Citizens of Cambridge, Mass: come to the hearing Sep 26 to oppose increased surveillance on Cambridge streets.

The right-wing government in Australia has abolished the Climate Commission, to deny the public honest information about the danger of its plans to increase coal exports.

There is a plan to exclude problem customers from clubs in Sydney by tracking everyone that enters.

The goal might be ok, if people are put on the exclusion list by court order. The proposed means are intolerable, and unnecessary. The system could be set up so it doesn't record seeing anyone who is not on the list.

Especially laughable is the idea that the system is ok because only the state will see the personal data that the system collects.

Argentina has asked for extradition of Spanish fascist torturers.

Spanish friends have told me that it is hard to draw attention to the crimes of Franco's dictatorship (even if it is not a matter of prosecuting them) because some of his lieutenants still have political or military power.

The California law requiring companies to verify working conditions in their subcontractors has had only limited effect.

It turns out that sweatshops and slavery are not occasional "excesses", but rather the basis of the globalized system of outsourced production.