Monthly Archive: October 2014
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania are set to vote on a bill known as the Revictimization Relief Act that could subject anyone convicted of a personal crime to legal action if they speak publicly. Pennsylvania Rep....
During a visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, United Nations’ Secretary General Ban-ki Moon voiced hope that Palestinians and Israelis will resume peace negotiations, soon. Meanwhile, in a conference in Cairo on Sunday...
Ferguson police arrested clergy members and prominent intellectual, Dr. Cornel West, during an act of planned civil disobedience outside of Ferguson police headquarters today. The action capped off a weekend of protests, workshops and...
In Bolivia, initial results from the general elections held yesterday indicate President Evo Morales won a third term by a landslide. The legislative races, however, were much more competitive. The the coming days, results...
Police officer on private duty fatally shoots black teen in St. Louis ahead of Ferguson October Mass graves uncovered in Mexico during search for abducted students Volunteers help unaccompanied immigrant minors to adjust to...
A battle over affordable housing in London drew to a close this week when a group of young mothers who had occupied a section of empty public housing left the building after signing an...
The St. Louis area is again a flash point after a white city police officer working private-duty fatally shot an 18-year-old black youth Wednesday night. Details are conflicting. Vonderrit Myers Jr.’s family says he...
Thousands demonstrated in cities across Mexico on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 calling for the return of students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers’ college and for the punishment of those responsible for the fatal shootings...
In Mexico, 43 students from a teachers’ college are still missing after a double ambush by local police and armed men in the small city of Iguala. Many of the students were last seen...
During several months earlier this year, tens of thousands of unaccompanied youth and mothers with children entered the U.S. without documentation, fleeing violence in Central America. Among them were ten unaccompanied youth and a...