By Alice Walker, PACBI. Recently I wrote a letter to Yediot publishers in Israel declining an offer they’d made to publish my novel The Color Purple…. I accepted the invitation to be interviewed by an Israeli paper because I feel it is important to speak directly to the Israeli people; both Jewish and Arab.
Continue reading →By Staff, Prensa Latina. Thousands of peasants from Ñacunday, in eastern Paraguay, have set a one-week limit for the government to hand over 37,000 acres of land, which they consider to be illegally held by agribusiness.
Continue reading →By Tortilla con Sal, YouTube. Support for Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), and its government led by Daniel Ortega, increased dramatically between 2007 and 2011. Young people voted overwhelmingly for the policies of the FSLN and continue to be engaged as citizens in a model of direct democracy called Poder Ciudadano (Citizen’s Power).
Continue reading →By Rose Aguilar, Truthout | YouTube. From 1879 until the 1960s, more than 100,000 American Indian children were forcibly removed from their homes and taken to boarding schools. Families risked imprisonment if they stood in the way or attempted to take back their children.
Continue reading →By Staff, RT. Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA received a knockout blow from the European Parliament as MEPs voted overwhelmingly against it, with 478 votes against and only 39 in favor. There were 146 abstentions.
Continue reading →By Kenneth Thomas, OpEd News. Mexico City’s #yosoy132 student movement erected tents and a large under-tent field headquarters in the country’s grand plaza. At around 2:30 p.m., on July 2, 2012, their intelligence team received and posted evidence of ballot fraud in the previous day’s election.
Continue reading →By Ivet González, with reporting by Patricia Grogg, IPS. Cabbage, broccoli, carrots, onions and other vegetables resistant to pests and drought are being grown by researchers in Cuba, who for decades have been working to design plants adapted to the tropical conditions in the Caribbean region. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Ivet González, with reporting by Patricia Grogg, IPS. Small farmers in Cuba are involved in developing improved seeds from local stocks, to obtain good harvests under difficult environmental conditions. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Interview of Captain Paul Watson with Jerry Cope, OpEd News | Paul Watson was arrested by German authorities on May 14, 2012, on charges stemming from a confrontation 10 years ago with shark fin poachers in Costa Rica. At the time the charges were dismissed. Watson has put in a motion to dismiss the case. No decision has been forthcoming from Germany, which does not have an extradition treaty with Costa Rica.
Continue reading →By Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet. Some much-needed good news for sharks came from Venezuela this week: the South American country announced it is banning shark finning in its waters and has established a new shark sanctuary.
Continue reading →By Georgi Gotev, EurActiv. A European Parliament Committee rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on June 21st despite pro-business lobbying by Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, who insisted that Parliament should not decide before the European Court of Justice gives its opinion. A final vote in the full Parliament is expected on July 4th.
Continue reading →PRESS RELEASE — The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit on June 29, 2012 against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the agency’s failure to protect Coleman’s coralroot under the Endangered Species Act.
Continue reading →By Staff, MercoPress. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay made official on Friday the temporary suspension of Paraguay from Mercosur, because of the ‘summary’ removal of President Fernando Lugo and at the same time announced that Venezuela will be incorporated into the group on July 31 at a meeting in Rio do Janeiro.
Continue reading →By Joseph Serizier (with kft, gp), AlterPresse | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Radio Monopole, in Haiti’s city of Cayes, was burned to the ground early in the morning of June 27. In an interview, the CEO Herold Zamor said he had been openly criticized by highly placed people in the government and hypothesized that the fire was an act of arson. (English | French)
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