The Libertarian Book Club, New York City’s oldest active anarchist institution, kicks off a new season of its Anarchist Forum series as Bill Weinberg leads a discussion on Libya, the Arab Spring and the crisis in North Africa.
Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated in a “National Civic Strike” called by teachers’ unions and the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a coalition of unions and grassroots organizations.
Thousands of workers marched on the congress building in Mexico City to protest a proposed reform of the labor code they say “intends to finish off collective contracts and make the workers modern slaves.”
Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd, South Korea’s leading apparel manufacturer, is pushing ahead with plans to open a large garment assembly plant near the coastal village of Caracol in Haiti’s agricultural Northeast department.
Peruvian indigenous forest dwellers have been forced to set up a guard post to protect a reserve established for “uncontacted” peoples, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for action.
Brazil signed an agreement with Bolivia to fight cocaine production and trafficking, replacing assistance formerly provided by the US DEA, which was ejected from the country by President Evo Morales in 2008.
Former Argentine general Eduardo Cabanillas was sentenced to life in prison for running the Automotores Orletti secret detention center in Buenos Aires during the period of military rule from 1976-83.
Thousands of members of Black and indigenous groups in Honduras marched on the capital, Tegucigalpa, to demand territorial rights and protest recent repression by the regime of Porfirio Lobo.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission finds that 5,397 are reported missing across the country since President Felipe Calderón launched his war on the narco cartels in 2006.
Japan’s Movement for Democratic Socialism asserts: “The Fukushima disaster is not a natural disaster, but one that is politically generated by global capitalism’s promotion of nuclear energy and militarization.”
Greece protested Turkish plans for a nuclear plant in an earthquake zone on the Mediterranean at the EU summit in Brussels. while IAEA inspectors visited a Syrian site where it is suspected nuclear fuel is being produced.
South Korean environmental activists staged an anti-nuclear rally in Seoul, marking the 32nd anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania—and two weeks of the ongoing Fukushima disaster.
