Demonstrators gathered in Paris to mark the 50th anniversary of a police massacre of Algerian anti-war protesters that has become one of the most shameful episodes of modern French history—still officially denied by the state.
The populace of border towns have fled into the bush ahead of feared clashes, as Kenya sends troops into Somalia to hunt down Shabab insurgents. Shabab protested the “affront to Somalia’s sovereignty” and threatened retaliation within Kenya.
Greek protesters clashed with police in central Athens after Prime Minister George Papandreou vowed to push through a further round of austerity measures. Some 70,000 converged on Syntagma at the start of a declared 48-hour general strike.
Northern California songster-activist Darryl Cherney returns to his native New York for a sneak preview of his film Who Bombed Judi Bari?—exploring the 1990 terror attack on ecological defenders of some of the last surviving ancient redwoods.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, in the third Internet edition of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, discusses 150 years of social struggle on New York's Lower East Side in light of the Wall Street protests.
At least 20 inmates were killed and 12 injured in rioting at a prison in the violence-torn Mexican border city of Matamoros. Federal and state police as well as army troops were brought in to help guards restore control of the facility.
The Occupy Wall Street movement reports demonstrations in over 1,500 cities across the globe Saturday, including over 100 US cities from coast to coast. Scores were arrested in New York, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Sacramento and San Diego.
Striking workers at Libya’s Waha Oil firm, which operates in a joint venture with US companies, agreed to return to work after the government said it will dismiss chairman Bashir Elshahab, accused of being a crony of ousted dictator Moammar Qaddafi.
In a podcast from Death Row at a “super-max” prison in Pennsylvania, Mumia Abu-Jamal spoke in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Supporters are demanding he be transferred from Death Row after a favorable Supreme Court ruling.
Despite a new law that supposedly halts the controversial highway through the Bolivian rainforest, construction in fact continues. Supporters of President Evo Morales rallied in La Paz in favor of the road, as the cross-country march in protest of it continues.
The indigenous Aché community of Chupa Pou in Paraguay sent warriors armed with bows and arrows into a 2,000-hectare area to defend it from Brazilian farmers who had invaded the land, in violation of Aché territorial rights recognized by Paraguayan law.
President Omar al-Bashir announced that Sudan will adopt an Islamic constitution based on sharia law now that the mostly Christian south has seceded. The creation of an Islamic state raises grave concerns the one million southerners living in Sudan.
