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, by Against the Current
Against the Current has publishged on dossier on Hurricane Katrina’s destructive landfall in New Orleans, a yer after the event. We reproduce below the introduction to this dossier, its content and the link to its articles.
August 29th marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s (…)
Abusive Techniques Were Authorized, Soldiers’ Complaints Ignored
(New York, July 23, 2006) - Torture and other abuses against detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers in a Human Rights Watch (…)
US Immigrant Workers: Invisible and Abused but Making their Voices Heard Padma
The number of undocumented (‘illegal’) immigrants in the United States (US) is about 12 million and according to a new estimate they account for 1 in every 20 workers. There are an estimated 7.2 million (…)
, by HINMAN Pip, McCOY Alfred
Alfred McCoy, an expert on the CIA and its history of torture and a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, slammed foreign minister Alexander Downer on the ABC’s June 13 Lateline program for claiming that Australian prisoner David Hicks was being treated humanely at the US prison (…)
AI Index: AMR 51/091/2006 (Public)News Service No: 149 12 June 2006
Amnesty International today called for a fully independent investigation led by civilians into the deaths of three Guantanamo detainees after apparent suicides.
The organisation also called on the US government to give the (…)
, by SMITH Neil
It is generally accepted among environmental geographers that there is no such thing as a natural disaster. In every phase and aspect of a disaster – causes, vulnerability, preparedness, results and response, and reconstruction – the contours of disaster and the difference between who lives and (…)
, by ROBINSON William I.
Latino immigrants have launched an all-out fight-back against the repression, exploitation, and racism they routinely face in the United States with a series of unprecedented strikes and demonstrations. The mobilizations began when over half a million immigrants and their supporters took to the (…)
, by HAYDEN Tom
I wore the multicolored Aymaran flag of Bolivia to the May Day march in Los Angeles, the same day that Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, nationalized the oil and gas fields. It seemed right to recognize the reappearance of the indigenous in the Americas. I gazed at Marcos (…)
, by Against the Current
MARCH, 2006 MARKED an eruption that hit the streets, showed its strength, and took everyone including its participants by surprise. Millions marched all over the country: 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Denver, 10,000 in Detroit and Milwaukee, 10,000-20,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix - and (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
In promoting his recently published Quadrennial Defence Review, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of a “generation-long war”, projecting thirty years of unceasing combat against radical Islam.
he changes proposed to the US military plans involve more Special Forces and an ability to (…)
, by BELLO Walden, EMMANUEL Jorge
Dear friends,
Perhaps many of you have already heard that Daniel “Boone” Schirmer, 91, died peacefully in the presence of his family last April 21. A memorial is tentatively planned for Saturday, June 17 in Boston.
Boone, as he was known to his friends, was a towering figure in the struggle (…)
, by LOPEZ Nativo
At an April 22 meeting of organizers in Chicago, Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association, spoke about the importance of the next step in the struggle against vicious anti-immigrant legislation - the Great American Boycott on May 1.
WE HAVEN’T seen anything as (…)
AI Index: AMR 51/029/2006 (Public)News Service No: 041 16 February 2006
USA: Amnesty welcomes UN call to close Guantánamo Bay - but it is tip of iceberg Amnesty International welcomes today’s United Nations report calling for the closure of the US military detention centre at Guantánamo Bay (…)
, by SEEGER Pete, WHITEHEAD John W.
An Interview With Pete Seeger, by John W. Whitehead (2006).
“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”—Pete Seeger
Before the Byrds or Joan Baez or Peter, Paul and Mary, there was Pete Seeger. With his five-string banjo in hand, Seeger helped to (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, eds. “Takin’ It to the Streets”: A Sixties Reader, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 533 pages.
Max Elbaum. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. London: Verso, 2002. 370 pages, including index.
Barry (…)
Four years ago, the USA transferred the first “war on terror” detainees - hooded and shackled - to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
As the detention regime at Guantánamo Bay enters its fifth year, around 500 people from 35 countries continue to be held without charge (…)
The following text is a chapter of the World Report 2006 of the association Human Rights Watch.
International human rights law contains no more basic prohibition than the absolute, unconditional ban on torture and what is known as “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.” Even the right to (…)
, by National Council for Occupational Safety and Health
National Council for Occupational Safety and Health 57 School Street 2nd Floor Concord NH 03301 603-226-0516 Fax: 603-226-7168 September 30, 2005
Dear Members of Congress and Senate:
Thousands of disaster responders, workers, and volunteers in the Gulf Coast areas affected by Hurricane (…)
, by FLAHERTY Jordan
New Orleans was not devastated by a hurricane. From my travels around New Orleans and surrounding areas, its clear that very little damage was done to my city by hurricane Katrina.
Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, Gulfport and other Gulf cities have suffered extensive hurricane-related damage. However, (…)
, by OSAYANDE Ewuare X.
they are pulling our dead out of the dead water now
they are pulling our dead out of the dead water now like they pulled Till out of the Tallahatchie River and even if we did place the blame where it belongs would they get off like the men who murdered Emmett?
while reporters blamed us for (…)
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