The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) is requesting international support for a campaign to free three imprisoned trade union leaders in Eritrea. Tewelde Ghebremedhin, chair of Eritrea’s IUF-affiliated food and beverage… Read moreTrade unionists imprisoned in Eritrea
Among the commemorations around the world of the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany was a memorial service at Boston’s Faneuil Hall marking the liberation of the death camps. Around 20 members of a neo-Nazi group from… Read moreNeo-Nazis crash Holocaust commemoration
The Spanish anarchist website A Las Barricadas reports that Nicolás Neira Alvarez, a 15-year-old student who was marching with an anarchist contingent May 1 in Bogota when it was attacked by the riot police, has died of injuries sustained that… Read moreDeath in Bogota Mayday violence
Positive developments are reported in the case of two Muslim immigrant girls in New York City detained following spurious suspicion of plotting suicide attacks. Reports the NY Times May 7: One girl, an immigrant from Guinea, was back in her… Read moreImmigrant girls released
Did anyone catch this one? What a shame the EU wimped out… On April 21 the United Nations Commission on Human Rights voted 22-8 with 23 abstentions against a resolution proposed by Cuba for the organization to investigate charges of… Read moreUN rejects Cuban call for Gitmo probe
Hey, anyone remember Haiti? At least five Haitians were killed on April 27 in an exchange of fire between police and demonstrators during a march in Port-au-Prince. Police agents, many wearing black cloth masks over their faces, were seen firing… Read moreHaiti: cops kill five in demo
The “peak oil” phenomenon, which has so far received more serious treatment in the foreign press than here in the USA, is starting to break through to the mainstream–at least among the business media. On May 4, Bloomberg.com opinion columnist… Read moreAre you ready for $100/barrel oil?
Its back to the drawing board yet again for the fractious fraternity of moguls and bureaucrats charged with overseeing redevelopment of Lower Manhattan’s Ground Zero, site of the 9-11 disaster, which still sits empty (but for a new trans-Hudson rail… Read moreNYC gets second chance: Don’t rebuild it!
Sent to us by New York’s Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants is this action alert in the case of two Muslim immigrant girls detained following spurious suspicion of plotting suicide attacks: Vigil to Release Detained Youth! Get on… Read moreVigil for detained immigrant girls
From VOA, May 4: At least 14 people are now dead following an explosion that rocked a soccer stadium in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as the prime minister addressed his supporters. The cause of Tuesday’s blast is still unknown. Prime… Read moreBlast in Somalia; Uganda delays troop deployment
From a May 3 report in South Africa’s Cape Times: Cape Town – With the rapid decline of global oil supplies, the United States is heading for an economic crash unlike anything since the 1930s. And the collapse of the dollar… Read moreIraq and “peak oil”: Its a “resource war,” stupid!
A tribal woman in India’s Andaman Islands who was paid just two rupees, or four cents, in compensation for damage to her coconut groves by the December tsunami has angrily returned the check from the local government, an official acknowledged…. Read moreIndia: four cents for tsunami aid
