by Amy Goodman | Dec 24, 2025 | Dissent, free speech, Gaza, ICE, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Interview, Migrant Jails, Palestine, palestine solidarity, Protests, suppressing dissent, Suppression, Trump Administration
Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia University Gaza solidarity protest. The charges were dismissed, but when she went to her ICE check-in this past March, she was arrested and immediately sent to the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she has been held ever since. Although Columbia University student protesters…
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by Sharon Zhang | Dec 23, 2025 | Elbit Systems, Greta Thunberg, News, Palestine Action, Protests, U.K.
Police arrested activist Greta Thunberg in London on Tuesday while she was participating in a protest supporting imprisoned hunger strikers linked to proscribed group Palestine Action. Images of the arrest show Thunberg seated on the ground at the protest holding a sign that reads, “I support Palestine Action prisoners” and “I oppose genocide.” Police confronted her as she joined…
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by Jennine Khalik | Dec 20, 2025 | Australia, Benjamin Netanyahu, Criminalization, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Media, Op-Ed, Palestine, palestine solidarity, Protests, Repression, Surveillance, weapons
When news broke of the Bondi Beach shooting, those of us in the global Palestine solidarity movement knew immediately what was coming. We’ve seen this pattern: when liberation movements challenge state power and when genocide is named and resisted, states seize on any incident, any tragedy, to justify criminalizing that resistance. Since October 2023, as Israel has carried out genocide in Gaza…
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by E. S. Wight | Dec 11, 2025 | Hunger Strike, Op-Ed, Palestine, Palestine Action, Protests, UK
Seven people, all being held on remand pending trial for allegedly taking action in solidarity with Palestine, are on hunger strike in British prisons. Their names are Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, and Muhammad Umer Khalid. An eighth prisoner, Lewie Chiaramello, who is diabetic, is also on a partial hunger strike, refusing food every other day at serious…
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by Mike Ludwig | Dec 9, 2025 | ICE, immigration, Louisiana, New Orleans, News, Protests, Racial Profiling, Social Media, Surveillance
When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready to protest and document the Trump administration’s unwelcome assault on immigrant communities, they faced both widespread digital surveillance by state and federal authorities and a vague state law that makes hindering federal immigration enforcement a…
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by Amy Goodman | Dec 6, 2025 | ICE, ICE Raids, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Interview, Kristi Noem, Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil, Mass Incarceration, Migrant Jails, New Orleans, Policing, Prisons, Protests, Racial Profiling, Raids, Rümeysa Öztürk, Supreme Court
A major immigration crackdown is underway in New Orleans and the surrounding areas of Louisiana, dubbed “Operation Catahoula Crunch” by the Trump administration. According to planning documents, 250 federal agents will aim to make 5,000 arrests over two months. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the operation will target “the worst of the worst,” though the number of arrests being…
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