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BUSH RESIGNS! Satire: What if the Haiti scenario were turned around?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 10:46am PST
International Women's Day interview with Claire Robillard Every year, women around the world gather to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8. The occasion provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress made towards equality and justice for women, and to demand change in the struggle against sexism and patriarchy. Claire Robillard has helped organise International Women's Day events since she moved to Vancouver in 1994. Last week, Seven Oaks spoke to Robillard about the role of IWD and the women's movement in the context of severe cutbac...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 10:18am PST
Transcript of Democracy Now's Interview with Aristide At approximately 7:20 am EST, Democracy Now! managed to reach exiled Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by cell phone in the Central African
Republic. His comments represent the most extensive English-language interview
Aristide has given since he was removed from office and his country....
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 9:56am PST
Articles and NOTES on President Aristide's press conference today The following are first notes I received from two different people in the
United States followed by two articles:
Aristide Says He Remains Haiti's Leader
Aristide Calls for Peaceful Resistance...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 9:37am PST
Bush Regime Ousts Democracy in Haiti This article from The Guardian is the best analysis of the U.S. coup in Haiti that I've heard yet. I encourage everybody to read it - it's quite short....
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:05am PST
Twilight Zone, Fighting the Fence Israelis kill more protesters....
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 12:09am PST
Haiti- Audio Interview with Pierre La Boissier of Haiti Action Comm. Pierre La Boissiere, himself Haitian and an activist for many years in the U.S., speaks about the present situation in Haiti. The first part of the interview is part of a speech he gave at a rally in San Francisco on March 1, 2004, and the second part is an interview with Sue Supriano. He gives some background with regard to the past U.S. involvement in Haiti and the track record of democratically elected, President Aristide. He had just translated Aristide's phone message to the Haitian peop...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:23pm PST
Hans Blix: Bush and Blair behaved as if they were on a 'witch hunt' over Iraqi weapons The Monday Interview: Retired Chief UN Weapons Inspector
By Anne Penketh in Stockholm...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:06pm PST
Scientist 'gagged' by No 10 after warning of global warming threat Downing Street tried to muzzle the Government's top scientific adviser after he warned that global warming was a more serious threat than international terrorism....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:05pm PST
Aristide Kidnapping: Petition Seeks International Investigation New petition seeks International Court of Justice investigation into the kidnapping of President Aristide and the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Haiti....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 9:58pm PST
Four Haitians and Spanish journalist die in anti-Aristide protests Five people were killed and more than thirty were injured as thousands of Haitians demonstrated against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the ousted president, in Port-au-Prince yesterday....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 9:06pm PST
HAITI ACTION ALERT: Aristide Under Lock & Key, U.S. Delegation Says "We were stopped at the gates by a guard who contacted a Central African Republic official inside the building. A representative of the Central African Republic came out to speak with us," Ives reported. "We asked to go in to visit President Aristide and were told we could not. We asked if he could come out to see us, and we were told no. We asked if we could send in a note or our phone number, and we were told no. The official then told us that he had spoken with the Minister ...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 1:02pm PST
Stop CAFTA, Stop the FTAA! In the face of growing opposition from developing countries in
multinational forums such as CAFTA and the FTAA, the Bush administration is now turning to an
emphasis on bilateral trade deals in an effort to bully our smaller Central
American trade partners into accepting painful concessions on trade....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 12:17pm PST
U.S. and France Kiss and Make Up, Haitian Democracy Dies Leave it to the New York Times to turn the bloody overthrow of a democratically elected President into a veritable love story. In an article published on March 3 entitled "U.S. and France Set Aside Differences in Effort to Resolve Haiti Conflict" the newspaper of record reported that "the joint diplomacy over Haiti is a dramatic example of how the longtime allies can set aside differences, find common ground, play to their strengths and even operate in an atmosphere of trust.&q...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:47am PST
HAITI: Washington was behind `coup’ says Aristide “The Haitian constitution is working”, US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped and spirited away. But what Bush meant was that the Haitian constitution is now working to the benefit of Washington's elite....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:45am PST
Haiti: Washington's Tar Baby Aristide is not the first Haitian leader to have been kidnapped by the US. In 1915, they arrested and exiled (to Jamaica) Dr Rosalvo Bobo, who was not only a noted physician but also the leader of the Haitian majority party, and was scheduled to be formally elected as president by the Haitian Parliament....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:43am PST
Before fall of Aristide, Haiti hit by aid cutoff WASHINGTON -- For three years, the US government, the European Union, and international banks have blocked $500 million in aid to Haiti's government, ravaging the economy of a nation already twice as poor as any in the Western Hemisphere....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:41am PST
Revealed: Shocking new evidence of the dangers of GM crops Genetically modified strains have contaminated two-thirds of all crops in US...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:11am PST
National Conference of Black Lawyers Blasts Kidnapping of Aristide NCBL stands firmly in support of President Aristide, and we offer our full support to those courageous members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others who have dared to defy the U.S. political establishment and expose the lies of the Bush Administration and its lackeys in the corporate mass media....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:08am PST
3/6 AHP News on Haiti Guy Philippe’s rebels are still armed; supporters of the platform and Lavalas
supporters are getting ready to demonstrate...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:03am PST
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