This week, Rustbelt Radio interviewed Philadelphia journalist Linn Washington Jr. about the January 19 ruling by the US Supreme Court that vacated previous 2001/2008 federal court rulings that overturned the death penalty for death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. The sixteen minute segment of the Rustbelt Radio is included here. Also featured here is Washington's new article examining a possible silver lining in the January 19 ruling.

A talk by David Eby, Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association.

By Robert Naiman - Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The group Feministas de Honduras en Resistencia said Thursday that it has documented 19 instances of rape by police officers since the June 28 coup that ousted President Mel Zelaya. There have been many other cases of rape, but the women have not reported them out of fear of reprisals..."We've obtained testimonials from women who've been sexually abused, beaten with cudgels on different parts of their bodies..."

Winnipeg anarchist radio show Black Mask recently celebrated 10 years on the air at CKUW 95.9fm. We've celebrated by launching our own website to archive new radio segments and news headlines. We're looking forward to hearing your feedback, and to ten more years on the air!

In recognition of International Day Against Police Brutality, MW features a collection of material on IDAPB from both the corporate and alternative press.

"When I see blood and muscle worker struggle with his/her natural enemy - the policeman, I do not need to ask myself on whose side I am".

--George Orwell

Healing the Earth Radio explores the connections between many social and ecological issues. Motivated by a desire to foster more understanding, alliances, and effective action, the show interviews Native people defending their land and culture, environmental, local food, and peak oil activists, writers, lawyers, supporters of political prisoners, scientists, whistle-blowers, tree sitters, and many others who devote their lives to making things better.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008

On Oct. 31, 2008 hundreds of youth, families, and organizers converged in front of [the] I.C.E. building to protest the raids against undocumented people and their families.

Rail Blockade Disrupts CP Rail’s Olympic Spirit Train

“Six Nations and solidarity activists resist Olympic theft of Indigenous land, ecological destruction, and attacks on the poor”.

On October 1 Lierre Keith and Aric McBay spoke with Healing the Earth Radio in Guelph, Ontario. Lierre and Aric are both authors, small farmers, and activists, and over the last couple years have been organizing weekend-long conferences entitled Deep Green Resistance. In our interview, they speak of a systemic analysis of what we're facing, including the environmental and social costs of industrial culture, tying together the problems of climate change, peak oil, the power of the right-wing/fascist elements, economic collapse, and our responses to this.

About 50 people showed up to protest the "Canada Pacific Spirit Train" event Sunday in the Vancouver suburb of Port Moody. Taking a position in front of the main stage, the group carried signs and placards, and a large banner that read "Resist 2010: No Olympics on Stolen Native Land."

The Zapatista uprising began 15 years ago under the banner of democracy, justice, and liberty. Over the course of those 15 years, indigenous and peasant communities have upheld their struggle despite the government’s counterinsurgency agenda.

Vancouver safe injection site protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Vancouver, May 28, 2008 – In a landmark ruling released yesterday, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that InSite, North America’s first safe injection site, is protected by the Canadian Constitution.

Two Warriors from the Native Youth Movement (NYM) have just completed a 20 stop speaking tour against the 2010 Winter Olympics planned to be held in unceded Coast Salish Territories.

General Musharaf who took power in a coup d’état on October 12, 1999, had declared emergency rule and imposed strict security measures on November 3rd 2007, 2 months before a scheduled election in Pakistan.