Journalist Bill Weinberg reports back from the Cochabamba climate summit and leads a discussion on indigenous, peasant and ecological struggles in Bolivia. Oct. 10 at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library.
A flood of red toxic sludge spilled by an aluminum plant in western Hungary has advanced along a secondary tributary to the Danube River and could reach the international waterway by the weekend.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Paraguay must return lands to the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community—but the Paraguayan government has ignored such rulings before.
More Chilean troops are being flown to Rapanui (Easter Island) to augment the already in-place armed forces set to remove indigenous Rapanui people from their ancestral lands.
Some 20 thousand peasants marked the 50th commemoration of Indonesia’s National Farmers Day and passage of the country’s first agrarian law, with mobilizations to demand a new agrarian reform program.
Barack Obama personally apologized by phone to Guatemalan president Álvaro Colom for a US program that purposely infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in a 1946-48 experiment.
The National Refugee Commission of Argentina (Conare) granted political asylum to Sergio Galvarino Apablaza Guerra, a former leader of Chile’s rebel Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR).
The Colombian inspector general removed Senator Piedad Córdoba from her position and barred her from public office for 18 years because of what he said were her links to the rebel FARC.
“But what’s the problem with that?” Honduran president Porfirio Lobo said when a reporter asked about calls from unions and grassroots organizations to rewrite the country’s 1982 Constitution.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman prompted the Palestinian mission to walk out of the UN General Assembly by calling for an “exchange of populated territory” on the West Bank.
Israeli commandos intercepted a boat carrying Jewish activists who hoped to breach the blockade of the Gaza Strip, using a Taser gun against well-known refusenik Yonatan Shapira.
Human Rights Watch called on Israel to make permanent and total the partial “freeze” on construction in West Bank settlements, asserting that continued construction would have severe consequences.
