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Black Agenda Radio April 26, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/26/2024 – 08:40 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio April 26, 2024 This week, we talk about the dire need for affordable housing in New York and the Governor’s refusal to include a housing voucher program in the latest budget. Gaza is also a topic this week in a discussion about the lack of international enforcement that allows the U.S. to assist Israel’s war crimes. But first, we talk to a student at Columbia University, and an alumnus author and activist about the Palestine solidarity encampment… […]

Columbia Students Mobilize in Solidarity with Palestine Authors Black Agenda Radio bareditors Fri, 04/26/2024 – 08:13 Black Agenda Radio · Columbia Students Mobilize in Solidarity with Palestine Danny Shaw is an author and activist who, until recently, was a professor at the City University of New York. He joins us from New York, where he has joined the ongoing protest at his alma mater, Columbia University, where students are protesting the institution’s involvement with Israel and mobilizing in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Jalsa, a member of Columbia University Apartheid Divestment, joins him. International campus protest Columbia University Israel New York City Palestine […]

New York State Fails to Meet Housing Needs Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/26/2024 – 08:04 Black Agenda Radio · New York State Fails to Meet Housing Needs Adolfo Abreu is the Housing Campaign Director for Vocal-NY. He joins us from New York City to discuss the Housing Access Voucher Program, which is not included in the latest New York State budget. He discusses why this program is important to meet the housing needs of New Yorkers. US Politics affordable housing […]

Gaza War Crimes Go Unpunished Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/26/2024 – 07:52 Black Agenda Radio · Gaza War Crimes Go Unpunished Margaret Kimberley was recently a guest on Revolutionary Blackout Network with co-hosts Nick, CJ, and Rome. They talked about the lack of international enforcement for the ICJ ruling calling on Israel to end its war crimes. International War Crimes Palestine Gaza Israel ICJ […]

Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 – 21:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 This week we discuss claims that non-citizens are voting when all evidence proves that assertion to be untrue. We also talked about U.S. policy towards Niger, which has publicly declared that it is no longer permitting U.S. military facilities to operate in that country. But first, we talk to a former Black Agenda Report contributor about China, U.S. policy towards that country, and what we can learn from person-to-person contact with that… […]

China's Example in the World Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 – 21:04 Black Agenda Radio · China's Example in the World Our guest is Danny Haiphong, formerly a Black Agenda Report contributing editor, now the host of the YouTube channel, Danny Haiphong. He is also a co-founder of Friends of Socialist China, which is hosting a delegation to Beijing and other cities in China. Margaret Kimberley is also a delegation participant. She and Danny discuss U.S./China relations and the importance of studying Chinese socialism. International China socialism Chinese Communist Party Cold War […]

Fight Back News

Cal Poly Humboldt students occupy administration building in solidarity with Palestine and university encampments

Arcata, CA – On Monday, April 22, around 4 p.m., roughly 30 students began a sit-in in Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt, California, to show solidarity with Palestine and with other campuses that are doing the same. While many students on other campuses are setting up encampments, theirs is the first in the movement to take over a building so far, and an admin building, no less. This also made them the first state university to join the movement. At the start, protesters were demonstrating inside the building, sitting together, and chanting. Police soon arrived, they attempted to drag… […]

Green Bay: Student pro-Palestine protesters cut Sen. Tammy Baldwin event short, make her leave

Green Bay, WI – On March 22, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) interrupted a College Democrats speaking event on campus that had U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin as a guest speaker. The event was promoted in secret on campus to prevent SDS from organizing and was supposed to teach students how to get people to vote for her. SDS found out and decided to mobilize. The students started by entering the room with signs reading things such as “Liberal silence is violence” and “Bombing kids is not self-defense.” After their entrance, SDS co-chair… […]

New York: University of Rochester SDS and UR SJP statement on Occupation for Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from University of Rochester Students for a Democratic Society and Students for Justice in Palestine. As of April 24, the administration of University of Rochester has announced that UR will move forward with an academic boycott from all ties to Israel. This was a demand of the occupation set up by Students for a Democratic Society and Students for Justice in Palestine, now won by the students. On April 23 at 3:30 a.m. Students for a Democratic Society and Students for Justice in Palestine moved into the Wilson Quad at the… […]

Minneapolis: Campus mobilized around Gaza Solidarity Encampment, 9 arrested

Minneapolis, MN – On Tuesday, April 23 at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, student activists set up a Gaza Solidarity encampment. This encampment was organized by the UMN Divest Coalition which is made up of Students for a Democratic Society, Students for Justice in Palestine, Young Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Climate Justice. The coalition is pushing for the University of Minnesota to cut ties financially with Israel. This means to divest from weapon manufacturers, stop study abroad trips to Israel and stop having defense companies doing recruitment on campus. The coalition set up the encampment and… […]

Earth Day rally in Chicago demands no mega-warehouse in Tacoma, WA

Chicago, IL – An energetic crowd of protesters gathered in Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago to celebrate Earth Day, April 21, and protest the construction of a mega-warehouse in South Tacoma, Washington. The mega warehouse is currently under construction by the Chicago-based real estate company Bridge Industrial. Russel Dahlman, of Chicago and the Midwest Regional Joint Board of Workers United, explained, “We are proud to stand in solidarity behind our siblings in labor- the Teamsters Local 28 and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 367- who are opposing environmentally racist practices in the form a mega-warehouse that would devastate… […]

Tampa protesters unite to denounce Biden visit

Tampa, FL – Protesters converged in solidarity with the struggle in Gaza to denounce Joe Biden’s visit to the Hillsborough Community College Dale Mabry campus on April 23. Nearly 400 protesters thronged the sidewalks surrounding the entrance, chanting and waving Palestinian flags. Biden’s visit was ostensibly to speak in support of women’s rights in the face of the Florida abortion ban, a ban Biden and the Democratic Party essentially allowed to happen. Many protesters were quick to point out the hypocrisy of Biden claiming to champion women’s rights while he continues to sell weapons to Israel who have used them… […]

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