While the Occupy Movement has taken the world by storm, a long history of different types of social movement occupations have marked Latin America for decades. Toward Freedom and Between the Lines Radio Newsmagazine have organized a panel on this topic for this year’s Left Forum.
The suicide trend among American troops and veterans is repeating itself. But are the reasons behind today’s military suicides different than what happened after the US left Vietnam?
On January 14, 2012, enterprising students, small business owners, rural farmers, and Uganda’s technology community - among other panelists and attendees - took part in an annual event called “Villages in Action.”
A new report on hunger assesses the impact of chronic malnutrition across the world.
Once Mubarak was driven from power, we saw that the “Republic of Tahrir” did not magically change everything. Women have continued to play a vital role in the protests and in many of the new political parties but their participation falls on deaf ears.
Source: In These Times
WEST BANK, PALESTINE – On November 15, Mazin Qumsiyeh and other Palestinian activists boarded public bus number 148, an Israelis-only bus that normally takes Jews from the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ariel to Jerusalem. The bus took the group to the Hizma checkpoint, just outside the northern entrance of Jerusalem, where activists resisted authorities’ efforts to remove them. Eventually, as a camera broadcast the action online, eight people were pulled from the bus and arrested. They were charged with “illegal entry to Jerusalem” and “obstructing police business.”
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