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Mendocino Goes GMO Free Signaling a turning point in the effort to halt the introduction of GMO crops in the U.S., the citizens of Mendocino County today dramatically approved a countywide measure that prohibits the "propagation, cultivation, raising and growing of genetically modified organisms.”
With 100% of the precincts reporting, the final tally was 56.34% for and 43.66% against. The County has 47,000 voters.
Measure H had broad support from county residents, farmers, wineries, business owners, a...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 10:43am 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
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
Rep. Maxine Waters Says Aristide Is Being Held Like a Prisoner Rep. Maxine Waters Says Aristide Is Being Held Like a Prisoner...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:34am PST
Bush fails democracy in Haiti Last year, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Brian Dean Curran declared, "The United States accepts President (Jean-Bertrand) Aristide as the constitutional president of Haiti for his term of office ending in 2006."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 11:23pm PST
Haiti: The Yuppie Silence The "progressive" community in America has always and will continue to flabbergast my perception of know-all. As one who commonly identifies with the monolithic-activist-culture, furthermore a proud son of Haiti (albeit Diaspora) striving to fulfill the prodigal Caribbean prophecy, an anomaly has manifested itself on the crown of this dualistic self-perception; grant me the luxury of expounding as to why....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 11:22pm PST
Neoliberal Jeffrey Sachs alarmed over Haiti coup Don't fall for Washington's spin on Haiti
By Jeffrey Sachs, Financial Times - March 1, 2004
The crisis in Haiti is another case of brazen US manipulation of a small,
impoverished country with the truth unexplored by journalists. In the nearly
universal media line on the Haitian revolt, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
was portrayed as an undemocratic leader who betrayed Haiti's democratic
hopes and thereby lost the support of his erstwhile backers....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 12:32pm PST
Wed March 10th: Haiti Action Committee Event In Oakland On Tuesday, March 10, at 7:00 pm, Pierre Labossiere, Voleine Amilcar and Tim Suttle will give first hand accounts and analysis of their recent visit to Haiti as delegates who participated in Haitiís Bicentennial celebration. Keynote speaker Pierre Labossiere will discuss the roots of the growing crisis, the connections between the "Rebels", Haitian opposition leaders, and how the U.S. failed in supporting democracy in Haiti....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:28am PST
Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops
First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming...
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:17am PST
Fmr. U.S. Special Forces Officer Describes Arresting Current Coup Leader in 1994 Stan Goff, who spent 26 years in the U.S. Armed Forces in elite Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces counterterrorist units describes arresting coup leader Jean Tatoune in the first coup in 1994. FRAPH veteran Tatoune was convicted of gross violations of human rights and murder in the massacre in the pro-democracy region of Raboteau....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:12am PST
The Haitian Army Returns: Who Is Guy Philippe? The feared Haitian army, disbanded by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is making a comeback. We take an in-depth look at the paramilitary leader who now claims to be in control of the Haitian police and military: Guy Philippe, a former Haitian police chief who was trained by US Special Forces in Ecuador in the early 1990s....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:11am PST
Will the UN and OAS Recognize Aristide or Coup Leaders? We speak with the Center for Constitutional Rights' Michael Ratner about who the United Nations and Organization should recognize as the legitimate government of Haiti under international law and we take a look at the English translation of Aristide's resignation letter which he says is altered to omit a key phrase....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:10am PST
Haitian Consul General Says Aristide Still President In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Consul General of the Haitian government in New York Harry Fouche recognizes the Aristide government as legitimate saying Jean Bertrand Aristide is still president of Haiti and Yvon Neptune is still his prime minister.
Harry Fouche, Consul General of the Haitian government in New York....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:08am PST
Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops Mendocino County voters on Tuesday were the first in the nation to ban genetically engineered crops and animals....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:05am PST
One US-French Coup to Another: Central African Republic Aristide's exile is governed by another France-backed military junta....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 9:37am PST
Caricom's moment after coup against Aristide CARIBBEAN Community heads of government were locked in intense deliberations at yesterday's emergency summit in Kingston, Jamaica as more disclosures were surfacing about the coup that toppled the Aristide presidency in Port-au-Prince....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 9:19pm PST
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