Even as the disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP are working to settle a civil lawsuit the government brought in connection with the 2006 pipeline spills in Alaska.
Bill Weinberg, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Amina Muñoz Ali, Mac McGill, Fist of Kindness and other luminaries to perform at the Sixth Street Community Center, 638 East 6th St. in lower Manhattan.
Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, leader of the Triqui indigenous “autonomous municipality” of San Juan Copala in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, was killed by an “armed commando” along with his wife.
A reserve for uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon has been made off-limits to oil and gas companies—but development plans are moving ahead on other lands inhabited by uncontacted peoples.
Following a cross-country march, some 15,000 indigenous protesters established themselves in Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo to demand the establishment of a “pluricultural” state.
Two-time Honduran dictator Oswaldo López Arellano, who led the “Football War” with El Salvador and was brought down in the “Bananagate” scandal, has died a free man.
In an effort to normalize relations, Honduras has dropped its World Court case against Brazil for the sheltering of Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy following last year’s coup.
Four suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA were arrested in Bayonne, France—including military commander Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe, Spain’s most wanted man.
As tensions mount with North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama reversed himself and accepted Washington’s demands that he honor a 2006 agreement to keep US Marines on Okinawa.
An officer of the Saudi religious police, patrolling a park for unmarried couples illegally socializing, met physical resistance after he stopped a young couple walking together.
US Forces-Afghanistan has launched a criminal investigation into allegations that a “small number of US soldiers were responsible for the unlawful deaths of as many as three Afghan civilians.”
Mexican President Felipe Calderón, speaking at the US Congress, urged reinstatement of the assault-weapon ban, saying violence in Mexico escalated when it expired six years ago.
