On Aug. 30 thousands of workers marched in Mexico City from the Angel of Independence to the central plaza, the Zocalo, to protest what they called the “anti-union and anti-worker” policies of President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, of the center-right National… Read moreMexico City: terror scare as workers march
In Chicontepec, Veracruz, members of the “Other Campaign in la Huasteca” activist network issued a statement Aug. 31 protesting the “disappearance” of three of the 10 Nahua campesinos detained at a June land occupation and since freed pending charges against… Read moreCampesinos “disappeared” in Veracruz
On Aug. 27, the ACLU announced a settlement with ICE that improves conditions for immigrant children and their families inside the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas, a former medium security prison managed for ICE by the for-profit… Read moreSuit settled over ICE detention of children
On Aug. 31, Judge Maxine M. Chesney of the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Social Security Administration (SSA) from sending “no-match” letters to companies whose employees’… Read moreJudge halts Social Security “no match” letters
Shades of the Niger Delta in Yemen. From Reuters, Sept. 1: ADEN – A Yemeni tribe has freed two foreign engineers and their Yemeni driver, a government source said on Saturday, after the military threatened to storm the area to… Read moreYemen: tribesmen abduct foreign engineers
300 police backed up by helicopters beseiging a small rural town? Starting to look like counterinsurgency in Calabria. From the New York Times, Aug. 31: Fears of Mob Feud Lead to Arrest of 32 in Italy ROME — The Italian… Read more’Ndrangheta wars militarize southern Italy
We got sick just reading about it. Good news the New Zealand cops turned it down. Bad news that it exists. From NZ’s The Press, Aug. 15: Police pass on acquiring ‘vomit torch’ It is enough to make you sick… Read moreSecurity industry unveils “vomit torch”
Our August issue featured the story “Iran: The Anti-Imperialist Case Against Nuclear Power” by Reza Fiyouzat, a reprint from the online journal Dissident Voice, arguing that nuclear development under an undemocratic regime such as Tehran’s merely plays into Washington’s interventionist… Read moreNuclear development in Iran: our readers write
From AP, Aug. 28: Mexico has broken its record for the most extraditions to the United States in a year, shipping a man north of the border Tuesday who is wanted in Georgia for drug trafficking. Hilario Larrago, who faces… Read moreMexico breaks extradition record
From Amnesty International, Aug. 23: Evictions crisis deepens for Palestinian villagers The Israeli army has increased efforts to force Palestinian villagers out of the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, by destroying villagers’ homes and restricting their movement… Read moreAI protests Jordan Valley evictions
From Amnesty International, Aug. 23: Iran: Authorities thwart campaign for gender equality Women’s rights activists in Iran face imprisonment. Activists campaigning for gender equality in Iran are unable to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and association, as shown… Read moreAI protests arrests of women activists in Iran
From Fox News, Aug. 28: Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over… Read moreCartoon wars back on?
