire environmental and public health effects in Arizona and New Mexico. By Sam Carliner , Truthout Published September 7, 2024 Aircraft are seen being stored at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on May 12, 2015, in Tucson, Arizona.
K-12 Schools in New Jersey Are Becoming a Battlefield Over Palestine Advocacy
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation On the heels of the eruption of the university movement for Palestine and the subsequent wave of repression that has been at the center of national politics, Congress has begun questioning K-12 school districts about how they will clamp down on the movement for Palestine.
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