Posts Tagged ‘victories’

Gun Owners Score Major Legal Victories On Pistol Braces and Ghost Guns 

Gun Owners Score Major Legal Victories On Pistol Braces and Ghost Guns  This week, gun owners scored two major victories in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. One judge granted a preliminary injunction that halts the enforcement of the recent Biden Administration’s pistol brace rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and […]

Biden trolls Trump after election night victories: ‘We haven’t stopped winning’

At a Thursday fundraising event in Chicago, President Biden trolled Republicans after Democrats secured several victories on election night. “Democrats had an incredible night once again,” Biden said at the event, touting Democrats out-performing Republicans, citing wins in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania. “What happened on Tuesday is not unusual,” Biden said. He added that… […]

Morocco’s FIFA World Cup Victories Defeat Israeli Normalization Efforts

Last Saturday, Morocco’s national football team defeated Portugal in the FIFA World Cup, resulting in celebrations throughout the Arab World. One of those celebrations took place in Jerusalem, where Palestinians hoisting up the Moroccan flag were dispersed and attacked by Israeli occupying police forces. Morocco has been the star of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, […]

Burgerville’s Union Racking Up Victories On Shop Floor

Last December, The Industrial Workers of the World’s Burgerville Workers Union signed their first collective bargaining agreement with management, officially becoming the only fast food restaurant in the country covered by a federally recognized contract. This historic win comes as the culmination of three-and-a-half years of heated negotiations with management, seven strikes, and dozens of […]

Movements Remember Victories That Helped The People Of Brazil

Above Photo: The solidarity of popular movements brought food to thousands of poor families in the country. Valmir Neves Fernandes / MST-PR and Giorgia Prates. Amidst The Chaos Of 2021. Suspension of evictions, a campaign against hunger, electricity for all, and vaccine access are among the achievements of movements in 2021. The year 2021 was […]

What Were The Top BDS Victories Of 2021?

Above Photo: This year marked significant wins for the right to boycott Israel. Alain Pitton / ZUMA Press. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was a year of accelerated boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigning, successful grassroots actions and significant legal victories for Palestinian rights. Pension funds dumped Israeli firms, cultural figures refused to cross […]

2021 in review: A year of struggle and victories for the Palestinian cause

2021 was a watershed year for Palestinians. The struggle for Palestinian freedom and liberation saw unprecedented levels of global solidarity. From Jerusalem, to the West Bank, Gaza, and Palestinian communities inside Israel, Palestinians rose up together in defiance of the Israeli occupation, and demanded a better future. The fight against forcible expulsion of Palestinians in […]

While You Celebrate, Do Not Forget: All Little Victories Amidst All Big Defeats till Final Victory

Bangalore, April 18-19, 2016. That Bangalore which forgot the heydays of working class fight there in late 1970s – early 1980s, and those Bangalorians who were more connected to the USA and west went frantic. They could never imagine those invisible rustic suburban millions who make the ‘things’ (not the gigabytes) that create trillions could […]

Member of Top Iranian Clerical Body to Al-Ahed: We Are Living In an Era of Major Victories

Posted on November 5, 2021 by uprootedpalestinians Nov 5, 2021 By Mokhtar Haddad Tehran – Iranians are celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran by Iranian students and the closure of the American spy den, which acted as a central nervous system for espionage, and interference. The leader of the Islamic […]

Breitbart Celebrates Victories by School Board Candidates Running Against ‘Critical Race Theory’

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The Sandinista Revolution Reaches 42 Years Of Victories

Above photo: Citizens take part in a rally to support the Sandinista Revolution, Managua, Nicaragua, July, 2021. | Photo: Twitter/ @LaResistenciaSa. The National Celebrations Began On Sunday With A Night Party At The Faith Square Next To Xolotlan Lake. On Monday, Nicaragua celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the victory of the revolution led by the […]

BDS victories from Georgia to South Africa

There’s been multiple BDS victories over the past week or so. Let’s round them up. South Africa South African dockworkers refused to off-load cargo from an Israeli vessel in the port city of Durban. The workers are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union and were acting in solidarity with a call […]

Hezbollah Military Victories in 2000 & 2006 Paved Way for All Axis of Resistance to Crush ‘Israel’

 May 25, 2021 It is a mere coincidence that the victory of the Palestinian resistance over the Israeli enemy in Gaza synchronized the 21st anniversary of the liberation of most of the Zionist-occupied Lebanese territories. After the Israeli invasion in 1982, the various factions of the Lebanese resistance engaged directly in fighting the occupation troops, […]

Embrace of IHRA’s Definition is One of Biden’s Early Policy Victories

This week, the Biden/Harris administration boldly declared that it “embraces and champions” the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The announcement reflects the administration’s appropriate commitment to protecting minority communities that feel extraordinarily vulnerable after the last 4 years. And yet, the IHRA definition has become a point of tension in parts of […]

Here It Comes: Democratic Victories Encourage Republican Attacks on Voting

Republican officials in Pennsylvania and Georgia are responding to Democratic victories in 2020 with new efforts to make voting more difficult, and they’re being cheered on by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who called it “some of the best news” of the year so far in his “Washington Watch” newsletter Friday. Voting by mail […]

Nancy Pelosi: Georgia Senate Victories Would Give Democrats Supermajority-Like Ability to Pass Legislation

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said during a virtual Sojourner Truth Project event last week that ousting Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) will give them significant power to pass legislation because they can pass bills with a simple majority in the Senate using reconciliation. Pelosi spoke virtually at the Sojourner Truth Project […]

2020 was rough, but don’t forget the victories

2020 Things are pretty bleak. The Trump administration is petering out in the most predictable way, screaming about a fictional election conspiracy and continuing to ignore a deadly pandemic. The United States is basically averaging a 9/11 every day at this point. I’m old enough to remember when people made a big deal about how […]

Push to relax US drug laws gains big victories on state ballots

AP — A nationwide push to relax drug laws took a significant step forward Tuesday as five more states legalized marijuana for adults and voters made Oregon the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. The drug measures were among 120 proposed state laws […]

Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement

Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement While the climate justice movement has been winning important victories, stopping and slowing pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and putting the future of fossil fuels in doubt, the political system, long connected to the fossil fuel industry, is still fighting the urgently needed transition to […]

What were the top BDS victories of 2017?

Nora Barrows-Friedman Activism and BDS Beat 28 December 2017 The movement for Palestinian rights continues to grow across the world. (Alisdare Hickson/Flickr) It took just four days for a world famous singer to cancel her Tel Aviv show in response to her fans’ urging her to respect the international picket line. Lorde’s decision on Christmas […]

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