From AP, Dec. 14 via Chiapas95: MEXICO CITY — A group of about 300 Mazahua Indians briefly seized a water treatment plant on Mexico City’s western outskirts Wednesday and temporarily cut off one of the main sources of water for… Read moreMazahua Indians cut off water to Mexico City
Another turn of the screw. From AlJazeera, Dec. 13, emphasis added: A Guantanamo prisoner who won a landmark US Supreme Court ruling in June lost his bid to challenge his detention when a federal judge dismissed the case because of… Read moreUS judge dismisses Gitmo case
Another sign of de-escalation in Oaxaca? From AP, Dec. 11: OAXACA – A labor group allied with the government of the southern state of Oaxaca announced on Monday that it was ending a controversial, 1 1/2-year blockade of the offices… Read moreOaxaca: siege ends at opposition newspaper
From The Guardian, Dec. 13: Bushmen forced out of the Kalahari desert by Botswana’s government won a landmark legal victory today as the country’s high court ruled they had been illegally removed and should be allowed to return. The panel… Read moreKalahari Bushmen win land battle
Hermann Bellinghausen noted some salient comments in his report from Zapatista Subcommander Marcos’ tour stop at Bagdad Beach (on the Rio Grande, just outside Matamoros) for La Jornada, Nov. 24. Via Chiapas95: BAGDAD, Tamaulipas – December 1, the day that… Read moreSubcommander Marcos: revolution or civil war
From La Jornada, Dec. 11 via Chiapas95 (our translation): GUADALAJARA – Some 100 sympathizers of the popular movement in Oaxaca announced the formation of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Jalisco (APPJ), whose primary aim will be “the unity… Read more“Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Jalisco” proclaimed
Growing signs of a revolutionary convergence in Mexico—open solidarity between the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). From AP, Dec. 11 via Chiapas95: OAXACA – A leader of Mexico’s largest… Read moreOaxaca: PRD marches for APPO
More fodder for our ongoing Irony Watch. We have little doubt that Mengistu is guilty of genocide. But—as we have had the unfortunate duty to point out—so, it seems, are Ethiopia’s current rulers, if not quite on the same scale…. Read moreEthiopia: Mengistu found guilty of genocide
In our last post about the Holocaust denail confab in Iran, we asked whether the rumors are true that anti-Zionist writer Norman G. Finkelstein is participating. Alan “torture could be justified” Dershowitz explores the question on the ostensibly liberal Huffington… Read moreIs Norman Finkelstein at Tehran Holocaust-denial confab?
Mexican federal police searched the offices of Oaxaca’s state police forces Dec. 8, seizing hundreds of weapons. The federal Public Security Secretariat said in a statement that the search was carried out to check the permits for weapons used by… Read moreMexican feds raid Oaxaca state police; violence continues in countryside
From India’s Zee News, Dec. 10, link added: LONDON — Protests are planned around the world on Sunday against the mass rape of women and girls allegedly by Sudanese government soldiers and allied militiamen in Sudan’s western Darfur region. “A… Read moreWorldwide protests against rape in Darfur Dec. 10
Got your scorecard out? Quick, which side is the US backing here? From Reuters, Dec. 9: N’DJAMENA – The Chadian army clashed with rebels in eastern Chad on Saturday during several hours of heavy fighting in the desert, rebel and… Read moreFierce fighting in east Chad
