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Veteran Investigative Journalist Bob Parry on the Iran-Contra Scandal and the Perils of Re Investigative journalist Robert Parry helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s while working as a reporter for the Associated Press and Newsweek. He joins us from Washington....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:19am PDT
In Echoes of Past Intervention, Bush Administration Opposes Nicaraguan Frontrunner Daniel Election monitors from the Organization of American States have warned the Bush administration not to interfere in the upcoming presidential election in Nicaragua. The Bush administration has openly opposed the front-runner Daniel Ortega. The Sandinista leader is trying to regain power for the first time since 1990. We speak with veteran Nicaraguan human rights defender Vilma Nunez....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:18am PDT
Student Activist assassinated in Popayan Colombia Popayán, Colombia: Biology student and activist assassinated
Milton Hernan Troyano Sanchez, a radical student leader and participànt of the Huelga de Hambre of 2004, was assinated the night of October 18th, in a city park in Popayán, Colombia....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:54pm PDT
Marcos: The Zapatistas Will Defend the Cucapa and Kiliwa Peoples of Baja California The Kiliwa Had Declared a “Death Pact” After the Government and Gringo “Conservation” Groups Forbade Them from Fishing; Next Fishing Season Will See a Zapatista Camp on Their Lands...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:28am PDT
The Other Campaign Says No to a Cell Phone Tower in La Paz and a Gas Refinery in Ensenada The Price of “Progress” in Baja California Is Dumped onto Those Who Do Not Benefit From It...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:27am PDT
Oaxaca Teachers Refuse to Budge, Reject Order from their Own Union Leadership to Return to National Senate Refuses to Resolve Oaxaca Stand-Off: APPO Must Find its Own Solutions...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:25am PDT
APPO in Yucatán The Oaxaca Movement Declares Solidarity with the Peasant Farmers of Oxcum, Unjustly Imprisoned by the Governor...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:24am PDT
The Comca’ac Indigenous Group Denounces the Sonora State Government’s Plan to Take their Land They Accuse the Governor of Flying Over the Sacred Tiburón Island by Helicopter as He Plots Its Development for Tourism...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:23am PDT
Caracas in a fix over UN seat impasse Venezuela is seeking a way out of an impasse with Guatemala in their contest for a UN Security Council seat and says a compromise candidate could be one of the solutions....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:13am PDT
Venezuelan Workers Seize and Blockade Coca-Cola Plants Across the Country Coca-Cola-Femsa workers in Venezuela have seized the factories where they work and are preventing distribution trucks from leaving in a bid to force the company to pay out agreed-upon compensation to ex-workers. The dispute started on Sunday at midnight and the workers say they will continue until their demands are met....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 7:21am PDT
Brown Berets with EZLN Subcomandante in Tijuana About a dozen Watsonville Brown Berets enforce security at La Otra Campaña with La Otro del Otro Lado and Subcomandante Marcos in Tiujana, BC. Memebers of the community on Tijuana spoke about thier struggle in the Maquiladoras while Marcos listened and took notes to help them come together and organize themselves. Marcos responded to the people with, "La Union Hace La Fuerza." Members of the Brown Berets spoke on the current Immigration Issues and Military Recuitment in schools....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 2:10pm PDT
Oaxacan Teachers Reject Return to School: SNTE Still on Strike! Questions about the process and manner in which Union leadership initiated a controversial referendum to return to work led to a rejection of the 'consulta' and the continuation of the five-months-and-running teachers strike...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 10:30am PDT
The Atenco, Oaxaca and Zapatista Rebels Unite in Public for the First Time At the Scene of the Atenco Massacre of May 3–4, the Mexican Left Shows its Willingness to Forge Alliances and Defy the State...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 7:50am PDT
The meaning of APPO It’s not by chance that Oaxaca is the [first] state of the Mexican republic where a popular non-violent civil insurrection of transcendent historical importance, in both its form and content, is taking place. Initially a conflict of a teachers’ union with a corrupt and authoritarian state government, the movement was transformed starting from the brutal repression on the teachers’ encampment by the police and paramilitaries of governor Ulises Ruiz. It became the Popular Assembly of the People...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 11:50am PDT
10/23&24 Gen Strike In Costa Rica Against CAFTA Workers, students and independent organizations are organizing a general strike
on October 23&24 in Costa Rica to stop the CAFTA agreement.
Please send messages of support...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 11:21pm PDT
Venezuela Accuses Bush Administration of Blackmailing Other Countries Over UN Seat Francisco Arias Cardenas, Venezuela’s Ambassador to the United Nations condemns the White House’s dirty tricks as Venezuela vies against Guatemala for open UN Security Council seat....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 7:57am PDT
Maximum Alert: APPO Leader Assassinated in Oaxaca City It Is the Ninth Murder of a Popular Assembly Member...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:32am PDT
A Report from the First Annual Southwest Border Social Forum Last weekend, Ciudad Juárez celebrated the First Annual Southwest Border Social Forum, congregating people from across the United States and Mexico. The Border Social Forum took place at the Central Autonomous University in Ciudad Juarez, the largest city in the State of Chihuahua, Northern Mexico. Students, long-time immigrants rights activists, professors, youth-led alternative media, peace visionaries, indigenous tribes, workers and union organizers, and the curious all met for a three-day...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:31am PDT
Pres. Bush buys 100,000acre ranch in Paraguay Asuncion, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) The land grab project of US President George W. Bush in Chaco, Paraguay, has generated considerable discomfort both politically and environmentally....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 7:57pm PDT
Guatemala ready for seat compromise Guatemala has said it will withdraw its candidacy for an open seat on the UN Security Council in favour of a consensus candidate if its deadlock with Venezuela continues....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 5:31pm PDT
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