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**Call for Solidarity from GE FREE Vermont Campaign
70 Vermont Towns
Hundreds of Vermont Farmers
Thousands of Concerned Neighbors...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2004 11:52pm PST
Tour to Tijuana Maquiladoras
You are invited to learn about Tijuana maquiladora workers' conditions and struggles...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2004 1:32pm PST
Support and Phone Calls Needed for Haiti
We urgently need your support and telephone calls on the growing crisis in
Haiti....
Posted: Sat, Feb 21, 2004 6:38pm PST
Protest Denial of Visa for Cuban Musicians
Send an email to Colin Powell protesting the denial of visas to members of the Bueva Vista Social Club for the Grammy Awards....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 10:02pm PST
Ecuador's indigenous suspend mobilization, present demands
On February 16-17, two days of mass mobilizations in Ecuador shook the country. In a display of strength, indigenous and campesino protesters marched, strategized an open assemblies of thousands, blockaded highways, and occupied a telecommunications company. As provincial mobilizations continued (see articles in Spanish on Cotopaxi), the national indigenous/campesino leadership suspended mobilization and presented national demands....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 12:20pm PST
No coup in Haiti!
In the past week, armed gangs have roamed through major cities in Haiti, attacking police and civilians in an increasingly violent campaign to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. Describing the so-called “rebel group” leading these assaults in Gonaives, Scott Wilson of the Washington Post - no friend of the Aristide government - wrote that “at its upper echelons the group appears led by former members of the Haitian military, dissolved in 1994 when Arist...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 10:56am PST
Paralización gana concesiones del Gobierno Ecuadoriano
En el tercer día de paralización en la provincia de Cotopaxi, se ha radicalizado las acciones, luego de la gra marcha del medio día con la participación de alrededor de siete mil manifestantes, y se instalaron en asamblea para analizar la propuesta de diálogo con el gobierno. El próximo día, llegaron a un acuerdo parcial con el Gobierno....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 10:29am PST
Haiti: ‘a coup d’état in the making’
The political crisis in Haiti reached a boiling point this week as violence by opponents of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide intensified, particularly in the northern part of the country, while right-wing elements in the capital stepped up their calls for Aristide to resign....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 7:26pm PST
Trinicenter Updates On Haiti
Beloved Haiti: A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 9:22am PST
TransAfrica Statement On Haiti
Now the Bush administration is implying that it is time for President Aristide to leave, while at the same time having Secretary of State Powell state that a coup would not be acceptable. One gets the feeling of a good cop/bad cop scenario. None of this should come as a surprise to us in light of world events as well as the policy and practice of hostility by this administration toward President Aristide since the beginning....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 9:15am PST
Haiti: preparations for possible refugee exodus
The joining of notorious perpetrator of human rights violations Louis Jodel Chamblain and his followers with armed rebels accused of past abuses in the Central Plateau would create another devastating threat to respect for human rights in Haiti, Amnesty International said today....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 4:05pm PST
Police fire tear gas to break up Indian protest in Ecuador
In a bottom-up uprising Ecuador's indigenous and campesinos are confronting their government....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:32am PST
Unemployed Workers in Chile on Hunger Strike
Due to the cut off of emergency jobs in the town of San Pedro de la Paz,
Tuesday February 17th at 2 PM six women and two men have begun a hunger strike
to demand their jobs back....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 9:47am PST
Haiti split in two as rebels advance
The armed rebellion in Haiti extended its reach over the central third of the country yesterday after 50 men led by a former army death-squad commander stormed the town of Hinches, near the border with the Dominican Republic, killing the police chief and breaking open the local prison....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 8:01pm PST
Jeb Bush to Visit El Salvador on Eve of Historic Elections
eb Bush to Visit El Salvador on Eve of Historic Elections
Fear that Mission to Promote Free Trade will lead to Increased US Intervention in Highly Contested Presidential Race...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:49pm PST
Media vs. Reality in Haiti
Judging by the corporate media’s recent coverage of the crisis in Haiti, one might be led to believe that they are “aiding and abetting” an attempted coup d’etat aimed at the democratically elected Jean Bertand Aristide. On a daily basis, mainstream international media is churning out stories provided mainly by the Associated Press and Reuters that have little basis in fact....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:40pm PST
Flashpoints: US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti
Today on Flashpoints: The General Council for the government of Haiti in the United States speaks out against US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti; Robert Fisk discusses the ongoing violence in Iraq; and Larry Everest talks about Empire and the US Global Agenda...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:35pm PST
2/15 Haiti News
Serious internal divisions at an opposition demonstratiom in Port-au-Prince:
acts of vandalism are committed against members of the public...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 5:46pm PST
Se incian protestas en Ecuador
Protestas contra privataciones y ALCA antes la convocada de una huelga nacional el 3 de marzo....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 12:31pm PST