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Fred
Rosen
February 14, 2012
In my last blog, published two weeks ago (alas, unforeseen commitments kept me away from my computer last week), I reported on a long conversation I had just had with Javier Sicilia, the founder of the nonviolent, anti-violence group called Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD...
Nazih
Richani
February 13, 2012
This past Saturday Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and his government celebrated a media blitz in Necocli, Antioquia, when they launched Santos's plan to return some of the lands that were forcefully taken from millions of peasants over the course of the last twenty years. In my...
Emily
Achtenberg
February 10, 2012
Late on the night of February 9, Bolivia’s Plurinational Assembly passed a new law mandating a consultation process for indigenous communities in the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), to redetermine the fate of a government-proposed highway that would bisect the...
Kevin
Edmonds
February 09, 2012
The recent announcement by Judge Carves Jean that former Haitian dictator Jean Claude Duvalier will stand trial for corruption charges related to his embezzling of millions of dollars, but not for his role in the murder, disappearance and torture of thousands during his presidency has...
Laurie
Melrood
February 08, 2012
It’s an overcast day as we drive along an isolated two lane road, passing the Arizona desert scrublands pocked with non-descript gray green plants that extend to the horizon. Some colleagues and I are headed for a little out-of-the-way town in central Arizona called Eloy, home of a sprawling...
Nazih
Richani
February 08, 2012
Displaced people in Colombia. Photo Stephen Ferry / violentology.com The reactionary right-wing forces in Colombia started mobilizing to defend their class interests as President Juan Manuel Santos and his government gather support to implement Law 1448, which calls for the restitution...