World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg discusses Sufi resistance movements in an Islamic world torn by jihadist terror and imperial assault. Oct. 31, 1 PM at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph.
There have been over 200 confirmed deaths so far from a cholera epidemic that apparently broke out in the Lower Artibonite River region of Haiti, local authorities report.
Three Costa Rican environmental activists marked two weeks on hunger strike against the projected Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine in San Carlos in the north of the country.
Thousands of Argentines rallied in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to protest the killing of the student Mariano Ferreyra during a demonstration the day before.
Two unidentified men shot and killed Catarino Torres Pereda, general secretary of the Citizen Defense Committee (Codeci), at the group’s office in Tuxtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, on an official visit to Iran, said that the Islamic Republic and Bolivia pursue a common objective in fighting against imperialism and injustice in the world.
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak called for the Obama administration to launch an inquiry into the role of the US in human rights violations in Iraq following new Wikileaks revelations.
Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to all five charges against him, including conspiracy, murder and aiding the enemy. He is the first child solider to be convicted at Gitmo.
Costa Rica dispatched a group of heavily armed police to the northern border following claims of a Nicaraguan military incursion in the San Juan river basin, a prospective inter-oceanic canal route.
At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juárez—the second such massacre in less than a week in the violence-torn border city.
Spanish Jesuit missionary José María Korta, 81, began a hunger strike outside the National Assembly in Caracas to demand liberty for three Yukpa indigenous leaders he says have been framed for murder.
Most of the 33 British passengers on May’s Gaza aid flotilla have asked to give oral testimony to Israel’s Turkel Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident, but say their request has been “snubbed.”
