from Weekly News Update on the Americas: Guatemala: Three Salvadoran Reps Murdered; Accused Killers Follow Them to Grave Three Salvadoran legislative deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) were murdered along with their driver on the afternoon of Feb. 19… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOS
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On March 24, two separate but nearly simultaneous marches were held in Buenos Aires to mark the anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 coup and remember the 30,000 people who were disappeared by the military… Read moreARGENTINA: DIRTY WAR AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: DIRTY WAR AND HISTORICAL MEMORYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On March 19 the Cincinnati-based banana company Chiquita Brands International formally admitted that its wholly owned Colombian subsidiary Banadex paid a total $1.7 million to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY SCANDAL AND CORPORATE POWER
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY SCANDAL AND CORPORATE POWERHow a Yippie conspiracist changed America, mainstreamed marijuana and was destroyed by his dream… Thomas K. Forçade was one of the most influential figures of the counterculture, and changed American culture as much as his confederates Abbie Hoffman and Larry… Read moreTOM FORÇADE: UNSUNG HERO OF THE COUNTER-CULTURE
Continue ReadingTOM FORÇADE: UNSUNG HERO OF THE COUNTER-CULTUREReal Change on Anti-Woman “Hudood” Laws? by Abira Ashfaq, Peacework In November 2006, women in Pakistan and around the world celebrated the passage of the Women’s Protection Bill, a rare instance of positive legislative reform offering some relief from Pakistan’s… Read moreRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTAN
Continue ReadingRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTANIsrael and its Allies Instrument Social Disaster by Jennifer Bing-Canar and Adam Horowitz, Peacework 2006 marked yet another difficult year for residents of the Gaza Strip. In the words of John Ging, the Gaza-based director of the United Nations Relief… Read moreGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGE
Continue ReadingGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGESuccessor Factions to the Islamic Courts Union by Osman Yusuf, WW4 REPORT The downfall of the Islamic militants who had control over most of south and central Somalia until late last year has created a power vacuum that the transitional… Read moreSOMALIA: THE NEW RESISTANCE
Continue ReadingSOMALIA: THE NEW RESISTANCEShi’ite Insurgency in Washington’s Strategic Red Sea Ally by Mohamed Al-Azaki, WW4 REPORT He heard the military helicopters coming, Dr. Ali al-Wadiee told reporters in Al-Ruzamat, a small village situated amid the volcanic mountains of Yemen’s remote north, near the… Read moreYEMEN: ON THE BRINK OF SECTARIAN WAR
Continue ReadingYEMEN: ON THE BRINK OF SECTARIAN WARMore than 1,000 immigration detainees held a two-day hunger strike at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, according to the consul general of El Salvador in Georgia, Asdrubal Aguilar. The Atlanta Latino newspaper reported the protest in a March… Read moreICE detainees protest in Georgia
On March 26, a Border Patrol shot and killed a man who allegedly threatened him with a rock in Calexico, California, on the border with Mexico. The agent fired an M-4 assault rifle at the man, who was apparently trying… Read moreCalifornia: border agent kills migrant
On the night of March 23, four young people associated with the anarchist punk fanzine Pensares Y Sentires were arbitrarily attacked, beaten and detained by police on the outskirts of Oaxaca City. The black-clad attackers, who repeatedly fired their pistols… Read moreAnarcho-punks attacked by police in Oaxaca
