Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Bal has started a hunger strike, claiming that he was subjected to violence and pressure following his arrest June 8. The Istanbul branch of Turkey’s Human Rights Association and Antimilitarist Initiative said in a press release… Read moreTurkey: conscientious objector on hunger strike
A statement from the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq, via the Iraq Freedom Congress, June 7: The Ministry of Industry and Minerals Privatizes Its Companies Brothers and sisters in the working class: Amid chaos and lawlessness,… Read moreIraqi labor protests privatization
On his June 8 Sunday TV program, Alo Presidente, Venezeula’s President Hugo Chávez called on Colombia’s FARC guerillas to lay down arms, saying: “Guerilla warfare has passed from history, and you in the FARC should know one thing: you have… Read moreChávez to FARC: chill out; FARC to Chávez: watch out
From Anarchist Black Cross-Osaka via the 325 Collective, June 6: Anarchist in Kansai area (West Japan) arrested in G8 preparations—Solidarity needed! Tabi Rounin, better known as ‘Rebel_Jill’ has been detained by police on minor charges in the run-up to the… Read moreJapanese activist arrested in countdown to G8 summit
Turkey’s military is cooperating with Iran by sharing information and coordinating strikes against PKK guerillas in northern Iraq, commander of the Turkish Land Forces Ilker Basbug said on June 5. “We are sharing intelligence with Iran, we are talking, we… Read moreTurkey cooperates with Iran against PKK
Israeli forces again violently broke up a peaceful demonstration against the construction of the separation wall in the West Bank village of Nil’in June 8, shooting a foreign cameraman with a rubber-coated bullet. Three protesters were injured and three arrested,… Read moreWest Bank: Israeli forces again attack anti-wall protest
From the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, June 5: On May 29, 2008, three Palestinian Left organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestine People’s Party,… Read morePFLP, DFLP announce initiative for united Palestinian left front
On June 2, ICE announced that its eight fugitive operations teams in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area had arrested a total of 491 immigrants during a month-long operation in May. Out of the total 491 people arrested, 347 were… Read more1,800 arrested in ICE “fugitive” sweeps
From the Global Forest Coalition, June 5: A Black Day for the Environment: False Solutions to Food Crisis will Escalate Starvation, Accelerate Climate Change and Devastate Biodiversity Rome — The Global Forest Coalition, a worldwide coalition of environmental NGOs and… Read moreEcologists blast Rome food summit
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro June 2 told reporters that US Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte—leading Washington’s delegation to the 38th session of the Organization of American States general assembly in Medellín—is “a little official with a criminal… Read moreVenezuelan foreign minister disses “criminal” Negroponte
At the 47th US-Mexico Interparliamentary Commission, held June 6 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexican politicians from all of the three leading parties protested the imposition of human rights conditions on aid recently approved by Washington under the Mérida Initiative, popularly… Read moreMexican lawmakers oppose Mérida Initiative rights conditions
On June 4, a detachment of some 200 Mexican army troops and federal police in a convoy of ten vehicles led by an armored personnel carrier occupied several communities around the Zapatista settlement of La Garrucha, on the edge of… Read moreChiapas: army occupies Zapatista communities in “anti-drug” ops
