Agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Puerto Rican nationalist Antonio Camacho Negron on March 28 on a street in Rio Piedras, near San Juan, after he had addressed the opening of the First National Congress for… Read morePuerto Rico: FBI arrests Machetero
More than 500,000 people marched in Los Angeles on March 25 to demand legalization for out-of-status immigrants and protest anti-immigrant legislation being considered by the Senate. Police estimated the crowd size using aerial photographs and other techniques, police commander Louis… Read moreImmigrant protests continue
From La Jornada, March 31, via Chiapas95 (our translation): CANCUN — Mayan priests tonight carried out “a cleansing against the wickedness of George W. Bush,” in the culmination of the first day of protests against the presence of the American… Read moreCancun: Maya “cleansing ritual” after Bush visit
From El Universal, March 31, via Chiapas95: SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Chiapas. Thousands of campesinos in southern Mexico blocked roads and bridges Wednesday to protest the alleged failure of the central government to help them cope with the aftermath… Read moreChiapas: campesinos protest in hurricane’s wake
From The Dominion (“Canada’s Grassroots Newspaper”), March 25: Potable Politics Will water put the Zapatismo into Mexico’s big city politics? by Van Ferrier The 4th World Water Forum has drawn to a close in Mexico City, but the debate over… Read moreMexico: water struggles pose challenge to Zapatistas
The Colombian Attorney General’s office suspended for 90 days retired army general Pablo A. Rodriguez and Col. Javier V. Hernández for failing to provide security for the village of San José de Apartadó, the self-declared “peace community” in the wartorn… Read moreColombia: army commanders censured for terror at “peace community”
This one isn’t a joke, tho we wish it was. Another entry in the fast-mounting signs of global ecological collapse. From AP, March 31: WASHINGTON – A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed… Read moreMeanwhile, the coral is dying…
We sure hope this is just a couple of lone wackos and not the beginning of a destabilization campaign against Evo Morales. An AP report indicates suspect Triston Jay Amero of California “has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals… Read moreBolivia: bombing kills two
From Reuters, March 30: CANBERRA – An Indonesian cartoon depicting Australia’s prime minister and foreign minister as fornicating dingoes was “grotesque”, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Thursday as bilateral tension flared with Jakarta. Prime Minister John Howard acknowledged that… Read moreAustralia-Indonesia cartoon wars
From Earth First!, March 29: Environmental Activists Jailed as Grand Jury Indictments Increase San Francisco, CA—As attorneys argue in federal court in San Francisco on March 30 to quash a grand jury investigating a protest in San Francisco, activists point… Read moreGrand juries target eco-activists
From the technology news site CNET, March 29: Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists. Now UAVs may be landing… Read moreDrones to patrol US skies
The final results of Israel’s Knesset election are as follows: Kadima, the party created by Sharon and now led by Ehud Olmert has 29 seats, a disappointment considering polls had projected up to 43 seats at one point. Labor, led… Read moreIsraeli election roundup
