From Upside Down World, June 7: About 300 demonstrators protesting the slow pace of land reform invaded the Brazilian Parliament Building June 7. The protesters vandalized the pristine building and destroyed a car waiting to be raffled off to Congressional… Read moreLandless workers invade Brazil’s parliament
Received by email: The Congress of South African Trade Unions issues statement supporting CUPE resolution The President, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, June 6, 2006 Brother Sid Ryan, On behalf over 1,2 million South African workers organized under… Read moreSouth African Unions support Israel boycott
Violent student protests in the historic town of Merida in Venezuela’s high Andes seem to have accrued little international coverage. This very opinionated account from the very pro-Chavez Venezuela News Bulletin, May 31: Riots and ‘guarimbas’ are running wild in… Read moreVenezuela: student protests rock Merida
Bush just has two years to go. Will he really get around to invading Venezuela? Chavez isn’t hedging his bets. From Reuters, June 3: CARACAS – Venezuela received a shipment of 30,000 new Russian rifles on Saturday, weeks after Washington… Read moreVenezuela: Chavez buys 30,000 Russian AKs
Evo Morales sticks it to the landed elite. He saves the announcement for a trip to Santa Cruz, the section of the country which had threatened to secede if he nationalized the gas (as he has now done). A none-too-subtle… Read moreBolivia: Evo launches “land revolution”
From La Jornada, June 6, via Chiapas95 (our translation). Amazingly, this seems to have made no international media. Now, how did this guy survive to go on a hunger strike after being nailed to a cross? Veracruz, June 5. An… Read moreEcologist crucifies self in Veracruz
From the Global Justice Ecology Project, June 6: Protesters Arrested After Disrupting Negroponte in Vermont by Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann/Global Justice Ecology Project St. Johnsbury,VT–National Intelligence Director John Negroponte’s Commencement Address to the graduating class of private St. Johnsbury… Read moreVermont: activists disrupt Negroponte
On May 4 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Georgia released documents on investigations by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into the US human rights group School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch). The… Read moreFBI probes SOA Watch
On June 1 in Chicago, immigration judge John Brahos granted a continuance of more than four months to Flor Crisostomo and five other workers arrested last April 19 in an ICE raid of the IFCO Systems pallet company in Chicago…. Read moreChicago: immigrant workers end hunger strike; vigil continues
On May 29, some 600,000 public and private high school students went on strike throughout Chile, and thousands took over school buildings. On May 30, at least 500,000 students marched in the streets around the country. The protests were met… Read moreStudent protests rock Chile; Mapuche suspend hunger strike
The Indigenous Rights Center (CEDIAC) in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, is demanding an investigation into the assassination of Tzeltal Maya campesino Sebastian Cruz Lopez, accused by state police of belonging to a gang which held up cars on… Read morePolitical violence in Chiapas, risk of famine seen
80,000 striking teachers marched in Oaxaca City June 2 to press their demands for better wages and a reorganization of the state’s education system, marking the largest mass mobilization in the city’s history. In addition to a large state police… Read moreTeachers’ strike, political violence in Oaxaca
