Hundreds of youths hurled stones and blocked roads with burning tires May 6 in a second day of protests over food prices in Mogadishu, where the price of corn meal has more than doubled since January and rice has risen… Read moreFood riots, anti-US protests rock Somalia
In 1994, the first year of Rudolph Giuliani’s initial term as mayor of New York, 3,400 people were arrested for marijuana possession in the city’s five boroughs. By 2000, that number had swelled to 51,500. This period and the ensuing… Read moreNYC marijuana busts racist —surprise!
Alfonso Chardy writes for the Miami Herald, May 3 (links added): Militant Cuban exile honored A beaming Luis Posada Carriles hugged and shook hands with hundreds of supporters late Friday as he arrived at a club in west Miami-Dade fo… Read moreMiami fetes terrorist
On April 28 Mexico’s Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board (JFCA) ruled in favor of a nine-month old strike at Grupo Mexico’s giant copper mine at Cananea, in the northwestern state of Sonora. The ruling, which is final, makes the job… Read moreMexico: Cananea strike now legal
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), April 30: Attorney General’s office announces capture of suspects in assassination of FMLN Mayor In the early dawn hours of April 14, El Salvador’s National Civilian Police (PNC)… Read moreEl Salvador: arrest in FMLN mayor’s murder
According to union sources, some 40,000 Hondurans participated in May Day celebrations, which included marches in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. The three main labor federations marched together, along with a number of grassroots groups and coalitions, including the Popular… Read moreHonduras: union leaders murdered
Unionists and other activists marked International Workers Day with marches throughout Latin America on May 1 as rising food and fuel costs cut into workers’ standard of living. Demands included increases in the minimum wage, an end to violence against… Read moreLatin America May Day round-up
Street clashes broke out in the departmental capital of Santa Cruz and towns in the surrounding countryside May 4 as regional authorities declared victory in the autonomy vote. Dozens were injured, including one protester hit by a dynamite blast in… Read moreViolence mars autonomy vote in Bolivia
Nine are dead—five agents of the Federal Preventative Police, two municipal police, and two civilians—following three shoot-outs May 2 and 3 in the Mexican city of Culiacán, Sinaloa. Four police agents were also wounded. The confrontations began when police patrols… Read moreMexico: deadly attacks on police in Sinaloa
Some 60 men riding in luxury vehicles and wearing uniforms of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) and armed with AK-47s shot nine people dead at the ranch of Rogaciano Alba Álvarez in Petatlán May 4. Two of Alba’s sons were… Read moreMexico: deadly attacks on Guerrero cattle barons
America’s own Tibet in the Pacific? From the New York Times, May 3, links added: Occupation of Palace Area Invigorates Native Hawaiian Movement HONOLULU — A Native Hawaiian independence group laid claim this week to the nation’s only royal palace… Read moreHawaiian kingdom reclaims Iolani Palace
From Amazon Watch, May 2: LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the indigenous Achuar people of Peru accompanied by 40 demonstrators wearing hazmat suits today brought Occidental Petroleum’s Amazon disaster to the company’s doorstep as they marched inside the hotel hosting… Read morePeruvian indigenous protest at Oxy Petroleum
