Newsitem List
Communiqué from the Asociación Diáspora Vasca inviting you to sign in behalf of the freedom of the six Basques nationalists detained for over a year in Mexico....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 2:28am PDT
Environmental, human and animal rights activist Tre Arrow, currently being held in Canada's North Fraser Pretrial Center on immigration charges, has been moved into solitary confinement and is being denied a diet in keeping with his beliefs (raw/vegan) in a blatant attempt to break his spirit. In the 4 months he has been incarcerated he has suffered catastrophic weight loss, and is now down to 91 pounds....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 4:51pm PDT
This article on a historic dialogue between Indigenous Peoples that took place in Fresno in July is being circulated by the Zapatista Solidarity Coalition....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 5:51pm PDT
ON AUGUST 29, RECLAIM THE PARK
A call for autonomous gatherings, feeder marches and creative events starting from all across Central Park on the morning of August 29, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Jul 21, 2004 11:30am PDT
After a long day of tension, rumors, and ocasional provocations, Bolivian polling stations have closed and the counting of votes is underway. But the results are already known. Regardless of whether the “yes” vote or the “no” vote wins, Bolivia’s most valuable natural resource – natural gas – will remain in the hands of the transnationals....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:23pm PDT
New regulations affecting Cuban Americans who go to Cuba to visit family there have backfired. The Bush administration is facing both divisions within the U.S. Cuban community and opposition in Congress....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:15am PDT
Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:50am PDT
Fighting broke out in Caracas as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused a US government-funded nonprofit organization of funding opposition groups....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:39pm PDT
The Society of California Pioneers
announces the opening of its upcoming exhibition
The King's Orphan
June 25 through December 4, 2004
The Society of California Pioneers is pleased announce its upcoming exhibition, The King's Orphan, opening Friday, June 25. This exhibition features thirty-three drawings made between 1842 and 1843 by a Swedish explorer to California who recorded everything he saw for the benefit of king and country. The author of these works, the first recorded Swedi...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 9:48am PDT
The following is the account by Janice Freeman about the release of Leisa Barnes, Sacramento's own prisoner of conscience, from federal prison in Dublin....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 1:21pm PDT
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is
extremely concerned by reports it has received of the mistreatment and torture
inflicted on several of the individuals who were indiscriminately arrested in the
course of street protests in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and concerned also that many of
them remain under arrest....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 9:53pm PDT
-TOMORROW (Weds), 11:30, SF: A Bay Area Delegation will be visiting the Mexican
Consul-General tomorrow at 11:30! Please come and show your support, if you can! The
Mexican Consulate is on Folsom between 2nd and 1st Street. Can't miss it: brick
building with Mexican flag waving; plenty of parking....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 8:00pm PDT
Update on Guadalajara, Mexico City protests and police repression...
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 11:44pm PDT
SCHOOL YES!!LE RIFLE NOT!! NOT!!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 12:58pm PDT
* Facing the situation created by the referendum of 8/15/2004 to recall the president, the Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas and its newspaper El Libertario call for a radical rupture with those candidates for authoritarian power, presenting to the Venezuelan people ways out of the actual crisis based on mutual aid, direct action and self-management....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 7:23am PDT
...An extraordinary and ever increasing number of people in America today (1989) take these premises quite seriously, and are not only resigned to an imminent apocalypse, but actually, in some sense, looking forward to it......
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 3:00pm PDT
The United States Congressmen are mirroring the same deceptive tactics in Western Shoshone territory in Nevada as in Iraq, said Western Shoshone as legislation was pushed to compensate tribal members for Aboriginal land in an effort to seize it and open it up for mining, energy and nuclear corporations.
While Western Shoshone maintain their Aboriginal land claim secured by the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863, their sacred Yucca Mountain is being gutted for nuclear dumping, their horses and c...
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 11:31am PDT
Cuban television tonight broadcasted remarkable segments of a one hour program on Miami TV Channel 41 in which known paramilitaries from the Florida based Comandos F4 (www.comandosf4.org) organization openly spoke of their preparation for an armed attack against Cuba....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 12:23pm PDT
Over 200 people protested U.S. immigration policies at the Tucson Sector Headquarters of the Border Patrol on June 6 at the end of the 76-mile Migrant Trail Walk.
According to Kat Rodríguez, coordinating organizer for the Derechos Humanos Coalition, 26 activists walked the whole length of the march, which started at the U.S.-Mexico border on May 31. Another seven walked part of the length through the Sonoran Desert, where a few hundred people perish each year trying to enter the United St...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:56am PDT