Ousted Ecuador president flees to Brazil News
Ousted Ecuador president flees to Brazil

[JURIST] Days after being removed from power by Congress, Ecuador's former president Lucio Gutierrez [JURIST news archive] fled the country [AP report] aboard a Brazilian air force plane on Sunday. Brazil granted Gutierrez political asylum [Reuters report] Thursday; new Ecuadorian president despite Alfredo Palacio said Friday he would allow Gutierrez to leave despite the fact that many Ecuadorians wanted him to remain in the country to stand trial for alleged abuse of power and corruption.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up bus seat to white passenger

On December 1, 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action prompted a year-long boycott of the Montgomery public transit system, which only came to an end after bus segregation was ruled illegal by the federal courts. Read a brief biography of Rosa Parks from the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy State Univerity, Montgomery. In 1999 Ms. Parks received the background report on the Pacifica News Network.

World AIDS Day

On December 1, 1988, World AIDS Day was observed for the first time.