In an atypical move in cases of police killings of unarmed African Americans,鈥 鈥瑂ix police officers in Baltimore have been charged with serious crimes over the鈥 鈥琩eath of鈥 鈥25-year-old African American man Freddie Gray last month.
Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby announced the charges on May鈥 鈥1,鈥 鈥瑆hich include second-degree murder against one officer.
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Already struggling to cope with the devastation caused by the April 25 earthquake that measured 7.8 on the Moment Magnitude Scale, Nepal was hit on May 12 by a major aftershock with a magnitude of 7.3 MMS. By May 14, there had been 158 aftershocks.
The May 12 aftershock appears to have killed far fewer people than the initial quake, but the combined death toll is more than 9000 and rising. Most casualties have been in Nepal but there have also been deaths in India, Bangladesh and Tibet.
Large numbers of heavily armed federal and Victorian police raided a house in the northern Melbourne suburb of Greenvale on May 8.
A 17-year-old male was arrested and charged with 鈥渢errorism related offences鈥 after appearing in court on May 11.
鈥淏alaclava-clad officers with assault rifles stood guard around a two-storey home while heavily-armoured vehicles blocked off the street,鈥 the ABC reported on May 9.
A 14-year-old boy was questioned after raids in Sydney on the same day. The police have not said whether the raids in Melbourne and Sydney were connected.
Paddy Gibson spoke at a Stop the Intervention Collective public meeting in April on the Northern Territory Intervention and Western Australian community closures. Gibson has lived in Alice Springs, researching the impact of the Intervention. He is a senior researcher with the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney and co-editor of Solidarity magazine. This is an edited version of his speech.
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Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton spoke to Dave Holmes about her work as an elected socialist local councillor in Moreland, a municipality in Melbourne. This is the second of a series of interviews with Sue Bolton.
"After international pressure, today the Indonesian President has claimed that all foreign journalists are now free to report in West Papua without travel restrictions,鈥 the BBC reported on May 11.
鈥淭his is historic news as for 50 years the Indonesian government has banned foreign journalists from entering West Papua."
A global day of action on April 29 featured protests in several cities that called on the Indonesian government to allow free and open access into occupied West Papua for international journalists, humanitarian agencies and human rights groups.
Photo: NSW Education Action Network/Facebook.
Students took to the streets on May 12, budget day, to call for free education and an end to the fee deregulation bill.
A commentator for the mainstream Barcelona daily La Vanguardia reported on May 9 on a conversation he overheard in a lift between two 鈥渆xecutives of a certain age鈥.
They were talking about an opinion poll giving the radical, movement-based ticket Barcelona Together the lead in the March 24 election for Barcelona City Council.
Executive A: 鈥淗ave you seen that [incumbent Barcelona mayor Xavier] Trias is losing?鈥
Executive B: 鈥淵es, [lead candidate for Barcelona Together Ada] Colau is winning.鈥
Two months after鈥 鈥19-year-old Black teenager Tony Robinson was fatally shot by Madison police officer Matt Kenny,鈥 鈥琖isconsin prosecutors announced on May鈥 鈥12鈥 鈥瑃hat Kenny would not face criminal charges over the shooting.鈥
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Madison in the immediate aftermath,鈥 on May鈥 鈥14,鈥 鈥瑆ith more protests鈥 鈥琾lanned.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Particularly when it comes to responsible reporting of Aboriginal poverty.
Last week, Four Corners pointed its lens into a few Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and produced a beautiful piece of promotion for the WA government and its plans for a catastrophic assault on Aboriginal homelands.
Prince at the 2015 Grammy awards: 鈥淎lbums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter. Tonight and always.鈥
On May 14 a group of 10 asylum seekers and their families challenging the legality of the government鈥檚 policy of offshore detention. The Human Rights Law Centre is running the case on behalf of the asylum seekers.
The Centre鈥檚 Director of Legal Advocacy Daniel Webb, who is part of the legal team representing the families, said the group has been temporarily returned to Australia but are facing imminent removal back to Nauru.
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