March 21, 2013
Photo: Bill Hackwell
In the wake of the electoral coup which installed Jovenal Moise, a right-wing protégé of former President Michel Martelly, as Haiti’s new president, there has been a marked increase in repression directed against grassroots activists. (more…)
March 20, 2017
Danny Glover, Photo: Bill Hackwell
The U.S. linguist Noam Chomsky and actor Danny Glover joined more than 100 academics, artists and activists to protest against “the neoliberal policies” of Argentine President Mauricio Macri and the corruption scandals that have affected him and his administration. (more…)
By Nadia Prupis on March 18, 2017
Photo: Bill Hackwell
The Trump administration on Friday filed papers to appeal a ruling that blocked the president’s revised travel ban, setting up a new legal showdown over the executive order that opponents have called “Muslim ban 2.0.” (more…)
March 16, 2017
March 15th 2017 saw the biggest demonstrations yet against the Post-Coup Government of Michel Temer. Called a “Day of Paralysation & Mobilisation”, a rare general strike, with public transport frozen in many parts of Brazil, (more…)
March 17, 2017
Caracas, Photo: Bill Hackwell
“The struggle of the Palestinian people is now more than ever an example for all humanity,” said Venezuelan government official Leonardo Molina. (more…)
By Santiago Navarro F. and Renata Bessi on March 18, 2017
Indigenous Bribri people resisting against the commodification of their forests in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica. Photo: Santiago Navarro F.
From the top of the great Talamaca mountain range in southern Costa Rica, you can see the Caribbean Sea and the houses of the Bribri and Cabécar Indigenous groups. (more…)
By Ali Abunimah on March 17, 2017
A senior United Nations official has resigned, following pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to withdraw the landmark report published earlier this week finding Israel guilty of apartheid. (more…)
March 16, 2017
As a new contribution to the Colombia peace process, Cuba will award 1,000 scholarships to members of the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and victims of the conflict to study medicine on the island. (more…)