The US House of Representatives passes the anti-BDS resolution with only 17 votes against
United States

The US House of Representatives passes the anti-BDS resolution with only 17 votes against

The resolution condemns the non-violent BDS movement while claiming to recognize an individual’s right to protest and boycott

Peoples Dispatch
July 25, 2019
Activist’s house raided in Mumbai after organizing event on lynching
India

Activist’s house raided in Mumbai after organizing event on lynching

Police raided the home of Preethy Shekhar supposedly over her participation in an unemployment protest in 2013

Peoples Dispatch
July 25, 2019
CPIM Bihar Land OCCUPATION
India

Resisting feudal forces, landless Dalits occupy land in India’s Bihar

The families, hailing from Piro block in the Angara village of Bhojpur district, resorted to land occupation as the government was delaying the land allotment allegedly in collusion with the local feudal and upper caste forces. 

Peoples Dispatch
July 25, 2019
Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló resigns after a week of massive protests
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló resigns after a week of massive protests

Rosselló’s resignation is a victory of the hard fought battle of the Puerto Rican people, but their struggle will not end with him

Peoples Dispatch
July 25, 2019
Police emergency call center workers win concessions after strike
South Africa

Police emergency call center workers win concessions after strike

The strike was called off by the unions after South Africa Police Service assures the union that the call center workers’ employment will be shifted from Public Service Act to Police Act, which would raise their pay and provide additional benefits.

Peoples Dispatch
July 24, 2019
Protests intensify over proposed telescope on Native Hawaiian sacred site
United States

Protests intensify over proposed telescope on Native Hawaiian sacred site

Native Hawaiians have been protesting the construction of the Thirty Meters Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea and have shut down all observatories on the mountain

Peoples Dispatch
July 24, 2019
Mauritius represses pro-independence protesters in Rodrigues
Rodrigues

Mauritius represses pro-independence protesters in Rodrigues

The uncovering of a treasure on the coast of Rodrigues has sparked a debate around the island’s autonomy and the struggle for independence from its colonial occupier Mauritius

Peoples Dispatch
July 24, 2019
Israeli demolition of Palestine Village
Israel Palestine

Israel begins mass demolition of Palestinian village near the apartheid wall

International and Palestinian organizations have condemned the demolitions as illegal under international law amounting to crimes against humanity

Peoples Dispatch
July 23, 2019