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About Peoples Dispatch

Peoples Dispatch, formerly The Dawn News, is an international media organization with the mission of bringing to you voices from people’s movements and organizations across the globe. Since its establishment three years ago, it has sought to ensure that the coverage of news from around the world is not restricted to the rhetoric of politicians and the fortunes of big companies but encompasses the richness and diversity of mobilizations from around the world. Peoples Dispatch also seeks to bring to you breaking news from a perspective widely different from that of the mainstream media. We invite people’s movements and political organizations everywhere to send us information and news from their countries. The information can be in Spanish, Portuguese, English or Hindi.
  • Indian activist Gautam Navlakha

    Indian activist Gautam Navlakha shifted to high-security barrack

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 25, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The health of the 70-year-old activist has deteriorated following the move. Prison authorities are now denying the family and his lawyer phone calls with him on the pretext that inmates can now be met in jail physically.

  • Last month, on September 6, Cuba began immunizing its pediatric population and became the first country in the world to inoculate children from the age of two.

    Cuba reaches milestone with 60% of its population being fully vaccinated

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 14, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    According to the Cuban Public Health Ministry, as of October 12, 6,500,743 Cubans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with its own vaccines. The figure represents 58.1% of the country’s entire population.

  • Placard from a IATSE solidarity rally in Los Angeles.

    In historic vote, 60,000 Hollywood workers authorize first ever countrywide strike

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 5, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Workers employed in major film and television production houses have complained of abysmal working conditions such as long hours, often exceeding 12 hours a day, low wages and low healthcare contributions from producers.

  • Daniel Hale

    Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months for exposing U.S. drones program and kill list

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 28, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Hale released a total of 17 documents, of which 11 were marked secret and top-secret. One exposed that during one five-month period of the operation, civilian casualties constituted over 90% of the victims of drone strikes.

  • Despite the harsh U.S. sanctions, about 11% of the Venezuelan population has been vaccinated. Photo: Venezuelan Ministry of Health/Twitter

    Venezuela immunizes its population against COVID-19 with Cuban vaccine

    Originally published: Venezuela immunizes its population against COVID-19 with Cuban vaccine on July 2, 2021 (more by Venezuela immunizes its population against COVID-19 with Cuban vaccine)

    Last week, Venezuela signed an agreement with Cuba for the purchase of 12 million doses of Abdala, just three days after the country announced and celebrated the success of its locally developed anti-COVID-19 vaccine

  • US civil society stands up against anti-China bill as Senate moves closer to passing it

    U.S. civil society stands up against anti-China bill as Senate moves closer to passing it

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 29, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    A bipartisan vote closed debate on the omnibus U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), which many argue includes provisions that could escalate trade disputes between the U.S. and China and could further rising anti-Asian racism.

  • Zoe

    What’s happening in Ecuador?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 6, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Ground report from Quito, Ecuador days out from the second round of presidential elections.

  • Photo : UN News

    Antonio Guterres criticizes unequal global access to COVID-19 vaccines, calls it ‘wildly unfair’

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 18, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The UN secretary general pointed out that 75% of all vaccinations so far have been administered in just 10 rich countries, whereas 130 mostly poor countries have not received a single dose of vaccine.

  • Indian climate activist Disha Ravi

    Social movements and organizations condemn arrest of 21-year-old Indian climate activist

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 16, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    21-year-old Disha Ravi was arrested on charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy for her involvement with a ‘toolkit’ which contained campaign material in support of the the ongoing farmers’ agitation in the country. Two other activists also face arrest.

  • A solidarity demonstration supporting the teachers’ demand held on February 3. Photo: CTU/Twitter

    Chicago threatens lockout as teachers stand firm on safe classroom demands

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 6, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Despite strong opposition from the Chicago Teachers’ Union, representing the educators, the Chicago Public Schools and the city administration have decided to reopen in-person classes on Monday.

  • Photo: WFP/Reem Nada

    Citing famine, UN urges reversal of terrorist designation for Yemen’s Houthis; U.S. refuses

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 15, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Mark Lowcock of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that recent labeling of Houthis as a terrorist organization by the U.S. would likely trigger a “famine on a scale we have not seen in 40 years.

  • Communist-led coalition sweeps local body elections in the southern Indian State of Kerala

    Communist-led coalition sweeps local body elections in the southern Indian State of Kerala

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 17, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The alliance led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has won more seats in local government bodies than the opposition groups combined.

  • Hopes rise of extension of New START arms control treaty as Russia offers to freeze arsenal

    Hopes rise of extension of New START arms control treaty as Russia offers to freeze arsenal

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 21, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Russia on Tuesday offered to freeze its current arsenal, and proposed an extension of the treaty by one year. The treaty signed in 2010 capped the number of nuclear warheads by the two countries and its deployment.

  • Thousands of Indonesians have taken the streets of Jakarta, Bandung and other cities in protest against the government’s push to enact the “omnibus law”.

    Protests rage in Indonesia against anti-worker “omnibus law”, hundreds arrested

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 9, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    An alliance of trade unions, environmental groups and students’ movements have launched an indefinite protest across against the sweeping changes to labor and environmental laws.

  • Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested on Wednesday August 26 and charged with murder. He traveled to Kenosha from Illinois in response to a "call to arms" from white supremacist vigilante group Kenosha Guard.

    White supremacist who killed two protesters in Kenosha arrested nearly 12 hours later

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 26, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse who fatally shot two protesters in Kenosha and left the scene even as the police was arriving was arrested in the neighboring State of Illinois.

  • In a meeting with Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel, scientists and experts announced that Cuba's vaccine will be going to clinical trial. (Photo: Estudios Revolución)

    Cuba’s vaccine candidate “Sovereign” is all set to enter clinical trials

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 22, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Cuba’s vaccine candidate is the first from the Latin America and the Caribbean region and marks a continuation of its pioneering work in combating COVID-19 across the world.

  • Wikipedia Evo Morales 2 year Bolivia (Photo: Joel Alvarez -Wikipedia)

    Will there ever be elections again in Bolivia?

    Vijay Prashad and Manuel Bertoldi and Peoples Dispatch

    On November 10, 2019, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia announced his resignation from the presidency. Morales had been elected in 2014 to a third presidential term, which should have lasted until January 2020.

  • Leftist leaders call for cancellation of debts owed by developing countries

    Leftist leaders call for cancellation of debts owed by developing countries

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 24, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    A statement signed by former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and Indian Kerala State’s finance minister Thomas Isaac, among others, highlights the inadequacy of the measures announced recently by the G20 and IMF to postpone debt repayment.

  • "Venezuela must be respected! We don't accept sanctions!" Photo: Venezuela Analysis

    Venezuela denounces ‘absurd decision’ of UK to retain its gold reserves

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 2, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    A British high court ruled on July 2 that because the UK recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president, it does not have to give the government of Nicolás Maduro access to the reserves.

  • Venezuelan security forces seized large amounts of war weaponry including assault rifles and ammunition as well as satellite phones, uniforms and helmets with the US flag from the group of mercenaries.

    Venezuela thwarts invasion attempt by mercenaries

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 3, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Venezuelan officials reported that a group of mercenaries attempted to invade the country on Sunday but were stopped by the country’s army and police.

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