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Oakland File Screening "Five Factories: Workers Control in Venezuela" Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
http://www.HumanistHall.net...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 7:09pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 1:16am PDT
Teachers and Children Massacred By State Police In Oaxaca, Mexico 
I'm writing about the situation in Oaxaca. As I write, the capital city is under siege. At approximately 5AM this morning the state police attacked the teachers occupation of the city center. Though reports are sketchy, it seems that three teachers have been killed, as well as a young girl. [LATEST FIGURE IS 8 ADULTS AND THREE CHILDREN -- SJ.]
The teachers have taken three or four police hostage. A raging battle is underway to control the zocalo, the center of life in Oaxaca, and the heart...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 8:23am PDT
Death Squads at Colombia Universities Professors, Librarians, Staff, Students and Pensioners Threatened at University of Antioquia...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 6:41am PDT
Free Trade Protests in Peru & Costa Rica, Break-ins in Guatemala On June 8, Peruvian campesinos held a day of protest against the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known in the region as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC) which Peru's government signed with the US last December....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 4:30pm PDT
Sacramento: Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Southside Cohousing Common House, 434 T Street, Sacramento...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 3:39pm PDT
Mexican Police Accused of Killing 11 Striking Teachers in Oaxaca Thousands of state security forces have raided the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca to break up a peaceful teachers strike. Witnesses say eleven people were killed, including two children. The state government denies the allegations. We speak to a teacher taking part in the strike....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 7:26am PDT
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Arrives in Sacramento on June 24 Let's give the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan a warm welcome when they arrive in Sacramento on June 24....
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 9:26am PDT
Berkeley: Send-Off For The 17th U.S.-Cuba Pastors For Peace Friendshipment Caravan Berkeley Fellowship Of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar (at Bonita), Berkeley CA...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 8:03pm PDT
Bush Administration Blasts Chavez, Positive Results Be Damned Venezuela Holds the Line on Drug Trafficking...
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 6:29pm PDT
The Ominous Shadow of 1988 Hovers Over this July’s Mexican Presidential Election With 20 Days to Go before the Vote, the Spectre of Electoral Fraud - and Subsequent Repression - Haunts a Nation...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:54pm PDT
Stand-off Continues as Oaxaca Teachers Strike enters Fourth Week Teachers Soliciting Signatures to Impeach Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz in a Struggle Between Civil Society and the PRI...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:41pm PDT
INDIGENAS: LA INSURRECION DE LA HISTORIA EL NUEVO PROTAGONISMO EN EL CONTINENTE...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 7:54am PDT
Anti-Government Strikes Sweep Through Mexican Mines Mexican President Vicente Fox's refusal to recognize the leader of the country's miners' union has sparked strikes and demonstrations across Mexico. David Bacon is an associate editor at New America Media and author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004)....
Posted: Sat, Jun 10, 2006 5:33pm PDT
Fallece estudiante herido en la represión de Atenco, México Esta madrugada falleció el estudiante universitario de 20 años Alexis Benhumea, quien por un mes estuvo en estado de coma, tras ser herido por la policía el pasado 4 de mayo durante el asalto a San Salvador Atenco, México...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:35pm PDT
World Bank: Venezuela decreased poverty 
World Bank says poverty decreasing in Venezuela...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 10:52am PDT
New Video Available for Download: "Atenco: Breaking the Siege" A new, outstanding documentary on the May 3 and 4 Atenco incidents
has been released by our friends at Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios:
"Atenco: Romper el Cero," or "Atenco: Breaking the Siege."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 10:52am PDT
Noam Chomsky on Latin America's Move Towards "Independence and Integration" Noam Chomsky - the renowned linguist and political analyst - was in New York Monday where he gave a press conference at the United Nations. Democracy Now! was there to capture Chomsky's two-hour exchange with reporters. We play an excerpt of the press conference where Chomsky talks about the current political climate in Latin America....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:40am PDT
Vicente Fox uses police to threaten Oaxacan schoolteachers on strike Vicente Fox threatens over 70,000 public schoolteachers in Oaxaca with police repression following a 12 day strike, walkout and encampment in Oaxaca City. Once again V. Fox fulfills his nickname of imperialist lapdog by using the Mexican military to silence worker's dissent.....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:04pm PDT
Protesters Arrested After Disrupting Negroponte in Vermont 
Michael Colby (center) arrested after disrupting John Negroponte. Pictured on right is St. Johnsbury Police Chief Rich Leighton. Colby is from Horse Loggers for Peace.
Photo: Langelle/Global Justice Ecology Project...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 8:40pm PDT
Peruvians elect Garcia president With most of the votes counted in the second round of Peru's election, it has become clear that ex-president Alan Garcia has won a convincing victory....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 11:23am PDT
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