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red. rewind 2023: France’s War on the Suburbs – After Paris police shot dead 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, protests and riots erupted across suburbs in Paris, eventually sweeping the whole country. The authorities quickly announced the deployment of tens of thousands of security forces to quell the uprising, but the youth-led protests made an unprecedented impact.
Watch our special report in the aftermath of the racist police killing, giving unique insights from France’s Black, Arab, and marginalized communities during the height of the Justice for Nahel uprising. WATCH HERE.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Israel’s fifth forced telecommunications blackout on Gaza since October 7 has disrupted communications to the extent that it is impossible to provide accurate and up-to-date numbers in relation to the death toll.
🟡 An Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least 25 people, including journalist Haneen Ali al-Qutshan, the 95th Palestinian journalist or media worker killed by Israel since October 7.
🟡 The Gaza Strip’s fifth and most prolonged communications blackout leaves well over a million people completely cut off from lifesaving assistance. The blackout makes it impossible to properly distribute the already limited aid allowed into Gaza according to Save the Children.
🟡 As Israel’s attacks on hospitals continue, the WHO described the situation at al-Shifa Hospital as “a complete horror scene” and a “bloodbath” in addition to calling the recent destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital “appalling.”
🟡 Israeli occupation forces raided at least six areas across the occupied West Bank overnight, arresting dozens of Palestinians. Israeli forces have detained at least 4,575 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 Israeli civilians are becoming gun owners in record numbers as Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he will “continue to distribute as many weapons as possible.”
🟡 Two shipping companies, the Italian-Swiss MSC and the French CMA CGM, announced that they have suspended operations in the Red Sea after Yemen’s Ansarallah attacked two vessels bound for occupied Palestine, bringing the total number of the world’s top shipping companies to do so so far to four.
🟡 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called for an “immediate and durable truce” in Gaza after Israel bombed a residential building in Rafah, killing a French government employee.
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Perception vs. Reality
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“This is the first day we feel joy,” – a displaced Palestinian child rejoices as Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital hosts activities for displaced children. The Palestinian NGO Sharek Youth Forum held an entertainment event for the children of the hospital in central Gaza, in which around 300 families sought refuge since October. The activities aimed to look after the youth’s mental health amid the traumatizing conditions of the war.
After more than two months of Israel’s relentless war against the enclave, at least 95% of children in Gaza, which make up roughly half of the population, are left with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and trauma. Israel’s invasion has forcibly displaced nearly one million children from their homes across the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, UNICEF referred to Gaza as “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.”
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"We are Gaza... The whole world couldn't defeat it" – Watch this heart-wrenching testimony of a Palestinian boy right after he was pulled out from the rubble and losing his mother and sisters in an Israeli airstrike. "Even if 100 people like Netanyahu will come, we are stead fest."
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Israel’s fifth forced telecommunications blackout on Gaza since October 7 has disrupted communications to the extent that it is impossible to provide accurate and up-to-date numbers in relation to the death toll.
🟡 Danish shipping company Maersk and German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, some of the world’s largest shipping companies, stated that they would halt all journeys through the Red Sea; this comes after several attacks on their vessels by Yemen’s Ansarallah.
🟡 Israeli attacks killed Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa and injured several other journalists in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. So far, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57 journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
🟡 The Israeli military admitted to “mistakenly” killing three Israeli captives held in Gaza after claiming that Israeli soldiers mistook the captives for a threat.
X added a note to our video of Zionists assaulting pro-Palestinian students who occupied the Free University of Berlin yesterday. The note links to a video which X claims shows pro-Palestine activists attacking a "guy" who tried to put "jew hostage" posters up. The video actually shows a Zionist attacking a Jewish pro-Palestine protester. X said "see for yourself". Let's do that ☝️
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This week Zionist activists tried to sabotage a pro-Palestine student demonstration at Berlin's Humboldt University, chanting "from the river to see that's the [Israeli] flag you're gonna see". In addition to this clear call for the eradication of all of Palestine, one of those activists has a dark back story, which we take a look at here.
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red. Rewind 2023: Climate Change Disasters have continued this year as capitalism has continued to let the planet burn, and thousands of people die from the impact of climate change, particularly in the Global South. Meanwhile, the talking shop for the rich jet-setting elite COP28 was held in one of the worst polluters in the world, the United Arab Emirates.
Europe recorded its highest-ever April temperatures during a heatwave as temperatures hit 38C in Spain. In May, 463 people were killed by Storm Mocha in Myanmar, while hundreds of people were killed in floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. During the spring, 16 people were killed in the Turkish provinces of Adiyaman and Sanliurfa in flash floods that turned streets into rivers a month after the region experienced a devastating earthquake.
The year began with Storm Mara in the US, a deadly ice storm that hit Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee from January 31 to February 2, killing 10 people and leading to 500,000 power outages. Similarly, Cyclone Freddy devastated Africa for five weeks in February and March, having formed over the Indian Ocean. It made landfall in Madagascar and Mozambique, killing at least 238 people.
During the summer, the Mediteran region was engulfed in forest fires during another record heatwave. Greece was the country that suffered the most, with 80 wildfires that killed 28 people and injured 75 as temperatures reached 45 C. Deadly fires in Hawaii in August killed 106 people.
Flash floods hit Greece, Bulgaria, and Türkiye in early September. In Greece, there were at least 17 deaths and damage of €2.5 billion, while a state of emergency was declared in Bulgaria, and 12 people were swept away in Türkiye. Over 300 people have also been killed in floods in East Africa, displacing over 1 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.
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Two years ago today American author, feminist, educator, theorist, and social critic Gloria Jean Watkins better known by her pen name Bell Hooks died at the age of 69. Hook's writing focused on the intersectionality of race, capitalism and gender and the way that they perpetuate class domination and oppression. She published around 40 books including essays, poems, and children's books while also giving numerous public lectures and appearing in documentaries. Her writing also addressed a wide range of other topics such as love, art, history, and the mass media.
Born to a working-class African American family in the segregated Kentucky town of Hopkinsville in September 1952, she was educated in racially segregated public schools before moving to an integrated school in the late 1960s which influenced her own perspective as an educator. An avid reader, Hooks gained a BA in English from Stanford University in 1973 followed by an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and a doctorate in English from the University of California Santa Cruz in 1983.
Hooks began her academic career in 1976 teaching English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California and went on to teach at Stanford, Yale, New College of Florida, The City College of New York, and Berea College in Kentucky. Her work was influenced by abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, and African-American writer James Baldwin.
In Ain't I a Woman (1981) Hooks discussed the historical impact of racism and sexism on Black women and the idea of a white- supremacist -capitalist patriarchy that marginalizes Black women. In Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center(1984) she was critical of white feminist racism in second-wave feminism which undermined feminist solidarity across racial lines. She also became a prominent leftist and postmodern thinker.
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Ghana is again threatening to pass an anti-LGBTQI+ bill and more and more reactionary leaders in the Global South are claiming that homosexuality is an ill of Western culture. Read here to find out how in reality, homophobia was one of the many ills brought to Africa by Western colonizers.
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The US began Operation Barrel Roll, 59 years ago today on December 14, 1964. In less than 10 years, the US Air Force dropped over 2 million tons of cluster bombs on the Southeast Asian country of Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country in history.
By the time of the end of the operation on 29 March 1973, the US had dropped 260 million bombs on Laos, more than all the bombs dropped during WWII combined. In less than 10 years, the US Air Force conducted 580,344 bombing missions over Laos and dropped the equivalent of eight bombs a minute equivalent to 2 million tons of ordinance. Read on to learn more about the CIA’s “Secret War in Laos.”
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 18,608, more than 70% of the victims are women and children.
🟡 63% of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza support armed resistance when asked about the best way to end the occupation and establish an independent state, a new poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has revealed.
🟡 Almost half of Gaza’s population has been forced into the southern Rafah governorate close to the border with Egypt, the UN said. So far, Israel’s invasion of Gaza has displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, 85% of the enclave’s population.
🟡 The Palestinian Ministry of Health has detected 327,000 cases of infectious diseases while also noting that the actual number is probably much higher.
🟡 In an ambush that Israeli media referred to as “one of the deadliest single encounters since troops pushed into the Strip,” Hamas has inflicted heavy losses on Israeli troops. Israel said that 10 of its soldiers had been killed in the previous 24 hours, including several senior army officers.
🟡 The Israeli military has now begun pumping seawater into Hamas’ vast complex of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials. A move that many fear will endanger some of the remaining 100 Israelis held captive by Hamas.
🟡 The Israeli occupation forces’ siege of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the second largest incursion this year, is entering its third consecutive day. Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in Jenin as well as bombing houses and storming several mosques.
🟡 A US destroyer shot down a drone from Yemen’s Ansarallah after it attacked the tanker Ardmore Encounter in the Red Sea.
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Chilean President, Gabriel Boric has betrayed the people and decided to leave the country where it was in 2019, along with its Pinochet-era constitution. The referendum rejected the second attempt at changing Chile’s magna carta yesterday. In response, Boric has said that the constitution won't be changed while he’s in power.
This latest referendum was on whether to accept or reject the rewrite of the constitution by the right with some of the rewritten articles being more neo-liberal than those they were supposed to replace. This came after a more left-leaning rewrite last year was also rejected in a campaign in which Boric did not participate. The unprecedented wave of massive protests that rocked the South American country since 2019 swept Boric to power. However, he abandoned them and crushed many Chileans’ hope for a new constitution.
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Post-independence Kenya is a land still rooted in disparity. In Nairobi, 65% of the population still lives in informal settlements that sprouted up during the colonial period. These settlements, like Kibera – one of Africa’s biggest slums – were set up to serve the elite in neighboring white areas like Karen.
Residents of Kibera say not much has changed today, except that the white man has been replaced by his black counterparts – a very well-packaged class that learned from the white settlers and is an ally to the colonial front.
As Kenyans reflect on 60 years of independence, watch “Echoes of Empire: British Neocolonialism in Kenya” out now.
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Do you know who this iconic quote belongs to? The Brazilian socialist and Workers Party organizer Francisco 'Chico' Mendes was tragically assassinated on this day in 1988 by wealthy landowners wanting to extract resources from the Amazon. As a tireless campaigner for the Amazon rainforest, which is now more threatened than ever, he knew precisely how closely environmental protection and class struggle are linked.
Mendes took militant action to stop the construction of a highly polluting road in the state of Acre and created forest reserves for the sustainable extraction of products for Indigenous communities and farmers. This made him an enemy of local ranchers, loggers, and landowners. On December 22, 1988, Chico Mendes was shot and killed in front of his house.
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Israel has become a safe haven for international criminals. From human rights abusers to paedophiles, the 'law of return' means that many can go and hide in Israel if they can prove they have some Jewish heritage.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Israel’s fifth forced telecommunications blackout on Gaza since October 7 has disrupted communications to the extent that it is impossible to provide accurate and up-to-date numbers in relation to the death toll.
🟡 The current communications blackout in the Gaza Strip has been the “longest communications blackout” in Gaza so far since October 7, Country Director at Save the Children Palestine Jason Lee said.
🟡 Israeli bulldozers crushed and buried alive dozens of displaced Palestinians as they deliberately trampled tents in which they were taking shelter outside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City.
🟡 The three Israeli captives that the Israeli military claimed it had “mistakenly” killed were shirtless, and one of them was holding up a white flag, an initial inquiry into the incident revealed.
Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, died on this day a year ago. Until his last breath, he represented the armed revolutionary struggle in the Philippines. Watch Sison explain how, before a mass movement can build socialism, the capitalist class will "unleash fascism...just to hide the roots of the crisis."
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This week's photo dump features people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇧🇭 A protester holds a red triangle, synonymous with Palestinian guerrilla resistance against Israeli forces.
🇮🇪 Protests erupt in front of the Israeli ambassador's residence.
🇮🇳 Kashmiri people protest against India's plans to liquidate the region's (limited) self-rule.
🇵🇾 Workers join a militant protest against plans for stricter pension reforms.
🇾🇪 Protests erupt against Israel's war on Gaza. Yemen is a leading country fighting on the side of Palestine.
🇵🇸 The UN warehouse in Gaza is overwhelmed by crowds demanding food rations.
🇧🇪 Massive crowds take to the streets against crippling EU austerity measures.
🇦🇪 Indigenous people protest the COP28 summit, failing to challenge climate change.
🇮🇳 Bus drivers shout anti-government slogans to protest for better working conditions.
🇰🇪 Leftist activists are arrested, trying to disrupt a speech by the ruling President William Ruto.
Clashes unfolded between Chile’s notorious riot police and school students in Santiago as protesters rallied against the government’s new rewrite of the Pinochet-era constitution. The irony? Some rewritten articles are more neo-liberal than what they are supposed to replace.
Footage shows police officers using water cannons against protesters, who can be seen tearing and burning several drafts of the new constitution, which fails to ensure access to quality education.
Chile drafted a new rewrite of the constitution dating back to the fascist dictatorship by US-backed General Augusto Pinochet, who ruled the country with an iron fist from 1973 to 1990. Article 216 of the new draft constitution places private property rights and strict rules around immigration and abortion at its center, consolidating the market-friendly economic model instead of weakening it, which many Chileans initially hoped for. The draft constitution is scheduled to be put to a vote on December 17.
The push for a new constitution dates back to the mass protests and riots over rising inequality and the poor state of public services that rocked the South American country in 2019. When a new left-leaning constitution was proposed in September last year, it was turned down. Now, many Chileans are faced with the question of whether the new government led by President Gabriel Boric can be trusted with changing the country or if it will just leave the country in the same place it was before 2019.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached at least 18,787. With more than 50,897 Injured.
🟡 Demand for the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is rising to around 90%, and is even higher in the occupied West Bank, a new poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has revealed.
🟡 Tens of thousands of families in the Gaza Strip are spending several days without a single meal due to the lack of distribution of the already limited humanitarian aid entering the enclave.
🟡 The Israeli military forced all the 2,500 internally displaced people taking refuge inside Gaza City’s Kamal Adwan Hospital to leave.
🟡 Hamas police officers were deployed heavily across the occupied Gaza Strip yesterday, despite the fierce battles between the Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli army in several areas of the south and north of the enclave.
🟡 The Palestinian telecommunications group in Gaza announced that Israel has cut off all telecommunications services once again.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Jenin in the occupied West Bank after a large-scale operation, during which they had carried out airstrikes, imposed a curfew for about 60 hours, and murdered eleven Palestinians, including three children.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah announced that they had targeted a Maersk container vessel, directly hitting it with a drone. They also stated that they had prevented and sent back several ships that were heading to occupied Palestine.
🟡 In a joint statement, several countries expressed concern about the record number of attacks by extremist settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Since the start of October, settlers have committed more than 343 violent attacks, killing 8 Palestinian civilians, injuring more than 83, and forcing 1,026 Palestinians from their homes.
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Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, whose family was killed by Israel in October, was injured today by an Israeli bullet. With over 60 journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, a 30 year global high, Al-Dahdouh was one of many journalists in Gaza who we asked what it's like covering the genocide. This is what they answered.
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Two years ago today American author, feminist, educator, theorist, and social critic Gloria Jean Watkins better known by her pen name Bell Hooks died at the age of 69. Hook's writing focused on the intersectionality of race, capitalism and gender and the way that they perpetuate class domination and oppression. She published around 40 books including essays, poems, and children's books while also giving numerous public lectures and appearing in documentaries. Her writing also addressed a wide range of other topics such as love, art, history, and the mass media.
Born to a working-class African American family in the segregated Kentucky town of Hopkinsville in September 1952, she was educated in racially segregated public schools before moving to an integrated school in the late 1960s which influenced her own perspective as an educator. An avid reader, Hooks gained a BA in English from Stanford University in 1973 followed by an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and a doctorate in English from the University of California Santa Cruz in 1983.
Hooks began her academic career in 1976 teaching English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California and went on to teach at Stanford, Yale, New College of Florida, The City College of New York, and Berea College in Kentucky. Her work was influenced by abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, and African-American writer James Baldwin.
In Ain't I a Woman (1981) Hooks discussed the historical impact of racism and sexism on Black women and the idea of a white- supremacist -capitalist patriarchy that marginalizes Black women. In Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center(1984) she was critical of white feminist racism in second-wave feminism which undermined feminist solidarity across racial lines. She also became a prominent leftist and postmodern thinker.
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Our best-mic-drop 2023 award goes to Egyptian woman Rahma Zein for tearing CNN reporter Clarissa Ward to pieces at Gaza’s Rafah crossing.
“We’ve been watching your channels, instead of mourning these Palestinian children we’ve been having to deal with more dehumanization of Arabs.”
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German police forces entered the occupied lecture hall of the Free University of Berlin held by pro-Palestine students and detained several protesters. The occupation was directed against the university’s biased statements on the war of annihilation against Gaza.
Pro-Palestine students said the occupations took place “to create space for fact-based and critical discourse.” Zionists at the university harassed the students for hours and tore Palestine posters from the walls.
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Tension erupted at the Free University of Berlin(FU) as Zionists assaulted students protesting in solidarity with Palestine. red. Media was on the ground as several leftist organizations and students occupied lecture halls in order to host pro-Palestinian gatherings. Footage showed Zionists tearing their posters down and harassing activists.
Biased statements by the FU against Israel’s war of extermination against Gaza in recent months triggered the occupation of the lecture halls. Pro-Palestine students said the occupations took place “to create space for fact-based and critical discourse.”
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Meet the Iraqi journalist famous for throwing his shoes at US President George Bush during a press conference in Baghdad in 2008 while shouting, "This is a kiss goodbye from the Iraqi people, you dog!" The incident made the 39-year-old journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi a hero for millions of people who opposed the US occupation of Iraq.
The reporter was jailed and tortured for "assaulting a foreign leader." Large protests erupted across Iraq and in other Arab countries, demanding his release. His sentence was reduced to one year, and he was eventually released after nine months in prison, although he had to go into exile.
The shoe-throwing against Bush reflected the anger of Iraqis over the 2003 US-led invasion, which killed 1,200,000 million Iraqis, according to the highest estimates. In this interview, al-Zaidi explains his experience with the occupation.
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