US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 49 Mexicans and two Salvadorans on March 30 and 31 in Merced County in central California. ICE said all those arrested had prior deportation orders. In at least two cases, ICE seized… Read moreImmigration update: ICE pulls kids off school buses, Senate compromise falters
From the Wayne Madsen Report, via VHeadline.com, April 6: In a replay of US naval maneuvers held during the time the Bush administration tried to unseat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in an April 2002 abortive coup, the US Navy is… Read moreVenezuela: US Naval maneuvers encourage Zulia separatists?
From AFP, April 6: TWO British grandmothers are facing up to a year in prison after being arrested under new anti-terrorism legislation that outlaws protests at military bases, The Independent newspaper said today. Helen John, 68, and Sylvia Boyes, 62,… Read moreUK: grandmas face prison in “anti-terrorism” case
Police in Nepal opened fire to break up anti-King protestors. Separately an attack by Maoist rebels last night left 22 people dead. Opposition parties said authorities detained dozens of protest leaders in Kathmandu. The four-day protest was called against the… Read moreNepal: violence meets four-day strike against king
A school textbook used in India’s western Rajasthan state compares housewives with donkeys and says the animals are more loyal and make better companions, The Times of India reported. The book was approved by the state’s governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya… Read moreIndia school textbook: donkeys better than women
Seventy-six members of the Nukak-Makú, the last nomadic indigenous group in Colombia, including 27 children, arrived March 6 at the town of San José de Guaviare, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. They arrived naked, exhausted and frightened, fleeing… Read moreEthnic cleansing in Colombian Amazon
WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg will be speaking Thursday, April 6 on New York’s Lower East Side, on “International Solidarity with Iraq’s Freedom Struggles.” The presentation will also include a screening of the new DVD Go Forward, Iraqi Freedom Congress!,… Read moreBill Weinberg to speak on Iraqi civil resistance
More than 500,000 people marched in Los Angeles on March 25 to demand legalization for out-of-status immigrants and protest anti-immigrant legislation being considered by the Senate. Police estimated the crowd size using aerial photographs and other techniques, police commander Louis… Read moreImmigrant protests continue
The Colombian Attorney General’s office suspended for 90 days retired army general Pablo A. Rodriguez and Col. Javier V. Hernández for failing to provide security for the village of San José de Apartadó, the self-declared “peace community” in the wartorn… Read moreColombia: army commanders censured for terror at “peace community”
From Reuters, March 30: CANBERRA – An Indonesian cartoon depicting Australia’s prime minister and foreign minister as fornicating dingoes was “grotesque”, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Thursday as bilateral tension flared with Jakarta. Prime Minister John Howard acknowledged that… Read moreAustralia-Indonesia cartoon wars
From Earth First!, March 29: Environmental Activists Jailed as Grand Jury Indictments Increase San Francisco, CA—As attorneys argue in federal court in San Francisco on March 30 to quash a grand jury investigating a protest in San Francisco, activists point… Read moreGrand juries target eco-activists
From the technology news site CNET, March 29: Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists. Now UAVs may be landing… Read moreDrones to patrol US skies
