2025-08-31: Immigration Roundup

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aljazeera (2025-08-31). Clashes break out at anti-immigration protest in Australia. aljazeera.com Police in Australia used pepper spray as clashes broke out between anti-immigration demonstrators & counter-protesters.

newarab (2025-08-31). Chicago mayor defies Trump's immigration crackdown plans. newarab.com

LVP (2025-08-31). Standing for Immigrant Workers, ICE, Police, Sheriff & Billionaire SF Mayor Lurie. indybay.org Regular solidarity actions are taking place to defend immigrants seized by ICE in San Francisco. A speaker talked about their actions.

newarab (2025-08-31). Three arrested after appeals court ruling on UK migrant hotel. newarab.com

Phil Pasquini (2025-08-31). Labor Day Solidarity Season Opens in DC. indybay.org Kicking off Labor Day weekend on August 28, the "Solidarity Season Rally and March" organized by the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO demonstrated the importance of workers by reminding everyone that "Workers make DC run and deserve better than mass firings, union busting, deportations, and occupation." They demonstrated their "…support for Federal workers and labor rights, our opposition to union-busting" by highlighting "working-class solidarity over the billionaire ruling class."

aljazeera (2025-08-31). US judge blocks government from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan minors. aljazeera.com District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan's emergency order follows a legal complaint brought on behalf of 10 children.

APR editor (2025-08-31). West Papuan civil society groups protest over brutal security forces crackdown 17 arrests. asiapacificreport.nz Asia Pacific Report West Papuan civil society and solidarity networks are calling for urgent action over a brutal Indonesian security forces crackdown that has led to a wave of arrests and political repression. Protests erupted in Sorong, in the western part of the Melanesian territory, on Wednesday over the transfer of 4 political prisoners out…

Dan Bacher (2025-08-31). Over 100 Sacramento Jews protest Senator Alex Padilla as part of actions against genocide in Gaza. indybay.org The group said the Israeli military is starving the people of Gaza through a five month total blockade on food, water and medicine, while the Israeli government has announced a plan to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a concentration camp.

newarab (2025-08-31). Recognising Problems in Israel. newarab.com This week on The New Arab Voice podcast, we look at the recent decision by Western nations to recognise the State of Palestine. | It came as a surprise to many, although it remains to be seen what it actual means for Palestinians. Either way, it angered Israel. And as Western states were announcing to recognise a Palestinian state, Israel was planning a major new offensive in Gaza, and Israeli citizens were on the streets protesting against the Netanyahu government. | This week, what's Israel doing in Gaza, and why are some Israeli citizens protesting the move? What does the recognition of a state of Palestine…

aljazeera (2025-08-31). Indonesia protesters clash with riot police as tensions soar. aljazeera.com Deadly protests erupt across Indonesia after police vehicle kills motorcycle taxi driver, causing public outrage.

aljazeera (2025-08-31). Week in Pictures: From missile strikes in Kyiv to Indonesia protests. aljazeera.com

aljazeera (2025-08-31). Indonesia's Prabowo scraps China trip over protests, TikTok halts live feed. aljazeera.com Protests spreading across the country force president to call off his travel plans, and TikTok to halt live broadcasts.

newarab (2025-08-31). Microsoft fires staff for protesting company's ties to Israel. newarab.com Tech giant Two of the protesters had taken part in a sit-in at the company's president's office. | According to reports citing the protest group No Azure for Apartheid, both Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli received voicemails from the company informing them that they had been fired.

newarab (2025-08-31). Thousands protest Israel's war on Gaza near Venice Film Festival. newarab.com Thousands protested Saturday against Israel's siege of Organised by left-wing political groups in northeast

aljazeera (2025-08-31). Indonesia protesters light fires as anger flares against police and gov't. aljazeera.com Protesters in Indonesia have lit fires as outrage over police brutality and economic inequality grows.

Direct Action Everywhere (2025-08-31). Nautical Protest to Trade Poultry Policy. indybay.org Activists use Trader Joe's nautical theme to urge the company to follow its moral compass and steer away from Perdue's Petaluma Poultry. "Perdue" morphed into "Perdon't."

Miacel Spotted Elk (2025-08-30). Miccosukee Tribe Won a Battle Against Alligator Alcatraz, But the War Isn't Over. truthout.org The Miccosukee Tribe makes its home in the Florida Everglades, where a tribal village sits only a few miles from the federal immigration detention center called "Alligator Alcatraz." Residents for weeks have lived with vehicles coming and going around the clock, stadium lights illuminating the once dark nighttime sky, and the facility restricting access to the game they rely on for food. |

JANET (2025-08-30). Trump's Venezuela drug war gambit and the militarization playbook at home. iacenter.org August 29, 2025 Solidarity activist Michelle Ellner takes stock of the Trump administration's escalating rhetoric, militarization and migrant crackdown. This article first appeared in venezuelanalysis.com on Aug. 17, 2025. By Michelle Ellner President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the Pentagon to carry out military operations against what his administration calls "narco-terrorist" networks in Latin America. On paper, it's a counter-narcotics policy. In practice, it serves as a green light for open-ended U.S. military action abroad, bypassing congressional approval, sidestepping international law and stretch…

Staff (2025-08-30). Venezuela Repatriates Over 500 Migrants From US Amid Tensions. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( The most recent flight, number 63 from the United States,

Marc Delucchi, Sophie Shepherd, Counter Punch. (2025-08-30). Essentials For Fighting ICE. popularresistance.org Since Donald Trump' s inauguration, ICE has ramped up aggressive attempts to abduct and deport community members across the country. ICE's tactics and strategies aren't new. It's important to remember that every president (yes, even Barack Obama & Joe Biden) and congress has increased ICE's budget since its creation in 2003. ICE threatening more and more people has always been a logical conclusion of its existence. ICE must be abolished. | Trump's current "Border Czar" Tom Homan (a West Carthage, New York native who began his career as a West Carthage Police Officer) was first appointed to an executive direc…

JANET (2025-08-30). Workers' intifada against Microsoft. iacenter.org By Jim McMahan August 28, 2025 As the United Nations' world food crisis authority finally declared a famine in Gaza, direct action demonstrators protested war profiteer Microsoft, whose technology is used to aid the U.S./Israeli war, which is committing genocide in Gaza. No Azure for Apartheid demonstration on Microsoft's campus in Redwood, Washington, Aug. 20, 2025. Photo Credit: No Azure for Apartheid After months of protests in Seattle, on Aug. 20 and 21 worker-led activists took the struggle to Microsoft's vast campus in Redmond, Washington, where No Azure for Apartheid and Bilyad Seattle exposed Microsoft's…

____ (2025-08-30). I Agree That He Was Always A Fraud … smoothiex12.blogspot.com albeit Born in the USA should it have been written from the moral and civic position of such people like Roger Waters it would have been a great protest song but it wouldn't be "anti-American", unless this Lewis guy wants to believe that the US went to Vietnam to do humanitarian work and not "to go and kill a yellow man". If Aaron doesn't understand that the US killed millions of Vietnamese civilians and that the US, certainly, deserved this "anti-American" song ⚪ he should have his head examined. But then again ⚪ explaining to people like Lewis what war crimes and crimes against humanity are will be exercise…

SKWAWKBOX (2025-08-30). Irish ambassador lodges complaint with Germany after Berlin police batter Gaza genocide protester. skwawkbox.org Indomitable Kitty O'Brien smiles to supporters as police thugs drag her away despite bleeding face and broken arm The habitual thuggery of Berlin police toward anti-genocide protesters has been on show again in the brutal beating of well-known Irish activist Kitty O'Brien, punched repeatedly in the face and breaking her arm despite her posing no …

JANET (2025-08-30). Taiwan's residents reject being Washington's proxy in its war against Socialist China. iacenter.org By Chris Fry August 23, 2025 The Pentagon's war plans against the People's Republic of China (PRC) have hit a snag. On July 27, Taiwan's residents voted to reject the ruling secessionist Democratic Peoples Party's (DPP) bid to recall 24 opposition Kuomintang (KMT) legislators. The KMT, just as pro-capitalist as the DPP, nevertheless favors continuing dialogue and improved relations with the PRC. Protest in Taiwan. And it agrees with the "one China policy" accepted by the vast majority of nations around the world. Its leaders have traveled to mainland China to hold trade and cultural talks with the PRC leadership,…

JANET (2025-08-30). Philadelphia: Press conference targets Zionist CBS. iacenter.org August 26, 2025 Activists protesting the Israeli military's killing of nearly 270 journalists in Palestine and Gaza over the past two years, including the Aug. 10 intentional assassination of Anas al-Sharif and several other journalists and photographers working for Al-Jazeera, held a press conference and rally outside the offices of CBS broadcasting in Philadelphia on Aug. 21. Press conference targets CBS for its support of Israeli genocide. Philadelphia, Aug. 21, 2025. (Photo: Joe Piette) Speakers targeted corporate media giant CBS because of its recent purchase by Larry Ellison, son of David Ellison, the secon…

Ofri Ilany (2025-08-31). Israelis protesting annihilation are fighting for the survival of liberal democracy. haaretz.com The war crimes in Gaza are taking place in the name of democracy, with very little opposition…

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