Ex-UK prime minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth is among ten peace activists who arrived in Gaza by sea last month and remain stuck there, denied entry by both Israel and Egypt. Israeli authorities allowed the boat to dock Aug…. Read moreInternational peace activists stranded in Gaza
Journalist Amy Goodman was arrested in St. Paul, Minn., where she was covering the RNC protests Sept. 1. Goodman was arrested along with Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, who are still being held. Ramsey County authorities… Read moreIndependent journalists targeted in Twin Cities repression
On Aug. 27 Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice voted 11-3 to uphold an April 2007 law in the Federal District (DF, Mexico City) allowing voluntary abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The Catholic Church and the governing center-right… Read moreMexico: Supreme Court upholds abortion law
On Aug. 21 Alberto Cervantes Juarez, first criminal court judge in Texcoco for the central Mexican state of Mexico, sentenced campesino leader Ignacio del Valle Medina to 45 years in prison for allegedly kidnapping state officials and state and federal… Read moreMexico: new sentences in Atenco case
Most of the 23,000 school teachers in the central Mexican state of Morelos went on strike on Aug. 13 to protest the local implementation of a national plan called the Alliance for Quality of Education (ACE). The teachers, in Local… Read moreMexico: Morelos teachers strike
On Aug. 28 a federal criminal court in the northwestern Argentine province of Tucumán sentenced former generals Antonio Domingo Bussi and Luciano Benjamin Menendez to life in prison for the kidnapping, torture and disappearance of ex-senator Guillermo Vargas Aignasse in… Read moreArgentina: two generals get life
Electronic Journal & Daily Report BIG OIL AND THE BIG EASY Catastrophe and Counterinsurgency in New Orleans by Frank Morales, The Shadow NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC HOUSING DEFENDERS FACE TERROR CHARGES by Bill Weinberg, AlterNet THE PERMANENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON COLOMBIA… Read moreIssue #149, September 2008
by Jane Guskin, The Huffington Post On August 6, 34-year-old immigration detainee Hiu Lui Ng died in Rhode Island, in severe pain from a fractured spine and terminal cancer which went undiagnosed and untreated over the year he spent in… Read moreIMMIGRATION DETENTION: THE CASE FOR ABOLITION
Continue ReadingIMMIGRATION DETENTION: THE CASE FOR ABOLITIONby Marc Becker, Upside Down World In a lengthy meeting on July 29, Ecuador’s highland Indigenous organization Ecuarunari decided to support in a tepid and tentative manner President Rafael Correa’s project of rewriting the country’s constitution. Ecuarunari (the Confederation of… Read moreINDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORT ECUADOR’S NEW CONSTITUTION
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORT ECUADOR’S NEW CONSTITUTIONResolutions of the Extraordinary Assembly of the Confederation of the Peoples of the Kichwa Nationality of Ecuador (Ecuarunari) In the city of Quito, on July 29, 2008, 500 delegates of the Pasto, Otavalo, Karanki, Natabuela, Kayambi, Kitu Kara, Panzaleo, Salasaca,… Read moreECUARUNARI RESOLUTIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS
Continue ReadingECUARUNARI RESOLUTIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESSVerdict Charges Corporations With License to Kill by Dawn Paley, Upside Down World July 23 marked the end of a two-and-a-half year process carried out by the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (TPP) in Bogotá, Colombia. A panel of international judges, including… Read moreTHE PERMANENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON COLOMBIA
Continue ReadingTHE PERMANENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON COLOMBIAby Bill Weinberg, AlterNet A trial is about to open in New Orleans of housing activists Jamie “Bork” Laughner and Joy Kohler—who face charges of criminal trespass and possession of a “fake explosive device” following civil disobedience arrests at public… Read moreNEW ORLEANS PUBLIC HOUSING DEFENDERS FACE TERROR CHARGES
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS PUBLIC HOUSING DEFENDERS FACE TERROR CHARGES
