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Contra-Cumbre: Otro Mayo Guadalajara
El 28 y 29 de Mayo de 2004 la ciudad de Guadalajara, en México, será sede de la Tercera Cumbre América Latina y el Caribe - Unión Europea, en la cuál se discutirá -- al margen de las personas -- acerca de la
cohesión social, la gobernabilidad y los acuerdos comerciales. Este tipo
de cumbres, se han realizado en muchas ocasiones, generando distintos mecanismos para fomentar y mantener la desigualdad social, económica, de género y cultural entre otras muchas. Por eso nosotros queremos otro ma...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 12:08pm PDT
Bolivia: (en/es) The government is losing control
The government of President Carlos Mesa has begun to lose what little control it had over the political and social situation in Bolivia....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:16am PDT
John Dimitri Negroponte: From Man Behind Central American Death Squads To Emperor Of Iraq
1981-1985 US ambassador to Honduras ... 2001-2004 US ambassador to the United Nations ...2004-US ambassador to Iraq (and replacement to Paul Bremer as American in charge of US actions in the country)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 12:49pm PDT
Mobilization for Global Justice Update on this week's mobilization
In this update:
-April 24th Scenario Plans
-Welcome Center
-HTML: Housing, Transport, Medical & Logistics
-Volunteering & Donating
-Friday, Sunday, etc....
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 7:55pm PDT
miami n20 afternoon preview (video/quicktime 46.1MB)
n20 afternoon preview for miami FTAA model...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:52pm PDT
Stop Union Busting in Haiti
"The company pays for this type of thing, to destroy the unions. There’s a group of 20 people in the free trade zone who are paid to prevent the formation of any unions." - (IFCTU Report, disclosed by Charles Arthur, of the Haiti Support Group, September 2003)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Clashes between pro-democracy protesters and Police in Kathmandu
Clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and the King’s police continue in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu today. (April 11th)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 12:18pm PDT
4/13 Conference Call to Plan IMF/WB Actions
This is a call for local and out-of-town activists to facilitate planning
for direct action on Friday, April 23 protesting the World Bank and IMF
(calendar of days of action here below). The intention is to share
information on who is interested in participating and to agree on a time
and place for a physical meeting (proposed date is this coming Sunday)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 10:16am PDT
Comments on US-Morocco FTA
The US-Morocco deal tracks almost all of the harmful language of CAFTA.
It also includes a prohibition on drug reimportation which would
directly conflict with efforts in the US Congress to legalize
"reimportation" of drugs from Canada....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 10:13am PDT
Playas New Mexico Becoming Home Of Homeland Security Training
The Fourth Reich Thrives In New Mexico....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 10:05am PDT
Critical Reflections on the Black Panther Movement with Ashanti Alston (audio/mpeg 10.5MB)
Ashanti Alston talks about life as a young Panther organizer and political prisoner to his current involvement with Critical Resistance, Estacion Libre and the Institute for Anarchist Studies. part (1) 1h14min part (2) 59min...
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 9:13am PDT
Rough Cut of Ftaa/miami labor segment (video/quicktime 42.8MB)
Rough Cut of Ftaa/miami labor segment...
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 3:12am PDT
Destructive Structural Adjustment
This study of 10 developing countries shows that privatization, deregulation and liberalization of markets increase poverty and inequality. This 2002 study translated from the German was the result of 5 years of analysis....
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 5:50am PDT
The Global Justice Movement: Criticismof Neoliberalism
"The social state redistributed the unequal market incomes, for example through a progressive tax system down from above..This social model was thrown overboard by the new neoliberal model. Transnational corporations created free trade zones...
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 8:29am PDT
Three Strikes, Is FTAA NAFTA-Expansion Out?
Latest Meeting to Revive Free Trade Area of the Americas Collapses in Buenos Aires; Late-April Puebla Negotiations Canceled; 2005 Deadline in Jeopardy...
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 11:34pm PST