cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36387158

Washington, Sep 17 (Prensa Latina) An exhibition of posters allegorical to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, was inaugurated today at the Cuban Embassy in the United States with the presence of Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío.

The event—which is part of the program for Fidel's centennial in 2026—was attended by representatives of the intellectual and cultural circles, political parties, social movements, solidarity organizations, and, in general, friends of Cuba.

Referring to the Cuban leader, Fernández de Cossío mentioned the "extraordinary characteristics concentrated in a single individual" and affirmed that he made a great contribution to the world for the better, and "I believe that is something for which he will be remembered," he emphasized.

Earlier, the head of the Cuban Mission, Lianys Torres, welcomed the participants to the event on Wednesday night, where poet Nubia Kai recited one of her poems dedicated to the island, Fidel, and his Revolution.

Activist Mark Friedman, co-chair of the Hands Off Cuba Committee in Los Angeles, also spoke. The embassy thanked him for his dedication and efforts in bringing the exhibition to a successful conclusion.

Friedman anticipated that they will be organizing a similar event in Los Angeles on October 25, "when we will once again vehemently protest the U.S. embargo on Cuba in the actions leading up to the United Nations vote."

Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, present-day Holguín province (east), and his passing on November 25, 2016, at the age of 90, caused international commotion.

Throughout his life, the island's State Security services identified hundreds of plots in various stages of development to physically eliminate him. Between 1958 and 2000, he escaped unscathed in 634 assassination plots.

Fidel asked that no statues or plazas be erected in his memory, so the monolith where his ashes rest in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba features only the five letters of his name.

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Meanwhile, Israel is still joyfully assassinating innocent women and children "human shields" who were already suffering for decades under a blockade(, they survived mostly thanks to the UNRWA), while refusing a permanent ceasefire in exchange for the hostages. That's how you empty the lands, and assuming that arabs would do the same against israelis if they could isn't an excuse.

Testimonies in news articles(, 1, 2) are considered lies, so here's a video from last week, among others : https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1966591297013080086
Or that disturbing fact also from last week : https://x.com/doamuslims/status/1966113979937468790
Not really a war.

In its recent raids in Chicago, ICE disappeared community leader William Gimenez after the Venezuelan-American joined a lawsuit against the abuse of day laborers by off-duty Chicago police working as security at Home Depot. Mari Torrealba, Gimenez’ wife, joined protests calling for Gimenez’s release. ICE has not revealed where they are holding him.

The kidnapping of this brave advocate is no accident. “He’s again been profiled, not only for being a Spanish-speaking person in another country, but for being someone who exposed racism and abuse of power in the United States,” said Kevin L. Herrera, the legal director of Raise the Floor Alliance and attorney for Gimenez.

Learn more and support the vital work of Raise the Floor Alliance here: https://www.raisetheflooralliance.org/

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)

“To @RepSaraJacobs, I talk about women’s safety and your response is commentary about my body on the House floor,” Mace wrote Wednesday. “If you knew anything about survivors you would know some women change their bodies because of the trauma of sexual violence. They live with the consequences for a lifetime.”

She then added, “PS – I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done.”

Jacobs responded, “I didn’t say anything about your body but thanks for confirming! And going with the Jewish nose joke…very creative (and also very antisemitic).”

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Mace, who has frequently made comments disparaging transgender people after taking a more moderate stance earlier in her career, has also sought to style herself as a warrior for Israel and against antisemitism. She has met with the Anti-Defamation League to discuss college campuses, supported a full federal defunding of Harvard University over charges the school harbored antisemitism, and hosted a press conference with the Orthodox student group Olami to advocate for changes to the Department of Education’s handling of campus antisemitism [read: anticolonialism].

Last month she announced a run for South Carolina governor, calling herself “Trump in high heels.”

His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, and his killing by ICE agents on Friday, September 12, in Franklin Park, Illinois, is an act of shocking political violence owed our attention and outrage.

The [bourgeois] state has killed a father, a human being, a person who had become the target of a national-level ethnic cleansing campaign at the center of a [neo]fascist hate machine. Chicago and surrounding areas are the site of the so-called “Midway Blitz,” an increased immigration enforcement campaign directed by Donald Trump timed to coincide with Mexican Independence Day. Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez has paid a terrible price for this [neo]fascist special project.

Villegas-Gonzalez had just dropped his children off at daycare when he was stopped.

In an attempt to justify the killing, ICE agents said they feared for their lives, they were threatened, they were only acting in self defense. The Department of Homeland Security has refused to release any further details to bolster these claims, leaving us to take the word of an institution of kidnappers and abusers that this time they did the right thing.

Villegas-Gonzalez was a human being, and now he is dead. As our movement ancestor and labor activist Mother Jones said, we must mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

This video argues that American farmers who voted for Trump with the full knowledge of its potential effects. Trump would escalate the trade war and tank the farm commodities market. Yet, these farmers are all petit bourgeois, and they expected Trump's policies to benefit them overall. (ie. lower taxes, fewer regulations, continued bailouts)

As one of the comments puts it, American farmers are "farm owners" and not "farm workers". Any and all bailouts will ultimately benefit the petite and haute bourgeois who own these farms. And that's the way they like it.

On September 12, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston sided with the Trump administration in ruling that the administration’s termination of humanitarian parole was legal (in Svitlana Doe v. Noem). The ruling impacts about 500,000 recipients of humanitarian parole from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, greenlighting a mass revocation of lawful status and work authorization from parole beneficiaries. Note that “humanitarian parole” is granted based on “urgent humanitarian reasons,” meaning people who came to this country fleeing violence, instability, or other life-threatening situations.

The San Diego-based Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) has condemned the ruling. HBA Executive Director and Founder Guerline Jozef said it has significant implications for other humanitarian parole programs at issue in the case, meaning that even more refugees might be sent back to dangerous situations.

Presidential administrations from both parties have followed parole processes in the past in an effort to promote family unification and humanitarian interests. Donate to Haitian Bridge Alliance here.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)

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“Go Birds, f— ICE and free Palestine,” the Jewish comedian and actress, wearing a red Artists4Ceasefire pin, said to cheers during her acceptance speech for her role in the HBO show “Hacks.”

The pointed political commentary (mixed in with a cheer for the Philadelphia Eagles) came as Hollywood continued to wrestle with a growing petition to boycott Israeli film institutions amid its ongoing war in Gaza. Einbinder, a vocal pro-Palestinian advocate, was an early signatory to the petition circulated by Film Workers For Palestine and one of the most prominent Jewish names on a list of entertainment industry personnel that now numbers more than 4,000.

That list also includes several top-draw talent and filmmakers, including Emma Stone, Adam McKay, Ava DuVernay, Ayo Edebiri, Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson and Yorgos Lanthimos. More notable Jewish names have joined the list since its release, including actor Andrew Garfield, whose father is Jewish; musician Mica Levi, who scored the Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest”; and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the screenwriter of acclaimed Jewish-themed films “Ida” and “Disobedience.”

Two days prior to the Emmys, Paramount — whose network CBS aired the telecast — became the first major American studio to publicly oppose the boycott.

“We do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers. Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace,” the company said in a statement. “The global entertainment industry should be encouraging artists to tell their stories and share their ideas with audiences throughout the world. We need more engagement and communication — not less.”

Both Paramount’s former chair Shari Redstone and David Ellison, its new owner following a high-profile merger, are Jewish and avid supporters of Israel. Ellison is rumored to be planning to install a pro-Israel media executive, The Free Press editor Bari Weiss, into a leadership role at CBS News. The studio is also reportedly preparing a bid to acquire rival studio Warner Bros. Discovery, which also owns HBO.

One of the boycott’s biggest supporters, actor Javier Bardem, responded to Paramount’s objections on the Emmys red carpet Sunday.

“I want to clarify something based on Paramount’s letter,” Bardem, wearing a keffiyeh, told Variety. “Film Workers for Palestine do not target any individuals based on identity. The targets are those film companies and institutions that are complicit and are white-washing or justifying the genocide and its apartheid regime. We do stand with those who are helping and being supportive of the oppressed people.”

I was wondering if any comrades had more information about this? Here's what I have right now:

-Trey Reed was a black student at Delta University (Mississippi) who was found dead recently

-His cousin said that Trey was found with broken arms and injuries, but the police told the public that there was "no evidence of foul play" and they were leaning towards ruling it as a suicide and that it was "self done"

-Some Mississippi residents have said that the university has a history of racial violence and that the state has covered up lynchings in the past, but it is always ruled by the cops as "no evidence of foul play"

-TLDR: the cops are saying that this was not a lynching, there was no foul play, however, according to Trey's cousin and Mississippi residents, there is a very low chance that this was a suicide and a high chance Trey was racially hate-crimed

My thoughts: yeah this is suspicious as hell, he was found hanging from a tree. A tree near the school's pickleball courts. I find it incredibly suspicious, especially due to the cops being so swift to counter Trey's cousin's remarks about Trey being injured and from Mississippi residents' stories about how frequently racial violence has been covered up. If any comrades have more information, please let me know.

News articles I read over: https://www.wapt.com/article/delta-state-classes-cancelled-after-someone-found-dead-on-campus/66105035 https://www.mississippifreepress.org/delta-state-university-students-body-found-hanging-in-tree-no-foul-play-suspected/ https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/who-is-trey-reed-delta-state-university-student-found-hanging-from-tree-11757980386604.html Tiktoker dmetri30 is also speaking out about it on his account

Rest in power Trey Reed.