(2025-12-17). FIA stops passenger at Islamabad airport over fake work visa. tribune.com.pk 
The Immigration Unit of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) stopped a passenger from boarding a flight at Islamabad International Airport on Tuesday. The passenger was attempting to travel abroad on fake travel documents, was offloaded. | He has been identified as Abrar Ahmed, a Jhelum resident, who was travelling to South Africa on a work visa via flight PF-784. | During immigration clearance, his documents were found to be suspicious. Officials discovered that a fake South African visa had been affixed to his passport. Further details on how he obtained it remain unclear. | The passenger was subsequently…
(2025-12-17). Seven Kenyan nationals arrested for working illegally in SA. sanews.gov.za Seven Kenyan nationals arrested for working illegally in SA | Seven Kenyan nationals were arrested for allegedly working at a centre, despite entering the country on a tourist visa. | They were arrested after the Department of Home Affairs, in collaboration with other arms of law enforcement, executed a routine, lawful operation in Johannesburg, targeted at suspected violations of South African immigration law. | The operation followed after intelligence reports indicated that a number of Kenyan nationals had recently entered South Africa on tourist visas and had illegally taken up work at a centre that processes…
(2025-12-17). Inside Chicago's Neighborhood ICE Resistance. popularresistance.org Lucy says she starts early because ICE starts early. It's around eight o'clock one Thursday morning in late October, at a coffee shop in Back of the Yards, a neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side. Taped inside the shop's glass door, a sign warns ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant. (The agents very rarely bother to get one.) More signs surround it: "Hands Off Chicago"; "Migra: Fuera de Chicago"; the phone number to report ICE activity. (These are all over town.) Free whistles sit at the register. Lucy buys a black coffee from the barista and joins me at a table, checking her phone for messages about po…
(2025-12-17). Headlines for December 17, 2025. democracynow.org Trump Orders Blockade on Sanctioned Oil Tankers Entering and Leaving Venezuela, ICC Rejects Israel's Bid to Block War Crimes Probe in Gaza, First Funerals Held Today for Victims of Bondi Beach Massacre, Manhunt Still Underway for Brown University Shooting Suspect, MIT Professor Fatally Shot in His Home, Trump's Chief of Staff Wiles Says He Has an "Alcoholic's Personality" in Explosive Vanity Fair Interview, Speaker Johnson Says He Will Not Call for a Vote to Extend Healthcare Subsidies, Trump Expands Travel Ban to 20 More Countries, NYT: Trump Admin Transfers 22 Cuban Immigrants to G…
(2025-12-17). Save Our Forests, One Roll at a Time. otherwords.org North America's boreal forests are crucial for wildlife and the climate, but we're literally trashing them to make pulp for toilet paper and other disposable paper products. Companies are clear-cutting a million acres a year, according to a The northern boreal forests are Earth's largest terrestrial biome. They're the breeding grounds for 3-5 billion migrating birds that populate our backyards. And they're a key carbon sin…
(2025-12-17). Faced with Trump's deportation push, US teachers fear leaving the classroom. aljazeera.com The US has increasingly looked abroad to fill teaching shortages. But some educators fear uncertainty under Trump.
(2025-12-17). US activists illegally detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank resist their deportation. peoplesdispatch.org Organizations in the United States have launched a campaign demanding urgent action by the government for the release of the two US citizens, Irene Cho and Trudi Frost, from their illegal detention by Israeli forces.
(2025-12-17). LIVE UPDATES: Zarah Sultana rushes to HMP Bronzefield for dying hunger striker. thecanary.co 
UPDATE: at 5pm, police looked like they were preparing to impose a Section 14, which could lead to arrests and kettling. UPDATE: at 4: 15pm, protesters were blocking the road, calling for the doctor to be de-arrested. Zarah Sultana was still on site negotiating with the police. UPDATE: at 3: 30pm as protesters were leaving, police arrested […] | By
(2025-12-17). UK police threaten arrests over 'globalise the intifada' chant. newarab.com 
British police forces have warned they will arrest protesters who display placards or chant slogans such as " "We know communities are concerned about placards and chants such as 'globalise the intifada', and those using it at future protests or in a targeted way should expect the Met and GMP to take action," the police said. | "Violent acts have taken place; the context ha…
(2025-12-17). Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer fans petition top court over police ban on anti-police, anti-nationalism shirts. haaretz.com The Association for Civil Rights and Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters say the Israel Police lack authority to bar fans over protest shirts, arguing the policy violates freedom of expression, and urged the High Court to hear the case before the next match, when thousands are expected to wear them…
(2025-12-17). Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran. juancole.com — | Letter to the University of Arkansas regarding the removal of Professor Shirin Saeidi as director of the King Fahd Center : | President Jay B. Silveria | The University of Arkansas | chancell@uark.edu | Dear President Silveria, Chancellor Robinson and Dean Raines: | We write…
(2025-12-17). Iran summons Cyprus ambassador over interventionist stance. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) — Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Cypriot ambassador in Tehran to protest the interventionist position regarding Iran's territorial integrity.
(2025-12-17). Drapetomaniac Music: The Soundtrack To Black Liberation. newsone.com 
Source: Organic Media / Getty | Protest music has been omnipresent in the Black American psyche, ever since this land was reconfigured in the image of white colonization, and they nearly eradicated Indigenous peoples while subjugating Africans and their descendants to chattel. Our subordination has never equated to the severing of melodies linking us beyond time, borders, and language. | Music is the electrical current igniting our collective heartbeat, the drawstring that envelopes us within the intimate interiority of our world, a space even social media cannot manufacture for outsiders, though it tries. Our…
(2025-12-17). Palestine Action prisoners near death as hunger strike drags on. newarab.com 
Family members of six Palestine Action prisoners on The activists are refusing food in protest at prolonged pre trial detention, sweeping counter terrorism charges, and what they describe as Britain's complicity in Is…
(2025-12-17). Freedom Fighting 101: We Protested. We Voted. Now What? newsone.com 