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.

June 6, 2008 - Counterpunch

"There has been a very clear shift in recent years...It was not long ago that police protection was a standard feature of talks at all critical of Israeli policies, meetings were broken up, audiences very hostile and abusive. By now it is sharply different...Apologists for Israeli violence now tend often to be defensive and desperate, rather than arrogant and overbearing. But the critique of Israeli actions is thin, because the basic facts are systematically suppressed."

--Noam Chomsky

by Stefan Christoff - 10 May 2008

Lebanon is currently facing a major political crisis, as armed battles have erupted in multiple districts of Beirut between pro-government and opposition forces led [by] the Lebanese resistance movement Hizballah. Hizballah-led opposition forces took control of West Beirut, and handed certain areas over to the Lebanese army as the political standoff in the country continues.

by Alex Samur | Rabble

Last year, peace activist Mordecai Briemberg was served with a lawsuit by CanWest. The charge? Producing a fake edition of CanWest's Vancouver Sun, and infringing upon the company's trademark related rights in the process.

"It's a SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation] suit, an attempt to chill people, these kind of mechanisms that corporations use to silence criticism of the policies and practices that they engage in [are] very dangerous and increasingly used across the country and it's really necessary to fight against this in a public campaign..."

“Garbage Monsters” are teaching a lesson in recycling and reuse of everyday items to students at the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

Faith communities should listen to the experience and wisdom of Native American communities as the world copes with an environmental crisis, according to the founder of the Earth healing Initiative.

The Earth Healing Initiative is promoting and organizing faith-based and Native American involvement in the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.

Native American tribes have been a leader in the Great Lakes environmental movement and Earth Day activities, said rev. Jon Magnuson, founder of the Earth Healing Initiative.

Cecelia Begg is the lone female leader from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation, imprisoned for blockading mining company Platinex from entering disputed territory on their traditional land.

By Ilan Pappe and Ayelet Negev - March 22, 2008

Last summer, the Pappe family packed its belongings, rented out its spacious house in Israel and moved to Britain. Ever since his support of an academic boycott on Israel's universities became public, [Israeli] historian Ilan Pappe, 54, has felt like public enemy number one. [In Israel] Pappe says he had received death threats by phone almost on a daily basis.

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[Forward by Joan Malerich]

CNN has Norman Solomon on to talk about the vices of GE-owned NBC. But, Solomon doesn't stop with NBC, he heads on to ABC and eventually hangs out CNN's dirty laundry.

Glen Bailey is the Director of the Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City and was a spokesperson with Impact 2002 and Beyond, an Olympic watchdog group in Salt Lake City in the lead up to the 2002 [Salt Lake City] Winter Olympics. He spoke over the phone with [Vancouver activist] Am Johal [about the impact of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games].

In an interview conducted in Montreal, novelist, historian and political campaigner Tariq Ali discusses the history of Hizballah as a political force in Lebanon and the Middle East, as well as Canada's designation of the movement as "terrorist" in the post-9/11 political environment.

One element of the secular opposition to Musharraf is the Labour Party of Pakistan, a democratic socialist organization launched in 1997 from various elements of the Pakistani Left. What follows is an exchange conducted over the past couple of days (November 9-10, 2007) between [Ron Jacobs] and Farooq Tariq, secretary general of the Party.

"It's glaringly apparent in Vancouver that for quite some time... successive governments have failed to create the housing that is necessary. You have a legacy of misguided government policy that has led to this massive crisis in housing and homelessness...The decrepit nature of SROs, the conditions of the buildings that people are living in, very poor health...I was repeatedly struck by the contrast...[T]here has been so much investment. It is striking that a few blocks from million-dollar condominiums, that there is such immense poverty."

--Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur for Housing

Over the past several years, groups and movements have coalesced around themes like “No One is Illegal,” “Solidarity Across Borders,” and “Open the Borders.” In their day-to-day work of organizing with and for migrants, such groups are working against increasingly restrictive immigration policies, the heightened detention and deportation of migrants and the repressive national security apparatus that discriminates against racialized migrants...At the same time, such movements are deeply connected to global movements resisting further expansion of the capitalist system and wars and occupations...A conversation with [Migrant Justice Organizers] Mostafah Henaway, Nandita Sharma, Jaggi Singh, Harsha Walia, and Rafeef Ziadah [follows].

Sherman Austin first gained national attention in 2002 when the FBI ransacked his home and eventually held him in 24 hour lockdown in connection with internet activity. After a maze of interrogations and court proceedings from LA to New York, Sherman served one year in Federal Detention, mostly in Arizona. He completed a three year probation this year, and recently released a new record titled Silence is Defeat: The Album the FBI Doesn't Want You to Hear.