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Belgian Company Linked to Rural Slavery in Brazil (Media)
The Federal Police and the Ministry for Employment have found around 180 people who have been working for four months in conditions analogous to slavery on a farm in the state of Pará, Brazil. The farm is linked to the Belgian capital investments company SIPEF....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 9:55am PDT
Flashpoints Radio Oct 14/15: Michael Parenti; Vieques update; Election 2000 docu
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Monday/Tuesday Oct 14/15, 2002:
-Oct 15: RObert Knight and the Knight Report (5 min)
-Oct 15: Dennis Bernstein interview Michael Parenti, on the real reasons behind US attack on Iraq (17 min)
-Oct 14: Vieques Update: Robert Rabin free after six months in prison for trespassing on his native soil (15 min)
-Oct 14 and 15: exerpts from the great new documentary, 'Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election' about Bush's stealing the 2000 election in Florida...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 12:59am PDT
Car batteries power the vote in Brazil elections
strange that third world countries are more advanced than us in their voting equipment, even if they do have to use car batteries to run the stuff....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 5:33pm PDT
BTL:The Future of 4-Decade Long Embargo on Cuba Debated at Summit Meeting
Interviews with Lissa Weinmann, of Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba,and Dennis Hays, executive vice president of the Cuban American National Foundation,conducted by Between The Lines' Denise Manzari....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 2:38am PDT
argentina: zanòn amenazada
(temporariamente el sitio argentino no funciona, por eso publicamos aca, se puede ver en argentina.linefeed.org)...
Posted: Wed, Oct 2, 2002 11:22pm PDT
Dec. 20-21 Days of Action in Solidarity with Argentina
CALLING ALL GRASSROOTS GROUPS, COLLECTIVES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS..
December 20th - 21st 2002 - TWO DAYS OF SOCIAL DISOBEDIENCE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARGENTINEAN POPULAR REBELLION...
Posted: Wed, Oct 2, 2002 1:27pm PDT
Dec.20-21 TWO DAYS OF SOCIAL DISOBEDIENCE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARGENTINA
CALLING ALL GRASSROOTS GROUPS, COLLECTIVES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.. December 20th - 21st 2002 - TWO DAYS OF SOCIAL DISOBEDIENCE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARGENTINEAN POPULAR REBELLION...
Posted: Tue, Oct 1, 2002 3:37pm PDT
"Bike for Colombia" on Channel 29 at 9:30 p.m. on Scenic Verve
Tonight on San Francisco's cable channel, AccessSf Channel 29 at 9:30 p.m., Scenic Verve will be broadcasting a segment on the upcoming action "Bike for Colombia" on Friday September 27th and a segment on Death in the Colombian Andes,...
Posted: Wed, Sep 25, 2002 11:19am PDT
Latest Flashpoints: Fisk; Colombia; Palestine; D Ellsberg; Sabra & Chatila, more
KPFA Flashpoints Radio: Sept 16 to Sept 24
-Sept 24: Colombia; Arafat
-Sept 23: women against war
-Sept 20: hour of Daniel Ellsberg
-Sept 19: Medea messes with Rumsfeld; Rahul Mahajan
-Sept 18: Dennis Halliday on Iraq; REMEMBERING SABRA AND CHATILLA part 2
-Sept 17: Scott Ritter; Barbara Lubin; Korean unification?
-Sept 16: Robert Fisk exclusive: REMEMBERING SABRA AND CHATILLA part 1...
Posted: Tue, Sep 24, 2002 11:39pm PDT
Illegal Logs Seized, Peaceful Protestors Attacked - Brazil
--Support Efforts by Brazilian Communities to Create Amazon Reserve
--Illegal Logs Seized, Peaceful Protestors Attacked...
Posted: Sun, Sep 22, 2002 5:54pm PDT
Thuggery by Partido Obrero of Argentina
Official statement on the detention of one of Democracia
Obrera’s (Workers Democracy’s) national leaders that was
given to the police by leaders of the Workers Party, after their thugs treated him to a beating with sticks during a demonstration....
Posted: Sat, Sep 21, 2002 4:58pm PDT
El Salvador: Violent Repression Reaching Heights, Urgent Call for Solidarity!
30 health care workers fired, union leaders held at gunpoint in El Salvador as the resistance to corporate gloablization surges...
Posted: Thu, Sep 19, 2002 12:56pm PDT
Indymedia Argentina sponsored by Ford?
Is it true? I really hope it was a nightmare!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 15, 2002 5:37am PDT
Argentina Since Default: The IMF and the Depression
A useful economic analysis of Argentina and the role of the IMF in its decline....
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 12:14am PDT
Argentina: Lessons for Anarchism
Since winter inhabitants of Argentina are attacking the State, holding its
accomplices from left and extreme left to ridicule. They challenge
capitalism, create general assemblies to a large scale never seen since
1936 Spain; and all that without any leader coming on the stage........
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 12:00am PDT
To commemorate 911 the US gives money to Colombian terrorists
William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said: "To say that Colombia has complied with human rights conditions is nothing short of a farce. The country has failed to make significant progress on a single one of them....
Posted: Mon, Sep 9, 2002 8:08pm PDT
Emergency Delegation to Chiapas
Zapatista communities in Chiapas are suffering a wave of paramilitary violence, unprecedented since the 1997 Acteal massacre. The communities are calling on the international community to send emergency human rights delegations to Chiapas. In response the Mexico Solidarity Network is organizing a delegation from September 21-28....
Posted: Fri, Sep 6, 2002 3:15pm PDT
Flashpoints Sept 5: DEA terrorizes Santa Cruz MM co-op; Vieques; Ohio sucks
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Sept 5, 2002
-Robert Knight and the Knight Report (5 min)
-DEA terrorists raid sleeping Santa Cruz compassionate usage medical marijuana coop (25 min)
-US Navy bombs Vieques again, burns vegetation, w Professor Deborah Santana (13 min)
-black Muslim woman traveling in Ohio convicted on trumped up charges (11 min)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 5, 2002 9:50pm PDT
Two assassinated in Chiapas by paramilitary
1) Background information and current reports
2) Action YOU can take
3) Press Communique issued by on August 27, 2002 by human rights
organizations in Chiapas
4) Conflicts in Chiapas signal lack of dialogue, AFP - 8/30/2002...
Posted: Fri, Aug 30, 2002 7:18pm PDT
A Cuban cartoonist talks of his art and Cuba
Arístides Esteban Hernández Guerrero, known as Ares, is an internationally acclaimed cartoonist living in Havana. His drawings have won hundreds of awards in world cartooning and satire competitions....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 8:30am PDT