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Ecuador to close schools in Quito after protests 
(AP Photo) - An unidentified undercover military officer seen in a student protest is rescued by policemen in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006. The officer was recognized by students protesting against President Alfredo Palacio and later beaten and unclothed....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:00pm PST
Foro Digest: Tired of the White Left NAM contributor Roberto Lovato is attending the World Social Forum in Caracas, where more than 60,000 people, half of them from outside Venezuela, have gathered for the annual event. His impressions will be posted throughout the week....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 5:09pm PST
Protest Google for lining itself with Chinese govt on censorship issue ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 1:58pm PST
Globalization Reality Show: Surviving as a Maquiladora Worker Can you imagine watching a corporate lawyer on television work an exhausting eight-hour shift at a foreign-owned maquiladora plant for 60 dollars a week, and living in a wooden shack in one of the poorest shantytowns in Tijuana?...
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 7:53pm PST
Switzerland:WEF Under Attack in Zurich 
...opposition to the WEF took a nasty turn on Friday night when opponents in Zurich vandalised the home of a management consultant and a building belonging to a technology company....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 4:17pm PST
World Social Forum Takes over Caracas 
The World Social Forum in Caracas Venezuela has started. This is a report and photographs from the opening days activities. This version will include more pictures than the earlier story. The wireless Internet connection here is not easy to use....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 9:57am PST
Dynamics of the World Social Forum Dynamics of the World Social Forum - issues of concern...
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 9:24am PST
Foro Digest: World Social Forum Ripe with Hope NAM contributor Roberto Lovato is attending the World Social Forum in Caracas, where more than 60,000 people, half of them from outside Venezuela, have gathered for the annual event. His impressions will be posted throughout the week....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 5:15pm PST
Nine killed in Nigeria oil raid An armed gang dressed in military fatigues has attacked the offices of Agip oil company, a unit of Italy's ENI, in Nigeria, killing nine people, security and government sources said....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 5:10pm PST
Broken Borders, International Smuggling The disintegration of "global order" depicted here puts a smile on my face. As with any Newsweek article, of course it has the Establishment spin on it, so please take with a grain of salt......
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 12:46pm PST
The Bankers Own The Earth [Updated] Capitalism is organized crime. It has nothing to do with "free markets" and everything to do with illegitimate debt-slavery and usury markets. It is by design that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, not by accident. Capitalism is a fundamentally bankrupt and broken concept that must be replaced with an entirely new ethic based on the principles of fair trade and economic justice....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:16am PST
"Dirty Money" is the Foundation of U.S. Growth and Empire "Without the "dirty money" the U.S. economy external accounts would be totally unsustainable, living standards would plummet, the dollar would weaken, the available investment and loan capital would shrink and Washington would not be able to sustain its global empire."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:12am PST
The World According to Google This fascinating half hour program produced by the BBC is a primer about the Bay Area company that is now worth close to 140 billion dollars.
To put that into perspective the running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War is now almost 100 billion dollars more than that....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 11:37pm PST
This Tuesday: Hong Kong WTO Reportback/CPA Benefit 
A Report Back from Hong Kong and China
by garment workers and leaders of the Chinese Progressive Association
and other members of the Bay Area delegation....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 6:05pm PST
8th National Black Land Loss Summit ~ "The Value of Land in a Post-Katrina America The Concern Citizens of Tillery, North Carolina and the National Black Farmers and Agriculturalist Association host the 8th National Black Land Loss Summit...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 3:39pm PST
The “Free Market”: The Greatest Terror Of All The economic system of production we live in is called capitalism or the free market. We are supposed to be fortunate because we are free to starve to death amidst abundance. This form of social organiztion has not existed for all time and need not exist in the future. The first step in eliminating it is accepting this simple idea....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 11:36am PST
The meaning of the New York City transit strike Here's the best analysis I've seen so far of the recent New York City transit strike; one that doesn't buy into the usual leftist gibberish about unions being organizations of working class power against bosses and exploitation. Someone posted this on the thread of otherwise mostly juvenile and unintelligent comments in response to "Train in Vain, Part Four," my ongoing analysis of the recent failed San Francisco MUNI fare strike....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 8:19pm PST
Dawn-to-dusk curfew turns Kathmandu into ghost city The Nepalese capital was locked down yesterday in a dawn-to-dusk curfew. The streets of Kathmandu were deserted, except for the 15,000 police and soldiers who were deployed to enforce the curfew. Armoured personnel carriers mounted with machine guns were stationed across the city....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:08pm PST
The sixth World Social Forum Coverage of the Sixth World Social Forum (Caracas) - vision, critique, alternatives from a Muslim activist view point....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 11:05am PST
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