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WNU #1020: Mexican Electrical Workers Start Sit-In The march’s title was “Build Unity Among Those Below.” At the conclusion, SME general secretary Martín Esparza Flores announced that the electrical workers were starting an encampment in the Zócalo as an open-ended protest to press their fight against the layoffs....
Posted: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 9:17pm PST
Cuba Caravan Report Back and Slideshow 
Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway
SC, CA 95060...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 7:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 7:55pm PST
Honduras’ Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo: Another Disaster for Central American Democracy Waiting in 
Newly installed President of the de facto coup regime, Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo
"The Obama Administration has so profoundly bungled the situation in Honduras that it has destroyed hope among many of its citizens as well as Latin Americans that a ‘new era’ of relations with the United States is in the making."...
Posted: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 10:30am PST
U.S. citizens arrested for asking Oaxaca governor about Brad Will's murder Three U.S. tourists and one Uruguayan citizen were arrested in Oaxaca City on Thursday January 28 after approaching Ulises Ruiz in the city's zocalo and asking him about the murder of Indymedia activist Brad Will....
Posted: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 12:35am PST
Mexican Electrical Workers Report On Union Busting & Privatization Of Their Union At SFLC 
On 1/25/2010 at the San Francisco Labor Council a report was made by Jose' Montes de Oca Luna of the Sindicator Mexicano de Electricistas SME union about the union busting and privatization against their union in Mexico....
Posted: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 7:23pm PST
Zelaya to Leave Honduras as Coup Leaders Cleared Wednesday, January 27, 2010 :In Honduras, ousted president Manuel Zelaya is due to leave the country today after President-elect Porfirio Lobo is sworn into office. Zelaya has taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since returning to Honduras in September. On Tuesday, the Honduran Supreme Court dismissed all charges against six military commanders involved in the June 28th coup that removed Zelaya from office. We go inside the Brazilian embassy to speak with Democracy Now!'s And...
Posted: Wed, Jan 27, 2010 5:18pm PST
Film sceening: City of Favelas The Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley CA. 94705...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 27, 2010 4:48pm PST
Protesters Slam Haiti Relief Effort: “The Aid Is Not Getting Through” 
Pierre LaBossiere speaking at rally on Market Street on January 25, 2010.
Photo: Jonathan Nack...
Posted: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 11:20pm PST
Cuba Caravans Santa Cruz fundraiser U U Fellowship
6401 Freedom Blvd, Aptos, CA...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 12, 2010 7:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 3:33pm PST
When the Mountains Tremble Friday night at Groundwork Books Friday night at 6 will be a screening of the documentary When the Mountains Tremble. Shot during the Guatemalan war against its native peoples.
Groundwork Books, UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA
(Off Gilman Dr. at Eucalyptus Grove Ln.)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 11:17pm PST
The Voices of Participatory Democracy in Venezuela --A review of Venezuela Speaks! (video/x-ms-wmv 87.2MB) Oakland publisher PM Press has just released the new book entitled "Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots." This review was published today at www.UpsideDownWorld.org and the video interview with co-author and Bay Area activist Carlos Martinez was conducted in the East Bay on January 15....
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 8:42pm PST
Human rights in Brazil (by Latuff) 
Copyleft cartoons by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 9:36am PST
Latest developments in the 2006 murder of journalist Brad Will (audio/mpeg 12.2MB) A Mexican judge has once again called for the release of human rights activist Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno. Moreno was charged with the murder of Indymedia journalist Brad Will in 2006, despite the fact that there was no evidence against him. On Friday, a Mexican judge recognized this lack of evidence, and ordered Moreno’s release within fifteen days....
Posted: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 12:22pm PST
The virtual currency of ALBA, the SUCRE, will cost $1.25 USD This is an English translation of an article published on the internet by Agencia EFE on January 13, 2010. The article notes that the newly established ¨virtual currency¨ in Latin America known as the SUCRE, or Unitary System for the Regional Compensation of Payments, will be utilized for the first time later this week for the sale of Venezuelan rice to Cuba - both members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) trading group. The value of the SUCRE has been set at the equival...
Posted: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 7:05pm PST
Relatos Zapatistas Radio Show January 3rd (audio/mpeg 107.9MB) This radio show consist of updates and political analysis of the resistance to the neoliberalism in Chiapas Mexico and around the world. The show also broadcasts a short documentary by the RealNews about the recent coup/election in Honduras. Following the documentary there is a live interview about Evo Morales and the recent Bolivian elections. The show continues the them of elections with a short reading of a Zapatista communique by the infamous Don Durrito about the party/state system in me...
Posted: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 9:37pm PST
Sacramento Peace & Justice Calendar: Dave Lippman 1/9, Cynthia McKinney 1/10 Don't miss all of these great and interesting events coming up, including Dave Lippman's performance in Davis on January 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Cynthia McKinney on Sunday at 6 pm in Sacramento....
Posted: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 6:08pm PST
Wind industry takes over Zapotecan lands (video/mp4 62.2MB) Wind power projects on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico harm land of Zapotecan farmers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 1:55pm PST
Lo Vimos, Lo Vivimos. Narraciones en Movimiento, Oaxaca 2006 
Narraciones en movimiento, Oaxaca 2006....
Posted: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 12:11am PST
WNU #1019: Uphold 25-Year Jail Term for Peru’s Fujimori Meanwhile, US activist Lori Berenson, arrested by Fujimori’s government in 1995, continues to serve a 20-year sentence for allegedly collaborating with the rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)....
Posted: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 9:53pm PST
Radio Ñomndaa celebrates its Fifth Anniversary The Word of the Water flows in music, solidarity ties and new proposals....
Posted: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 11:01pm PST
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