Algeria: unions stand up to terror —and privatization
…the Algerian unions working on the docks and in the maritime sector, has vocally opposed the change. (Echorouk Online, Aug. 18) See our last posts on the Maghreb and Algeria….
…the Algerian unions working on the docks and in the maritime sector, has vocally opposed the change. (Echorouk Online, Aug. 18) See our last posts on the Maghreb and Algeria….
Part of a statement from al-Awda and other groups, online at NYC Indymedia, Sept. 13: We believe that it is critical, necessary and essential that the building of the antiwar…
…This work is especially critical following the unprecedented disaster. Please send donations to: Bassin Zim EDF-Earthquakes PO Box 360125 Brooklyn NY 11236 Or contact: seeds@seedsforhaiti.org (917) 378-2192 Or donate online….
…TV show “Aló Presidente” Nov. 8 to boast that when the Tocoma plant finally comes online, Venezuela’s electrical-generation capacity will have risen 45% from current levels. In 2014, he said,…
…after Antarctica, and could increase sea level by 7 meters were it to completely melt. (Planet Earth Online, AFP, Nov. 13) Meanwhile in South America, water levels on the world’s…
…10,000 people had rallied in Oklahoma City more than a week earlier, on April 1. (Pioneer Online, April 10) Several thousand people marched in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 10….
…(Al Jazeera, NPR, BBC News) On March 4, the entire staff of Russian television station Dozhd (also online in English as TV Rain) resigned live on-air after declaring “No to…
…the country is for everyone.” [Link added.] The Oct. 30 AP account, online at the Assyrian International News Agency, actually dares to use the word “optimism”: BAGHDAD — The Chaldean…
…cable, online at the WikiLeaks website, is entitled “SUBJECT: ARREST, INTERROGATION, AND TORTURE OF XXXXXXXXXXXX.” It is unclear if the ex-prisoner’s name was redacted by the embassy or WikiLeaks. The…
…in Nairobi’s The Nation (online at AllAfrica.com) finds: “Ghedi’s resignation has once again brought to the fore the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea being fought in Somalia.” Violence has once…
An open letter to the world human rights community and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from PetitionOnline: Delaram Ali is a woman’s activist who has been given a custodial sentence for…
…Online, Suna Times, June 26; CNN, NYT, June 26; The Horn, Hargeisa, via AllVoices, June 25) The US-funded International Republican Institute (IRI) found that Somaliland’s election was peaceful, without major…