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🇨🇴 Thousands took to the streets across Colombia in support of the labor, pension, and healthcare reforms proposed by the Gustavo Petro government.

Juan Carlos Quintero, a member of the Peasant Association of Catatumbo and the National Coordination of Marcha Patriótica, told Peoples Dispatch that, “The demonstrations have been massive, in support of the current government of Gustavo Petro and the reaffirmation of popular support for a government that in its government program proposed change for Colombian society.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/07/we-will-not-give-in-to-blackmail-colombians-defend-government-and-progressive-reforms/

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the #PeoplesVictory of the London School of Economics’ cleaners. In 2017, after ten months of campaign, they won their battle and forced LSE to end the practice of outsourcing cleaners.

On this day in 2017, LSE’s cleaning workforce, made up entirely of migrants, along with students and staff, and organizers with the union United Voices of the World, succeeded in the first ever outsourced workforce in the UK to be brought in-house by a university.

Their struggle for rights which included strikes and occupations began in 2016 and lasted for ten months. The all-migrant workforce demanded they be made direct employees of the university and for an end to the stark disparities in pay, sick and paid leave, maternity leave and pensions.
📷 United Voices of the World & Justice4Cleaners

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‼️ BREAKING. The delegations of the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) have signed an agreement for a historic 6-month bilateral ceasefire to conclude the third cycle of dialogue between the two parties. The announcement took place in Havana, Cuba, with the presence of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel, and the leadership of the ELN.

🇨🇺 Read here an interview between Ileana Morales from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health and the team of Outra Saúde, Fabiano Tonaco Borges, Gabriela Leite and Leandro Modolo, on how Cuba faced the Covid-19 pandemic.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/10/how-did-cuba-tackle-covid-19/

🇵🇸 Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned the Israeli occupation against submitting any proposal to divide the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on religious basis, saying that any such move will lead to “overwhelming anger with unpredictable results” given its religious sanctity for Palestinians, other Arabs, and Muslims in general.

Shtayyeh’s remarks came after the Islamic Supreme Council and Council of Scholars and Preachers in the occupied territories issued a statement on Sunday calling the Israeli proposal to divide the Al-Aqsa mosque dangerous.

Last week, Member of Knesset (MK) from the ruling Likud party, Amit Halevi, proposed a legislation as per which the Al-Aqsa mosque compound would be divided into two parts, to be allotted to settlers and Palestinians separately.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/12/palestinians-warn-against-israeli-proposal-to-divide-al-aqsa-compound/

🇪🇭/🇲🇦 The Moroccan authorities illegally occupying Western Sahara have besieged the home of 39-year-old Mahfouda Lefkir, a former political prisoner and prominent human rights defender.

Mahfouda is the head of the Sahrawi Committee for the Defense of Workers Arbitrarily Expelled by the Moroccan State and a trade unionist. She has been on the frontlines of several struggles in the occupied territory, “organizing protests for Western Sahara’s independence and workshops with human rights organizations,” said Babouzeid Lebbihi, President of Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/13/moroccan-agents-assault-former-sahrawi-political-prisoner-mahfouda-lefkir-besiege-her-house-in-occupied-territory/

🇮🇷/🇨🇺/🇻🇪/🇳🇮 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Venezuela on Monday, June 12, on the first leg of his five-day visit to three Latin American countries. He is also slated to visit Cuba and Nicaragua.

The visit is significant since these countries, like Iran, are affected by unilateral sanctions imposed by the US.

Underlining the significance of his visit, Raisi claimed before leaving for Latin America that relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and independent countries are “strategic.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/13/iranian-president-visits-latin-american-countries-in-an-attempt-to-strengthen-multipolar-world-order/