Ecologists held direct actions against Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site and BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia—as miners from Asturias marched on Madrid against planned mine closures.
Islamist factions pushed secular Tuareg rebels out of their last foothold in breakaway northern Mali. With a sharia state now in place, the UN Security Council is weighing a request for military action by West African nations.
Belgrade Women in Black held a public vigil to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre on the 17th anniversary of the worst single atrocity in the Bosnian genocide July 11. Banners read “We Remember Genocide of Srebrenica” and “Solidarity.” Photo: Women in Black See… Read moreBelgrade Women in Black remember Srebrenica
Riot police sealed off the streets of Haliut town in Inner Mongolia June 19, as traditional Mongol herders launched a protest march in response to what they call a government-backed land-grab of their ancestral grazing areas. Under a new “Five-Year… Read moreTraditional herders protest in Inner Mongolia
Plans by China’s government for the “resettlement” of the country’s last remaining nomads over the next five years have sparked protests in Inner Mongolia, with traditional Mongol herders accusing authorities of land-grabbing.
After marching by the hundreds in Bogotá, displaced Embera indigenous people won a pledge from Colombia’s government to return their lands usurped by paramilitaries—as an Embera leader was assassinated in Córdoba.
Construction workers with the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP) marched in Lima to support the struggle against the Conga gold mine project—and press their own demands of better pay and working conditions.
On July 6, in a silent mass demonstration that filled the central plaza of Celendín town, last rites were held for three of the five campesinos killed in protests against the Conga mine project in Peru’s northern region of Cajamarca… Read morePeru: Cajamarca martyrs put to rest amid ongoing civil strike
With elections underway in Libya, “federalists” demanding a greater share of power in the east of the country are blocking roads and oil terminals to enforce their call for a boycott—bringing oil exports nearly to a halt.
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla was condemned to 50 years in prison for the abduction of babies of “disappeared” dissidents. Another former dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, received 15 years on related charges.
Sendero Luminoso guerillas scored two attacks on army “counter-terrorist bases” in as many weeks, leaving one solider dead and one wounded. One attack was in Huancavelica, far outside Sendero’s usual jungle territory.
Bolivian police used tear gas, pepper spray and blasts from a water cannon mounted on an armored vehicle against protesters at the camp established by the Ninth Indigenous March just off Plaza Murillo in central La Paz.
