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Veteran Investigative Journalist Bob Parry on the Iran-Contra Scandal and the Perils of Re Investigative journalist Robert Parry helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s while working as a reporter for the Associated Press and Newsweek. He joins us from Washington....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:19am PDT
In Echoes of Past Intervention, Bush Administration Opposes Nicaraguan Frontrunner Daniel Election monitors from the Organization of American States have warned the Bush administration not to interfere in the upcoming presidential election in Nicaragua. The Bush administration has openly opposed the front-runner Daniel Ortega. The Sandinista leader is trying to regain power for the first time since 1990. We speak with veteran Nicaraguan human rights defender Vilma Nunez....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:18am PDT
Student Activist assassinated in Popayan Colombia Popayán, Colombia: Biology student and activist assassinated
Milton Hernan Troyano Sanchez, a radical student leader and participànt of the Huelga de Hambre of 2004, was assinated the night of October 18th, in a city park in Popayán, Colombia....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:54pm PDT
Marcos: The Zapatistas Will Defend the Cucapa and Kiliwa Peoples of Baja California The Kiliwa Had Declared a “Death Pact” After the Government and Gringo “Conservation” Groups Forbade Them from Fishing; Next Fishing Season Will See a Zapatista Camp on Their Lands...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:28am PDT
The Other Campaign Says No to a Cell Phone Tower in La Paz and a Gas Refinery in Ensenada The Price of “Progress” in Baja California Is Dumped onto Those Who Do Not Benefit From It...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:27am PDT
Oaxaca Teachers Refuse to Budge, Reject Order from their Own Union Leadership to Return to National Senate Refuses to Resolve Oaxaca Stand-Off: APPO Must Find its Own Solutions...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:25am PDT
APPO in Yucatán The Oaxaca Movement Declares Solidarity with the Peasant Farmers of Oxcum, Unjustly Imprisoned by the Governor...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:24am PDT
The Comca’ac Indigenous Group Denounces the Sonora State Government’s Plan to Take their Land They Accuse the Governor of Flying Over the Sacred Tiburón Island by Helicopter as He Plots Its Development for Tourism...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:23am PDT
Caracas in a fix over UN seat impasse Venezuela is seeking a way out of an impasse with Guatemala in their contest for a UN Security Council seat and says a compromise candidate could be one of the solutions....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:13am PDT
Desde el Zocalo Capitalino de Oaxaca: Hablan los Maestros (audio/mpeg 601.3KB) Nine files follow: FRSC ID zapotec / conditions in oax schools (6:15) / papel de maestros (2:42) / rx a la rechaza (2:36) / cambios que seria (5:48) / el gob nuevo y popular (2:00) / repression y presos (3:19) / coop with national movs (2:11) / mensajes a los oax en cali (4:29)...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 5:31pm PDT
A Sacramentan's Report on La Otra Campana en Tijuana 
Here's my brief, impressionistic report on the meeting with Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN in Tijuana during the Zapatista's La Otra Campana taking place throughout Mexico:...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 5:08pm PDT
"Misión contra el terror" 
"Cuba entregó información al FBI sobre organizaciones terroristas y EEUU detuvo a los Cinco que la consiguieron..."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 2:59pm PDT
Color, Voz y Baile- Day of Dead Watsonville Downtown Plaza on Main Street - next to the farmer's market...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 4:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 11:39am PDT
Venezuelan Workers Seize and Blockade Coca-Cola Plants Across the Country Coca-Cola-Femsa workers in Venezuela have seized the factories where they work and are preventing distribution trucks from leaving in a bid to force the company to pay out agreed-upon compensation to ex-workers. The dispute started on Sunday at midnight and the workers say they will continue until their demands are met....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 7:21am PDT
Mexico: John Ross speaking at UCSC Oakes Learning Center
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 4:54pm PDT
Brown Berets with EZLN Subcomandante in Tijuana About a dozen Watsonville Brown Berets enforce security at La Otra Campaña with La Otro del Otro Lado and Subcomandante Marcos in Tiujana, BC. Memebers of the community on Tijuana spoke about thier struggle in the Maquiladoras while Marcos listened and took notes to help them come together and organize themselves. Marcos responded to the people with, "La Union Hace La Fuerza." Members of the Brown Berets spoke on the current Immigration Issues and Military Recuitment in schools....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 2:10pm PDT
Oaxacan Teachers Reject Return to School: SNTE Still on Strike! Questions about the process and manner in which Union leadership initiated a controversial referendum to return to work led to a rejection of the 'consulta' and the continuation of the five-months-and-running teachers strike...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 10:30am PDT
The Atenco, Oaxaca and Zapatista Rebels Unite in Public for the First Time At the Scene of the Atenco Massacre of May 3–4, the Mexican Left Shows its Willingness to Forge Alliances and Defy the State...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 7:50am PDT
Update from Oaxaca (audio/mpeg 47.3MB) George Cadman host of "Peace Talks" on Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Danielsan, (formerly host of "Self Defense 101" on Free Radio Santa Cruz) from Oaxaca about the current situation there.
Danielsan arrived in Oaxaca two weeks ago. Some of his photos, interviews and writings are available at www.indybay.org/international/americas...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 6:14pm PDT
The meaning of APPO It’s not by chance that Oaxaca is the [first] state of the Mexican republic where a popular non-violent civil insurrection of transcendent historical importance, in both its form and content, is taking place. Initially a conflict of a teachers’ union with a corrupt and authoritarian state government, the movement was transformed starting from the brutal repression on the teachers’ encampment by the police and paramilitaries of governor Ulises Ruiz. It became the Popular Assembly of the People...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 11:50am PDT
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