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Thu 6/30: Film: "Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War"
Thursday June 30th at 7 pm - Film and Discussion: "Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War" - A documentary film that examines the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization. New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 5:26pm PDT
Protest against poverty: Couple set themselves on fire at Chile’s presidential palace
An unemployed man and his wife set themselves on fire in front of Chile’s La Moneda presidential palace Thursday to protest their impoverished condition and the government’s failure to provide them with adequate assistance....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 4:49am PDT
Education gets huge boost in Venezuela
Revolution, suggests radical educator Paulo Freire, is “the ultimate teacher … giving first place to the indispensable role of education in the process of forming the New Woman and the New Man.” Although Freire wrote these words almost 30 years ago, in his preface to Jonathan Kozol’s book “Children of the Revolution,” he could have been writing about Venezuela today....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 5:13am PDT
Colombia troops killed in ambush
At least 25 Colombian troops have been killed and 19 are missing after two devastating attacks by Marxist rebels....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 5:11am PDT
"Falluja:2004" Airs on Ch. 29 Sat. 6:30 pm
"Falluja: April, 2004" will air on public access Cable Channel 29 in San Francisco this Saturday
night at 6:30 p.m. Produced by Japanese journalist Toshikuni DOI, this 55-minute documentary details
the aftermath of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Falluja, Iraq, in April, 2004....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 10:09am PDT
EZLN: A letter of explanation...or, perhaps, farewell
This is not a letter of farewell. At times it is going to seem as if it is, that it is a farewell, but it is not. It is a letter of explanation. Well, that is what we shall attempt. This was originally going to go out as a communiqué, but we have chosen this form because, for good or for bad, when we have spoken with you we have almost always done so in this most personal tone....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 12:50am PDT
Move Heaven and Earth to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo
Move Heaven and Earth to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo
By Cde. Majdur Travail...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 10:56am PDT
Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas
The rapid-fire sequence of communiqués in recent days "from somewhere
in the
mountains of the Mexican southeast" by Subcomandante Marcos in the name
of
the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish
initials),
especially the Monday communiqué that announced that the indigenous
rebels
of Chiapas had called a "Red Alert," has placed various actors on all
sides
on tenterhooks....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:52am PDT
Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas
Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas
By Al Giordano
From The Narcosphere (Narco News)
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/22/124158/124...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 12:01pm PDT
MPP Demands RIM "Move Heaven and Earth" to Defend Chairman Gonzalo
By Cde. Majdur Travail
UNKNOWN, June 21 — (Al-Masakin) The Peru People’s Movement (MPP)—the generated organism of the Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso)—has recently released a communiqué which demands the member parties of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) and the supporters of the RIM, the PCP and Chairman Gonzalo “move heaven and earth” to defend the life of the greatest living Marxist of the face of the Earth—Chairman Gonzalo....
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 6:49pm PDT
Zapatistas: War in Chiapas likely to resume
Last Sunday, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has put her regular army and her militia on red alert. Dozens of members of autonomous regional zapatista governments, the Councils of Good Government, fled to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state. From now on they work in a clandestine and nomadic manner. The offices of the autonomous municipalities and regions have been closed. Members of civil society who are in Chiapas right now are urged to leave rebelious territory,...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 11:04am PDT
Zapatistas declare RED ALERT fearing military offensive
Zapatistas declare a RED ALERT!!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 5:10am PDT
EZLN: RED ALERT
Without mentioning the motives for the red alert, subcomandante Marcos from the EZLN delimits all individuals and organizations in support to the Maya insurgents from Chiapas from "any" of its future actions.......
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 6:51pm PDT
Colombian oil pipeline: 'My partner organised the protests. Six months later he was dead'
Jhon Morales and Fabiola Ochoa Vasquez were respected Colombian farmers making a prosperous living growing oranges, coconuts and avocados and tending to their 60 cows and 120 pigs....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:43am PDT
OAS stands up to U.S., supports Venezuela
“Madam Secretary, democracy cannot be imposed,” said Celso Amorim, Brazil’s foreign minister, in reply to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). “Latin America has its own identity,” he said. “It has recuperated its dignity — not to confront the United States, but to confront imperialist politics.”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:22am PDT
Venezuela demands US hand over CIA terrorist for trial
The Venezuelan government Wednesday filed extradition papers with the US State Department demanding that Luis Posada Carriles be handed over to stand trial for the 1976 terrorist bombing of a Cuban airliner in which 73 people lost their lives....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 10:12pm PDT
No Asylum for Luis Posada Carriles
Monday, June 13 was National Day of Action to demand the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela for trial. On this day, he went before an immigration judge for a hearing in El Paso, Texas. Demonstrations took place outside of his immigration hearing in El Paso, and in cities and towns across the U.S. and Canada, including San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 2:02pm PDT
Nuevo Laredo: Martial Law as Media Stunt in the Failed War on Drugs
The new police chief
of
the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo took office last Wednesday.
Nine
hours later he was gunned down....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 10:24am PDT
Chávez Hits Back: "Bush Is to Blame for Bolivian Crisis"
a strong response by the Venezuelan
president to the tantrum thrown last week by US Ambassador to the
Organization of American States (OAS) Roger Noriega, in which Noriega,
bombastically, blamed Chávez for the strife in Bolivia....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:32am PDT
Bolivia: Chronology of an Authentic Netwar
In case you blinked – because it all happened so fast – I’ve prepared
this
summary of the action-packed series of breaking news reports from Luis
Gómez
and our entire team in Bolivia, and the considerable helping hand lent
them
from diverse points in our América and around the world....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:30am PDT