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COLOMBIAN REPORTER EXPOSES U.S. LINK TO MASSACRES AND DRUG-TRADE
NEW YORK -- Colombian journalist Ignacio Gomez told a roomful of America's most influential journalists Tuesday how Washington-supported Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is connected to drug traffickers and how U.S. military trainers helped organize a massacre in his country....
Posted: Wed, Dec 4, 2002 1:19pm PST
Each year is worse for Colombian workers
Being a trade unionist in Colombia has become a high-risk occupation and trade unionists frequently have to pay with their own lives. Figures from last year show how critical the situation has become....
Posted: Mon, Dec 2, 2002 1:47am PST
NEW AT FRONTLINES: ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, US AND SF ELECTIONS, ANTIWAR MOVEMENT ...
Book online on the revolutionary crisis in Argentina; articles analyzing the victory of Lula and the PT in Brazil, the elections in the US and San Francisco ... and many other articles....
Posted: Wed, Nov 27, 2002 8:42pm PST
MARINO CORDOBA SOAWatch AfroColombian activist (video/x-pn-realvideo 1.2MB)
MORENO CORDOBA -SOAWatch “Afro-Colombians are the worst hurt by the war in my country – thank you for your acts of solidarity; your efforts to make visible the tragedy we are living today gives us great hope…” -- Marino Cordoba at the SOA Watch Lobby Day rally, April 22, 2002 Washington DC...
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2002 2:04pm PST
Flashpoints Nov 14: Vieques update; National Conference on Civil Rights; DU
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, Thursday November 14, 2002
-a former woman political prisoner and two Puerto Rican women activists talk about Vieques.. about this weekend's National Conference on Civil Rights at UC Berkeley.. the truth about military use of depleted uranium...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 1:03am PST
Situation in El Salvador Escalates!
SALVADORAN ELECTRICITY WORKERS JOIN HEALTHCARE UNIONS ON STRIKE AGAINST PRIVATIZATION
INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AND SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED!
Planning meeting this Sunday, Nov 17th!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2002 10:54pm PST
Worker Control in Argentina
"The idea that a capitalist is needed to organise production is being demystified," said Christian Castillo, a sociology professor at the University of
Buenos Aires....
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2002 2:38pm PST
Why El Salvador?
To many it may seem that the people who pursue international struggles operate in a piecemeal fashion. One minute they rush to the aid of the Kurds, another it is Indonesian sweatshop workers, and yet another the people of Burma. There is, however, order to the chaos....
Posted: Mon, Nov 11, 2002 8:29pm PST
Colombian communists are victims of an ongoing genocide
The current situation for the surviving members of the Patriotic Union and the Communist Party in Colombia, as well as their relatives, sympathisers or friends, is one of the worst ever examples of political persecution by forces of the far right....
Posted: Mon, Nov 11, 2002 5:08am PST
Women Issue Venezuela Action Alert and Open Letter to Pres Carter
The US continues its push to oust the democratically elected President Hugo Chavez. Please "sign on" and circulate this appeal for an end to US intervention. Much is at stake for all of us, wherever we are, who aim to shift economic and social priorities from corporate and military domination to care of people and the environment....
Posted: Fri, Nov 8, 2002 7:53pm PST
GM fallout from mexico to zambia
biotech companies seek to subvert scientific investigation...
Posted: Sat, Nov 2, 2002 7:58pm PST
LESSONS FOR ANARCHISM COMING FROM ARGENTINA
It is remind that if the state and the institutions are denouncing situation for now in Argentina as anarchy, it is not anarchy in the country ! What is happening is a step toward the decay of power. In fact the chaos in argentina is caused by the state and capitalism, not by anarchists ideals....
Posted: Sun, Oct 27, 2002 8:25am PST
Upwards of 200,000 march in El Salvador
200,000 MARCH AGAINST PRIVATIZATION
Largest March in History of El Salvador
STSEL Workers Go on Hunger Strike Against Firings, Privatization...
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2002 2:04am PDT
BTL:'Lula' and His Workers Party Poised to Win Brazilian Presidency
Interview with Luis Gomez, Andean bureau chief with Narco News conducted by Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2002 2:38am PDT
Peasant struggles and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil.
Short Historical Notes on the Landless Movement - Brève note historique du Mouvement des Sans-terre
The authors of the following text have been active members of the landless movement of the Brazilian rural proletariat....
Posted: Thu, Oct 17, 2002 7:42am PDT
Belgian Company Linked to Rural Slavery in Brazil (Media)
The Federal Police and the Ministry for Employment have found around 180 people who have been working for four months in conditions analogous to slavery on a farm in the state of Pará, Brazil. The farm is linked to the Belgian capital investments company SIPEF....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 9:55am PDT
Flashpoints Radio Oct 14/15: Michael Parenti; Vieques update; Election 2000 docu
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Monday/Tuesday Oct 14/15, 2002:
-Oct 15: RObert Knight and the Knight Report (5 min)
-Oct 15: Dennis Bernstein interview Michael Parenti, on the real reasons behind US attack on Iraq (17 min)
-Oct 14: Vieques Update: Robert Rabin free after six months in prison for trespassing on his native soil (15 min)
-Oct 14 and 15: exerpts from the great new documentary, 'Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election' about Bush's stealing the 2000 election in Florida...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 12:59am PDT
BTL:The Future of 4-Decade Long Embargo on Cuba Debated at Summit Meeting
Interviews with Lissa Weinmann, of Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba,and Dennis Hays, executive vice president of the Cuban American National Foundation,conducted by Between The Lines' Denise Manzari....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 2:38am PDT