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HAPPENING NOW: red. Media is on the ground as protests break out in Berlin against the ban on the international Palestine Congress 2024. Yesterday, riot police stormed the stage shortly after the start of the event, which was supposed to be three days of discussions on anti-imperialist strategies.
The situation on the streets became tense, with several arrests. Police deployed vehicles to block the streets, encircling the protest and issuing orders for its cessation. Despite this, the protest persists.
Protesters wield shields and chant slogans denouncing Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide. Notably, German arms comprise almost 50% of all Israeli weapon imports.
During a press conference held by congress organizers this morning, their legal representatives asserted that the police raid and subsequent ban were unlawful. The activists announced that they would not let the repression get them down.
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In the same 24 hours in Germany: Björn Höcke, the AfD politician who will go on trial for using a Nazi slogan, was given a debate platform on prime time TV where his claim that antisemitism is a problem “imported” to Germany, went unchecked. Meanwhile German police stormed the Palestine Congress which was opposing Israel’e genocide in Gaza and arrested its Jewish participants and organizers, including Raz. The congress was shut down on the false pretext that “something antisemitic might happen.”
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Watch German police arrest a Jewish activist outside the Palestine Congress. Police seized the Jewish Voice for Peace member for holding a sign that read: "Jew Against Genocide".
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"Now it's actually getting dangerous." Watch activist Salah Said report from the Palestine Congress where police have stormed the speakers' stage and shut off the electricity.
Police descended on the congress stage as a pre-recorded speech by founder of the Palestine Land Society, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, was playing. They demanded organizers stop filming and live streaming and plunged the room into darkness by switching off the lights and power. red. media's team at the scene reports that the electricity has now been turned back on.
The congress and its organizers have been subjected to unprecedented levels of repression for their efforts to raise public awareness about Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Rector of Glasgow University, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who was due to speak has been denied entry to Germany. Other speakers due to address the congress include Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis and Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett.
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🔴 LIVE NOW: German police have stormed the stage at the Palestine Congress and are trying to shut it down!
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PALESTINE CONGRESS UPDATE: German police have begun arresting participants of the congress in Berlin before it has even started. The event was due to begin at 12pm local time but police are stopping people from entering demanding that organizers allow all German media entry.
Hundreds of people are being stopped from entering the congress by police who are pressuring organizers to accept their extraordinary demand.
Organizers insist on maintaining their accreditation process to ensure the smooth running of the event and highlight that the venue’s capacity is limited, ie. if there is no limit on press entry, those who have bought event tickets may be unable to attend.
Police say their unprecedented demand, is necessary to ensure “freedom of the press”, the same press which has been uncritically churning out pro-Israel propaganda since October 7.
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NOW IN BERLIN: Hundreds of German police are blockading the Palestine Congress in Berlin before it has even started.
Police have put up barricades around the congress venue in the Tempelhof neighborhood and are preventing people from entering.
The congress has been organized by an array of civil society activists, including Palestinian and Jewish groups, and its slogan is "We accuse".
The event's goal is to highlight Germany's role in Israel's genocide in Gaza. For week's German media and politicians have been demanding it be banned.
2,500 police are deployed for the congress, 900 to surround the venue itself.
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Indigenous Peruvians are protesting to defend their water supply against gold mining operations in the Andean region of Cajamarca. Protesters say that mining hasn’t brought any development to the area because, despite massive operations already in place, infrastructure is poor, and living standards remain low for Indigenous farmers.
Similar protests are also taking place in neighboring Ecuador, where Indigenous communities are mobilizing against Canadian mining company Atico Mining Corp., which has begun gold mining operations that will damage the water supply for Quichua towns in the Andean region of Cotopaxi.
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Today in 2002, right-wing forces backed by the US attempted to overthrow former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, ultimately falling against popular resistance. Watch this powerful speech of the Bolivarian revolutionary Hugo Chavez, rallying thousands against imperialism.
On April 11, 2002, the Venezuelan elite, the Church, and some military members organized a coup against then-President Hugo Chavez. However, the Venezuelan people swarmed the streets to protect the Bolivarian revolution and overpowered the US-backed right-wing coup.
The coup plotter aimed to form a de facto government headed by Pedro Carmona, a business mogul and former president of the chambers of commerce, which would dissolve all other state powers and local authorities.
The people brought Hugo Chavez back to power in just 47 hours. The counterrevolutionary offensive backfired, as mass mobilization politicized additional segments of the population, who also organized themselves into Bolivarian collectives.
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Harrowing scenes unroll at the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after the withdrawal of Israeli troops allow first insights into the extent of their atrocities. Over 400 bodies have been recovered at Al-Shifa since Israel’s withdrawal, many showing signs of point-blank executions and other crimes.
Bodies were decomposed, torn into pieces, or run over by Israeli bulldozers, according to aid workers. Civil defense forces also say that Israeli soldiers buried bodies under the rubble of the medical complex to cover up crimes.
Civil defense forces say it is impossible to reopen the hospital – the region’s largest and most important hospital is completely ruined.
The hospital was the victim of several Israeli military raids and sieges under the falsehood that it served as cover for a headquarter of Gaza’s fighters.
Around 30,000 people were sheltering at the hospital. Survivors report torture, executions, and other crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces.
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32 years ago today, one of South Africa's most iconic figures, the communist Chris Hani, was assassinated.
He is remembered as the charming, passionate and charismatic General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and one of the country's most popular politicians.
At the age of 15, Hani joined the ANC Youth League and was active in protests against the Bantu Education Act. After his graduation, he joined the ANC's armed wing, MK, and would become its chief of staff. Hunted by the apartheid regime, he was forced into hiding and changed his name to Chris.
He received military training in the Soviet Union and fought in the joint operations between MK and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army during Zimbabwe's war of liberation. When the ANC was unbanned in 1991, Hani returned to South Africa and replaced Joe Slovo as the leader of the SACP.
On April 10, 1993 Hani was gunned down by white supremacist Janusz Waluś in the driveway of his home.
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26 years since the "Good Friday Agreement" that put an end to the armed conflict in Ireland. We spoke to former IRA hunger striker, Tommy McKearney, about the legacy of the peace agreement and the character of the Irish national liberation movement in those years.
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This is how Palestinians in Gaza pray on Eid al-Fitr in the ruins of the bombed al-Farouk mosque, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. red. Media colleagues on the ground in Gaza captured the scenes on chilling drone footage.
Eid al-Fitr used to be a day of gathering and celebration with loved ones. But this year, there are only bittersweet memories, with Israel destroying Gaza’s most sacred moments.
Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed over 33,360 people and wounded 75,993 others, has taken a massive toll on the holiday spirit.
Despite the devastation, a large number of Palestinians, who have been displaced and lost their homes and loved ones as a result of the six-month-long war, try to keep what remains of their shattered lives.
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Government buildings were set ablaze as protests erupted against escalating violence in southern Mexico’s city of Chilpancingo. Hundreds of students set fire to over a dozen vehicles outside the government building as unrest persists following the police killing of a student last month.
Tensions between the students and the state have been high since the police shooting of 23-year-old Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta. Since then, several militant protests have shaken the Pacific state. The shooter fled after the murder and is believed to have been shielded by local authorities.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has condemned the killing and accused local authorities of complicity in aiding the fugitive police shooter. While two of his colleagues have been apprehended, the gunman remains at large.
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Happy birthday to Palestinian revolutionary and freedom fighter Leila Khaled! Khaled was born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine.
She was a prominent member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), having fought her whole life for the liberation of Palestine.
Even at 80 years of age, Khaled continues to inspire the spirit of not only the Palestinian liberation movement but also that of other liberation struggles worldwide.
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Following the police crackdown on the Palestine Congress in Berlin yesterday, organizers remained resolute during today’s press conference. Yesterday’s event was disrupted within minutes when police stormed the stage and forcibly disbanded the gathering.
The planned three-day summit was swiftly banned, resulting in several arrests. The activists announced plans for protests against the repression, warning authorities, “You will not be excused for what you did.”
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser took to social media to applaud the “crackdown,” a sentiment echoed by mainstream media outlets. In the lead-up to the congress, organizers were subjected to absurd and extensive smear campaigns.
Internationally, Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestine activism has drawn severe criticism, including condemnation from Amnesty International. The congress aimed to explore strategies to challenge Germany’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, particularly its role in supplying 50% of Israel’s weapons.
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Watch German police break into the control room at the Palestine Congress to shut down the electricity and power supply. Our team at the scene reports that after shutting off the organizers' live stream, police went from person to person, demanding they stop live streaming from their phones. And then they announced that they were shutting down the entire event, which had only been allowed to run for about 20 minutes. It was due to run for three days.
Earlier in the day, police demanded that the congress organizers allow all German media into the congress, to "safeguard free speech".
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URGENT: German police have announced they are shutting down the Palestine Congress and demanded delegates leave immediately. They have threatened to use force and already arrested one of the organizers, Jewish activist Udi Raz, the third person to be arrested today — two of them Jewish.
The announcement comes after police stormed the speakers' stage just 20 minutes after the congress had begun, shut down the organizers' livestream and then broke into the control room and shut off the power.
Police then went round to each delegate and demanded they stop livestreaming from their phones.
900 police are deployed to the congress, whose start they held up for hours. They demanded that organizers allow all German media into the congress, ironically to "safeguard free speech" and then denied entry to most of the registered delegates.
The primary aim of the congress was to raise awareness about Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide, for which it is facing charges in the ICJ.
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PALESTINE CONGRESS UPDATE: German police have stormed the stage of the congress and shut down the livestream.
red. media is at the scene where 30-40 police officers entered the congress hall and demanded organizers stop filming. Our team reports that police have now shut off the lights and electricity in the venue. More updates coming.
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What is the Palestine Congress in Berlin?
The event has mainstream media, politicians and Zionist organizations fuming. But despite all the repression, slander and police assaults, the congress is going ahead.
The objective of the event is to explore strategies to challenge Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide. Organizers anticipated over 1,000 participants, including numerous international speakers, but the German state is doing everything to sabotage it, and improvising obstacles to prevent speakers and delegates from attending.
Germany weaponizes its Holocaust guilt to justify its unconditional support for Israel which includes supplying 50% of Israel's weapons. But for all its talk about guilt, Germany's unresolved history of denazification remains conveniently swept under the rug.
Here's a snapshot of the frenzy within mainstream media leading up to the Palestine Congress. Stay tuned for real-time reporting from the ground in Berlin.
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Watch Germany's Jewish Voice chair, Wieland Hoban, respond to accusations of antisemitism by the German media at the press conference for the highly anticipated Palestine Congress.
For weeks, German media has smeared the congress, dubbing it a "gathering for the world's antisemites." In a spectacular example of truth reversal, the media has had nothing to say about Germany's crackdown on Jews who criticize Israel, which hit a new low when the Sparkasse bank shut down Jewish Voice's bank account. The bank also requested a list of their members.
Jewish Voice is a co-organizer of the Palestine Congress, which is due to begin today and last until Sunday. It aims to raise public awareness of Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza, for which Germany is facing charges in the International Court of Justice.
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HAPPENING NOW: German police, Zionists and politicians have surrounded a Berlin community centre where pro-Palestine organizers are holding a press conference about the Palestine Congress that is due to begin today.
For weeks, the German media and politicians have been trying to ban the congress. Organizers homes have been raided, speakers have been threatened with visa bans and the bank account of Jewish organization and co-organizers, Jewish Voice has been shut down.
The slogan of the congress is "We Accuse", and its aim is to highlight Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. It's speakers include Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis, Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett and founder of the Palestine Land Society, Dr.Salman Abu Sitta.
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Confrontations between Argentinian police and protesters escalated once again as thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the South American country’s capital, Buenos Aires.
Footage shows police officers using water cannons and firing rubber bullets to disperse the protesters, who responded by hurling stones at the police, setting garbage cans on fire, and paralyzing the capital’s main street in defiance of new legal changes banning roadblocks.
The protesters took to the streets to protest President Javier Milei’s implementation of more cuts to the country’s welfare system, this time targeting soup kitchens. The protest was reportedly led by several workers’ unions and workers of several dining rooms and picnic areas across the country.
The country’s 44,000 soup kitchens regularly feed four million people for free. As annual inflation tops 276% and Argentines slip deeper into poverty amid the government’s austerity measures, they have increasingly flocked to soup kitchens.
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Palestine solidarity activists spray-painted the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) for its complicity in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. The activists used fire extinguishers to paint the ministry before police arrived. Five activists were arrested during the action.
The organizing group “Youth Demand” stated that the MOD has given contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to Elbit Systems, buying Israeli weapons after they are “battle-tested” on the Palestinian people.
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Lula pokes fun at Elon Musk amidst the current row over Twitter in Brazil. Lula calls out “billionaires” who want to escape climate change by flying to space rather than helping to end global warming and deforestation about past comments by Musk concerning Space X.
Musk has been attacking the Brazilian government on Twitter because a high court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, ordered the site to ban several accounts that have been spreading fake news and disinformation. If Twitter fails to comply, the site could be banned in the country. Musk has attempted to portray the decision as a form of political persecution.
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Dozens of Filipinos protested the heightened militarization of the South China Sea as tensions threaten to escalate. The protesters rallied outside the Chinese consulate in Manila, calling on them to respect the sovereignty of the Philippines by pulling out from its waters in the South China Sea, referred to as the West Philippine Sea by Manila.
The protesters also condemned the Philippine government’s alignment with the US, which has been massively expanding its military presence in the region, only further provoking tensions with China. The Filipino protesters have stressed that they “don’t want a war with China,” underlining the desire for a peaceful resolution to the territorial dispute.
The Philippines and China had a series of maritime confrontations in the disputed waters, including an incident last month when China reportedly used water cannons to prevent a Philippine resupply mission to soldiers stationed on a grounded warship at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal.
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Right-wing President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea (ROK, commonly referred to as South Korea) is being put to the test today as Koreans are heading to the polls in the country’s general election.
Yoon’s single five-year term ends in 2027, but since coming to power in 2022, he’s not only been leading his country into deeper crisis but, above all, provoking an unprecedented confrontation with his counterpart in the north.
With the real possibility of war becoming a frightening reality on the Korean Peninsula, will today’s election change things?
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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre. On April 9, 1948, just weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, members of the Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist militias attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, killing at least 107 Palestinians.
According to testimonies from the perpetrators and surviving victims, many of the people slaughtered, from those who were tied to trees and burned to death to those lined up against a wall and shot by submachine guns, were women, children, and the elderly.
As news of the atrocities spread, thousands fled their villages in fear. Eventually, some 700,000 Palestinians would flee or be forcibly displaced at the outset of Israel’s creation, making the massacre a decisive moment in Palestinian history.
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On this day, 79 years ago, the Nazis murdered German anti-fascist and communist Georg Elser, most known for his heroic attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler. Hitler only narrowly escaped Elser’s precise and detailed assassination plan by chance. Read on to learn more about this chapter of German war-time anti-fascist resistance, largely left out of the mainstream narrative.
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