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Drug War Film Festival
911 and the BC Compassion Club Society present:
DRUG WAR FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, March 12 8pm
$6 / $4 (911 members)
911 Media Arts Center
117 Yale Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98109
206.682.6552...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 2:53am PST
A HEROIC DEFENSE AND A CRUEL SYSTEM
The southern California grocery strikers are true working-class heroes. Seventy thousand held fast to their strike over four and a half months, a remarkable achievement in the current "jobless recovery."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 10:06pm PST
3/8 Press Release from Int'l Answer about Delegation to See Aristide
A delegation from the United States met twice today with
overthrown Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in
Bangui, Central African Republic. Following the first
meeting, President Aristide held a news conference at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then conducted a
30-minute phone interview in English with Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 10:04pm PST
A Way Station For Dope, Haiti Again Gets The Wrong Kind Of Interference
WASHINGTON, D.C—It was the junior senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry, who came the closest to exposing raw political power in Haiti when he led a Senate foreign relations subcommittee's probe into the drug trade during the early 1990s....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:05pm PST
Creating Stability And Peace In Haiti - Africans In America Must Lend A Helping Hand
The Haitian Revolution which produced the first Black Republic in this hemisphere was a symbol of hope and promise for Africans everywhere. Coming at the height of the holocaust of enslavement, the revolution was a living example that breaking the shackles of slavery and achieving independence/nationhood was possible. Had Denmark Vesey's elaborate slave revolt in Charleston, S.C. succeeded he had planned to sail to Haiti with hundreds of liberated Africans. At every Negro Convention held in ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:03pm PST
Aristide's 'Removal' from Haiti 'Unconstitutional': African Union
ADDIS ABABA - The African Union, which groups 53 states on the continent, has described Jean-Bertrand Aristide's "removal" as president of Haiti as "unconstitutional," in a statement received by AFP....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:01pm PST
Vancouver Police Brutally Assault Eight Eastside Residents
Vancouver Police Brutally Assault 8 Eastside Residents....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 7:42pm PST
Political Friendster
student launches "political friendster" in a webdesign class: you show how Bush is connected to Bin Laden, how Guy Philippe is connected to Bush, etc. Includes corporations!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 6:54pm PST
Haiti Background: Boniface Alexandre
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Haiti's interim president took the reins of his country's shattered government Monday as supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide shouted demands for the ousted leader's return....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 6:36pm PST
Haiti Background : Gerard Latortue
Latortue is an an international business consultant who served as foreign minister in 1988 to former President Leslie Manigat. He is an economist who spent part of his career with the United Nations, living in Togo and the Ivory Coast. For the past year he has been calling for Bush to help oust elected President Aristide. Now that Aristide has been kidnapped and the US has troops in the country, Latortue's wish has come true and the US has appointed him the acting Prime Minister....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 6:24pm PST
Haiti council chooses Gerard Latortue as interim prime minister
A US-backed advisory council has chosen Gerard Latortue, a former United Nations official and business consultant, as Haiti's new prime minister....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 5:48pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Update
1. Aristide Lawyer Calls on U.S. to Probe 'Kidnapping
2. Aristide plans to sue US, France for kidnap -lawyer
3. [African Union says] 'removal' from Haiti 'unconstitutional'
4. Dr. Paul Farmer Ltr to Powell on right to healthcare/training
5. Noam Chomsky on Haiti - US-Haiti, An analysis NEW!
6. AHP News - March 8, 2004 - English translation (Unofficial)...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 5:07pm PST
Gay lib: Televized fantasies, political realities
Despite the enormous popularity of gay characters in many sitcoms, real gay men and women face more challenges than ever before in the fight for equal rights....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 3:58pm PST
How come progressive California can't stop Schwarzenegger?
Whatever happened to enlightened California?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 3:46pm PST
3/8 Haiti News: Ira Kurzban Says Deposed Leader May Bring Criminal Charges Against US
Aristide Lawyer: Bush Getting Even In Haiti
Ira Kurzban Says Deposed Leader May Bring Criminal Charges Against US...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 10:51am PST
Haiti's Youth Fear The Return Of The Killers Of Street Children
Johnny (last name withheld for his safety), 18, is a former youth reporter with Radyo Timoun (Children's Radio) 90.9 FM in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This week rebels looted and burned it along with the Aristide Foundation For Democracy in which the station was located...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:21am PST
Jean Bertrand Aristide: Humanist or Despot?
The Jean Bertrand Aristide I know is markedly different from the one being portrayed in the media....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:08am PST
Haiti- Articles on: Toto Constant, Antoine Izmery, Cuban assistance, destroyed art
Articles on: Toto Constant, Antoine Izmery, Cuban assistance, destroyed art...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 12:08am PST
Haiti: The ouster of democracy
In Haiti, Washington confirmed a foreign policy that is driven by self-interest and delivered through force...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 4:39pm PST
Aristide calls for resistance after six killed in Haiti violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE : Exiled Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide called on his supporters to peacefully resist foreign occupation a day after gunmen opened fire on an opposition rally, killing at least six people, including a journalist, and wounding 34 more...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:38pm PST