News | War & Peace Hundreds of Staffers in Congress Demand Lawmakers Call for Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Those calling for peace “have been drowned out by those beating the drums of war,” the letter writers note. By Chris Walker , Truthout October 23, 2023 Truthout
News | Education & Youth Debt Activists Bought $10M in Student Debt for $125,000 — and Canceled It All The move wipes out balances of nearly 3,000 accounts from Morehouse College, a historically Black college in Atlanta. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout October 23, 2023 Truthout
News | War & Peace Israel Bombs South Gaza After Ordering Over 1 Million Palestinians to Flee There “The situation is catastrophic, catastrophic, catastrophic,” said the director of a UNRWA shelter in Khan Younis. By Jon Queally , CommonDreams October 22, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | Human Rights Lessons From Chile: Organizing in Times of Political Upheaval The U.S. left has much to learn from the successes and failures of Chile's 2019 uprisings. By Pauline Lipman & Rico Gutstein , ConvergenceMag October 22, 2023 Truthout
News | Human Rights Israeli Police Persecute, Harass Palestinian Citizens of Israel Amid War on Gaza “It’s a witch hunt,” said one Palestinian lawyer in Jerusalem. By Yumna Patel , Mondoweiss October 22, 2023 Truthout
News | Racial Justice Tribes Fight for Return of Items Looted From Bodies During Wounded Knee Massacre A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to Native Americans, but descendants are still waiting. By Nicole Santa Cruz , ProPublica October 22, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | War & Peace Christian Right Cites Violent Biblical Amalek Trope to Justify Israel’s Tactics Many Christian Zionists are backing genocide by likening Hamas to a biblical tribe that God promised to exterminate. By Aidan Orly , Truthout October 22, 2023 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor Insecurity Is a Feature, Not a Bug, of Capitalism. But It Can Spark Resistance. Debt abolitionist Astra Taylor discusses how capitalism’s manufactured insecurity can feed movements for radical change. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout October 22, 2023 Truthout
News | Human Rights West Palm Beach Activists Face Charges for Sharing Food With Unhoused Community Florida has the third-largest unhoused population in the country, with 27,487 people experiencing homelessness. By Alexandra Martinez , Prism October 21, 2023 Truthout
News | War & Peace Two-Thirds of American Voters Want US to Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza Most members of Congress have refused to support a ceasefire in Gaza as Israel wages a genocidal war on Palestinians. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams October 21, 2023 Truthout