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BREAKING: Leqaa Kordia was released Monday from the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she had been held since her arrest in Newark, New Jersey on March 13, 2025. The Department of Homeland Security had blocked two previous court orders that she be freed, using appeals and employing “automatic stays” to extend her detention. A judge ruled Friday — exactly one year after her detention by DHS during a routine immigration check-in — that Kordia posed “no risk,” reiterating the two previous court orders. Kordia has been in poor health and was hospitalized for three days in February with a head injury, and her family says they were “stonewalled” by ICE agents who refused to provide them information about her condition or whereabouts after that incident. The 33-year-old New Jersey woman was targeted by immigration officials after she participated in pro-Palestine demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024. She is the last to be released of several student activists similarly detained by ICE, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk. Khalil is still fighting deportation efforts from the Trump administration.

‼️TOMORROW 6PM • Join us tomorrow Wednesday, March 18, for ab in-person conversation with director Annemarie Jacir and Jehad Abu Salim on bringing the 1936–39 Palestinian Revolution to the screen—and why political and cultural storytelling matters now more than ever. This event marks the fourth and final session of Palestine 36 in Context, a four-part series exploring the roots of the Palestinian revolutionary struggle. 📍 The People's Forum (NYC) + Zoom
🕕 6:00 PM ET / 3:00 PM PT Register here: pcpalestine.org/p36-reg

Trump's fuel blockade of Cuba is not abstract, it is strangulation before our very own eyes. No oil has entered Cuba since December 3rd. The weight of this genocidal siege is now felt in every home, every hospital where patients wait to get dialysis, every darkened street. Cuba is being pushed beyond the edge at this point. Still, people refuse the Trump deal. Again and again, Cubans, especially Black Cubans, tell me: surrender to Washington means a return to bondage. They remember. When U.S. corporations and the mafia owned the land, the mines, the hotels, electricity itself. That was no freedom. That was slavery under another name: neo-colonialism. Yes, there is exhaustion, most Cubans now walk several miles every day whether to get to work or get food. But there is also defiance, fierce and unyielding. They are not only defending a piece of land or territory. They are defending the very idea of a people who decide their own future. The world needs their courage. Because what Trump is unleashing in Gaza, in Iran, in Cuba, it is the same war machine. And it must be stopped.

This month, we’re going to Cuba with 40 young organizers! Our delegation of young people will meet, exchange, and stand together with Cuban youth — building bonds of solidarity at a moment when the Cuban people face the full force and brutality of the U.S. blockade. Along with other delegations of people from around the world part of the Nuestra America Convoy, we will deliver humanitarian aid to the Cuban people and reaffirm that a blockade will never sever the ties between peoples who share a common struggle for dignity and justice. This brigade is part of a broader wave of solidarity — one that has moved over 3k people to donate more than $500,000 to send solar generators & panels to Cuban hospitals.

💥TOOLKIT NOW AVAILABLE: Build the U.S. anti-war movement! 🔗ANSWERCoalition.org/Iran Every major war the U.S. has been forced to end was stopped not by the conscience of politicians, but by sustained pressure from ordinary people who refused to accept the killing done in their name. That same pressure must be built now — in our neighborhoods, our workplaces, and our schools — to expose the war on Iran that Trump wages in our name for what it is: an illegal act of aggression to enrich oil executives and weapons manufacturers while everyday people in the U.S. and across the Middle East pay the price. Our new and dynamic public outreach toolkit provides critical resources to talk to friends, family and community members about what's really at stake. Find downloadable posters, social media graphics, educational materials and more. It’s time to build a massive anti-war movement in the U.S. ➡️ ANSWERCoalition.org/Iran

need a profile on the guy at NYT whose job it is to come up with words other than "invaded" for when Israel invades Lebanon.

In 1953 the CIA secretly organized a coup to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran. This was the CIA's first regime change operation — code-named “Operation Ajax” — becoming the playbook for later CIA operations. Under U.S.-backed rule, SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, heavily surveilled and imprisoned political opponents. SAVAK operated their own detention centers, and their methods of torture were systematic and extreme.

I landed in Havana today. Trump’s fuel blockade is choking the life out of this city. Havana is near silent, empty streets, empty markets. Not because there’s no food, but because farmers can’t get fuel to deliver it. Trump is trying to starve 11 million people into submission. This is a crime against humanity, unfolding in plain sight. Night falls and the city struggles to keep lights on, in total defiance after 66 years of economic war. The world must stop looking away. Let Cuba live!

“To all those who are not yet deployed: Now is the time to resist.” At a Chicago rally on Saturday, veteran Daniel Lakemacher urges U.S. soldiers to “refuse this illegal and immoral war” on Iran. The rally was part of a “Stop the War on Iran!” national day of action. The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has so far reportedly killed over 1,300 Iranian civilians.

I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom the were going “boots on the ground” tonight.

Thousands in Minab, Iran attended the funeral for the 175 children and staff killed in Saturday’s U.S.-Israeli strike on a girls’ primary school.

US regime change operations in Iran are nothing new. In 1953 the CIA orchestrated a coup against the democratically elected leader Mohammad Mosaddegh. @BrianBeckerDC and @layansima take a deep dive into 'Operation Ajax.' 🎧LISTEN: linktr.ee/TheSocialistPr…

NYC MONDAY: STOP THE WAR ON IRAN! As the Trump administration and Israel continues its unprovoked, illegal war on Iran, people continue to take the streets to express the majority sentiment in this country: we reject another endless war! 5PM: Protest at Columbus Circle 7PM: Volunteer Meeting at The People’s Forum

MONDAY IN NYC: STOP THE WAR ON IRAN! The Trump administration, along with Israel has launched an unprovoked, illegal war on Iran. Immediately, people hit the streets to express the majority sentiment in this country: we reject another endless war! Continue the anti-war outpouring this Monday as part of a coordinated day of action! 📆Monday, March 2 ⏰5 PM 📍Columbus Circle After join us at The People’s Forum at 7 PM for our volunteer meeting where we will get organized and ready for the next steps!

Protests in New York City against the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

🪧 HAPPENING NOW: Protesters take to the streets in New York City in an urgent response to the Trump administration’s military action against Iran. The people know that this unprovoked act of war by the U.S. and Israel and demand No War on Iran, fund people’s needs, not war!

NO WAR ON IRAN! Thousands are in the streets of New York City to reject Trump's illegal war!

All crossings into and out of Gaza have been closed until further notice. Israel is absolute evil.

🔴 LIVE TODAY 11:30am ET The US and Israel have struck Iran, pushing the region toward full-scale war and risking a catastrophic global conflict. Join @RaniaKhalek and special guests for urgent analysis on the latest developments and what comes next. ➡️youtube.com/live/Vkxk0PUz-…

BREAKING: 51 Iranian children killed, 60 students wounded after joint US-Israel strikes hit girls' school in Iran.