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10 Years After the Arrest of U.S. Citizen Lori Berenson in Peru.. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the arrest of U.S. citizen Lori Berenson in Peru. She was convicted in 1995 in Peru by hooded military judges of collaborating with the rebel group MRTA. After 10 years in prison, her father, Mark Berenson, reads a statement Lori released from her cell. She is scheduled to be released in 2015....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 7:28am PST
Venezulea delivers subsidized heating oil for thousands of Massachusetts residents In a resounding gesture of humanitarian internationalism, CITGO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, began shipping 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil for 45,000 low-income families’ and local social service organizations in Massachusetts the week of Nov. 27....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:53am PST
Video: "Del dolor, su brillo: Homenaje a Filiberto" Filiberto Ojeda Ríos fue un valiente líder del movimiento independentista puertorriqueño que fue asesinado por el FBI el 23 de septiembre de 2005, cuando recibió un disparo de un francotirador. Filiberto murió desangrado, después de transcurridas varias horas del disparo y sin haber recibido ningún tipo de atención médica....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 4:24pm PST
Video: "Glaring Pain: A Tribute to Filiberto" Filiberto Ojeda Rios was a courageous leader of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement who was assassinated by the FBI on September 23rd, 2005. He was shot by a sniper and left for several hours to bleed to death....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 4:16pm PST
Tu 11/29 San Rafael: Matt Gonzalez hosts "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"/discussion Matt Gonzalez chairs discussion about the 2002 Venezuelan coup after the movie The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is shown...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 4:36pm PST
Blacks in SOUTH AMERICA Brazil's large black population gets TV channel,
with help from Africa.
Argentina's tiny black population struggles
to be seen as Argentine....
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 10:02am PST
What Really Happened at Mar del Plata What an absolute load of manure the WSJ puts out. Straight from the sewers of Foggy Bottom.
The funny thing is that for all their millions of column inches, the pig press can't bring itself to report the truth, which is that it was Vincente Fox that started this food fight....
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 11:17pm PST
Zapatistas: Intergalactic encounter The Zapatistas from Chiapas, Mexico, announce their plans for a intergalactic encounter “from below and from the left”. Intergalactic because they struggle for “a world in which all worlds can fit”....
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 8:52am PST
BTL:Challenges to U.S. Cuba Travel Ban Derailed in Senate Interview with Mavis Anderson, Latin America Working Group, conducted by Between the Lines' Denise Manzari...
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 5:41am PST
Peruvians demand extradition of ex-president Fujimori Thousands of angry workers, students and human rights advocates marched in Lima last week demanding the extradition of former president Alberto Fujimori from Chile. If returned to Perú, Fujimori would face trial on 22 criminal charges of corruption and human rights abuses. The charges carry sentences of up to 30 years in jail and $29 million in fines....
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 9:14pm PST
Azeri Officials Slam Schwarzenegger BAKU, November 22--(AssA-Irada) The Azeri ambassador to the United States has severely criticized California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after the town of Montebello became a sister city of Khankandi, the center of the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh republic....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 9:30pm PST
Venezuela gives US cheap oil deal Officials from Venezuela and Massachusetts have signed a deal providing cheap heating oil to low-income homes in the US state...
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 7:19pm PST
Peace Community Leader Murdered by Army On Thursday,
November 17, 2005, troops commanded by General Luis Alfonso Zapata Uribe*
attacked and killed Arlen Salas David, a leader of the peace community...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 10:48pm PST
Close the School of Assassins! Nov. 19: Thousands Rally at the Gates of Fort Benning, GeorgiaNov. 20: Funeral Procession and Nonviolent Direct Action
Arlen Salas David - Presente!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 11:09am PST
Ecuador Mobilizes Against Free Trade Agreement For the last two days, in various points across Ecuador, the social movements and organizations have been, once again, on the warpath. The enemy, always the same at heart, today bears the name Free Trade Agreement. The Ecuadorians have decided to wage a frontal battle against that kind of “accord,” with which the United States hopes to take possession of the riches of our América. Or as the manifesto that we received from the nucleus of the new Ecuadorian mobilization says: “The model that th...
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 9:30am PST
Colombian Military Attacks Campesinos NORTHEASTERN ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA: “Here in the region we are living with the severe violence of the military and the paramilitaries,” stated a peasant-farmer who did not wish to give his name. He continued, “At the moment we are being harassed by the military battalion ‘Demolisher Platoon No.1, Calibio Battalion of the 14th Brigade’, which is under the command of Sergeants Setina and Blanquiceth. The Battalion members present themselves as official military and then the next minute they chang...
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 9:29am PST
Thousands to Rally to Demand - Closure of Controversial US Army Training School Mass Convergence at Fort Benning, Georgia
November 19-20 to Close School of the Americas...
Posted: Fri, Nov 18, 2005 11:27am PST
New Zapatista “Caracol” Created in Mexico As first-time Narco News correspondent Juan
Trujillo Limones reports from Mexico City, a new "caracol," or
Zapatista base community, has been declared in the historic
southeastern Xochimilco area of that sprawling megalopolis....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 11:07pm PST
Anarchists and the Caracas ASF/January 2006 * The Venezuelan anarchist movement invites you to participate in the Alternative Social Forum at Caracas in January 2006, a gathering of anti-establishment social movements, in response to the bureaucratic World Social Forum promoted by the Venezuelan government....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 5:10pm PST
Nov.18-20 Highlights and Schedule of Events 1) SOA Watch Benefit Concerts
2) What you need to cross the line
3) Full Schedule of Events
4) Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) Get-Together...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 4:00pm PST
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