Black Heritage Week, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his concepts of non-violence and equality.

* From Venezuela, a group of social organizations and human rights, students and academic groups as well as different individuals, launch this call for a campaign to defend the right to protest, which today is being systematically violated by the government of Hugo Chávez. This document was originally published in Spanish in El Libertario newspaper, # 57 (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario).

States are to sign a UN Protocol on September 24, 2009, which by excluding core minimum obligations permit States to systematically discriminate against the poor. Also a much more dependent people unable to help themselves are likely to be created. Even if States do not sign they are very likely to adopt it as State policy. It will be global in its effect.

Iran Solidarity petition "Stop Ahmadinejad from entering United Nation"