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Relatives condemn Bush 9/11 ads
Relatives of victims killed in the 11 September 2001 attacks have criticised George W Bush for using images from the tragedy in his campaign advertisements....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:57pm PST
Caribbean Women Denounce the US-backed coup in Haiti
We, the undersigned women of the Caribbean and of Caribbean descent, denounce the US-backed coup, which culminated in President Aristide’s removal from Haitian soil by US forces on Sunday, February 29, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:35pm PST
President Aristide's Phone Service Cut Off, Lawyer
2004-03-03 : Ira Kurzban, the lawyer who represents President Jean Bertrand Aristide has announced that he had just learned that the Central African Republic (CAR) has shut off President Aristide's phone service. He said that armed members of the French and CAR military are guarding President Aristide and he is not free to leave....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:14pm PST
Haiti's Aristide accuses France
Haiti's former President Jean Bertrand Aristide has accused Paris of colluding with the US to remove him from office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:06pm PST
"Free Sherman Austin" - article in SF BayView
article written by a lawyer printed in SF BayView...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 5:44pm PST
Surrender at the Supermarket: The national failure of the grocery workers' union
The four-and-a-half-month-long Southern California grocery strike illustrated perfectly the basic time-tested strategy of a successful labor action: Organize. Promote solidarity. Prepare for a long fight. Stay the course no matter how deep the financial hardship. Outlast the other side by a day....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 4:44pm PST
Occupation photos from Iraq
Photos I took in February, 2004 of Coalition and Iraqi troops in Iraq. In Iraq, you are not allowed to take pictures of coalition troops or security zones, so there were a lot of challenges to get decent photos....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 1:46pm PST
HAITIAN STORY SOUNDS FISHY TO CARIBBEAN LEADERS
Caribbean nations just aren’t buying into the Bush story about Haiti.
Instead, the fifteen member Caribbean Community (Caricom) have called on the United Nations to investigate Sunday’s ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The leaders are hoping if such an investigation does take place, the former president will be allowed to testify if he wants to....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 1:28pm PST
Blk Commentator on Godfather Colin Powell & 'killing fields" of Haiti
Godfather Colin Powell: The Gangster of Haiti;
Kevin Pina's notes on the 'killing fields';
"The deed is done. Haiti has been raped. The act was sanctioned by the United States, Canada and France." - Editorial, Jamaica Observer ''All the people that supported [Aristide] will be dead in three months.'' - attorney Ira Kurzban...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 1:03pm PST
Say No To H.Con.Res.371!
3/4/04 CFL ALERT: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND ASK THEM NOT TO SUPPORT H.Con.Res.371....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 9:36am PST
Invasión en Haití tras el golpe!
"Me sacó el ejército de Estados Unidos" Arisi...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 9:02am PST
A REVIEW OF CURRENT MEDIA COVERAGE OF HAITI
This is a look at the current media coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and specifically how the media is covering the allegations that the U.S. forcibly removed Aristide from power. I have searched the sites for CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, FOX, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. This story was written between noon and 4:30 pm, and all information on each news source is from within that timeframe....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 9:00am PST
West African ACP countries
This update is part of an on-going Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) launched for four years
to assess the impacts of the future Economic Partnership Agreement negotiated between the EU
and regions of the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) countries, on sustainable development....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:53am PST
News Roundup On The Haiti Coup
UNDERNEWS
MAR 2, 2004
FROM THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:50am PST
Barbara Lee Criticizes U.S. "Destabilization and Undermining of Democracy in Haiti&qu
Rep. Barbara Lee compares the administration's policies in Haiti to the invasion of Iraq and talks about the systematic embargo and the disallowance of funding for humanitarian projects in Haiti such as health education and clean water efforts....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:43am PST
House Members Blast Administration For Haiti Policies
Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was grilled by Congressional Democrats yesterday for the Bush administration's handling of the crisis in Haiti at a hearing of the House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. We play excerpts of the hearing....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:42am PST
Caribbean nations demand Haiti inquiry
KINGSTON, JAMAICA - Fourteen Caribbean nations called Wednesday for an independent international inquiry into Jean-Bertrand Aristide's claim that the United States forced him out of office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:40am PST
Mainstream Media Fails Itself On Haiti
On February 29, Richard Boucher from the U.S. Department of State released a press release claiming that Jean Bertrand Aristide had resigned as president of Haiti and that the United State facilitated his safe departure. Within hours the major broadcast news stations in the United States including CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR were reporting that Aristide had fled Haiti. An Associated Press release that evening said "Aristide resigns, flees into exile." The next day headlines in ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:37am PST