Part 1: From Slavery to Civil War
Revolution #035, February 19, 2006, posted at revcom.us

Black people did not "come to this country seeking a better life." They were kidnapped from their homes in Africa, dragged in chains and loaded onto slave ships--treated not like human beings but like things, commodities to be traded and used to enrich others. Tens of millions of enslaved Africans died before even reaching America, so terrible were the conditions on the slave ships. Those who survived the trip and were then sold to plantation owners were treated like pieces of machinery. Slaveowners commonly referred to the slaves as "talking tools." That is how Black people were treated for the first 250 years of their experience in America.

http://rwor.org/a/035/black-history-month-pt1.htm

Il y a plus de deux mois, 27 réfugiés Hmong -une adulte et 26 adolescents de 13 à 16 ans, hébergés au centre d'accueil provisoire de Ban Houai Nam Khao (province de Phetchaboun, Thaïlande) ont été expulsés par les autorités thailandaises vers le Laos, selon des informations concordantes parvenues au Mouvement Lao pour les droits de l'Homme (MLDH).

Ce groupe d'adolescents -21 jeunes filles et 5 garçons-avaient été interpellés par la police thailandaise le 28 novembre 2005, alors qu'ils revenaient d'une répétition de chants, en prévision des fêtes de Noël. Transportés par autocar vers la ville frontalière de Nongkhai, ils ont été expulsés vers le Laos, début décembre, sans que leurs parents en soient informés.

Selon les médias internationaux, le sort de ces adolescents n'est pas encore connu à ce jour, en dépit des démarches multiples entreprises par les autorités de l'ONU, de l'Union Européenne, des Etats-Unis et d'Australie, tant auprès de Bangkok que de Vientiane.

What do you mean? Freedom of What? In the US a teacher is spending a fortune in legal fees to defend her constitutional right to 'Freedom of Speech': she used the word PEACE. Who decides what you, other people or I can say, ask or think? And why?

US military authorities have taken tougher measures to force-feed detainees engaged in hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay. Some US victims were determined to commit suicide to protest their indefinite confinement.

Endorsed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the strategy document orders to undertake a broad campaign to find, attack and 'neutralize' terrorist leaders - "termination objectives" - and their ability to move around the globe.

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