Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery.  Saturday 02 June 2012 "No Matter What the Result, We Will Continue to Resist," Says Mexican Electrical Workers Union LeaderDavid Bacon, Truthout: "Humberto Montes de Oca is the international secretary for the Mexican Electrical Workers union. Two years ago, its 44,000 members were all fired when the Mexican government took over generating stations by force to set the stage for privatizing electricity. Montes de Oca describes the role the union has played on the left in Mexico, its resistance to privatization and the way fired workers are now forced to migrate to survive." Read the Article Egyptian Court Sentences Mubarak to Life in Prison David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times News Service: "An Egyptian judge sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison for the killing of unarmed demonstrators during the first six days of protests that ended his rule…. With the nation still awaiting the ratification of a new constitution, the election of a new president and the hand-over of power by its military rulers, the decision is Egypt's most significant step yet toward establishing the principle that no leader is above the law." Read the Article All 67 Florida Election Supervisors Suspend Governor Rick Scott's Voter Purge Judd Legum, ThinkProgress: "On Thursday, the Justice Department demanded Florida Governor Rick Scott end his extensive purge of registered voters from the rolls because it was in violation of federal law. Scott still hasn't formally responded but his county election supervisors have already taken action…. Florida elections supervisors said Friday they will discontinue a state-directed effort to remove names from county voter rolls because they believe the state data is flawed and because the U.S. Department of Justice has said the process violates federal voting laws." Read the Article George Zimmerman Ordered Back to Jail in Travyon Martin Case Scott Hiaasen, McClatchy Newspapers: "George Zimmerman was ordered back to jail on Friday for misleading the court about his access to an Internet fundraising account. Seminole County Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lester revoked the bail for Zimmerman - who is facing a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin - after finding that Zimmerman and his wife concealed their access to a $200,000 account during a bond hearing in April." Read the Article Globalization Head-On: Women Confronting Poverty Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: "Mary Ann Manahan helps rural women in the Philippines build their knowledge, strength, and political voice. Here she speaks of how women are creating alternatives to violence and poverty in their lives. They use strategies for change that start at the household and community, and then connect to the global level, so they can confront the crippling impacts of globalization." Read the Article Hunger/AIDS Medication Striker to Trinity Church: "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "Jack Boyle's hands are nothing but trouble. Not only is his right thumb bent completely out of shape, injured during his forcible eviction from Zuccotti Park in November, but his fingertips are increasingly numb, as his peripheral neuropathy kicks in more, and more. It's been twelve days since he took his medication and eight days since he's eaten, and he is starting to feel it…. But he won't take any of those pills ever again, unless Trinity Church forgives him and his friends their trespasses." Read the Article Will Brewing Corruption Scandals in Ohio Have an Impact on November's Election? Sarah Jaffe, Alternet: "Ohio governor John Kasich has taken some hits since his election in 2010's Tea Party wave; the most famous was the ‘Citizen's Veto' of his anti-union legislation…. And now he's reportedly become the target of an FBI investigation looking into allegations that he abused his power and offered ‘influence' to a state Republican Party official if he would step down and allow someone loyal to Kasich to take his place." Read the Article California Prison Throws 78 Prisoners in Solitary for More Than 20 Years Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress: "A civil rights group sued California's prison system, claiming its use of long-term solitary confinement for the high-security inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison should be considered torture and therefore violates the prisoners' human rights. Lawyers … demand[ed] prison reforms on behalf of the more than 500 current inmates who have been held in the maximum-security prison for between 10 and 28 years. The lawsuit is in line with United Nations experts' recommendations for a nation-wide ban on solitary confinement." Read the Article Spotlight G20: Will Mexico Lead Action on Biofuels, Food Crisis? Timothy A. Wise, Triple Crisis: "How much have U.S. ethanol policies pushed up corn prices? And how much have these higher prices cost developing countries dependent on imports for their staple foods? And if one of those countries is the chair of the G20, will it use its considerable influence over the agenda to demand policy changes? The answers to the first two questions are clear." Read the Article Robert Reich | The Job Stall Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Face it: The jobs recovery has stalled…. Republicans will have a field day with today's jobs report, taking it as a sign that Obama's economic policies have failed and we need instead their brand of fiscal austerity combined with more tax cuts for the wealthy. But that's precisely the reverse of what's needed." Read the Article From Gangs to Gardens: How Community Agriculture Transformed Quesada Avenue Katherine Gustafson, Yes! Magazine: "In 2002, two neighbors armed with spades and seeds changed everything for crime-addled Quesada Avenue in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point area. The street had been ground zero for the area's drug trade and its attendant violence. But when Annette Smith and Karl Paige began planting flowers on a small section of the trash-filled median strip, Quesada Gardens Initiative was born. Over the course of the next decade, the community-enrichment project profoundly altered the face of this once-blighted neighborhood." Read the Article Click here for more Truthout articles
The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return Monday, June 4th. Romney Finally Releases His Personal Money Figures Planned Parenthood Slams Mitt Romney in Major Ad Buy (Video) Leon Panetta: US to Deploy 60 Percent of Navy Fleet to Pacific Is Ohio About to Enact the Worst Fracking Law Yet? Conservative Jewish Movement Sanctions Same-Sex Marriage A Killer in the White House Imagining the Post-Occupy Social Movement Click here for more BuzzFlash headlines
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