European and Latin American social movements meeting in Madrid denounced the US and European response to the Haiti earthquake as using a “humanitarian alibi” for “geopolitical interests.”
Union leaders in Puerto Rico claimed success for a 24-hour general strike held to support students striking against a proposed $100 million budget cut, who have met police repression.
Five participants in an open-ended hunger strike by dozens of laid-off Mexican electrical workers were hospitalized as the protest reached the four-week mark.
Running battles between police and gunmen of the Shower Posse gang turned part of Jamaica’s capital Kingston into a warzone, with reports of explosions and civilian casualties.
Many see an effort to restore ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev behind the outburst of Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic violence that has led to a state of emergency in southern Kyrgyztsan.
The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti has launched an investigation into the shootings of dozens of prisoners in a jail riot in Les Cayes following the devastating January earthquake.
Even as the disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP are working to settle a civil lawsuit the government brought in connection with the 2006 pipeline spills in Alaska.
Bill Weinberg, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Amina Muñoz Ali, Mac McGill, Fist of Kindness and other luminaries to perform at the Sixth Street Community Center, 638 East 6th St. in lower Manhattan.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan cannot bring habeas corpus challenges in US courts.
Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, leader of the Triqui indigenous “autonomous municipality” of San Juan Copala in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, was killed by an “armed commando” along with his wife.
A reserve for uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon has been made off-limits to oil and gas companies—but development plans are moving ahead on other lands inhabited by uncontacted peoples.
Following a cross-country march, some 15,000 indigenous protesters established themselves in Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo to demand the establishment of a “pluricultural” state.
