Villagers seized three Shell Oil platforms in the Niger Delta region Oct. 25, forcing a halt of production at each. A nearby Chevron platform was also closed. Members of the Kula community invaded the facilities, accusing the company of not… Read moreNiger Delta oil war back on
About a dozen heavily-armed police, some wearing ski-masks, raided the homes of environmental activist Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of the NGO Intag Defense and Environmental Conservation DECOIN, and his neighbour Roberto Castro on Oct. 17, according to reports from the… Read moreEcuador: police raid home of environmentalist
In his tour of Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, Zapatista Subcommander Marcos made public the existence of “forced labor camps,” where mostly indigenous migrant laborers from Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero and southern Veracruz live in “inhuman conditions” and “virtual slavery.” “They… Read moreMarcos: forced labor camps in Sonora
Thousands of people marched in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Oct. 8 to demand the release of four Puerto Rican political prisoners being held in US jails. Oscar Lopez Rivera, Carlos Alberto Torres and Haydee Beltran Torres have been jailed… Read morePuerto Rico: march for political prisoners
Paraguayan foreign minister Ruben Ramirez announced on Oct. 2 that in 2007 Paraguay will stop granting US troops immunity from prosecution. The change in policy is an effort to coordinate policies with the other member nations in the Mercosur economic… Read moreParaguay: US troops lose immunity
Late on Oct. 4, Julian Andres Hurtado Castillo was shot to death outside his home in the Las Granjas neighborhood of the Colombian city of Cali, in Valle del Cauca department. The killers–apparently paid professionals–were a man and a woman… Read moreColombia: student leader murdered
In a class-action lawsuit filed on Sept. 25, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California, the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic charged that ICE routinely holds immigrants longer than six months… Read moreImmigrants’ lawsuit challenges detention
After a heated all-night assembly, on the morning of Oct. 22 delegates of 70,000 teachers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca voted down a proposal to end a strike that has paralyzed the capital city, also named Oaxaca, for… Read moreOaxaca: vote to end strike overturned
On Oct. 20 Raul Ojeda Zubieta, center-left candidate for governor of the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, charged in a press conference that Andres Granier Melo, candidate for the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), had won in the Oct. 14… Read moreMexico: violence in Tabasco vote
The Permanent Human Rights Assembly (APDH) of Ecuador is protesting the Oct. 15 killing of two Ecuadoran campesinos by the Colombian armed forces. Blanca Vega and her son Hector Monar were traveling by boat along the San Miguel river en… Read moreColombia war spills into Ecuador
Could someone possibly please explain what this one is all about? A rather opinionated report from the right-libertarian Liberty Forum, Oct. 20: Thessalonica – The Greek Government will move, as early as this weekend, to have armed police forcibly remove… Read moreRebel monks pledge to resist police at Greek abbey eviction
Our friend Ivo Skoric of the Balkans Pages interviewed WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg via e-mail last weekend for the Croatian alternative e-zine H-Alter, as the first in a series of interviews with American left-wing bloggers. The interveiw appears in… Read moreWW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg interviewed by Croatian alterno-zine
