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Update: Massacre in Tlalnepantla
This is an update from Greg in Tlalnepantla...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 10:08am PST
Human Rights are not Abstract
"Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes warned that the idea of freedom could atrophe to neoliberal liberation from social respnsibility and freedom rights could have only trade, investments and capital transactions as their object.."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 6:12am PST
Mexico: Armed Riot Police Storm Tlalnepantla, Morelos
The town of Tlalnepantla, Morelos, Mexico faces brutal repression as it declares itself autonomous....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 9:17pm PST
Mexico Case Study Complete: Poor women worse off after NAFTA
The case study provides, for the first time, an accurate and quantifiable picture of how NAFTA affected women differently from men, and shows that the negative consequences of trade agreements often have an even greater impact on poor women....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 12:00pm PST
Day One at the World Social Forum in India
Over one-hundred and twenty thousand delegates
of the "world's second superpower" converged today at this historic international gathering of those who believe that the current rules of
economic globalization are creating a future of war, inequality and environmental degradation and that “a better world is possible.”...
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 11:58am PST
Wal-Mart destroying your neighbourhood
Wal-Mart coming to a neighbourhood near you to
spread the disease....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 8:50am PST
100,000 In Bombay For 2004 World Social Forum
As the World Social Forum kicks off in India, Democracy Now goes to Bombay to speak with an independent reporter about the international movement against globalization....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:45am PST
VIDEO from WSF (video/mpeg 5.4MB)
Video montage of music and dancing from the WSF...
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 3:22am PST
SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS — Behind the handshakes lies resistance
George W. Bush’s handlers tried to prepare a soft-landing for him during his Jan. 12-13 trip to Monterrey, Mexico, but they failed. The announcement of a new immigration proposal was mainly geared for the 2004 elections, but the timing of the announcement was planned to smooth over rough relations between the U.S. and Latin America, in particular with the host of the Special Summit of the Americas, Mexican President Vicente Fox....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 4:10pm PST
1/14/2004: Haitian military officer linked to human rights violations arrested in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former Haitian military officer linked to human rights violations in his homeland was arrested Wednesday and will be deported, federal officials said Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 10:22am PST
Who Selected the Electable Six?
With all of the lies now exposed, we cannot forget that the Corporate Media helped push the lies and sell the war. Bushinc couldn't of had this war of conquest without the assistance of the $$ media. Sometimes it's outright lies, but more often it's the buried stories that create the 'lack of understanding leading us away from unity'....
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 11:26pm PST
Outsourcing Payback Time
A discussion of the problem of outsourcing. Provides ethical, practical suggestions on how to deal with the Corporados....
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 9:52pm PST
Indymedia Video Introduction of the World Social Forum (video/mpeg 1.9MB)
First Video from Indymedia at the WSF in Mumbai India...
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 9:12pm PST
Reporte de la movilización en Monterrey
Boletín de prensa. Monterrey, México, 12 de enero 2004. Miles de policías parar acallar la voz de la conciencia, es así como el gobierno asegura el capital pese a l saber de los pueblos ¿si realmente es bueno lo que hacen, por qué necesitan tanta policía, tanta potencial represión?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 11:55am PST
The price of globalization
In a shrinking world, wages seek the lowest level...
Posted: Mon, Jan 12, 2004 7:13pm PST
Haiti, mother of liberty
While the world?s major news media minimize Haitians? support for their government, this picture tells the truth: A sea of Haitians came out New Year?s Day to celebrate their bicentennial and the leadership of President Aristide....
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 12:59pm PST
Honor Haiti, Honor Ourselves
Part I: Jan. 1, 1804 ? Jan. 1, 2004
This day is sacred.
It is the 200th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution.
Fought by Haitians.
Won for us all....
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 12:57pm PST
9 People Hurt in Haiti Student Protests
Students took to the streets last week as part of an alleged movement to remove Haiti's Pres. Aristide from power....
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 12:52pm PST