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French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan:
"If you're seeing this video now, it's because we've been stopped by the Israeli army or their complicit allies. We count on your mobilization to put pressure on the French government to demand our release."
"If you're seeing this video now, it's because we've been stopped by the Israeli army or their complicit allies. We count on your mobilization to put pressure on the French government to demand our release."
June 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan:
"If you're seeing this video now, it's because we've been stopped by the Israeli army or their complicit allies. We count on your mobilization to put pressure on the French government to demand our release."
"If you're seeing this video now, it's because we've been stopped by the Israeli army or their complicit allies. We count on your mobilization to put pressure on the French government to demand our release."
Sign our petition act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/moralmo...
Tell the Senate: Reject immoral budget cuts
Repairers of the Breach and Faithful America are asking the Senate to reject Trump's immoral and unjust budget cuts. Add your name now >>
act.faithfulamerica.org
June 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Some helpful ideas on ways to take peaceful action.
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...
What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.
wagingnonviolence.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Some helpful ideas on ways to take peaceful action.
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...
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Take note law firms and universities.
I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
apnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Take note law firms and universities.
A sound assessment IMHO
www.commondreams.org/opinion/colu...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/colu...
Capitulation or Complicity? Universities and the Trump Administration | Common Dreams
Complicity gets us far closer to a useful explanation of recent actions by campus leaders than capitulation.
www.commondreams.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A sound assessment IMHO
www.commondreams.org/opinion/colu...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/colu...
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Call to Action: On April 5th, take to the streets to say Hands Off. Spread the word, fire up your networks, and make sure everyone knows:
“We don’t have kings in the US, and we won’t let a handful of billionaires run our country into the ground.” #3E #USprotests #HandsOff
“We don’t have kings in the US, and we won’t let a handful of billionaires run our country into the ground.” #3E #USprotests #HandsOff
March 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Call to Action: On April 5th, take to the streets to say Hands Off. Spread the word, fire up your networks, and make sure everyone knows:
“We don’t have kings in the US, and we won’t let a handful of billionaires run our country into the ground.” #3E #USprotests #HandsOff
“We don’t have kings in the US, and we won’t let a handful of billionaires run our country into the ground.” #3E #USprotests #HandsOff
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Not sure how you can bomb cancer hospitals, orphanages, forcibly starve millions of children, have riots in your own country for the right to rape prisoners and not realize you're the baddies
March 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Not sure how you can bomb cancer hospitals, orphanages, forcibly starve millions of children, have riots in your own country for the right to rape prisoners and not realize you're the baddies
“I was born when all I once feared I could love.” Rabia of Basra.
I aspire to be born.
I aspire to be born.
March 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“I was born when all I once feared I could love.” Rabia of Basra.
I aspire to be born.
I aspire to be born.
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New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
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"This autocratic regime is taking away critical public goods, including to access to knowledge itself. That is by design... When half of the workers at the Department of Education are illegally fired, it will absolutely cause harm to our students, particularly the most vulnerable."
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"This autocratic regime is taking away critical public goods, including to access to knowledge itself. That is by design... When half of the workers at the Department of Education are illegally fired, it will absolutely cause harm to our students, particularly the most vulnerable."
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Shawn Fain issuing a powerful warning to workers everywhere. We must stand together & stop DOGE now, or we will risk much graver fights in the future.
"You know, if we don't fight back, this is the start of this, but striking workers are gonna be next in line to be fired and imprisoned. You know, they'll make striking illegal. I mean, that's just the next step in the process, in my opinion." - Shawn Fain, UAW President
March 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Shawn Fain issuing a powerful warning to workers everywhere. We must stand together & stop DOGE now, or we will risk much graver fights in the future.
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🚨 Trump and Musk want to fire federal workers, gut public services, and hand our government to billionaires. We’re not letting that happen.
📢 Join us this Thursday at 8PM ET for a mass call to hear how we fight back—together.
📢 Join us this Thursday at 8PM ET for a mass call to hear how we fight back—together.
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🚨 Trump and Musk want to fire federal workers, gut public services, and hand our government to billionaires. We’re not letting that happen.
📢 Join us this Thursday at 8PM ET for a mass call to hear how we fight back—together.
📢 Join us this Thursday at 8PM ET for a mass call to hear how we fight back—together.
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10 cowardly Democratic members of Congress just voted to censure Congressman Al Green.
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
Marcy Kaptur
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
They should be ashamed.
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
Marcy Kaptur
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
They should be ashamed.
March 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
10 cowardly Democratic members of Congress just voted to censure Congressman Al Green.
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
Marcy Kaptur
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
They should be ashamed.
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
Marcy Kaptur
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
They should be ashamed.
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers at the S. Dale Mabry & Neptune location in Tampa, FL just WON the 550th union Starbucks store in the US!
Not only that - baristas at 23 MORE stores are announcing organizing efforts today!
When we fight together, we WIN together. And we're NOT slowing down. ✊🔥
Not only that - baristas at 23 MORE stores are announcing organizing efforts today!
When we fight together, we WIN together. And we're NOT slowing down. ✊🔥
February 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers at the S. Dale Mabry & Neptune location in Tampa, FL just WON the 550th union Starbucks store in the US!
Not only that - baristas at 23 MORE stores are announcing organizing efforts today!
When we fight together, we WIN together. And we're NOT slowing down. ✊🔥
Not only that - baristas at 23 MORE stores are announcing organizing efforts today!
When we fight together, we WIN together. And we're NOT slowing down. ✊🔥
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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
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It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids
What Should You Do if ICE Comes to Your Restaurant?
We spoke to legal experts about what restaurant owners and workers can do to protect themselves from immigration raids
www.eater.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids
“At a minimum, anti-fascists in Congress could and should refuse their consent for anything the regime proposes, unless and until Musk and his coterie of putschists are stopped from pretending to exercise lawful authority,”
wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...
wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...
'Tesla Takedown' underscores the importance of moving from protest to resistance
The viral pickets at Tesla showrooms are a necessary first step toward the kind of disruptive tactics that can force change.
wagingnonviolence.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“At a minimum, anti-fascists in Congress could and should refuse their consent for anything the regime proposes, unless and until Musk and his coterie of putschists are stopped from pretending to exercise lawful authority,”
wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...
wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...
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10,000 King Soopers workers are currently on strike for better pay and working conditions.
Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks.
Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.
Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks.
Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.
February 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
10,000 King Soopers workers are currently on strike for better pay and working conditions.
Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks.
Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.
Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks.
Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.
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On this day in 1965, James Baldwin participated in a nationally televised debate against archconservative William Buckley on the topic of segregation.
The debate is considered a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement.
The debate is considered a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement.
February 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
On this day in 1965, James Baldwin participated in a nationally televised debate against archconservative William Buckley on the topic of segregation.
The debate is considered a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement.
The debate is considered a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement.
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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
February 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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When people ask how is Israel inciting antisemitism around the world, this is how.
The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.
The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.
Circulated footage shows dozens of Palestinian detainees dressed in shirts bearing the Star of David and the slogan “We will never forget, we will never forgive” before being released from Ofer Prison as part of the sixth batch of the prisoner exchange.
February 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
When people ask how is Israel inciting antisemitism around the world, this is how.
The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.
The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.
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Country music star Sheryl Crow sold her Tesla and will donate her funds to NPR
“There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
📝 thehill.com/blogs/in-the...
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
“There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
📝 thehill.com/blogs/in-the...
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Country music star Sheryl Crow sold her Tesla and will donate her funds to NPR
“There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
📝 thehill.com/blogs/in-the...
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
“There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
📝 thehill.com/blogs/in-the...
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests