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
On June 3, Mexican telenovela star Ofelia Medina, who has launched the group Mujeres Sin Miedo (Women Without Fear) to support those arrested in the protests at San Salvador Atenco, held a press conference to announce that 24 of the… Read moreMexico: Atenco prisoners 30 days on hunger strike; Marcos calls for national protests
Here is a pretty good indication that the US is losing control of the client state it has set up in Iraq—which, in turn, is afraid of losing control of Iraq. And, since Maliki and his gang are more loyal… Read moreMaliki challenges US on civilian killings
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has decared a state of emergency in Basra, where battles are raging both between Shi’ite and Sunni militias, as well as among rival Shi’ite militias. Nearly 140, mostly Sunnis but also Shi’ites and members of… Read moreSectarian cleansing in Basra; Zarqawi wants more
Doug Ireland writes of an “anti-gay pogrom” underway in Iraq, for In These Times, May 31: Shiite death squads in Iraq are carrying out a campaign that targets gay men for murder. This so-called “sexual cleansing” is happening under the… Read more“Sexual cleansing” in Iraq
Remember those innocent days when terrorists were radical leftists rather than Islamic fundamentalists? The Greeks do. From Ekathimerini, June 1 (links added): Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis had informed the heads of police and the Public Order Ministry about an increase… Read moreGreece: armed left in new attack
The ascendance of the center-left Romano Prodi as Italy’s new prime minister in the narrow (and contested) April elections will apparently mean at least a phased withdrawal of Italian troops from the US-led mission in Iraq, depriving Bush of one… Read moreItaly to expand Afghanistan role
