Marking their completion of 10 ten years in prison, the two accused Zapatista collaborators being held at the state prison in Tacotalpa, Tabasco, began an indefinite hunger strike July 10 to demand their liberation. The prisoners, Angel Concepcion Perez Vazquez… Read moreZapatista political prisoners launch hunger strike
Tibet’s historic isolation is about to be radically broken, both by a new Lhasa-Beijing rail link (the world’s highest), and the opening of a new border crossing into India through Sikkim. Tibetan nationalist leader (and Dalai Lama nephew) Khedroob Thondup… Read moreTibet rail link opens: militarization, globalization —or both?
The Israeli peace group Gush Shalom placed the following paid statement in Haaretz and the International Herald Tribune on July 7: The march of folly The offensive on land, from the sea and from the air does not put an… Read moreGush Shalom protests Gaza aggression
From the Iraq Freedom Congress, July 1: An Appeal to Libertarian Forces in the World Support the Oil Workers Strike for a Secure, Prosperous and Free Iraq The IFC Executive Bureau decided in an emergency session following the July 1,… Read moreIraq: oil workers plan strike
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 3: Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died late Sunday of an apparent heart attack. The son of a Jewish migrant, Lewites, 66, was the country’s best-known citizen of Jewish descent. A dissident from the… Read moreNicaragua: left-dissident candidate dies
A taped message purported to be from fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar was broadcast on Geo TV, a commercial station in Pakistan June 25. The voice on the tape issued a challenge to the Afghan government and foreign troops fighting… Read moreMullah Omar speaks —again
Italy down. Spain down. Now Japan. From AP, June 20: TOKYO — Japan ordered the withdrawal of its ground troops from Iraq on Tuesday, declaring the humanitarian mission a success and ending a groundbreaking dispatch that tested the limits of… Read moreJapan announces Iraq withdrawal
From The New Standard, June 22: Lynne Stewart, a lawyer convicted of terrorism-related charges, has asked a federal court to compel the federal government to disclose whether the National Security Agency’s illegal warrantless domestic-spying program helped the prosecution in its… Read moreDid NSA spy on Lynne Stewart?
Some 500 people, mostly students, marched in Asuncion, Paraguay, on June 17 to protest the presence of US troops in the country. The protesters marched along the Avenida Mariscal Lopez; they tried to reach the US embassy but were blocked… Read moreParaguay: march against US troops
Some 2,000 Wichi, Toba and Mocovi indigenous people from throughout the northern Argentine province of Chaco arrived on June 6 in the provincial capital, Resistencia, and began camping out in front of the provincial government building after an effort to… Read moreArgentina: Chaco indigenous mobilize
Our occasional contributor Michael I. Niman writes for his June 15 “Getting a Grip” column in ArtVoice, the alternative weekly in Buffalo, NY: Anti-Casino or Anti-Indian? Those of us in Western New York who oppose war need to start paying… Read moreHaudenosaunee land struggle crosses US-Canada border
Bush’s declaration of a national monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is being hailed by world environmentalists, and certainly impresses by its sheer size—1,400 miles long and 100 miles wide. “To put this area in context, this national monument is… Read moreNew Hawaiian national monument: Bush’s strategic sacrifice
