As Trump’s administration escalates immigration enforcement raids across the United States, detaining around 1,000 immigrants on a daily basis in sweeping arrests, the movement against harsh measures has grown. Protests have been called for the weekend of February 7 through 9 to oppose Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Demonstrations have been scheduled in cities across the country including Riverside, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; San Antonio, Texas; Anchorage, Alaska; Chicago, Illinois; New York City; Phoenix, Arizona; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Indianapolis, Indiana.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/06/actions-planned-across-the-us-in-opposition-to-immigration-raids/

🇲🇦🇵🇸Moroccan activist Ismail Al-Ghazawi was released from jail on Wednesday, February 5, after the Casablanca Court of Appeals reduced his sentence from one year to four months. Having already served two months, the court suspended the duration of the pro-Palestinian activist’s sentence. Ghazawi is a member of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Morocco.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/06/pro-palestinian-activist-ismail-al-ghazawi-freed-in-morocco/

🇪🇨 Ecuadorians head to the polls on February 9 to elect a new president and legislative representatives. The election is shaping up to be a contest between continuity and reformism.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/07/ecuadors-presidential-election-noboa-and-gonzalez-lead-in-a-polarized-race/

🇮🇳After spending six years in jail without trial, Indian activists Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawle were finally granted bail.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/07/after-six-years-in-jail-two-activists-accused-in-indias-bhima-koregaon-case-released-on-bail/

🇪🇨 In an unprecedented election, the candidate of the ruling party and the candidate of the Citizen Revolution party monopolized more than 88% of the valid votes, even though there were almost 16 candidates.

This means that there is more or less a difference of 42,000 votes between the top two candidates out of the more than 10 million people who voted. In third place is the Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza with 5.26% of the Pachakutik party.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/10/bipartisanism-wins-in-ecuador-noboa-and-gonzalez-head-to-presidential-run-off/

🇵🇸 Israel further cracks down on Palestinians’ freedom of movement amid its “Iron Wall” operation in the West Bank.

Israel has escalated its operation against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and tightened the already severe restrictions on freedom of movement.

As part of the operation, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has expanded its open-fire orders in the occupied West Bank during the "Iron Wall" operation, leading to an increase in the number of Palestinian civilian casualties.

The IOF has also intensified its arrest campaign during the operation. As per Palestinian prisoners' institutions, 580 Palestinians were arrested from the occupied West Bank during January, most of them from the city of Jenin and its camp.
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Iran has rejected Trump’s declarations saying he will take over Gaza and turn it into a “riviera of the Middle East” by expelling Palestinians.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, February 9 that his country has requested an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers to discuss the statement made by US President Donald Trump about displacing Palestinians from Gaza.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/10/iran-says-trumps-plan-to-occupy-gaza-is-ethnic-cleansing-calls-for-a-united-global-response/

The delay was announced a few days after Netanyahu revealed that he intends to restart the war in Gaza following the release of Israeli captives, and amid Trump’s recurrent calls to displace Palestinians.

The spokesperson of Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, Abu Obaida said in a statement on Monday that “the handover of the captives, who were scheduled to be released next Saturday, will be postponed until further notice, and until the occupation commits to and compensates for the ennoscriptments of the past weeks retroactively.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/10/hamas-delays-release-of-captives-due-to-israels-violations-of-ceasefire-terms/

In an online address from exile, former PM Sheikh Hasina accused the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus of destroying the country by sheltering extremists.

The memorial of Bangladesh’s founding president and father of the nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the capital Dhaka was stormed by hundreds of people and later torched and destroyed using bulldozers.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/10/bangladesh-witnesses-wave-of-violent-attacks-against-monuments-of-liberation-war/

The Labour Party has been hemorrhaging both popularity and members since coming into power in 2024, with disturbing results: for the first time ever, the far-right Reform UK recently polled neck and neck with the two largest parties in Britain. The information caused concern among Labour ranks but led to no significant changes. In fact, Labour leadership appears to be making the same mistake as other center-left parties in Europe—adopting right-wing rhetoric and policies in the hope of outdoing the original.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/11/labour-turns-to-the-right-while-chasing-reform/

On February 10, the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela announced the return of the first Venezuelan migrants since the inauguration of Donald Trump and the kick-off of his anti-immigrant mass deportation policy.

The arrival of the 190 deported migrants to Venezuela, was achieved through an agreement reached in a meeting held on January 31 between Nicolás Maduro and Richard Grenell, special envoy of the Trump government.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/11/venezuela-welcomes-first-migrants-deported-under-trump-as-part-of-return-to-the-homeland-plan/

"They know how to blow up bridges, they don't know how to build them anymore."

Executive director of The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad, spoke in London at the Latin America Conference about the new world that is emerging, and how the United States is responding.
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“He was also subjected to severe physical abuse,” Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights reported, “including beatings with batons and electric shock sticks, as well as repeated blows to the chest.”

In his first meeting with a lawyer since December 2024, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya confirmed fears of torture and medical neglect in Israeli prison.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/12/dr-hussam-abu-safiya-has-been-tortured-and-denied-care-while-in-israeli-prison/