Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
321 of 349 
Washington DC IMF / World Bank Protest Updates WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators banged pots and pans, blew whistles and beat drums on Saturday in a Latin American-style protest of World Bank and IMF policies in poor countries....
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2004 1:37pm PDT
Activists Say to World Bank & UN--NO GE TREES 
International Activists Denounce Genetically Engineered Trees, World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund and Call on U.N. to Reverse Pro-GE Trees Decision...
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2004 12:07am PDT
Italy: End of the Marini Trial Against Anarchists On April 20th, 2004, the third and final degree of the Marini trial ended by confirming the sentences of the accused anarchists. Besides those already in prison, Angela Maria (Marina) Lo Vecchio, Alfredo Bonanno, Orlando Campo, and Carlo Tesseri have now been arrested and are in various jails across Italy....
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 1:17pm PDT
Columbia - Family of Coke worker machine gunned A Colombian death squad struck at the family of a Coca-Cola union leader, killing two and wounding three kids....
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 12:29pm PDT
World Bank/IMF Protest The World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting is happening in D.C. this weekend (4/23/04-4/26/04). A fast in solidarity with anti-dam struggles will take place outside the World Bank office. Please send letters or faxes to World Bank officials urging them to meet with protesters outside. Visit the website http://www.aidindia.org/wbfast/ for more info....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 11:13pm PDT
Saudi dissidents: 'Regime' is cracking Leading Saudi dissidents have said the latest attack in the kingdom's capital is an indication of the government's failure to adequately address calls for reform....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:01pm PDT
Contra-Cumbre: Otro Mayo Guadalajara El 28 y 29 de Mayo de 2004 la ciudad de Guadalajara, en México, será sede de la Tercera Cumbre América Latina y el Caribe - Unión Europea, en la cuál se discutirá -- al margen de las personas -- acerca de la
cohesión social, la gobernabilidad y los acuerdos comerciales. Este tipo
de cumbres, se han realizado en muchas ocasiones, generando distintos mecanismos para fomentar y mantener la desigualdad social, económica, de género y cultural entre otras muchas. Por eso nosotros queremos otro ma...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 12:08pm PDT
Bolivia: (en/es) The government is losing control The government of President Carlos Mesa has begun to lose what little control it had over the political and social situation in Bolivia....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:16am PDT
John Dimitri Negroponte: From Man Behind Central American Death Squads To Emperor Of Iraq 
1981-1985 US ambassador to Honduras ... 2001-2004 US ambassador to the United Nations ...2004-US ambassador to Iraq (and replacement to Paul Bremer as American in charge of US actions in the country)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 12:49pm PDT
Mobilization for Global Justice Update on this week's mobilization In this update:
-April 24th Scenario Plans
-Welcome Center
-HTML: Housing, Transport, Medical & Logistics
-Volunteering & Donating
-Friday, Sunday, etc....
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 7:55pm PDT
miami n20 afternoon preview (video/quicktime 46.1MB) n20 afternoon preview for miami FTAA model...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:52pm PDT
Stop Union Busting in Haiti "The company pays for this type of thing, to destroy the unions. There’s a group of 20 people in the free trade zone who are paid to prevent the formation of any unions." - (IFCTU Report, disclosed by Charles Arthur, of the Haiti Support Group, September 2003)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Clashes between pro-democracy protesters and Police in Kathmandu 
Clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and the King’s police continue in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu today. (April 11th)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 12:18pm PDT
4/13 Conference Call to Plan IMF/WB Actions This is a call for local and out-of-town activists to facilitate planning
for direct action on Friday, April 23 protesting the World Bank and IMF
(calendar of days of action here below). The intention is to share
information on who is interested in participating and to agree on a time
and place for a physical meeting (proposed date is this coming Sunday)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 10:16am PDT
Comments on US-Morocco FTA The US-Morocco deal tracks almost all of the harmful language of CAFTA.
It also includes a prohibition on drug reimportation which would
directly conflict with efforts in the US Congress to legalize
"reimportation" of drugs from Canada....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 10:13am PDT
321 of 349