An April 9 report on WNYC Radio informs us that last year, 21 bicyclists were killed in vehicle crashes in New York City—but only two drivers were arrested. Local district attorneys, when pressed to cite convictions for cyclist deaths, gripe… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Ali Mushaima, a 28-year-old Bahraini activist, has been on hunger strike for 10 days outside the US embassy in London, to call attention to Washington’s complicity in the repression of Bahrain’s civil revolutionary movement.
Police in Tunis used tear gas and baton-charges against unemployed protestors demanding jobs and relief. President Moncef Marzouki decried the violence, but criticized the protesters for holding an unauthorized demonstration.
While Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) claim to control the north of Mali, a growing number of Islamist militant groups are also declaring power across much of the vast desert territory.
A Brazilian federal judge suspended the construction license of the Teles Pires hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest, saying the permitting process violated the riights of the Kayabi, Apiaká and Mundurucu indigenous peoples.
Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of isolated indigenous peoples in the Amazon, Survival International charged last week. The landmark document was issued by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Presumed guerillas of the Shining Path seized a work camp of the Camisea Consortium in La Convención province, Cuzco region, holding captive the 30 workers there. Most were released, but seven remain hostage of the guerillas.
In a YouTube statement, Colombia’s FARC guerillas responded to reports that they have been weakened, and asserted that the rebels’ “struggle for a socialist Colombia” is legitimized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ecologists say “marine bubble” technology used in offshore oil explorations is behind the mysterious dolphin die-off on the Peruvian coast. An estimated 3,000 dolphins have washed up on the coast so far this year.
Hundreds of National Police and army troops have been mobilized to Peru’s northern Andean region of Cajamarca ahead of an announced resumption of the civil strike there in opposition to the Conga gold mining project.
José Antonio Acosta Hernández AKA “El Diego,” purported leader of La Linea criminal organization, was sentenced to 10 life terms in El Paso after pleading guilty to the slayings of three people tied to the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez.
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), the Tuareg rebel army which has seized control of Mali’s north, declared the independence of the region—and repudiated “Islamic groupsicles” attempting to exploit the struggle.
