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Jan 15, 2025 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee
Then-president Donald Trump meets with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2019. Meta has donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. Credit: Flickr/whitehouse45 (public domain)Some of the richest people in the country have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Donald Trump’s presidential inaugural committee. It’s a reminder to Trump, as he begins his second presidential term, who is the real power behind the throne.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee
The Palisades fire in Los Angeles. Credit: Wikimedia CommonsIn the past 24 hours, PSL Los Angeles organizers mobilized with material aid and shelter resources to areas affected by the Eaton and Sunset Fires. We spoke to community residents who had to flee their homes after receiving text notifications with evacuation orders. Our outreach on the ground was able to direct residents to emergency shelters and broadcast their testimonies to the world.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee
Palisades Fire that started in Los Angeles. Credit: Flickr/CAL FIRE_Official (CC BY-NC 2.0)The Palisades wildfire is now the most destructive in Los Angeles history. The mass destruction of people’s livelihoods that we are currently witnessing in Los Angeles is not a natural disaster. It is the result of criminal negligence on the part of the billionaire class and their government.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee |Karleigh Webb
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at 2024 AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona. Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)Donald Trump will assume the presidency of the United States on Jan. 20 as the winner of a campaign where he placed a great deal of policy initiative on discriminatory and eliminationist measures against LGBTQ people.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee |Eduardo Rodriguez |Eduardo Rodríguez
Trump meets with “interim president” of Venezuela Juan Guaidó in 2020. Credit: Flickr/Trump White House ArchivedOn Nov.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee
On Inauguration Day, January 20, people will come together in Washington D.C. and in cities and towns across the country in a nationwide mobilization opposing Trump’s ultra-right, billionaire agenda. Trump ran a con game during the election.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee
Why do immigrants come to the United States? People do not make the decision to leave their homes lightly. Most immigrants leave their countries because of extreme poverty or violence — hardships caused by the same corporations and politicians that are responsible for so many injustices here. Take NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement infamous for destroying blue collar jobs in the United States. NAFTA was also devastating for Mexican farmers.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee
Photo: Donald Trump at an Arizona for Trump rally in August 2024. Credit: Wikimedia CommonsThe Trump program is nothing short of a declaration of war against the working class. Meet the appointees in his administration he’s chosen to lead it:
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
liberationnews.org | Amanda Yee
Photo: Protestors rally for abortion rights in Florida. Liberation photoOn election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. As a consequence, millions of Floridians will continue to suffer under a six-week abortion ban, a deadly policy that effectively makes abortion access out of reach for most women and others who require access to reproductive care.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Amanda Yee
Last month, I went to Cuba as part of a 20-person delegation to deliver USD 60,000 in critical life-saving cancer medications and medical supplies to two pediatric hospitals there. This delegation was organized by Hatuey Project, a volunteer-run organization that regularly brings medical and humanitarian aid to Cuba. As part of the 10-day trip, we met with representatives of different Cuban organizations, institutions, and even members of Parliament.
