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Board of Peace.

Tonight. #Gaza

Displaced Palestinian families in Gaza city light fires inside their dilapidated tents and shelters, for cooking and to provide heating, forcing people to use wood instead of gas, creating respiratory problems and risk of fire.

📸 Yousef AlZanoun -Activestills

Instinto de supervivencia.

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.

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Immigration One in five workers in America wasn’t born here. Immigrants are America’s workers, vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.

1 in 5 workers in America is an immigrant. Immigrants are vital to our communities, our economy and our labor movement.

We stand with @mnaflcio.org as they peacefully fight for truth, freedom and justice against ICE and militarized immigration enforcement.

Thousands rally in Union Square, NYC, standing in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul.

NYC standing in solidarity with MN.
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Easily thousands roaring "ICE out!"

News cycles move fast, but it’s sometimes worth slowing down to reckon with what this government is doing. In service of its racial project, it is willing to beat, kill, and subordinate anyone it deems a threat. This is a violent white nationalist project.

Advertised 250 years ago today: “TO be disposed of, a likely stout NEGRO FELLOW, a complete Cooper by trade, and a good drummer.” (Pennsylvania Evening Post 1/23/1776).

Via Slavery Adverts 250.

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found. The Crown’s Silence, a book by the historian Brooke Newman, follows the Guardian’s 2023 Cost of the crown report, which explored the British monarchy’s hidden ties to transatlantic slavery. Continue reading...

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Syrian Kurds hand over new prison to govt troops as truce deadline looms Syria's government took over a prison in the north on Friday after the negotiated exit of Kurdish fighters from the facility in what a senior official said was a positive sign that a truce between the...

Syrian govt official tells Reuters that successful negotiation with SDF over al-Aqtan prison gives hope that Saturday deadline will yield political solution instead of renewed fighting. Govt has not yet received response from SDF on its integration plan.
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Syria forces push deeper into SDF territory, take over ISIS prison: What to know The advances come as the government and Kurdish forces accuse each other of violating a ceasefire that entered into force this week in northeast Syria.

NEW: Syria forces push deeper into SDF territory, take over ISIS prison: What to know

The advances come as the government and Kurdish forces accuse each other of violating a ceasefire that entered into force this week in northeast Syria. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Striking Spanish Workers Just Showed That Amazon Is Not Invincible The workers used creative, disruptive tactics to win. Their victory holds lessons for the global labor movement.

Amazon workers in Murcia struck twice at the RMU1 fulfillment center during the 2025 holiday “peak” season and forced the company into a negotiated settlement in late December. Workers won a 14% wage increase that took effect this month, improved night shift pay, and more paid time off.

The first General Strike in 80 years We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.

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We are off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸

Solidarity with the striking workers in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE!

This is a lie.

My @chrclla.bsky.social team represents every child imprisoned CBP & ICE. We routinely speak to children & families who suffer torturous conditions in CBP facilities.

Hundreds of businesses join general strike against ICE “We cannot simply sit by and allow this to continue,” one labor union president said. “We must use every tool that we have to fight back.”

A breakfast restaurant, a bike shop, and a brewery: these are some of the hundreds of businesses across Minnesota closing their doors Friday as part of a general strike to push Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of the state.

We need to use drones.

The latest: Scores of Minnesota businesses close in protest of ICE enforcement The “ICE Out! Statewide Shutdown” was planned by labor and faith leaders and will include a march through downtown at 2 p.m. that will culminate in a rally at Target Center.

Anti-ICE protest: A long line of protesters are kneeling on a roadway outside Minneapolis-St. Paul airport awaiting arrest.

““It's a very vocal minority and a very quiet super majority,” he said, adding the firm’s data consistently shows support has never been above 20 per cent”

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Can’t take Canada what about Alberta.

There were 35 US strikes on Caribbean boats between Sept 2 and Jan 3 (one every 3 days). None in the 21 days since then. Funny that.

In a historic ruling, a federal judge found that Virginia’s Constitution broke federal law by stripping the voting rights of every Virginian with a felony conviction.

An estimated 260,000 Virginians, disproportionately Black and Brown, are disenfranchised as a result of a felony conviction.

“Emperor” Trump's So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning the Gaza Strip into an upscale seaside resort with g...

Trump's plan for the so-called Board of Peace is “a parody of a colonial body that will result “ultimate control and subjugation.”

Pero jarro de agua fría para sus víctimas.

Buen abogado el de Julio.