Archive - Nov 28, 2007

• Palestinians Protest Middle East Peace Conference as Olmert and Abbas Meet with Bush at the White House
• United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Violence in Sri Lanka
• Violence in Paris Apparently Under Control
• DNA Collection in Britain Comes Under Fire
• Commentary from Mumia Abu-Jamal

• Musharraf Steps Down as Military Chief
• 14 Afghan Civilians Killed in NATO Airstrike
• Oilman Sentenced for Oil-for-Food Corruption
• SCOTUS Dismisses Welfare Inspection Challenge
• Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool to be Revised
• Indian Disability Rights Activists Win Promise from Government After Mass Suicide Threat
  

Protesters took to the streets in Gaza and the West Bank today,
demonstrating against the Middle East Conference in Annapolis, Maryland
– and at least one person was shot and killed, and dozens were arrested
as confrontations between demonstrators and Palestinian security forces
grew violent. Tens of thousands of Palestinians defied an order by the
Palestinian Authority banning demonstrations against the US-led summit,
and chanted slogans calling President Mahmoud Abbas a traitor.
Thousands of Jewish hard-line settlers protested at the Wailing Wall in
Jerusalem, and pro-peace demonstrators from around the US have gathered
in Annapolis denouncing the talks.

Meanwhile, the Middle East Conference produced an agreement to begin

An undocumented immigrant on order for Deportation in Chicago is on
the 13th day of a hunger strike. FSRN host Anitra Grisales spoke with
Flor Crisóstomo prior to a press conference planned outside the Chicago
office of Congressman Rahm Emanuel today. Crisóstomo is demanding that
the Democratic Congressman work with the Hispanic Caucus to move
forward on the immigration issue during the current session of Congress.

Canada's conservative government has introduced a new national
security law, which human rights groups say will amount to racial and
religious profiling. The legislation was introduced after the Canadian
Supreme Court struck the 30-year-old "security certificate" law that
allowed for the indefinite detention of alleged terrorists in Canada.
FSRN's Stefan Christoff reports from Montreal.

Hundreds of Protesters were met with riot police when they attempted
to disrupt a debate on free speech last night at one of Britain's most
distinguished universities. Demonstrators were protesting the
appearances of a convicted holocaust denier and the leader of the
far-right British National Party at the Oxford Union Debating Society.
Manuel Rueda has more.

A right wing offensive in Bolivia has resorted to stall tactics, a
media war, and violence that critics are calling acts of sedition to
derail the process of democratic change and constitutional reform in
that country. Juliette Beck and Aldo Orellana Lopez report from
Bolivia, where university students led protests that resulted in the
death of four people over the weekend.