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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 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...
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 9:47pm PDT
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
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
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
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
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
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
Translated by: Ito/
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
Audio from today's press conference on the 16th Annual Pastors For Peace Caravan to Cuba, which plans to break the blockade and deliver 150 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 1:20am PDT
Narco News continues to follow the new step in the Mexican Zapatista
Army of National Liberation's struggle for democracy, freedom, and
justice. Today, an English version of historian Neil Harvey's
insightful essay "Wagers and Risks in the Sixth Declaration of the
Lacondon Jungle," from the Mexican daily La Jornada, appears in The
Narco News Bulletin....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 3:50pm PDT
Interview with Ben Terrall of the Haiti Action Network on the current situation in Haiti...
Posted: Sun, Jul 17, 2005 8:14pm PDT
Medical Cannabis & Corrupt Police Officers along
Corrupt Postmaster and Postal Employee....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 7:09pm PDT
U.S. trying to nail Cuba for 200 years. Pastors for Peace visit Fresno. 2 minute video...
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 1:38pm PDT
Trucks, cars and buses headed to McAllen, Texas, July 2 as the 16th U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan got on its way. The caravan, which will travel along 14 routes through 130 cities, is carrying humanitarian supplies destined for the Cuban people. Such aid will no doubt be especially helpful this year in view of the damage wrought by Hurricane Dennis....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:29am PDT
First - The EZLN has now designated a committee from its
leadership in
order to take responsibility for everything having to do with
the work of
carrying forward the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona......
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 10:48am PDT
Alvaro Juárez, 64 years old, was assassinated on the night of July 8.
According to the Unity of Protection for Human Rights Defenders, he was
eating dinner with his wife at his house in San Benito Petén when heavily
armed men arrived at the door......
Posted: Wed, Jul 13, 2005 7:54am PDT
Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution...
Posted: Wed, Jul 6, 2005 9:58am PDT
And so this is our word as to what we are going to do and how we are going to do it. You will see whether you want to join....
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2005 1:30pm PDT