20,000 march against racist sheriff

By Paul Teitelbaum
Phoenix
Published Jan 21, 2010 8:30 PM
Workers World

“¡Se ve, se siente! ¡El pueblo está presente! (You can see it! You can feel it! The people are here!)” This was one of the many popular chants that reverberated through the streets of Phoenix on Jan. 16 as 20,000 people expressed their outrage and disgust with Joe Arpaio, the racist, immigrant-bashing and terrorist sheriff of Maricopa County...

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Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Landmark Apartheid Reparations Case

DemocracyNow!
January 12, 2009

A landmark case against several international corporations accused of aiding South Africa’s apartheid regime is underway. The companies include Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and IBM. They are accused in a class-action lawsuit of complicity in human rights abuses during the years they did business in apartheid South Africa. The suit was filed several years ago by black victims of white minority rule. Their lawyers are seeking up to $400 billion in compensation...

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Indigenous peoples and H1N1 deaths

By Dolores Cox
Workers World
January 9, 2010

In December, the Centers for Disease Control issued a report regarding national mortality and infection rates from the H1N1 “swine” flu virus. One portion of the report was almost an afterthought and not very widely reported: Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and Alaska have been four times more likely to die from the swine flu as has the population overall.

Similar findings have been the case in Canada, where some Manitoba First Nations communities were outraged in September when the Canadian government initially sent body bags and masks rather than much-needed medicine or medical personnel...

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