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Report from Trees Not Walls in Budrus, Palestine Budrus, RAMALLAH] Hundreds of Palestinians - men and women, old and young,
Israelis and Internationals from at least 12 different countries* braved the pouring rain today and marched to plant olive tree saplings where the Israeli government has destroyed trees to build what it calls a "Security Wall."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 10:42am PST
Funeral for Killed Protestor, as protests continue in Haiti Port-au-Prince, January 22, 2004 -(AHP)-The funeral of Louvoi Petit, the Lavalas activist who died as a result of torture at the hands of demonstrators from the political coalition of the 184 will be held Friday....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 10:39am PST
Warning: This diet is not for everyone Finding a quarter-billion acres for adequate feed grain harvests would mean at least a 7 percent increase in cropland worldwide at a time when farmers are already using most of the better land. Much of the newly plowed acreage would likely be marginal, subject to greater erosion and requiring extra generous applications of fertilizer and pesticides....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 9:22am PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/23/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, Spain, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 5:20pm PST
1/22 Haiti Update 1. Gigantic pro-government march supports right to attend school and 5-year mandate
2. Senator Dany Toussaint to be called before the Courts for threats to government
3. Head of university student association to answer in court for attack on TNH
4. Maurice Geiger, justice systems expert, writes Herald responding to Sen. Dewine
5. US praise of Dupreval after Raboteau Massacre questioned by Orlando Sentinel...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 3:53pm PST
French Bigotry Getting Worse: Sikh forced to take off turban to enter government building LONDON: A Sikh man has been forced to take off his turban in order to enter a Paris government building, appalled British Sikhs have reported, as France prepares to introduce a controversial law banning the Sikh turban, Muslim hijab and Jewish yarmulke....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 10:32am PST
Manchester Vigil for Tom Hurndall - Video 
On January 2nd, Tom Hurndall died and in the evening of the same day a vigil was quickly organised in his memory....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 10:31am PST
"Ambitions of Empire: the Bush Administration Economic Plan for Iraq (and Beyond).&qu Approximately 70% of the Iraqi workforce is already
unemployed. Those workers with jobs receive "emergency
pay" mandated by the CPA - about half of what they made
before the war, while prices have skyrocketed and the
social safety net has been virtually eliminated. The
CPA promised that the U.S. corporations doing the
reconstruction would solve the unemployment problem,
promising 300,000 jobs in an August 13 letter. Only a
handful of these jobs have materialized. One reaso...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 9:47am PST
PFLP-GC may re-enter PLO 
The Arafat-Jibril relationship has thawed. After quitting the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command [PFLP-GC] is seeking to rejoin the organization....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 9:12am PST
End Police Discrimination Against Poor Filipino Children Each day, 36 to 54 Filipino kids languish and get mixed up with adult prisoners in cramped police jails where a number of them get raped, tortured, and tattooed and deprived of access to legal, medical, social, and psychological assistance and services in an institutionalized act of unlawful discrimination by the Philippine government against the children of the poorest of the poor...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 11:47pm PST
Danny Glover leads TransAfrica on fact-finding mission to Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela - One of the most distinguished organizations of African Americans in the United States, the TransAfrica Forum, sent a delegation of acclaimed artists, actors, activists and scholars to visit Venezuela for a weeklong series of events....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 5:00pm PST
News From Iraq: "Who will give us back our health?" Back in the 1980’s, nuclear armed Israel carried out a pre-emptive bombing of Iraq’s Al-Tuetha nuclear power station which is located just south of Baghdad. While Saddam Hussein didn’t posses nuclear weapons, his nuclear power station which was being constructed still had much radioactive waste stored in two large warehouses. The waste, stored mostly in large metal drums, sat dormant for many years...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 12:19pm PST
1/19 Haiti Update Agence Haitienne Presse is an independent news agency based in Haiti...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 11:15pm PST
Spring Equinox 2004 Global Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes - Mexico This is the Spring Equinox 2004 Global Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes & Eco-Village Project(s) in La Paz County. Baja California Sur, Mexico: March 15th - 30th, 2004...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 3:23pm PST
Montesinos in Court on FARC Gun-Running Charges Rightwing Peruvian spymaster Montesinos is being accused of running guns to the FARC. In Peru Montesinos was known for his violent anti-Communist views and is thought to have been working for the CIA. Does this mean the CIA is/was secretly funding both sides in the war in Colombia?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 9:27am PST
Fresh clashes in Haitian capital Police have fired tear gas in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in fresh clashes with anti-government demonstrations on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 7:27pm PST
Update: Massacre in Tlalnepantla 
This is an update from Greg in Tlalnepantla...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 10:08am PST
Human Rights are not Abstract "Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes warned that the idea of freedom could atrophe to neoliberal liberation from social respnsibility and freedom rights could have only trade, investments and capital transactions as their object.."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 6:12am PST
Daily Double-Shot of Reality: Iraq Article sums up status of Iraq. There will be no *democracy*. The US will maintain bases there to rule Iraq and the Middle East until the oil is gone. Turnover to a puppet regime in June means turning over accountability and blame while retaining for the Bush Regime the real power in Iraq. Bush lied again......
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 12:00am PST
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