From the China Daily, Jan. 18: An online campaign initiated by a television host to drive Starbucks out of the Forbidden City has won the backing of more than half a million netizens, who see the presence of the coffee… Read moreBloggers in the news: China
From the AP, Jan. 19: CAIRO — An Egyptian blogger went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife with his Internet writings. Egypt’s first prosecution of a blogger came as Washington has backed away from… Read moreBloggers in the news: Egypt
Another glimmer of hope—or is someone going to rain on our parade by demonstrating that these people are all domesticated neocons or State Department dupes? From the AP, Jan. 19: NEW YORK – In a statement to be published next… Read moreIranian activists condemn revisionist confab
From the New York Times, Jan. 18: BRASÍLIA — Far more Indian groups than previously thought are surviving in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest isolated from the outside world, but they risk destruction at the hands of encroaching loggers and miners,… Read moreAmazon’s “uncontacted” peoples: more than thought, facing peril
From the New York Times, Jan. 18: BISBEE, Ariz. — A Mexican immigrant was shot and killed on Friday by a Border Patrol agent in Arizona, prompting an investigation by federal authorities and condemnation from President Felipe Calderón of Mexico…. Read moreMexico protests new shooting on border
The following statement from DeleteTheBorder.com, was presented to the Zapatista Encuentro held in Chiapas over the New Year weekend: As long as the US/Mexico border has existed, people having been struggling against it. It is a highly militarized, violent boundary… Read moreProtest camp planned against US-Mexico border militarization
Received via Chiapas95, Jan. 16: Hello, My name is Bina Darabzand. From Tehran, Iran. I run a Leftist Site Salam-Democrat.com, in persian language for the Iranian “Radical Left” Young Student movement in Iran. We only heard of Oaxaca Movement after… Read moreIranian solidarity with Oaxaca
Received via Zapagringo blog, Jan. 18: Brad Will’s Family Seeks “a Vigorous Prosecution of the Guilty Parties” Human Rights Attorney Miguel Angel de Los Santos Takes the Case to Mexican Court by Craig Will Brother of Brad Will (1970-2006) The… Read moreBrad Will’s family take case to Mexican courts
From Mexico’s Centro de Medios Libres, Jan. 15: Adherent to the Other Campaign seriously injured. Solidarity required. After the Meeting of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World was over, Ricardo, an adherent to the Other Campaign in… Read more“La Otra” activist brutally attacked in Chiapas
Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop of the Chiapas Highlands, called upon Mexico’s federal government to urgently address the recent spike in tortilla prices, invoking the possibility of a new uprising in the restive state. “With all respect for the federal authorities,… Read moreMexico: Chiapas bishop warns of unrest; agbiz exploits “tortilla crisis”
Israeli historian Benny Morris, once seen as a post-Zionist dissident, produces a terrifying piece of war propaganda. Far be it from us to be optimistic, but this scenario strikes us as a long shot. Is Ahmedinejad likely to still be… Read moreBenny Morris predicts new Holocaust
It now stands at five minutes to midnight. Before this change, it stood at seven to midnight, having moved forward two minutes in February 2002. That was the same position it stood at when the clock was unveiled in 1947…. Read more“Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight
