VIMEO– Interesting compilation of footage and informative analysis of the G20 protests in Toronto. The video shows obvious police provocation, negligence and abuse occurring during the summitt. Leaders spent over one billion dollars on security and police for the event. Photo by Abby Martin
TIME– Fawzia felt like she had no way out. Married off to her cousin at age 16, she had been beaten routinely by her husband and in-laws in their poor rural home in Paktia province for the first three years of her marriage. She complained bitterly to her parents, but no solution seemed imminent. Marriage had become too much for … Read More
SEATTLE TIMES– The street below Danny Chen’s window in lower Manhattan has changed over the last decade from a bustling four-lane thoroughfare to an empty road lined with police barricades. To get home each day, Chen has to present his ID at a police checkpoint. When the officer lowers the metal gate into the ground to let him in, he … Read More
SEATTLE TIMES– Jewish settlements control more than 42 percent of the West Bank, and much of that land was seized from Palestinian landowners in defiance of an Israeli Supreme Court ban, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday. The group’s findings echo what other anti-settlement activists have claimed in the past: That settlements have taken over lands far beyond their … Read More
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE– Thailand on Tuesday extended emergency rule across about one quarter of the country by three months over lingering fears of unrest, despite calls from rights groups for the sweeping powers to be lifted. The state of emergency, imposed in April after mass opposition protests broke out in the capital, will be maintained in Bangkok and 18 other … Read More
