Monthly Archive: July 2014
A delegation from the Grassy Narrows First Nation traveled more than 20 hours by car from their community in northern Ontario to Toronto. 50 years ago, massive amounts of mercury were dumped in their...
As a U.S. Congressional standoff about emergency funding to handle the influx of migrant children crossing the border continues, many of those already in the U.S. are on the move again: this time to...
As of this week, Chicago police have confiscated almost 4000 illegal guns since the beginning of the year. Yet despite that haul, gun violence in the country’s third largest city remains rampant. Mayor Rahm...
As Palestinians in Gaza observe the breakfasting feast, or Eid, Israeli officials indicated an expansion of the military ground operation and air strikes and tank shells continue. Dozens more people died in their Gaza...
In the Chilean port city of Valparaíso, residents are starting to rebuild after massive fires killed fifteen people and leveled nearly three thousand homes this April. The government is offering housing subsidies to those...
West Bank tension escalates as protesters call for Intifada; assaults on Gaza continue Eric Garner buried amid fresh calls for NYPD accountability New Haven homeless erect a second tent encampment on city property Taking...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has submitted a ceasefire proposal to Hamas and the government of Israel. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, Kerry’s proposal would allow Israeli ground troops to occupy Gaza...
Funeral services were held Wednesday for Eric Garner, an African-American man who died while he was being arrested by New York Police officers in Staten Island. New York City community activists and elected officials...
Three dozen people — homeless residents of New Haven, Connecticut and their supporters — marched ten blocks from a Catholic Worker house of hospitality to an empty city lot in a low-income neighborhood to...
Nigerians and members of various rights groups took to the streets to mark 100 days of abduction of more than two hundred school girls by Boko Haram terrorists. They are also raising concern over...