Geography Archives: Americas

 The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.

His vision of a socialist, pan-Africanist model of development⁠ was not buried with him.

One of Venezuela’s most respected intellectuals talks about fascism and corruption scandals in the lead-up to the presidential elections.

Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.

To the African masses at home and abroad, oppressed and tormented by the imperialists for centuries and yet steadfast in your struggle. We, the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa, urge you to stand strongly behind the Alliance of Sahel States which, at this moment in our history, represents the model for Pan-Africanism and therefore the path towards the total liberation and unification of Africa.

Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans.

CounterSpin interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion.

Representatives of Cuban LGBTI activism and friends from other countries joined the parade calling for “All rights for all people”, organized by the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) as part of the Cuban Days against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 3-18.

The paper’s author found that the five largest military contracts to major tech firms between 2018 and 2022 “had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined.”

Police arrested more than 2,300 protesters in at least 58 crackdowns at 44 colleges or universities between April 18 and May 3 as pro-Palestinian encampments spread like wildfire across the U.S. It can reasonably be argued that university administrators themselves provoked students into taking action, and it can certainly be proven that they fanned the flames of defiance after the protests began—by forcibly repressing the protests.

The very laws designed to safeguard rights and freedoms often act as invisible shackles.

Blue Bottle rakes in hundreds of billions a year. 

Tenant Unionism, Public Health, and Radical Science in Connecticut.

The loss of Western authority as a result of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza has merely sped up changes already underway for a generation.

As a former college teacher, one who witnessed the attacks on those who protested against the War in Vietnam and who studied the repression on campuses during the McCarthy period, I became so appalled at what was being done to our brave and courageous college students that I began to write letters to the leaders of what are, in reality, academic enterprises.

Below is the full proposal for Gaza ceasefire and prisoners exchange, which was accepted by Hamas on Monday.

If you read the Wikipedia entries for many alternative media outlets, they are written off as fringe conspiracy websites pushing debunked foreign propaganda. MintPress News, for example, is described as a “far-left news website” which “publishes disinformation and antisemitic conspiracy theories.”

A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting.

The Venezuelan government also condemned Israel’s latest assault on Gaza following Monday’s invasion of Rafah.

Seven hospital mass graves have been discovered so far across three Gazan hospitals.