The State

By CHARLES J. HANLEY and JAE-SOON CHANG Associated Press May 18, 2008

DAEJEON, South Korea - Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.  read more »

Sun May 4, 2008

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Thousands of Somalis took to the streets Sunday to protest a US bombing that killed a man said to be Al-Qaeda's chief in the country, and 11 other people, organisers and residents said.  read more »

By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Wed Apr 16, 2008

WASHINGTON - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency — a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.  read more »

By Alonso Soto Sat Apr 5, 2005

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's president accused the CIA on Saturday of controlling many of his country's spy agencies, in comments that could fray ties with Washington and drag it into Ecuador's feud with neighboring Colombia.  read more »

By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press March 1, 2008

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops turned heavy firepower on rocket squads bombarding southern Israel Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since the current round of fighting erupted in 2000.

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in the clashes, the military said.  read more »

February 29, 2008 International Middle East Media Center

The villagers of Bil'in, along with international and Israeli supporters, conducted their weekly protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on village land.Israeli troops attacked protesters injuring four. Bil'in village, located near Ramallah held its weekly protest, as it has for the last three years.  read more »

Mon Feb 25, 2008

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren began forming a human chain the length of the impoverished territory on Monday morning to protest a crushing Israeli blockade, an AFP correspondent witnessed.  read more »

By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Feb. 19, 2008

HAVANA - Fidel Castro, ailing and 81, announced Tuesday he was resigning as Cuba's president, ending a half-century of autocratic rule which made him a communist icon and a relentless opponent of U.S. policy around the globe.  read more »

By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Feb 18, 2008

KALMA, Sudan - U.N. peacekeepers in armored vehicles and pickup trucks whizzed into this refugee camp. A dozen women came to meet them, bringing their donkeys, water rations and homemade axes.

It was time for one of the refugees' most perilous tasks: collecting firewood.  read more »

OlyCivLib is hosting a public meeting Thursday, February 7 at Media Island
(816 Adams St. in Olympia). The meeting starts at 8 pm and will last one
hour.

We will be touching on the details of the Briana Waters case before her
trial starts in Tacoma on Monday, February 11 at 8:30 AM.

There are several areas of support for Briana that volunteers can plug
into but the most important goal is packing the courtroom. Come find out
how you can plug into the organizing of support and witnessing this
precedent setting case. Anyone interested in civil liberties should be
interested in this trial.

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