 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch where we bring you news developments from around the world. Our headlines, anti-racist organizers in Denver and the United States released after a week in jail. Hamas and Fateh announced agreement, Palestinian elections to be held within months. Groups from across the world asked the United Nations to take action against Israeli apartheid, Argentina rejects Bolivian de facto president's statements at the UN assembly, and farmers across India take to the streets protesting new laws. In our first story on Thursday, three organizers from the party of socialism and liberation who were arrested on trumped-up charges in connection with anti-racist protests in the US state of Colorado were released. The activists Lillian Howes, Eliza Lucero and Joel Northam were arrested last Thursday in Denver and spent a week in jail in unsafe and inhumane conditions and were denied their right to due process. One of their fellow organizers, Russell Rush, was released earlier. This Thursday, the judiciary in Colorado set the bonds for the three activists, which once paid means that they can no longer be held in preventive detention. However, the district attorney has not dropped the charges against the activists, which range from felony charges such as kidnapping and rioting to misdemeanors such as disturbing the peace. The PSL organizers had raised concerns regarding the substandard conditions endured by prison inmates, according to Lillian and Eliza, who were held in the women's unit of the jail. Suppose that COVID-19 safety measures led to all inmates being held in isolation for 23 hours and 20 minutes. The three activists reported that they used the same mask and prison jumpsuit without getting time to shower the whole week. PSL and other organizations in the US have been raising awareness on the inhumane and unsafe conditions within prisons, especially in the light of the pandemic. The arrested organizers were in the forefront of demanding justice for Elijah McLean. 23-year-old Elijah McLean was murdered by officers from the Aurora Police Department in August 24, 2019. No police officers have been arrested for the murder until date. In fact, the district attorney Dave Young announced on June 25 this year that there was not enough evidence to rule McLean's death a homicide and punish those involved in that crime. Over the week that they were held in jail, the activists and organizers received an outpouring of support from people's movements, organizations and leftist political parties across the globe who denounced the political nature of the charges. In our next story on Thursday, the two main Palestinian groups Hamas and Fateh announced that they had reached a deal to hold the first elections in Palestine in nearly 15 years. The general secretary of the Fateh movement, Jibril Rajab, announced the deal in Ramallah and said that the elections will be held within the next six months. The delegation included Jibril Rajab from Fateh and Saleh Aruri from Hamas. The factions met in Turkey's capital, Ankara on Monday to finalize the agreement which was first reached between President Mahmoud Abbas of Fateh and the top leader of Hamas Ismail Hania earlier this month. Agreeing that divisions among Palestinian factions are led to the weakening of the movement, Rajab announced that building national unity is a strategic goal of the agreement and our path is a path to elections. The democratic process is the only way to build our political system that was the direct quote. The vote will take place in all occupied territories including Eastern Jerusalem. The agreement which was reached on Wednesday will be submitted for approval to the next meeting of the heads of Palestinian factions to be held in October 1st. Disagreements between the two main factions emerged after the surprise victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections of 2006. Since 2007, Hamas has been ruling Gaza independently while the Palestinian Authority was under Fates control. Several earlier attempts at reconciliation have failed and the recent Israeli announcement of formal annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank and the UAE-Baron Israel deal are believed to have led factions to reach the agreement. In our next story on Tuesday, Palestinian civil society groups along with scores of other groups from across the globe launched a global campaign demanding that the United Nations General Assembly to quote, assume its responsibility for investigating and ending Israeli apartheid as it did in South Africa. The campaign coincides with the 75th anniversary combination of the first sitting of the UNGA going on at the moment in New York. The campaign began with the release of a letter signed by 452 civil society organizations from across the globe. The letter says that apartheid is a crime against humanity and acknowledges the crucial role played by the UN to fight it in the past. The letter notes several previous acknowledgments by UN teams about the nature of Israeli policies inside the occupied territories. It quotes the found findings of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in December 2019 according to which Israel has a policy of policy and practice of segregation and apartheid against Palestinians on both sides of the green line. The letter also quotes the South African National Statement in the UN Human Rights Council in June this year which highlights that the proposed annexation of territories in the West Bank would be another example of the complete impunity that makes a mockery of this council and would gravely breach international laws. The signatories reiterated the long-held demands of the Palestinian people for the right to self-determination and end of Israeli occupation. They also demanded that the members of the UN General Assembly launch the investigation into the Israeli apartheid regime and hold individuals and states responsible in aiding Israel. The letter demands the reconstitution of the UN Special Committee against apartheid and the UN Centre against apartheid which was disbanded at the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa. It also calls for a ban on arms trades and all kinds of security cooperation with Israel by member states of the UNGA and prohibition of all trade in Israel with Israeli settlements inside the occupied territories. Continuing with the UN General Assembly, on Wednesday during her speech before the 75th session, the de facto President of Bolivia, Jeanine Hanez, attacked the progressive government of Argentine President Alberto Fernandez over claims of to quote her systematic and abusive harassment against Bolivia. She also accused the Argentine government of interfering in Bolivia's internal affairs and supporting a violent conspiracy. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina on behalf of the national government rejected these statements made by Hanez against the country in her speech. In a series of tweets, the Foreign Ministry stated that Hanez was trying to involve the Argentine government during the electoral campaign in the internal politics of Bolivia and they hoped that Ms. Hanez can focus her energy on holding free and transparent presidential elections on October 18th. The interim president criticized the government of Argentina for giving political asylum and refuge to Ivor Morales. Ivor Morales was overthrown in a coup in 2019. Hanez's government came into power following the violent civic military coup against Morales's democratic government of the movement of movement toward socialism. Despite her claim, however, the military and police violence and human rights violations committed in Bolivia after the coup under Hanez's rule have been the subject of reports prepared by various international organizations. The U.S. has questioned the U.N. has questioned the judicial inaction and impunity in the case of massacres committed in Sacaba and Sencata in which several people were killed by state security forces. Additionally, several national human rights and social organizations have denounced Hanez's regime numerous times for committing grave human rights violations, militarizing the territories, overseeing brutal police repression against civilians. She has also been accused by indigenous and left organizations of racist patriarchal and selective persecution of political and social leaders and their families and showing disregard for democracy and media censorship. And finally, on Friday, farmers across India took to the streets against the controversial farm bills passed in parliament. Farmers and workers unions stated that the policies seek to serve corporate interests. The protest brought economic activities to a standstill in the states of Punjab and Haryana. Protests were also held in other states such as Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, among others. At the call of the All India Kisan-Sangash Coordination Committee and Umbrella organization of 250 groups, as well as labor organizations and federations, hundreds and thousands came together for the protest. Farmers demanded that the three farm bills, which is a fear will usher in a corporatization of agriculture that can be scrapped and that a minimum legislation for support, minimum support price be enacted. Earlier this week, a much resisted voice vote amid an uproar in the upper house of parliament ensured the passage of two contentious bills. The third one was passed two days later with the opposition leader staging a walk out, describing the bills as a death warrant to farmers. On Friday, roads including national highways were blocked with tractor alleys across districts in Punjab and Haryana, the richest agricultural states, which are in the forefront of the farmers term. In the national capital Delhi, a demonstration was organized at the Jantar Mantar by the leaders of the central trade unions who pitched for workers and farmers to join hands against the policies of the center. Here is a feature in the protest that took place today. Today, our country is facing a very, very serious situation, a big challenge. This is in the form of these three bills that the BJP central government has now rammed through parliament yesterday in a totally undemocratic manner. These bills are connected not only with agriculture, although they are, but they are also connected with all other sections of the people in our country. And these three bills were passed with a very, very authoritarian way in the Rajya Sabha yesterday. This was in a way a murder of parliamentary democracy in our country. These three bills, what are they? One is the Essential Commodities Act Amendment Bill, which removes all the things like pulses, cereals, oil seeds, onion, potato from the stock thing. There is no limit to holding and therefore there will be no limit to black marketing. So, therefore it is actually an attempt to totally destroy the Essential Commodities Act, which is one guarantee for food security and proper price, which all the people can afford. This will also not help the farmers in any way. That is one bill. The second bill is which is destroying the APMC, Agricultural Produce Market Committees and which is now encouraging corporate trade in agriculture. And in short, it is going to hand over the entire trade in agriculture to the big corporate lobby headed by the Ambani's and the Adani's and others. The third one is regarding contract farming, where also the farmers are going to be left to the mercy of the corporate lobby and multinational corporations. These are all the three bills which were originally brought as ordinances by the Modi government on the 5th of June taking advantage of the Covid lockdown and now they have been rammed through parliament in these last two or three days. We are appealing to everybody, to farmers of India, to the workers of India, to the agricultural workers of India, to the middle class of India and to every single patriotic person rise against the Modi government because this Modi government is now out to throw farmers, agricultural workers, workers, even middle-class employees to the winds. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back on Monday with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.