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Marcos Sets Off Alone on His Motorcycle as the Other Campaign Kicks Off San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, January 1, 2005: As had been announced so many times, the Other Campaign led by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos has begun. During the day of January 1, 2006, Zapatista support groups were concentrating in the west end of the city of San Cristóbal. As the afternoon ended and the evening began, the march left on its way downtown....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 9:20am PST
The First Report from Chiapas on the First Day of the Other Campaign Concepción Villafuerte files the first report today from the first
day of the "Other Campaign," the Zapatistas' ambitious tour of the
entire Mexican Republic. So begins the reporting of the Amado
Avendaño Figueroa Brigade, formed last month to provide an other kind
of journalism to cover the Other Campaign....
Posted: Sun, Jan 1, 2006 9:30pm PST
¡teleSUR en vivo! Watch a live video stream of teleSUR, a media collaboration between Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, and Uruguay, twenty four hours a day at http://www.telesurtv.net/....
Posted: Sun, Jan 1, 2006 4:10pm PST
Stop Peace Accord Violations and the Looming Threat of Electoral Fraud in El Salvador! Join CISPES in March 2006 to Observe Important Salvadoran Elections...
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:53am PST
FMLN Legislators Walk Out in Protest to Assembly Vote on CAFTA Reform On Wednesday, December 14, three right-wing political parties in El Salvador's National Assembly pushed through 200 changes to 10 existing laws, without taking any time to study their impacts, in order to ensure the January 1, 2006 implementation of CAFTA. The executive branch introduced the most substantial reforms just two days prior to the vote. All the modifications were put on the Assembly's fast track under pressure from the US Trade Representative. In protest, FMLN legislators abstaine...
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:50am PST
WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela’s social movements * A member of the group promoting the Alternative Social Forum explains why the World Social Forum (WSF), taking place in Caracas during January 2006, is another attempt by the Chavez government to impede the autonomous development of social struggles in the country....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 3:04pm PST
Uruguay recognises Western Sahara Uruguay says it has recognised the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, proclaimed by the Polisario Front in Moroccan-ruled Western Sahara, triggering an angry response from Rabat....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 6:45pm PST
Bolivian president-elect takes pay cut Bolivia's socialist president-elect has announced that he and his cabinet will take a 50% pay cut so more staff can be hired for the education and health sectors....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 6:44pm PST
Brazil's army turns to embedded journalists in Haiti 
As the embedded reporters were treated to photo opportunities of happy smiling residents receiving aid buckets in Pele last Friday, heavy gunfire broke out from Brazilian forces on Route Nationale 1, a main highway that separates Pele from Cite Soleil. "No one fired at them. They just started shooting for no reason and several people were injured," said a bystander who witnessed the incident....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 5:57pm PST
Bush Step Down! Protest Jan. 31st and Feb. 4th! Begin organizing your community to drown out Bush's State of the Union on Tuesday, Jan. 31st! Demonstrations followed by mass protest in Washington, DC on Feb. 4th. www.worldcantwait.org for info on what's going on in your community!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 9:03am PST
No end to Brazil jail hostage crisis More than 200 hostages have spent a third night in the hands of prisoners who seized control of a jail in Brazil....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:47am PST
Latin American mercenaries guarding Baghdad’s Green Zone Wilder Gutierrez Rubio, 38, died a few hours after arriving in Lima, Peru on December 6. Days before, he had been diagnosed with severe leukemia at Ibn Sina Hospital in Baghdad and immediately flown back to his home country....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:35am PST
Indigenous Intifada in Bolivia 
By Hamid Golpira Tehran Times Staff Writer
TEHRAN, Dec. 26 (MNA)—The final results are in, and Evo Morales has received a clear majority of the vote in the Bolivian presidential election. When he is inaugurated in January, he will be the first indigenous leader to take power in Bolivia in 500 years....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 10:27am PST
A Very Paramilitary Christmas: Rural Danger and Political Cynicism in Colombia The holiday season has arrived in Colombia with all its joy, kind readers. And nothing could convince me more of this than the most recent paramilitary threats against the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, in the department of Antioquia. The Peace Community is a collective project of the inhabitants of the area, created after 32 local peasant communities were displaced in 1997 by the violence of Colombia’s civil conflict. More specifically, the threat was against San Josecito, a small ...
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 8:19am PST
Oscar Lopez and Jose Velez Acosta The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling on all our allies and supporters
to join us in wishing Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera a
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND HAPPY THREE KINGS!!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:18pm PST
Minutemen now hunting immigrants in MEXICO!! Racist immigrant hunters are now organizing to search for immigrants while they are still in Mexico!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 3:57pm PST
Eight Years After the Acteal Massacre, a Time to Create an Other Journalism A Letter from Quetzal Belmont in Mexico
By Quetzal Belmont
Radio-Audio Coordinator, The Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade
December 22, 2005...
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 7:15am PST
News Reporting of the Tour by Subcomandante Marcos Throughout the Mexican Republic The Other Journalism About the Other Campaign
For Authentic News Reporting of the Tour by Subcomandante Marcos Throughout the Mexican Republic
By the Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade
December 21, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 7:51am PST
'Coca Is the Tree of the Poor': Indigenous People Leap Forward in Bolivia Evo Morales' win in Bolivia is a symbol of the assertion of indigenous power within the country and within Latin America as a whole. With its overt indigenous character, MAS' (Movement Towards Socialism ) campaign has placed the issue of the historic marginalization of indigenous people at the forefront of Bolivian politics....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:05pm PST
Workers Take Over Factory, Government Complicit in not Upholding Basic Labor Rights In El Salvador it is common labor practice to lay off workers right before end of year bonuses should be paid out, especially in maquiladoras. In maquilas, it is also common practice to take machinery out in the middle of the night and make the maquila “disappear,” so that workers are not given severance pay or other benefits required by law, all while the Salvadoran government turns a blind eye. This year is no exception. The non-payment of end of year bonuses and the evasion of severance pa...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:42pm PST
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