Campesinos organized by the National Front of Struggle for Socialism (FNLS) blocked four central highways in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state Nov. 10, including the Panamerican Highway and the coastal frontier highway, in solidarity with the Popular People’s Organization of Oaxaca… Read moreChiapas campesinos again block roads for Oaxaca
From El Universal, Nov. 10 via Chiapas95: One of the most horrific crimes in recent Mexico City history – the 2004 beating and burning to death of two federal police officers by a mob of residents in the Tlahuac district… Read moreEPR guerillas behind Mexico City police lynching?
From AP, Nov. 11: Editor Found Dead in Mexican Hotel Room A newspaper editor was found dead in a hotel room in this Pacific resort city, a day after running stories about organized crime and corruption in the city government…. Read moreMexico: newspaper editor killed in Guerrero?
From El Universal, Nov. 12 via Chiapas95: As APPO deliberates, Ruiz to alter Cabinet The Oaxaca People’s Assembly (APPO) resumed their organizational congress on Saturday in Oaxaca City, while the state’s embattled governor announced the beginning of a massive Cabinet… Read moreOaxaca: Ruiz and APPO both reconsider strategy
From AFP via Qatar’s Gulf Times, Nov. 12 (commentary to follow): Iran vows to hit back if Israel launches attack TEHRAN — Iran’s armed forces yesterday vowed to hit back against any military strike after a top Israeli official refused… Read moreIsrael threatens Iran —again!
Boy, does this ever give us deja vu. Back in the ’80s, the State Department played an anti-Semitism card against Sandinista Nicaragua, just as as the right does today against Bolivarian Venezuela. Daniel Ortega hasn’t even taken office yet, and… Read moreAnti-Semitism card played against Sandinista Nicaragua —already!
From the Associated Press, Nov. 9: Wanted Mexican leftist says Oaxaca rebellion will spread OAXACA, Mexico — Flavio Sosa is remarkably relaxed for a wanted man. As the most visible leader of a leftist movement that has rattled the Vicente… Read moreOaxaca: APPO’s Flavio Sosa speaks
From the NY Daily News, Nov. 9: SUV kills Brooklyn boy, 5 An SUV fleeing a fender bender jumped a Brooklyn sidewalk and mowed down a mother and her three children as they held hands – killing a 5-year-old boy,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
From the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO-Norway): STOP THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION ON THE PALESTINIANS Oslo, November 8, 2006 The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions is following the tragic situation resulted from the continuous Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories… Read moreNorwegian trade unions pass resolution against Israeli aggression
Responding to the Nov. 6 bomb attacks in Mexico City, Mexico’s contested president-elect Felipe Calderon pledged to “work arduously to recover the capacity of the state to face delinquency and terrorism… I have to be honest about this approach, it… Read moreMexico: Calderon pledges bloody campaign against “terrorism”
In the Nov. 7 national and state elections, voters throughout the US tended to reject candidates who campaigned solely or primarily on an anti-immigrant platform. In exit polls, fewer than one in three voters considered immigration “extremely important” in their… Read moreVoters (mostly) reject anti-immigration campaigns
Kinda heartwarming, eh? From The Telegraph, Nov. 8: Jews and Muslims unite against homosexuals Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have found common ground in their fierce opposition to a gay rights rally due to be held in the city this… Read moreBigotry unites monotheistic faiths
