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  • Workers At HelloFresh Speak Up Against Anti-Union Scare Tactics And Dangerous Conditions

    Facing unlivable wages, higher-than-average injury rates, and a union-busting campaign, workers at two HelloFresh factories are pushing forward union drives. If successful, workers would form the first union in the nation’s growing meal-kit industry. Around 400 workers in Aurora, Colorado are currently casting votes, which are set to be counted on November 22. Another 850 workers in Richmond, California will receive ballots by November 18. In a petition to the company, workers say that while HelloFresh “profited from the pandemic, employees faced disrespect, a COVID-19 outbreak, and preventable injuries.”

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  • US School Bus Drivers In Nationwide Strikes Over Poor Pay And Covid Risk

    Strikes, walkouts, protests or sick-outs among school bus drivers have taken place this fall in many states including North Carolina, New Mexico, Maryland, Florida, Indiana, Georgia Pennsylvania and New York among others. Some school districts have periodically closed schools due to bus driver shortages or changed school schedules to accommodate the shortage. Other districts have raised pay and offered sign-on bonuses to try to lure workers into vacant school bus driver positions.

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  • 35,000 Us Healthcare Workers Avert Strike

    Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest healthcare providers and hospital networks in the US, reached a tentative agreement with an alliance of unions just two days before a historic strike. The four-year agreement includes pay raises and measures to address understaffing, while withdrawing a two-tier pay system that would pay new hires up to a third less than current workers. In the next few weeks, workers will vote to ratify it and continue to work as scheduled.

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  • The Criminal “Justice” System Protects Kyle Rittenhouse

    If the trial continues to go the way it is currently going, it seems likely that Rittenhouse may walk. This would be a colossal miscarriage of justice and proof positive, once again, of the white supremacist nature of the criminal “justice” system. The system is set up to defend and protect the ruling class and their defenders. This, in certain moments, can include members of the far-right who are able to act outside of the law in order to protect the status quo. If Rittenhouse walks, it’ll be a clear sign that, in the current moment, right-wing violence is acceptable in the eyes of the state, as long as it is done to protect private property. This will surely embolden the far-right and make protests more dangerous across the country.

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  • When Scabs Are A Danger To Public Health

    A dozen oil workers rally in front of the United Metro Energy (UMEC) terminal in Brooklyn on their 113th day on strike August 10. They’re fighting one of the largest suppliers of heating oil and motor fuels in New York. The strike began months prior, on April 19. After workers spent one of the hottest summers in decades on the picket line, the rally provided a much-needed morale boost. The workers were joined by dozens of supporters, including fellow Teamsters and some perhaps unexpected allies — four of New York City’s elected democratic socialists, all of whom campaigned for the drastic reduction of fossil fuel use.

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  • Nurses’ Strike Signals Kaiser’s End As Union Haven

    Across corporate America, relations between companies and their labor unions range from chilly to ice-cold. Not at Kaiser Permanente – the California-based healthcare giant. Kaiser has long been seen as having the nation’s best labor-management partnership. Now the partnership finds itself in crisis as 34,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers prepare to strike on Monday, in what would be the largest walkout in this fall’s strike wave.

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  • CPJ condemns arrest of Al-Jazeera bureau chief Al-Musalmi al-Kabbashi in Sudan

    New York, November 15, 2021 – In response to news reports that Sudanese security forces yesterday arrested Al-Musalmi al-Kabbashi, the Khartoum bureau chief of the Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement calling for his release:

    “We strongly condemn the arrest of journalist Al-Musalmi al-Kabbashi, and call on Sudanese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release him,” said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Senior Researcher Justin Shilad. “Authorities must ensure that journalists and news outlets can freely report the news during this critical moment in the country’s history.”

    Security forces raided al-Kabbashi’s home in Khartoum early yesterday morning, according to a statement by Al-Jazeera and news reports. As of today, he remains in detention and authorities have not disclosed any reason for his arrest, according to a representative of the Sudanese Journalists Network, a local rights group, who spoke with CPJ on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal. CPJ emailed Al-Jazeera for comment but did not immediately receive any reply.

    The day before al-Kabbashi’s arrest, protests erupted across Sudan against the country’s military takeover, according to news reports. The military seized power and dissolved Sudan’s civilian government on October 25, according to those reports.

    Separately, on November 13, authorities in South Darfur State arrested Abdel Monem Madibo, a reporter at local independent news website Darfur 24, while he was covering a protest, according to a report by Darfur 24 and the person who spoke to CPJ, who added that Madibo was later released without charge.

    CPJ emailed the Sudanese Justice Ministry, its General Intelligence Service, the Culture and Information Ministry, and the military for comment, but did not immediately receive any replies.


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  • Nov 15 Nationwide Actions To Demand Let Cuba Live! NO To CIA Plots!

    The State Department, the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and other U.S. agencies are working to organize anti-government protests in Cuba on Monday, November 15. The organizers of the November 15 demonstrators are the same players who led violent attacks on people and public facilities on July 11. One such person, Yunior García Aguilera, has been exposed in recent weeks as having direct links with notorious Miami-based terrorist Ramón Saúl Sánchez, and CIA plots to try to create conflict within Cuba. The ANSWER Coalition is calling on people to show their support for the right of Cuba to retain its sovereignty and freedom from imperialist efforts to overthrow the government.

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  • Activists Hold ‘People’s Plenary’ In COP26 Hall As Protests Expected Outside

    A number of protests are due to take place on the final scheduled day of COP26, though the summit is expected to overrun into the weekend. The activists at the People’s Plenary are due to march from within the blue zone to meet other groups, who are gathering outside. A rally is expected to take place in Finnieston Street outside the venue in the afternoon.

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  • Student Strike Enters Second Week At Columbia University

    Over 3,000 Columbia graduate student workers have been on strike since November 3. This is the latest in a series of actions by graduate students workers in universities across the US, many of which are extremely wealthy.

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  • Kellogg’s Workers Still On ‘Str-R-R-Ike!’ In Strikevember

    The members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee are now in their second month on strike. On Nov. 4, union negotiators announced they had turned down the company’s latest offer, stating: “The company’s last, best and final offer does not achieve what our members are asking for: a predictable pathway to fully vested, fully benefitted employment for all employees with no concessions.” Kellogg’s has threatened to cut hundreds of jobs and move work to Mexico.

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  • Striking Deere Workers Hold Out For Better Deal

    A month into the nation’s largest work stoppage, striking John Deere workers are holding out for a better deal. For the second time in a month, 10,000 Auto Workers at John Deere stunned both the company and the union leadership November 2 by rejecting a tentative agreement. Workers at the farm equipment manufacturer remain on strike. Company and union negotiators are set to meet today for the first time since the deal was voted down.

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  • Campaign To Shut Down New England’s Last Coal Plant Is Doing ‘What Must Be Done’ For The Planet

    No Coal No Gas, which launched its first protest against the power plant in 2019, returned to Bow on Oct. 3 for a day of mass action. In addition to a rally on an adjacent ballfield and a flotilla of “kayaktivists” in the Merrimack River, campaign members planted gardens on company property, including a bed hacked out with pickaxes in the middle of an access road.  After several state police cruisers arrived and dozens of officers in full riot gear marched in from behind the gardeners, 18 people were arrested.

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  • BMA Workers Say Fair Pay and Job Security Shouldn’t Be a Privilege

    Organizers say their aims align with the BMA’s goals to remake the museum into a more equitable, accessible, diverse, and inclusive institution. In a statement to BmoreArt, museum director Chris Bedford affirmed their shared interests: “I do believe that museums need to better reflect and serve their communities, and that our community includes our staff. In hearing from so many colleagues over the course of the past few weeks, it is certain that we all share a commitment to the BMA’s DEAI goals and agenda for change. This has driven a mutual willingness to engage in conversation about the possibility of unionization at the museum and to move through this process collaboratively to achieve an outcome that reflects the vision of the majority of the staff.”

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  • Howard University Students Denounce Deplorable Living Conditions

    As the student occupation of Howard University’s Blackburn Center has entered its fifth week, protesters have garnered significant support for their demands that administration at the historically black university immediately address deplorable living conditions. Students have camped outside the building in tents demanding that Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick convene a school-wide town hall meeting to discuss student and alumni representation on the Howard board of trustees, improved living conditions and freedom from legal and academic repercussions for student protesters.

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  • Students Are Pushing US Colleges To Sever Ties With Military-Industrial Complex

    Students and young people are witnesses to the ways in which the U.S. education system is deeply complicit with war and militarism, and in increasing numbers we are demanding change. As student organizers with Dissenters — a national movement that is building local teams of young people across the country and mobilizing to reclaim our resources from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving institutions, and repair collaborative relationships with the earth and people around the world — we were part of a weeklong effort at the end of October, in which students at 16 campuses across the country rose up to unite around three central demands.

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  • What the NYC Taxi Drivers on a Hunger Strike Won.

    In early November, after 46 days of picketing and 15 days of hunger strike, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance won what they deserved all along: a measure of relief from the vast debts incurred when the inflated value of their city-issued medallions crashed in recent years. Under a three-way agreement among the NYTWA, the de Blasio administration, and the city’s largest medallion lender, drivers — who owe, on average, $550,000 each — will see their debt written down to $170,000 and amortized so that monthly payments don’t exceed $1,122. Most important, the city will guarantee each of these rescue loans in the event of default.

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  • Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report

    Asia Pacific Report newsdesk

    As world leaders meet in Glasgow for the UN Climate Summit (COP26), peaceful environmental activists are being threatened, silenced and criminalised around the world.

    The host nation Scotland for this year’s meeting is one of many countries where activists are regularly facing rights violations.

    New research from the CIVICUS Monitor looks at the common tactics and restrictions being used by governments and private companies to suppress environmental movements.

    The 2021 CIVICUS Monitor report
    The “Defenders of our planet: Resilient in the face of restrictions” report.

    The research brief “Defenders of our planet: Resilient in the face of restrictions” focuses on three worrying trends:

    • Bans and restrictions on protests;
    • Judicial harassment and legal persecution; and
    • The use of violence, including targeted killings.

    As the climate crisis intensifies, activists and civil society groups continue to mobilise to hold policymakers and corporate leaders to account.

    From Brazil to South Africa, activists are putting their lives on the line to protect lands and to halt the activities of high-polluting industries.

    Severe rights abuses
    The most severe rights abuses are often experienced by civil society groups that are standing up to the logging, mining and energy giants who are exploiting natural resources and fueling global warming.

    As people take to the streets, governments have been instituting bans that criminalise environmental protests. Recently governments have used covid-19 as a pretext to disrupt and break up demonstrations.

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    Data from the CIVICUS Monitor indicates that the detention of protesters and the use of excessive force by authorities are becoming more prevalent.

    In Cambodia in May 2021, three environmental defenders were sentenced to 18 to 20 months in prison for planning a protest against the filling of a lake in the capital.

    In Finland in June, more than 100 activists were arrested for participating in a protest calling for the government to take urgent action on climate change.

    From authoritarian countries to mature democracies, the research also profiles those who have been put behind bars for peacefully protesting.

    “Silencing activists and denying them of their fundamental civic rights is another tactic being used by leaders to evade and delay action on climate change,” says Marianna Belalba Barreto, lead researcher for the CIVICUS Monitor.

    Troubling indicator
    “Criminalising nonviolent protests has become a troubling indicator that governments are not committed to saving the planet.”

    The report shows that many of the measures being deployed by governments to restrict rights are not compatible with international law. Examples of courts and legislative bodies reversing attempts to criminalise nonviolent climate protests are few and far between.

    Despite the increased risks and restrictions facing environmental campaigners, the report also shows that a wide range of campaigns have scored important victories, including the closure of mines and numerous hazardous construction projects.

    Equally significant has been the rise of climate litigation by activist groups.

    As authorities take activists to court for exercising their fundamental right to protest, activist groups have successfully filed lawsuits against governments and companies in more than 25 countries for failing to act on climate change.

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  • NZ anti-vax protests, firefighters given vaccine mandate – 125 new cases

    RNZ News

    Thousands of protesters turned up at New Zealand’s Parliament today, demanding an end to covid restrictions, while another group blocked Auckland’s northern boundary this morning.

    Meanwhile, 125 new cases were reported and experts commented on the traffic light system. Here is a summary of today’s covid-19 developments.

    Protesters were out in force today at various locations throughout the country. About 50 protesters blocked the northern side of Auckland’s northern boundary this morning for more than one hour, bringing traffic to a halt.

    One bit a police officer, and police had to tow a number of vehicles out of the way, and physically move protesters off the road.

    Hours later, in Wellington, thousands of protesters gathered in Civic Square, then marched their way to Parliament.

    There, they hurled abuse at media and police, threw tennis balls and water at them, while holding flags and signs with messages against lockdown, vaccination, the media and government.

    Some tried to jump the railings, and security was ramped up.

    House Speaker Trevor Mallard said security had never been so tight in his more-than-30 years at Parliament.

    The protesters claimed an array of things like being segregated and the government having “trampled on the rights of New Zealanders”.

    Some espoused misinformation, including about vaccines, while others said they wanted New Zealand to live with the virus and not be concerned about the risks.

    Other people were upset about losing their jobs because they would not get vaccinated. Others just wanted to be back with family in Auckland.

    New community cases in Auckland, Waikato and Northland
    The Health Ministry reported 125 new community cases today – 117 in Auckland, two in Waikato and six in Northland. Fifty-eight of today’s cases are yet to be linked.

    There were also three new cases at the border.

    There are 79 cases in hospital, down from 81 yesterday, with nine in HCU or ICU.

    Of the hospitalised cases, 25 are in North Shore Hospital, one in Waitākere, 25 in Middlemore and 28 in Auckland City.

    To date, 89 percent of New Zealanders have had their first dose and 79 percent are fully vaccinated.

    There were 21,192 first and second covid-19 vaccine doses administered yesterday – 5103 first doses and 16,089 second doses.

    Meanwhile, as reported yesterday, 20 residents and four staff members of Edmonton Meadows Care Home in Henderson have tested positive for covid-19.

    Seven of the covid-19 positive residents remain in appropriate ward-level care at Auckland  hospitals.

    Vaccine certificates next week

    Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins expects people will be able to get vaccine certificates late next week.

    Vaccinated people will need the pass in order to access many businesses and events when the country moves to the traffic-light framework.

    Hipkins said the certificates were going through their final trials this week.

    He will provide an update on them tomorrow.

    Prime Minister to visit Auckland
    Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will visit Auckland tomorrow, on the first day the region moves to level 3, step 2.

    Ardern has been under pressure to visit the city, but said she was limited by rules set by Speaker Mallard.

    The rules were relaxed last week, with Ardern saying that “felt like then an opportunity where I was able to do both, get to Auckland, talk with business representatives, be able to see some of the work our frontline health workers are doing and still be able to be here [in Wellington].”

    She is expected to meet with workers, business people and frontline health workers on her visit to Auckland tomorrow, but is not expected to be out and about in public.

    In a statement, ACT leader David Seymour said Ardern should visit hairdressers and hospitality businesses “if she really wanted to understand Aucklanders’ situation”.

    Experts weigh in on move to traffic light system
    Ardern said yesterday she expected Auckland would move to the Covid-19 Protection Framework — also known as the traffic light system — in just three weeks, once the city’s eligible population would be 90 percent fully vaccinated.

    But University of Canterbury professor Michael Plank said it was too risky to move to the new system while cases rise sharply.

    Retail stores can reopen in the city tomorrow and Plank said that could see case numbers rise as high as 500 per day around the beginning of December.

    However, Australian epidemiologist Melbourne University professor Tony Blakely said the high number of people in the city with at least one jab should encourage health officials to ease restrictions and take advantage of the community’s “peak immunity”.

    Dr Blakely’s views were based on the experiences New South Wales and Victoria had had while negotiating the lifting of restrictions there.

    Firefighters given vaccine mandate
    Firefighters were told 11 days ago they must receive their first covid-19 vaccination by next week, or will not be able to work.

    This has raised concerns about what emergency coverage will look like when their first vaccine deadline passes on Monday.

    Volunteers make up four-fifths of Fire and Emergency’s (FENZ) 13,000 operational and community workers and some staff are concerned about the future of smaller rural stations if firefighters refuse to get vaccinated.

    Other firefighters are frustrated that no proof of inoculation will be required as they are only being asked to make a declaration about their vaccination status.

    FENZ said in a statement many staff must be vaccinated to undertake their roles as they work alongside medical practitioners and go into schools to provide education and respond to emergencies.

    Police did not respond to questions about whether the mandate for firefighters would also apply to police, but said it was in discussions with the government about mandatory vaccination requirements.

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  • COP26 Summit: Thousands March In Glasgow For Action Against Climate Change

    The protesters at the Glasgow march represented various groups, including indigenous organisations, frontline communities, trade unions, youth groups, peace and anti-war groups, communist and left organisations, and different environmental organisations. Despite a broad spectrum of platforms, the protesters were “united around the recognition that without system change, there is no way to take the urgent necessary measures to save the planet and advance climate justice.” About 100 climate change protests and demonstrations were held in other cities of the UK. Similar actions also took place in another 100 countries as part of the global day of action.

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  • Holding Their Feet To The Fire

    Protests and actions by civil society organizations are stepping up at the COP26 conference as the event enters its second week in Glasgow, Scotland. Thousands of climate activists from all over the world have arrived demanding genuine change. Young people and others, both inside and outside of the United Nations climate talks, are telling world leaders to hurry up and get it done, that concrete measures to avoid catastrophic warming can’t wait. On Friday, during a news conference shared via Zoom organized by It Takes Roots, several Indigenous and people of color leaders attending COP26 expressed impatience with the lack of substantive action by world leaders.

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  • Howard University President Addresses Housing Issues

    Amid a nearly month-long student protest, Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick attempted to correct course during a semiannual state-of-the-university address, acknowledging some of the issues that have sparked an ongoing occupation of a campus building. Since the sit-in began on Oct. 13, students have vowed not to leave the building until administrators agree to meet their demands, which include rectifying unsafe housing conditions, crafting a housing plan for freshman, and putting students, faculty, and alumni back on the board of trustees.

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  • Teachers Strike Against A ‘Heartless’ School Board In Biden’s Hometown

    The school board had just given the go-ahead to cut off educators’ health insurance if they went on strike. This after dozens of teachers and para-educators had spoken about the devastating cuts that students and teachers have endured over the last four years—cuts to PreK education, to the arts, to music, to libraries. And after educators had told the school board about the medical conditions—cancer, multiple sclerosis—that would go untreated or result in monumental bills without health insurance. In the face of the board’s “callous and heartless” decision, as SFT President Rosemary Boland called it, the union’s 900 members did not back down. Yesterday they hit the picket line.

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  • St. Vincent Nurses Strike Sadly Reaches Eight Months

    The historic St. Vincent Hospital nurses strike will reach the eight-month mark,  another sad milestone in their struggle against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, a for-profit corporation that has spent more than $100 million and engaged in a number of unfair labor practices to retaliate against the nurses for exercising their right to advocate for safer patient care. The strike is the longest nurses strike in state history, and one of the longest of several strikes by workers across the nation, who are standing up to corporate greed and the devaluation of essential workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Fiji police block Suva climate change march marking COP26 protests

    Asia Pacific Report newsdesk

    Police stopped a climate change march in Suva today and forced activists to remove their banners.

    They also warned demonstrators against making social media posts about the event.

    Priests, church workers and youth had gathered at My Suva Park to march as part of worldwide climate protests against governments failing to act more urgently at the global COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

    COP26 GLASGOW 2021

    Organised by the Columban Society of the Roman Catholic church, the march also coincided with the church’s Season of Creation.

    Marchers carried banners calling for reduced carbon emissions and an end to global warming.

    The same message was delivered at COP26 by Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.

    Police allowed the crowd about 100 to walk to the nearby Pacific Regional Seminary, where an event was held.

    However, they refused permission for a public gathering at My Suva Park and forced activists to remove their banners.

    Social media criticism of police
    Social media postings criticised the police action.

    One poster from Auckland on the Pacific Conference of Churches Facebook page asked why the protest was stopped in Fiji, “a democratic country known for its democracy”.

    “Every weekend [a] protest takes place here in Auckland by the anti-vaccine people, not in numbers but in thousands. Police are present there but [none] are arrested or told to stop and leave. It is their right and freedom to express and voice out.

    “What is the danger in there. Why so much of dictatorship rule. It was a peaceful march. Marches were also staged in Glasgow during the summit, nobody were turned away.

    It is [a] way for the people to express their views.”

    Another poster said: “Fijian officials need to realise that Fiji will be one of the few countries in the world that will be swallowed up by the ocean due to climate change.

    “Fiji needs to do these marches to show the large countries [which] are guilty of polluting our atmosphere that Fijian Lives Matter.”

    Fiji climate protesters
    Climate protesters in Suva today. Image: PCC

  • Kellogg Workers Are Still On Strike In Memphis And Across The Country

    As the sun rose in Memphis on October 18, Rodigah Blaylock stood in the brisk air outside the Kellogg plant with her fellow union members, waving signs that read “We Stand Strong” and “Equality For All.” Some drivers passing by blew their horns in support. Blaylock and other members of the Local 252-G union have been on this picket line since October 5, when members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) launched a national strike at factories that produce Kellogg’s cereals. The company-wide strike also spans factories in Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Battle Creek, Michigan.

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  • University Of Puerto Rico Students Have Declared An Indefinite Strike

    The first student general assembly 2021-2022 at the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) has announced an indefinite strike starting today, while other universities are on strike. The university students, who arrived on stage at the main campus for the UPR, made the decision in light of the academic, administrative, social and economic problems that the campus suffers from.

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  • Palestinian security forces arrest freelance journalist Naseem Mualla

    New York, November 5, 2021 — Palestinian authorities in the West Bank should immediately and unconditionally release freelance journalist Naseem Mualla and allow journalists to work without fear of detention, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

    Early yesterday morning, Palestinian police and intelligence officers raided Mualla’s home in the town of Beita, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, seized his cell phone, and arrested him, according to news reports, the Palestinian press freedom group MADA, and a statement by the U.K.-based human rights group Arab Organization for Human Rights in the U.K.

    Mualla’s brother, whose name was not disclosed, was cited in those news reports as saying that the officers who arrested Mualla told the family that he was wanted by the attorney general, but said they did not know the charges on which he was arrested. They did not tell the journalist’s family where they were taking Mualla, his brother said.

    “Arresting journalists from their homes in the middle of the night without disclosing any charges is a common practice in authoritarian regimes, and Palestinian authorities in the West Bank should be ashamed of such actions,” said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Representative Ignacio Miguel Delgado. “Authorities should release journalist Naseem Mualla immediately and unconditionally, and allow Palestinian journalists to do their jobs freely and safely.”

    Mualla, a freelance journalist, recently covered protests against Israeli settlements near Beita and clashes between Palestinian civilians and Israeli security forces for several media outlets, his brother said. Palestinian security forces in the West Bank are under the control of the Palestinian Authority, according to reports.

    CPJ found examples of Mualla’s reporting on the protests on the local radio station Alam Radio and the news website Ultra Palestine.

    He also posted videos covering the protests to his professional Facebook account, which has about 600 followers, including explanations on the situation, footage of the clashes and demonstrations, and pictures and stories of injured protesters.

    CPJ emailed the Palestinian Interior Ministry and public prosecutor’s office for comment, but did not immediately receive any replies.


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  • Community Begins Eviction Resistance To Combat Wave Of Displacement In Asheville, NC

    Community members, including tenants and precariously housed people, have come together on November 4th to resist an eviction in support of a multi-generational family experiencing forced displacement by Buncombe County. A number of people have occupied the property and have refused to leave until the city and county enact real solutions to the widely experienced housing crisis. Dressed as woodland creatures, the group brought a banner that says “Everyone needs a home”.

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  • Can A Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save The World?

    COP Twenty-six! That is how many times the UN has assembled world leaders to try to tackle the climate crisis. But the United States is producing more oil and natural gas than ever; the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere and global temperatures are both still rising; and we are already experiencing the extreme weather and climate chaos that scientists have warned us about for forty years, and which will only get worse and worse without serious climate action.

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