
The largest social movement in the Americas, the Landless Movement will be a powerful force challenging forced passage of the FTAA. Leaders will speak about this and other issues of important to Brazilian, Latin American, and Global rural communities at an event in Berkeley....
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 8:45AM

NAFTA has brought Mexico so many great things - like more jobs at McDonald's! I'm sure McDonald's is banking on FTAA for the prospects of even more hamburger universities south of the border....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 3:01PM

Activist and singer Paul Baker-Hernández will speak about the Nicaraguan Network's Environmental Justice Campaign....
Posted: Sat Mar 3, 2001 2:03PM

Willy Underbaggage, a Lakota man from Pine Ridge, SD, is connecting & supporting indigenous people in Mexico & the US both culturally & politically...
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2001 2:01PM

Workers Rights in Nike factories...What a CROC!!...
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2001 12:12PM

The U.S. government has filed suit with the WTO to prevent Brazil from distributing treatement for AIDS, claiming Brazil violates the patents of giant drug companies. Brazil's death rate from AIDS dropped from 11,000 to 4,000 last year. The Brazil govt. pays the cost and gives the drugs free to those who suffer....
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2001 1:16PM

A very interesting article on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- People's Army (FARC-EP)...
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2001 7:03PM

Zapatistas headed to Mexico City. Supporters call for civil society to mobilize both inside and outside of Mexico....
Posted: Thu Feb 8, 2001 1:50PM

James Petras is one of the world’s best known authorities on Latin American politics. He has recently retired as professor of sociology at the State University New York. While he was on a CISLAC-organised speaking tour in January, he was interviewed for a forthcoming CISLAC documentary on Colombia. The following is from that interview....
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2001 7:25PM

Marta Elena de la Rodriquez is FMLN mayor of El Salvador's second largest city. She talks about worsening conditions there and a health workers successfull strike against privitization of health care in El Salvador...
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2000 5:33PM

The new governor of the state of Chiapas, who assumed office on Friday, Dec. 8, immediately began the process for freeing all Zapatista prisoners. La Jornada's top news report, on Sunday, Dec 10, describes what the State Attorney General will find when he begins, on Monday, Dec 11, to review the files. The original report, 1.) in Spanish, is first, followed by 2.) my translation into English. (My preferred title concluded: Mexico in the Struggle III. Chiapas changes. But it was too long.)...
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2000 1:34PM

The ancient redwood tree, named Luna, where Julia Butterfly lived for over two years has been wounded. There will be a collective global healing for Luna during the Winter Solstice. Cannabis hemp saves trees! The drug war is heavily involved in the madness of planetary destruction by the corporate petrochemical-pharmaceutical complex. In Colombia the Republicrat, corporate flunkie, Clinton continues to OK damaging herbicide spraying in the name of the drug war....
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2000 12:50PM

IAC Upcoming Events: including Demonstration on Thursday Against US Militarism in El Salvador and Across the Americas...
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2000 4:50PM

(For English version scroll down through the Spanish to 2) Una carta abierta al Sr. Presidente-electo Vincente Fox con mi entendimiento de la realidad....
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2000 10:02AM

(For English translation scroll down through the Spanish to 2) Editorial de La Jornada, México, D.F. viernes 27 de octubre de 2000, "FOX, ANTE LA REALIDAD PRESUPUESTAL"...
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2000 9:57AM

Presentation by Jose Aleman and Nicolasa Rivas of ARPAS, the independent community radio network of El Salvador. 3-5 pm, Sun Oct 15 at 2870A 22nd St (btwn Harrison and Alabama), SF....
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2000 10:58AM

Zapatista women peacefully seized a radio station to demonstrate for the rights of women and indigenous Indians, on International Women's Day, March 2000....
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2000 10:07AM