Who is Zé Maria?
Longtime Brazilian industrial union leader and political activist faces a two-year prison sentence for speech in defense of Palestinian liberation. By PSTU – Brazil Published on May 8, 2026 and reprinted from the Workers’ Voice website. The trajectory of José Maria de Almeida, Zé Maria, is intertwined with the recent history of the Brazilian workers’ […]
Stand Up for Free Speech and Academic Freedom and Against State Repression
Come hear from Professor Tom Alter (Texas State University) and student and community organizers about the fight for free speech at UC Berkeley and beyond. Tuesday, February 10 at 5pmUC Berkeley campusWurster Hall, Room 170 Sponsored by:
UC Berkeley Suspends Lecturer Peyrin Kao After Pro-Palestine Advocacy
In August 2025, at the start of the fall semester, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) lecturer Peyrin Kao went on a 38-day hunger strike to protest the genocide in Gaza and bring greater awareness onto the university campus. Kao states that he ate only 250 calories a day to represent the famine Gazans are currently experiencing. […]
Turning Point USA at University of California Berkeley
On Monday, November 10, University of California (UC) Berkeley hosted the final stop of the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) college campus tour. TPUSA, founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, is a far-right Christian nationalist organization. It claims to promote free speech on campuses while in reality advancing bigotry against people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ […]
Pro-Palestine Stanford Students Indicted with Felony Vandalism and Trespassing
In June of 2024, 12 Stanford students occupied a university building, demanding that Stanford University divest from companies, such as Palantir, linked to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. This occurred alongside a vast country-wide movement on many university campuses calling for their own schools to divest from Israel. During the Stanford students’ occupation, University officials claimed […]
Film Review: Gaza: Journalists Under Fire
Robert Greenwald’s 2025 documentary Gaza: Journalists Under Fire exposes the harrowing war crimes of Israel against the people of Gaza and the Palestinian journalists trying to document the atrocities. It follows the story of journalists – Belal Jadallah, Heba Al-Abadla, and Ismail al-Ghoul – who were targeted by Israel and ultimately killed for their reporting in Gaza. […]
Jane Fonda: “They’re Betting on Our Fear and Our Silence”
On October 1, more than 550 actors, producers, directors and other artists from the entertainment industry announced the formation of a new Committee for the First Amendment. This is the second life of an organization formed originally in 1947 as the Second Red Scare heated up in the United States. Its goal then was to […]
Witch Hunts across U.S. Universities
As part of the escalating attacks on education and free speech nationwide, on August 18, UC Berkeley handed over the names of at least 160 students, faculty, and staff to the federal government to comply with an investigation into alleged antisemitism on college campuses. The university has not provided any information about the charges or […]
Political Repression Intensifies
As we increase our demands, our outrage, and our protests, they will intensify their attempts to repress us.
Julian Assange’s Persecution Continues: No to Extradition to the U.S.!
The British government has signed an order authorizing the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. What is the crime of this Australian journalist? To have leaked massive amounts of confidential documents showing, among other things: U.S. war crimes in Iraq, including assassinations and more than 15,000 unreported civilian deaths The torture of men […]