Wave of Illegal, Senseless and Violent Evictions Swells in Port au Prince
Mathias O is 34 years old. He is one of about 600,000 people still homeless from the January 2010…
The Indypendent
Mathias O is 34 years old. He is one of about 600,000 people still homeless from the January 2010…
Prison for Peacemakers in Tacoma, Washington
Two grandmothers, two priests and a nun were sentenced in federal court in Tacoma, WA Monday March 28, 2011,…
Honduras Human Rights Abuses Worse One Year After President Lobo Took Office
In recent remarks on U.S.-Latin American relations made at the Brookings Institute, Arturo Valenzuela, a State Department official with…
One Year After the Quake: Million Plus Remain Homeless and Displaced in Haiti
One year after the Jan. 12 2010 earthquake, more than a million people remain homeless in Haiti. Homemade shelters…
Cover-ups, Coups, and Drones: A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the U.S.
Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable. The transparency, which Wikileaks…
Why WikiLeaks is Good for Democracy
Information is the currency of democracy. –Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the U.S. government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has…
In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted…
Today, October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in Resistance Day. This event contrasts directly with…
Nine Months After the Quake – A Million Haitians Slowly Dying
“If it gets any worse,” said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, “we’re not going to survive.” Mothers and…
Why We Sued to Represent Muslim Cleric Awlaki
Anwar al-Awlaki is a U.S. citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The U.S. has put him on…