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#commondreams

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Sanders Takes #Oligarchy Fight to #Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in #WestVirginia

"Whoever said West Virginia was a conservative state?" #BernieSanders asked the crowd in Wheeling. "Somebody got it wrong."

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 09, 2025

...some in the crowd sported red bandanas around their necks—a nod to the state's long history of labor organizing and the thousands of coal mine workers who formed a multiracial coalition in 1921 and marched wearing bandanas for the right to join a union with fair pay and safety protections.

"Fifteen million Americans, including 50,000 right here in West Virginia, are going to lose their healthcare," #Sanders said of the Medicaid cuts...

Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law's #Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram benefits, according to estimates.

commondreams.org/news/bernie-s

Common Dreams · Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia | Common DreamsJoin Bernie Sanders on his Fighting Oligarchy Tour as he rallies against the billionaire class's control and Republican cuts to healthcare and social programs. #FightingOligarchy
#news#politics#USPolitics
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Hundreds Arrested In London for Opposing Ban on Nonviolent Group Palestine Action

"Let us be under no illusion," said one organizer. "The government is criminalizing the people of #Britain for standing up against the biggest #genocide of the 21st century, as it's livestreamed from #Gaza."

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 09, 2025

British campaigners reported Saturday that the sheer volume of people who showed up in #London's Parliament Square to support the nonviolent advocacy group #PalestineAction presented a major challenge for the Metropolitan Police, who had threatened to arrest anyone supporting the organization.

The campaign group #DefendOurJuries reported that as of 4:00 pm local time, at least 200 people had been arrested for joining the protest, where more than 1,000 sat silently in the square with many displaying signs that read: "I oppose genocide. I support #Palestine Action."

commondreams.org/news/palestin

#Israel #UK
#news #press #politics @palestine

Common Dreams · Hundreds Arrested In London for Opposing Ban on Nonviolent Group Palestine Action | Common DreamsBritish campaigners in London's Parliament Square demand reversal of proscription of Palestine Action, facing arrests by Metropolitan Police. Over 200 arrested for peaceful protest against genocide in Gaza. Support grows as civil society groups condemn ban. #FreePalestine
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of #Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII

"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025

A leading global authority on #famine on Monday accused #Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass #starvation in the Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day #US-backed #Israeli siege and obliteration of the #Palestinian enclave.

"I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University...told #AlJazeera.

commondreams.org/news/famine-e

#StopStarvingGaza
#EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Common Dreams · Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

All Likud Ministers Urge Netanyahu to Annex Entire #WestBank This Month

The 15 ministers said that Israel's "strategic partnership, backing, and support of the #US and President #DonaldTrump" make this a "propitious time" to formally steal most of Palestine.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Jul 02, 2025

..."The goal of Israel's far right is expansion of #Israeli territory to include what proponents call "Greater Israel," which is based on biblical boundaries that stretched from Africa to Turkey to Mesopotamia.

#Netanyahu has repeatedly displayed maps showing the #MiddleEast without #Palestine, all of whose territory is shown as part of #Israel. However, annexation had previously been most closely associated with far-right figures outside #Likud..."

#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#WestAsia #Trump
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#ZohranMamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in #NYC

"The people of #NewYorkCity proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.

from #CommonDreams
Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"#Affordability was a key focus of #Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the #Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."

commondreams.org/news/zohran-m

#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #NewYork #Cuomo #election #progressive #DemocraticSocialist
#news #press

Common Dreams · Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC | Common Dreams"The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Gestapo: You Guys Look Like Fucking Criminals

from #CommonDreams
Further | Abby Zimet
Jun 25, 2025

"New war hysteria looms, yet still armed, masked, unnamed stormtroopers roam the land, keeping us safe from "the worst of the worst illegal alien criminals" by abducting nefarious landscapers, car wash workers, Wal Mart greeters, tamale makers, swap meet fans and distraught mothers of children with cancer. As glorified "state-sanctioned intimidation" turns some terrified Latino neighborhoods into ghost towns, "Day by passing day, we are watching what amounts to a national police riot by ICE. "
[...]
"Starting years ago with a heinous orange guy pronouncing all #Mexicans rapists and murderers, it keeps getting worse as guard rails drop. His marauding agents of chaos can now go after frightened targets in once-safe spaces: schools, courts, hospitals, places of worship."

commondreams.org/further/gesta

#opinion #satire #press #immigration
#StopTheDeportations #DueProcessOfLaw #Trump #ICE

Common Dreams · Gestapo: You Guys Look Like Fucking Criminals | Common DreamsNew war hysteria looms, yet still armed, masked, unnamed stormtroopers roam the land, keeping us safe from "the worst of the worst illegal alien criminals" by abducting nefarious landscapers, car wash workers, Wal Mart greeters, tamale makers, swap meet fans and distraught mothers of children with c...
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Oligarchs 'Terrified' #DemocraticSocialist Mamdani Might Win #NYC Mayoral Primary

"This is a tale that we're seeing across this country, where it's a battle of organized money versus organized people," #ZohranMamdani said on the eve of the election.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Jun 24, 2025

[Since this article was written, #Mamdani has won the Democratic primary.]

"The prospect a Mamdani victory is deeply worrying to many of the Wall Street bankers, corporate executives, real estate developers, mega-landlords and others who are bankrolling #Cuomo... Backers include billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg; financiers Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb; Wall Street titans Blair Effron, Steve Rattner, and Antonio Weiss; Palantir founder and co-CEO Alex Karp; and former President Bill Clinton."

commondreams.org/news/billiona

#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #AOC #Bernie #BernieSanders #Muslim #Islamophobia #SouthAsian #Indian
#news #press

Common Dreams · Oligarchs 'Terrified' Democratic Socialist Mamdani Might Win NYC Mayoral Primary | Common Dreams"This is a tale that we're seeing across this country, where it's a battle of organized money versus organized people," Zohran Mamdani said on the eve of the election.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's #Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide

"Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn't consider it genocide?" said one researcher. "No."

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
May 15, 2025

"Melanie O'Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, told NRC that #Israel's deliberate blockade on "food, water, shelter, and sanitation" convinced her the #Netanyahu government was carrying out a #genocide, while Segal pointed to "openly genocidal statements" by #Israeli leaders.

"But for all it is about the sum of what would apply separately as 'ordinary' war crimes," NRC reported. "The picture as a whole makes it a genocide. That is how the term is meant, says [British professor Martin] Shaw: 'holistic.'""

commondreams.org/news/israel-i

#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel

Common Dreams · Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide | Common DreamsIs Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza? Leading international experts say yes, with the majority of their peers in academia concurring. The debate is shifting as the death toll rises and humanitarian aid is blocked. Are you ready to confront the harsh reality of what's happening in Gaza? #GenocideInGaza
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Why Is US Congress Silent on the Man-made Nightmare It Is Enabling in Gaza?

History will not forgive our complicity. The time is long overdue for us to end our support for #Netanyahu’s destruction of the #Palestinian people.

from #CommonDreams
Bernie Sanders
May 08, 2025

[based on speech given to US Senate]

"Thursday marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into #Gaza. For more than nine weeks, #Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel.

Hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting to enter Gaza, sitting just across the border, but are denied entry by #Israeli authorities.

... Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israel’s policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers.”"

commondreams.org/opinion/congr

#EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press #politics @palestine

Common Dreams · Why Is US Congress Silent on the Manmade Nightmare It Is Enabling in Gaza? | Common DreamsHistory will not forgive our complicity. The time is long overdue for us to end our support for Netanyahu’s destruction of the Palestinian people.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

'Assault on Children': #UNRWA Condemns Israeli Raids on #EastJerusalem Schools

"Now, nearly 800 girls and boys—some as young as 6 years old—are left in shock and trauma."

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
May 08, 2025

"#Israeli occupation forces enforced a ban on the #UnitedNations agency for #Palestinian refugees on Thursday by storming three schools in East Jerusalem, terrorizing children and staff as they shuttered the facilities and drawing condemnation from human rights defenders.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, heavily armed Israeli security forces raided the schools in the Shu'fat refugee camp in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, detaining one UNRWA employee and forcing around 550 children out of their classrooms as the invaders closed the facilities. "

commondreams.org/news/unrwa-sc

#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Common Dreams · 'Assault on Children': UNRWA Condemns Israeli Raids on East Jerusalem Schools | Common Dreams"Now, nearly 800 girls and boys—some as young as 6 years old—are left in shock and trauma."
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

'Civilized People Do Not Starve Children to Death': #Sanders Rips #US-Backed Israel's 68-Day Gaza Aid Blockade

"What we are seeing now is a slow, brutal process of mass starvation and death by the denial of basic necessities," the senator said, calling for an end to U.S. complicity in the humanitarian disaster.

from #CommonDreams
Jessica Corbett
May 08, 2025

""Today marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into #Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel."

[He] not only highlighted those conditions in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday but also called out the fact that the worsening humanitarian crisis "gets very little discussion here in the nation's capital or in the halls of Congress," even though #Israel has spent the past 19 months destroying Gaza with armed and diplomatic support from the United States."

commondreams.org/news/bernie-s

#USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine

Common Dreams · 'Civilized People Do Not Starve Children to Death': Sanders Rips US-Backed Israel's 68-Day Gaza Aid Blockade | Common DreamsU.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders calls out the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as Israel blocks aid—and the United States' complicity.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#Michigan AG Drops Charges Against Pro-Palestinian Campus Protesters

"Our First Amendment rights should never be criminalized. Speaking up against genocide should be lifted up, not slammed with felony charges. #Palestinians deserve safety and dignity," said Rep. #RashidaTlaib.

from #CommonDreams
Jessica Corbett
May 05, 2025

Jessica Corbett
May 05, 2025

"Advocates for student protesters and other critics of the U.S.-backed #Israeli assault on the #Gaza Strip celebrated on Monday after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel dropped all charges against seven people arrested last year at the #UniversityOfMichigan amid allegations of bias that the #Democrat rejected. "

commondreams.org/news/universi

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Common Dreams · Michigan AG Drops Charges Against Pro-Palestinian Campus Protesters | Common DreamsThe Michigan AG dropped charges against protesters at the University of Michigan who spoke out against the U.S.-backed Israeli assault of the Gaza Strip.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Nationwide May Day Protests Target Trump's 'Billionaire Agenda'

"This May Day we are fighting back," said organizer May Day Strong. "We are demanding a country that puts our families over their fortunes."

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
May 01, 2025

" Hundreds of thousands of #workers rallied from coast to coast Thursday to mark International Workers' Day with spirited demonstrations supporting labor rights and protesting President Donald #Trump's "billionaire agenda" and attacks on the rule of law, #unions, #immigrants, #Palestine defenders, transgender people, and others.

Rallies took place in hundreds of cities and towns across the United States in what the #MayDayStrong coalition, which led the day of action along with the 50501 movement and others, called "a demand for a country that invests in working families—not billionaire profits." "

commondreams.org/news/may-day-

#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press #MayDay #unions #LaborMovement #protests

Common Dreams · Nationwide May Day Protests Target Trump's 'Billionaire Agenda' | Common Dreams"This May Day we are fighting back," said organizer May Day Strong. "We are demanding a country that puts our families over their fortunes."
DoomsdaysCW

#ICE Admits They Didn't Have a Warrant When They Arrested #MahmoudKhalil

"ICE has admitted it detained Mahmoud illegally and without a warrant—to justify it, they are now flat out lying with an absurd claim that he tried to flee," said a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.

by Eloise Goldsmith
Apr 25, 2025

Read more:
commondreams.org/news/ice-warr

Common Dreams · ICE Admits They Didn't Have a Warrant When They Arrested Mahmoud Khalil | Common DreamsThe federal government has admitted that immigration agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant, sparking outrage from his legal team.
#FreeMahmoudKhalil#CommonDreams#ReaderSupportedNews
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Unions Cheer After Judge Halts #Trump Order on Federal Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights

"Today's court order is a victory for federal employees, their union rights, and the #American people they serve," said the head of the National Treasury Employees Union.

from #CommonDreams
Jessica Corbett
Apr 25, 2025

"Labor unions representing federal workers celebrated on Friday after a U.S. district judge blocked President Donald Trump's March executive order intended to strip the collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of government employees."

commondreams.org/news/federal-

Common Dreams · Unions Cheer After Judge Halts Trump Order on Federal Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights | Common DreamsLabor unions representing federal workers celebrated after a U.S. district judge blocked President Donald Trump's March executive order intended to strip the collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of government employees.
#WorkersRights#Workers#Unions
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': #ICE Arrests Palestinian #Columbia Protest Leader

"He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech," said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer.

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Apr 14, 2025

"A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group #Betar named #ColumbiaUniversity student #MohsenMahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of #Palestinian rights defenders, #Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "

commondreams.org/news/mohsen-m

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Common Dreams · 'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader | Common DreamsColumbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, targeted by far-right group Betar, arrested at immigration office. Leaders of Palestinian rights protests facing deportation. Mahdawi detained for speaking out. Will justice prevail for him and others like him? #FreeMahdawi
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

After Another US Security Council Veto, #UN General Assembly Votes for #Gaza Cease-Fire

The General Assembly also voted 159-9 with 11 abstentions in favor of a resolution supporting #UNRWA.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Dec 11, 2024

commondreams.org/news/unga-cea

#CeasefireNow
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Common Dreams · After Another US Security Council Veto, UN General Assembly Votes for Gaza Cease-Fire | Common DreamsThe General Assembly also voted 159-9 with 11 abstentions in favor of a resolution supporting UNRWA.
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