This Sept. 6 report from Computer World hails a victory for the privacy rights of cyberscenti, but as we have noted, this also concerns us old-school types who go to libraries and read books. (We know, how quaint.) Judge: Court… Read morePatriot Act provision ruled unconstitutional
The Indo-Asian News Service is justly proud of Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance in this Sept. 5 account. New York City is fast becoming a laboratory for the new surveillance state, and the heroic taxi drivers… Read moreNYC: taxi drivers resist Big Brother
Sri Lanka’s government is dividing districts in the east to prevent a Tamil homeland being created, potentially spoiling chances for a peace settlement, charged R. Sampanthan, parliamentary leader of the Tamil National Alliance party. The aim is to create an… Read moreSri Lanka: districts redrawn to exclude Tamils?
Twenty Burmese security officials taken captive for several hours by Buddhist monks were released unharmed Sept. 6. The officials had arrived at the monastery in the town of Pakokku to apologize for injuries caused during a protest on the previous… Read moreBurma: Buddhist monks challenge dictatorship
The Secretary of the Navy Sept. 5 handed down letters of censure to three US Marine officers for improper performance of duties in the reporting and investigation of the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha in November 2005. A… Read moreMarine officers censured in Haditha probe
From Newsday, Sept. 4: Brooklyn boy dies after being struck by two cars A Queens driver is facing a felony charge after he fled a Brooklyn accident in which a 7-year-old boy was struck by two vehicles and killed as… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Bush’s Sept. 3 visit to Iraq was his first not involving a stop in Baghdad. Instead he visited the former Sunni-insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, in what The Wall Street Journal calls a “a symbolic nod to the emerging administration… Read moreIraq: WSJ paints rosy scenarios
Two successive suicide bomb blasts hit the central Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing at least 24 and wounding more than 60 early Sept. 4. The first bomber detonated his exposives on a bus carrying government workers. Minutes later, a… Read morePakistan terror: “tentacles” from Tribal Areas
An Aug. 24 Amnesty International press release claimed new photo evidence showing that the Sudanese government continues to deploy offensive military equipment in Darfur, despite the UN arms embargo. “Once again Amnesty International calls on the UN Security Council to… Read moreDarfur: arms flow continues, Janjaweed fractures
A Mexican federal judge in Chiapas sentenced 18 Tzotzil Maya men to 26 years in prison Aug. 28 on homicide and weapons charges for having participated in the massacre of 45 unarmed Tzotzils at the hamlet of Acteal on Dec…. Read moreChiapas: 18 sentenced in Acteal massacre
Members of the “Other Campaign” activist network marched in Mexico City Aug. 26 in protest of the recent evictions of campesino communities from the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in the conflicted southern state of Chiapas. (Expreso Chiapas, Aug. 27) On… Read moreChiapas: Montes Azules evictions protested
Juan Carlos “El Konan” GarcÃa Cruz, a member of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) was sentenced to three years in prison by a Mexican federal court in Oaxaca City Aug. 26 on arms possession charges. While several APPO… Read moreOaxaca: APPO activist gets prison term
