Tens of thousands of Mexican workers, tradespeople, doctors and nurses, oil workers, telephone workers, miners, teachers, parents, students and campesinos demonstrated on Sept. 1 to protest the economic policies of President Felipe CalderĂłn Hinojosa as he presented Congress with the… Read moreMexico: mass protests meet state of union address
Infuriated by a delay in service, hundreds of Argentines attacked trains and facilities of the TCB company in two stations outside Buenos Aires on Sept. 4. Protests started when a commuter train broke down near the Castelar station west of… Read moreArgentina: irate passengers torch commuter train
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales ordered the expulsion of the US ambassador Sept. 10, charging him with inciting violent opposition protests. “The ambassador of the United States is conspiring against democracy and wants Bolivia to break apart,” Morales said at the… Read moreBolivia: US ambassador expelled amid “civil war” fears
Four protesters descended from a redwood at UC Berkeley Sept. 9, after 21 months—648 days—of occupying a contested campus grove. Protesters sought to stop construction of a $124-million athletic center, but a court injunction on the construction was recently lifted…. Read moreBerkeley tree-sit ends after 21 months
When Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev formally recognized Georgia’s separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, activists in the Russian autonomous region of Tatarstan reacted quickly. The All-Tatar Civic Center published an appeal for Moscow’s recognition of Tatarstan’s independence. Rashit Akhmetov,… Read moreNext: Free Tatarstan?
Spanish Judge Balthasar GarzĂłn has ordered government and religious authorities across Spain to turn over information about those killed at the hands of Francisco Franco’s fascist forces following his 1936 military uprising. GarzĂłn hopes to draw up a comprehensive list… Read moreSpanish Civil War “truth commission”?
A NATO air-strike in Afghanistan’s Khost province missed its target Sept. 9, striking a house, killing two civilians and wounding 10. NATO said their forces were targeting an insurgent position when a weapon accidentally misfired, veering one and a half… Read moreAfghanistan: NATO air-strike wipes out more civilians
Iraqi state employees affiliated with the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI), following a campaign of demonstrations in central Baghdad that began Aug. 24, won an agreement from the Ministry of Finance to meet demands for… Read moreIraq: Baghdad workers win —despite death threats
From Human Rights Watch, Sept. 8: Afghanistan: Civilian Deaths From Airstrikes on the Rise Airstrikes Cause Public Backlash, Undermine Protection Efforts New York – Civilian deaths in Afghanistan from US and NATO airstrikes nearly tripled from 2006 to 2007, with… Read moreAfghanistan: Human Rights Watch blasts civilian casualties
About 1,500 people marched through the streets of Denver, Colo., on Aug. 28, the final day of the four-day Democratic National Convention there, to press for immigrant justice. The march was organized by American Friends Service Committee and sponsored by… Read moreImmigrants march in Denver
On Aug. 31, more than 100 activists from a coalition of organizations concluded a four-day march along the route of a new border fence which the US federal government claims will help stop immigrants crossing from Mexico. The march opposing… Read moreTexas: marchers oppose border fence
On Aug. 29, US District Judge Sam A. Lindsay issued a final judgment permanently preventing the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch from enforcing an ordinance that would have required landlords to verify the immigration status of tenants. Lindsay ruled that… Read moreTexas town’s immigrant rental ban overturned
