Protests against femicide carried out by the medical professionals and left-wing activists in India’s West Bengal province have now entered their third week.

Apart from demanding justice for the victim and better security for women at the workplace, protestors have also raised the need for larger societal changes.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/28/left-led-anti-femicide-demonstrations-enter-third-week-in-indias-west-bengal/

On Tuesday, August 27, Waffle House workers across three locations in Atlanta held a speakout and rally outside of Centennial Park after delivering their demands to the fast food chain.

This is in protest of Waffle House announcing that they would change the way that workers receive credit card tips: instead of workers being paid the tips they earned daily after working their shifts, workers would only be provided with these tips weekly.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/28/waffle-house-workers-demand-liveable-wages-and-tip-protections/

Israel continues to close all possible doors to a ceasefire in Gaza and de-escalation in the West Asia region, intensifying military operations and provocations in the West Bank and Gaza.

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched the largest military operation across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, August 27, aiming at crushing the Palestinian armed resistance groups.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz wrote on X on Wednesday, August 28, “We must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever steps are required. This is a war for everything and we must win it.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/28/israel-invades-the-west-bank-in-largest-operation-since-2002/

On Monday, August 26, the XI Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) was held.

The summit focused on the current situation in Venezuela and the challenges the country faces amid international pressure to force a change in government following the last presidential elections.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/28/alba-tcp-extraordinary-summit-declares-support-for-venezuelas-sovereignty/

Abu Shujaa was killed with 4 other resistance fighters from the Tulkarm Brigade during a clash with the IOF in Nour Shams camp. The camp has been under fire since Aug 27, when Israel began its largest military operation in the West Bank since 2002.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/29/israel-assassinates-tulkarm-brigade-commander-abu-shujaa-continues-massacres-in-west-bank-and-gaza/

On August 27, AMLO announced that he would put diplomatic relations with the ambassadors of the United States and Canada on “pause”. According to the Mexican president, this measure was taken due to the “interfering” declarations of both diplomatic representatives given the (almost) imminent approval of the Judicial Reform promoted by the Executive, which, among other things, proposes the election by popular vote of the different judges in Mexico.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/30/mexico-puts-relations-with-the-embassies-of-the-united-states-and-canada-on-pause/

The Venezuelan government announced that there was an attack on the national electricity system that affected the entire country. Authorities say that the right-wing opposition is likely behind the attacks & that those responsible will be held accountable.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/30/venezuela-suffers-national-blackout-government-denounces-sabotage-to-electrical-grid/

❗Early this morning, Venezuela's Minister of Communication, Freddy Ñáñez, has reported that Venezuela is suffering from a right-wing sabotage attack on the National Electric System that has caused nationwide electric outages and problems.

He reminded people of the 2019 attack and reassured the Venezuelan population that the government of the Bolivarian Revolution is working tirelessly to surpass the problem and restore electricity. As of the afternoon, power had begun to come back in certain parts of Caracas.

US-based activists delivered 800 tons of flour to Cuba via the “Let Cuba Live: Bread for our Neighbors” campaign.

“The concept of the campaign is simple: Cuba is our neighbor, and we can’t let our neighbors go hungry,” said Manolo De Los Santos, Executive Director of The People’s Forum. “This hunger is imposed directly by the White House, and Biden could end it right away by allowing Cuba to trade freely.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/30/thousands-of-people-in-us-send-800-tons-of-urgently-needed-flour-to-cuba/

The Honduran head of state announced that it would suspend its extradition agreement with the United States after the US ambassador made a series of remarks against high-ranking government officials and meetings they held with Venezuelan officials.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/30/honduran-president-xiomara-castro-rejects-us-interference-and-condemns-coup-plot/

On the third day of its biggest military operation in the West Bank since 2002, the Israeli Occupation Forces have been also killing and detaining civilians, wreaking havoc and launching Gaza-style evacuation campaigns against Palestinians.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/31/israels-siege-on-the-west-bank-continues-al-qassam-commander-wissam-khazem-assassinated-in-jenin/

Last week, several pro-Palestinian Telegram channels were blocked in European countries, including the “Palestine Archive ” channel with more than 15,000 followers and the “Resistance News Network” (RNN) with more than 166,000 subscribers.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/02/censorship-in-europe-major-palestinian-news-channels-banned-on-telegram/

Rixi Moncada, recently appointed Secretary of Defense and co-founder of the Honduran LIBRE party, expressed her support for Honduran President Xiomara Castro, amid growing tensions with the United States.

Last week, Xiomara Castro announced that the country would suspend its extradition agreement with the United States. The decision was made in response to comments made by the US Ambassador to Honduras, Laura Dogu, regarding different high-ranking Honduran officials who had traveled to Venezuela and met with Venezuelan officials.

The five magistrates of the First Panel of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) voted unanimously to uphold the decisions of Justice Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the lawsuits that led to the banning of the X platform, formerly Twitter, in Brazil. The judgment was concluded in the virtual plenary session on Monday September 2.

“Brazil is not a breeding ground for ideologies without ideas of justice,” said Justice Carmen Lúcia in her vote.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/02/brazils-supreme-court-upholds-suspension-of-x/

Following the termination of the extradition agreement between Honduras and the United States requested by President Xiomara Castro, the Central American country has experienced a political earthquake.

In light of this decision, the right-wing opposition in Honduras has accused the executive branch of making the decision due to alleged relations between some government officials and criminal groups.

President Castro’s decision was taken after the US Ambassador in Tegucigalpa, Laura Dogu, made statements to Honduran media questioning the meeting of several Honduran officials with Venezuelan officials.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/02/attacks-on-xiomara-castros-government-escalate-after-termination-of-extradition-agreement-with-the-us/