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FTAA Talks Fail Again!
The most recent attempt at resuscitating the ailing FTAA talks have, for a
third time in a row, ended in failure for the negotiators - and a striking
victory for people struggling against corporate globalization across the
hemisphere....
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 8:23pm PST
CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION, WAR AND THE ENVIRONMENT: IT'S ALL ONE STRUGGLE
The U.S. is headquarters to the world's most massive corporations.
With 6% of the Earth's population, it consumes 25% of the world's
resources including one-quarter of the world's oil. It
simultaneously emits 25% of the world's greenhouse gases....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 11:51pm PST
Online Stream of Reverend Billy Lecture
Penn State is hosting Reverend Billy, founder of the Church of Stop Shopping, and will stream his lecture tomorrow over the Net. There will be an archive in case you cannot catch it live. The Church will do a tour thoughout California in April....
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 8:12pm PST
Caribbean Said Not to Accept Haiti Gov't
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) - The 15-nation Caribbean Community does not plan to recognize Haiti's new U.S.-backed interim government, senior Caribbean officials said Friday....
Posted: Fri, Mar 26, 2004 4:47pm PST
Trinidad Express: Haiti in a Caricom limbo
BASSETERRE-Caribbean Community leaders yesterday went to their two-day Inter-Sessional Conference here in the capital of St Kitts, signalling doubts about any recognition of the interim Haitian regime in Port-au-Prince by the 15-member regional economic integration movement....
Posted: Fri, Mar 26, 2004 8:59am PST
Who Owns the Sky? Reviving the Commons
"Not since the Golden Age of the 1890s has so much public wealth been shoveled into private hands with such brazen efficiency. Timber compan-ies, corporate ranchers and foreign mining companies.. are plundering our national patrimony.."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 6:16am PST
Trade Justice Convergence: Organizing to STOP CAFTA coming to LA next weekend
Trade Justice Convergence to build our Action, Skills and Knowledge to Make Trade Fair and Stop the Central American Free Trade Agreement....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 1:01am PST
False Dichotomies (video/mpeg 11.5MB)
1st cut from segment from IMC Ftaa video...
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 11:52am PST
Jamaica, Venezuela Refuse to Recognize U.S.-Backed Haitian Government
Two days after President Aristide defied the Bush administration and the Haitian government by returning to the Caribbean, we go to Kingston, Jamaica to get a report from a veteran Jamaican journalist....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:30am PST
Haiti: Class Hatred and the Hijacking of Aristide
But almost all Haiti-watchers agree that various
anti-Aristide forces have been at work in the
U.S. capital for as long as the former Catholic
priest has been leading his campaign on behalf of
the poor in the western hemisphere's most
impoverished nation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:30am PST
Haiti's New Government : Con-men out for your money
WHAT a shameful blunder by an unelected, interim Prime Minister of Haiti to have declared a suspension of that Caribbean nation's relations with the Caribbean Community....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 11:07pm PST
Action to Support Garment Workers Struggle for Justice: Tarrant México Ajalpan Campaign
Mexican workers to visit SF next week prior to NAFTA hearing...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 2:20pm PST
Coca-Cola Workers go on Hunger Strike in Colombia
This morning, Monday March 15, Coca-Cola union workers in Colombia began a hunger strike in front of the Coke bottling plants in Barrancabermeja, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Medellín, and Valledupar....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 7:21pm PST
Amy Goodman on CNN: Breaks News of Aristide's Return
Amy Goodman on CNN: Breaks News of Aristide's Return...
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 3:51pm PST
Haiti suspends ties with CARICOM
HAVANA, March 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Haitian appointed Prime Minister Gerard Latortue announced Monday he temporarily suspended his country's membership in the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) and withdrew Haiti's ambassador from Jamaica, reports from Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince stated....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 3:49pm PST
Aristide leaves for Jamaica : Clearance came after tense stand-off in Bangui
Haiti's deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, left the Central African Republic for Jamaica last night, after what appeared to be hours of stand-off and indecision by the country's leader, General Francois Bozize, over whether Aristide and his wife, Mildred, would be allowed to leave...
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 10:27am PST
Haiti suspends diplomatic relations with Jamaica
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The interim prime minister said today he was recalling Haiti's ambassador to Jamaica and putting relations on hold over the return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 10:15am PST
FTAA Minesterial postponement
Negotiations to complete the Free Trade Area of the Americas are crumbling under the weight of injustice....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 8:49pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Update
1. Statement by Jamaica's Prime Minister/Aristide to visit
2.. BBC: Haiti health system 'devastated'
3. Youth Reporter Phones in Story From Haiti, Pacifica
4. Ira Kurzban, Esq. raises questions about reporting of Associated Press
5. Description of recent PBS Lehrer Newshour (Senators Coleman/Dodd)...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 9:51am PST
Collective Suicide or Globalization from Below
"According to the German philosopher Franz Hinkelammert, living in Costa Rica, the West has repeatedly been under the illusion of saving humanity by destroying part of it.. Sacrificial genocide arises from a totalitarian illusion.."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 9:36am PST