Guatemala es un país con más de 14 millones de habitantes, según el mapa de proyecciones de población 2011 del Instituto Nacional de Estadística -INE-. La pobreza, el hambre, la desnutrición, falta de empleo, falta de vivienda adecuada, falta de acceso al uso y tenencia de la tierra, así como falta de servicios indispensables para vivir [...]

In case you missed it, President Barack Obama has signed a death knell for the Bill of Rights. It’s a hell of a way to begin a year many believe will mark the end of the world. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) makes a mockery of our basic civil liberties. It shreds the intent of [...]

██████████████████████, apagón en la red para frenar la ley que prepara en Senado de EE UU que podría cerrar sin juicio las páginas web que vulneren presuntamente la propiedad intelectual Desde las 00:00 del 18 de enero numerosas páginas se han sumando a la huelga contra la Ley SOPA, una regulación que, con la excusa de [...]

How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation Over the weekend, the Obama administration issued a potentially game-changing statement on the blacklist bills, saying it would oppose PIPA and SOPA as written, and drew an important line in the sand by emphasizing that it “will not support” any bill “that reduces [...]

President Barack Obama desecrated the Constitution that he and I swore to defend when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which includes language violating the Bill of Rights and other constitutionally protected liberties. The NDAA affirms that the president has the authority to use the Armed Forces to detain any person “who was [...]

Yesterday the shameful dinosaurs of the Senate — hopelessly out of touch with reality, for the most part, and haunted by specters of their own making — approved, by 93 votes to 7, the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (PDF), which contains a number of astonishingly alarming provisions — Sections 1031 and 1032, [...]

The Obama administration has affirmed, continued and expanded almost all of the draconian domestic civil liberties intrusions pioneered under the Bush administration. Here are twenty examples of serious assaults on the domestic rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, the right to privacy, the right to a fair trial, freedom of [...]

New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg justified clearing the tents and other materials of Occupation from Zuccotti Park, saying the protesters will now “have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments.” This is a strange kind of logic from the 12th richest man in America, who occupies City Hall for one reason only [...]

Entrevista a Alaa Shehabi, profesora, economista y escritora Alaa Shehabi (AS): Soy Alaa Shehabi, de Bahréin. Soy profesora, economista y escritora. Así mismo soy esposa de un detenido político. Mi marido se llama Ghazi Farhan, un empresario totalmente apolítico. Un mes después de que los saudíes invadieran [Bahréin], fue detenido en el aparcamiento de su oficina. Ese [...]

Como sabe cualquiera que ha tenido que gestionar un campamento o construir una villa desde cero, las ocupaciones suponen grandes problemas logísticos. Se debe alimentar y mantener razonablemente caldeadas y secas a muchas personas. Hay que sacar la basura, brindar atención médica y una seguridad rudimentaria, para lo cual una docena de comités, o más, [...]