The class struggle for the future of New Orleans is made clear by this Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 24) report in Newsday that the volunteers who have established soup kitchens and work brigades to help the poor survive and resist being… Read moreNew Orleans elite kicks out citizen volunteers
A Jewish inmate at California’s San Quentin prison says his life is in danger because he’s being housed with white inmates, many of whom belong to anti-Semitic white supremacist gangs. The inmate is asking prison authorities to reclassify him from… Read moreCalifornia convict smells coffee: Jews not white
Earl Krugel, a Jewish Defense League militant convicted of plotting to bomb a Los Angeles mosque and the office of a local politician, was murdered just three days after being transferred to a new prison. The former dental assistant, who… Read moreJewish terrorist killed in prison
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said at least 464 immigrants died crossing the border from Mexico into the US during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The death toll was 43% higher than the previous year. “This total… Read moreBorder deaths hit new high
From New York Newsday, Oct. 11, this harrowing report by staff writer John Riley from New Orleans’ devastated Lower Ninth Ward: Six weeks after the storm, no neighborhood in this ravaged city faces longer odds than the financially impoverished but… Read moreEthnic cleansing in New Orleans: it’s official
On Sept. 28 Robert Bonner announced he would retire as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). He served for four years, first as head of US Customs, then as head of CBP after Customs was merged into the Department… Read moreBorder Czar out; ICE nominee probed
From the Sept. 30 edition of the New York Bangladeshi community paper Bangla Patrika. Translated from the Bangla by the NY Independent Press Association: Federal and local law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, raided the Darul Ulum Shady Brook, a… Read moreFeds raid Connecticut madrassa for vegetables
Some 1,600 immigrants who say they were abused at the Elizabeth detention center in New Jersey between August 1994 and June 1995 have won a $2.5 million settlement from the private prison company which operated the facility. The suit was… Read moreFederal contractor to pay in detainee abuse case
From New York City’s Pakistan Post, Sept. 15. Translated from the Urdu by Mohammad Jehangir Khan for the International Press Association. A Pakistani man died of heart attack on September 9 while waiting for his deportation in a New Jersey… Read morePakistani man dies awaiting deportation in NJ prison
A recent story in New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press sheds light on a highly esoteric group which can make a claim to being an indigenous American form of Islam, the Moorish Science movement. The story concerns Lee S. Crudup, who… Read moreMoorish Science in the news
From AP, Sept. 9, via TruthOut: The deployment of thousands of National Guard troops from Mississippi and Louisiana in Iraq when Hurricane Katrina struck hindered those states’ initial storm response, military and civilian officials said Friday. Lt. Gen. Steven Blum,… Read moreIraq deployment cost lives on Gulf Coast: National Guard chief
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina who refuse to follow the mandatory evacuation order have been handcuffed as soldiers and police force them to abandon their homes. Up to 10,000 “hold-outs” are still thought to be in New Orleans, and many are… Read moreForcible evacuation of “Occupied New Orleans”
