Flotilla Boats Continue Their Effort To Reach Gaza Despite Attacks

 

Be the people's resistance media! Forward this email to a friend and share the articles on social media.     Flotilla Boats Continue Their Effort To Reach Gaza Despite Attacks By Colonel Ann Wright for Popular Resistance and James Marc Leas, Substack. The situation on the sea is changing rapidly as flotilla vessels continue to try to reach Gaza and end the siege after the Israeli attack on the convoy yesterday 250 miles from the shore. Early this morning, Ann Wright reported: Ten boats, including the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s boat “Lina” are still sailing toward Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla in the history of support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank attempting to break the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. Nine U.S. citizens are on the ten boats still underway to Gaza!! -more-   Resisting Regime Change In Cuba By Marjorie Cohn, Consortium News. Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, when C.I.A.-trained Cuban exiles landed at Playa Girón, on Cuba’s southern coast. They were defeated within two days by Cuban military forces. The C.I.A. organized hundreds of assassination attempts on the life of President Fidel Castro and supported myriad acts of terrorism against Cuba. Now, impelled by Secretary of State Rubio, President Trump is moving steadily toward accomplishing regime change in Cuba. -more-   No Peace For Paz: Bolivian Movements Demand President Resign By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. The protests in Bolivia against Rodrigo Paz’s neoliberal government continue to intensify. The main roads leading into and out of La Paz and El Alto remain closed following violent clashes between protesters and state forces on May 16. Over 50 people have been arrested, and dozens been injured. The roadblocks have triggered a genuine and critical political and economic crisis in Bolivia. Initially, the first protests were launched by groups of farmers who opposed the controversial Law 1720, considered one of the most significant agricultural reforms in Bolivian history. -more-   Activists Demand South Africa Stop Supplying Israel With Coal By Riley Singh, Mondoweiss. On March 15, 2026, the South African government formally acknowledged Israel’s response to the country’s written pleadings in the case of Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Indeed, South Africa was the first country to use the Genocide Convention against Israel for its actions in Gaza, a benchmark that positioned itself at the forefront of an international movement to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza. -more-   Italian Port Authorities Halt Israel-Bound Shipments Of 'Military-Grade Steel' By News Desk, The Cradle. Italian authorities are holding three shipments suspected of carrying military-grade steel from India to Israel after activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and No Harbour for Genocide exposed their contents, Middle East Eye reported on 18 May. According to the activists, the shipments amount to roughly 806 tonnes of military-grade steel and could be used to manufacture up to 17,458 artillery shells for the Israeli army. They said the cargo originated from R L Steels & Energy Limited in Aurangabad and was destined for IMI Systems, now known as Elbit Systems Land, in Ramat Hasharon. -more-   History Suggests Inequality Ends In Catastrophe By Jeremy Lent, Resilience. There may never have been a group that had it so good as the Japanese plutocrats of the 1930s. In that era, the richest one percent of Japanese society captured twenty percent of national income — a third more than the top earners in America command today. Within a decade, however, most of that bounty had vanished. Their share of national income collapsed by more than two-thirds. What happened? Total war, total defeat, and foreign occupation. Mass mobilization forced the state to intervene in industrial production, double income taxes, restrict dividends, and requisition merchant ships. -more-   Bellevue City Council Adopts Ordinance Criminalizing Protests By Fight Back! News. On Tuesday evening, May 2, the Bellevue City Council voted to adopt an ordinance making protests at U.S. Congressman Adam Smith’s house illegal. The ordinance changes the city’s definition of criminal conduct to include targeted residential protests. The ordinance states that any gathering of people “with four or more persons” in a protest that is “targeted, directed or focused at a particular occupant of the residence” would be a gross misdemeanor. “Protest means any protest, demonstration or picketing activity including but not limited to marching, congregating, standing, posting, parading... -more-   Hawaii Just Found A Way To Keep Corporations Out Of Politics By Harold Meyerson, Portside. At a time when giant tech companies and other corporate behemoths loom over our economic, social, and political life, the state of Hawaii has just found a way to limit their hold. Gov. Josh Green signed into law the first piece of American legislation that curtails corporations’ ability to engage in electoral politics. It doesn’t—because it couldn’t—undo the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, which holds that corporations have the right to spend their resources on political campaigns. That would require another Court ruling striking down Citizens United, or a constitutional amendment banning such spending. -more-   On Nakba Day, A Call In Boston To ‘Boycott The US!’ By Workers World Boston Bureau, Workers' World. We are here to honor the martyrs of al-Nakba — the Catastrophe — that began 78 years ago and to raise a fist in absolute solidarity with the ongoing Palestinian Resistance! We are also here to honor and support Palestine’s allies in the global struggle — the people of Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Cuba, Venezuela, the Sahel — all the countries and peoples resisting the decades of terror-bombing, deadly sanctions and starvation inflicted by the Zionist and U.S. regimes. So what can we do here, in the heart of the U.S. empire, in the belly of the beast, which is responsible for the global carnage? -more-   What’s Behind The LIRR Strike? By Marc Kagan, Left Voice. I’m sure you know that five unions of Long Island Rail Road workers are on strike for the first time since 1994. The workers on strike include locomotive engineers, electrical and mechanical maintenance (repair) workers, signal workers, train dispatchers, and some clerical workers. Here’s a link to picketing sites. Unlike NYC transit workers, who are prohibited to strike under the NYS Taylor Law, LIRR workers are covered by the Railway Labor Act, which allows strikes after lengthy mandated mediation and “cooling off” periods. -more-   UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Impacted Tribes By Petala Ironcloud, Truthout. The University of California (UC) is circulating its first-ever systemwide framework governing tribal access, co-stewardship, and land-use agreements across 80,000 acres of UC-managed land. The framework was developed by UC Tribal Lands Workgroup, composed entirely of UC staff with no Tribal government representatives, and Tribal advisory bodies were only invited to review the document after it was drafted. Faculty senate divisions and systemwide committees have until May 19 to submit feedback, with the Academic Council taking up the report in its May 27 meeting. -more-   Former Strip Mine Was Planned For A Prison Until Locals Stepped In By Taysha DeVaughan, Next City. Last year, the Appalachian Rekindling Project made a big move. We bought 63 acres of former strip mine land in Kentucky. Our $169,000 investment disrupted plans for a $505 million federal prison complex that would have caged over 1,300 people, stopping a cycle of harm that has defined Appalachia for too long. This would have become the fifth federal prison in eastern Kentucky, part of a pattern that treats incarceration as economic development. Data collected by The Sentencing Project illustrates that Black and Indigenous people are incarcerated at four to five times the rate of white people for similar offenses. -more- As an independent media source free of advertising, we rely on your support.  https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/popular-resistance-daily-digest-3udltjj6rr?e=ebae946b26