By Patrick Glennon, In these Times | Balázs Nagy-Navarro, You Tube. Four journalists and members of Hungary’s Television and Filmmakers Independent Trade Union are in the seventh day of a hunger strike to protest their government’s infringements on free speech.
Continue reading →By Mark Doyle and Piers Scholfield, BBC Documentary. During a visit to Haiti, Doyle and Scholfield follow the course of Haiti’s cholera epidemic and examine the controversy around it.
Continue reading →By Sonia Pierre, You Tube, Courtesy of Global Fund for Children | RFK Center. Sonia Pierre was the founder and director of Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA). Sonia’s death on Sunday, December 4, 2011 is a great loss to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Granma | By Will Matthews, ACLU. In the last eight years, 126 undocumented immigrants have died while in detention centers operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities. Complete ACLU detention report included.
Continue reading →By Move to Amend. Beware of the decoy 28th amendments that are being proposed in congress. The most serious version of the 28th is one from the grassroots; the text from Move to Amend is reproduced here.
Continue reading →By Heather Digby Parton, Al Jazeera | Editorial note by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The U.S. has been militarizing its police agencies throughout decades of government-abetted theft of public coffers, anticipating a popular dissent that has been slow to come.
Continue reading →By Giovanni Dubon, Prospect Journal. In 2008, Brazil’s state of Rio de Janeiro alone experienced 1,137 police killings, compared to 371 in the whole United States.
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Libre | Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Canada and the U.S. are itching to build prisons in Haiti, although Haiti has the lowest per-capita number of inmates in the Caribbean, and 70 percent of those incarcerated have never been tried. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Franz Chávez, IPS. LA PAZ – With victory cheers and predictions of future campaigns in defense of their ancestral territory, indigenous protesters from Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region celebrated the new law that banned the construction of the road through their rainforest reserve.
Continue reading →By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes. An all-out attack on immigrant workers, their families, and communities continues in the U.S. South and West. In Alabama, immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
Continue reading →By Sebastián Amaya, El Observador | Translated by Lo de alla | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The case against the five Uruguayan MINUSTAH marines, who are under investigation for assaulting a Haitian boy in Port-Salut, could be filed away because the Uruguay court says that the Haitian boy has not reported for questioning and has not filed charges in Uruguay. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Editorial Comment At 4:30 Friday morning Rene Gonzalez became the first of the Cuban Five to be released after 13 years in prison for monitoring the activities of terrorist groups. Florida District Court Judge, Joan A. Lenard, decided however, that … Continue reading →
By Jay Donahue Solitary Watch via San Francisco Bay View “This is the largest prisoner strike of any kind in recent U.S. history,” says Ron Ahnen of California Prison Focus. “The fact that so many prisoners are participating highlights the … Continue reading →
Editorial Comment Anwar al-Awlaki’s and Troy Davis’ murders are connected, and the connection is the November 2012 United States presidential elections. These elections will make little difference to the population, but they matter very much to the two political parties. … Continue reading →
