From EFE, Aug. 14 via Chiapas95 (our translation): MEXICO — Mexico’s Federal Preventative Police (PFP) today used blows and tear gas to break up a group of legislators who support leftist candidate Manuel Lopez Obrador at one of the gates… Read moreMexico: police attack PRD legislators
On Aug. 9 the US Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a 237-page report on the killing of Puerto Rican nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios in the western town of Hormigueros on Sept. 23, 2005, by agents… Read moreFBI cleared in Ojeda Rios assassination
On Aug. 3, some 600 demonstrators, including many people of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, marched in Bogota to protest Israel’s military aggression against Lebanon. The march was called by the Platform of Colombians in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon, a… Read moreColombia: police attack march for Lebanon
From La Jornada, Aug. 10 via Chiapas95 (our translation, links added): Iguala, Guerrero — During the term of Vicente Fox, the Mexican government has not complied with recommendations of the UN to instate consitutional reforms on the rights of indigenous… Read moreUN: Mexico does not comply on indigenous rights
Online at Media Monitors, but forwarded to us from Gush Shalom (which we like a lot better): What the Hell has happened to the Army? So what has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not… Read moreUri Avnery on Lebanon aggression: “defeat can be a blessing”
From Scripps Howard, Aug. 12: The vast ice cap that covers Greenland nearly three miles thick is melting faster than ever before on record, and the pace is speeding year by year, according to global climate watchers gathering data from… Read moreSatellite data: Greenland ice cap melting fast
Received from The Other Israel (although it appears not to have been posted to their website): So, it goes on. For the past week and more we had lived under the illusion that when the UN Security Council solemnly resolves… Read moreDespite ceasfire resolution, aggression continues in Lebanon —and West Bank
From the Lebanon Solidarity website: U.S. Citizens, Internationals and Lebanese risk safety to bring humanitarian aid to devasted Southern Lebanon On August 12, at 7 AM, Lebanese from throughout the country and international supporters who have come to Lebanon to… Read moreLebanese civil resistance organizes aid caravan
This blurb appeared in the New York Times Aug. 8: The authorities have banned a rights group founded in 2002 by a group of lawyers and led by Shirin Ebadi, the only Iranian to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The… Read moreIran: Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi’s rights group banned
The Joel Sierra Regional Human Rights Committee Foundation has reported a wave of recent murders in the municipalities of Arauquita, Tame and Saravena in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca. On July 27 in Tame, meat vendor Alberto Tovar Trujillo… Read moreColombia: wave of killings in Arauca
Haiti’s Collective for Mobilization Against the High Cost of Living held a sit-in on July 25 in front of the Hotel Karibe Convention Center in Port-au-Prince to demand cancellation of Haiti’s external debt. The protesters carried signs with such slogans… Read moreHaiti: debt, occupation protested
On Aug. 4, a federal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, sentenced former federal police officer Julio Simon to 25 years of prison for the 1978 abduction and torture of Chilean citizen Jose Poblete Roa and his Argentine companion, Gertrudis Hlaczik,… Read moreArgentina: ex-agent gets 25 years
