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textWhy He Crushed the Oligarchs: The Importance of Hugo Chávez by Tariq Ali (reposted)
The turn-out in Venezuela last Sunday was huge. 94.9 percent of the electorate voted in the recall referendum. Venezuela, under its new Constitution, permitted the right of the citizens to recall a President before s/he had completed their term of office. No Western democracy enshrines this right in a written or unwritten constitution. Chavez' victory will have repercussions beyond the borders of Venezuela. It is a triumph of the poor against the rich and it is a lesson that Lula in Brazil an...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 8:19pm PDT
imageVenezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote
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by venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, Venezuela. Aug 16. (Venezuelanalysis.com).- At 4:03AM, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that according to preliminary results, Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chavez will continue his term until 2006....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 6:25am PDT
textFREEDOM TO THE SIX BASQUE NATIONALISTS IMPRISONED IN MEXICO! by Asociación Diáspora Vasca
Communiqué from the Asociación Diáspora Vasca inviting you to sign in behalf of the freedom of the six Basques nationalists detained for over a year in Mexico....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 2:28am PDT
textRAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST ABUSE OF JAILED ACTIVIST TRE ARROW by Willow
Environmental, human and animal rights activist Tre Arrow, currently being held in Canada's North Fraser Pretrial Center on immigration charges, has been moved into solitary confinement and is being denied a diet in keeping with his beliefs (raw/vegan) in a blatant attempt to break his spirit. In the 4 months he has been incarcerated he has suffered catastrophic weight loss, and is now down to 91 pounds....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 4:51pm PDT
audioCoca Farmers Organize (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) by FSRN
Coca Farmers Organize Bolivia is one of the top producers of coca leaf, the raw material used to manufacture cocaine. But the coca leaf has been used traditionally in Bolivia for centuries and is used medicinally to relieve the affects of hunger, cold, and altitude and is also a common ingredient in Bolivian tea. The U.S. backed Drug War has declared a campaign of total eradication against the plant. Small farmers producing the leaf are organizing to protect their tradition. Shannon Young re...
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 2:54pm PDT
textHistoric Dialogue Between Indigenous Groups In Fresno by Dan Bacher
This article on a historic dialogue between Indigenous Peoples that took place in Fresno in July is being circulated by the Zapatista Solidarity Coalition....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 5:51pm PDT
textCall from NYC: On A29, Reclaim the Park by People of New York
ON AUGUST 29, RECLAIM THE PARK A call for autonomous gatherings, feeder marches and creative events starting from all across Central Park on the morning of August 29, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Jul 21, 2004 11:30am PDT
imageStop Torture in Guadalajara Banner Drop
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by Jesheekah
A banner drop in response to the political prisoners held & abused in Guadalajara. At approximately 7am today, solidarity activist dropped a banner over an over-pass on Folsom between Third St. & Second St.just a block south of the Mexican Consulate. One activist spotted the head of the consulate notice the banner hanging from over a "buses only" over pass. more updates to follow....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 1:55pm PDT
textNew policies on Cuba create backlash by pww (repost)
New regulations affecting Cuban Americans who go to Cuba to visit family there have backfired. The Bush administration is facing both divisions within the U.S. Cuban community and opposition in Congress....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:15am PDT
textOtto Reich: A Career in Disservice by Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:50am PDT
textViolence breaks out in Venezuela by sources
Fighting broke out in Caracas as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused a US government-funded nonprofit organization of funding opposition groups....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:39pm PDT
textSOA Watch Sacramento: Leisa Barnes Is Free! by Dan Bacher
The following is the account by Janice Freeman about the release of Leisa Barnes, Sacramento's own prisoner of conscience, from federal prison in Dublin....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 1:21pm PDT
textMore info about torture of Guadalajara Arrestees by World Organization Against Torture
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is extremely concerned by reports it has received of the mistreatment and torture inflicted on several of the individuals who were indiscriminately arrested in the course of street protests in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and concerned also that many of them remain under arrest....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 9:53pm PDT
text7/7: Delegation to Visit SF's Mexican Consulate by DASW Activist
-TOMORROW (Weds), 11:30, SF: A Bay Area Delegation will be visiting the Mexican Consul-General tomorrow at 11:30! Please come and show your support, if you can! The Mexican Consulate is on Folsom between 2nd and 1st Street. Can't miss it: brick building with Mexican flag waving; plenty of parking....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 8:00pm PDT
textReport about prisoners and protests in Guadalajara by Anti-Glob activists via kev
Update on Guadalajara, Mexico City protests and police repression...
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 11:44pm PDT
imageLeader of Popular Social Bloc, El Salvador speaking this Thursday(en espanol tambien)
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by Bay Area CISPES
Incredible panel on Organizing Strategies with leader of BPS, El Salvador, and representatives from radical community organizations, POWER and Mujeres Unidas y Activas...
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 1:14pm PDT
textVenezuela: In these times of scoundrels by Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas, Venezuela
* Facing the situation created by the referendum of 8/15/2004 to recall the president, the Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas and its newspaper El Libertario call for a radical rupture with those candidates for authoritarian power, presenting to the Venezuelan people ways out of the actual crisis based on mutual aid, direct action and self-management....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 7:23am PDT
textAction Alert - Western Shoshone: War not just in Iraq by front lines
The United States Congressmen are mirroring the same deceptive tactics in Western Shoshone territory in Nevada as in Iraq, said Western Shoshone as legislation was pushed to compensate tribal members for Aboriginal land in an effort to seize it and open it up for mining, energy and nuclear corporations. While Western Shoshone maintain their Aboriginal land claim secured by the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863, their sacred Yucca Mountain is being gutted for nuclear dumping, their horses and c...
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 11:31am PDT
textMiami TV Invites Terrorists to Talk Openly About Attacks on Cuba and Venezuela by JankyHellface (repost)
Cuban television tonight broadcasted remarkable segments of a one hour program on Miami TV Channel 41 in which known paramilitaries from the Florida based Comandos F4 (www.comandosf4.org) organization openly spoke of their preparation for an armed attack against Cuba....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 12:23pm PDT
text76-mile desert walk protests border rules by PWW
Over 200 people protested U.S. immigration policies at the Tucson Sector Headquarters of the Border Patrol on June 6 at the end of the 76-mile Migrant Trail Walk. According to Kat Rodríguez, coordinating organizer for the Derechos Humanos Coalition, 26 activists walked the whole length of the march, which started at the U.S.-Mexico border on May 31. Another seven walked part of the length through the Sonoran Desert, where a few hundred people perish each year trying to enter the United St...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:56am PDT
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