Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast of the United States, a Category 5 monster that exposed the raw nerves of inequality, racism, and governmental neglect in the United States.

📲 Read the full article by Manolo De Los Santos on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/20-years-since-katrina-how-the-us-refused-cuban-doctors-as-new-orleans-drowned/

From Chicago to Oakland, local leaders and civil rights groups denounce the president’s plan to deploy federal forces beyond DC.

Upon the first announcement earlier this month of the federal takeover of law enforcement in US capital Washington, DC, Trump already leveled threats against several other cities – specifically naming Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland and New York.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/following-trumps-threats-against-democrat-run-cities-voices-around-the-country-unite-in-opposition/

🇮🇳 The ultra-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments in various provinces in India have used sedition charges against journalists for their critical reporting on policies and actions.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/journalists-decry-escalating-state-attacks-on-press-freedom-in-india/

The principles born in the Global South call on us to defend a peace anchored in the solid foundations of national sovereignty, sustainable development, and social justice.

📲 First published as a newsletter by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Read it on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/our-america-of-peace-of-war-and-other-demons/

"Apartheid 2.0"

🇿🇦 The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Ronald Lamola, harshly condemned the allegations of “white genocide” in South Africa by US President Donald Trump.

White Afrikaners have been granted refugee status in the US, yet, according to the UN convention, they do not fit the profile.

At a small school in the commune of Kloukname, in southwestern Benin, near the border with Togo, the daily routine is marked by a unique celebration: the teaching of the Adja language, of the Aja people.

The school is the Saint Salomon learning center, established in 2014. The school is an exception in a country where French, a colonial legacy, is the official language and a prerequisite for universities and jobs, but is spoken by only 35% of the population.

📲 Read the article by Pedro Stropasolas of Brasil de Fato.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/29/school-in-benin-recovers-ancestral-language-in-the-classroom-to-combat-colonial-legacy/

🇵🇸Global Sumud Flotilla to set sail with dozens of activists

The flotilla to Gaza is back and this time 50 civilian vessels will participate in a convoy carrying activists, parliamentarians, health workers, artists, trade unionists, and humanitarian cargo to break Israel's blockade on Gaza.

The United Farm Workers labor union has condemned the raid at the farm that the UFW has been actively organizing in since 2022. Of the 14 workers detained at the May 2 raid, ten were ultimately deported.

UFW Secretary Treasurer Armando Elenes labels the raids as "shameful employer complicity in the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate legal protections and lower wages for farm workers."

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/29/ice-carries-out-a-second-raid-on-a-new-york-farm-as-workers-push-to-unionize/

Former Sri Lankan President and “avatar of neoliberalism” Ranil Wickremesinghe is being charged with misuse of public funds.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/29/what-the-arrest-of-a-former-president-means-for-sri-lanka/

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have intensified aerial attacks and expanded land incursions across Syria during the last few days. The attacks come in the wake of the announcement by Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Sunday, August 24, that progress had been made on a possible security deal with Israel.

Israel has always employed the “negotiations under fire” tactic to impose its conditions before reaching any agreement with other parties in the region.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/29/israel-escalates-attacks-on-syria-as-al-sharaa-reports-progress-on-a-syria-israel-security-deal/

This Friday, August 29, the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine began in Detroit, Michigan, bringing together thousands of activists, journalists, labor leaders, and people of conscience.

“This conference is also important because it defies all the forces that conspire to stop and silence our movement, from far right figures, politicians, media outlets and the Zionist lobby,” said Taher Dahleh, an activist with convening organization the Palestinian Youth Movement, in opening the People’s Conference.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/29/we-will-not-stop-palestinian-youth-movement-organizer-opens-peoples-conference-with-fearless-challenge-to-zionism/