INS (or whatever Homeland Security Dept. acronym they've got now) have recently raided businesses, picked people off the street, and racially profiled and harassed community members and leaders in a campaign against undocumented people and allies.

Protesters attack soldiers as they protest for peace.

Irish Political Activist Ken O'Keefe suffered concussion and bruising at the hands of an Israeli prison guard Monday evening, five days into his hunger strike against detention and possible deportation. He was arrested last Thursday for attempting to enter Gaza to discuss the P10K plan with representatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The National Coalition for the Homeless has released it's annual report documenting hate crimes against the homeless. HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be on the sidewalk at Pacific and Soquel at 12:30 p.m. today (Wednesday June 16th) petitioning and protesting. Borders Book store makes available the homeless-mutilating-and-torturing video Bumfights. No thanks. Come on down.

Perhaps the most pressing human rights catastrophe taking place in the world right now is happening in the Sudan. Similar to the genocide of Rwanda, this warfare-based killings of the Black African Christian population in southern Sudan by the northern Arab/Muslim militia groups is largely ignored by the rest of the world. Here are only the latest notorious details about the conflict.