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Your Factory, Under Worker Control: Lessons from Argentina
Every day, the 330 workers of Zanón Ceramics Factory
(Cerámica Zanón) who both work at and run the largest ceramic floor-tile factory in Argentina are, legally speaking,
usurping the factory and its machinery....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:19am PST
Womens Struggle for Freedom in Iraq
Below is a brilliant article by Houzan Mahmoud, UK representative of the Organisation of Womens Freedom in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:01am PST
Drug War Film Festival
911 and the BC Compassion Club Society present:
DRUG WAR FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, March 12 8pm
$6 / $4 (911 members)
911 Media Arts Center
117 Yale Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98109
206.682.6552...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 2:53am PST
3/8 Press Release from Int'l Answer about Delegation to See Aristide
A delegation from the United States met twice today with
overthrown Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in
Bangui, Central African Republic. Following the first
meeting, President Aristide held a news conference at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then conducted a
30-minute phone interview in English with Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 10:04pm PST
A Way Station For Dope, Haiti Again Gets The Wrong Kind Of Interference
WASHINGTON, D.C—It was the junior senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry, who came the closest to exposing raw political power in Haiti when he led a Senate foreign relations subcommittee's probe into the drug trade during the early 1990s....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:05pm PST
Creating Stability And Peace In Haiti - Africans In America Must Lend A Helping Hand
The Haitian Revolution which produced the first Black Republic in this hemisphere was a symbol of hope and promise for Africans everywhere. Coming at the height of the holocaust of enslavement, the revolution was a living example that breaking the shackles of slavery and achieving independence/nationhood was possible. Had Denmark Vesey's elaborate slave revolt in Charleston, S.C. succeeded he had planned to sail to Haiti with hundreds of liberated Africans. At every Negro Convention held in ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:03pm PST
Aristide's 'Removal' from Haiti 'Unconstitutional': African Union
ADDIS ABABA - The African Union, which groups 53 states on the continent, has described Jean-Bertrand Aristide's "removal" as president of Haiti as "unconstitutional," in a statement received by AFP....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:01pm PST
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
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
BUSH RESIGNS!
Satire: What if the Haiti scenario were turned around?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 10:46am PST
International Women's Day interview with Claire Robillard
Every year, women around the world gather to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8. The occasion provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress made towards equality and justice for women, and to demand change in the struggle against sexism and patriarchy. Claire Robillard has helped organise International Women's Day events since she moved to Vancouver in 1994. Last week, Seven Oaks spoke to Robillard about the role of IWD and the women's movement in the context of severe cutbac...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 10:18am PST