From Upside Down World, May 24: The nullification of Occidental Petroleum’s oil-drilling contract by the Ecuadorian government has generated mixed reactions in the Americas. Ecuador’s oil minister revoked the California-based oil giant’s contract last week for allegedly not informing the… Read moreEcuador boots Oxy
More protests in Cairo, where last week when 255 people were arrested. Today, thousands of riot police and hundreds of plainclothes officers were deployed in streets leading to the courthouse in downtown Cairo as they attempted to prevent opposition activists… Read moreEgypt: protests continue; White House weighs in
After 63 days on hunger strike, four jailed Mapuche rights activists agreed to temporarily suspend their protest on May 14 after reaching an agreement with Chilean legislators. In exchange for an end to the fast, the government promised to give… Read moreChile: Mapuche end hunger strike
From the Iraqi Freedom Congress, May 14: During his visit to the United States to deliver workshops and seminars and meet with the leaders of the anti war movement, Samir Adil, president of the Iraqi Freedom Congress (IFC) met coincidently… Read moreIraqi civil resistance leader confronts Richard Perle
C’mon already. 9-11 was almost five years ago. When are people gonna knock it off already? From Newsday, May 13: LI Sikh angered by terror suspicion Indian immigrant Jaspal Arora, a religious Sikh, wears a turban everywhere he goes, including… Read moreLong Island: fear of turbans
From The Jurist, May 8: Afghan parliament descends into chaos as lawmakers attack female legislator The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called… Read moreAfghanistan: woman legislator physically attacked on parliament floor
The conservative Baptist Press News (May 5) chalks this up (pretty damn blatantly) as a victory for a gringo pressure campaign. That spin will not serve Fox well, as a sudden upsurge of peasant and labor unrest is sending Mexico… Read moreMexico: Fox caves in on decrim law
From AP, May 3: Sonar tied to deaths of 400 dolphins? Zanzibar scientists look for clues; U.S. Navy task force in area ZANZIBAR – Scientists are studying the remains of some of the 400 dolphins that washed up dead on… Read moreMeanwhile, the dolphins are dying…
Colombia is the worst humanitarian disaster in the western hemisphere, and the worst on the planet after Congo and Darfur. But the world is paying very little attention—even as Ecuador is starting to look more and more like the next… Read moreEcuador: UN seeks aid for Colombian refugees
From EFE, April 29 via ServIndi (our translation): QUITO – The government will investigate an alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon, at the hands of presumed armed madereros [pirate loggers], in a dispute over a forest zone, the… Read moreEthnic cleansing in Ecuador
From El Universal, May 4 via the Chiapas95 archive: A state judge on Wednesday exonerated a Michoacan police officer accused of shooting and killing a striking steel mill worker last month, despite video footage showing the officer firing his rifle… Read moreMexico: officer cleared in deadly labor repression
With Darfur in the headlines, if not the minds of our policymakers, it is generally forgotten that armed attacks, forced deportations and even slavery continue against Black African peoples throughout the Sahel. On Tuesday, May 9, at 7:30 PM, the… Read moreMauritanian anti-slavery activist to speak in NYC
