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Brazil Creates World's Largest Rainforest Park
Brazil Creates World's Largest Rainforest Park...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 4:54am PDT
COLOMBIAN REBELS OFFER PEACE TALKS
Colombia's largest guerrilla organisation FARC says that it is willing to negotiate peace with new Colombian president Alvaro Uribe if he cracks down on the paramilitary death squads and withdraw government forces from two southern departments....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 4:35am PDT
Campaign against Bechtel's fleecing of Bolivia (en + es)
La Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida junto a otras organizaciones han iniciado una campaña mundial en contra de la demanda de Becthel. Ahora necesitamos su ayuda....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 2:14am PDT
¿Qué pasa con Argentina Indymedia?
No se puede ingresar a Argentina Indymedia...
Posted: Wed, Aug 21, 2002 7:35am PDT
New Colombian government slams door on peace
When Anne Patterson, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, called on the new government of ultra-rightist President Alvaro Uribe Velez to summon the reserves to fight against leftist guerrilla forces, Uribe’s minister of defense, Martha Lucia Ramirez, did just that on the following day....
Posted: Fri, Aug 16, 2002 8:43am PDT
People around the United States protest the Inauguration of Colombian president Alvaro Uri
On Wednesday August 7th, Alvaro Uribe Velez was inaugurated as the new president of Colombia. Activists in a number of different cities gathered on August 7th to protest the inauguration of the warmonger Uribe Velez and to say no to US intervention in Colombia!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 9, 2002 6:45pm PDT
Homeless squat land in Brazil
4000 families in a squat in Brazil...
Posted: Fri, Aug 9, 2002 10:22am PDT
Flashpoints Aug 6-7: Pal prisoners; Vieques; US prisons
KPFA Flashpoints Radio
-August 7: stories of Palestinian political prisoners.. Vieques update.. human rights in America's prisons..
-August 6: about the psychological damage of increasing violence and resistance on Palestinian families.. Israel faces an environmental crisis.. VP-select Cheney comes to SF
----- full story and audio links at http://flashpoints.ne...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 9:16am PDT
8/25SF Forum On Relevance Of Argentina To US Workers
This forum and video screening will discuss and debate what the meaning of the Argentinian crisis for US workers. Do we face the same conditions in the US?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 10:56pm PDT
U.S.'s O'Neill greeted in Argentina by protesters
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Protesters burned a photo of U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill shortly after his arrival in Argentina on Tuesday evening as thousands of others marched from Congress to the presidential palace.
O'Neill is touring Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina to meet with government and business officials to discuss what to do about long recessions and economic turbulence that has stricken the region as investors hope for new details on foreign aid....
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 6:00pm PDT
Statement by la Federacion Anarquista Gaucha (de Uruguay)
...Our people are sinking into misery. There are no jobs, there is no food.
Hunger pangs in our guts and stings our sensibility. Our children ask for
bread that does not exist. ......
Posted: Sun, Aug 4, 2002 8:40pm PDT
Argentina, Dec.20th Photographs.
Photographer offers images for exhibition....
Posted: Wed, Jul 31, 2002 12:13pm PDT
U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN COLOMBIA
As they did in Vietnam 40 years ago the United States is subtly increasing its military intervention in Colombia. Here Alfredo Castro looks at what is known about current US military presence in the Latin American nation....
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2002 1:35am PDT
Free Nicolas Rivera! (Venezuela and false "press freedom" orgs
if I'm ever attacked for my indy journalism, I think I will skip the phony "Committees to Protect Journalists" and go straight to Narco News......
Posted: Mon, Jul 29, 2002 10:10pm PDT
Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors
As efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez intensify, two facts are inescapable: the power elite in the United States has never been happy with democratically-elected Chávez, but it took the Bush administration, with its corporate oil and energy connections, to turn up the heat against him....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 7:46am PDT
WAR AGAINST DISPLACED COMMUNITIES IN COLOMBIA
In the city of Medellin the paramilitaries have been burning the makeshift shacks and assassinating leaders of the displaced communities. In Bucaramanga and Barranquilla leaders have received death threats and in Neiva the police violently attacked and threatened 50 families....
Posted: Thu, Jul 11, 2002 5:20am PDT
Send your old Computers to Chiapas
Have any extra computer parts or computes around the home or office?
Right now things are getting worse in Chiapas, and they need help in
the form of computers from US activists and supporters in civil society...
Posted: Tue, Jul 9, 2002 6:29pm PDT
Collapsing Models: Argentina (from Left Business Observer)
An article from the ever-irreverant left economist Doug Henwood on the troubles that have befallen Argentina....
Posted: Tue, Jul 2, 2002 8:35pm PDT
What are they doing to Argentina
At this point the biggest obstacle to re-starting growth may be the Fund itself. As the crisis drags on, Argentina may have to find a way to get around the IMF....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2002 10:25am PDT