🇿🇦/🇵🇸 The Orlando Pirates are scheduled to play the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv on July 13 in the city of Marbella in Spain. Despite increasing pressure and appeals from all quarters, the Pirates have justified the decision to participate in the match citing rules of the world’s football governing body FIFA, saying they must adhere to the rules in order to safeguard the club’s reputation and future.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/13/bds-leads-widespread-calls-for-south-african-football-club-orlando-pirates-to-boycott-match-with-israeli-team/

🇵🇸 The Jerusalem District Court in Israel has ordered Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh to do nine months of community service, according to multiple news reports.

Ghosheh has already spent 10 months in house arrest with a ban on her social media use.

She was arrested by the Israeli security forces in September last year and subsequently placed under house arrest. The Israeli authorities also confiscated her mobile phone and personal computer. She was accused of causing incitement to violence through her writings and social media posts. She was also charged with “identification with a terrorist group.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/14/palestinian-journalist-lama-ghosheh-sentenced-to-community-service-by-israeli-court/

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Six more protesters were killed and over 300 arrested, in a crackdown on a fresh round of country-wide protests in Kenya against the IMF-backed tax hikes that are worsening the already unfolding cost of living crisis.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/14/understanding-mass-protests-and-violent-repression-in-kenya-william-rutos-tax-hikes/

For the first time since 1960—Hollywood is on strike! Hollywood actors and writers have shut the industry down in their struggle against the greed of giant entertainment studios. Studios have reaped enormous profits while continuously finding new ways to exploit workers more and more with new technology.

Peoples Dispatch spoke to Chris Myers, of Anticapitalism for Artists, actor and SAG-AFTRA member for 12 years, about why actors are on strike.

On Monday, July 17, 200 delegates from progressive organizations, political parties, people’s movements, and trade unions across the African continent will gather in Bela-Bela, South Africa for the “Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism” conference.
#DilemasOfHumanity #BuildSocialism
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/16/africas-path-to-socialism/

“Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism,” a four-day conference, is underway in South Africa.

200 delegates from over 40 progressive organizations, political parties, people’s movements, and trade unions across the African continent are taking part in the conference that will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism for working-class people today, and advance socialist alternatives

The conference is part of the Dilemmas of Humanity process, which is aimed at the “transformation of society and revolutionary change.” It is one of several regional conferences ahead of the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, in October.

#BuildSocialism #DilemmasOfHumanity

Today, Irvin Jim, the General secretary of the NUMSA, spoke about socialism and the world that radical movements seek to build at the “Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism” conference.
#BuildSocialism #DilemmasofHumanity