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PEN America Claims To Support Free Speech

August 4, 2025 Kori Davis, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
On March 25, PEN America fired me for living up to their mission. This termination came only three days after I published an article in Mondoweiss titled “Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the ‘free speech’ organization PEN America?,” three years into my tenure on the membership and National Engagement team. Nine months earlier, after I shared an article on unlearning Zionism to our internal listserv, PEN leadership sent my colleagues and me an email stating that workers could be terminated for discriminatory action.

Zionists Accuse Yves Engler Of Genocide Denial

August 2, 2025 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Yves Engler is a Canadian activist, a candidate to lead Canada’s New Democratic Party , and the author of many books about Canadian foreign policy, including Canada and Africa, 300 years of Aid and Exploitation . Shortly after he announced his candidacy to lead Canada’s New Democratic Party, B’nai Brith produced a press release accusing him of denying the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which others call the Rwandan Genocide. I spoke to him this week. ANN GARRISON: Yves Engler, what is B'nai B'rith , and why do you think they have suddenly attacked you over something you wrote eight years ago about the Rwandan Genocide?

Hands Off CUNY: PSC Defends Fired Faculty, Condemns Repression

July 16, 2025 Victor Harlan, Left Voice. , , , , ,
Members and friends of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) at the City University of New York (CUNY), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) held a press conference in front of City Hall today to condemn what they are calling “modern-day McCarthyism” in higher education and to demand the rehiring of the Fired 4. The press conference comes one day before CUNY’s chancellor joins top administrators from University of California, Berkeley and Georgetown University to testify in Washington before the House Education and Workforce Committee.

Ex-UN Special Rapporteur: Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize

July 15, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. , , , ,
The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for the third time in less than six months, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine Francesca Albanese for her clear-eyed critiques of Israel’s genocide. In a July 9 press statement, Rubio charged that Albanese “has directly engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of those two countries.”

EPA Workers Investigated For Defending Its Mission

July 11, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. , , ,
After signing a critical letter to their boss, 139 EPA workers were put under investigation and on a 2-week paid administrative leave July 3. The workers wrote to EPA administrator Lee Zeldin that the mission of their agency is being undermined by the Trump administration’s actions and asked Zeldin to back away from “harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise” and re-commit “to his oath to protect the health of the American people and our environment.” Under Zeldin, the EPA is reconsidering bans on asbestos, weakening rules on mercury, and extending deadlines to remove cancer-causing chemicals from drinking water.

US Banana Giant Chiquita Fires Thousands Of Striking Workers

May 24, 2025 Common Dreams, Portside. , , , ,
The U.S.-headquartered banana giant Chiquita said Thursday that it moved to fire thousands of Panamanian workers who walked off the job last month as part of nationwide protests against the right-wing government's unpopular reforms to the nation's pension system. Citing an unnamed source close to Chiquita, Reuters reported that the mass firings are expected to impact around 5,000 of the company's 6,500 Panamanian workers. José Raúl Mulino, Panama's right-wing president, defended the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit, accusing striking workers of unlawful "intransigence." The company estimates that the strike, which began in late April, has cost it at least $75 million.

CAIR Designates Johns Hopkins University As A Hostile Campus

May 20, 2025 Council on American-Islamic Relations. , , , ,
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, designated Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as a Hostile Campus due to the threat to the safety of students who stand against occupation, apartheid, and genocide. While claiming to be committed to free expression and inclusive dialogue, the university has instead responded to peaceful demonstrations with violent repression, administrative retaliation, and collaboration with state and federal authorities that disproportionately target Muslim and Arab students. JHU received a failing score of 48.3 out of 100 in the 2025 College Free Speech Rankings, revealing widespread concerns about its suppression of dissent and disregard for academic freedom.

Arsenal FC Face Legal Action For Firing Staff Over Pro-Palestine Posts

May 17, 2025 Hamsa Yusuf, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Arsenal Football Club is facing legal action after sacking long-serving kit-man Mark Bonnick after he expressed solidarity with Palestine on social media. With assistance from the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC), 61-year-old Bonnick has filed a legal claim for unfair dismissal. A lifelong Arsenal supporter, he had officially worked at the club for 12 years, and an additional 10 years as a contractor, amounting to 22 years of service, before being abruptly sacked on Christmas Eve 2024. His dismissal followed a coordinated online smear campaign by pro-Israel Twitter accounts that accused him of antisemitism for posts opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Mark’s dismissal is part of a wider crackdown on lawful political expression and a disturbing pattern of political purges in the workplace.

Meet Fired Employees Challenging Microsoft’s Complicity In Genocide

May 6, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
Last fall, Microsoft fired software engineer Hossam Nasr and data scientist Abdo Mohamed after they held a vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza outside the company’s headquarters. Nasr and Mohamed are members of No Azure for Apartheid, a group calling on Microsoft to stop providing its cloud computing to the Israeli military. “As technology workers, we are hyper aware of the fact that our work—especially with the advancement of AI and cloud technologies—has the potential to enable any company and any organization to inflict harm and violate human rights,” reads a petition circulated by the organization.

I Was Banned From Nashville Airport For Protesting Uber

April 26, 2025 Monique Mcclain, Labor Notes. , , , ,
On February 14, I joined 50 other Uber and Lyft drivers, all of us members of the Tennessee Drivers Union, in a peaceful caravan at the Nashville airport to protest our low pay and dismal working conditions. Our action, which took place on public property and when our rideshare apps were turned off, coincided with Valentines Day protests by rideshare unions across the country. A few days later, 34 of us received emails and text messages from Uber and Lyft informing us that we were permanently banned from pick-ups at the Nashville airport. The rideshare companies falsely accused us of unlawfully picking up passengers at the arrivals level of the airport.

Defending Rights And Dissent Launches Investigation Into Retaliatory Tactics

April 14, 2025 Defending Rights & Dissent. , , ,
Washington, DC – Defending Rights & Dissent has launched a major new investigative project into the abuse of immigration process to retaliate against critics of Israel’s war in Gaza or supporters of the Palestinian people. As part of this project, the free expression organization has filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests with the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice, requesting documents on the “Catch and Revoke” initiative and the agencies’ communications with private McCarthyite blacklisting organizations and the Government of Israel.

Make The World Scared Again: US Threatens United Nations Agencies

March 21, 2025 Daniel Warner, Counter Punch. , , , ,
“Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” was the key question at the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings during the 1950s McCarthy era. At the height of the anti-Soviet/Communist fear, HUAC cost thousands of people their jobs and created a powerful chill to freedom of speech and association. A similar chill with global consequences has now come to 2000 U.N. agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive U.S. funding. An Office of Management and Budget questionnaire asks them to describe with whom and how they do business. It has created stupor and confusion here in Geneva as they ponder how to reply.

How Miami Beach Became A Lab For Pro-Israel Censorship Laws

March 18, 2025 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. , , , ,
Despite winning an Oscar, the Israeli-Palestinian-made film No Other Land cannot be found on any streaming platforms in the United States, making independent cinemas the only places to view it. However, in Miami Beach, even featuring the film will get you labeled an antisemite and kicked out of the city. Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner, who is Jewish and has deep personal and political ties to Israel, stirred controversy last week for seeking to shut down an independent art house cinema over its showing of the “No Other Land” documentary after attempting to pressure organizers to cancel a planned screening. Meiner claims that the film is antisemitic and a “propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents.”

Lyft, Uber Drivers Banned From Tennessee Airport

March 4, 2025 Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. , , , , , ,
A Tennessee union announced Monday that 34 Uber and Lyft drivers received messages "informing them that they had been permanently banned" from working at Nashville's airport after joining scores of workers for a peaceful caravan there last month to support a state bill that would impact the companies. The Tennessee Drivers Union (TDU) said in a statement that some participants, "including those in the passenger's seat not driving," were banned from providing rides at Nashville International Airport following the February 14 action, during which "participating Uber and Lyft drivers had their apps turned off."

USDA Inspector General Who Refused To Leave Post Escorted From Office

January 31, 2025 AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo. , , , , , ,
Last Friday, President Donald Trump purged several agencies of their inspectors general, demanding that at least 17 people in the role immediately turn in their work laptops and ID badges. One of those IGs, Phyllis Fong at the US Department of Agriculture, decided not to leave, believing the order to be illegal. According to a report from Reuters, she was escorted from the building today by security. Fong is a 22-year veteran of the inspector general office with the USDA. And while that multi-decade career is probably in part why the Trump administration axed her (something something swamp, something something career bureaucrat, etc.), she also likely carried among the most institutional knowledge of IG operations in the federal government.
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