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At its core, the SAVE America Act is a voter purge bill featuring DHS’s “SAVE” system, which has already proven inaccurate. Rs have zero credibility here. Remember the bogus Florida purge in 2000 that may have thrown the election to Bush? How about their more recent bogus purges in GA, VA, & AL?


WTF?! The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which consistently marks citizens as noncitizens, per this report by ProPublica & Texas Tribune. The Act imposes *no penalty* 4 faulty purges. 1/

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On Friday, February 16, 1996, in the community of San Andrés Sacamch’en de los Pobres, the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) signed the Agreements on Indigenous Rights and Culture, better known as the San Andrés Agreements, one of the first steps toward achieving a just and dignified peace in Chiapas. These agreements acknowledged the discrimination and exclusion that indigenous peoples have historically suffered at the hands of the Mexican government; they established the conditions for overcoming this situation, based on the autonomy of the peoples; and they agreed on a series of constitutional reforms that would need to be implemented through legal and institutional changes in order to make this possible. There are no photographs of this important event because the EZLN, anticipating that the government would only use the event for propaganda, decided to sign in private. The San Andrés Accords were made possible by the unity between the rebel army and the national indigenous movement in its various forms. The rebels soon understood that the organized indigenous sector was the most radical part of the social movement, as their demands went beyond economic issues; unlike other movements, they were fighting for the transformation of the state so that their demands could be met, and they made these demands their own, catapulting them to the national stage. This made it possible, for the first time in the country’s history, for the Mexican state to agree with its indigenous peoples on the structure of the state and the recognition of their collective rights. Unfortunately, as the Zapatistas predicted, the Mexican state soon made it clear that it was not willing to comply with the agreement, a situation that, with some nuances, continues to this day. Much has changed in the 30 years since then. Under the pretext of complying with the San Andrés Accords, two amendments have been made to the country’s Constitution: the first in 2001, by a right-wing president; the second in 2018, by a president who claimed to be left-wing. However, neither amendment has addressed the core demands of indigenous peoples. Some state institutions have also been transformed and others created; many indigenous men and women, including some who participated in the drafting of the Agreements, now hold positions in the three branches of government and the three levels of government, but the agreed-upon changes have not come to fruition. The much-touted new relationship between the state and indigenous peoples remains an aspiration that the country’s political forces have no interest in turning into reality. Proof of this is that key rights, such as territorial and political rights, have been ignored in indigenous reforms, while the dispossession of their lands continues to be regulated in various legal reforms. For example, in the reform that “nationalized” lithium, the rights of indigenous peoples were omitted; a similar attitude was taken in the regulation of the human right to water, in which, as under Salinas, it was established that this right would be recognized in a subsequent law. Something similar is happening in the ongoing electoral reform, which does not even begin to establish mechanisms for indigenous peoples to have their own representatives who respond to their interests and put an end to the current charade. Added to all this is the undermining of peoples’ rights through extractive projects such as mining, fracking, water hoarding, and logging concessions. There has undoubtedly been progress, but these are victories that the people have achieved by fighting against the masters of capital and the state institutions that claim to protect their rights. This is the case with mining and water concessions, which the state has granted on mineral deposits and aquifers located in indigenous territories, where those affected have had to litigate even against the state institutions that have extended them, arguing that it is their obligation to do so. This is also the case with community and municipal governments, whose organized inhabitants have taken control to build their future, or with communities and regions where inhabitants have organized their own security in the face of the state’s failure or inability to provide it. The conditions in which this resistance takes place are not ideal, but they have no other choice if they want to continue to exist as peoples. In this scenario of contradictions, 30 years after their signing, the San Andrés Accords represent a beacon that lights the way for the peoples. It is a path of no return, because to stop fighting or change course is to continue suffering the internal colonialism inherited from the colonial era by the ruling class. And that does not represent a dignified future. Original text by Francisco López Bárcenas published on February 12, 2026. Translation by Schools for Chiapas


Early last month, the forces of the ‘new’ Syrian army flooded across north and east Syria. The troops seized key cities and major oil fields, effectively ending a decade of US-backed Kurdish autonomy – with Washington’s blessing.

One of those cities was Raqqa, the former capital of ISIS’s self-proclaimed ‘caliphate’ in Syria and a symbol of sectarianism, bloodshed, and iron-fist rule.

Raqqa remembers

It was in Raqqa where scores of soldiers from the now-dismantled Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were executed in cold blood by ISIS militants. Many of these soldiers had their severed heads impaled on pikes on the city’s outskirts.

It was also in Raqqa where countless young girls and women, many of them Yezidis abducted from Iraq in 2014, were sold into slavery in what ISIS called Souq al-Sabaya – the ‘market of female captives.’

As Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s (formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani) armed forces entered the city in early 2026, his soldiers were gleeful, excited, and reminiscent. Many of them had been there before.

A closer look at the officers leading this offensive reveals a stark reality: ISIS has not been defeated. It has been absorbed, rebranded, and redeployed across Syria, reclaiming its ‘caliphate.’

ISIS reborn under Turkiye’s shadow

The Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDCNY), a Manbij-based human rights organization that monitors abuses against Kurds, released a report in August 2024 identifying dozens of extremist militants formerly affiliated with ISIS who were later incorporated into the Turkiye-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).

The SNA was formed by Ankara in 2017 and for years served as the Turkish military’s arm in northern Syria. Turkish forces had invaded Syria in 2016 to carry out an operation against the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), whose dominant component is the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – which Ankara regards as the Syrian extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Turkiye went on to occupy swathes of Syrian territory and maintains that presence today.

Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions that assisted Turkiye’s 2016 intervention were reorganized into what became the SNA. After Raqqa fell to the SDF in 2017, this coalition absorbed scores of fleeing ISIS members. Over time, the SNA continued integrating former ISIS fighters into its ranks.

The ISIS ‘caliphate’ seemed defeated at a certain point. In reality, much of the heavy fighting against ISIS across Syria had been carried out by the former Syrian army, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, allied Iran-backed factions, and the Russian air force. The credit, however, went to Washington and the SDF – which today has been abandoned once again by the US military.

But ISIS was regrouping and reestablishing itself under a new name, with direct Turkish backing and under the watchful eye of US forces.

As VDCNY bluntly stated: “ISIS grew on the shoulders of the Free Syrian Army.”

Below is a partial list of former ISIS figures who were later absorbed into the SNA:

Abu Mohammad al-Jazrawi

According to the August 2024 VDCNY report, Abu Mohammad al-Jazrawi – born Abdullah Mohammad al-Anzi – is a Saudi national who joined ISIS in 2015 after arriving in Syria illegally via Turkiye – like tens of thousands of others from various parts of the world who did the same.

During his time with ISIS, he participated in battles against the Syrian army in the Syrian Desert and Homs countryside. He ended up becoming a military commander in Ahrar al-Sham, a notorious, sectarian extremist group responsible for many war crimes and atrocities.

Ahrar al-Sham had previously fought alongside Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front before eventually being embedded into the SNA. The extremist group is responsible for numerous war crimes, including the deadly shelling of civilians in the Shia-majority towns of Nubul and Zahraa in Aleppo, during the early years of the war.

Bashar Smeid

Nicknamed Abu Islam al-Qalamouni, Smeid joined ISIS in 2014 and participated in fighting in the Palmyra desert, Damascus countryside, and near Al-Tanf Base – where US forces were training extremist militants.

In 2016, he took command of a security detachment that oversaw the infiltration of three car bombs into Damascus’s Sayyida Zaynab area. He ended up moving to northern Syria’s Idlib in 2017 and worked with his group to funnel ISIS leaders into Turkiye.

A year later, he joined the SNA’s Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction – another criminal sectarian organization that was happy to take in ISIS leaders. In March 2023, members of Ahrar al-Sharqiya murdered four Kurdish civilians celebrating Newroz (Kurdish New Year).

Sabahi al-Ibrahim al-Muslih

Known as Abu Hamza al-Suhail, Muslih was a leader in ISIS’s Shura Council and oversaw trials on charges of apostasy and blasphemy that resulted in dozens of executions. He ended up joining the SNA’s 20th Division. While reports said he was killed in a US drone strike a few years ago, he remains a prime example of the type of characters who were joining the SNA.

Awad Jamal al-Jarad

Jarad joined ISIS in 2015 and commanded a battalion within the organization. He later entered the SNA’s Hamza Division in 2018, participated in Turkish offensives in Afrin, and subsequently joined Ahrar al-Sharqiya.

By August 2024, he was leading a unit of 30 men and had transformed the city of Tal Abyad’s post office into his personal headquarters and command center, according to VDCNY. The Hamza Division is responsible for sectarian violence, sexual assault, and other war crimes.

Majid al-Khalid

Khalid, nicknamed Hajj Abu Omar al-Ansari, formed Liwa al-Haq in Hama during the early years of the war, before incorporating his organization into ISIS in 2014. He was considered one of the founders of ISIS in Hama city.

He ended up becoming the Emir of Hama during his time with ISIS and took command of the suicide (‘Inghimassi’) battalions – which sent thousands of young men to blow themselves up in holy sites and civilian areas. In 2017, he joined the Hamza Division and became a battalion commander in the group.

Salem Turki al-Antari

Antari, nicknamed Abu Saddam al-Ansari, joined ISIS in 2014 in the Badia desert region, where he served as a commander and led extremists in battle against the former Syrian army in Palmyra and near Al-Tanf Base.

He went on to become the Emir of Palmyra. Antari later joined Ahrar al-Sharqiya in 2017 and took part in Turkish-backed assaults against Afrin, Tal Rifaat, and Ras al-Ain. He was also implicated in the roadside execution of Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf in 2019. In 2024, the ex-ISIS chief was appointed as the commander of the US-backed Syria Free Army (SFA), which was formed by Washington in 2022 and trained in the Al-Tanf Base.

SFA now operates under the Syrian Defense Ministry. Between 2015 and 2017, Antari took part in the ISIS takeover of Palmyra and the battles with the Syrian army that ensued. The terrorist organization’s assault on Palmyra destroyed some of Syria’s most cherished cultural heritage. In 2015, ISIS notoriously publicly beheaded renowned 83-year-old Syrian archeologist Khaled al-Asaad for refusing to reveal the locations of hidden antiquities.

Raad Issa al-Barghash

Also known as Abu Zainab, Barghash pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2013. He fought with the group in Ain al-Arab (Kobane) and elsewhere, and was responsible for the killing of many civilians. In 2017, he fled to Aleppo and entered the ranks of Ahrar al-Sharqiya, eventually becoming a top security chief in the group.

Thamer Nasser al-Iraqi

An Iraqi citizen, he joined ISIS in 2013 in Homs and then served as the military fortifications Emir in the Al-Shaddadi area until 2015. In 2016, he became the Emir of the armaments department in Raqqa, and then an advisor to the ISIS Security Office No. 011 in Raqqa.

Iraqi participated in the Battle of Mosul in 2014. Three years later, he fled towards the city of Jarablus, east of Aleppo. In November 2017, he joined Ahrar al-Sharqiya and participated in Operation Olive Branch and Operation Peace Spring, launched by the Turkish army in 2018 and 2019. He also participated in bombings and summary executions of Kurdish civilians in the Jindires district of Afrin.

Sayf Boulad Abu Bakr

Abu Bakr, now a dual Syrian-Turkish citizen, had defected from the old Syrian military to join the FSA in 2012. These defections were encouraged by foreign intervention and funding. The FSA never maintained the status of a unified opposition force, quickly splintering into different factions that aligned themselves with extremist groups.

He joined ISIS in 2013 and was appointed governor of Al-Bab during the organization’s control over the city. A few years later, he ended up as commander in the Hamza Division, taking part in several Turkish-backed offensives against Kurdish forces.

During his time with ISIS, he appeared in a propaganda video where another member of the group is heard demanding “repentance” from around a dozen prisoners kneeling before them. The prisoners are identified in the video as members of the PKK.

Abu Bakr was also associated with Abdul Jabbar al-Okaidi, an FSA commander who publicly praised ISIS following the capture of Menagh Air Base in 2013.

Abu Bakr is now a senior commander in the Syrian army. In May 2025, the EU imposed sanctions on him, including asset freezes and a travel ban, citing “serious human rights abuses in Syria, including torture and arbitrary killings of civilians.”

Washington’s ‘partner’ in fighting ISIS

These are only select examples.

In 2025, the entire Turkish-backed SNA was formally integrated into the Syrian Defense Ministry. Following the fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the SNA – effectively ISIS in new attire – became a core pillar of the current Syrian army, alongside Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), previously the Nusra Front. HTS itself contains numerous former ISIS members and has a long record of war crimes.

After the SDF was thrown under the bus by Washington in early 2026, Syrian forces swept across the north and captured key oil fields and cities. Soldiers were jubilant upon their entry into Raqqa, charged with nostalgia for ISIS’s glory days.

غالبية مدينة الرقة خارج سيطرة تنظيم «قسد PKK». العلم السوري فوق دوار الساعة. pic.twitter.com/Mpm1WO716Y

— زين العابدين | Zain al-Abidin (@DeirEzzore) January 18, 2026


During the assault on northern Syria, tens of thousands of ISIS militants and their families were set free as troops entered Al-Hawl Prison Camp, which was previously run by the SDF.

Videos on social media showed government troops arriving at Al-Hawl and allowing the prisoners to leave. During the fighting days earlier, hundreds of ISIS prisoners escaped from Al-Shaddadi Prison. The SDF lost control of the facility and accused the US of ignoring its calls for help. Two kilometers away from the prison is a US coalition military base.

“The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], we are proud of this,” video footage showed one Iraqi woman, dressed in a niqab, saying as she was leaving Al-Hawl.

The new Syrian army is saturated with former ISIS commanders and fighters – yet Washington now describes it as a “partner” in combating ISIS.

This is the same army that massacred Alawites and Druze in March and July of 2025, and committed heinous war crimes against Kurds during attacks against the SDF in January 2026.

President Sharaa, the former ISIS and Al-Qaeda leader behind deadly sectarian suicide bombings in both Iraq and Syria, (as well deadly attacks in Lebanon and the occupation of the country’s border with Syria) has vowed to protect minorities, and claims he is leading a campaign to rid Syria of extremism.

This is impossible with an army made up of ISIS and a political leadership made up of violent warlords.

An investigation released by The Cradle last year reveals that since Sharaa came to power, Syria has witnessed a government-linked campaign of mass abduction and sexual enslavement targeting young Alawite women. Syrian government forces also committed massacres targeting minorities, including Druze and Alawites.

In a new video from the assault on the north, a Syrian soldier films two female Kurdish fighters captured during battle. As he drives around with the two women in the back of his vehicle, he brags about how they will make a “perfect gift” for his commander.

ISIS is very much alive. And it now rules the entirety of Syria under the protection and sponsorship of the US and Turkiye.

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Star Trek friends - can I just jump into the newest series? I haven’t watched regularly since the early aughts. I don’t remember much past the middle of TNG.

I keep setting myself the task of rewatching TNG but then get derailed by life distractions. Meanwhile everyone is watching the new stuff and I wanna join in! Is there a case to be made for following the timeline properly or should I just dive in?

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Goddammit.
Go back and look at the interviews I did after I was fired by DOGE.
I was yelling that DOGE destroying data protections in the federal government would enable them to use the data to go after trans people and women who get abortions.
That's what this is, indirectly. It's stochastic terrorism targeting providers of gender-affirming and reproductive healthcare.
Drive the providers out of business and the care becomes inaccessible.
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形をオーバルからスクエアに変えてみた。もしかしてわたしスクエアの方が似合う説 :thinknyan:
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« Dans « L’Envers de la Tech » la journaliste
@mathildesaliou montre ce qui se cache derrière notre smartphone au design millimétré et révèle les effets concrets du numérique sur nos vies et nos démocraties, loin des discours éthérés de la tech. »

« Ces questions ne sont pas assez traitées parce que les médias traditionnels ont longtemps abordé la tech sous le seul angle du progrès économique. Ce récit très limité est défendu par la Silicon Valley depuis trente ans. »

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@pluralistic i was, shall we say, inspired by part of your Elbows Up talk 🤐

some of my favorite reading/listening on the subject toward the end of the thread. highly recommend

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In Solidarity With Indian PP Comrade Pramod Mishra’s Indefinite Hunger Strike!


For the past three years, Comrade Pramod Mishra, an activist of India’s revolutionary movement, has been detained in Beur Central Jail in Patna, Bihar, India. The Indian state claims that Comrade Mishra is a Central Committee and Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Although Indian law recognizes the right of a person in custody to basic human dignity, Comrade Mishra began an indefinite hunger strike in prison on 26 January, demanding adequate food and breakfast, access to daily necessities, and regular communication with family members and lawyers. At 74 years of age, after being subjected to inhumane prison torture in Beur Central Jail, his decision to begin a hunger strike clearly exposes, in our view, the extent to which the fascist Indian state respects its own laws regarding “human dignity.”

This method of slow custodial killing-whether in police or prison custody is not a new crime of Indian Hindutva fascists. Nor is the case of Pramod Mishra an isolated incident. In recent years, the ruling Hindutva fascist Modi government has used its power to carry out what it calls “encounters” or direct armed confrontations in Dandakaranya, effectively conducting massacres against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the indigenous people of that region. The Hindutva fascist Modi government continues to intensify its repressive actions. At the same time, it has increased repression against all democratic and progressive forces who speak in favor of the people’s revolutionary struggle. The state is denying even minimal civil rights to detained activists of the revolutionary movement and subjecting them to inhumane physical and psychological torture inside prisons.

India is claimed to be the world’s largest “democracy”! Yet in this state, those who raise their voices against those in power are arrested and subjected to the most inhumane and undemocratic torture in prison, often leading to death. The age or physical condition of detainees is of no concern. In recent years, Father Stan Swamy and G. N. Saibaba have fallen victim to such actions by the Indian state. Repression continues against Comrade Prashant Bose and, more recently, against Comrade Pramod Mishra, who has begun his indefinite hunger strike. To suppress India’s revolutionary movement, the anti-people Hindutva fascist Modi government has adopted two methods: the so-called “encounter” operations in Dandakaranya and the slow killing of prisoners in custody.

We express our solidarity with Comrade Pramod Mishra and the three demands raised by the Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) against state repression in India. The demands are as follows:

1. Immediate provision of adequate nutritious food and necessary items for all prisoners.

2. Ensuring regular telephone communication with family members and lawyers.

3. Independent and transparent medical monitoring of Pramod Mishra, considering his age and ongoing hunger strike.

We call upon democratic forces, civil rights organizations, and mass movements to raise their voices against repressive actions inside prisons and to intervene immediately to prevent any irreparable harm.

Signed by-

Azad

Member, National Committee

Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement (Bangladesh)

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Mohammed Khatib Speaks Out Upon His Release From Greek Detention, Calls for Action and Mobilization


In the late afternoon hours of Wednesday, 11 February 2026, Mohammed Khatib — coordinator of Samidoun in Europe — was finally released from detention in Heraklion, Crete, after an order was issued by the Administrative Court of the First Instance. He had been detained since his arrest on Saturday, 7 February, when he arrived in Heraklion to speak at an event being organized by the Assembly of Solidarity to the Palestinian People on the Palestinian prisoners, together with liberated prisoner Abdel-Nasser Issa.

His release came after wide-scale support in Greece and across Europe from the movement for justice in Palestine, with statements in France and Catalonia signed by dozens of organizations, protests in Athens and Brussels, visits from local activists and parliamentarians, and the mobilization of progressive and radical lawyers to engage with his case. Mohammed remains banned from Greece and was ordered to “self-deport” to Belgium — where he is also facing serious repression, including an order to withdraw his asylum status, currently under appeal; he was ordered banned from the country on 24 December 2025, only two days after the Greek and Cypriot tripartite summit with the Zionist entity on military, security and economic cooperation.

During his time in detention, he was held in dangerous and unsafe conditions, rife with bedbugs and infectious diseases such as scabies (also common among Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails denied hygiene supplies and medical care, particularly after Al-Aqsa Flood and during the ongoing escalated genocide). His release came only one day after police had indicated their intention to continue to arbitrarily detain him.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes all of the efforts undertaken by people in Crete, throughout Greece, and internationally to win the release of comrade Mohammed Khatib. It is highly likely that without this attention and mobilization he would still be in detention now. We urge all supporters of Palestine to escalate attention, activity and organizing to free all Palestinian prisoners and prisoners for Palestine in imperialist prisons, including those held in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and the United States — as well as, centrally, the over 9,300 suffering, struggling and resisting inside the Zionist dungeons, facing torture, medical abuse, enforced disappearance, and the “execution” plan of Ben-Gvir and the Zionist regime. The liberation of the prisoners is an essential part of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.

Mohammed Khatib’s statement, issued upon his release, is below:

I am free, after 5 days of imprisonment in what they call “detention centres” but in reality are laboratories of torture and humiliation, where dozens of minors, youth, elders, refugees, migrants and poor Greek people are all facing the same inhumane conditions. I am thankful for all your solidarity and grateful for all your support. We must also remember those who are forgotten behind bars without any rights or justice. The systemic abuse and torture in Greece reminds us of the same methods used by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people, and these are the same methods used by the colonialist and imperialist powers in this world. I call on everyone to stand in unconditional solidarity with the migrants and refugees in Greece and elsewhere and to intensify the struggle against prisons and detention centres throughout the imperial core.

During my five days of detention, I received strength and power from my people, the Palestinian people, from Mahmoud Farajallah, who passed away as a martyr in the detention centre at Brussels airport several months ago, from the long history of struggle of the Palestinian political prisoners’ movement in the occupation prisons, from our people in Gaza fighting for life and humanity against the genocidal occupier

Once again, the Greek right wing government has shown its real face and its position as a tool for Israel and the so-called United States of America, not only against us as refugees and migrants, but also against the popular masses and working class and poor Greek people who stand in solidarity with Palestine.

It is no coincidence to face this repression on the island of Crete, that is hosting one of the biggest NATO military bases and another Israeli Zionist base, it is not spontaneous to be arrested in a country led by a right-wing government that is selling its land and resources to private Zionist companies that are exploiting the Greek masses who are losing their rights, land, and sovereignty. As the Zionist regime sees the current Greek government as its strategic alliance, we also, as Palestinians and revolutionary forces, should rebuild and connect with all the progressive forces in Greece and our historical and strategic alliance for liberation, justice and sovereignty.

Regardless of my treatment, the injustice and the inhuman conditions of detention, I am honestly very grateful for the experience of being with those who are forgotten and marginalized, and to experience a very little of what they face for months or years. I know that the experience in Greece is not isolated, but that there are Palestinian prisoners and prisoners for Palestine not only in the Zionist dungeons but in the jails of Germany, Italy, Britain and the U.S. and in Belgium’s detention centers, that need all of our support and solidarity.

My final words to those criminals in “Israel” or elsewhere, you can detain us, torture us, assassinate us, but you will never ever manage to stop us from talking, acting and struggling for Free Palestine, for Free Sudan, for Free Congo; against the imperialist assaults on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran; for the liberation of all oppressed people in the world.

Free all political prisoners!
Free Palestine from the River to the Sea!

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