Brooklyn, New York People all over the world demonstrated during the week of May 12 — 19 to commemorate the 76th anniversary of Nakba (“the Catastrophe”), the day on May 15, 1948, when the new Zionist state of Israel culminated its brutal removal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from . . .
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In response to the House bill passed on March 13, which requires parent company ByteDance to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok in nine months, the company filed a petition on May 7 in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, suing the U.S. government. On May 14, eight TikTok . . .
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Montgomery, Alabama The Center for Constitutional Rights posted this statement on May 1l , 2024. On International Workers’ Day, a lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of government actions that punish resistance to forced labor among the majority-Black prison population. Eric Buchannon speaks to prisoners’ family members and activists outside the Alabama . . .
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Seattle United Automobile Workers Local 4121, representing academic workers at the University of Washington, won a breakthrough victory for increased living wages on May 14. They achieved this with a large mobilization of workers and through mutual solidarity with the Free Palestine protest campus encampment in Seattle. Striking University of . . .
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