Peoples Dispatch

6 days ago | peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques

After Columbia University fully capitulated to the Trump administration’s demands of disciplinary measures against pro-Palestine students and censorship against academic departments, the Trump administration set its sights on other institutions of higher education, one of these being Harvard University. On April 11, Trump officials sent Harvard a similar demand letter to the one Columbia received on March 13.

1 week ago | peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques

Since Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by US immigration agents on March 8 and subsequent detention by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), a group of activists have held a series of demonstrations outside Lasalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana where he is being held. The latest rally took place on April 15, where protesters called for the release of Khalil as well as University of Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi, who is also being held in Jena.

1 week ago | peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques

On Friday, April 11, immigration judge Jamee Comans ruled in Louisiana that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil.

1 week ago | peoplesdispatch.org | Zoe Alexandra

Is it possible to create systems of trade, finance, and funding outside the US-dominated system? Is the BRICS bloc able to build the necessary alternatives to challenge this system? Economists, academics, and political leaders participating in the IV Dilemmas of Humanity Conference in São Paulo tackled this pressing question that today the nations of the Global South confront.

2 weeks ago | peoplesdispatch.org | Natalia Marques

Hundreds of organized workers, representing a variety of unions including the United Auto Workers (UAW), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the National Educational Association (NEA), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Communication Workers of America (CWA), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), among other...