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CAFTA--Continue The Fight
Please contact your representatives right now and thank them if they voted with working families. But if they voted wrong, put the heat on—make sure they know there are consequences for voting against working families....
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 1:41pm PDT
American Families Are Hungry Too; CAFTA-DR's Passage Questioned
Early Thursday morning the House passed the Central American Free Trade Agreement by a two-vote margin, 217-215. The Senate approved CAFTA-DR last month; it now goes to the President for his signature....
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:57am PDT
Minutemen Suspected in Border Shootings
"Rogue" Minutemen may be behind border shootings...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 1:14am PDT
Latin America's "Bin Laden" Denied Bail, Judge Cites Posada's Terror Record
Leading anti-Castro terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is denied bail in his Texas immigration trial. We speak with a U.S. immigration lawyer who has been retained by the Venezuelan government to represent it in the case as it continues to demand his extradition as well as the Chair of the National Lawyers Guild's Cuba Subcommittee. [...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 8:41pm PDT
Brazil: angry protests hit state murder in London
The July 22 police execution of Brazilian-born electrician Jean Charles de Menezes on a London subway car has provoked shock and angry protest in the 27-year-old immigrant’s native land....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 8:38pm PDT
Wife of Guatemalan Rebel Killed by CIA Asset Says CIA Operatives Should be Exposed
Is it ever justified to blow a CIA operative's cover? We speak with human rights attorney Jennifer Harbury - her husband was a Mayan leader who was killed by a CIA asset in Guatemala....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 7:16pm PDT
Wonderful News Just In From The Narcosphere!
"Luis Posada Carriles, notorious figure in Latin American terrorist history and former CIA operative, is denied bond today in El Paso Texas by immigration judge."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 9:54am PDT
New Latin American Television Network Telesur Officially Launched
Some are calling it Latin America's al Jazeera. This weekend, a coalition of leftist governments, media outlets and movements, led by Venezuela, officially launched Telesur - a new Latin America-wide satellite TV network. We go to Caracas to speak with Andres Izarra, Venezuela's communications minister and president of Telesur as well as attorney Eva Golinger....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:18am PDT
Venezuela-led TV Channel Angers US
CARACAS, July26 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched a new Latin American television channel to fight “cultural imperialism” from US and European media....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:13am PDT
Unholy Alliance? The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
As two of the country's largest unions leave the AFL-CIO, we talk to a labor journalist about what he calls an unholy alliance: the AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:11am PDT
Green Party Opposes CAFTA Trade Pact
CAFTA will gut California environmental protections, Greens charge; Congressional delegation should oppose costly trade pact...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 6:59am PDT
Revolution and Counter-revolution in Venezuela: Assessing the Role of the AFL-CIO
José Gil’s walk across the shop floor would appear familiar to trade unionists across the United States. As a local union official at the vast CVG Alcasa aluminum plant in Venezuela’s Ciudad Guyana, he made the rounds on a short Sunday shift in August 2004—catching up on family news and listening to concerns and complaints, as molten metal pushed temperatures on an already scorching south-central Venezuelan afternoon to skin-searing levels. The plant’s production was on the increase, thanks t...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 7:22am PDT
South America’s New Militarism
South American societies are militarizing as a result of the regional superpower’s intervention, which is undoubtedly a crucial factor on the continent, but also as a consequence of the profound economic and political changes we have come to call neoliberalism....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 7:20am PDT
Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Crosses the Border- A Near Total Victory
Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Crosses the Border...
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 9:47pm PDT
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Latest (7/22 AM) Update
Here's the latest update on the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba I just received from Faye Kennedy of the Freedom Bound Center....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 9:15am PDT
Democracy Now: Pastors For Peace Caravan to Cuba Stopped at U.S.-Mexican Border
Volunteers attempting to deliver tons of humanitarian aid and hurricane relief to Cuba were stopped at the U.S. - Mexican border Thursday. The volunteers are part of a Pastors for Peace caravan, a group which delivers shipments of humanitarian aid yearly to Latin American countries and Cuba....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 7:12am PDT
Update on Pastors for Peace Caravan
Here's the latest update on the Cuba Caravan. Sacramento activist Kathryn Hall of the Birthing Project is currently in Hidalgo Texas after being stopped at the border by the Department of Homeland Security....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 12:51am PDT
POP Caravan to Cuba Update:
News from Texas—Today, finally at 4:00pm (PST): The Pastors for Peace Friend shipment Caravan to Cuba were released, but the struggle is not over. Kathryn Hall and at least two buses are now in Hidalgo, TX, 6 buses and 2 trucks were not released....
Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 6:53pm PDT
Humanitarian Assistance for Cuba volunteers detained by Homeland Security
Kathryn Hall of the Sac Center for Community Health and Well Being (home of the Birthing Project) and others in support of the Pastors for Peace (POP) Humanitarian Aid Caravan to Cuba are being held in McAllen Texas by US Homeland Security......
Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 6:46pm PDT
NOTICIAS shut- down through blood and fire/Despojan NOTICIAS a sangre y fuego
Groups of police, urban paramilitaries, and members of the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants (CROC- a PRI paramilitary front group) initiate an assault on the NOTICIAS facilities and violently removed the 31 sequestered workers
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Grupos de porros, policías y de la CROC consuman asalto a las instalaciones y desalojan violentamente a los 31 trabajadores secuestrados...
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 3:34pm PDT