How the USAID, Federal Bureau of Prisons and the School of the Americas Have Impacted Colombia’s Prison System
By James Jordan
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
Amid much talk of human rights and improved conditions for those deprived of liberty, in March of 2000, the US ambassador and Colombia’s Minister of Justice signed the “Program for the Improvement of the Colombian Prison System.” Called the dawning of a “New Penitentiary Culture,” the US government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), would redesign Colombia’s maximum and medium security institutions, providing millions of dollars in funding, advice and oversight. Central to this restructuring has been the building and expansion of as many as sixteen new jails designed to handle an influx of some 30,000 new inmates—an increase in capacity of more than 40%. The reason cited for building these new jails was to alleviate overcrowding as a necessary first step toward better conditions. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) The “New Penitentiary Culture”: US Designs for Colombian Jails
Boalt Hall law students, left, who said it was their first day of school, watch as protesters pass, calling for the firing of Boalt Hall law professor John Yoo for his part in drafting the "enhanced interrogation" methods used on enemy combatants that were adopted by the Bush Administration, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, in Berkeley, Calif. Protesters called Yoo a war criminal and demanded that he be fired from his job teaching constitutional law. (D. Ross Cameron/Staff)
Peoples of the Ancient Southwest
Gente, tribes and nations of Aztlán
Rise up and put away the destructive and artificial powers and energies!
Mexica stop at nothing to take back Grandfathers Land and rule -
The Rule of Higher Thought
Love and unity.
Sometimes we must fight to take away the power of hateful men,
Who only thrive on greed, lust, and endless destruction.
Rise up Mexica warriors,
Talk does not work anymore,
So give them no choice.
Rise up Mexica warriors
Rise up Apache warriors
Rise up Dine warriors.
Be prepared for a MASSIVE letter writing campaign to protest the
horrendous treatment that has been happening to Oso Blanco! Oso filed
legal action for a June 24th assault and a week later on November 7th
he was brutally assaulted and tortured. This is horrific and
unacceptable! His Native rights were broken and he was humiliated in
an unprovoked act of prison terrorism, along with his cell mate.
PASS THIS STATEMENT AROUND EVERYWHERE AND BE PREPARED FOR A LETTER
WRITING CAMPAIGN.
JUSTICE FOR OSO BLANCO!
-Sinapu, Mapache,
Arcata Anarchist Black Cross
Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross
Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners, Photo: Hanan Tabbara
On Saturday forty New York human rights advocates rallied on a cold fall day at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev to demand that Israel release jailed Palestinian boycott activist Mohammad Othman. Othman, held without charges and in solitary confinement since September 22nd, is from Jayyous, a West Bank village where Leviev’s company Leader is building the Israeli settlement of Zufim. The protesters also called for an end to Israel’s wave of arrests of Palestinian activists from Bil’in, another West Bank village campaigning against the construction of settlement homes by another Leviev company, Africa-Israel. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) New York protest against detention without trial of Palestinian BDS activist
El temor a una guerra universal es cada vez más fuerte. Su vil cara aparece frecuentemente. Si no fuera así, los académicos suecos no le hubieran dado el Nobel de la Paz a Barack Obama.
Es la primera vez que le otorgan ese premio a quien no ha hecho nada por la Paz. Se hizo elegir hablando contra “ella”, pero una vez en el gobierno – a la sombra de su retórica -, la fiera dama controlada por “halcones” y “neocons”, afila sus uñas, agrede, mata y esclaviza.
Parece que los pacíficos vikingos – que se cansaron de hacer la guerra – con esa designación están mandando una especie de SOS. Hasta el mismo Obama está sorprendido.
Y no es para menos. Los gringos tienen armas y toda clase equipos de guerra dispersos por todo el mundo. Los chinos acaban de hacer una increíble demostración de fuerza. Al menos 12 países cuentan con armas nucleares. Y los conflictos siguen vivos en los cinco continentes. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) Obama no debe recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz
On October 1st, 2009, at 6:00am, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (a union of local police departments and the FBI), kicked out the front door to our home—an anarchist collective house in Queens, NY, affectionately known as Tortuga. The first crashes of the battering ram were quickly followed [...]
Did officials of Drummond Co., a U.S. coal operation, play a role in the deaths of at least two men in Colombia?
Colombia is the most dangerous place in the world to be a union organizer. In the last 17 years, more than 2,700 teachers, farmworkers, coal miners and other laborers have paid with their lives for seeking rights that Americans have long taken for granted, such as safe working conditions. During that same period, there were more than 4,000 reported death threats against labor leaders, 350 disappearances and kidnappings, and 75 cases of torture.
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