U.S. State Terrorism in Puerto Rico by Yeidy Rosa While his annually recorded speech was being broadcast to radios throughout the island commemorating the 137th anniversary of Puerto Rico’s September 23 Grito de Lares revolt against Spanish colonial rule, Filiberto… Read moreFILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION?
Continue ReadingFILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION?PERU’S CAMISEA GAS PROJECT: ONE YEAR LATER Indigenous, Campesinos and Civil Society Stand Up to Pipeline Politics by Yeidy Rosa GUATEMALA: INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO GLAMIS GOLD PROJECT Maya Municipal Democracy Versus the Mineral Cartel by Cyril Mychalejko CIVIL WAR IN… Read more#. 114. October 2005
Continue Reading#. 114. October 2005by Bill Weinberg The most recent attack came Sept. 30 at a vegetable market in Hilla, a Shi’ite town south of Baghdad. With a modest toll of eight dead and 41 wounded, the car bomb only rated a story at… Read moreCIVIL WAR IN IRAQ: ALREADY HERE?
Continue ReadingCIVIL WAR IN IRAQ: ALREADY HERE?from Weekly News Update on the Americas GUATEMALA: ROADS BLOCKED IN WATER PROTEST At least 15,000 people protested in Totonicapan, the capital of Totonicapan department in western Guatemala, on Sept. 6 in opposition to a law under discussion by Congress… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: MAYA MOBILIZE TO DEFEND LAND, WATER
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: MAYA MOBILIZE TO DEFEND LAND, WATERfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 11, some 4,000 people marched past the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to protest the anniversary of the 1973 military coup in which Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew democratically… Read moreCHILE: COUP ANNIVERSARY PROTESTED
Continue ReadingCHILE: COUP ANNIVERSARY PROTESTEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 25, Ecuador’s Congress voted 56-0 with 15 abstentions for a resolution calling for the end of a state of emergency in the Amazon provinces of Orellana and Sucumbios. President Alfredo Palacio… Read moreECUADOR: OIL REGION ENDS STRIKE
Continue ReadingECUADOR: OIL REGION ENDS STRIKEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 5 Venezuelan troops under the command of a general took control of a tomato-processing plant owned by the Pittsburgh-based company H.J. Heinz in Caicara in the eastern state of Monagas. The… Read moreVENEZUELA: GRINGO PROPERTY EXPROPRIATED
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: GRINGO PROPERTY EXPROPRIATEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE ESTATE On Sept. 2, between 500 and 1,000 indigenous Nasa (Paez) people demanding “Freedom for Mother Earth” began a peaceful occupation of the La Emperatriz estate on the Huellas indigenous… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS RE-TAKE THE LAND; PARAS STILL ACTIVE
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS RE-TAKE THE LAND; PARAS STILL ACTIVEPollution, Apartheid and Protest in Occupied Palestine by Ethan Ganor From the Jordan River Valley and Dead Sea Basin, through the central highlands comprising the West Bank’s populated core to the fertile western hills bordering Israel, recent reports from occupied… Read moreHOLY LAND OR LIVING HELL?
Continue ReadingHOLY LAND OR LIVING HELL?by Benjamin Dangl Amjad Aljawhary is the North American representative of the Federation of Worker Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI). In this interview he discusses his union’s main objectives, the US government’s response to union organizing in Iraq, how… Read moreWORKER UNIONS IN IRAQ: AN INTERVIEW WITH AMJAD ALJAWHARY
Continue ReadingWORKER UNIONS IN IRAQ: AN INTERVIEW WITH AMJAD ALJAWHARYby Cyril Mychalejko Indigenous communities in the western highlands of Guatemala who are organizing against an illegal gold mine in the face of violence and repression are beginning to see the fruits of their labor. The Canadian/US mining company Glamis… Read moreGOLD MINE IN GUATEMALA FACES INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE
Continue ReadingGOLD MINE IN GUATEMALA FACES INDIGENOUS RESISTANCEIndigenous, Campesinos and Civil Society Stand Up to Pipeline Politics by Yeidy Rosa The Camisea gas extraction and pipeline project—extolled by the government of Peru, the companies building it, and the banks financing it, as an important contribution to Peru’s… Read morePERU’S CAMISEA GAS PROJECT: ONE YEAR LATER
Continue ReadingPERU’S CAMISEA GAS PROJECT: ONE YEAR LATER
