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Cinco horas de protesta en Quito/1o de Mayo en Am Latina Ayer, en las marchas por el Día de Trabajo participaron alrededor de 40 mil personas. Representantes de los movimientos sociales se ubicaron detrás de una gran bandera roja donde se leía: "Trabajadores y fuerzas populares, fuera Gutiérrez, Gobierno popular"....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 8:58am PDT
The IMF and the World Bank: Disaster as a Natural Law "With TINA-There is no Alternative, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher stylized worldwide free trade as a natural law. The IMF and the World Bank were the new institutions that forced these concepts on reluctant poor countries dependent on credits and donations.."...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 7:51am PDT
Woman gets arrested at MayDay Street Party 
Does one person jaywalking merit that person being chased down and thrown on the ground? Can people observe the arrest? Can they find out where the people who were arrested are being taken to?...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 7:29pm PDT
Pictures of First Arrest From MayDay Street Party 
By my count, there were four arrests at the MayDay march today. Here are photos of the first person who I saw arrested....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 6:55pm PDT
5/15 Sacramento Marxist School anniversary talk Joel Kovel Talk at the Sacramento Marxist School...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 9:05am PDT
West Coast G8 Regional Mobilization in San Francisco Call to action for a West Coast regional mobilization against the G8....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 12:02am PDT
German Mayday The first reports are that there were thousands of police in Kreuzberg quarter of Berlin, and they quashed some mayday people.
This is a list of links to pictures of buildup to mayday and may day itself in Germany....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 7:45pm PDT
Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission to Consider Resolution Limiting Corporate Rights, Mon Also on the agenda--9/11 investigation. It is apt to be a lively, fascinating meeting. Leave after public comment if you don't have time....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 11:10am PDT
HEALTH ADVOCATES ASSAULTED, STONED BY DOE RUN WORKERS Peruvian health advocates targeted by big polluter....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 11:05am PDT
Is China weeks away from 'Great Depression'? 
Already in need of a $45 billion bailout, the CBRC suspended all lending for three days. The enormity of China's banking problem is dawning on everyone--the system is nearing meltdown....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 10:12am PDT
Casamance River’s Native Rice Bonds Sacred Traditions African red rice (Oryza glabberima) is adapted to the region of the Casamance River in Senegal and other river deltas. Imported corporate agribusiness Asian rice could be introducing GE/GMO strains into the region's people and ecosystem, also driving the local farmers out of the market. This report deals with the problems of assimilation into both religious and WTO corporate monoculture, and encourages the survival of animist traditions that view native African rice as sacred.....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 1:28am PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/30/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, Russia, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 4:31pm PDT
Talking Back to Chomsky It strikes me that it is not at all obvious what we should do, and that by implying that it is, we risk making people feel stupid, when in fact they are quite right to ask the question, "What should I do?"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 2:12pm PDT
PATRIARCHY, CIVILIZATION, AND THE ORIGINS OF GENDER Civilization, very fundamentally, is the history of the domination of nature and of women. Patriarchy means rule over women and nature. Are the two institutions at base synonymous?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 9:37pm PDT
Activists Violently Arrested in a Peaceful Occupation of the San Salvador Cathedral Secretary General of STISSS Violently Arrested in a Peaceful Occupation of the San Salvador Cathedral...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 5:47pm PDT
Indígenas de Ecuador reiteran pedido de renuncia de Gutiérrez Una organización indígena demandó nuevamente el lunes que el presidente Lucio Gutiérrez "renuncie inmediatamente" por no haber hecho caso a los pedidos de rectificaciones....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 9:58am PDT
10 South American nations to form a trade bloc most U.S. news outlets, apparently taking cues from Bush administration officials, have played down or completely ignored the historic accord, signed April 3 in Buenos Aires by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela and set to take effect July 1....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 9:55am PDT
Latin Am Health Workers Embattled Last year public health workers held 37 national work stoppages in 12 countries of Latin America, highlighting the grave crises plaguing health systems that have few prospects of recovery....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:55am PDT
Bolivians Call for Ouster of New President April 22 - About 20,000 demonstrators swamped downtown La Paz on Thursday to demand the resignation of Carlos Mesa just six months after nationwide protests toppled the previous president....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:52am PDT
5/2: Reclaim the Commons Spokescouncil RECLAIM THE COMMONS: West Coast G8/Biotech Mobilization
SHUT DOWN CORPORATE POWER! SHUT-DOWN THE CORPORATE/POLITICAL MACHINE on
June 8!
First Spokescouncil May 2nd
4-6 pm...
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 12:31am PDT
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