New York’s kneejerk jingos, already aghast that the “Freedom Tower” name has been dropped from the skyscraper going up at Ground Zero, are now protesting the building of a nearby mosque.
From the Gothamist, April 28: Community Activist Harry Wieder Killed by Taxi Harry Wieder, an LGBT rights, transportation, and disabilities advocate, was run down and killed by a taxi last night in the LES [Lower East Side]. Weider, 57, described… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Some 200 Israeli Arabs and Palestinians marked Nakba Day by marching on East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to protest government plans to expel hundreds of Arab residents.
Colombia’s presidential election is developing into an unexpectedly tight race between hardline ex-defense minister Juan Manuel Santos and reformist Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus.
Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Cauca department issued a statement calling upon all armed fighters to leave their territory, following clashes that left many civilians dead.
Anti-labor violence is again reaching a peak in Colombia, with four education workers assassinated in the northern coastal department of Córdoba since January.
Through a satellite link from a US prison, former Colombian paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso told his country’s Supreme Court that his illegal forces supported Álvaro Uribe’s election in 2002.
The American Power Act written by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman features carbon trading, more offshore drilling, and big subsidies for “clean coal” and “safe nuclear power.”
The Obama Justice Department weighed in for the first time on the case of Canadian citizen and “rendition” victim Maher Arar, calling for the Supreme Court not to hear his appeal.
Israel should investigate unlawful destruction of property during the 2009 Gaza hostilities and lift the blockade that hinders rebuilding, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Unionists are demanding answers following the apparent killing in custody of Sipho Jele, an activist in the Swaziland Agriculture and Plantation Workers’ Union (SAPWU) arrested during May Day protests.
Iranian teacher, trade unionist and human rights activist Farzad Kamangar was among five executed by hanging at Tehran's Evin Prison on charges of "moharebe," or enmity against God.
