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La Palabra del Agua fluye en la música, lazos solidarios y nuevas propuestas....
Posted: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 10:56pm PST
Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, broadcasted in San Francisco on Oct. 16, 2009....
Posted: Tue, Dec 29, 2009 9:36pm PST
Aside from delaying or possibly sabotaging the prisoner release, the operation against Gov. Cuéllar seemed badly timed in other ways for opponents of Colombian president Uribe, one of the US government’s few remaining Latin American allies....
Posted: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 11:30pm PST
On December 26, Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto, age 32, was assassinated, the second anti-mining activist killed this week in the small community of Nueva Trinidad in the department of Cabañas, El Salvador. Recinos Sorto was eight months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child when she was shot on her way back from doing laundry at a nearby river. She and her husband, José Santos Rodriguez, were outspoken opponents of the non-operational El Dorado mine which Pacific Rim, a Vancouver-based m...
Posted: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 11:44am PST
“Things are ugly here, and every day it seems more like Colombia,” Honduras-based reporter Emanuelsson said....
Posted: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 7:12am PST
* This report originally appears in issue #57 of Venezuelan anarchist newspaper El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario [website in Spanish, English & other languages]. It is a detailed examination of the events behind the mobile telephone manufacturer Vetelca, in which the notion of a socialist industrial production model in Venezuela is unmasked....
Posted: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 12:18pm PST
"We held 93 events that consisted of marches, meetings, forums, workshops, conferences, festivals, rallies, video-debates, and protests. On this tour, we met with 119 sister solidarity organizations, and gave 26 radio and television interviews."...
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 9:38pm PST
"A través de la Gira nos encontramos con 119 organizaciones hermanas y solidarias, además sostuvimos 26 entrevistas en radio y televisión"....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 9:34pm PST
Los presos políticos y de conciencia de la Región Loxicha, recluidos en este penal, nos permitimos dirigirnos a las diversas organizaciones para hacer de su conocimiento recientemente asesinaros a un profesor de Educación Indígena, que venia laborando en la Región Loxicha, y asesinatos de otros ciudadanos....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 7:37pm PST
We, the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience of the Loxicha Region who are still locked up in this prison, are writing to your organizations to let you know about the recent murder of an Indigenous Education professor who was working in the Loxicha Region and about the killings of other citizens....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 7:34pm PST
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 :Bolivian President Evo Morales recently arrived in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Summit. In a press conference Wednesday, Morales said, "The budget for the United States is $687 billion for defense and they want for climate change - to save life, to save humanity - they only put up $10 billion. This is shameful."...
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 9:32am PST
We accuse the United States government of kidnapping Mumia Abu-Jamal and holding him in conditions of torture for 28 years and of making an ongoing attempt on his life....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 5:28am PST
Acusamos al gobierno de Estados Unidos de mantener a Mumia Abu-Jamal secuestrado en condiciones de tortura durante 28 años y de perpetrar un constante atentado contra su vida....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 5:23am PST
Plant closings have become a major labor issue in Honduras. The country’s maquiladora sector lost 36,000 jobs from 2008 to 2009 because of the world economic crisis, and the situation for labor rights deteriorated after a June 28 military coup removed President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales from office....
Posted: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 6:09am PST
Hasta el día de hoy no existe una base científica que compruebe la versión distorsionada de ANAIRC sobre la enfermedad renal y sus causas, mediante la cual ha pretendido vincular este padecimiento con la producción azucarera de Nicaragua....
Posted: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 3:05pm PST
Friday, December 11, 2009 : Now 74 years old, José Mujica was a guerrilla fighter who, when amnestied in 1985, had spent 14 years in jail under Uruguay's dictatorship. In a runoff election on Nov. 29, he won the presidency by a 52 to 43 percent margin over former president Luis Alberto Lacalle of the right wing National Party....
Posted: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 4:32pm PST
Friday, December 11, 2009 :As delegates discuss various ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, our next guest has a simple message: keep untapped oil in the ground. Ivonne Yanez is an environmental activist from Ecuador, one of the larger oil producing countries in Latin America. Ecuador is believed to be sitting on an oil reserve of hundreds of millions of barrels. But the oil is located in the Yasuni National Park, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Ecuador has launched a un...
Posted: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 4:30pm PST
The de facto government of Honduras has said that plans for Manuel Zelaya, the country's deposed president, to leave the Honduran capital for Mexico have been put on hold....
Posted: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 7:56am PST
Obama is following in the path of Pres. Bush, allowing the USA Patriot Act to continue on in full spirtits. The Patriot Act is an unconstitutional act that goes against what our nation stands for...
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 6:02pm PST
While most international news organizations took obedient dictation of the Honduras coup regime's claims of more than 62 percent voter participation in the November 29 "elections," authentic journalist Jesse Freeston did what real reporters are supposed to do: He went directly to the source, asked questions, took notes, and videotaped the evidence....
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 7:10am PST




