Tens of thousands of public school teachers in the Teachers’ Federation of Puerto Rico (FMPR), the country’s largest union, are set to go on strike sometime after Feb. 1 in defiance of the Puerto Rican government and parts of the… Read morePuerto Rico: teachers set to strike —in defiance of government
This year the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland in late January, was focused on a financial crisis that shook world stock markets Jan. 18-21—the worst in 60 years, according to… Read moreDavos weighs world financial crisis
As of Jan. 27 Chilean activist Patricia Troncoso Robles had rejected an Interior Ministry offer to ease her prison conditions if she would end the hunger strike she started 109 days earlier to demand the release of 20 indigenous Mapuche… Read moreChile: Mapuche activist continues fast
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice visited Colombia on Jan. 24 and 25, meeting with right-wing president Alvaro Uribe in MedellÃn at the end of the trip. The high-level delegation, including US legislators, was intended to show support for Uribe… Read moreColombia: Rice pushes “free trade” accord
There is real possibility for peace between the Colombian government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according to Antonio Navarro Wolf, a former rebel who is now governor of the southern department of Nariño and a leader… Read moreColombia: give peace a chance?
Simón Trinidad [nom de guerre of Ricardo Palmera Piñeda], the FARC’s well-known prisoner-exchange negotiator, was today sentenced to 60 years in prison in Federal District Court in Washington, DC. Several months ago, Trinidad was found guilty of conspiracy to take… Read moreFARC negotiator gets Colombia’s max —in US prison
From the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN), Jan. 28: Accountability for Suharto’s Crimes Must Not Die With Him Indonesia’s former dictator General Suharto has died in bed and not in jail, escaping justice for his numerous crimes in… Read moreSuharto’s death to betray historical memory?
Spain’s Justice Minister Mariano Fernandez Bermejo said Jan. 23 he will ask the Spanish cabinet to outlaw Basque Nationalist Action (ANV) and the Communist Party of the Basque Lands (EHAK) on grounds that they are part of Batasuna, the nationalist… Read moreSpain moves to ban more Basque parties
Some 1,000 anti-fascist activists gathered on Jan. 19 in Pilsen, Czech Republic, to commemorate the victims of Nazi terror. The date marked the 66th anniversary of the deportation of Pilsen’s Jews. The night before, local “anti-fa” in Pribram, Jan Kucera,… Read moreNeo-Nazis kill Czech anti-fascist
A new “manifesto” from five senior Western military commanders finds: “The risk of further [nuclear] proliferation is imminent and, with it, the danger that nuclear war fighting, albeit limited in scope, might become possible. The first use of nuclear weapons… Read moreNATO “manifesto” calls for pre-emptive nuclear strike option
“Laplandian” posts to Infoshop News, Jan. 26: The government of Leningrad Oblast (Saint-Petersburg Region) is planning to expand the Ust-Luga Seaport, which is to become the largest seaport in Russia. According to the plan, all villages nearby the construction site… Read moreRussian seaport expansion threatens indigenous villages
The proposed 2,100-acre expansion of Canada-based Cameco’s Crow Butte Resources uranium mine near Crawford in western Nebraska is meeting opposition from members of the Oglala Sioux (Lakota) Tribe, including proponents of commercial hemp cultivation as an economic alternative for the… Read moreLakota oppose expansion of uranium operations
