Tens of thousands of Mexican workers from a wide range of unions left work and took to the streets on April 28 to express their opposition to the labor policies of center-right president Vicente Fox Quesada and to demand the… Read moreMexico: strike against Fox labor plans
From El Universal, April 16, via Chiapas95: The special prosecutor’s office set up by President Fox to investigate the violent campaign against leftists more than a generation ago failed to file its report on the case Saturday, the day it… Read moreMexico: government roadblocks “dirty war” investigation?
Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), speaking in Mexico City’s historic Tlatelolco Plaza May 3, stated that the Zapatistas are officially going on “red alert” in response to violence in San Salvador Atenco, a village in the… Read moreUprising in Mexico state; Zapatistas on “red alert” again
From Venezuelanalysis, May 2: Venezuelans celebrated International Worker’s Day yesterday with two large marches that wound through the streets of Caracas. One in support of the Chavez-led “Bolivarian Revolution,” and the other with the opposition. This marks the sixth year… Read moreDeuling Mayday marches in Venezuela
A “hoax”? What the hell is that supposed to mean? If the leaflet was produced by one or two lone wackos instead of an organization, so much the better. But it was assuredly produced by real racists. From CBC News,… Read moreCanadian Nazis exploit Mohawk uprising
It seems Mehlman and the AJC have not heard the message from more moderate elements of the Israel lobby, or from right-wing pollster Frank Luntz. The following May 3 AP article ran in the
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, May 2: A Day Without White People On May Day, the masses rose up in New York. But where were the white peaceniks? A bit of revolution hit the streets on May Day… Read moreNYC: May Day mobilization report
Just as the PUK shows signs of losing control of its stronghold in northern Iraq, it launches attacks across the border in Iran—with doubtless US (and likely Israeli) assistance and direction. Iran, of course, replies by bombing Kurdish civilians, which… Read morePUK raids Iran; Tehran shells Kurds
From the respected Israeli human rights organization B’tselem, April 30: Southern Hebron hills: Israel reinstates the cancelled barrier route “through the back door” The army has recently issued new orders requisitioning land in the southern Hebron hills along Route 317… Read moreIsraeli wall threatens Palestinian cave-dwellers
The following ran in the New York Jewish Week. It marks a post-M&W pendulum swing, in which more centrist elements of the Israel lobby are speaking out with alarm over what more hard-line elements — The Weekly Standard, The Wall… Read moreCentrist Jewish leaders to Bush: back off the Israel rationale
UPDATE: May 8 a reader in Buffalo sent us the following: No one in Buffalo knows about this. We thought Hand was dead. Last time he tried this thdere were three Nazis and over 5,000 counterprotestors. He fled town immediately… Read moreNeo-Nazis to rally against Israel in Buffalo?
Sweden and other Scandanavian countries are the harshest European critics of Israeli behavior. One of the largest regions in Norway, Trondheim, has banned the sale of Israeli goods as well. Haaretz, April 28: Israel summons Swedish envoy over NATO drill,… Read moreSweden nixes Italy air show over Israel
