December 21, 2005 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus–the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union… Read More »
HOW THE WORLD CAN HELP AMERICANS HALT BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAR CRIMES
June 14, 2005 By Brendan Smith, Jill Cutler & Jeremy Brecher On May 17 a legal summons was delivered to U.S. and UK embassies in capitals around the world, including Istanbul, Tokyo, Lisbon, and Brussels,on behalf of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI). The summons requested the attendance of President Bush and… Read More »
HOW WORKERS RUN ARGENTINA’S “RECUPERATED WORKPLACES”
May 12, 2005 In a previous post, we described the process by which workers in 200 workplaces in Argentina occupied their workplaces and began running them themselves. In this post we will examine how the workplaces are actually run and how their workers are dealing with the managerial, economic, legal, and political questions that… Read More »
SOLIDARITY AND STUDENT PROTESTS IN IRAN
July 22, 2003 This June, vigilante forces attacked nonviolent Iranian student protesters, charging them on motorcycles and assaulting them with batons, chains, and knives. Instead of protecting the students against the vigilante attacks, the Iranian government threatened to punish the students severely and arrested over 4,000 people. A new round of protests scheduled for early… Read More »
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