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Interview with Celia Martinez of a Worker-Controlled Factory in Argentina

Benjamin Dangl April 26, 2006 Benjamin Dangl

One day before Argentina's economic crash on December 19, 2001, fifty-two workers from the Brukman Textile Factory, the majority of them women, refused to continue working until their bosses handed over their back-wages. Plagued by debt and gradual bankruptcy, the owners hadn't paid the workers their weekly pay check for fifteen days. The bosses demanded that the workers returned to their stations, but the sewing machines remained silent.

A Taylor-made Criminal Court?

Rene Wadlow April 17, 2006 Rene Wadlow

Taylor

Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, has been forced from his comfortable exile in Nigeria by growing international pressures and cooperation between Liberia's new president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo. Taylor has now been arrested for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, mutilation and sending children into combat.

Doing Time Behind Bars for Protesting Against Torture

Robin Lloyd April 10, 2006 Robin Lloyd

My 'self-report' date to prison is April 11th. I will be incarcerated in FCI Danbury, Connecticut for 90 days. Prison, I'm imagining, is the exact opposite of my cat.

Donkoro Chaka: A “Deaf Bush” in Ethiopia

Glenn Brigaldino April 5, 2006 Glenn Brigaldino

Zenawi

The rare glimpses at Ethiopia through the cracked lenses of mainstream media distort more than they inform about the political crisis in this country of over 75 million people. The blurred picture that comes to the distant minds in Europe and North America usually includes a long history of famine conditions and war with neighbouring Eritrea.

Behind the Numbers: Untold Suffering in the Congo

Keith Harmon Snow and David Barouski March 30, 2006 Keith Harmon Snow and David Barouski

The British medical journal Lancet recently took greater notice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than all western media outlets combined. A group of physicians reported that about 4 million people have died since the "official" outbreak of the Congolese war in 1998 (1). The BBC reported the war in Congo has claimed more lives than any armed conflict since World War II (2).

Argentina’s Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Pass on a Legacy of Defending Human Rights

Marie Trigona March 9, 2006 Marie Trigona

For nearly three decades, Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo have fought for the right to re-unite with their abducted children. The Mothers began their protest in 1977 to demand information about the whereabouts of their children from authorities. Some 30,000 activists were kidnapped and murdered during the military junta dictatorship, which ruled Argentina from 1976-1983. During the Dirty War in Argentina, much of the population remained silent due to the censorship imposed by the military government. Those who did not stay silent risked being disappeared themselves.