Two villagers from the Andean mountains of Ecuador have traveled to Toronto, Canada to announce on Wednesday, March 4 the launch of a billion dollar lawsuit in Ontario based on violence and human rights abuse related to a proposed future open pit copper mine in a remote ecologically pristine area in the Ecuadorean Andes.

ISM Gaza Strip, 24th February 2009

Khoza'a, Khan Younis , Gaza Strip: Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international human rights workers, were fired upon by Israeli forces in the village of Khozaa, near Khan Younis, this morning. The farmers and human rights workers were attempting to work on land around 300m from the Green Line.
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Last Sunday Moroccan police in the occupied Western Sahara detained a young Saharawi girl and raped her for standing up against the Moroccan occupation. First they interrogated her, then they molested her and finally the policemen sodomize her with their truncheons. All in the presence of higher ranking officers. They even threatened to kill her if she made her story public.

( honte a l'état colonial français )

Fabrice, soupçonné, le visage tuméfié, arrêté hier en guadeloupe sur dénonciation «anonymes» n'était pas le coupable du meutre de notre camarade syndicaliste du LKP Jacques Bino

ISM Gaza Strip - 18th February 2009
Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

International Human Rights Activists were accompanying the group of farmers at the time as they worked approximately 500m from the Green Line.
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Solidarité LKP - Manifeste de neuf intellectuels antillais : Breleur, Chamoiseau, Domi, Delver, Glissant, Pigeard de Gurbert, Portecop, Pulvar, William

Montréal, le 18 février 2009 - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
     After more than 20 months of strict Israeli restrictions on millions of dollars worth of aid and supplies to Gaza, Canada finally raised its voice in protest - against Hamas.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon's Feb. 4th statement against Hamas' seizure of UN relief supplies came after the first of two incidents during the week of February 2, when UN shipments in Gaza were seized at gunpoint by Hamas militants.  While any such seizure by Hamas is illegal and immoral, Canada's swift and disapproving reaction stands in stark contrast to its silence to extended and devastating controls on aid and supplies to Gaza imposed by Israel.  The reason for Canada's differing response remains unexplained.

Montréal, le 18 février 2009 - Canadiens pour la justice et la paix au Moyen-Orient
     Après plus de 20 mois de sévères restrictions imposées par Israël sur l'aide internationale et des denrées valant plusieurs millions de dollars destinées à la population de la bande de Gaza, le Canada a finalement protesté - contre le Hamas... M. Lawrence Cannon, Ministre des Affaires étrangères a en effet déclaré le 4 février que le Hamas avait détourné des denrées humanitaires en provenance des Nations Unies.

C'était le premier de deux incidents qui se sont produits au cours de cette semaine pendant laquelle des militants du Hamas ont saisi par la force des cargaisons de l'ONU.  Tout détournement d'aide par le Hamas est illégal et immoral.  Cependant, la rapidité de la condamnation de ces actes par le Canada est en contraste surprenant avec son silence prolongé alors qu'Israël bloquait toute aide humanitaires et le libre passage de denrées de base à destination de la bande de Gaza.  Ce volteface demeure sans explication.

After a 4 weeks long general strike in Guadeloupe which has also extended for 10 days in Martinique, the struggle of the workers of these two Caribbean islands enters a difficult phase. The French government has just refused its support for the draft agreement on a wage increase which took shape between the trade unions and the employers organization.