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Looking to support Occupy Cal and its “fight against police brutality,” Occupy Oakland is planning to march to UC Berkeley to join the campus general strike Tuesday. “We must recognize that the very same OPD officers and Sheriffs who attacked… Read More ›
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who… Read More ›
Oakland police handed out eviction notices at an anti-Wall Street encampment and officials elsewhere urged an end to similar gatherings as pressures against Occupy protest sites mounted in the wake of three deaths in different cities, including two by gunfire…. Read More ›
France violated the human rights of Roma who were forcibly expelled from the country last year, the Council of Europe said Thursday, asking Paris what steps it was taking to remedy the action. The council, a rights watchdog for its… Read More ›
In its report, New York-based Human Rights Watch documents 234 cases which the group says represent serious abuse by U.S.-trained marines and other security forces in several Mexican states. By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times November 10, 2011 Reporting from… Read More ›
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment. In a political blow to GOP Gov. John Kasich, voters handily… Read More ›
The ranks of America’s poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs… Read More ›
Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that… Read More ›
It is common within the fields of academia, politics and religion to hear the word “dogmatism” utilized in the pejorative. Many people have heard, used or have been called “dogmatic” with many carelessly hurling the term around for one reason… Read More ›
As the Russell Tribunal convenes to discuss apartheid, Israel has already surpassed South Africa’s racist era. This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime… Read More ›
Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. He says police beat him with batons A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries after clashes between police… Read More ›
Pro-Palestinian activists say Israeli naval forces are boarding their two ships in international waters, as they were trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Twitter accounts associated with the activist groups running the flotilla said Friday that Israeli forces were… Read More ›
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) — Police in riot gear fired tear gas and other projectiles and arrested several people after Occupy Oakland protesters closed the city’s port. “Operations are effectively shut down in the maritime area of the Port of Oakland,”… Read More ›
By Kristin J. Bender, Cecily Burt and Sean Maher Oakland Tribune OAKLAND — Protesters have effectively shut down maritime operations at the Port, Director Omar Benjamin said at a media briefing Tuesday, as more than 4,000 people are at the… Read More ›
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