Human Rights

Jesse Jackson visits Cuba

October 4, 2013 By Ismael Parra

Civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson, attending a religious service at a Havana-based Baptist church, called for actions to end the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba.

“Free the Cuban Five” is heard in Maine

September 16, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Members of the 23-year old organization Let Cuba Live recently established what they call the Maine Campaign to Free the Cuban Five.

End of prisoners’ hunger strike marks new phase in struggle

September 5, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

In a dramatic announcement Sept. 5, leaders of the nine-week-long hunger strike by California prison inmates said they are suspending their strike.

Calif. prison hunger strike nears two-month mark

September 3, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

The strikers' core demands include ending long-term solitary confinement and group punishment, and offering SHU inmates more constructive programs and activities.

Agrarian strike in Colombia triggers repression, wider struggle

September 3, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Angry small farmers are rejecting free trade agreements Colombia signed with the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Rrural people in Colombia are suffering.Eight million Colombians are hungry,