The family of independent US journalist Bradley Roland Will traveled to Mexico the week of March 19 to demand an impartial investigation of his death in Oaxaca on Oct. 27. The Oaxaca state attorney general, Rosa Lizbeth Caña Cadeza, has… Read moreOaxaca: demand probe of Brad Will’s death
The government of center-right Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa is “seeking a provocation” among indigenous communities in the southeastern state of Chiapas, according to the 17 de Noviembre autonomous municipality, one of the communities supporting the rebel Zapatista National Liberation… Read moreChiapas rebel communities: government “seeks provocation”
Attorney Luz María González Armenta, founder of the local group Defense and Promotion of Human Rights-Emiliano Zapata (DEPRODHEZAC), was arbitrarily arrested March 30 at a protest vigil she was leading outside the municipal presidency office in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. According… Read moreHuman rights worker arrested in Matamoros
Now that it’s spring, we are officially ending our winter fund drive. We are deeply appreciative to everyone who gave, and those of you who have not yet received your premiums should get them in a week or two. We… Read moreWW4 REPORT fund drive closes at $1,405…for now
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, March 31: Friday night’s Critical Mass bike ride was played as a First Amendment “showdown” over the NYPD’s new parade rule, which requires groups of 50 or more to get a permit to… Read moreNYC: Critical Mass tests new police regs
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, March 30: Hicks Forced to Agree to Gag Order With Plea Guantanamo Detainee May Not Speak to Press, Criticize his Detention or Say He was Tortured The US government required Guantánamo detainee David Hicks… Read moreGag order in Gitmo case protested
More than 1,000 immigration detainees held a two-day hunger strike at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, according to the consul general of El Salvador in Georgia, Asdrubal Aguilar. The Atlanta Latino newspaper reported the protest in a March… Read moreICE detainees protest in Georgia
On March 26, a Border Patrol shot and killed a man who allegedly threatened him with a rock in Calexico, California, on the border with Mexico. The agent fired an M-4 assault rifle at the man, who was apparently trying… Read moreCalifornia: border agent kills migrant
On the night of March 23, four young people associated with the anarchist punk fanzine Pensares Y Sentires were arbitrarily attacked, beaten and detained by police on the outskirts of Oaxaca City. The black-clad attackers, who repeatedly fired their pistols… Read moreAnarcho-punks attacked by police in Oaxaca
Speaking to supporters and the press at the opening of the second phase of the Zapatistas’ “Other Campaign” in the Chiapas highland city of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Subcommander Marcos said that capitalism is provoking a “fourth world war”… Read moreSubcommander Marcos: capitalism provoking World War 4
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his first editorial since largely disappearing from public view due to illness last year, charged US demand for biofuels directly hurts the world’s poor. The article, appearing in the official Cuban newspaper Granma, was titled… Read moreFidel bashes bio-fuels
From Military Families Speak Out, March 29: Military Families Speak Out responds to Senate vote to continue Iraq war Today, Military Families Speak Out, the largest organization of military families speaking out against a war in the history of the… Read moreMilitary families respond to Senate vote on Iraq
