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NYC’s Oldest Working-Class Theater Is Fighting Against Displacement

August 18, 2025 Eliana Perozo, Next City. , , ,
When Colm Summers stepped into the role of artistic director at New York City’s Working Theater in 2023, he inherited a legacy nearly four decades in the making. Founded in 1985 by actors from working-class backgrounds, the company was the first in the city to introduce sliding-scale ticketing — starting at zero dollars — and to bring professional theater directly into neighborhoods through mobile productions. Today, Summers’ team is focused on creating “non-extractive art” that furthers the city’s social movements. This year, their Stage Left festival presented six plays based on experiences from the frontlines of progressive movements; each developed alongside a community partner, including REI Soho Union, Workers’ Justice Project and Releasing Aging People in Prison.

Fighting Displacement Before Gentrification Takes A Hold

August 11, 2025 Eliana Perozo, Next City. , , ,
In cities across the country, revitalization often comes at a cost: longtime residents priced out or forced out of their homes. In West Baltimore, Bree Jones founded Parity Homes to prove that another path is possible. Like many other housing nonprofits, Parity Homes is revitalizing dilapidated housing and selling them at more affordable rates. Unlike similar initiatives, it is doing so in a neighborhood that hasn’t been overrun by abandonment quite yet. Baltimore has seen one of the country’s highest rates of gentrification, but Jones says West Baltimore hasn’t experienced peak gentrification. That makes it easier to proactively keep neighborhoods affordable and protect people local to those neighborhoods from being displaced.

How Displaced Black Families Won Reparations In Portland

August 2, 2025 Marianne Dhenin, Next City. , , , ,
For decades, the Albina district in Portland, Oregon, was the center of the city’s Black community. Local musicians transformed the neighborhoods into a hotspot for the West Coast’s jazz, blues and soul music scenes, earning Albina the nickname “Jumptown” in the 1940s and ‘50s. Milestones in Oregon’s civil rights struggle grew out of meetings in Albina’s parks and gathering halls. It was residents of Albina who started a citywide tree-planting program responsible for many of Portland’s now-famous blooming cherry trees. But by the ‘70s, much of it was gone.

US Firm Behind GHF Modeled ‘Voluntary Relocation’ Plan

July 6, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
A major US consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), was tasked by Israeli backers to model the costs of "relocating" Palestinians from Gaza as part of a project "imagining" post-war Gaza reconstruction, a Financial Times (FT) investigation published on 5 July revealed. The complex financial model for the reconstruction of Gaza “included cost estimates for relocating hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the strip and the economic impact of such a mass displacement.” In one scenario, Palestinians would be provided "voluntary relocation" packages valued at $9,000 per person, or $5 billion total. Each person would reportedly receive $5,000 in cash, subsidized rent for four years, and subsidized food for a year.

Israel Is Trying To Expel Us From Masafer Yatta

July 4, 2025 Mohammad Hesham Huraini, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Approximately one month ago — after years of harassment and intermittent demolitions — Israeli occupation forces arrived in the Palestinian village of Khallet al-Dabe’, one of the 12 communities that make up Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank. They proceeded to demolish the village almost entirely. In just two and a half hours, Israeli occupation forces reduced almost the entire village to rubble. Like Khallet al-Dabe’, all of the Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta are now under threat of permanent expulsion after the Civil Administration — the Israeli military body in charge of governing the West Bank — issued an order allowing what it calls “live-fire training” in Masafer Yatta, an action taken to reinforce its designation of the area as “Firing Zone 918.”

From Watts To D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished In 45 Years

July 3, 2025 Adam Mahoney, Black Agenda Report. , , , , , ,
Ignited by a single arrest and fueled by decades of poverty and police brutality, the Watts Uprising of 1965 turned the Los Angeles neighborhood into a national symbol of Black struggle and resilience. Thousands of Black residents like Ted Watkins Sr. rose up in anger and desperation. They were fighting for resources to maintain their neighborhood. In the aftermath of the rebellion, Watkins founded the Watts Labor Community Action Committee to fight for continued investment in Black residents. Today, his son, Tim Watkins, is stuck in the same battles as president of the organization.

St. Louis Using Tornado Destruction To Displace Black Community

June 9, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , ,
On May 16, 2025, an EF3 tornado tore through the city of St. Louis causing massive destruction. Instead of responding with aid to those who were impacted, the city deployed police to black communities and condemned 5,000 homes and buildings without fully reviewing if these designations were warranted. Some homes were condemned even though repairs were made. Clearing the FOG speaks with President Westbrook of the St. Louis branch of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement and Jesse Nevel, chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, about what the city is currently doing to force Black residents from their homes, how this is part of a longer-term effort and why it is necessary to support residents there.

Meet The Palestinian Bedouin Community That No Longer Exists

June 3, 2025 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
May 22, 2025, was the last day of life as they knew it for the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir, which until recently used to reside east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank. The 24 Palestinian families who made up the community were forced to gather their belongings and leave their home in the eastern slopes of Ramallah overlooking the Jordan Valley. After three days of intense harassment and attacks on the community, Israeli settlers now have complete control over the little valley. Ahmad (not his real name), a father of 6 children from Maghayer al-Deir who spoke to Mondoweiss on the condition of anonymity, said that he had called the valley home all his life. “I was born in Maghayer al-Deir and have always been there,” he said.

This Palestinian Town Is Reviving The Spirit Of Struggle In ’48 Palestine

June 1, 2025 Yoav Haifawi, Mondoweiss. , , , , , ,
As images of burned children, starving families, and bombed hospitals in Gaza become the constant soundtrack of daily life, the Palestinian communities that survived the Nakba and stayed in the lands that were occupied by Israel in 1948 (hence called “’48 Palestinians”), are filled with anger, frustration, and a sense of hollowness and disempowerment. Against the general paralysis, Umm al-Fahm, the main Palestinian city in “the Northern Triangle region,” stands out. Palestinian activists in the town, united around the local “popular committee,” keep trying to break the barriers of repression and fear that have taken hold in their community since October 7. The last attempt was on Saturday, May 24.

Trump’s Yemen Surge: How DC Think Tanks Brought Famine Roaring Back

April 25, 2025 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. , , , , , , ,
President Donald Trump’s new Yemen campaign is driving what experts call a spiraling humanitarian disaster, nearly doubling the previous administration’s costs while slashing aid and intensifying airstrikes. Under pressure from powerful Washington think tanks, Trump has sharply increased airstrikes, cut $107 million in aid, and designated Yemen’s Ansar Allah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO )—all steps that experts and aid groups say are deepening famine, displacement, and collective punishment. The latest moves target Ansar Allah-controlled northern Yemen, home to roughly 70% of the population and 80% dependent on food imports.

Israel Is About To Empty Gaza

April 13, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , , ,
Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory — Gaza is 25 miles long and four to five miles wide — and placed two-thirds of Gaza under displacement orders, rendered “no-go zones,” including the border town of Rafah, which is encircled by Israeli troops. On Friday Defence Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel will “intensify” the war against Hamas and use “all military and civilian pressure, including evacuation of the Gaza population south and implementing United States President [Donald] Trump’s voluntary migration plan for Gaza residents.”

In Occupied Port-Au-Prince Over One Million Haitians Have Been Displaced

March 27, 2025 Danny Shaw, Counter Punch. , , ,
As our rights are under attack by an arrogant clique of billionaires at home, the global beacon of freedom, Haiti, confronts one of the toughest moments in its centuries-long liberation struggle. For over four years now, burgeoning paramilitary gangs have waged a war on the 2.5 million people of Port-au-Prince. Last year, the disparate paramilitaries confederated into the Viv Ansanm gang under the leadership of former police officer turned warlord, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier. In front of our eyes, the robust capital city of the world-famous carnival, of bustling commerce and proud traditions has been reduced to a city of refugees, shelters and isolated, hold-out communities resisting with everything they have.

Four Reasons Why Ethnic Cleansing Of The West Bank Is Being Accepted

March 22, 2025 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Earlier this week, while Israeli warplanes were resuming their carpet bombing campaign in Gaza, Israel also expanded its offensive on the West Bank, this time reaching the al-Ain refugee camp west of Nablus. Israeli forces entered the camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning when an undercover Israeli force opened fire on a vehicle, killing its driver, Odai Qatouni, and confiscated his body. Israeli forces took over several houses and used them as military positions for 14 hours, forcing some 10 Palestinian families to leave their homes.

World Experienced 152 Unprecedented Climate Events In 2024

March 20, 2025 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. , , ,
According to the latest State of the Global Climate 2024 report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the world experienced 152 unprecedented and 297 unusual extreme events related to climate change last year.  Topping the list of extreme events were heat waves, with 137 events, followed by extreme rain and wet spells (115 events), flooding (104 events), tropical cyclones (47) and drought (44).  In total, these events were linked to 1.1 million people injured, 1,700 deaths and 824,500 people displaced. As The Guardian reported, the number of people displaced by extreme climate events in 2024 was the highest annual number since 2008, when the records began.

Arab Leaders Endorse Egypt’s $53bn Plan For Gaza Reconstruction

March 5, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
An Arab summit convened in Cairo on 4 March adopted an Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of Gaza in a bid to counter US President Donald Trump's proposal to forcibly expel Palestinians from the strip while turning it into a “Middle East Riviera” for Israel's Jewish settlers. The final statement from the summit called for finding a realistic alternative to the displacement of the Palestinian people and, before that, the categorical rejection of their displacement from their land or within it. It also condemned the “starvation and scorched earth policies” pursued by Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians and stressed the importance of implementing the second and third stages of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which call for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the strip.
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