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University Of Pennsylvania Sues To Block Graduate Students From Union

September 3, 2026 Kate Jones, People's World. Educate! Graduate Students, Higher Education, Lawfare, Unions, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia—The University of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the graduate student workers’ union in an effort to exclude hundreds of first- and second-year students from the bargaining unit. This marks a new high in tensions over enforcement of the graduate student workers’ collective bargaining agreement. The complaint asks the court to declare that first- and second-year students in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program are not “employees” because they do not provide services to Penn until their third year. Graduate students typically pursue a course of study including coursework, laboratory rotations, and dissertation research in a thesis laboratory.

Resisting Regime Change In Cuba

May 19, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Consortium News. Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, History, Lawfare, Raul Castro, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, when C.I.A.-trained Cuban exiles landed at Playa Girón, on Cuba’s southern coast. They were defeated within two days by Cuban military forces. Over the years, the C.I.A. organized hundreds of assassination attempts on the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro and supported myriad acts of terrorism against Cuba. Now, impelled by Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump is moving steadily toward accomplishing regime change in Cuba.

March 22 Elections And Lessons From Bolivia

March 21, 2026 Cindy Forster, Resumen English. Educate! Bolivia, Elections, Indigenous Peoples, Lawfare, Neoliberalism

Bolivia’s capitalist elites are losing their grip this week in their efforts to crush socialist candidates in “sub-national” elections to be held on March 20. Socialists, most of them Indigenous and campesino, have been elected in assemblies to run as candidates at all levels of local government. The rightwing is terrified of competing with the poor in elections, and to avoid that eventuality, it is illegitimately disqualifying leftist candidates and their parties. The twentieth-century oligarchy won the presidency last November in exactly this fashion, via illicit court rulings.

The State Is Escalating Charges Against Protesters

March 13, 2026 Blanca Missé, Truthout. Strategize! Anti-ICE, Class Struggle, Immigrant Rights, Lawfare, Unions

On July 10, 2025, as federal agents stormed cannabis farms in Ventura County, California, community members rushed to protest what they saw as yet another sweeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Among them was Jonathan Caravello, a 37-year-old philosophy lecturer at California State University Channel Islands. Today, he faces a federal felony charge that could send him to prison for up to 20 years. At a time when anti-immigrant enforcement is intensifying and protest is increasingly reframed as criminal conspiracy, Caravello’s prosecution poses a strategic question: Will unions and solidarity movements remain defensive and fragmented, or will they organize a public campaign that makes repression politically costly?

Lawyer Who Represented Julian Assange Defends President Maduro

January 7, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Health Care, Lawfare, Nicolas Maduro, Prisoner rights, Venezuela

Renowned criminal lawyer Barry Pollack, who defended journalist Julian Assange, has taken on the defense of Venezuela’s constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, in New York. Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped and taken there following the US attack in the early hours of Jan. 3, when military forces under orders from the White House carried out bombings against Caracas and several states, killing dozens of civilians and military personnel. Amid their illegitimate detention, President Maduro and Cilia Flores were taken this Monday to the Southern District Court of New York to begin a trial for alleged links to drug trafficking.

Behind The DOJ’s Politicized Indictment Of Maduro

January 7, 2026 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. Educate! Department of Justice, Injustice, Lawfare, Venezuela

The January 3 US military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores was followed by the Department of Justice’s release of its superseding indictment of the two abductees as well as their son, Nicolasito Maduro, and two close political allies: former Minister of Justice Ramon Chacin and ex-Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello. The DOJ has also thrown Tren De Aragua (TDA) cartel leader Hector “Niño” Guerrero into the mix of defendants, situating him at the heart of its narrative.

President Maduro Addresses New York Court

January 6, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Kidnapping, Lawfare, Legal System, Nicolas Maduro, Sovereignty

On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made his first public statements before a New York court following his abduction by US military special forces in an attack carried out on Venezuelan territory two days prior. President Maduro declared himself a “prisoner of war” and categorically rejected the charges against him, reaffirming his status as the legitimate president of Venezuela. “I am the president of Venezuela, and I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was kidnapped in my home in Caracas,” the Venezuelan president declared before the judge, describing the circumstances of his detention as a military action that violates his presidential legitimacy and his country’s sovereignty.

Supporters Of President Maduro Protest Outside Metropolitan Detention Center

January 5, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Detention Center, Kidnapping, Lawfare, Nicolas Maduro, Prisoner rights

Brooklyn, NY – In the early morning of January 4, over 200 people gathered across the street from the Metropolitan Detention Center, where the kidnapped President Maduro of Venezuela and his wife, Cilia Flores, were being held. The picket spanned over half a block as bundled-up protesters marched for hours in support of President Maduro and Venezuela. Chants rang through the crowd, such as, “Not another penny, not another dollar! We won’t pay for your death and slaughter!’ Several organizations spoke against the Trump administration’s illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president.

Maduro Indicted On ‘Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy’ Charges In US Court

January 3, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Kidnapping, Lawfare, President Maduro, Venezuela

The US military abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores overnight on 3 January, following heavy airstrikes that struck the heart of Caracas and multiple other areas across the country. The illegal aggression marked a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against the Venezuelan government, reportedly targeting key military sites in Caracas, including the Forte Tona complex, La Carlota barracks, Aigeroti airport, and Cuartel de la Montaña, where former president Hugo Chavez's remains lie.

The Attack On Palestine Chronicle

August 29, 2025 Mohamed El Mokhtar, Consortium News. Educate! Journalism, Lawfare, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom, State Repression

The Palestine Chronicle is not a militant organization. It is a modest, independent publication, sustained by small donations and animated by a singular mission: to bear witness. It tells the untold stories of Palestine, documenting dispossession, resistance and the endurance of a people condemned to silence. In a media landscape dominated by powerful conglomerates repeating the language of governments, the Chronicle insists on a journalism of proximity — grounded in daily lives, in the rubble of Gaza, in voices otherwise erased. Its true offense, in the eyes of its detractors, is not invention but truth. At the heart of this endeavor stands Ramzy Baroud. His career is the antithesis of clandestine.

Lawfare In Perú: Trial Of Rupture

March 12, 2025 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Lawfare, Pedro Castillo, Peru, US coup

On March 4, José Pedro Castillo Terrones, Peru’s first Indigenous rural president, went before the Supreme Court in what he, his lawyers and supporters have called a “show trial” for the supposed crime of rebellion. Since being overthrown in a 2022 coup, Castillo has spent the past two years in Penal Barbadillo (a prison) in conditions described as torture. He is said to be under pre-trial detention, itself a violation of his human rights. Shortly after Castillo gave an announcement that he would pursue closing Congress , a primary demand of the Peruvian masses for years, Congress swiftly moved to impeach him. In a chain of procedural missteps, Congress rammed through (illegally, as his lawyers argue) the impeachment of Castillo.

Trial Against Ousted President Pedro Castillo Begins In Peru

March 7, 2025 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Educate! coup, Lawfare, Pedro Castillo, Peru

The trial against former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo began in Peru on March 4. Castillo is accused of rebellion, abuse of authority, and disturbing the public peace for allegedly attempting to dissolve the National Congress at the end of 2022. Castillo has been held in jail for over two years since his dismissal by the Congress. Also accused are the former president of the Council of Secretaries of State, Betssy Chávez, and the former First Secretary, Aníbal Torres. The latter has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Castillo appeared without a lawyer at the opening of the oral trial in the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, presided by Judge José Neyra Flores.

Yves Engler: ‘I’m Being Charged For Responding To Anti-Palestinian Hate’

February 24, 2025 Yves Engler, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Canada, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Lawfare, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, political persecution, Press Freedom, Repression, Yves Engler, Zionism

Tomorrow, the Montreal police will arrest me for posting to social media against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Today, I received a phone call from a Montreal police officer by the last name of Crivello. She asked me to come to a downtown police station where I will be charged for harassment and indecent communication. Crivello said a complaint was submitted against me months ago by a legal firm on behalf of racist media personality Dahlia Kurtz. Crivello said I had described Kurtz as a “genocide” supporter and “fascist” on Twitter. Guilty as charged.

New Report Shows A Surge In European SLAPP Suits

December 21, 2024 Stella Levantesi, DeSmog. Strategize! Censorship, Climate Justice, Europe, Lawfare, Oil and Gas Industry, Report, SLAPP Lawsuit

Lawsuits to silence those speaking out and fighting in the interest of the public are increasingly being used as a form of private censorship, according to a new report published last week by the Coalition Against SLAPPS in Europe, or CASE. Developed in collaboration with the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, the report shows that SLAPPs continue to rise in Europe and identifies a total of 1,049 cases between 2010-2023. The lawsuits cover a broad range of topics, and environmental issues made up the second-most-targeted subject of all the SLAPP suits reported, behind corruption.

Roadblocks Erected Throughout Bolivia To Protest Arce Government

October 23, 2024 Alfredo Rada, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Blockades, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Lawfare, Luis Arce

In Bolivia, the government of Luis Arce is confronted by the protests of peasants and workers, who are carrying out massive roadblocks. The pressure measure, which began five days ago, already affects four of the nine departments of the country and continues to expand. The government’s strategy of containment and delegitimization of this mass action, a strategy that was led by the minister of the presidency, Marianela Prada, and the minister of government, Eduardo del Castillo, did not yield results. Both authorities took on the task of minimizing the scope of the protest, stating that it was only seeking to protect Evo Morales.

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