Hundreds of Dominican activists have reportedly held a series of demonstrations recently to protest the presence of 800 US soldiers in Barahona, capital of the southwestern province of Barahona. In one protest, apparently on Feb. 14, demonstrators gathered in the… Read moreDominican Republic: protests against US troops
During the week of Jan. 30, US federal judge G. Mallon Faircloth in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced 31 activists to prison terms of as much as six months for peacefully entering the US Army’s Fort Benning on Nov. 20 as part… Read moreSOA protesters get prison
On Feb. 6 police arrested six leftist activists in the community of Antebi Cue, town of Sgto. Jose Felix Lopez (also known as Puentesinho), in San Carlos municipality in the northeastern Paraguayan department of Concepcion, near the border with Brazil…. Read moreParaguay: activists arrested in guerilla scare
From Haartez, Feb. 19: Jewish group: Try Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide The European Jewish Congress (EJC) is set to file a complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to… Read moreGenocide incitement charges for Ahmadinejad?
From Mexico’s El Universal, Feb. 16, via the Miami Herald: Fox calls for probe in Lydia Cacho case The governor of Puebla is under fire after he is allegedly heard discussing the jailing of a journalist on a tape released… Read moreFree speech under attack in Mexico
From the Times of India, Feb. 19: ISLAMABAD: Security forces put a cordon around the Pakistani capital and made hundreds of arrests, before using tear gas and gunfire to quash a banned protest Sunday against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad,… Read moreTear gas and gunfire in Islamabad
The anti-cartoon protests in Pakistan seem to be mounting towards a national revolutionary movement. The government has banned the latest march in Islamabad, arrested some 200 followeres of the organization that called it, and placed its leader under house arrest…. Read moreProtests banned in Pakistan; opposition vows defiance
On Feb. 14, some 1,500 immigrants and supporters rallied at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall to protest HR 4437, a harsh anti-immigrant bill passed by the House of Representatives last Dec. 16 and due to be considered by the Senate in March…. Read moreValentine’s Day action for immigrants’ rights
Immigrant rights advocates rallied in New York and Philadelphia on Feb. 14 to protest the treatment of a Chinese woman, three months pregnant, who miscarried twins while immigration authorities tried to deport her from JFK airport in New York on… Read moreWoman miscarries during deportation
On Feb. 9, Palestinian immigrant Waheed Saleh filed a lawsuit against the city of New York in US District Court in Manhattan, charging that police reported him to immigration authorities in retaliation for his complaints about police discrimination. The lawsuit… Read morePalestinian immigrant sues NYC
From the New York Times, emphasis added. We say it is a credit to New York’s tolerant (some would say blasé) atmosphere that the city’s anti-cartoon protest was peaceful and the attitude of its leaders openly humanistic—although there were, as… Read moreNYC: anti-cartoon protest peaceful
As we recently noted in the case of Iran, the Bush administration seems divided between Pentagon hardliners who seek a military solution and State Department pragmatists who would pursue a peaceful “regime change” scenario in Syria. But these are not… Read moreUS to fund Syria “regime change”
