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Andreia Borges Ferreira, of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST), is coming to Watsonville, CA on Friday, March 10th. The MST is the largest social movement in Latin America, with an estimated 2 million members organized in 23 of Brazil’s 27 states. Since 1985, the MST has peacefully occupied and won title to unused land for over 300,000 landless families. On these lands, the MST has established cooperative farms, constructed houses, schools, and health clinics, and promoted gender equali...

Please see below, and sign, this petition from Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch on the scandal unfolding around the selling of US ports to foreign corporations. As John Nichols of The Nation writes below, the problem with the Ports situation “is not that the corporation in question is Arab-owned. The problem is that Dubai Ports World is a corporation.”...

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The task facing the US and world working class is to halt and throw back the capitalist offensive and to open up a new working class offensive of our own....

Several dozen demonstrators were arrested, mostly social movement activists and civil society leaders including Ronald Llamas, president of AKBAYAN and Professor Randy David, a well-known academic and vocal critique of the Arroyo government....

Iran oil bourse changes to Euros in March. Hopefully not gettin bombed by US in retalliation, as Iraq was, as Venezuela suffered 2 US coups for same......

On the 20th anniversary of People Power and the ouster of Marcos, a State of Emergency/Martial Law has been declared in the Philippines. All rallies are banned. Email and texting curtailed. Massive rallies are going on being met with violent dispersal by Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. Disparate forces from the mass movement to former President Cory Aquino are calling for the president's ouster....

Republican Congressmember Joe Barton of Texas has launched an investigation into one of the world’s major oil companies - Citgo. The Venezuelan-owned company announced a discounted gas program for poor Americans last year. We’ll speak with Democratic New York Congressman Jose Serrano, one of the few members of Congress promoting this effort....

Screenings in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Oakland. Austin Indymedia (ATXIMC) has been traveling back and forth to communities of unarmed indigenous people in Oaxaca, Mexico for the last 5 years (on and off), and in that time ATXIMC has contributed to release of 21 political prisoners, and helped spearhead three Amnesty International Campaigns. The most recent Amnesty Campaign has resulted in 39 community members being able to return home after being displaced by a paramilitary attack....

Finally, after years of debate, most mainstream scientists agree that the era of Peak Oil is indeed upon us, meaning that the high point of world oil production will soon--if indeed it hasn't been reached already--decline, perhaps even precipitously. Yet, mainstream scholars & pundits have not come to the same conclusion in regards to the increasingly desperate & barbaric U.S. Empire......