From the Center for Constitutional Rights via Buzzflash, March 6: US to Put 14 Ghost Detainees From CIA Black Sites Before Sham Tribunals at Guantanamo Today the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a statement in response to the news that… Read more“Ghost detainees” from secret CIA gulag to Gitmo tribunals
Jumal Juma, coordinator of the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, writes for Electronic Intifada, March 5: Open Letter to the People of Six Nations On the anniversary of the Six Nations Land Reclamation we express our solidarity to you and… Read morePalestinian solidarity with Iroquois land struggle
Seven Colombian soldiers and 11 guerillas were killed over the March 3-4 weekend in the heaviest combat in recent months. Gen. Alejandro Navas, commander of the military’s Omega joint task force, said engagements began early March 3 with a large… Read moreColombia: new violence on eastern plains
From Friends of Brad Will, March 1: Friends of Murdered US Journalist in DC Advocate for Investigation and End to Impunity The Friends of Brad Will attended the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Oversight Hearing Overview of U.S. Policy Toward… Read moreOaxaca: US Congress demands answers in Brad Will case
On Feb. 26 the Center for Economic and Political Investigations of Community Action (CIEPAC), a non-governmental organization based in San Cristobal de las Casas in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, received a note reading: “Enjoy your last day. We… Read moreChiapas: rights group threatened
Armed with clubs, rocks and machetes, at least 3,000 Nahuatl indigenous people blocked roads in Soledad Atzompa municipality in the central eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Feb. 26 and 27 to demand the removal of the military from the… Read moreVeracruz: army accused in rape death
A petition from the Organization of Women’s Liberation in Iran (OWLI): To: all progressive organizations and all freedom-loving people Your help is urgently needed to release 36 women activists in Tehran! 4th March 2007, a gathering of women activists in… Read moreIran: women activists attacked
A statement from the Organization of Women’s Liberation in Iran (OWLI): Azar Majedi in a round table discussion with BBC Radio Scotland: Military attack on Iran is a human and environmental tragedy in the region! On 25 February 2007, Azar… Read moreIran: civil opposition rejects US aggression
A statement from the international women’s rights group MADRE: On February 26, 2007, Houzan Mahmoud, an international representative of MADRE’s sister organization, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, received an e-mail signed by Ansar al-Islam, the notoriously brutal jihadist… Read moreIraq: death threats against women’s rights defender
Australian “peacekeeping” troops killed four in a raid on rebels in East Timor March 4, but their leader Alfredo Reinado escaped. Reinado, who deserted the army last year and is wanted for his alleged role in deadly clashes that brought… Read moreDisplacement crisis, growing Australian intervention in East Timor
Increasing violence between guerillas and government forces in Central African Republic (CAR) has displaced an estimated 220,000 people, including 150,000 “internally displaced persons” (IDPs) and 66,000 refugees who have fled to Chad and Cameroon. In December, France sent special forces… Read moreDisplacement crisis, French intervention in Central African Republic
The potential for Iraqi Kurdistan to be the flashpoint for a wider regional conflict is becoming increasingly clear. On March 1, a former member of the Turkish National Security Council (MGK) weighed in on the brewing crisis in Kirkuk, which… Read moreTurkey rattles sabre at Iraqi Kurds; Kurdish guerillas attack Iran
