Trial in Shooting Murder of Oscar Grant Ends, Jury Deliberations Restart

Trial in Shooting Murder of Oscar Grant Ends, Jury Deliberations Restart

Uprising Radio dot org report on the Mehserle Trial in LA.

Venezuela Leader in Haitian Aid

Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Chavez Helps Haiti

Photo by John Carroll
Southern Haiti, 2010

Posted on Mon, Jul. 05, 2010
Venezuela major donor of assistance to Haiti
BY JIM WYSS

Venezuela's first flag was stitched together on the shores of Haiti in 1806 before being carried across the Caribbean by revolutionary hero Francisco de Miranda. Ten years later, Latin America's founding father, Simón Bolívar, would set sail from Haiti loaded with guns and Haitian soldiers on his way to liberate much of South America from the Spanish. 

It's a historical debt that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez says his country will never be able to repay. But in the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake, the South American nation seems bent on doing just that. 

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African American Mississippi Man Starts Record Sixth Murder Trial

African American Mississippi Man Starts Record Sixth Murder Trial

An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to ever go on trial for murder six times for the same crime. Mr. Flowers has been in jail in Mississippi since 1996, accused of the murder of four people at a furniture store. Jury selection started this week in tiny Winona, Mississippi, population 5,482.