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In addition, Díaz-Canel presented a book containing more than 4 million signatures from Cubans who support the Bolivarian Revolution and condemn attempts to destabilize the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Tens of thousands of Cubans march in support of Venezuela's sovereignty amid US aggression : Peoples Dispatch The demonstration rejected US interference in Venezuela's internal affairs as US military operations in the Caribbean Sea increase.

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Israel of course knew it would be difficult to retrieve the bodies of the captives that Israel killed with U.S. bombs because they also bombed the heavy equipment needed to retrieve those bodies.

They’re just finding whatever excuses they can to continue the genocide.

as it turns out, leftists weren't the "single issue voters/protesters" that libs tried making us out to be. libs themselves seem to be that. they only really care about "No Kings" (i.e. "resisting" Trump). they hate it when atrocities that the US has helped carry out (like genocide) are brought up.

James V @GoodVibePolitik • 7h "Philadelphia No Kings rally was asked by multiple pro-Palestine organizations to have a Palestinian speaker and just flat out said no so now there's a Palestine contingent going to talk to people and be essentially an internal counterdemo. Super excited" James @GoodVibePolitik "Update one of the organizers asked pro-Palestine attendees who had laid a 'Philly [loves] Gaza' banner to put it away because they wanted 'one message' and said it would make the event look like a pro-Hamas protest. Pro-Palestine attendees said fuck off and it stayed up" 2:35 PM 10/18/25 from Earth

an update on the Philadelphia No Kings rally:

An Ohio University professor who was recently detained by Israel for trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza has been removed from his only in-person class this semester, according to the university. Tom Hayes, 70, was removed from teaching his in-person, master's-level film class, "Art of Editing," less than a day after he returned to Ohio from his detention in the Ktz'iot prison in the Negev Desert in Israel, he said.

Another instructor resumed in-person instruction of Hayes' class this week and will teach it for the rest of the semester, Pittman said. Students walked out on the new instructor in protest on the first day of instruction, Hayes said. He plans on uploading his lectures to DropBox, so his students can finish his curriculum. He will also continue having online meetings with students to collaborate with them on their projects, he said.

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla.

His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest.

www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

"ethnic cleansing has become a part of the mainstream public discourse ... You can quibble with one poll or another, but you have clear Israeli Jewish majorities in favor of pushing Palestinians outside of Gaza"

Read this Chotiner interview with Nathan Thrall.
archive.is/W1ucP

i think the lesson from "2 million showed up to protest the iraq war and a coalition of NATO forces bombed iraq anyway" isn't "protest doesn't work" but "there is value in loudly refusing to have great acts of evil done in your name, even if those acts of evil still end up being carried out"

Three wheat pasted posters on a wall at SE 7th and Ankeny in Portland read “don’t obey” with a frog in the center — a new take on the Shepard Fairey “obey” design.

Like the inflatable animal costumes that started at the ICE facility, a bellwether for allegorical nonviolent resistance, the “Don’t Obey” wheat paste frogs are also proliferating around Portland. The glue is still wet as the marches convene.

Protesters in Milwaukee are kicking off their 1.8 mile march through downtown for No Kings day

Easy to forget or even outright miss if you don't follow things like me but North Carolina Democratic Party was the first, and I believe remains the only, state Democratic Party to label Israel an apartheid state and call for a total arms embargo, offensive and defense, until apartheid ends.

this is also a super good point

fwiw i was at the last no kings march in new york and the energy is much more aggressive and angry now. might be specifically how strongly chicago has been targeted but nobody was smiling at cops or giving them high fives this time around. radicalization is happening in real time

If "ending the war" was the only objective then BDS wouldn't have existed for decades. Israeli apartheid is still in full force. Gaza is in ruins. The IDF continues to shoot and bomb innocents.

We can't stop you from doing anything. But you are NOT entitled to 0 judgment when you look the other way

So yes, we WILL continue judging you if you post photos where you’re playing with your thousand dollar Xbox handheld, or post your Overwatch scoreboard, or whatever else you weren’t willing to give up from the 2025 equivalent of 1940s IBM.

To the anon who followed just to yell “The war is over!” at us…

The boycott is still on. Israel continues to bomb, genocide and torture Palestinians. Microsoft still provides the Israeli government with its services. And crucially, BDS themselves have said maintaining the boycott is imperative.

While we’re on that subject: Double Fine is a Microsoft studio, the BDS boycott of Microsoft is still ongoing, and we are absolutely noticing it whenever someone decides to cover their new game

Not so niche in our circles, but we take boycotts over moral causes seriously, and judge others who don’t. We’ve unfollowed critics we watched or listened to for years, all because they kept on featuring Hogwarts Legacy, or wouldn’t stop raving about the latest Xbox game in 2025.

Hasan: The people who cannot get through a single day without hating on late-night comedians and overweight soldiers and Muslim politicians and Mexican immigrants and Palestinian refugees and black women and transgender kids and peaceful protesters and Mr. Potato head, are lecturing us on hate?

In Spain, Tens of Thousands Take to the Streets and Strike for Palestine - Left Voice From Madrid, to Barcelona, to Malaga workers and students mobilized in a national day of action across the Spanish State. This powerful action marks a critical leap in the global class struggle,…

"From Madrid, to Vigo, to Zaragoza, and Barcelona, tens of thousands across [Spain] took to the streets and workers went on strike in solidarity with Palestine."

"[C]hanting slogans for Palestine and saying, 'It is not a peace plan if it is led by Trump.'"
#Spain #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

I can report from northern Colorado that every person I saw under 40 had some sort of Palestine thing or supported the SJP table. Anyone over 40 were just happy young people were there and didn't mind any of the Palestine activists

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

Shaking my head at the No Duke's protest down the street for getting too extreme

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MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

Hydee claiming that the police need to be able to assault journalists in the name of public safety is pretty mind blowing. Council forced her to pull the motion. See you in the streets!

We are KIRK ARMY NOW 1983-2025 Mike @BigMike31491329 •15m Replying to @catturd2 I got on @bluesky yesterday wanting to troll and have a good time. After about 20 minutes, I had to delete said account. They are disgusting! Mostly porn, trans porn, and just. I had to delete that account and wash my eyes.

Keep it up lol

Also don’t post original pics. Take a screenshot and post it. Metadata will be lost.

Reminder to disable biometrics on your phone before attending any protests. If police ask for the passcode, you do not have to provide it.

James Jackson & @derJamesJackson CDU leader and election frontrunner Merz says he can't imagine Germany arresting Netanyahu on ICC warrant

DW News @dwnews A German government spokesperson said Hungary is obligated to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is under an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant, if he attends a summit with US President Donald Trump in Budapest. p.dw.com/p/52B6s PURSUING PEACE

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