On Sept. 26, some 2,000 people rallied at City Hall in Irving, Texas, a suburb west of Dallas, to demand that Irving officials stop handing over people held at the city’s jail to immigration authorities. Demonstrators waved US flags and… Read moreTexas: 2,000 rally against deportation
Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested nine day laborers on Sept. 27 near the Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church in the town of Cave Creek, Arizona, north of Phoenix. For more than six years the church has been a… Read moreArizona’s Sheriff Arpaio rounds up immigrant workers
ICE agents raided homes on Sept. 24 in the Nassau County towns of Westbury, Glen Cove, Hicksville and Port Washington on New York’s Long Island, with support from two sergeants and six officers of the Nassau County police. On Sept…. Read moreLong Island ICE raids protested
On Sept. 21, New York governor Eliot Spitzer announced new rules under which the state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will issue driver’s licenses without regard to federal immigration status. The new rules reverse a policy change adopted four years… Read moreNYS expands immigrant access to driver’s licenses
Four clandestine armed groups in Mexico issued a communique Sept. 27 calling for a “common front” to “recuperate the fatherland,” which they say has been hijacked by a “rightist usurping minority.” The statement also called for the reappearance alive of… Read moreMexico: guerillas call for “common front”
Masked assailants gunned down Marco Tulio Ramirez Portela, a leader of the Izabal Banana Workers Union (SITRABI), on Sept. 23 as he leaving his home for work on a banana plantation in the northeastern Guatemalan department of Izabal. Human rights… Read moreGuatemala: another union leader assassinated
Hundreds of Nicaraguan women marched in Managua on Sept. 28 to demand that the government of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra veto a new law establishing a prison sentence of one to three years for anyone who performs any type of… Read moreNicaraguans march against abortion law
More than 100,000 Costa Ricans marched against the pending Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the capital, San José, Sept. 30, chanting “Costa Rica is not for sale!” Some were dressed as skeletons, or wore masks of President Bush… Read moreCosta Ricans march against CAFTA
On Sept. 25 the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives voted to approve the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA, or TLC in Spanish), moving the agreement closer to approval by the full Congress. The bilateral trade… Read morePeru FTA moves forward in Washington —despite protests
Tens of thousands of people mobilized throughout Argentina on Sept. 20 to demand that human rights witness Jorge Julio Lopez, who disappeared on Sept. 18, 2006, be returned alive. More than 20,000 people marched in Buenos Aires from the Congress… Read moreArgentina: thousands protest disappearance
Democratic Voice of Burma Oct. 2 reports claims from members of the Burmese junta’s Swan Arr Shin militia that thousands of detained monks could be headed for labor camps: Monks currently detained at the government technical college compound in Insein… Read moreBurma: labor camps for detained monks —”energy blackmail” silences neighbors
While the Burmese regime still touts an official count of 10 dead in five days of repression, the UK’s Daily Mail reports Oct. 2 claims of a “a former intelligence officer in Burma’s ruling junta that thousands of protesters have… Read moreHow many killed in Burma repression?
