(Peter Greste’s parents appeal to Egypt’s Sisi, via BBC)

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egypt to deepen buffer zone with Gaza after finding longer tunnels
• HRW criticizes law allowing Egypt’s army to protect vital facilities
• Egyptian government is ready for tough response to Salafi Front’s ‘Islamic Uprising’
• Head of Egypt’s council for women3 slams detained female activists
• Egypt spent $3 billion on fuel subsidies in the first quarter of fiscal year
• Judge orders mobile providers to reveal Alaa’s whereabouts on protest day
• Pro-Morsi student dies inside Cairo police station

Tuesday

• Egypt’s political parties are divided over new electoral district law
• Three Egyptian parties pull back from Mubarak- era electoral alliance
• Foreign intelligence behind recent terror attacks: Egypt’s interior ministry
• Military court sentences 17 Morsi supporters to 5-10 years in jail
• Egypt’s police storm Al-Azhar campus after students torch dean’s car
• Brotherhood launches new “impartial” satellite channel
• Egyptian economy grows 1.1% in…

 (not satire – it’s the UK today!)

Austerity kills. It killed Mark Wood and it killed David Clapson. Both starved to death as a direct consequence of the coalition government’s austerity programme. Both were vulnerable adults who starved alone, bewildered at being punished by those they thought were helping them.

The two people closest to these victims will share a platform on 27 November in Witney, David Cameron’s constituency. Cathie Wood, the sister of Mark Wood, and Gill Thompson, the sister of David Clapson, will demand to know why their brothers died at the hands of the state. They are determined that other vulnerable people should not share their brothers’ fate, victims of an inhuman political ideology.

“We are sticking to the task. But that doesn’t just mean making difficult decisions on public spending. It also means something more profound. It means building a leaner, more efficient state. We need…

This article by Josh Surtees appeared in Vice.com.

Wayne Kublalsingh is on an epic 65-day hunger strike over a plan to build a four-lane highway through a wetlands wildlife habitat in Trinidad and Tobago. Emaciated and struggling to stand by the side of his bed, Kublalsingh told VICE News that his self-starvation is “a form of peaceful social war,” against the government of the Caribbean nation.

Nearing death, Kublalsingh was recently hospitalized in critical condition. Local newspapers in Trinidad have suggested he won’t survive the week.

“I’m doing this absolutely for Trinidad and Tobago,” Kublalsingh said. He explained that the hunger strike is, “against the economic crimes committed against the people, against white collar criminality and the government’s failure to account for and justify its actions.”

The issue at the heart of Kublalsingh’s crusade is a highway that is supposed to cut through a UNESCO-listed archaeological heritage site and 13…

Meet the women who stood up to the paramilitaries – and will continue to fight, The Journal reports.

“WE ARMED OURSELVES. We just grabbed everything there was – sticks, machetes, anything,” says Adriana Porras about the day Libertad’s residents rose up against paramilitaries.

For eight years her town had been terrorised by paramilitaries. 40 villagers were murdered between 2000 and 2004. No one was allowed leave the town without permission.

For breaking rules women were punished by forcing them to wear signs saying ‘I am a gossip’ while cleaning the town square. Rape was common.

“A lot of women in Libertad are victims of sexual violence,” says Porras of the town near Colombia’s Caribbean coast.

In May 2004, the town’s residents said “No More”. They rose up, forced the paramilitary leaders out and sealed off the town. Eventually the military came and arrested the leaders.

Educating women

Porras was a nurse at the time, but decided…