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Like Nothing Sudhama Ranganathan 2010-07-06 2:12 PM

Politics is so strewn with selfishness and short memory. It often leads to a certain level of ingratitude towards people who propel politicians to campaign victories. For many who understand this and are playing the political game they expect it and believe it to be part of the package. They learn the ins and outs and see it as the system they need to navigate to get what they want. These are people who have something to gain personally from politics. For them there is always a sense of professional detachment from the issues. (image/jpeg)

Rwanda: Kagame tortures opposition, arrests Ingabire's new lawyer Ann Garrison 2010-07-02 10:20 PM

Rwandan opposition leaders Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and Frank Habineza report ongoing torture of opposition party members arrested in Kigali on June 24th, 2010, as they attempted to protest exclusion from this year's presidential election. Ingabire is the presidential candidate of Rwanda's FDU-Inkingi Party, Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda. (image/jpeg)

BP's Past and Present Wars... Update All Beings 2010-07-02 9:49 PM

BP War And Theft in Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Brazil, Angola, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Alaska, Texas, Gulf etc. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Angola 3's Albert Woodfox Responds to Court Ruling Angola 3 News 2010-06-30 4:50 AM

On Monday, June 21, the US Fifth Circuit Court ruled to overturn a July 2008 decision that ordered that Albert Woodfox's conviction and life sentence be "reversed and vacated." Albert Woodfox's response to this ruling has just been released, and is featured in full below. (image/jpeg + 3 comments)

Lawmakers who cut mass transit as guilty as BP in the Gulf Ann Garrison 2010-06-29 5:40 AM

Has anyone stopped driving, or building freeways because of what's happening to the Gulf of Mexico? How many are free to choose, even if they would? (image/jpeg)

Erlinder released as Kagame cracks down on his own Ann Garrison 2010-06-28 1:39 AM

As U.S. Law Professor Peter Erlinder was released, after three weeks incarceration in Rwanda, Rwandan President Paul Kagame cracked down hard on his own. Rwandan Umuvugizi journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage was assassinated in Kigali Rwanda on June 24, 2010, after publishing a report that Rwandan President Paul Kagame had ordered the attempted assassination of General Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa. Presidental candidate Bernard Ntaganda and hundreds of opposition party members were arrested on the same day. (image/jpeg)

Erlinder released as Kagame cracks down on his own Ann Garrison 2010-06-28 12:02 AM

As U.S. Law Professor Peter Erlinder was released, after three weeks incarceration in Rwanda, Kagame cracked down hard on his own. Rwandan Umuvugizi journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage was assassinated in Kigali Rwanda on June 24, 2010, after publishing a report that Rwandan President Paul Kagame had ordered the attempted assassination of General Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa. (image/jpeg)

FUEL Filmmakers Heading to New Orleans Beth P 2010-06-25 7:43 PM

ACTIVIST AND FILMMAKER JOSH TICKELL TO ‘FUEL’ PUSH FOR SOLUTIONS ON DEEPWATER OIL SPILL With Launch of DVD on June 22nd, the FUEL team of Energy Experts Began a National Dialogue on Solutions for the DeepWater Oil Spill Events to Span from Los Angeles to New Orleans and Canada (image/jpeg)

Kagame arrests presidential candidate Bernard Ntaganda Ann Garrison 2010-06-25 2:12 AM

Bernard Ntaganda, Rwandan opposition presidential candidate, and Didas Gasana, Editor of Rwanda's banned newspaper, Umuseso, spoke to KMEC Radio on April 18th. Gasana has since fled to Uganda and Ntaganda was arrested in Kigali this morning. Last night Ntaganda put out an urgent message that his assistant, Mr. Sibomana Rusangwa Aimable, had disappeared at 8 p.m., after a meeting held at the head office of P.S.Imberakuri in which the Party had decided to organize demonstrations today, June 24th, 2010. (image/jpeg)

Bishop Christopher on gay suicide, gay genocide, and Article 13 Ann Garrison 2010-06-24 9:36 PM

On Monday, May 26, Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, fondly known as Bishop Christopher, spoke to a circle gathered round him at San Francisco’s African American Art and Culture Complex. He explained his counseling work with LGBT youth, his advocacy for LGBT rights and his opposition to Uganda’s infamous proposed Anti Homosexuality Act, a.k.a., “Hang-the-Gays” bill, which has caused alarm at the Western Christian Right’s globalization of the culture wars. And, he explained Article 13, the one section of the act still likely to be written into law, which would make way for wholesale human rights abuse. (image/jpeg)

Roof Protest links Florida to Ireland Shell to Sea 2010-06-24 11:02 AM

Campaigners hung a banner reading “Energy shouldn't cost the earth” from the roof of Shell offices in Belmullet, Ireland this morning at 8am. This protest connected the environmental disaster suffered by the fishermen & people of Louisiana with the threat faced by the fishermen and people of Erris, Co Mayo. (image/jpeg)

BREAKING - What's Next for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3? James Ridgeway and Jean Casella 2010-06-22 5:28 PM

A federal appeals court just delivered a crushing blow to prisoners' rights. yesterday, a ruling by a federal appeals court [1] ensured that for the forseeable future, Albert Woodfox will remain right where he has been for the last three decades: in a 6 x 9 cell in the heart of America’s largest and most notorious prison. (image/jpeg)

Primate Torture In LA, GA, US, UK, China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Netherland Primate Protector 2010-06-20 7:16 PM

Recent deaths of primates subjected to freezing and baking have given momentum to the movement to end laboratory research on captive victims (image/jpeg)

Suu Kyi marks birthday; world remembers J Esplanada 2010-06-19 10:23 AM

RANGOON—From tree planting in Burma (Myanmar) to a solidarity rally in Washington and flash mobs in Britain, people around the world are holding events to mark the 65th birthday today of Aung San Suu Kyi. (image/jpeg)

MDS WORKSHOP-MEETING at the US SOCIAL FORUM Movement for a Democrtic Society (MDS) 2010-06-14 10:24 AM

Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) hosts workshop-meeting at US Social Forum in Detroit, June 24th. (image/jpeg)

EMERGENCY SUMMIT-THE PEOPLE MUST ACT TO STOP THE OIL CATASTROPHE Beluga 2010-06-14 4:47 AM

The BP oil blowout is an environmental catastrophe, bringing great peril to marine and wildlife in the Gulf and threatening ecosystems of the planet. The spill is still out of control and spreading. It jeopardizes communities and livelihoods. The government and BP have proven unable and unwilling to stop the disaster, protect the Gulf, or even tell the truth. The people must come together now to stop this nightmare. Millions are sick at heart and looking for ways to act.… (image/jpeg)

When Environmentalists Refuse to Oppose Offshore Drilling Elizabeth Cook 2010-06-13 3:29 PM

While Gulf Restoration Network supports the 6 month moratorium on deep water drilling, GRN has never expressed opposition to offshore drilling in its entirety. (image/jpeg)

Militant workers in the Philippines slam wage hike as loose change Partido ng Manggagawa 2010-06-13 9:28 AM

The militant Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers Party - PM) slammed the wage hike of P22 for Metro Manila workers as “loose change” and called for the abolition of the regional wage boards for “betraying the working class.” Renato Magtubo, PM chairperson, declared that “P22 is not even enough for workers to buy a kilo of commercial rice or even the cheapest NFA rice worth P25. Since the last wage hike was in June 2008, the wage hike is effectively P11 per year over two years. Na-onse na naman ang mga manggagawa." (image/jpeg)

Terrorismo de Estado y masacres: un binomio constante en la política burguesa israelí. PCInt. 2010-06-10 3:32 PM

El ataque militar israelí contra la Flotilla de la Libertad de las organizaciones pacifistas, encabezadas por la ONG turca Insani Yardim Vakfi, demuestra una vez más el carácter militarista y represivo por parte del único país democrático del Medio Oriente. Esta flotilla llevaba medicamentos y suministros para una población que, desde el 16 de junio de 2007, se muere de hambre, condenada a muerte en esta prisión llamada Gaza. (image/jpeg)

Rwandan judge sends Minnesota law professor back to jail Ann Garrison 2010-06-09 12:03 AM

Minnesota Law Professor and international criminal lawyer Peter Erlinder has gone back to jail in Kigali, Rwanda, where he was arrested on May 28th. A Rwandan judge denied bail on Monday afternoon. (image/jpeg)

Questions about Congolese human rights defender's murder Ann Garrison 2010-06-07 7:10 AM

Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, the Democratic Republic of Congo's leading human rights defender was found murdered in a suburb of Kinshasa, the nation's capitol, on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010. (image/jpeg)

The Holy Angels Forum and Conflicts of Interest Elizabeth Cook 2010-06-06 3:14 PM

The "expert" that presented at the recent Holy Angels Forum on the oil spill did not disclose inherent conflicts of interest. Also, the recent 50 experts panel that gave the thumbs up on the use of dispersants is embedded in NOAA. NOAA has downplayed the effects of the dispersants. (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

San Antonio Police Department and Civilian Partner “Cellular On Patrol” Attempted Frame-Up Anonymous 2010-06-06 1:02 PM

San Antonio Park Police and Cellular On Patrol try to frame homeless park visitor (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Bombard the Headquarters of the Opportunist Utrecht Mafia! Ka. Rosendo Monteroso 2010-06-01 2:43 PM

Comrade Mao-Zedong had been so clear in his teachings. Practice is primary over theory. He rhetorically asked in his philosophical writings, “Where do correct ideas come from? Do they fall from the sky? Are they innate in the mind? No, they come from social practice and social practice alone.” (image/jpeg)

Lets shove the BP executives in the pipe to stop the leak!!! Carmen Ardino 2010-05-31 2:27 AM

The article is about the growth of new groups & business resulting from the gulf oil spill (image/jpeg)

Cuba-Venezuela relationship: What can be said from an anarchist perspective? El Libertario, Venezuela 2010-05-30 5:56 PM

* This text appears in the June-July 2010 issue #59 of El Libertario, describing the position this voice of the Venezuelan anarchist movement takes regarding the close links between the governments of these two countries. (image/jpeg)

Some Heroes; Criminal Investigations Needed Sudhama Ranganathan 2010-05-29 12:14 PM

When the Transocean Deepwater Horizon experienced a series of failures in the Gulf of Mexico culminating in the April 20, 2010 blow out and fire now filling the headlines, we witnesses a tragedy. We observed helplessly as eleven workers lost their lives and more were injured and/or scarred for life by the incident. The fire raged high and burned hot and the rig itself, acquired by BP in 2001, sunk two days later. Most of us had no idea what was to come next. (image/jpeg)

AMERICA LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD FESTIVAL ADDRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES Chad Andro 2010-05-27 4:23 PM

Florida may be milestones ahead of where it was many years ago regarding human/civil rights issues (image/jpeg)

RP rebels use child soldiers—UN V. Uy 2010-05-27 10:23 AM

MANILA, Philippines—Three of the country’s rebel groups—Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf, communist New People’s Army, and secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front—are among the world’s “persistent violators of children in armed conflicts,” the United Nations said. (image/jpeg)

Political Comeback Marcos Family Alarming – Victims of Martial law R Olea 2010-05-25 11:54 PM

PHILIPPINES - On April 27, 1977, urban poor leader Trinidad Herrera-Ripuno was arrested in Katipunan, Quezon City by virtue of an arrest and search and seizure order (ASSO) of then President Ferdinand Marcos. She was made to suffer brutal torture, which was meant to break her determination and spirit. (image/jpeg)

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