Last week, a video went viral showing a group of armed men at The Edge at Lowry apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. The video has made its rounds across the right-wing media and political commentators, capitalizing on the fear mongering around the reported influx of migrants entering the United States, especially from Venezuela.

According to the apartment’s landlord, Brooklyn-based CBZ Management, members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have taken control of the buildings, stolen rent money from residents, and chased out the property management.

But the right-wing fear mongering over gangs in Colorado obscures the larger issue of landlord neglect, according to residents.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/05/right-wing-fear-mongering-over-gangs-in-colorado-obscures-larger-issue-of-landlord-neglect/

Thousands are expected to gather in Ostend, Belgium, on September 7-8 for ManiFiesta, a festival of solidarity organized by a coalition of left organizations in the country.

The event will mark the unofficial start of Belgium’s political season, bringing together activists, trade unionists, and political leaders to discuss some of the most pressing issues in Europe and the world today.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/06/manifiesta-brings-a-weekend-of-solidarity-and-activism-to-belgium/

26-year-old US activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi succumbed to her wounds on Friday after being shot by Israeli forces at a protest in Beita, to the south of Nablus.

Headlines from Western mainstream media sources have already attempted to obscure who killed the solidarity activist, with CNN stating “American activist shot dead during protest in West Bank, Palestinian officials say,” CBS News writing, “American woman Aysenur Eygi killed in Israeli-occupied West Bank, US confirms,” and BBC writing. “American activist shot dead in occupied West Bank.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/06/us-activist-shot-by-israeli-forces-in-west-bank/

Irvin Jim, the general secretary of NUMSA, spoke at the Manifiesta Festival in Ostend, Belgium about how capitalism has driven the world to a state of deep crisis and war. Working class unity, he affirms, is the only way to defeat capitalism.

Manifiesta is an annual festival of solidarity organized by a coalition of left organizations in Belgium. This year, the resistance of the Palestinian people in the face of Israel's genocidal war has taken center stage.

The third anniversary of the end of the two decades of US war and occupation in Afghanistan coincides with a particularly contentious presidential election year in the US. Both the Democrats and Republicans are busy blaming each other for the fiasco.

It is clear that Afghanistan has become yet another embarrassing episode in the long history of US imperial adventures which no one wants to take responsibility for.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/06/the-crisis-in-afghanistan-is-a-result-of-us-recklessness/

What is the difference in the foreign policy of Democrats and the Republicans in the US?

Zoe Alexandra, the editor of Peoples Dispatch, spoke at Manifiesta in Ostend, Belgium about the upcoming presidential elections in the United States and reflected on the track record of the two ruling class parties.

Daniel Jadue, a member of the Communist Party of Chile and the former mayor of Recoleta, was released after being held in preventative detention for 91 days.
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Though Israel has been fixated on preventing alleged weapons infiltration from Iran to Palestinian resistance groups in the West Bank through its borders with Jordan, the shooting showcased that the security measures of the Zionist entity are breachable.

As Israel has the longest borders with Jordan, Al-Jazi’s attack has raised concerns of the Israeli military that a new front has been added to its multiple war fronts in the region including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the northern borders with Lebanon, and the Red Sea in the south due to continuous attacks by Yemen’s Ansar Allah.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/09/jordanian-truck-driver-opens-fire-at-jordan-israel-border-crossing-killing-three-israeli-soldiers/

The calculated and cruel violence suffered by Gisèle Pelicot has shaken the world to its core, yet her demand to make the trial public and shift the shame to the perpetrators of these acts, has inspired many.

The images of a stoic Gisèle Pelicot, who in the small courtroom had to relive events she did not remember, have traveled around the world. However, the victim was quick to say that her expression should not be confused with her state of mind and mental health: “[In the recordings] I am inert, in my bed, and I am being raped. They are barbaric scenes. My world is crumbling, everything is crumbling, everything I’ve built in fifty years. Frankly, for me, they are scenes of terror.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/09/the-courage-of-gisele-pelicot/

Approximately 300,000 people took to the streets across France to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of conservative Michel Barnier as Prime Minister.

The protests, led by left and progressive groups, reflect growing anger at Macron’s decision to bypass the election results and avoid a progressive government.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/09/300000-march-against-macrons-appointment-of-conservative-prime-minister/

“In Venezuela right now great things are happening, very positive for the popular camp, there are thousands of organized communities ... The people are making the decisions and the popular leadership has years of experience in their territory organizing the fight for life." Ángel Prado Minister of Cummunes in Venezuela.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/10/angel-prado-on-the-advance-of-venezuelas-participatory-democracy/

For the past few weeks, right-wing media and politicians have been whipped up into a frenzy over the supposed takeover of an Aurora, Colorado apartment building by a Venezuelan gang after a video went viral depicting armed men in The Edge at Lowry complex.

Residents of the apartment complexes in question, however, claim that the landlord, the Brooklyn, New York based CBZ Management, has exploited anti-migrant frenzy as an excuse to neglect repairs in the building. The mayor of Aurora, a conservative himself, has dubbed CBZ Management as “out of state slumlords.”

For more clarity on the situation in Aurora, Peoples Dispatch spoke to Nate Kassa, a community organizer with the East Colfax Community Collective, a grassroots organization in Colorado.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/10/how-a-new-york-landlord-exploited-anti-immigrant-propaganda-in-aurora-colorado/