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SF 9/2: International Caravan for Justice in Juarez and Chihuahua Mtg
San Francisco Stop: October 24, 7:00pm, New College of California, Cultural
Center, 777 Valencia Street
Next Planning Meeting: September 2, 7:00pm, New College of California, Room
11A, 776 Valencia Street...
Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2004 6:38pm PDT
Over 350 SOAW protesters arrested in NYC
Over 350 people with the group School of the Americas Watch were arrested while doing a die-in near Ground Zero in New York, to protest militarism and the assassin tradition of the infamous SOA/WHISC....
Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2004 12:53pm PDT
We demand justice in 24-year-old terrorist killing
We demand justice in 24-year-old terrorist killing of Salvadorian Bishop Romero encouraged and financed by U.S. Millitary-Industrial Complex (MIC). 30 second video...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 10:54am PDT
Justice for Romero
First day of historic trial takes place in Fresno....
Posted: Tue, Aug 24, 2004 9:07pm PDT
Historic Trial to Take Place in Fresno
Key Conspirator in 1980 Assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero to be Tried in Absentia in Fresno, California, August 24-27...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 10:08pm PDT
Venezuela Referendum: Internal Report and Perspective
An anonymous reporter gives their impressions of the Venezuela referendum from the heart of Caracas via emails to friends and loved ones......
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 1:10pm PDT
Why He Crushed the Oligarchs: The Importance of Hugo Chávez
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
Venezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote
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
FREEDOM TO THE SIX BASQUE NATIONALISTS IMPRISONED IN MEXICO!
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
RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST ABUSE OF JAILED ACTIVIST TRE ARROW
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
Coca Farmers Organize (audio/mpeg 2.4MB)
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
Historic Dialogue Between Indigenous Groups In Fresno
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
Call from NYC: On A29, Reclaim the Park
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
Stop Torture in Guadalajara Banner Drop
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
New policies on Cuba create backlash
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
Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice
Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:50am PDT
Violence breaks out in Venezuela
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
SOA Watch Sacramento: Leisa Barnes Is Free!
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
More info about torture of Guadalajara Arrestees
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
7/7: Delegation to Visit SF's Mexican Consulate
-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