by Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb | Jul 6, 2011 | War & Peace
On August 28, 2008, two childhood friends from Midland, Texas, Bradley Crowder and David McKay, traveled north to join thousands of protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC). In the company of six Austin activists, Crowder and McKay were ready for...
by Stephen Zunes | Jun 30, 2011 | Human Rights
The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — including a vessel with 50 Americans on board — bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. At a press conference on...
by Kia Mistilis | Jun 29, 2011 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
The speaker is a young woman, her tone calm. “This is our Square,” she says. “We are here in large numbers, we have been here since May 25 and we are not leaving. Stay calm and stand firm. We will occupy this space until they leave office.” The...
by Kambale Musavuli | May 18, 2011 | Human Rights
For the past 14 years, more than six million Congolese have perished in the ongoing conflict triggered by U.S. allies Rwanda and Uganda when they invaded Congo in 1996. As the world focuses on the Western intervention in Libya under the guise of moral responsibility...
by Kia Mistilis | Mar 15, 2011 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
While the world’s attention is focused on the revolution in Egypt, street fighting in Libya, and the battle for Sana in Yemen, in democracy’s birthplace people are also taking to the streets, continuing to protest an austerity plan that many Greeks say...
