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Arrest of Agave Farmer Leaders Sparks Outcry Amid Tequila Industry Controversy Two prominent agave farmers, Julián Rodríguez Parra and Salvador Ibarra Landeros, were arrested yesterday in Tequila, Jalisco, following a peaceful protest against multinational tequila producers. The arrests come amid a growing legal battle in the United States. A federal class-action lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of New York accuses Diageo, the global spirits conglomerate, of adulterating its premium tequila brands, Casamigos and Don Julio, with non-agave alcohols....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2025 2:33pm PDT
Argentina: Héctor Oesterheld, el compañero autor de El Eternauta 
Argentina: Héctor Oesterheld, el compañero autor de El Eternauta...
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2025 6:41am PDT
On the trail of the former fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet 
Photo of U.S. Supported Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet Before He Passed Away:...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2025 4:17am PDT
Legislators Protest at State Department for Mahdawi’s Release 
WASHINGTON (04-30) – Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, illegally arrested and jailed by masked ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents on April 14 during a naturalization interview in Vermont to finalize his U.S. citizenship, was released today by U.S. District Court judge Geoffrey W. Crawford who ruled that Mahdawi “did not pose a danger to the public and that he was not a flight risk.” The judge referenced cases from the 1950s and the specter of McCarthyism, saying t...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2025 2:18pm PDT
‘Copaganda’: Police & Media Manipulate Perceptions of Safety w/ Alec Karakatsanis (audio) 
Copaganda’ is propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media that stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it....
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2025 5:47pm PDT
Carceral Apartheid w/ Brittany Friedman (audio) 
What is the legacy of white supremacy and white supremacists in American prisons? How did the Black Power movement spur an evolution in the violence of the US carceral system and its agents?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2025 5:18pm PDT
California Republican mayor calls for the extermination of the homeless 
In language that echoes that of the Nazis against those “unworthy of life,” the long-serving Republican mayor of Lancaster, California, R. Rex Parris, recently suggested that the city’s homeless population should be given “free fentanyl … as much as they like” and expressed his desire for a federal “purge” to eliminate them....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 5:04am PDT
International Panel from Around World Join Against Repression There will be an international panel against repression on April 26, 2025 that will link up workers and countries around the world...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2025 10:20am PDT
'Free Leonard Peltier' Film Receives Standing Ovations, Begins Free Rez Tour 
The new 'Free Leonard Peltier' film is receiving standing ovations and global awards, and now begins its new Rez Tour in the Dakotas with free screenings. After premiering at Sundance Film Festival, the film received high awards in Greece, and has an upcoming screening in Warsaw, Poland. Co-director Jesse Short Bull, Lakota from the Badlands on Pine Ridge, dug deep and reveals the secrets of a hidden uranium mining deal on Pine Ridge. The archival footage is a rich history of the movement an...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2025 9:49am PDT
What’s Happening in Turkey — From an anti-Authoritarian Perspective 
Why the current uprising in Turkey deserves our support....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2025 3:03am PDT
Standing Rock Chair 'Energy Transfer Case Against Greenpeace is False and Insulting' 
Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire responded to the verdict in the case of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace. Chairwoman Alkire said the pipeline's lawsuit is a false, self-serving narrative and insulting. The pro-oil jury in a North Dakota district court awarded the owner of Dakota Access Pipeline $667 million in its case against Greenpeace. Most Lakotas said they didn't even know Greenpeace was at the camps in 2016 and 2017. The pipeline claimed Greenpeace led the movement to protect the wate...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2025 4:41am PDT
A Letter From Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil 
Earlier this month, recent graduate, activist, soon-to-be father, and legal permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested and detained in direct retaliation for his advocacy for Palestinian rights at Columbia University. Later, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transferred him to a Louisiana detention facility 1,400 miles away from his home and his family....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2025 9:46am PDT
Interview with Guillermo Kane of Argentina's Partido Obrero 3/7/25 Interview with one of the leaders of Argentina's Partido Obrero
(Worker's Party) 3/7/2025 on the situation in Argentina and the work P.O. is doing....
Posted: Fri, Mar 21, 2025 10:44pm PDT
Jewish Americans and Allies Occupy Trump Tower Demanding Release of Mahmoud Khalil 
"We know what happens when an autocratic regime starts taking away our rights and scapegoating and we will not be silent."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 3:41pm PDT
NLG Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil FULL TITLE: National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:26am PDT
'Bring Him Home': Mahmoud Khalil's Wife Describes Nightmare Arrest, Demands Safe Return 
"Khalil's abduction, in its cruelty and unlawfulness, has horrified people around the country. Let us be clear: This is what fascism looks like, and it is part of a much broader campaign," said the director of Palestine Legal....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 2:55pm PDT
In Contempt #50: National Guard Sent in to New York Prisons, Leonard Peltier Comes Home In this column, It's Going Down presents a monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:56am PDT
CAIR-CA Releases New Report Examining the Suppression of Students’ First Amendment Rights 
FULL TITLE: CAIR-CA Releases New Report Examining the Suppression of Students’ First Amendment Rights on College Campuses...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:43am PDT
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS Detention On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s announcement that it plans to deport students affiliated with pro-Palestine protests. The student, who is Palestinian, is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:32am PDT
Threats to Student Protest Are Antithetical to the Mission of Higher Education March 5, 2025 - AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement today....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2025 9:54am PST