Category Archives: Colonialism
2013 Gerald and Maas Suppressed News
Guatemala: Guatemala’s Constitutional Court has overturned the Ríos Montt guilty verdict of May 10th, setting the legal proceedings back to April 19th – after the evidence was presented but before Ríos Montt was declared guilty. The 3 to 2 decision relies on a technicality brought into play when Ríos Montt’s lawyers walked out of the […]
Sign reclaiming traditional name Pkols for Mount Douglas will stay for now – National – Times Colonist
Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said Thursday that First Nations did not ask permission to erect the sign and no one has yet worked out the process for either changing the name or dealing with the sign. “It’s too soon to know what we’re going to do with it,” he said. “Our staff did ask them […]
Engineer at Elite Army Weapons Lab Tied to Racist Groups | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
A young research engineer at the U.S. Army’s elite chemical and biological research laboratory in Maryland has close ties to two racist groups espousing white nationalist views, one of which has called for a homeland for white people. John Stortstrom, a mechanical engineer who works for the Army at its Edgewood Chemical Biological Center ECBC […]
Police raids cause generational damage: waateanews.com
Tūhoe leader Tamati Kruger says the Independent Police Conduct Authority report doesn’t fix things for Tūhoe people caught up in what have now been found to be illegal actions by the police. The IPCA backed the police decision to arrest people involved in alleged military style training camps in Te Urewera, but said community members […]
Police commissioner defends raid decisions
The Independent Police Complaints Authority has slammed the way police set up blockades and detained people in the Ruatoki valley, but considered there was a case for leaving some of its most experienced Māori staff out of the loop. Mr Marshall says the team investigating alleged military style training camps in Te Urewera, thought it […]
AFP: Guatemala: la condamnation de l’ex-dictateur Rios Montt pour génocide annulée
Mais, lundi en fin de journée, Martin Guzman, porte-parole de la Cour constitutionnelle, a annoncé que “le jugement (était) annulé” à la suite d’un recours des avocats de M. Rios Montt pour vice de procédure. La décision annule toutes les étapes après l’interruption provisoire du procès le 19 avril pour vice de procédure, ainsi que […]
Is Nestle Involved in Murder Of Columbian Union Leader? | Alternet
The struggle to hold Nestle accountable for its alleged role in Romero’s death began with the 2007 conviction of Romero’s killers – itself a rarity in a country with a 95% impunity rate in unionist murders. When passing sentence, Judge José Nirio Sánchez ordered an investigation into the intellectual authors of the crime that would […]
First Nations prepared to fight Harper government, Enbridge in international court | The Vancouver Observer
“Traditionally, non-indigenous folks would see chiefs standing out in front, but what the people didn’t know was that those chiefs took their directions from the women.” Now, with the Enbridge hearings taking place in BC and Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence entering her third week without food in Ontario, Goodwin said the struggles of First Nations […]
Intense video challenges Catalan and Spanish collaboration with the Israeli occupation | Mondoweiss
This year, the Palestine solidarity movement in Catalonia, formed by the platform “Amb Palestina al Cor”, “BDS Catalunya”, “Plataforma: Aturem la Guerra”, “Rumb a Gaza” and “Dones en Rebel·lia”, denounce the role that Israel plays in the dessign, research, implementation and global sale of different security and repression systems. We have proves that Catalonia and […]
Jorge Videla, Argentina’s Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail · Global Voices
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned […]
