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July 22: Protest To Demand ‘Free President Maduro And First Lady Flores!’

July 21, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
New York, New York — On July 22 at 8 a.m., protesters will rally to demand, “Free President Maduro and First Lady Flores!” outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan, New York. A growing coalition of groups and individuals, both in NYC and nationally, support freedom for the pair. Coalition members include Brooklyn Against War, the Anti-War Action Network, Workers World Party, International Action Center, Palaver Collective, Black Alliance for Peace, and the International League of People’s Struggle.

UN Panel Reaffirms Israel Commits Genocide

July 11, 2026 Jessica Corbett, Consortium News. , , , ,
Just over 1,000 days into Israeli forces’ genocidal violence against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations commission has forcefully denounced Israel’s treatment of health workers from the besieged territory and specifically demanded “the immediate, unconditional, and safe release” of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Israel has detained Abu Safiya without charge since capturing him at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he was the director, in December 2024. Renewed calls for Abu Safiya’s release have mounted in recent days following his transfer to the underground Rakefet interrogation facility at Nitzan Prison, where his lawyer, Nasser Odeh, said that his life is at risk.

Red Ribbons Event Highlights Crisis Facing Palestinian Hostages

June 20, 2026 Middle East Monitor. , , , , ,
London – Emotional testimonies, legal arguments, and political interventions marked a high-profile solidarity event held at SOAS University of London on Friday evening, as speakers warned that the situation of Palestinian hostages held in Israeli detention has reached what they described as “unprecedented levels of brutality” amid the ongoing war on Gaza. The event, organised by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) in partnership with the Red Ribbons Campaign, brought together campaign coordinator Adnan Hmidan, ICJP director Tayb Ali, lawyer Khaled Mahajneh, Palestinian activist Saif Abu Keshek, campaigner Katrina Graham, and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn.

Flotilla Activists’ Harrowing Experience In Israeli Torture Dungeon

June 18, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. , , , , , ,
Since the Zionist siege of Gaza began 19 years ago, people from around the world have been organizing to break through it and establish a humanitarian corridor to guarantee that Palestinians receive the supplies they need to survive. International flotillas are one way people challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza. As is occurring with all forms of resistance to the Zionist State, retaliation against activists is escalating. Participants on the most recent flotillas have been subjected to abuse, torture and rape perpetrated by the Israelis with near impunity.

Chris Hedges: The Fight To Save America

June 12, 2026 Chris Hedges, Consortium News. , , , ,
The worst is not the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private contractors, wielding baseball bats and batons, who flood the parking lot at the end of their shifts and unleash on protesters outside the gates the sadism practiced on those incarcerated inside Delaney Hall. The worst is not the tear gas, the tasers, the pepper spray or the dozens of arrests. The worst is not the beatings and the riot shields, raised above the heads of New Jersey State Police and Newark police and brought down swiftly on bodies, leaving severe lacerations. The worst is watching the children.

Rape, Assault And Abuse Are Signature Israeli Government Values

May 26, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , ,
It has been only 72 hours since our colleagues on the Gaza flotilla arrived in Istanbul, Turkiye to tell of the rape, assaults and abuse they endured from the Israeli military on their sailboats, security personnel on the prison ship, civilian police at the Ashdod processing center and guards at the notoriously abusive Ktzi’ot prison. The 72 hours feel like weeks as we heard the stories from each of the 428 unarmed civilians from 45 countries who were on 50 small sailboats, kidnapped in international waters and taken against their will to a place they did not want to go-Israel-and then subjected to criminal abuse from personnel from a multitude of Israeli security institutions. 

Malaysia To Take Israel To ICJ Over ‘Torture’ Of Gaza Flotilla Activists

May 26, 2026 Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye. , , , , , ,
Malaysia is preparing to take legal action against Israel at the International Court of Justice over the reported abuse of Gaza-bound aid flotilla activists after they were seized from international waters last week, an official said on Monday . According to Amirudin Shari, the chief minister of the state of Selangor, the Malaysian government plans to file a case once lawyers complete the collection of evidence and testimonies. The move comes amid mounting international criticism of Israeli forces over allegations of torture, sexual violence and abuse against around 430 Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) activists, including Malaysian citizens, who were later deported to their respective countries.

Gaza Flotilla Activists Recount ‘Super Sadistic’ Torture, Sexual Abuse During Abduction In Israel

May 23, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
International activists with the Global Sumud Flotilla revealed upon their arrival in Turkiye on 21 May that they were subjected to sexual abuse and torture during their abduction in Israel. Survivors reported prolonged beatings, starvation, and degrading strip searches, with reports of rape and sexual assault. Arriving in Istanbul, the activists bore clear signs of torture and mistreatment with swollen hands, broken bones, and severely bruised by the violence. Footage captured upon their arrival showed detainees displaying their injuries, one removing a scarf to reveal painful wounds sustained in custody.

Israel Approves Lawless Show Trials, Mass Executions For Palestinians

May 22, 2026 Andy Worthington. , , ,
When the Nazis held the Wannsee Conference on January 1942 to co-ordinate the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” — the extermination of all the Jews in German-controlled Europe — it was attended by 15 high-level administrators in the relevant government departments, and the SS. When senior officials in Israel were planning the genocide of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, after October 7, 2023, no single conference was convened to facilitate what it would be appropriate to call Israel’s “Final Solution to the Palestinian Question”, but key officials can be readily identified.

Ben Gvir Sparks Global Outrage After Harassing Gaza Flotilla Activists

May 21, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
On 20 May, several western countries summoned Israeli ambassadors and issued strong condemnations against Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after he released a video showing a humiliating “welcome party” for abducted activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla. The activists are seen zip-tied, kneeling, and forced into grueling stress positions while Israel’s national anthem blares over them. Ben Gvir posted the degrading spectacle with the caption “Welcome to Israel,” telling security personnel in the video, “don’t be bothered by their screams” as a bound activist cried out in the background. 

Former Strip Mine Was Planned For A Prison Until Locals Stepped In

May 19, 2026 Taysha DeVaughan, Next City. , , ,
Last year, the Appalachian Rekindling Project made a big move. We bought 63 acres of former strip mine land in Letcher County, Kentucky. Our $169,000 investment disrupted plans for a $505 million federal prison complex that would have caged over 1,300 people, stopping a cycle of harm that has defined Appalachia for too long. This would have become the fifth federal prison in eastern Kentucky, part of a pattern that treats incarceration as economic development. Data collected in 2021 by The Sentencing Project illustrates that Black and Indigenous people are incarcerated at four to five times the rate of white people for similar offenses.

Hundreds On Hunger Strike At Michigan Detention Center

May 8, 2026 Jack Kelly and Eli Folts, People's World. , , ,
Baldwin, Michigan — Hundreds of detained immigrants have launched a rolling hunger and work strike at the North Lake Detention Center, the largest detention center in the Midwest, operated by the private prison corporation GEO Group in Baldwin, Michigan. They are protesting what they describe as inhumane conditions, medical neglect, and a systematic denial of due process. The strike, which began on April 19 and escalated into a coordinated action across all facility blocks on Saturday, April 25, involves a majority of the prison population. Organizers with No Detention Centers Michigan report that detainees are refusing to eat and refusing to work to demand immediate improvements to their treatment and living conditions.

israeli Occupation Court Extends Detention Of Saif Abukeshek And Thiago Ávila

May 3, 2026 Global Sumud Flotilla. , , ,
Askalan, Occupied Palestine –The Global Sumud Flotilla condemns the decision of the “Ashkelon Magistrates’ Court” to have Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Avila remanded in custody. They were unlawfully abducted by israeli naval forces in international waters outside Greece and taken to occupied Palestine earlier this week. The court has ordered their continued detention for 2 additional days until May 5. Despite there being no formal charges levelled against them, israeli prosecutors have made sweeping politically motivated allegations in a retaliatory attempt to criminalize humanitarian action.

Trump’s Plan To Reopen Alcatraz Prison Is Inhumane

May 2, 2026 Victoria Valenzuela, Scheer Post. , , , ,
Morning Star Gali grew up going to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Thanksgiving sunrise gatherings on Alcatraz Island to pay homage to the site as a symbol of Native American survival and resistance. Participants would board boats to the island, just offshore from San Francisco, as early as 4 a.m., form a circle of up to 5,000 people, open with land acknowledgment from Ohlone leaders, and celebrate with traditional songs, dancing, and solidarity statements from speakers around the world. But from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz was the site of a notorious federal maximum security prison known for isolation and punishment.

Hundreds Protest Against Citizens Bank Over Ties To ICE Prison Partners

April 24, 2026 Chris Walker, Truthout. , , , ,
On Thursday, hundreds of demonstrators from the Northeast region of the United States gathered outside the Citizens Bank annual shareholders’ meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, to protest against the company’s financial relationships with for-profit prison corporations that operate facilities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A group of organizations calling themselves the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is demanding that the bank end its relationship with ICE, specifically by halting its financial ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, prison corporations that work on behalf of the federal agency.
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