🇦🇷 This is the Argentina of Javier Milei: brutal police crackdown on senior citizens
Security forces unleashed a brutal crackdown on retirees in Argentina yesterday during their weekly protest against budget cuts and insufficient pension payments. Fan bases of football clubs, social organizations, and trade unions, marched alongside pensioners as they faced violent crackdowns by police and security forces who deployed tanks, water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, and batons. Several people have been critically injured including photojournalist Pablo Grillo.
#Jubilados #JubiladosAlCongreso #Milei
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Security forces unleashed a brutal crackdown on retirees in Argentina yesterday during their weekly protest against budget cuts and insufficient pension payments. Fan bases of football clubs, social organizations, and trade unions, marched alongside pensioners as they faced violent crackdowns by police and security forces who deployed tanks, water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, and batons. Several people have been critically injured including photojournalist Pablo Grillo.
#Jubilados #JubiladosAlCongreso #Milei
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJojkiMF8U/?hl=en
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After 16 years at Nestlé, Asif Jutt was fired for trying to form a union. A 9-year legal battle left him hopeless, leading to his tragic self-immolation in court. Now, workers, unions, and left parties in Pakistan are rallying for justice in his name. This is a fight for dignity, rights, and against corporate exploitation. 💔✊🏼 #JusticeForJutt #WorkersRights #Solidarity
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/nestle-worker-self-immolates-in-court-after-9-year-battle-igniting-a-workers-movement-for-justice/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/nestle-worker-self-immolates-in-court-after-9-year-battle-igniting-a-workers-movement-for-justice/
Peoples Dispatch
Nestlé worker self-immolates in court after 9-year battle, igniting a worker’s movement for justice
Jutt, a long term Nestlé employee, was fired by the management for trying to form a union. He self-immolated after a decade-long legal battle.
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🇧🇷 #PeoplesHistory | Today we honor Marielle Franco, the Afro-Brazilian, LGBTQ+, and human rights activist who was assassinated in Rio de Janeiro in a political crime that shook the entire country.
Marielle Franco proudly defined herself as a “Woman, a Black person, a mother, and raised in the Maré favela.” As a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, she worked tirelessly to fight against the systemic violence waged by the Military Police and the militias against the poor and oppressed Favela neighborhoods under the guise of the so-called war on drugs.
On the night of March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, were assassinated in Rio de Janeiro. Their murders sent shockwaves across the country and were immediately recognized as politically motivated. Marielle’s rise as a Black, lesbian woman in Brazil’s conservative-dominated political landscape made her a symbol of hope and resistance.
Marielle Franco proudly defined herself as a “Woman, a Black person, a mother, and raised in the Maré favela.” As a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, she worked tirelessly to fight against the systemic violence waged by the Military Police and the militias against the poor and oppressed Favela neighborhoods under the guise of the so-called war on drugs.
On the night of March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, were assassinated in Rio de Janeiro. Their murders sent shockwaves across the country and were immediately recognized as politically motivated. Marielle’s rise as a Black, lesbian woman in Brazil’s conservative-dominated political landscape made her a symbol of hope and resistance.
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MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD 🥕👊🏽
🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural communities in the states of Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins occupied a stretch of the BR-010 highway, the access road to one of agribusiness giant Suzano's largest pulp and paper mills in the country and a strategic region for agribusiness to denounce the advance of eucalyptus crop, violence against rural workers, aerial spraying of pesticides and soil and water contamination.
According to the MST, the company has been threatening rural workers and prohibiting the planting of food on agrarian reform territories, with practices of intimidation, threats of legal prosecution, the use of physical violence, and the dumping of poison on plantations.
"They come into our shacks with the support of private security guards, take our harvest, forbid us to plant and threaten to dump poison with drones. We could plant all this land here, but now it's all eucalyptus,” says one of the farmers from the south of Maranhão.
The leadership of the MST, at the National Day of Women's Struggles across the country, points to the history of legal complaints against Suzano and calls the attention of regional and federal bodies.
"Society has noticed the rise in food prices, but we need to question the reasons for this increase. Among them are the lack of areas to grow food and also the poisoning of our territories, our soil and our water. Suzano is one of these companies that has had an impact on family farming, with the advance of eucalyptus on what used to be productive land and the spraying of pesticides,” explains Divina Lopes, from the MST leadership in Maranhão.
Video from MST-Amazônica
https://youtube.com/shorts/YN1IQOHOpHA?feature=share
🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural communities in the states of Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins occupied a stretch of the BR-010 highway, the access road to one of agribusiness giant Suzano's largest pulp and paper mills in the country and a strategic region for agribusiness to denounce the advance of eucalyptus crop, violence against rural workers, aerial spraying of pesticides and soil and water contamination.
According to the MST, the company has been threatening rural workers and prohibiting the planting of food on agrarian reform territories, with practices of intimidation, threats of legal prosecution, the use of physical violence, and the dumping of poison on plantations.
"They come into our shacks with the support of private security guards, take our harvest, forbid us to plant and threaten to dump poison with drones. We could plant all this land here, but now it's all eucalyptus,” says one of the farmers from the south of Maranhão.
The leadership of the MST, at the National Day of Women's Struggles across the country, points to the history of legal complaints against Suzano and calls the attention of regional and federal bodies.
"Society has noticed the rise in food prices, but we need to question the reasons for this increase. Among them are the lack of areas to grow food and also the poisoning of our territories, our soil and our water. Suzano is one of these companies that has had an impact on family farming, with the advance of eucalyptus on what used to be productive land and the spraying of pesticides,” explains Divina Lopes, from the MST leadership in Maranhão.
Video from MST-Amazônica
https://youtube.com/shorts/YN1IQOHOpHA?feature=share
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MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD
MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD 🥕👊🏽🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural commun...
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#PeoplesHistory | Today marks the death anniversary of Karl Marx, the revolutionary German philosopher whose analysis of capitalism laid the foundations for the modern socialist movement. 🚩
Marx’s scientific theory of historical dialectical materialism provided a powerful framework to understand the evolution of human societies. His numerous essays, books, and newspaper articles exposed the fundamental nature of capitalism as a system that inevitably leads to the exploitation of the working class. 📚⚒️
By lifting the veil on the material conditions and social relations underpinning capitalist society, as well as the deep contradictions it generates, Marx demonstrated the historical necessity of overthrowing bourgeois rule to achieve true emancipation. His clarion call—“Workers of the world, unite!”—still resonates today as a rallying cry for justice and equality.
Marx’s scientific theory of historical dialectical materialism provided a powerful framework to understand the evolution of human societies. His numerous essays, books, and newspaper articles exposed the fundamental nature of capitalism as a system that inevitably leads to the exploitation of the working class. 📚⚒️
By lifting the veil on the material conditions and social relations underpinning capitalist society, as well as the deep contradictions it generates, Marx demonstrated the historical necessity of overthrowing bourgeois rule to achieve true emancipation. His clarion call—“Workers of the world, unite!”—still resonates today as a rallying cry for justice and equality.
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🚨 Columbia sanctions students and violates labor rights under pressure from Trump
The administration of Columbia University has given in to Trump’s demands and sanctioned 22 students for pro-Palestine protests. It also has fired the graduate student union president and canceled contract negotiations with the union.
Peoples Dispatch reported from yesterday’s rally of unionized graduate students on Columbia’s campus, where UAW Local 2710 workers denounced this violation of their labor rights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHOSdaXsjbE/
The administration of Columbia University has given in to Trump’s demands and sanctioned 22 students for pro-Palestine protests. It also has fired the graduate student union president and canceled contract negotiations with the union.
Peoples Dispatch reported from yesterday’s rally of unionized graduate students on Columbia’s campus, where UAW Local 2710 workers denounced this violation of their labor rights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHOSdaXsjbE/
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Big Pharma keeps pushing for weaker pollution standards despite proven risks to human and environmental health.
📲 Read the full article by Jan Wintgens on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/15/is-big-pharmas-pollution-deregulation-campaign-fueling-the-next-pandemic/
📲 Read the full article by Jan Wintgens on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/15/is-big-pharmas-pollution-deregulation-campaign-fueling-the-next-pandemic/
Peoples Dispatch
Is Big Pharma’s pollution deregulation campaign fueling the next pandemic?
Big Pharma keeps pushing for weaker pollution standards despite proven risks to human and environmental health
#PeoplesHistory | Today we honor the memory of US activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli Occupation Forces in 2003.
In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Corrie was demonstrating against Israeli Occupation Forces' destruction of homes in Rafah. While protesting the demolition of local homes, she was struck and killed by an Israeli soldier operating a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer. The soldier responsible was never brought to justice despite the efforts of Corrie's family and human rights organizations.
In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Corrie was demonstrating against Israeli Occupation Forces' destruction of homes in Rafah. While protesting the demolition of local homes, she was struck and killed by an Israeli soldier operating a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer. The soldier responsible was never brought to justice despite the efforts of Corrie's family and human rights organizations.
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🇵🇸 "Release Mahmoud right now!"
Expelled Columbia student and President of UAW Local 2710, Grant Miner, spoke to us about how students and workers are fighting back against Columbia's attacks on students and pro-Palestine activism on campus.
Protests continue in cities across the United States calling for the immediate release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the Trump administration's violation of the right to free speech and an end to the persecution of immigrant students.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHRw77CPE6O/?igsh=eDI1OHY3Mzl3eGQ1
Expelled Columbia student and President of UAW Local 2710, Grant Miner, spoke to us about how students and workers are fighting back against Columbia's attacks on students and pro-Palestine activism on campus.
Protests continue in cities across the United States calling for the immediate release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the Trump administration's violation of the right to free speech and an end to the persecution of immigrant students.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHRw77CPE6O/?igsh=eDI1OHY3Mzl3eGQ1
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🚨Israel’s siege in the West Bank continues, displacing thousands and demolishing homes as part of a systematic campaign to erase Palestinian rights. Amid global silence, ethnic cleansing persists.
#WestBank #FreePalestine #HumanRights
🕊️✊ Read more:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/16/israels-siege-continues-across-the-west-bank/
#WestBank #FreePalestine #HumanRights
🕊️✊ Read more:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/16/israels-siege-continues-across-the-west-bank/
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Israel’s siege continues across the West Bank
Israel’s large-scale displacement and demolition campaign is seen as part of its plans to liquidate the Palestinian right of return.
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"The US, in its supreme stupidity, torpedoed the peace negotiations [in Ukraine]."
Economist Jeffrey Sachs in dialogue with Vijay Prashad about the war in Ukraine and the US role in working against peace. Watch this clip from the No Cold War series “Perspectives” about the direction of US foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union.
#Ukraine #Peace
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs in dialogue with Vijay Prashad about the war in Ukraine and the US role in working against peace. Watch this clip from the No Cold War series “Perspectives” about the direction of US foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union.
#Ukraine #Peace
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHTmxm2AT4e/
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🚨 Over 30,000 workers in Karnataka mobilized for a historic 5-day protest against anti-labor policies, demanding fair wages, job security, and an end to corporate exploitation.
✊ Their fight is for dignity, justice, and a future free from inequality.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/tens-of-thousands-of-workers-in-karnataka-mobilize-in-historic-five-day-protest-against-anti-labor-policies/
✊ Their fight is for dignity, justice, and a future free from inequality.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/tens-of-thousands-of-workers-in-karnataka-mobilize-in-historic-five-day-protest-against-anti-labor-policies/
Peoples Dispatch
Tens of thousands of workers in Karnataka mobilize in historic five-day protest against anti-labor policies
Mobilized from the cross-section of Karnataka’s working class, over 30,000 took part in the demonstration from March 3 to 7, raising 37 demands including a living minimum wage and a wealth tax on the richest 1%.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day to the rebellious and anti-imperialist Irish people!
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