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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken severe measures to suppress the voices of two prominent pro-Palestine activists on campus: PhD student Prahlad Iyengar and Dr. Michel DeGraff, a professor who has taught linguistics at the university for over 28 years.

Students and faculty at the elite university, banned from campus and denied annual pay raises, vow to keep fighting back.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/23/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-is-targeting-pro-palestine-student-and-faculty/
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🇾🇪/🇵🇸 "Yemen’s government said that it would desist from any attack if Israel stopped its genocidal war against the Palestinians. Since the Israeli attack continues, Yemen’s attacks have also continued."

Vijay Prashad writes about how Yemen has been responding to the Israeli Genocide in Gaza and how the US has failed to stop Yemen in its steadfast support for Palestine.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/25/yemen-appears-to-have-the-upper-hand-in-its-conflict-with-the-united-states/
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Gautam Adani, a close ally of India’s far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been indicted by a US court in a bribery and fraud case

Adani, one of the world’s richest people, faces accusations linked to a deal between Adani Green Energy and a US firm to supply 12 gigawatts of solar power to various Indian states. The agreement was expected to generate billions of dollars in US investments for Adani’s solar power project.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/25/indian-billionaire-gautam-adani-indicted-in-us-bribery-and-fraud-case/
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Today is #25N, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Learn the history behind this date wherein people across the world call for an end to gender based violence and oppression.
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Following ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants against top Israeli officials over Gaza’s genocide, Ben-Gvir bluntly threatened to escalate the situation in the West Bank.

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the southern occupied West Bank on Friday, November 22, accompanied by thousands of Israeli settlers.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/25/israeli-minister-ben-gvir-storms-ibrahimi-mosque-in-hebron-to-provoke-an-escalation-in-the-west-bank/
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Thousands of members and supporters of Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) reached Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday, November 26, facing heavy repression by security forces including tear gas and live fire. Reportedly four people have been killed.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/26/thousands-of-pti-supporters-reach-islamabad-demanding-imran-khans-immediate-release/
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Student activists at MIT are fighting for an end to the university’s projects and collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. However, instead of listening to the students’ demands, MIT has cracked down on those raising their voices.

PhD student Prahlad Iyengar and linguistics professor Dr. Michel DeGraff are currently facing retaliatory measures for their pro-Palestine activism on campus but how vowed that they will not back down.
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Jordan’s Public Security Directorate (PSD) announced that three Jordanian policemen were injured in a shooting attack that targeted police personnel deployed near the Israeli Embassy in Jordan’s capital Amman.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/26/gunman-killed-jordanian-policemen-injured-in-a-shooting-near-the-israeli-embassy-in-amman/
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#PeopleHistory | Today, we remember Sojourner Truth, the trailblazing abolitionist and women's rights activist.

She was an essential figure in the abolitionist movement in the US, and one of her most remembered moments was when she delivered the electrifying "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in 1851 at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Her powerful words challenging the entrenched prejudices and racism against Black women rang out as a rallying cry for equality and human dignity.
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