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Iranian solidarity with Oaxaca

Received via Chiapas95, Jan. 16: Hello, My name is Bina Darabzand. From Tehran, Iran. I run a Leftist Site Salam-Democrat.com, in persian language for the Iranian “Radical Left” Young Student movement in Iran. We only heard of Oaxaca Movement after… Read moreIranian solidarity with Oaxaca

Brad Will’s family take case to Mexican courts

Received via Zapagringo blog, Jan. 18: Brad Will’s Family Seeks “a Vigorous Prosecution of the Guilty Parties” Human Rights Attorney Miguel Angel de Los Santos Takes the Case to Mexican Court by Craig Will Brother of Brad Will (1970-2006) The… Read moreBrad Will’s family take case to Mexican courts

“La Otra” activist brutally attacked in Chiapas

From Mexico’s Centro de Medios Libres, Jan. 15: Adherent to the Other Campaign seriously injured. Solidarity required. After the Meeting of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World was over, Ricardo, an adherent to the Other Campaign in… Read more“La Otra” activist brutally attacked in Chiapas

Planet Watch

“Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight

It now stands at five minutes to midnight. Before this change, it stood at seven to midnight, having moved forward two minutes in February 2002. That was the same position it stood at when the clock was unveiled in 1947…. Read more“Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight

Afghanistan

Pakistan protecting Mullah Omar?

From The Scotsman, Jan. 18, links and emphasis added: Mullah Omar, leader of the Taleban, is living in Pakistan under the protection of the country’s intelligence service, a captured Taleban spokesman has told Afghan interrogators. Mohammad Hanif, a Taleban spokesman… Read morePakistan protecting Mullah Omar?

Iraq

Service members rally against troop “surge”

From Air Force Times, Jan. 16: A small group of out-of-uniform active-duty service members, supported by veterans and academics, gathered inside a Norfolk, Va., church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to hold a rally calling for the immediate withdrawal… Read moreService members rally against troop “surge”

Posada Carriles charged with fraud —not terrorism

On Jan. 11 a federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas, indicted Cuban-born Venezuelan national Luis Posada Carriles, a longtime “asset” of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), on one count of fraud and six counts of lying to government… Read morePosada Carriles charged with fraud —not terrorism

Africa

Ethiopian troops hunt down Oromo refugees in Somalia

Ethiopian occupation troops in Somalia are reportedly hunting down Ethiopian Oromo refugees living in the country. Allied Somali militias are also said to be abducting Oromos and handing them over to Ethiopian troops for reward money. Ethiopian forces in Somalia… Read moreEthiopian troops hunt down Oromo refugees in Somalia

Africa

Somalia: US raids wiped out nomads; Kenya next domino?

Last week’s US air raids in the Lower Juba region of southern Somalia near the Kenyan border, caused heavy civilian casualties, according to local reports. Some of the attacks apparently hit groups of nomadic herdsmen on their way to watering… Read moreSomalia: US raids wiped out nomads; Kenya next domino?

UFCW pursues lawsuit over Swift raids

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were scheduled to appear before Judge L. John Kane in federal court in Denver on Jan. 12 in a follow-up hearing to a civil lawsuit filed by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local… Read moreUFCW pursues lawsuit over Swift raids

Deported imam arrested by Israel

Palestinian immigrant Fawaz Damra, the former imam at the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was deported on Jan. 4—a year after reaching an agreement with the US government to give up his fight to remain in the US. That agreement… Read moreDeported imam arrested by Israel

North America

Arizona: students march against anti-immigrant measures

Chanting “We are students, not criminals,” nearly 600 students and their supporters marched on Jan. 8 toward the University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to protest a recently passed state law denying in-state tuition to out-of-status immigrants. Arizona voters… Read moreArizona: students march against anti-immigrant measures

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