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Haiti council chooses Gerard Latortue as interim prime minister
A US-backed advisory council has chosen Gerard Latortue, a former United Nations official and business consultant, as Haiti's new prime minister....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 5:48pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Update
1. Aristide Lawyer Calls on U.S. to Probe 'Kidnapping
2. Aristide plans to sue US, France for kidnap -lawyer
3. [African Union says] 'removal' from Haiti 'unconstitutional'
4. Dr. Paul Farmer Ltr to Powell on right to healthcare/training
5. Noam Chomsky on Haiti - US-Haiti, An analysis NEW!
6. AHP News - March 8, 2004 - English translation (Unofficial)...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 5:07pm PST
Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Authoritarian Call for the "March in March" Sacto
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Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 12:16pm PST
Earth (First!) Day Modesto April 17th
Reclaim Earth Day for the Earth - Not Corporate Vendors! Various local community groups will be on hand to provide free food (FNB), show films, and generally create an autonomous zone....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 11:52am PST
3/8 Haiti News: Ira Kurzban Says Deposed Leader May Bring Criminal Charges Against US
Aristide Lawyer: Bush Getting Even In Haiti
Ira Kurzban Says Deposed Leader May Bring Criminal Charges Against US...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 10:51am PST
Haiti's Youth Fear The Return Of The Killers Of Street Children
Johnny (last name withheld for his safety), 18, is a former youth reporter with Radyo Timoun (Children's Radio) 90.9 FM in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This week rebels looted and burned it along with the Aristide Foundation For Democracy in which the station was located...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:21am PST
Jean Bertrand Aristide: Humanist or Despot?
The Jean Bertrand Aristide I know is markedly different from the one being portrayed in the media....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:08am PST
Haiti- Articles on: Toto Constant, Antoine Izmery, Cuban assistance, destroyed art
Articles on: Toto Constant, Antoine Izmery, Cuban assistance, destroyed art...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 12:08am PST
Haiti: The ouster of democracy
In Haiti, Washington confirmed a foreign policy that is driven by self-interest and delivered through force...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 4:39pm PST
Aristide calls for resistance after six killed in Haiti violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE : Exiled Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide called on his supporters to peacefully resist foreign occupation a day after gunmen opened fire on an opposition rally, killing at least six people, including a journalist, and wounding 34 more...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:38pm PST
A Shot Off the Bow: Haitian Democracy be Damned!
We have seen in Haiti what happens when a democracy goes against the interests and ideology of the Bush administration. For all their talk of democracy (the only surviving rationale for the war on Iraq), we now know what we ought to have known all along: America's support is contingent on cooperation in free trade policies; democracy be damned!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:28pm PST
South Africa Cannot Back the Removal of Aristide
Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has issued a statement, saying "the South African government joins Caricom leaders in expressing deep concern regarding developments and circumstances that led to the departure of a democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, from office ... The slow response of the UN Security Council to pleas for assistance by the government of Haiti ... remains a matter of serious concern ... SA stands ready to support all efforts by Caricom to hel...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:27pm PST
Aristide Plans to Sue U.S., France for Kidnap -Lawyer
PARIS (Reuters) - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide plans to sue the United States and France for allegedly kidnapping him, one of his lawyers said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:22pm PST
Transcript of Democracy Now's Interview with Aristide
At approximately 7:20 am EST, Democracy Now! managed to reach exiled Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by cell phone in the Central African
Republic. His comments represent the most extensive English-language interview
Aristide has given since he was removed from office and his country....
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 9:56am PST
California Safe Schools Announces Launch of 1-888-NOPOISON - Alternatives to Pesticides
California Safe Schools Executive Director, Robina Suwol Announces 1-888-NOPOISON-
LEARN MORE ABOUT ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:57pm PST
Sept: Globalization and the Env'tal Justice Movement:
Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement:
An ASLE/UAS Symposium
September 23-25, 2004, Tucson, AZ (Call for Papers by May 31)...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:39pm PST
GOVERNMENT DENIES UNIVERSITY DONATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Flash news: The University of Michigan has been denied the writings of Dr. Kaczynski per court decision. Dr. Kaczynski wrote the "Unabomber Manifesto" which described technology and social theories. His previously-written works were seized and are now embargoed by the government....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 9:06pm PST
Four Haitians and Spanish journalist die in anti-Aristide protests
Five people were killed and more than thirty were injured as thousands of Haitians demonstrated against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the ousted president, in Port-au-Prince yesterday....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 9:06pm PST
Stop CAFTA, Stop the FTAA!
In the face of growing opposition from developing countries in
multinational forums such as CAFTA and the FTAA, the Bush administration is now turning to an
emphasis on bilateral trade deals in an effort to bully our smaller Central
American trade partners into accepting painful concessions on trade....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 2:40pm PST
Mediocrity Of The Fittest
Short Science Fiction that may not be Science Fiction at all....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 2:25pm PST