On March 5, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM), the global union federation for oil workers, issued a call for “strong condemnation” by supporters of workers’ rights of US-led military raids on union offices… Read moreUS raids Iraqi oil workers; union calls for solidarity
A suicide car bomber barreled into a flatbed truck packed with some 70 Shi’ite pilgrims March 11, leaving at least 32 dead. The latest attacks followed a week in which hundreds of Shi’ite pilgrims were killed trying to reach the… Read moreIraq: more Shi’ite pilgrims killed
Via Save Tibet, dated March 10: The Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Forty-Eighth Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising On the occasion of the forty-eighth anniversary of the Tibetan people’s peaceful uprising in Lhasa in 1959,… Read moreDalai Lama: continue struggle for Tibet autonomy
From Phayul.com, March 11 (links added): NEW YORK – As the Tibetans all over the world commemorate the 48th Tibetan National Uprising day hundreds of Tibetans walked with pro-independence banners, placards and Tibetan national flags in the heart of New… Read moreTibetans march in NYC
Abu Abduallah Ahmad, financial officer of the so-called “al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb,” confirmed to AlJazeera’s Morocco office that his group was responsible for two attacks in Algeria over the March 3-4 weekend that killed seven police and four… Read moreAlgeria: Islamist insurgency back on?
From No War, No Warming: Fight Climate Change, Not Wars for Oil! It’s time to bridge the divide between the peace movement and the climate action movement. For far too long, our groups have been working on one or the… Read moreNew coalition bridges Iraq war, climate change
From the Iraq Freedom Congress, March 6: Iraq Freedom Congress supports the Teachers Strike in Althawra (Sadr City) A strike by education staff of more than 21 high schools that began last week continues into its second week. School staff,… Read moreIraq: teachers strike in Sadr City
From the Iraq Freedom Congress, March 6: The Safety Force Save Tens of Innocent Lives in Baghdad The IFC Safety Force discovered that a car parked in Babalsharqi region in the middle of Baghdad was rigged for detonation and was… Read moreIraq: civil resistance Safety Force averts terror attack
From Military Families Speak Out, March 8: Military Families Oppose House Democratic Leadership Plan for Iraq MFSO Says Pelosi Plan Condemns at Least 1,500 Troops to Death Washington D.C. — Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), an organization of over 3,200… Read moreMilitary families oppose Pelosi plan
From Reuters, March 8: More than a million Muslim pilgrims packed Senegal’s remote northeastern city of Touba on Thursday as members of the powerful Mouride brotherhood flocked to “Africa’s Mecca” from across the world. Huge crowds moved shoulder to shoulder… Read moreSenegal: million pilgrims honor Sufi saint
Niger’s military reports killing at least five “armed bandits” in a remote Saharan region still largely outside state control more than 10 years after the end of a rebellion by desert nomads. A defense ministry statement said soldiers seized three… Read moreNiger: Tuareg revolt back on?
OK, Fox News may be touting this story for bad, Islamophobic reasons. One of the ironies of our times is that jingoistic propagandists like Fox are bashing US allies like Saudi Arabia, while “progressives” in the West are lining up… Read moreSaudi Arabia: woman sentenced to 90 lashes for getting raped
