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CALL TO ACTION: OPPOSE REPRESSION IN GUADALAJARA
FYI the # of the Mexican consulate in San Francisco is 415-354-1700.
please read below, make the call & forward this message...
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CALL TO ACTION: OPPOSE REPRESSION IN GUADALAJARA...
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 1:13am PDT
Haiti's Constitution and the Coup
In the debate over Haiti's events of February 29, we have heard from almost all angles. We have heard from opponents and supporters of the elected government and its replacement, and from officials from France, the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa. We have not, for the most part, heard from the law. Although both the new and old government claim "legitimacy" (from the Latin word lex, or "law"), there has been little analysis of what Haiti's law requires in the circumstances....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 1:39pm PDT
Monsanto all around the world
Monsanto, the world most prominent biotech company is facing protests all over the world....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 1:11pm PDT
No consensus on Iraq sovereignty resolution
There is no consensus among UN Security Council members on a new draft US-British resolution on Iraq, Russia's foreign minister has said....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:56pm PDT
Iraq: Nine killed in anti-occupation clashes
Nine Iraqis have been killed and 44 wounded in ferocious clashes between US forces and Iraqi resistance fighters....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:55pm PDT
Massive Blasts at U.S. Base in Kirkuk, Iraq -Witness
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Massive explosions rocked a major U.S. military base outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, shrouding the city in smoke, after what police said was a rocket strike on an arms store.
Shells and rockets screamed into the night sky over the base at Kirkuk's main airport and thick smoke rolled across the whole area, a Reuters reporter said from the scene....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:53pm PDT
Ex-Baathist With Ties to the CIA Picked To Be New Iraqi Prime Minister
The Iraqi Governing Council was dissolved today as a newly selected Iraqi government emerged comprising many key members of the Council including Ayad Allawi who will become prime minister. Andrew Cockburn talks about Allawi's ties to the old Baathist regime, the CIA, MI6, Saudi intelligence and how Allawi claims that Iraq had WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 7:17pm PDT
Haiti: Protection of human rights essential for security and long-term stability
Last week's devastating flooding in Haiti is another compelling reason for the international community to take action to address the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Haiti, said Amnesty International today....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:15am PDT
Israeli Arab rights center calls to forbid talk of transfer
Thousands of Israeli Arab citizens are suffering from increasing racism, xenophobia, incitement and violence, according to the annual "Racism in Israel 2004" report released on Tuesday by the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:12am PDT
Iraq's interim cabinet sworn in, Governing Council Disolved
Iraq's new interim government has been sworn in at a ceremony in Baghdad, to begin the task of preparing the country for elections in January next year....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:10am PDT
UNRWA: Rafah residents need $16 m
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has launched an appeal for $15.84 million from the international community for Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:07am PDT
At least 25 dead in blast at Iraqi Kurdish party HQ
BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuters) At least 25 people were killed and many wounded by an explosion which tore through the headquarters of a Kurdish party in Baghdad today, police at the scene said.
The blast was at the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, close to Iraq's Foreign Ministry and an entrance to the ''Green Zone'' compound where the U S-led administration in Iraq is based....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:07am PDT
Al-Yawir appointed interim Iraq president
Sunni Muslim tribal chief Ghazi al-Yawir has been sworn in as Iraq's new interim president by the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:02am PDT
Army Court-Martial Sentences Camilo Mejia
Join the international campaign to free Camilo Mejia, U.S. Army Conscientious Objector, from his illegal and arbitrary imprisonment by an Army Court-Martial!...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:43pm PDT
Urgent cry for help from Guadalajara
An email from a friend in Mexico about the Guadalajara demos. Can someone please translate this!...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 11:55am PDT
US troops kill Afghan student
US troops fatally shot a student who tried to flee a search operation in troubled eastern Afghanistan, a senior Afghan official said today.
The shooting occurred during a house-to-house search on Saturday evening in Kundi, a village about 150 km south of the capital, Kabul, in Khost province, Governor Sarajuddin Patan said....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:22am PDT
U.S. is lost in Afghanistan
The handful of valiant American warriors fighting the ''other'' war in Afghanistan is not a happy band of brothers. They are undermanned and feel neglected, lack confidence in their generals and are disgusted by Afghan political leadership. Most important, they are appalled by the immense but fruitless effort to find Osama bin Laden for purposes of U.S. politics.
This bleak picture goes unreported because journalists are rarely seen there. It was painted to me by hard U.S. fighters who are...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:20am PDT
Afghanistan's deadly harvest
IN Saudi Arabia, terrorists strike at the economic lifeblood of the West by attacking oil installations.
And in Afghanistan, they strike at the West's morale by promoting opium cultivation and heroin-smuggling....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:18am PDT
I am still president, says Aristide
Ousted Haitian leader vows to return home after temporary asylum in South Africa...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:13am PDT
Aristide accorded head-of-state welcome in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, May 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide received a welcome reserved for head of state when he arrived in South Africa for asylum on Monday afternoon.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, Foreign Minister NkosazanaDlamini-Zuma and other senior cabinet ministers were at the Johannesburg International Airport to wait for the arrival of Aristide and his family....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:10am PDT