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2/6 Haiti News via AHP
The government announces measures to bring to an end the lethal terror
perpetrated in Gonaïves by members of the opposition...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:37am PST
Haiti Foreign Press Update 2/6
1. Press fail to identify key players and timing in Gonaives opposition
2. UN Statement in response to Gonaives opposition violence
3. President Aristide inaugurates new public hospital/Receives diplomatic
delegation
4. Opposition rejects talks with Aristide... by Ottey and Charles, Miami
Herald
5. Rep. Waters: "Time for US to get tough with Apaid and the opposition in
Haiti."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2004 12:31pm PST
Neoliberalism and Human Rights in Latin America
"Equality and justice are distorted with new contents.. The effects of the neoliberal strategy in Latin America are pathetic. Poverty and unemploy-ment have increased enormously. Education, health care and housing problems remain unsolved and deteriorate.."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2004 6:25am PST
Peasants and workers demonstrate against the FTAA in Puebla.
Mainly Mexican peasants and unions organizations have demonstrated in Puebla, against the FTAA negotiations, that are having place in that Mexican city....
Posted: Fri, Feb 6, 2004 10:36am PST
Haiti Update 2/5
1. President Aristide: Meeting with union sector/Meeting with Caricom
delegation
2. Haiti's Descent, New York Times Editorial
3. Women's Group Denounces Degradation of Women by Opposition Marchers...
Posted: Fri, Feb 6, 2004 9:57am PST
2/4 Violence in Haiti
Translator's note: The following is an excerpt from AHP's report of the
violence in Gonaïves carried out on Thursday, Feb. 5, by armed members of the
opposition. The full report will be sent out with the rest of the AHP News
translation for Thusday, Feb. 5th....
Posted: Fri, Feb 6, 2004 9:53am PST
2/4 Haiti Update
1. An open letter to Caricom by Randall Robinson (The Jamaica Gleaner)
2. The end of nationhood, by John Maxwell (The Jamaica Observer)
3. Travel Safety Report by Pax Christi USA Haiti Task Force, February 3, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2004 4:39pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Liason Update
I thank you for being in Haiti and I thank you for releasing and spraying the
truth around the world on behalf of the Haitian people as one of the richest
countries of the world, from a cultural point of view, from an historic point
of view......
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2004 10:25am PST
Central American Countries eliminate methyl bromide
Melon producers in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Honduras are working with their governments on agreements to phase out the use of methyl bromide by 2015....
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:59pm PST
The World Social Forum (video/quicktime 6.1MB)
An inspiring report from the recent World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, acompanied by a 3 minute Quicktime movie....
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 2:08pm PST
1/30 Haiti News
President Aristide receives the wife of Lyonel Victor: Islande Gelin confirms
that leaders of the group of 184 wanted to carry off the body of her husband...
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2004 10:06am PST
1/29 Haiti News
For several weeks, opposition supporters have, through deceptive concealment within churches exploited the bodies of individuals killed either accidentally or during demonstrations, in order to organize anti-government demonstrations....
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2004 10:04am PST
1/28 Haiti News
Some degree of confusion surrounds the death of a young man during an
anti-government demonstrations...
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2004 10:02am PST
World Social Forum Challenges Inequality
"It's amazing that people from literally every continent are here on a mission of standing up for peace, human dignity, fair trade. They don't like the direction the major nations are taking. They want to look beyond color and religion for a better direction"...
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2004 12:43pm PST
Biotech Baking Brigade Pies Bayer Biotechnician in Britain
As he took his place in the queue for his buffet
dinner a polite call of "Mr Rylott?" brought him face to face with a chocolate fudge cake (skipped and stale) covered with the sweaty rotting whipped cream and the shout "That's for GM!" before the assaulting party fled....
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 7:40pm PST
International Food Not Bombs Gathering
Food Not Bombs (FNB) volunteers from around the globe will converge in New
York City August 25-27th. Planned to precede protests against the
Republican National Convention, the Food Not Bombs International Gathering
will host activists from one of the world’s largest revolutionary
movements for three days of workshops, spokescouncils, skill shares,
foodsharing and discussion on the future direction of the movement.
Since its inception in 1980, FNB has grown from one chapter to more th...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 12:12am PST
1/27 Haiti News Update
Port-au-Prince, January 27, 2004 -(AHP)- The Conference of Haitian pastors
(COPAH) on Tuesday denounced the increase in acts of violence throughout the
country and asked the various sectors to take on their responsibilities to
prevent the country from sinking into catastrophe....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 11:33pm PST
Award Given to Venezuela Coup Leader
Attached is a copy of a press statement from the Global Women’s Strike, protesting the outrageous decision of the Inter-American Economic Council to present an award on January 29 in Washington DC to Gustavo Cisneros, a leader of the coup against President Chavez...
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 6:52pm PST
Report from People's Global Action meeting in Bombay
About 40 PGA people present for the WSF or for the parallel events (Mumbai
Resistance 2004 and Peoples' Movements Encounter II) had a short but
productive meeting in Bombay on the evening of the 20th of January....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 5:13pm PST