From the New York Times, Jan. 18:

BRASÍLIA — Far more Indian groups than previously thought are surviving in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest isolated from the outside world, but they risk destruction at the hands of encroaching loggers and miners, experts said Wednesday.

The following statement from DeleteTheBorder.com, was presented to the Zapatista Encuentro held in Chiapas over the New Year weekend:

As long as the US/Mexico border has existed, people having been struggling against it. It is a highly militarized, violent boundary marking an internal space of strict migration controls while allowing for unrestricted movement of capital and wealth. This border exists in a global context of apartheid borders and restriction of movement. For years around the world people have been tearing down fences, freeing detainees and fighting for the rights of migrant people. A global movement against borders and migration controls is rising. One of many tactics in this movement is the no border camp - a space for direct action and building community. Join us for a transnational no border camp on the Mexico/US border.

Received via Chiapas95, Jan. 16:

Hello,
My name is Bina Darabzand. From Tehran, Iran. I run a Leftist Site Salam-Democrat.com, in persian language for the Iranian "Radical Left" Young Student movement in Iran. We only heard of Oaxaca Movement after Brad Will was killed. Since, I have tried to keep my readers up to date with the events &analysis by giving sum-ups of Narco News, Indymedia & Prensa Latina reports & few Translations of Speeches & Texts. I have joined your group with hopes of better serving my readers & possibility of taking some actions in support of the Oaxaca Movement & APPO. Ofcourse you know that in Iran we are limited in actions we can take.

Received via Zapagringo blog, Jan. 18:

Brad Will’s Family Seeks “a Vigorous Prosecution of the Guilty Parties”
Human Rights Attorney Miguel Angel de Los Santos Takes the Case to Mexican Court

by Craig Will
Brother of Brad Will (1970-2006)

The Will family is pleased to have the renowned Mexican human rights lawyer, Miguel Angel de Los Santos Cruz, join the cause for justice in the case of Bradley Roland Will’s death.

From Mexico's Centro de Medios Libres, Jan. 15:

Adherent to the Other Campaign seriously injured. Solidarity required.

After the Meeting of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World was over, Ricardo, an adherent to the Other Campaign in Mexico City was brutally clubbed by several men on January 6 in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, where he had stayed on to participate iin follow-up activities. The attack was apparently a repressive action.

It now stands at five minutes to midnight. Before this change, it stood at seven to midnight, having moved forward two minutes in February 2002. That was the same position it stood at when the clock was unveiled in 1947. It is now closer than at any time since 1984, the peak of the Reagan arms race, when it was moved to three minutes to midnight. That, in turn, was the closest it stood since 1953, when the Soviets developed the H-bomb, and the Clock was moved to two minutes of midnight. The furthest it has ever stood was 17 to midnight in 1991, with the end of the Cold War. (Clock Timeline) From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan. 17:

From The Scotsman, Jan. 18, links and emphasis added:

Mullah Omar, leader of the Taleban, is living in Pakistan under the protection of the country's intelligence service, a captured Taleban spokesman has told Afghan interrogators.

From Air Force Times, Jan. 16:

A small group of out-of-uniform active-duty service members, supported by veterans and academics, gathered inside a Norfolk, Va., church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to hold a rally calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.