Iran is contesting Washington’s version of the Jan. 5 incident in the Strait of Hormuz. From the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 11: Iran releases its own tape on Hormuz ship incident BEIRUT — Iran released a videotape Thursday to support… Read moreStrait of Hormuz new Gulf of Tonkin?
Salvos of missiles fell on southern Israel Jan. 9 and Israeli aircraft hit a location in the north of Gaza Strip in response. Al-Quds Brigades, military wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the new missile strikes, saying they were… Read moreBush brings war to Israel, Palestine
Protests have been announced in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, California and Puerto Rico against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over subpoenas issued to activists in a grand jury investigation of the Boricua Popular Army–Macheteros. The protests will… Read moreNational protests against subpoena of Puerto Rican activists
On Dec. 31, Latino groups in Oregon turned in over 5,000 petition signatures to the state’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division in Salem, asking for a one-year delay in implementation of new rules that will require driver’s license applicants… Read moreOregon: immigrants protest license plan
In a Dec. 17 press release, Colorado’s Park County announced it would pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought in February 2005 by Moises Carranza-Reyes, who was held in federal immigration custody at the county’s Fairplay jail for seven… Read moreColorado: ex-ICE detainee wins settlement
On the morning of Jan. 3 a unit of 15 masked people armed with AK-47 rifles set fire to three backhoes belonging to the Constructora Torreblanca, a construction company building a highway in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. “No… Read moreGuerilla attack, anti-NAFTA actions in Mexico
On Dec. 23 Italian authorities arrested former Uruguayan navy captain Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli in Salerno. Fernandez Troccoli, who headed Uruguay’s secret services for the 1973-1985 military dictatorship, had been ordered arrested on Dec. 17 by an Uruguayan judge investigating… Read moreItaly seeks 140 in “Operation Condor” crimes
On Jan. 4 Argentine federal judge Sandra Arroyo charged two coast guard officers, Angel Volpi and Ruben Iglesias, with homicide in connection with the death of former navy officer Hector Febres. Febres, who was 66, was found dead on Dec…. Read moreArgentina: charges in death of ex-officer linked to “dity war” case
Chilean agronomy student Matias Catrileo Quezada, an indigenous Mapuche, was shot dead early on the morning of Jan. 3 at the Fundo Santa Margarita estate, in Vilcun in the southern region of Araucania, presumably by police agents. He and other… Read moreChile: Mapuche student killed in land conflict
Oromo activists in Ethiopia launched a "fuel blockade," occupying roadways to halt shipment of oil through the country. The action was called following a massacre at the village of Moyale, near the Kenyan border. Troops gunned down nine unarmed residents, apparently mistaking them for militants of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). Nearly 5,000 have fled across the border to Kenya—some having directly run from gunfire. Ethiopia last year imposed a state of emergency in response to mounting Oromo protests. Roadblocks are reported from several points around the country, so far without violence. (Photo via UNPO)
A petition from the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Jan. 5: The southern cities of Iraq which are totally under the grip of Islamist parties have turned into no-woman zones. Female physical appearance is not acceptable in the… Read moreEnd the genocide of women in Iraq
Zapatista women at La Garrucha To celebrate the 14th anniversary of their New Years Day uprising, Mexico’s Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) hosted a Women’s Encuentro (“encounter” or “meeting”) at the jungle settlement of La Garrucha, Chiapas state. Officially dubbed… Read moreChiapas: Zapatistas host Women’s Encuentro —amid ongoing violence
