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1 week ago | 
leftvoice.org | Madeleine Freeman
On Monday, President Trump and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele spoke to the press from the White House, laughing together as they discussed human rights violations and their plans to incarcerate immigrants and U.S. citizens alike in El Salvador's private mega-jail, CECOT. The most shocking moment of the press conference came when Bukele declared that El Salvador would not release Kilmar Abrego García and return him to the United States.
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1 week ago | 
leftvoice.org | Madeleine Freeman
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands of people, joined onstage by New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Their calls to get money out of politics, for Medicare For All, a Green New Deal, a $15 federal minimum wage, tuition-free college, and taxes on the wealthiest Americans are met with raucous cheers. Sanders rails against Trump and the billionaires who run politics in the United States. But this isn't 2019, it's March 2025.
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1 month ago | 
leftvoice.org | Madeleine Freeman
Thousands of people took to the streets in New York City on March 10 to denounce the Trump administration's brutal attacks against student protest and the pro-Palestine movement. They marched to demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University and activist who took part in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment last year.
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2 months ago | 
leftvoice.org | Madeleine Freeman
New York City mayor Eric Adams is once again at the center of a political crisis. This time, it's part of a drama that is drawing the lines of just how far Donald Trump can go in weaponizing the state to push through his agenda and how the state - and the Democratic Party - will react to these moves.
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2 months ago | 
leftvoice.org | Jimena Vergara |Madeleine Freeman
Immigrants and their communities are leading the fight against the Trump administration's attacks on democratic rights.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
leftvoice.org | Madeleine Freeman
On Day One of his second presidential term, Donald Trump is enacting a pillar of his political agenda, launching the first wave of a new wide-reaching anti-immigrant offensive. The slew of immigration-related executive orders that he signed after taking office on January 20 will not be implemented gradually but will immediately affect thousands of immigrants who are, even now, waiting at the border for entry.
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May 16, 2024 | 
leftvoice.org | Madeleine Freeman
On May 15 — Nakba Day, the international day of commemoration for the displacement and massacres that forced Palestinians from their lands to create of the state of Israel — the largest union of academic workers in the United States, UAW 4811, voted to authorize a strike in protest of the repression against pro-Palestinian activism on the University of California system’s campuses.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
leftvoice.org | Tatiana Cozzarelli |Madeleine Freeman
The working class in Argentina just dealt a powerful blow to the Far Right. After a one-day national strike that brought 1.5 million people into the streets across the country and a week of protests bringing together wide sectors of the working class and social movements, a pillar of newly-elected president Javier Milei’s austerity program, popularly called the “Omnibus Law,” was just struck down in Congress.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
leftvoice.org | Madeleine Freeman
Most politicians have a “honeymoon” period when they enter office. Not Argentina’s far-right Javier Milei. He faces a national strike against his entire political program less than two months after taking office. On January 24, thousands are organizing a national day of action against Milei’s reactionary agenda, which promises to gut social spending and leave Argentina to be picked clean by the imperialist vultures of foreign investment and international financial institutions.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
popularresistance.org | Tatiana Cozzarelli |Madeleine Freeman
By Tatiana Cozzarelli and Madeleine Freeman, Left Voice.
