A global collective hope crisis is simmering, with many people hurting, criminalized, repressed, and doubting that justice is possible. The old fable of a stable job, home, family and retirement is crumbling. But, things are much more hopeful than they initially seem. @greenleftonline.bsky.social

Women and the LGBTQIA+ community have become the faces of resistance against the far-right Salvadoran government.

"The (US's) anti-drugs policy isn't aimed at stopping cocaine from reaching the US ...its for dominating the (Global) south in general," said Gustavo Petro in the UN yesterday, on the US striking Venezuelan boats (and I'd add, categorising Latin American countries as terrorists)

Israel has attacked five different countries today: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria (3 locations, including the ancient city of Palmyra), Yemen, and a boat carrying activists and food in Tunisian waters. That's a wholllllle lot of defending itself, ey??

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

Pakistan and Iran are carrying out the decade’s largest forced migration, deporting Afghans into poverty and repression. With resources already stretched after Sunday’s deadly earthquake, Afghanistan is in no position to support the thousands now arriving. www.truthdig.com/articles/hum...

Excluded Headlines: Indonesia workers' protests, Milei rejected... Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social excludedheadlines.substack.com/p/excluded-h...

I do not understand why homelessness pisses people off enough to criminalize it, but not enough to fix it

Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social excludedheadlines.substack.com/p/excluded-h...

@wepunjab.bsky.social @sapannews.bsky.social #indianewsupdates

A whole community of Mazatec people in Oaxaca, #Mexico is being attacked as they try to defend their river from aggregate mining. The repression is proportionate to their resistance and they really are an example of the collective #environmental care that is possible. truthout.org/articles/san...

A whole community of Mazatec people in Oaxaca, #Mexico is being attacked as they try to defend their river from aggregate mining. The repression is proportionate to their resistance and they really are an example of the collective #environmental care that is possible. truthout.org/articles/san...

We’ve had 28 COP meetings on climate change and still haven’t capped emissions…

British lawmakers voted to ban Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after members vandalized two aircraft.

The complete irony of this @nytimes.com piece about a protest against gentrification in #mexico (which they stupidly call "tourism") written by a journalist IN and FROM the US with no knowledge of the country or issue. The piece embodies the mentality & economic power that was being protested 🙄

Life’s real heroes aren’t given the red carpet or BBC interviews resistancewords.com/2025/07/05/l... “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.” ― George Carlin #writing #books

Hey, let's outlive these ghouls ok? Let's witness their demise together

Out now, this week’s Global South #news summary. excludedheadlines.substack.com/p/excluded-h...

#excludedheadlines Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social excludedheadlines.substack.com/p/excluded-h...

Big #tech are strangling the Global South. US companies dominate our search results, AI algorithms are full of racial, gender, and pro-West bias, and these companies are dominating whole industries in Mexico. But there is resistance and there are alternatives ... truthout.org/articles/mex...

In this documentary report from Lebanon, TRNN speaks with journalists who continue to report on Israel’s war crimes even after they have been targeted and injured and their colleagues have been killed.

"In our home, there is no food left — only two bags of flour that we managed to store for these dark days, both spoiled and infested with worms and insects. We ration the flour carefully, hoping it will last as long as possible." -Shahad Ali, from Gaza truthout.org/articles/ami...

#ExcludedHeadlines Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social excludedheadlines.substack.com?utm_source=n...

Today is the International #DayOfTheMidwife It comes as unnecessary c-sections and obstetric violence rates are spiking. This has a lot to do with medical decisions being made in the interests of profit or efficiency, rather than women. znetwork.org/znetarticle/... @officialznet.bsky.social

#excludedheadlines Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalit @tamarapearson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/excluded...

Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, @tamarapearson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/excluded...

The most powerful acts of resistance are sometimes the simple choices we make each day. The words we write. The decisions we make. The latest episode #StoriesOfResistance looks at the work of writer & journalist @tamarapearson.bsky.social. @globalexchange.bsky.social @undertheshadow.bsky.social

Not looking so good in Ecuador.

Tariffs? Cars cars cars...

Excluded Headlines: Duterte arrested, repression of retirees' mass protest in Argentina, massacres in Syria, Nestlé employee in Pakistan dies by suicide ... via @tamarapearson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/excluded...

Mexico in mourning. Mass vigil protests against the horror and for hope and justice in 38 cities tomorrow: Aguascalientes, Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México City, Saltillo, Torreon, Piedras Negras, Colima, San Cristóbal, Durango, Toluca, Guanajuato, Irapuato, San Francisco del Rincón,..

When the world was turned upside down … Zimbabweans, Bolivians, Guatemalans, and Haitians went on cruises around the Australian coast. Venezuelan, Iranian, and Honduran journalists observed the presidential elections in...

So the US has put 6 Mexican cartels on the terrorist list. Beyond possible material consequences, the goal is to set Mexico up as an enemy to be controlled rather than collaborated with. Actually countering the cartels involves more complex, humane actions: internationalpolicy.org/publications...

So the US has put 6 Mexican cartels on the terrorist list. Beyond possible material consequences, the goal is to set Mexico up as an enemy to be controlled rather than collaborated with. Actually countering the cartels involves more complex, humane actions: internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Every opinion piece in the Washington Post must now follow Bezos' new rightwing guidelines. Writers can say that they would have written the same thing anyway, but the fact remains: Their piece was only published because it met his new rightwing guidelines. Support independent, pro-democracy media.

Morning Bluesky. Apparently “long-term shareholder value” is important. More important than the planet, our children, our children’s children and the human race in its entirety. Who knew?

Three creative writing exercises to help face difficult times, injustice, anger, and the news. #writers #justice resistancewords.com/2025/02/26/w...

From preparing to send LatinX migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labelling Latin American cartels "terrorist organisations", United States president Donald Trump is criminalising the region in order to subjugate it. www.greenleft.org.au/content/cont...

LIST of critical Global South authors + journos - ideas for #reading (fiction +non-fiction), following news, or for #media outlets to reach out to local journalists w deep knowledge of the region. Do comment with Global South writers to add! resistancewords.com/global-south...

La situación de México frente a las agresiones del nvo. gob. de EUA es sumamente delicada... 🧵1/2

From preparing to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labeling cartels “terrorist organizations,” Trump has been using both language and policies to frame Latin American countries and Latinx migrants in the US, as crimi...

If Congo were in Europe everyone would be talking about this excludedheadlines.substack.com/p/excluded-h... #worldnews

Very relevant: www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/22/f...

1/2 You all are going to have to depend more on alternative, independent, quality media with no commercial sponsors or agenda. Mainstream media like @theguardian.com @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @reuters.com @nytimes.com are reporting White House announcements as fact, even though we know

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods in retaliation to similar order from President Trump.