The Patriotic Movement of the AES Diaspora organized a demonstration in Naples, Italy to express support for the AES countries and their projects and to condemn media distortion.
“For too long, the people of the AES haven’t had the chance to speak for themselves. It’s as if everyone was allowed to speak about us, while we were never given a voice,” the Patriotic Movement’s secretary Bouyagui Konate told Peoples Dispatch.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/sahel-diaspora-groups-rally-in-support-of-aes-and-to-challenge-europes-media-colonialism/
“For too long, the people of the AES haven’t had the chance to speak for themselves. It’s as if everyone was allowed to speak about us, while we were never given a voice,” the Patriotic Movement’s secretary Bouyagui Konate told Peoples Dispatch.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/sahel-diaspora-groups-rally-in-support-of-aes-and-to-challenge-europes-media-colonialism/
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Sahel diaspora groups rally in support of AES and to challenge Europe’s “media colonialism”
In Italy, diaspora groups are mobilizing against media distortion of decolonization processes in the Alliance of Sahel States
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Universities are facing mounting pressure from the Trump administration which has been issuing a list of ultimatums under threats of withholding funding and revoking tax status.
Harvard’s response to the demands was markedly different to Columbia’s. On April 14, Harvard’s President Alan M. Garber issued a bold response: Harvard would “not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”
Harvard PSC responded to President Garber’s defiance of Trump, stating that, “Harvard has rightfully rejected Trump’s fascist, heightened demands. Now it must roll back its repression of Palestine Studies and solidarity orgs.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/harvard-refuses-to-comply-with-trump-admin-but-student-activists-call-for-more-bravery/
Harvard’s response to the demands was markedly different to Columbia’s. On April 14, Harvard’s President Alan M. Garber issued a bold response: Harvard would “not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”
Harvard PSC responded to President Garber’s defiance of Trump, stating that, “Harvard has rightfully rejected Trump’s fascist, heightened demands. Now it must roll back its repression of Palestine Studies and solidarity orgs.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/harvard-refuses-to-comply-with-trump-admin-but-student-activists-call-for-more-bravery/
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Harvard refuses to comply with Trump admin, but student activists call for more bravery
Organizers with the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee call on institution to walk back repression of pro-Palestine activism
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Social organizations and political leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean demand historical justice for Haiti amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
📲 Read the full article on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/19/france-must-compensate-haiti-200-years-of-illegitimate-debt-that-plunged-the-country-into-crisis/
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/19/france-must-compensate-haiti-200-years-of-illegitimate-debt-that-plunged-the-country-into-crisis/
Peoples Dispatch
France must compensate Haiti: 200 years of illegitimate debt that plunged the country into crisis
Social organizations and political leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean demand historical justice for Haiti amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
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Relations between the North African country Algeria and its former colonizer France have hit one of the lowest points since independence.
This diplomatic row began on April 8, when the French police arrested three Algerian nationals, including a consular official. Algeria’s Foreign Ministry protested that its “consular officer was arrested in public and then placed in police custody without notification through diplomatic channels and in flagrant violation of the immunities and privileges attached to his duties at the Algerian Consulate.”
📲 Read the full article on our website ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/19/french-far-right-and-paris-based-islamists-drag-french-relations-with-algeria-to-rock-bottom/
This diplomatic row began on April 8, when the French police arrested three Algerian nationals, including a consular official. Algeria’s Foreign Ministry protested that its “consular officer was arrested in public and then placed in police custody without notification through diplomatic channels and in flagrant violation of the immunities and privileges attached to his duties at the Algerian Consulate.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/19/french-far-right-and-paris-based-islamists-drag-french-relations-with-algeria-to-rock-bottom/
Peoples Dispatch
French far right and Paris-based Islamists drag French relations with Algeria to rock-bottom
Both countries have expelled each other’s diplomats as the latest diplomatic row, triggered by the arrest and indictment of an Algerian consular officer in France earlier this month, continues to escalate.
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🕊️Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis, has passed away at age 88. The first Latin American pope made history with his defense of progressive ideas about the role of women, his sharp denunciation of capitalism, socioeconomic inequality, and militarism, and his support to the Palestinian people.
Bergoglio, before becoming Pope Francis, faced criticism for the Catholic Church's silence and support of the Argentinian military dictatorship.
As Pope, Francis was a fierce defender of oppressed people everywhere, especially those facing the brunt of US imperialist attacks like the Cuban and Palestinian people, and also the masses struggling to survive under neoliberal capitalism. "The first task is to put the economy at the service of peoples…The economy should not be a mechanism for accumulating goods, but rather the proper administration of our common home." He took it upon himself to upgrade the Church's teachings and open its arms to a radical view of Catholicism, "liberation theology."
Bergoglio, before becoming Pope Francis, faced criticism for the Catholic Church's silence and support of the Argentinian military dictatorship.
As Pope, Francis was a fierce defender of oppressed people everywhere, especially those facing the brunt of US imperialist attacks like the Cuban and Palestinian people, and also the masses struggling to survive under neoliberal capitalism. "The first task is to put the economy at the service of peoples…The economy should not be a mechanism for accumulating goods, but rather the proper administration of our common home." He took it upon himself to upgrade the Church's teachings and open its arms to a radical view of Catholicism, "liberation theology."
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Over 1,000 protesters took to the streets of Tangier, Morocco, on April 20, protesting the docking of the ship Nexoe Maersk in the Moroccan port city.
This comes the same week that the same ship was delayed at the port of Casablanca for 39 hours due to similar protests. This comes after Moroccan dockworkers issued a call to action to boycott the Nexoe Maersk ship, following reports that the vessel would be carrying military equipment to Israel.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/21/palestine-solidarity-protests-in-morocco-delay-maersk-ship/
This comes the same week that the same ship was delayed at the port of Casablanca for 39 hours due to similar protests. This comes after Moroccan dockworkers issued a call to action to boycott the Nexoe Maersk ship, following reports that the vessel would be carrying military equipment to Israel.
Read more ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/21/palestine-solidarity-protests-in-morocco-delay-maersk-ship/
Peoples Dispatch
Palestine solidarity protests in Morocco delay Maersk ship
The international movement for an arms embargo against Israel grows as protests in Morocco successfully delayed the docking of Nexoe Maersk
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Members of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) have been working shoulder to shoulder with peasants in Venezuela for the last several months on a project to expand food production in the country.
The Pátria Grande do Sul (the Great Homeland of the South) project in Vergareña, Bolívar, was announced by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in September 2024 and seeks to develop 180,000 hectares for food production.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/21/brazils-mst-joins-hands-with-venezuelas-commune-movement-in-food-sovereignty-project/
The Pátria Grande do Sul (the Great Homeland of the South) project in Vergareña, Bolívar, was announced by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in September 2024 and seeks to develop 180,000 hectares for food production.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/21/brazils-mst-joins-hands-with-venezuelas-commune-movement-in-food-sovereignty-project/
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Brazil’s MST joins hands with Venezuela’s commune movement in food sovereignty project
The aim of the project is to guarantee Venezuela's food sovereignty and produce “more and with greater quality.”
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Nearly two years after the Pretoria Agreement formally ended the devastating war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, tensions have never gone away and new ones are surfacing, this time within the very political structures meant to guide recovery and reconciliation.
Internal divisions within the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have reached a breaking point culminating in the ousting of Tigray’s interim President, Getachew Reda.
📲 Read the full article on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/new-leadership-in-tigray-amid-deepening-divisions-and-fragile-peace/
Internal divisions within the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have reached a breaking point culminating in the ousting of Tigray’s interim President, Getachew Reda.
📲 Read the full article on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/new-leadership-in-tigray-amid-deepening-divisions-and-fragile-peace/
Peoples Dispatch
New leadership in Tigray amid deepening divisions and fragile peace
The internal leadership struggle reflects a broader crisis within the TPLF about how to move forward in post-war Ethiopia.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has confirmed the advancement of the ongoing indirect talks with the US over its nuclear program. According to reports, the sides will begin their technical meetings at the expert level on Wednesday, April 23.
Iran seeks complete removal of all sanctions and a guarantee that future US regimes will not renege on their commitments of a deal like what the Trump administration did with the 2015 nuclear deal.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/discussions-between-iran-and-us-advance/
Iran seeks complete removal of all sanctions and a guarantee that future US regimes will not renege on their commitments of a deal like what the Trump administration did with the 2015 nuclear deal.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/discussions-between-iran-and-us-advance/
Peoples Dispatch
Discussions between Iran and US advance
Iran seeks complete removal of all sanctions and a guarantee that future US regimes will not renege on their commitments of a deal like what the Trump administration did with the 2015 nuclear deal.
#PeoplesHistory | Today marks the birth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin—revolutionary titan, architect of the Soviet state, and theorist whose analysis of imperialism still ignites anti-colonial struggles worldwide.
A century later, his praxis echoes in struggles against exploitation, from picket lines to liberated zones.
A century later, his praxis echoes in struggles against exploitation, from picket lines to liberated zones.
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🇨🇺🇵🇸 Cubans send message to Palestinian prisoners: “You are not alone!”
In honor of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, a group of Cuban artists, teachers, and community members gathered to paint a mural to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand the liberation of Palestinian prisoners.
In honor of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, a group of Cuban artists, teachers, and community members gathered to paint a mural to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand the liberation of Palestinian prisoners.
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“I welcomed our son into the world earlier today without Mahmoud by my side,” Abdalla wrote in a statement.
On April 21, Dr. Noor Abdalla, the wife of detained Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, gave birth to their first child while her husband remains imprisoned in an ICE detention center over 1,000 miles away in Louisiana.
📲 Read the full article on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/noor-abdalla-wife-of-mahmoud-khalil-gives-birth-while-husband-languishes-in-ice-detention/
On April 21, Dr. Noor Abdalla, the wife of detained Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, gave birth to their first child while her husband remains imprisoned in an ICE detention center over 1,000 miles away in Louisiana.
📲 Read the full article on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/22/noor-abdalla-wife-of-mahmoud-khalil-gives-birth-while-husband-languishes-in-ice-detention/
Peoples Dispatch
Noor Abdalla, wife of Mahmoud Khalil, gives birth while husband languishes in ICE detention
The ongoing detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has united movement in solidarity with Palestine with struggle for immigrant rights under Trump
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Tune in for an episode with Zoe Alexandra, Indian journalist Prasanth R and Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, as they discuss the ongoing United Nations conference for reparations for enslavement, the anti-trust cases against Meta and Google, the protests against the docking of the ship Nexoe Maersk in the Morocco as part of the people's arms embargo, stunted peace talks in Ukraine, the hunger strikes of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother to fight for his freedom, as well the passing of Pope Francis and how he was a man close to the movements.
https://youtube.com/live/3tlUa6ohvx4
https://youtube.com/live/3tlUa6ohvx4
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#PeoplesHistory | Today, we honor Olga Benario, a fearless German-Brazilian communist leader who fought fascism until her last breath.
Born in Munich in 1908, Olga Gutmann Benario joined the Communist Youth at just 14 years old. By 20, she orchestrated a daring armed raid on Berlin’s Moabit prison, freeing Otto Braun, a communist professor accused of treason. She escaped to Moscow, where continued her studies and activities.
In 1934, the Communist International (Comintern) assigned her a critical mission: to protect Luís Carlos Prestes, Brazil’s revolutionary, on his return to Brazil amid the Vargas dictatorship. Posing as a wealthy Portuguese couple, they traveled from New York to Brazil—and during their fake honeymoon, fell in love for real.
But in 1936, after a failed insurrection, Prestes, Benario, and their comrades were captured by Vargas' forces. Olga, pregnant with Prestes’ child, was deported to Germany and handed to the Gestapo in a chilling act of Nazi-Brazilian collaboration.
Born in Munich in 1908, Olga Gutmann Benario joined the Communist Youth at just 14 years old. By 20, she orchestrated a daring armed raid on Berlin’s Moabit prison, freeing Otto Braun, a communist professor accused of treason. She escaped to Moscow, where continued her studies and activities.
In 1934, the Communist International (Comintern) assigned her a critical mission: to protect Luís Carlos Prestes, Brazil’s revolutionary, on his return to Brazil amid the Vargas dictatorship. Posing as a wealthy Portuguese couple, they traveled from New York to Brazil—and during their fake honeymoon, fell in love for real.
But in 1936, after a failed insurrection, Prestes, Benario, and their comrades were captured by Vargas' forces. Olga, pregnant with Prestes’ child, was deported to Germany and handed to the Gestapo in a chilling act of Nazi-Brazilian collaboration.
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