Posted in Mining, Repression and Prisoners on Jul 16th, 2009
The Salvadoran anti-mines activist who we reported missing in late June is confirmed to have been tortured and murdered.
Community leader and activist Marcelo Rivera vanished from his community of San Isidro on June 18. On July 1, his body was found inside a dry well, with his belongings in an abandoned house nearby. DNA tests [...]
Posted in Corridors of the Future, Repression and Prisoners, Transportation on Jul 10th, 2009
From www.mostlyeverything.net (links added):
“Indiana State Police [ISP] today [July 9] widened its case against I-69 resistance to target yet another individual. Apparently not content pinning years’ worth of diffuse intentions and attempts from myriad actors onto just Tiga and Hugh, the state served Philip Shelton a search warrant authorizing his forceful detainment for the purpose [...]
Posted in Analysis, Corridors of the Future, Repression and Prisoners, Transportation on Jul 8th, 2009
Hugh Farrell, who has been indicted on misdemeanor and felony charges of intimidation, improper use of property, and corrupt business influence for publicly organizing against the I-69 “NAFTA Superhighway”, has released an open letter to his supporters. In the letter he writes, among other things, about the significance of the fight against I-69:
“What the State [...]
Posted in Mining, Repression and Prisoners on Jun 26th, 2009
Anti-mining organizer Marcelo Rivera has been missing since June 18, community members in San Isidro, El Salvador have reported. Rivera is a leader of the movement against a Pacific Rim gold mine near his community, representative of the community organization Amigos De San Isidro Cabañas and member of the community’s Board of Directors for the [...]
Posted in Repression and Prisoners on Jun 12th, 2009
Political prisoner Daniel McGowan has published an article on Huffington Post about the conditions inside the “Communication Management Unit” (CMU) where he is held. CMUs are a mostly secret prison-within-a-prison for primarily Muslim prisoners and others (like Daniel) that the Bureau of Prisons wishes to punish, without due process or opportunity for appeal. Please read [...]
Posted in Analysis, Calls To Action, Corridors of the Future, Repression and Prisoners, Transportation on May 5th, 2009
Two Indiana residents (Hugh Farrell and Gina “Tiga” Wertz) were arrested on April 24 on misdemeanor and felony charges of intimidation, improper use of property, and corrupt business influence in the campaign against the I-69 “NAFTA Superhighway”. These charges are based on the premise that any activity designed to get companies to cease from environmentally [...]