Month: June 2010

Stop the proposed Desert Rock Energy Project and all coal-burning power plants!

“For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another’s life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.” —Sitting Bull

Elouise Brown
President, Dooda Desert Rock
PO Box 7838
NewComb, New Mexico 87455
505-947-6159

by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS

“Mansion of Datu Andal Ampatuan, Sr. in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao. Note the GI sheet covering a portion of the fence’s grills. This was done after the massacre.” PHOTO/Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews

Until their detention, the principal suspects in the murder of Neneng and at least 57 others on November 23, 2009 lived in mansions in the country’s third poorest province, in neighboring cities, and even in Metro Manila.

They traveled with a retinue of heavily armed escorts in a convoy of black SUVs, flew business class, and paid the equivalent of at least two business-class tickets for the handling fees of their bodyguards’ guns flown on board (and several thousands of pesos more for their bodyguards’ tickets).

Each of their purchase, including those of multimillion-peso lots and luxury vehicles, was reportedly paid for in cold cash.

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism for more

Al Jazeera

by ALEXANDER MAIN

It is interesting to compare the US administration’s position on this tragic event with the positions expressed by its Latin American neighbors. In the past, Latin America has been generally friendlier to Israel than most developing regions of the world, and countries of the hemisphere considered to be solidly within the orbit of U.S. influence — for instance most of Central America — have been more reluctant to criticize Israel’s policies in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In this case, though, the vast majority of Latin American reactions to the Israeli raid are fundamentally at odds with the U.S. position.

Upside Down World for more

by BERRY ZEPEL

She was a close friend of Malcolm X and joined his Organization for Afro-American Unity to work for racial justice and human rights. Kochiyama was in attendance at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem when Malcolm X was assassinated Feb. 21, 1965, and is forever immortalized in a Life magazine photo that shows her holding him in her arms as he lay dying.

California State University for more

via Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle

by CHAIM LEVINSON

The protest was originally planned by to mark the anniversary of the Six Day War which broke out 43 years ago today. Among the organizers were left wing parties Meretz, Hadash and Peace Now organization. The demonstrators carried banners saying “The government is drowning us all,” “We must stride for peace,” and “A right wing government = clear and immediate danger to state security.”

Haaretz for more

via MRZine

by AASHA MEHREEN AMIN

Dhaka: In Bangladesh, family poverty and poor quality state education forces millions of children out of primary school. Girls in particular lose out as they are often the first to be called on to get a job or help their parents at home. But a new project of flexible learning centres is hoping to change this as Aasha Mehreen Amin found when she visited two centres run by the Dhaka Ahsania Mission.

A maths class is in full swing inside a Child Learning Centre (CLC) in a slum area of Sheorapara, Dhaka City. There are four tables where students, aged eight to twelve, sit immersed in their work. Jannatul (which means ‘heavenly’ in Arabic) is a round-faced, wide-eyed twelve year-old girl wearing a threadbare shalwar kameez.

Women News Network for more

UPRISING RADIO

Homeboy Industries, the acclaimed institution that has worked to transform the lives of gang members in East Los Angeles for more than two decades, was forced into massive layoffs last week. The organization founded by Boyle Heights Jesuit Priest Father Gregory Boyle to combat gang violence through job placement has fallen short of maintaining its operating budget and as a result three hundred employees, including senior staff and administrators, found themselves suddenly out of work. The independent non-profit has been adversely affected by the long-standing economic recession as private donations and less local government funding has come at a time when unemployment has increased demand for its services.

Uprising Radio for more

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via 3 Quarks Daily

by JAMES BERNARD

With mounting cases of parents around the country committing horrendous acts of cruelty against their own children, there is grave concern among psychologists, the authorities, including police and administration officials, and the society, at large.

The Citizen for more