On Saturday, Virginia Sen. Jim Webb won the release of an American prison inmate in Myanmar after talking with reclusive leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. After swimming across a lake to Suu Kyi’s villa in May, Missouri resident John Yettaw, 53, was arrested in May. Yettaw was sentenced…
DetailsThe head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the end of quotas for undocumented immigrants who ignored deportation orders in attempt to make more changes to the program. John Morton, who took over as head of the federal agency in May, plans to target unlawful immigrants. In 2003, the agency organized teams to arrest and…
DetailsFour anti-war demonstrators were arrested today at the University of California, Berkeley after calling to fire John Yoo, a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that some claimed to have justified the torture of suspected terrorists. On the first day of class at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, people protested against Yoo, saying…
DetailsLast friday, police arrested 23-year-old Westminster man who is connected to a brothel in garden Grove. Eleven Vietnamese women are suspected of prostitution were arrested at the business location; according to Westminster police Lt. Derek Marsh, they are being treated as victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The brothel is located in a chiropractor’s…
DetailsAn artistic feat, indeed. Renown artist Shepard Fairey (famous for his Obama election “HOPE” posters and “Obey Giant”) released a poster of Burmese prime minister-elect and democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Nobel peace prize winner Suu Kyi remains under house arrest by the military junta; however, she is receiving wide international support of her…
DetailsSince May 22, members of the Korean Metal Workers Union are being assaulted by police due to their occupation in the auto plant. Protesting mass layoffs of about three thousand workers, approximately 600 sit-down strikers have endured raids by police and company-hired strikebreakers. Since July 20, strikers have been denied access to food, drinking…
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