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 The occupation on Friday morning (Pic: Socialist Worker) Occupations in protest against corporate greed are spreading across the US. The first protest—Occupy Wall Street—began in New York’s financial district.
Now there are similar occupations in dozens of other US cities, including in Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Olympia and Boston. And activists in other countries, including Britain are planning their own occupations.
Laura Paskell-Brown, a lecturer and graduate student based in New York, spoke to Socialist Worker about the Wall Street occupation. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) Occupy Wall Street: ‘A new generation is fighting back’
by James F. Petras
Invited paper to be presented to the “Encuentro Nacional de comunidades Campesinas, Afrodescendientes e Indigenas por la Tierra y la Paz de Colombia: El dialogo es la Ruta”, 12 al 15 de agosto 2011, Barrancabermeja – Colombia
Introduction:
We live in a time of great destruction and grand economic opportunities and Latin America is no exception. In the global context, the US Empire is engaged in destructive wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Haiti). In contrast China, India, Brazil, Argentina and other “emerging economies” are expanding trade, investments and reducing poverty. The European Union (EU) and the United States (USA) are in deep economic crises. The EU “periphery” (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain) are totally bankrupt. The US “dependencies” in North America (Mexico), Central America and the Caribbean are virtual narco-states plagued by mass poverty, astronomical crime rates and economic stagnation. The US dependencies are plundered by foreign multi-nationals, local oligarchs and corrupt politicians. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) Colombia: Pillage, Promise and Peace
At least seven EDL supporters take part in demonstration after far-right group’s leader is reportedly turned away at airport
Robert Booth
guardian.co.uk
 EDL mosque protest at Ground Zero in New York EDL members at Ground Zero in New York. Photograph: Diaper/Flickr Members of the far-right English Defence League protested in New York this weekend against plans for an Islamic cultural centre and mosque near Ground Zero. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) English Defence League members attend New York mosque protest
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
 Foreclosure victims in Sacramento Feb. 10 tell Gov. Schwarzenegger: ‘Terminate foreclosures!’ WW photo: John Parker By Terri Kay
California is in a state of economic emergency on many fronts. Not only does official unemployment hover around 12 percent, but approximately 702,000 homes — nearly 1 in 8 — are currently in foreclosure.
Who is hurt the most from this crisis? Latino/a and African-American homeowners make up more than half of all foreclosures in California, according to a new report that looked at 600,000 foreclosures around the state.
“Dreams Deferred: Impacts and Characteristics of the California Foreclosure Crisis,” by the Center for Responsible Lending, paints a stark picture of the devastation wreaked in the state by the banks’ racist sub-prime mortgage schemes and resultant mass foreclosures. “Conventional” mortgages at higher interest rates were also targeted for sale to African-American and Latino/a home buyers.
The report notes: “It is well-documented that African-American and Latino families disproportionately received the most expensive and dangerous types of loans during the heyday of the subprime market. According to analysis of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, higher-rate conventional mortgages were disproportionately distributed to borrowers of color between 2004 and 2008. For example, in 2006, among consumers who received conventional mortgages for single-family homes, roughly half of African-American (53.7 percent) and Hispanic borrowers (46.5 percent) received a higher-rate mortgage compared to about one-fifth of non-Hispanic white borrowers (17.7 percent).” responsiblelending.org Aug. 17) CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) California’s foreclosure crisis & racism
As President Obama attempts to re-brand the war in Iraq as a “New Dawn” of U.S. occupation, with continued combat against the Iraqi resistance and U.S. deciding the Iraqi government, the people of Puerto Rico have considerable experience to bring to bear on this issue of “re-branding” and occupation. The U.S. has occupied Puerto Rico and enslaved it as a colony since 1898. It has used it as a launching pad for the U.S. military in aggression against Latin America and Iraq. The Navy for decades used the island of Vieques as a bombing range, terrorizing and harming the people living there and destroying the natural environment. The Army long maintained numerous bases and still has two functioning, with others ready for use at any time. The FBI is always present and notorious for its assassinations and numerous efforts to infiltrate and disrupt the resistance movement in Puerto Rico. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) End U.S. Occupation of Puerto Rico
Join us for the opening of the first annual Black August Arts Show, co-sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). This year’s art show and auction will benefit political prisoners and prisoners of war in the United States. We will be fundraising featuring live music, live painting, and artists with work available via silent auction. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) August 20-22 in NYC: 1st Annual Black August Art Exhibit
 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) By Sean Maher / Oakland Tribune
BERKELEY — Protesters gathered at the opening of classes Monday to protest the school’s continued employment of John Yoo, a UC Berkeley professor who gave legal sanction to the Bush administration’s views on torture. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) Protest draws dozens at UC Berkeley for John Yoo’s first day of classes
by Bill Weimberg
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Aug. 9 approved a bus advertisement protesting the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” (which, as we have pointed out, is neither at Ground Zero nor a mosque). AP writes that the ads depict “a plane flying toward the World Trade Center’s towers as they burn along with a rendering of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero.” But we question whether the ad’s depiction of the “proposed mosque” (sic) is accurate. An image of the ad at MSNBC shows a tall building inlaid with a giant star-and-crescent, whereas a rendering of the proposed Cordoba House (actually an ecumenical community center, now dubbed Park51 for its address on Park Place) on the progressive Jewish website Tikkun Olam shows it without the star and crescent. Poking around on the site of the Cordoba Initiative, the group behind the project, we were unable to find a depiction. The ad’s caption reads “WTC Mega Mosque—Why There?” The ad was produced by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, whose website banner (in vivid contrast to pacifistic imagery at the Cordoba Initiative site) features an image of a charging soldier with an assault rifle below an American flag. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) Islamophobic propaganda: coming to a bus near you
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