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Israel's depravity knows no bounds. (lemmy.ml)
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Most people across 24 surveyed countries have negative views of Israel and Netanyahu (www.pewresearch.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30810219

International views of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are much more negative than positive, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 24 countries conducted this spring.

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MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech (www.nbcnews.com)
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We Knocked Until Our Hands Broke -- Arab Lit Quarterly (arablit.org)
 

Gaza-based Palestinian author Alaa Alqaisi asks herself the question posed more than half a century ago at the end of Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”: Why didn’t they knock on the walls of the tank?

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There's a cruel irony in these words coming from a rabid Zionist (lemmy.ml)
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Zionists having a very normal day in response to an interview of the Palestinian kid who barely escaped the school airstrikes and fire with her life. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses (apnews.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/38551804

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino had said earlier Thursday that the strike was illegal and included some 5,000 workers.

“Unfortunately, following the unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations and operations centers since April 28 and continuing today, (the company) has proceeded with the termination of all of our daily workers,” the company said in a statement. It said the company had suffered losses of at least $75 million.

Protests marches and occasional roadblocks have stretched from one end of the country to the other as teachers, construction workers and other unions expressed their rejection to changes the government said were necessary to keep the social security system solvent.

Chinese factory worker sets fire to textile plant over 800 yuan in unpaid wages in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I know lol. This is like when the CIA put out that one recruitment video aimed at Chinese citizens a few weeks ago -- the video was supposed to lament the terrible conditions of Chinese workers, but inadvertently turned out as a brutal critique of American capitalism

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Denmark to raise retirement age to highest in Europe (www.bbc.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64705366

Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe after its parliament adopted a law raising it to 70 by 2040.

The retirement age at 70 will apply to all people born after 31 December 1970.

Chinese factory worker sets fire to textile plant over 800 yuan in unpaid wages in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

There was also a more recent victory of Samsung workers against the company in Tamil Nadu, just a few weeks ago I think

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Chinese factory worker sets fire to textile plant over 800 yuan in unpaid wages (rfa.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30901392

A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.