(2025-11-15). ICE Is Collecting More Data, Aims to Outsource Judgment to Private Contractors. truthout.org When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has published a request for information for private-sector contractors to launch a round-the-clock social media monitoring program. The request states that private contractors will be paid to… |
(2025-11-15). Could Chile be on the verge of a political shift in its 2025 election? aljazeera.com Chile's right wing is seeking to capitalise on concern over crime and immigration in its bid to replace Gabriel Boric.
(2025-11-15). Racial Profiling Is ICE's New Norm. Activists Are Mobilizing in Response. truthout.org When the Supreme Court overturned a temporary restraining order in September that kept U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from questioning and detaining people based on their language, skin color, or occupation — effectively clearing the way for racial profiling — Guadalupe Cardona was not surprised. Cardona is a member of Unión del Barrio, a national organization that… |
(2025-11-15). Stop Trump's deportation flight of Ukrainian immigrants into forced conscription! wsws.org The Trump administration plans Monday to deport 83 people to Ukraine—first mass deportation to the country in years—where they face immediate conscription and deployment to the front.
(2025-11-15). President Maduro Condemns Suspension of TPS for Venezuelan Migrants in the US (+Communes Youth Committees). orinocotribune.com Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemned the United States government's suspension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan migrants in the US. | "During the toughest years—2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020—false promises lured young people north. In the North, they are now being persecuted, subdued, beaten, handcuffed, disappeared, tortured, and then kicked out of the United States. Right now, over 300,000 Venezuelans have been stripped of their TPS, 150,000 of them young people," President Maduro said at a meeting with members of the Commune Youth Committees held in Ezequiel Zamora Park in C…
(2025-11-15). Bulgaria: Joint appeal for international protection for Saudi human rights defender detained for over four years. fidh.org We, the undersigned civil society organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, are gravely concerned by the imminent threat to Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman AlBakr al-Khalidi of deportation after over four years in detention from Bulgaria to Saudi Arabia, where he would be at real risk of serious human rights (…) | – |
(2025-11-15). Iranian Activist Released After Nearly Three Years in ICE Detention. indybay.org Melika Olya fled Iran after facing persecution for protesting mandatory hijab laws, only to be locked up by ICE…
(2025-11-15). Tanzania: From Nyerere's Ujamaa to President Hassan's Authoritarianism. uwidata.com By Beto Cremonte* — Amid sustained economic growth and a discourse of modernization, Tanzania faces its darkest hour since independence. Youth protests, state repression, and external interests raise a larger question: are we witnessing a popular uprising or the beginning of a new color revolution? In Africa, we are witnessing a wave of sovereignist uprisings, …
(2025-11-15). Noboa Cracks Down On Protests While Pushing Rewrite Of Constitution. popularresistance.org In mid-September, President Daniel Noboa announced the removal of Ecuador's long-standing diesel subsidies. The decision — an unpopular measure that, when previously attempted in 2019 and 2022, sparked Indigenous-led protests that nearly toppled two governments — once again triggered mass demonstrations and a national strike, though this time on a more limited scale. The Noboa administration responded with violent repression, resulting in widespread human rights violations, the deaths of three protesters, and hundreds of arrests and injuries.
(2025-11-15). LHC Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza resigns in protest over 27th Constitutional Amendment. tribune.com.pk 
In a significant development for the country's judicial landscape, Lahore High Court Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza has tendered his resignation, reportedly in protest following the passage of the 27th Constitutional Amendment. | According to reports, Justice Mirza has sent his resignation to the President of Pakistan and has vacated his chamber at the High Court. | His departure marks the first high-profile judicial resignation reportedly linked to the controversial constitutional amendment, which has sparked debate across legal and political circles. | Justice Mirza's resignation comes amid expectations that he…
(2025-11-15). Israel to appoint 2026 public health services committee after weeks-long delay over absence of minister. haaretz.com After the previous health minister resigned in protest of the failure to pass the Haredi draft exemption bill, public health organizations pressured the government to expedite the committee's appointment, which could delay patient access to drugs and medical treatments in 2026…
(2025-11-15). Monday 11/17: No Monarchs Monday: Protest at Tesla in San Francisco. indybay.org At the Tesla Dealership, 999 Van Ness (corner of Van Ness and O'Farrell), San Francisco…
(2025-11-15). Thousands protest across Israel calling for Oct. 7 comission of inquiry, release of all slain hostages. haaretz.com Demonstrations across Israel have brought former police and judicial leaders, ex-hostages and bereaved families to stages in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Kiryat Gat, as organizers press for a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 failures and renewed action on the return of hostages' bodies…
(2025-11-15). Jacobin calls for union leaders, Democrats to pressure Trump, Republicans. wsws.org Without a trace of a class analysis and employing the most banal tropes of protest politics, Jacobin seeks to channel the growing revolt of workers and youth against dictatorship, war, genocide and inequality and their interest in socialism back behind the Democratic Party.
(2025-11-15). Indigenous protesters disrupt UN climate summit again. tribune.com.pk 
Dozens of Indigenous demonstrators blocked the entrance to the UN climate summit in Brazil on Friday in a plea for the world to pay attention to their plight in the Amazon. | Around sixty men and women in traditional garb and headdresses, some carrying babies, formed a human barricade at the main entrance as tens of thousands of delegates were arriving. | Beneath a blazing sun, the group demanded a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and stood their ground as diplomats were ushered through side doors into the venue. | It was the second time this week that Indigenous protesters have disru…
(2025-11-15). Premier Tech cycling team readies for rebrand away from Israel after international boycott over Gaza war. haaretz.com The team will drop its Israeli identity following a series of pro-Palestinian protests at races and the team's removal from a race in Italy. Six riders have since parted ways with the team…
(2025-11-15). Santa Cruz Starbucks Workers Picket at Mission Street Store as Nationwide Strike Begins. indybay.org On November 13, Starbucks workers from multiple stores in the Santa Cruz area held a rally and picket at the Mission Street location to begin a nationwide unfair labor practice strike launched by over one thousand baristas who are union members with Starbucks Workers United (SBWU). Workers are protesting what they call Starbucks' "historic union busting," as well as the company's failure to finalize a fair union contract. They are demanding better staffing, higher pay, and the resolution of, "hundreds of unfair labor practice charges," according to a press release issued by SBWU. There is no end-date to the…