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“The emergency exits are always blocked. We have over 100 pallets stacked the whole length of the warehouse—blocking all the fire exits. If there was a fire, we would not all be able to get out.” -Sersie Cobb Jr, Ryder System worker in South Carolina / credit: Union of Southern Service Workers / Twitter

News Dispatches from the Americas: Argentina & Brazil Rejoin UNASUR, Beating Inflation and U.S. Worker Injuries

Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service April 12, 2023 Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service

Argentina and Brazil have re-joined the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), a regional integration organization founded in May 2008. Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) hosted a virtual summit for Latin American and Caribbean countries to discuss a solution to inflation across the region. The Union of Southern Service Workers held a one-day strike across Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina to protest U.S. southern workers being disproportionately injured on the job. Dispatches by Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service.

U.S. forces host a range day with the Danab Brigade in Somalia, May 9, 2021 / credit: U.S. Air Force

AFRICOM: Securing African or U.S. Interests?

African Stream April 7, 2023 African Stream

The United States Africa Command—or AFRICOM—was founded in 2007. But it’s failed to bring peace and security. Major failures in Somalia, Libya and elsewhere have left many Africans suspecting it exists only to serve U.S. interests. African Stream reports.

India Makes Way for G20 Summit By Displacing Homeless People

Parva Dubey March 31, 2023 Parva Dubey

Activists and the affected said current demolitions are part of preparations for the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit that the capital city of New Delhi is preparing to host in September. Past G20 summits had been met with protests from both anti-globalization movements and groups opposing the displacement of society’s poorest to make way for a summit venue. Parva Dubey reports from Delhi.

Remembering Randall Robinson: Black internationalist, anti-imperialist and friend of Haiti

INTERVIEW: Randall Robinson, Third World Advocate

The Black Agenda Review Editors March 29, 2023 The Black Agenda Review Editors

On March 24, Randall Robinson died at the age of 81. Robinson became a household name after the U.S.-based organization he founded in 1977, TransAfrica, spearheaded public protests against South African apartheid in front of the South African embassies in the early 1980s, helping to give voice to the international anti-apartheid movement. Black Agenda Review editors reprinted in Black Agenda Report a National Leader interview with Robinson.

The Armenian Quarter in occupied East Jerusalem, where attacks by Jewish extremists have occurred / credit: Jessica Buxbaum

Jerusalem’s Christians Attribute Rise in Violence to Israel’s New Government

Jessica Buxbaum March 17, 2023 Jessica Buxbaum

Violence against Christians isn’t a new phenomenon in Jerusalem. But since Israel’s most far-right government in its history has taken over, the problem has significantly swelled. Jessica Buxbaum reports from East Jerusalem.

Africa’s Forgotten War in Mozambique

African Stream March 13, 2023 African Stream

Mozambique's civil war has seen 24 countries send in troops to protect the resource-rich north. But while insurgents have been beaten back and gas fields secured, the local population faces a humanitarian disaster. African Stream takes a look at Africa's forgotten war.