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Report Back from India World Social Forum *The World Social Forum: *
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Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:40pm PST
Ramsey Clark On Haiti: "A Clear Demonstration of U.S. Regime Change By Armed Aggressi We speak with former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Clark about the overthrow of the democratically-elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide. During the 1991 coup, Clark traveled to Haiti several times in an effort to restore him to power. [Includes transcript]...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:32pm PST
Head of U.S. Security Firm That Guarded Aristide Speaks Out Reports emerged yesterday that the private U.S. security firm guarding President Aristide was prevented by the White House from sending reinforcements to Haiti last week to bolster his security. We speak with the CEO of the firm Kenneth Kurtz. [includes transcript]...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:31pm PST
Black Caucus Vows to Find Out if U.S. Engineered Coup Against Aristide We speak with actor, activist and TransAfrica chair Danny Glover about President Aristide's claims that the U.S. forced him out of office as well as Rep. Barbara Lee who says she plans to raise the issue at a meeting of the House International Relations Committee tomorrow....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:28pm PST
U.S. Psy-Ops Exposed, South Africa Rejects Washington's Claim Aristide Was Denied Asylum In a Democracy Now! exclusive, South African ambassador to the United Nations, Dumisani Kumalo, says President Aristide did not request asylum or exile in South Africa, nor did the South African government deny him asylum or exile as alleged by the US State Department and The New York Times....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:27pm PST
Caribbean leaders gather in Jamaica to discuss Haiti crisis KINGSTON, Jamaica - Caribbean leaders, meeting in an emergency summit Tuesday in Jamaica to discuss Haiti's crisis, also hoped to clear up conflicting reports surrounding the ouster of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:11pm PST
Prime Minister of Haiti: It was a coup; "I am a prisoner in my office" Kevin Pina of KPFA Flashpoints and Black Commentator, and Andrea Nicastro of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, interviewed Prime Minister Yvon Neptune in his office at 9:00 a.m. EST today, Tuesday, March 2, 2004....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 2:05pm PST
El Salvador/CISPES Benefit Concert Thursday! Local Ska legends: The UPTONES
"Skankin the Bay since 1982" AND
LA PLEBE "San Francisco’s very own Latin Ska Punk Powerhouse" play a benefit concert for El Salvador/CISPES this Thursday at La Pena, Berkeley...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 1:43pm PST
U.S. OUSTS ARISTIDE: Another Coup in Haiti This piece was written the morning of the U.S.-backed coup d'etat in Haiti forcefully removing Pres. Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
It calls for Americans to cease business as usual in the wake of this blatant violation of international and Federal laws by this government. It sums up the historic role the U.S. and its allies have played in the ongoing destabilization of Haiti (33 coup d'etats!) and its impovershment resulting from U.S. and French policies....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 12:39pm PST
¡El campo no aguanta más!: Mobilización global contra ALCA/TLC Desde los valles y montañas de los Andes, los pueblos de la tierra hacemos un llamado a la movilización continental y mundial....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 12:36pm PST
Indigenas: Contra la insignificancia en América Latina Texto leído por el premio Nobel portugués durante la presentación del libro de la periodista mexicana Gloria Muñoz, EZLN. 20 y 10. El fuego y la Palabra, en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 12:27pm PST
Events Being Planned for G8 Summit in Georgia Here is an update of events planned leading up to, and surrounding the G8 summit on Sea Island in Georgia in June 2004.
More details about these events will be posted on the g8carnival committee website at http://www.g8carnival.org and the Atlanta Indymedia website http://www.atlanta.indymedia.org and Activist Calander....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 11:47am PST
A Fair Trade: Your Freedoms For A Loaf of Bread? The benefits of government are dubious, at best. The lessons of Catholic Charities are illustrative: they incorporated and thus, accepted government regulation. But they got tax exemptions! Whoo woo!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 11:43am PST
More on the SF-based paramilitary firm that 'protected' Aristide The San Francisco-based Steele Foundation ran Haiti's Presidential Protection Unit, staffing it with former apartheid soldiers and special forces. Now, the firm is militarizing the corporate invasion of Iraq. Its recent CEO, Richard Wilmot worked for US Army Intelligence and helped further the Afghan jihad....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 11:10am PST
Urgent Action Needed. Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered. Our Black people in Port-au-Prince Haiti are being slaughtered. The duly
elected President kidnapped by U.S. Marines and flown out of the country at
gunpoint and is being held hostage in the Central African Republic under U.S and
French guard....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 10:09am PST
Now That US Is In Control, "Baby Doc" Duvalier Wants to Return to Haiti MIAMI (Reuters) - Deposed Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier wants to return as soon as possible to his homeland, where Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned as president after armed rebels took over much of the country....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:34am PST
A Typical American Coup When it comes to removing heads of state by indirect means, the US still has what it takes to get the job done...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:12am PST
Haiti: U.S. Return of Asylum Seekers Is Illegal (New York, March 2, 2004) — The U.S. government’s return of hundreds of fleeing Haitians to the capital Port-au-Prince violates their right not to be sent back to a place where their lives or freedom are endangered, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:10am PST
I was kidnapped - Aristide Asked whether his departure was in the best interests of Haiti, Aristide said: "Of course not, because no one should force an elected president to move to avoid bloodshed."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:08am PST
Venezuela: Appeal from the HANDS OFF VENEZUELA Campaign Venezuela...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:07am PST
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