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Middle Paraná Social Forum
The Middle Paraná Social Forum has now a date
"Another world is possible"
In the end of the year encounter, called by the Mobilizing Committee
of
the Middle Paraná Social Forum (FSPM by its initials in Spanish), the
citizens and social organizations present constituted themselves into
an
Assembly resolving the date for the realization of the second edition
of
the Forum....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 4:54am PST
Why has India blocked foreign tsunami aid to the Nicobar and Andaman islands?
The remote Andaman and Nicobar group suffered a devastating blow from the December 26 tsunami. The low-lying and mostly uninhabited chain of 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal was the closest Indian territory to the epicentre of the massive earthquake. As well as being swamped by the sea, it was hit by a series of substantial aftershocks....
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 9:52pm PST
Chavez nationalises VENEPAL under workers control
Hands Off Venezuela Campaign...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 11:07am PST
RECLAIM THE STREETS!!!--San Diego, CA--J20
Street Party in San Diego! Meet at 7pm, at 3rd and Broadway, on January 20th to reclaim our streets from the chains of cars and commerce for the liberation of community and creativity.
What to bring? What to wear? What will this look like? Wear your favorite Dia De Los Muertos outfit or your favorite Irish outfit or your favorite celebratory outfit! Bring noisemakers, drums, bagpipes! Be prepared to dance and celebrate the the reclamation of public space, the commons, autonomy and collecti...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 2:42am PST
The Debt Threat: How Debt is Destroying the Developing World
As a group of the world's richest countries agree to temporarily freeze debt repayments of Asian countries hit by last month's tsunami, we speak with globalization expert Noreena Hertz, author of The Debt Threat: How Debt is Destroying the World....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:26am PST
A Moralist on the Social State
A hundred years ago eight farmers worked to feed one non-farmer. Today one farmer feeds 88 persons..Income from assets and business activities have been consistently relieved of taxes in the last 25 years. Profits soar and investments fall while the social fabric is shredded....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:22am PST
Link Between Antibiotic Overuse in FoodAnimals and Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infe
A new report from scientists at the University of California at Berkeley concludes that an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections (UTIs) was probably caused by foodborne bacteria, and that resistance in such bacteria likely arises from use of antibiotics in agricultural animals....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:56am PST
The Black Book of U.S. Imperialism: Ward Churchill's Roosting Chickens
Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and assorted intellectuals of the “decent left” have earned their keep arguing that anti-imperialism is nothing but an echo chamber of nihilism, oedipal rage and tacit support for whomever the governing class declares the enemy. Once upon a time their kind derided the Communist left as window dressing for the gulag; now they argue with parallel duplicity that anti-imperialists are shills for “Islamo-fascist” death cults and suicide bombers. As the gate-keepers of acce...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 5:07pm PST
Globalization in Ecuador
The TLC and Oil drilling in the Amazon spell disaster...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 4:27pm PST
HEALTH: Intimidation, Politics and Drug Industry Cripple U.S. Medicine
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, but they're "taking care of business rather than patient safety",says FDA's associate safety director Dr. David J. Graham. In interviews, he and others highlight the all too brutal facts....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:10am PST
Aceh Independence Struggle Enters New Phase
Background on Aceh: 1999-2000 nonviolent independence movement....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 7:56pm PST
Bay Areas, ROLLING LETTER CAMPAIGN!
Save Social Security From Bush!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 5:46pm PST
Tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka’s east speak to the WSWS
From December 29 to January 1, a WSWS team spoke with tsunami survivors in and around the eastern Sri Lankan town of Ampara. At least 25,000 people from the area were killed and more than 166,000 were left homeless by the December 26 tragedy. Another 80,000 are now living in refugee camps....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:18pm PST
Globalization in Ecuadorian Amazon
Globalization and the TLC, Free Trade Agreement threatens Ecuador's Amazonian rainforest. Road building and oil drilling is about to start in Yasuni National Park...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 5:48pm PST
Tsunami Warning: Why Didn't Scientists Notify the Press About the Impending Disaster?
We speak with Australian journalist Peter Symonds about the lack of warning systems in Asia that could have prevented tens of thousands of people from being killed in the tsunami disaster....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:01am PST
Acehnese Refugees Speak Out
We continue to look at the area hardest hit by the Tsunami – Aceh. Over 100,000 of the dead are in Indonesia alone. We'll speak with an Acehnese refugee whose mother was a woman's rights activist in Aceh, imprisoned by the Indonesian government. The prison was destroyed by the Tsunami. We also hear from Acehnese refugees who held a protest outside the UN. Acehnese and U.S. human rights groups protested yesterday outside of the Indonesian Mission to the United Nations, condemning the Indonesia...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 8:53pm PST
A call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc for the Inauguration.
The Parade Must End: A call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc for the January 20, 2005 protest of the Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C....
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 11:48pm PST
US Military Base in Indian Ocean Received Tsunami Warning
The US military base in the Indian Ocean on the British-controlled island of Diego Garcia, received sufficient warning of the tsunami so that it suffered no damage, unlike the rest of the Indian Ocean....
Posted: Thu, Dec 30, 2004 9:42pm PST
Incipient Boycott of American Companies Because of the Iraq Occupation
excerpt from a good article by Jim Lobe, confirming what Sy Hersh experienced in Europe recently, as dependence upon establishing the corporate identity through the brand, as described by Naomi Klein years ago in No Logo, backfires...
Posted: Thu, Dec 30, 2004 11:38am PST