Latin America

A British parliamentary report has found Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run a major international media company in light of the widespread phone-hacking scandal at News Corp.

“People all over the USA are talking about May Day as our day, whether you want to call it workers’ holiday or immigrant rights or the 99 percent,” says Martina Sitrin, who notes Occupy activists hope to use May Day as a way to build solidarity with the student movement and non-unionized workers, as well.

On Tuesday, May 1st, known as May Day or International Workers’ Day, Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to mobilize tens of thousands of people across the country under the slogan, “General Strike. No Work. No Shopping. Occupy Everywhere.”

Tomás Borge, 81, the only living founder of what is now the governing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) died on Monday night at the Alejandro Dávila Bolaños Military Hospital in Managua where he had been in intensive care for weeks under treatment for lung cancer.

We get an update from Colorlines.com reporter Seth Freed Wessler about hearings Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s notorious anti-immigrant law known as SB 1070.

A new PBS documentary exposes the tasing and beating death of a Mexican immigrant, Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, by U.S. border agents in California and has renewed scrutiny of what critics call a culture of impunity.

Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, we look at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico’s residents and wildlife even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. Eleven workers died when the Deepwater Horizon well exploded, and almost five million barrels of crude oil leaked into the ocean.

The Welcome to Palestine Campaign concluded in Bethlehem, and the Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza called on Arab countries to sever relations with Israel, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.