Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates

On Saturday, April 6, more than 20 community members gathered at The Center, a local LGBTQ community hub, for a victory party celebrating the defeat of 21 out of 22 anti-LGBTQ bills from the Florida legislature during the most recent session. — Read on fightbacknews.org/articles/orlando-victory-party-celebrates-win-over-anti-lgbtq-legislation

In correspondence dated 25 March 2024 the Assembly of Caribbean People called on the CARICOM leadership to strengthen ongoing regional efforts to end the blockade of Cuba, support the island in a period of difficulty caused by intensification of that blockade and demand the removal of Cuba from the spurious USA authored list of countriesContinue reading “Cuba – Resolute Caribbean Solidarity”

During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees. — Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/04/come-out-you-animals-how-the-massacre-at-al-shifa-hospital-happened/

Hundreds were executed, patients left to die during Israel’s two-week siege. — Read on electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/al-shifa-hospital-ruins

Israel “fundamentally different” from other settler-colonial projects, claims Guardian columnist. — Read on electronicintifada.net/content/how-owen-jones-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-zionism/34986

For 20 years, the Western countries of the ‘Core Group’ have taken over Haiti’s politics and fueled the violence now being used as a pretext for intervention. — Read on therealnews.com/an-international-crime-scene-how-the-us-is-stoking-crisis-in-haiti

Caracas said Washington is leading a “circus” to undermine the July 28 vote and warned neighboring countries not to bow to the pressure. — Read on venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-rejects-foreign-interference-in-elections-denounces-us-delegitimization-campaign/

San Francisco mayoral candidate Mark Farrell said Thursday that, if elected, he will ask California to send more armed National Guard troops into downtown to fight the city’s open-air drug markets. — Read on http://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/san-francisco-democrats-national-guard-00149513

Maritime insurance companies have increased the war risk premium on ships travelling through the Red Sea from $10,000 for a $100 million cargo ship in early September to $1 million by mid-January. — Read on http://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n04/laleh-khalili/red-sea-attacks