CounterCurrents: Indigenous Communities Take Chevron To Global Court For 'Crimes Against Humanity'

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Indigenous Communities Take Chevron To Global Court For 'Crimes Against Humanity'
By Sarah Lazare

http://www.countercurrents.org/lazare261014.htm

Chevron's repeated refusal to clean up its toxic contamination of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest constitutes an "attack" on civilian populations and should be investigated by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, impacted indigenous and farming communities charged this week in a formal complaint to the global body


Stop Police Harassment Of Soni Sori
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc261014.htm

Since her return to Chhattisgarh, after being released on bail by the Supreme Court, Human Rights Defender Soni Sori has been subject to constant harassment by the Chhattisgarh state


Culture Of Fear: Globalizing Conformity
By Jon V Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas261014.htm

Self-awareness is important but so is collective action from the neighborhood up because society changes from the bottom up. The use of the web and various social networks make it possible to communicate with people across the street and across the world to pass on the message about fighting against the culture of fear that accounts for the absence of social justice


Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond; Political Prisoners In The Sacrifice Zone Of Empire
By Nozomi Hayase

http://www.countercurrents.org/hayase261014.htm

Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky


Maharashtra Dalits Backed BJP Due To Frustration: Eknath Awad
Aishik Chanda Interveiws Eknath Awad

http://www.countercurrents.org/chanda261014.htm

Fondly called as "Jija" or "The respected" (in Marathi) by his followers, one of the tallest Dalit activist of India, Eknath Awad works for economic empowerment of the most depressed communities of the fuedal region in Deccan Plateau. Through his "Manviya Haq Abhiyaan" or Human rights movement, Jija has secured land for over 50,000 Dalits in Marathwada, giving them social and economic freedom to a great extent. He speaks to TISS student Aishik Chanda at Manviya Haq Abhiyan HQ near Telgaon in Beed district of Maharashtra


The “Bananas” And The “Peanuts”!
By M.Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf261014.htm

The J& K state government is in undue haste in shuffling and reshuffling bureaucracy and police rather than pursuing quick rehabilitation and restoration. Resentment is growing among the people against the dithering in restoration and rehabilitation on one hand and the attempts being made to continue the rule of corrupt and incompetent politicians on the other hand by holding hasty elections in a totally disturbed atmosphere. This anger is growing like molten lava which may erupt sometime in the future in the form of a revolution sweeping everything in its path in a more devastating manner then the recent flood!