By Ron Ridenour - March 16th, 2010

Denmark’s Rebellion (Oprør) spokesman Patrick Mac Manus was found guilty today...for: “attempting to collect funds” for “terrorist organizations” Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); and for “encouraging [hundreds of organizations] to collect funds” for the same.

By Neve Gordon - March 18, 2010

When social justice activists like Rachel Corrie are branded terrorists and international human rights law becomes the enemy of the state...then it becomes absolutely clear that something is terribly wrong.

Tuesday, March 16 2010 - Infoshop News

On Tuesday March 2nd [when]...an international graduate student, Kofi Adu-Brempong, was having a "nervous breakdown" in his apartment...[t]he University of Florida Police Department responded not by bringing in mental health workers to stabilize the situation, but by breaking down his door, shooting him twice with a taser, three times with bean-bag shotgun shells, and once in the face with an M-4...Kofi Adu-Brempong is now in the hospital in critical condition, and...is facing criminal charges for possessing a weapon (his cane that he uses to walk due to his polio).

By Rafeef Ziadah - Znet

As a Palestinian refugee, the city of Toronto has always been a place of exile to me...However, following the publication of a recent report by [a] prominent Israeli think-tank [which called Toronto a “hub of Israel delegitimization”]...I felt some pride for my adopted city...The report confirmed to those of us involved in the [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement that our work was not in vain.

Pierre Labossiere, a Haitian national, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, has been a long-time social-justice activist and advocate for the Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, currently exiled in South Africa. Pierre has also been active in the campaigns to free political prisoners in Haiti and the U.S.

By Jonathan Cook - February 24, 2010

The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago...[T]he cabinet backed a bill last week that, if passed, will jail senior officials from the country’s peace-related organisations should they fail to meet tough new registration conditions.

By Matthew Rothschild - February 19, 2010

The anarchist author Gabriel Kuhn was planning on visiting the United States in early March and staying until May. He had speaking engagements set up at several colleges, bookstores, and coffeehouses. But he’s no longer coming...[T]he rejection of Kuhn’s travel authorization application “seems to represent a turn towards targeting radicals who have hitherto not fit the ‘war on terror’ profile.”

Our guest will be the legendary human rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama, who lived in Harlem for 40 years and worked with Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik el Shabazz). Although no official holiday honors Malcolm's birthday, May 19 has become a traditional day of celebration in the Black and progressive communities.

At Angola, eighty per cent of the prisoners are African-Americans and, under the watchful eye of armed guards on horseback, they still work fields of sugar cane, cotton and corn, for up to 16 hours a day. "You've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night," says Warden Burl Cain, a committed evangelist who believes that the rehabilitation of convicts is only possible through Christian redemption.

By Jonathan Cook - Znet

Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today..."My family and I are still searching for justice. The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened. We believe the Israeli army must be held accountable for her unlawful killing."

By Peter Kulchyski - March 1st 2010

Colonialism continues to ravage First Nations, Inuit, and Metis lands from real estate, logging, and hydro developments in the west coast, to the tar sands developments in Miskew Cree and Chipweyan territories...But perhaps nothing is as inspiring as seeing and hearing people from...these communities — and more — gathered together to tell their stories and try to find ways of supporting each other.

By CONN HALLINAN - March 9, 2010

A heavy-handed crack down on Israeli dissidents is drawing sharp criticism by human rights organizations and at least a mild judicial slap on the wrist for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu...“Since [the Gaza war], the political climate in Israel has become extremely polarized. And this polarization has reached a level where anyone who is critical is presented as a traitor.”

It has come to our attention that the Canada Border Services Agency invaded a shelter for women - on February 27, looking to track down Jane, a single mom and survivor of violence from Ghana...“It’s so scary...I thought the shelter was supposed to be a safe space for me and my baby. I’m scared not just for myself, but for non-status women in shelters everywhere who are facing the same fear...”

By CBC News - March 5, 2010

Federal government documents on Afghan detainees suggest that Canadian officials intended some prisoners to be tortured in order to gather intelligence, according to a legal expert..."[W]hat [the documents] will show is that Canada partnered deliberately with the torturers in Afghanistan for the interrogation of detainees..."

By Anna Macchi - 03 March 2010

"South Africa is the historical place where...the word comes from, from the Afrikaans language, but now...'apartheid' is a crime that any state can commit...It has an international definition that we can find in the international convention for the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid...[W]hen we look at the history of the Zionist movement and the process of establishing and maintaining the Israeli state, it's clear that Israel committed the crime of apartheid."

-- Hazem Jamjoum of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights discussing the Israeli Apartheid system.