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Call for Artwork: NYC Benefit Gallery Show for Daniel McGowan June 23, 2006 at ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street, between Clinton and Suffolk Street in the Lower East Side Co-sponsored by Visual Resistance and Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan Deadline: June 1, 2006 Contact: visual.resistance@gmail.com...

Ali-Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, a Qatari national, has been held without charge or trial in a military prison in the US since June 2003. He had no access to a lawyer for more than a year after he was detained. All this time he has been in extreme isolation, with no access to his family, including his wife and five children. This situation could continue indefinitely....

217 prisoners began a hunger strike in central Mexico Friday protesting the conditions of their arrests and their treatment at the hands of local police. Reports have been filtering out from jail of rape, physical and mental abuse experienced by people who were arrested for their involvement in the defenses of Texcoco and Atenco. Meanwhile, five foreigners are facing deportation, about sixty people are missing, independent media makers have been targeted for arrest and one 14 year-old boy is ...

The ACLU released evidence Thursday showing that the FBI has been monitoring the peace group, School of Americas Watch. The group conducts research on the U.S Army School of the Americas, now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. SOA Watch is the latest organization that has been found to have been subject to U.S government surveillance in the name of counterterrorism efforts....

Undocumented immigrants are one of the largest growing populations being detained by the U.S government. We look at the issue of immigration detention, focusing on the treatment of immigrant detainees, the trend towards privatization of detention centers and the policies behind it all....

Zapatistas Announce Red Alert, Suspend Activities of La Otra Campaña...

The case of Palestinian professor and activist Sami al-Arian took another turn this week when a federal judge in Florida sentenced him to another year and a half in prison. We speak with his daughter, Laila al-Arian, his attorney, Linda Moreno and journalist John Sugg who has been closely following the case....

Four decades of armed conflict in Colombia have had a catastrophic effect on the country's civilians. Caught between the security forces who have consistently colluded with and supported paramilitary groups and, on the other side, armed opposition groups, tens of thousands of people have been killed, "disappeared", tortured or kidnapped, while millions of others have been forcibly displaced....

A 19-year-old American citizen of Bangladeshi descent has been charged with lying to federal officials on issues linked to an "ongoing terrorism investigation."...

The CIA’s illegal abduction and secret imprisonment of alleged terror suspects has come into sharper focus in recent months. At the beginning of April, the human rights organization Amnesty International presented new details on the so-called practice of “rendition.” The report also exposes the complicity of the European governments in the illegal activities of the CIA....