Reports Sarah Ferguson in the Village Voice Sept. 25: Organizers with the dueling anti-war groups United for Peace and Justice and International ANSWER estimated the crowd size for Saturday’s march on Washington, D.C., at 300,000—making it the largest demonstration since… Read moreVets, grieving families strike somber tone at Iraq war protest
Controversy is raging in Paraguay, where the U.S. military is conducting secretive operations. 500 U.S. troops arrived in the country on July 1st with planes, weapons and ammunition. Eyewitness reports prove that an airbase exists in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, which… Read moreUS military presence in Paraguay worries Bolivian left
Citing a new report concluding that global warming threatens New Mexico’s water supply, state and local officials are joining with environmentalists in demanding immediate steps to address the issue. The report, Less Snow, Less Water, was released Friday by the… Read moreAs planet warms, US West loses water: report
Violence—generally held to be drug-related—is spreading across Mexico at an alarming pace. The Pacific resort of Acapulco, in the conflicted southern state of Guerrero, has seen some 30 killings this year—many in the disco and restaurant zone frequented by tourists…. Read moreViolence grows across Mexico
On Sept. 15 a state judge in Zihuatanejo in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero ordered the release of Felipe Arreaga Sanchez, a leader in the campesino environmental movement who had been held in prison since November 2004. Judge Ricardo… Read moreMexico: peasant ecologist freed
Activists from Mexico’s east-central indigenous region of La Huasteca held a press conference in the national capital Sept. 21 to protest a growing presence of soldiers and paramilitaries in the the zone, citing a wave of assassinations of peasant leaders…. Read moreMilitarization in Mexico’s La Huasteca
In a new two-part communique published in the newsweekly Proceso, southern Mexico’s mysterious Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), both admits to errors and reproaches the rival Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). The communique, “A little more about the history of the… Read moreMexico’s EPR rebels admit errors, reveal history
Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in the southern state of Chiapas announced Sept. 16 he will leave the group’s jungle strongholds and embark on a six-month tour of all of Mexico, promising to “shake this country… Read moreChiapas: Marcos announces national tour
From the Somerville, MA, Divestment Project: Dear Friends, The Somerville Divestment Project collected 4,400 signatures (more than the 3966 required, which is 10% of registered voters in Somerville) on a petition (copied below and posted at http://www.divestmentproject.org/petition.shtml ) to place… Read moreJudge kills divest-from-Israel petition in Massachusetts
With the approval of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ultra-fundamentalist Jewish “Ateret Cohanim” organization “is at the moment conducting a dig” at a depth of 12 meters beneath a building just 80 meters away from the walls of Islam’s… Read moreSecret wars for the Temple Mount
The Fall edition of Yes! magazine carries a proposal by Erik Leaver of Foreign Policy in Focus, entitled “Operation Homcoming: How to End the Iraq War.” The progressive end of the wonk spectrum is weighing in—but is anybody missing? U.S…. Read more“Operation Homecoming”: How to end the Iraq war
From the front page of the Washington Post, via TruthOut: New Reports of Abuse of Detainees Surface Mistreatment Was Routine, Group Is Told By Josh White Saturday 24 September 2005 “Some days we would just get bored so we would… Read moreReport: abuse “routine” at US bases in Afghanistan, Iraq
