By Roberto Lovato
I was in Washington cafe yesterday when hecklers from Code Pink interrupted Sen. John McCain no less than 3 times during a major speech to Latino voters and elected officials. Shortly after the event, several of protesters marched triumphantly into the coffeeshop I was sitting in on P Street after they stole the [...]

By Priyamvada Gopal
Over forty years ago, as Africa commenced the long and arduous process of decolonization, one of its foremost liberationist thinkers issued a prophetic warning. Frantz Fanon, himself a freedom fighter, wrote that the national leader in the postcolonial era should not ‘fall back into the past and become drunk on the remembrance of [...]

Greetings my relatives,
I say relatives because you are all my family. I am honored, greatly honored today that you would listen to my words and come together in this way so that our future generations’ will not forget what happened here in this land.
You can’t imagine how much I miss walking on the bare earth. [...]

CNT Seville and the Starbucks Workers Union in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA) have called for protests against Starbucks for 5 July 08 all over the world. Union organizers of both unions have recently been fired because of their union activity. Do not allow multinationals to practice union busting! ¡Viva la solidaridad internacional! ¡Viva la lucha [...]

The first of 400,000 trees are being planted to form a “green wall” in protest of the fence the U.S. is building along the border with Mexico.
The treeline will eventually stretch for 318 miles along the border between the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas.
Coahuila Gov. Humberto Moreira Valdes says “our wall is of life, [...]