Official numbers given by the Peruvian government of those killed were 10 indigenous people and 20 policemen, but people from the ground have reported as many as 80 indigenous people dead and 100 wounded, many others missing. Real numbers are hard to ...
Dressed all in black, a diverse community of Palestinians, Arab-Americans, Jews, Christians, and people from different heritage backgrounds, gathered in Boston in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. They marched from Copley Square to Downtown ...
"It's genocide. It's a holocaust," said Frank from Arlington about Israel's policy in the occupied territories. "I don't say that to diminish the horror of the holocaust, but that's what they're doing." Frank has Jewish family in the United States ...
“Cops came and served warrants in several houses, arrested several people, and seized a lot of equipment,” said Kris Hermes from the Coldsnap Legal Collective, an organization created to help release many of the protesters that were expected to be ...
ANNOUNCEMENTS: On August 18, in celebration of the honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and in recognition of Black August, Voices of Liberation raised a Red Black and Green Pan-African Liberation flag on City Hall Plaza in Boston. A ceremony took place ...
Activists in Beijing have been organizing actions since the games started, to draw attention on the Tibetan independence movement. The actions have included unfurling banners on public places and providing space for Tibetans to speak out. But China's ...
The day before he was scheduled for deportation, Corey Glass, a former sergeant with the National Guard, was granted a review of his case. Meanwhile, the pressure in Canada mounted to allow US war resisters seeking refuge to stay in that country, ...
This is one of many cases of US soldiers’ desertion to Canada that the War Resisters Support (WRS) Campaign has been supporting since the invasion of Iraq began. It all started with Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, two soldiers who fled to Canada ...
Writing dispatches of their actions on Seattle Indymedia, the students have made it clear that the sit-in is more than just about having SDS reinstated into the student body. “If anything, this sit-in is turning the theory of participatory democracy ...
The American Civil Liberties Union released a report last week that there is a widespread practice in Massachusetts of locking up youth accused of minor offenses and who pose little or no danger to their communities. The report, entitled "Locking Up ...
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