Garifuna protesters camped out in front of the Honduran Supreme Court for several weeks to demand justice for activists facing charges for resisting a violent, illegal eviction in San Juan, Tela. This is due to the new Agro-industrial Development Law, which favors private interests at the expense of rural or urban communities, sparking Garifuna resistance.
The horrendous realities in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Rio de Janeiro and Venezuela are connected. Several of the world’s powers are implicated. The global capitalist system allows mass murder, rape and genocide to become “normalized.”
Takes up: Flame Con comics convention in NYC; the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ruling St. Lucia’s colonial-era anti-gay-sex laws unconstitutional; resistance against Trump’s anti-Transgender policies; United in Pride, a grassroots organization in Ottawa; and Graeme Reid renewed as the UN’s LGBTQ+ expert scholar and author.
The new November-December 2013 issue of News & Letters is online.
News & Letters, Vol. 58, No. 6
November – December 2013
Lead
The Syrian Revolution as the test of world politics
On Aug. 21 the genocidal regime of Bashar al-Assad murdered over a thousand civilians, mostly women and children, with sarin gas in the Damascus suburbs of Eastern Ghouta. [=>]
Two years after the devastating earthquake, Haiti’s disaster continues:
More than half a million Haitians live in displacement camps, primarily in tents and plastic tarps. Vast numbers, particularly women, live in great insecurity. Only a little over 10,000 new homes have been constructed; barely several thousand old homes restored.
Cholera has infected 500,000, killing close to 7,000. [=>]
