La Jornada (Translated by WorldMeetsUS): During protests over the Ferguson case, 323 people were arrested in Los Angeles and another 35 in Oakland. According to LA Police Department spokespeople, 130 were detained for disturbing public order on Hope and 60th Streets, after a group of protesters refused to obey an order to disperse.
The event was one of many that occurred over the past week in the wake of a grand jury decision exonerating a policeman who killed a young African American man, 18-year-old Michael Brown on August 9. Read more.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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