The billionaires are consolidating their media. Now so are we. With corporate control over almost everything we read, watch, and listen to, independent voices are outgunned, censored, and divided. Six years ago, BT set out to change that. Now we’re taking the next big step, in the spirit of uniting and taking power back. We’re teaming up with @peoplesdispatch to bring you MORE original on-the-ground reporting, MORE breaking news, and MORE cutting in-depth analysis. ➡️ Join the NEW and EXPANDED BreakThrough News and get exclusives updates straight to your inbox. 🔗breakthroughnews.org/subscri… We don’t answer to Wall Street. We answer to you.

Support Independent Media! Congratulations to our friends at BreakThrough News and Peoples Dispatch on their next chapter—teaming up to bring independent journalism from around the world to the people. Billionaires control over 90% of all the media we consume. BreakThrough News and Peoples Dispatch are seeking to challenge that. Together, they've teamed up to create a single, unified text and video outlet to bring real stories on the most urgent issues of our times. ➡️Read the entire editorial at @BTnewsroom @peoplesdispatch

🚨PSL Statement: The announced indictment of Raúl Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and former President of the Republic of Cuba, by the United States Department of Justice is a brazen act of injustice and a transparent pretext for escalating aggression against a sovereign nation. This indictment is not an act of justice; it is another provocation designed to manufacture consent for another war by the Trump administration. Read the full article on Liberation News ➡️ liberationnews.org/psl-state…

Tomorrow is our next class in the series The Artist Must Take Sides: Culture & The Movement Past, Present & Future - it’s not too late to sign up! Join now at peoplesforum.org/takesides. This fourth class with Manolo De Los Santos will examine how the ruling class has produced, policed, and controlled art and culture to maintain power, and repressed those who dared to step outside of their vision. We will raise key questions: What does it truly mean for an artist to choose a side? What are the consequences of that choice? And how does the US ruling class respond when culture steps outside the limits set for it, and how have artists fought back? We will ground these questions in both historical and contemporary examples in the U.S. and abroad, examining culture not only as a tool of repression but also as evidence of the courage and boldness of artists who have dared to resist. Join us! 🗓️ Tuesday, May 12 💻 📍 HYBRID! Everyone from all locations, backgrounds, and identities are welcome to register! Participate in-person in New York at The People’s Forum, or virtually from anywhere in the world. ✅ Register now at peoplesforum.org/takesides

WOW! The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out. They are doubling down on building bridges between Americans & Iranians while depicting the US gov and "system" as the real enemy. The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.

Today, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in dozens of cities across the U.S. for International Workers’ Day, which commemorates the struggle waged by workers in Chicago in 1886 for an 8-hour workday. May Day is officially recognized as a holiday in almost all countries across the world, except the United States. In recent years, the labor movement, the immigrant rights movement, environmental groups, and progressive and left groups have organized to make May Day a day of struggle against the billionaire agenda and for the protection of the rights of workers, immigrants, and other oppressed groups.

🔴 The Israeli Navy has seized several ships from @gbsumudflotilla , and some of the ships will be towed to the port of Ashdod. 🔴 The IOF is now enforcing a naval blockade on Gaza, acting on instructions from the political leadership. 🔴 This completes Netanyahu's criminal record of obstructing even aid efforts to enter Gaza by sea.

استشهدت مراسلة الأخبار في جنوب لبنان الزميلة آمال خليل بعد ملاحقة طائرات جيش العدو لها، واستهدافها بعدد من الغارات التي أصابت سيارتها أولاً، ثم البيت الذي لجأت إليه، في استهداف واضح للصحافة والصحافيين في لبنان.

💢 “This was a blatant murder… a targeted assassination” — Journalist Courtney Bonneau on killing of her friend and journalist Amal Khalil in southern Lebanon. Amal Khalil, the veteran Al-Akhbar newspaper correspondent, was killed after an Israeli strike hit the village of al-Tiri, leaving her trapped beneath the rubble as rescue efforts were repeatedly blocked by ongoing Israeli attacks. Zeinab Faraj, a freelance photojournalist also working with the paper, was seriously wounded and evacuated to a hospital under Israeli fire. Efforts to reach Khalil were impeded by continued strikes and direct fire, with a senior Lebanese army official telling Reuters that an Israeli drone dropped a grenade on rescue workers, while a Red Cross vehicle also came under fire.

BREAKING: Police arrest former U.S. service members and military families as they occupy the U.S. Capitol in protest of Trump’s war on Iran on Monday. The protestors are holding red tulips to honor the Iranians killed by the war.

NYC EMERGENCY PROTEST: ALL OUT FOR LEBANON, GAZA, IRAN 🗓️ TODAY, April 8 — 6 PM 📍Times Square Earlier this morning, Israel unleashed a wave of terror on the people of Lebanon, striking hundreds of residential neighborhoods all over the country, injuring and martyring more than 500 people in just 10 minutes. These attacks come right after the announcement of a preliminary ceasefire to the US and Israel’s illegal genocidal war on Iran and the region which has left thousands martyred and over 1 million Lebanese displaced. Israel cannot be reigned in. It is a rogue terrorist state that will undermine every ceasefire until an arms embargo is reached and until Palestine and the entire region is free. END US - ISRAELI TERROR. See you in the streets.

Thousands of Syrians took to the streets on Wednesday to protest a recently passed Israeli law that authorizes the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners. Protesters condemned the Israeli legislation and expressed solidarity with Palestinian detainees as well as the people of Gaza. The Israeli Knesset approved the law on Monday, which stipulates that executions would be carried out by hanging, overseen by guards appointed by the Israeli Prison Service. The identities of those guards would remain secret, and they would be shielded from legal accountability.

"Homeland or death, we will win!" TODAY: Riding bicycles, scooters and electric bikes, thousands of Cubans took part in an anti-imperialist rally in Havana, in a show of unity against Trump’s attacks on the island. The rally was organized by the Union of Young Communists to commemorate the 64th anniversary of its founding. 🎥 @ldejesusreyes

🖌️📚NEW CLASS ALERT—The Artist Must Take Sides: Culture & the Movement Past, Present, & Future—STARTS APRIL 21. REGISTER AT LINK IN BIO In times of war and crisis, when people are rising up, when people are taking a stand, when the stakes could not be higher– what is the responsibility of the artist? History points us to the answer. Culture is the heartbeat of our movements. It brings people into collective action, sharpens our sense of our own power, and makes a better future feel possible. But the ruling elites also use culture to flood our screens with art that makes the current crisis feel natural, inevitable, and permanent. Artists on the side of freedom have to fight back. In this course presented by Artists Against Apartheid & The People’s Forum, we will study the role of the artist in the movement. We will discuss the responsibility of artists to struggle against the system that exploits, alienates, and pacifies and towards building a culture that inspires, drives, and sustains our collective struggle for liberation. Art alone cannot make a revolution, but it can transform the people who will. 🗓️ April 21 - May 19 📚 4 class sessions & 2 artist salons across course series ⏱️6:30-8:30PM ET 💻 📍 HYBRID! Everyone from all locations, backgrounds, and identities are welcome to register! Participate in-person in New York at The People's Forum, or virtually from anywhere in the world. ✅ Register now at peoplesforum.org/takesides ℹ️ There will also be opportunities to connect with people participating in your regional area to watch classes, discuss and build connections together.

We’re in Havana’s Pogolotti neighborhood, not in hotels, living what Cubans endure regularly: no power since last night. Our neighbors are living under the US govt's economic warfare, denied water, food, internet connection by Trump’s fuel blockade. The U.S. is waging a cruel, genocidal siege with the hope of crushing the Cuban people into submission. The world must act now.

The Human and Economic Toll of the War Is Mounting w/ @BrianBeckerDC & @layansima 🎧LISTEN: patreon.com/posts/human-and-…

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.