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![Supporters of Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian protest group which uses direct action tactics to disrupt and to attempt to close down sites believed to be linked to weapons manufacturers supplying arms to Israel, gather outside Westminster Magistrates Court on the occasion of a plea hearing involving the group's co-founder Richard Barnard on September 18, 2024, in London, United Kingdom.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0919-palestine-action-400x300.jpg)
UK Uses Terrorism Law to Silence Palestine Solidarity Activists and Journalists
Amnesty International lawyer Julia Hall says the use of the UK's Terrorism Act has escalated since October 7.
![Keiko Lane and Cory Roberts-Auli pass out safe sex information at a high school.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/photo-2-1-400x300.jpg)
In New AIDS Activist Memoir, Keiko Lane Aims to Articulate the Inexpressible
Keiko Lane was 16 when she joined ACT UP. Decades later, she describes how that activism was a kind of mutual aid.
![U.S. authorities shoot rubber bullets at migrants after migrants tried to cut the razor wire fences put up by the Texas National Guard to make it more difficult for them to cross at the U.S. border, on March 22, 2024, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0913-border-400x300.jpg)
Harsha Walia: Democratic Party Laid Groundwork for Anti-Migrant Border Policy
Author Harsha Walia analyzes how Democrats’ shift rightward is one of the “boomeranging effects” of global fascism.
![Activists hold up torches and portraits of slain Indigenous peoples and environmental defenders during a rally on November 10, 2022, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0910-activists-400x300.jpg)
Nearly 200 Environmental Defenders Were Killed in 2023
These killings are often carried out alongside acts of intimidation, smear campaigns and criminalization by governments.
![People place candles and flowers for Damian Sobol, an aid worker for World Central Kitchen who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, in front of the train station in Przemysl, Poland, on April 4, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2131320738-400x300.jpg)
For Our Movements to Win, We Must Learn How Not to Let Our Grief Destroy Us
Unprocessed grief can lead us to lash out at each other, rather than dismantling the systems that cause our pain.
![A banner reads: $18,000,000 NYS Tax Dollars at Work, during a demonstration at Atlas Air’s headquarters](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0830-atlas-air-02-400x300.jpg)
Activists Target Logistics Firms That Are Facilitating Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
As the US government continues to arm the Israeli military, activists aim to disrupt the war machine’s supply chain.
![People with banners reading "FOSSIL FUELS DESTROY LIFE" and "A LIVEABLE WORLD FOR ALL" congregate in front of a citibank in protest of their investment in fossil fuels](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0814-citibank-protest-400x300.jpg)
Activists Are Bringing the Heat to the Banks Funding Climate Crisis
The “Summer of Heat” movement is pushing Citibank to divest from fossil fuels. Will the bank listen?
![Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, holding a banner saying ''Free Palestine'' gather, to protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza and show solidarity with Palestinians as they march with Palestinian flags and banners in Utrecht, Netherlands, on August 10, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2165672909-2-400x300.jpg)
Palestine Has Mobilized a Global Movement. For It to Last We Must Get Organized.
Past solidarity movements teach us that organization is just as important as mobilization.
![Supporters for Vice President Kamala Harris are pictured at a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 30, 2024, on the left; supporters for former President Donald Trump are seen at a campaign event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on July 31, 2024, on the right.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0805-harris-trump-supporters-a-400x300.jpg)
Don’t Let the Electoral Circus and Its Side Shows Weaken Your Political Will
In the coming months, let’s stay focused on the conditions that shape our lives and how we can alter those conditions.
![Sign for the Jewish National Fund defaced to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on October 9, 2008.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1235216803-400x300.jpg)
Jewish National Fund of Canada Has Its Charitable Status Revoked
The move marks a significant victory against apartheid, genocide and Palestinian dispossession.