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A U.S.-funded biopiracy project in Chiapas has been 'definitively terminated'. Popular resistance by indigenous communities, supported by international criticism, led to its cancellation when ECOSUR, the School of the Southern Frontier, discontinued its collaboration with the University of Georgia team of anthropologists. The announcement, 1.) in Spanish, is first, followed by 2.) my translation into English....
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2001 9:44pm PST
Details on two opportunities to speak with the Cuban delegates (please pass this along to others who might wish to help make them feel welcome):...
Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2001 2:00pm PST
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, Dec 3, 2001: (audio link in full text below)
-Interview w fem Palestinian resident victim of Israeli shelling (7 min)
-Noelle talks to Amira Hass, of Jerusalem's Ha'aretz newspaper (5 min)
-About the upcoming Tear Down the Walls Conference in Havana (3 min)
-Walter Turner interview with political refugee Assata Shakur in Cuba (27 min)
-Noelle Hanrahan with the Pacifica Watch segment; Carol Spooner reports (7 min)...
Posted: Mon, Dec 3, 2001 11:59pm PST
narconews.com is a critical indy news site. there is history being made in bolivia and corporate media is completely ignoring it....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2001 2:16am PST
Analysis of the recent presidential elections in Nicaragua. The negative campaign waged against the Sandinistas was much more cleverly planned than was at first apparent....
Posted: Mon, Nov 12, 2001 10:40am PST
Has anyone noticed how many right-wingers have been elected lately, and how much election fraud that has gone along with it?...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2001 2:58am PST
Robert Rabin is with the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques. He spoke with Between The Lines' Denise Manzari about his group's determination and strategy to end the 60-year U.S. military presence on Vieques(A RealAudio Version of this interview may be found At http://www.btlonline.org)....
Posted: Sun, Sep 2, 2001 4:03am PDT
Published on Friday, August 24, 2001 in the Miami Herald. Sandra Alvarez, a Colombian American, is the Colombia Human Rights Program coordinator at Global Exchange in San Francisco.
http://www.globalexchange.org...
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2001 8:16pm PDT
Art Heitzer is an attorney in Milwaukee and is the chairman of the Cuba subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild. He spoke about what he feels the Bush administration's motive for its Cuba travel crackdown and what recipients should do if they receive a letter from the Office of Foreign Assets Control....
Posted: Sun, Aug 19, 2001 4:51am PDT
The latest news and analysis of the workers' uprisings in Argentina's northern provinces from a New Zealand Solidarity group....
Posted: Mon, Aug 13, 2001 9:25am PDT
KPFA Flashpoints Radio August 2, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Explosive Bombing, Protests resume today on Vieques (5 min)
- Iraqi sanctions update (11 min)
- Indonesian atrocities continue w US help (23 min)
- Militarism and Social Justice Conference at the SF Presidio this weekend (14 min)...
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2001 12:58am PDT
Rev. Lucius Walker is founder of Pastors for Peace and he spoke with Between The Lines' Denise Manzari about how this product could benefit the poor in the U.S., and his decades long struggle to end the American blockade against Cuba (A RealAudio Version of this interview may be found At http://www.btlonline.org)....
Posted: Sun, Jul 22, 2001 4:55am PDT
solidarity demo in buenos aires...
Posted: Sat, Jul 21, 2001 5:17am PDT
How Coca-Cola and other members of the corporate state really rule. If buying politicians doesn't work, then call in the Genoa paramilitaries....
Posted: Fri, Jul 20, 2001 7:53pm PDT
Judy Robbins is with the group "Let Cuba Live." She spoke with Between The Lines' Denise Manzari about the seizure, and how her group is still determined to deliver the medical aid to Cuba (A RealAudio Version of this interview may be found At http://www.btlonline.org)....
Posted: Sun, Jul 15, 2001 6:33am PDT
Washington tolerates atrocities against civilians by neo-Nazi AUC forces, long-known by the CIA as drug traffikers linked to the Colombian Army. In a replay of history, U.S. warmongers push for expansion of Plan Colombia, the biggest U.S. backed, dirty covert military operation since Vietnam....
Posted: Sun, Jul 15, 2001 1:51am PDT
Debt is a tool of social control that is being resisted in Bolivia....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2001 12:25pm PDT
Larry Burns is the director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He spoke with Between The Lines' Denise Manzari about the relationship between the U.S. and Vladimiro Montesinos and the role that relationship may have played in the conviction and imprisonment of U.S. citizen Lori Berenson....
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2001 7:10am PDT