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LOCAL Announcement :: Protest Activity |
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The Walk For Democracy Ends In D.C. |
by Jeanette Wallis
grievancegirl (nospam) riseup.net (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
15 Jun 2003
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Seattle Activist (whose support vehicle broke down in U/C) reaches her goal of the White House on foot. This is her final online journal entry... |
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LOCAL News :: Elections & Legislation |
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Consider Helping URNG In Guatemalan Elections |
by Meridith Kruse
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Current rating: 8
15 Jun 2003
Modified: 01:52:32 PM |
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The 1996 Peace Accords in Guatemala ended 36 years of civil war but few of the conditions of the accords, regarding more equal land distribution, health care, and education, have been fulfilled by the current conservative government. The URNG, formerly a guerilla movement now political party, has prioritzed the fultillment of the 1996 peace accords in their political platform. However, the URNG is "un partido de los pobres" and thus has requested the assistance of the international community to help promote a peace with justice in the war torn Guatemala of 2003... |
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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Guatemala, Siempre Llena De Sorpresas |
by Meridith Kruse
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Current rating: 0
15 Jun 2003
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Updates on latest news in Guatemala... Specifically the continued attempts by current President of Congress, Rios Montt, to run for President in the November 2003 election. Rios Montt ruled Guatemala by military coup in 1982-83 during some of the worst years of a 36 year civil war in which the army was responsible for over 90% the 200,000 deaths of mostly indigenous Guatemalans. Montt is currently facing charges of genocide in Spanish courts. Despite repeated rulings by Guatemalan Supreme court that his campaign in illegal (Guatemalan Constitution prevents anyone who has ruled by military coup from running) Rios Montt continues his campaign and yesterday had the audacity to give a political speech in Rio Negro, Rabinal, site of four massacres by the Guatemalan military in the 1980s. |
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News :: Miscellaneous |
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Peru: An Upsurge Of Strikes And Barricades |
by rosa
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Current rating: 0
14 Jun 2003
Modified: 05:22:31 PM |
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All through May the people of Peru built a powerful wave of struggle--isolating the corrupt government and shaking the rotten system that holds them in misery.
Peru's President Toledo responded with bloody repression--imposing a fascistic "state of emergency" and unleashing his soldiers to kill people in the streets. |
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News :: Labor |
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A Memorial Desecrated, A Massacre Remembered |
by richard myers
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Current rating: 0
14 Jun 2003
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Remember Ludlow! The cry of American workers ninety years ago again rings throughout the land. |
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LOCAL News :: Labor |
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Labor Headlines 6-14-03 |
by Peter Miller
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Current rating: 3
14 Jun 2003
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Headlines broadcast during the Illinois Labor Hour, Saturday at 11 am on WEFT 90.1 FM, Champaign. Illinois Workers Gain Union Rights, US House of Representatives Votes Against European Democracy, Police Riot Leaves 2 Dead in Cambodia Sweatshop Demonstration, Colombia Again Holds Title for Trade Union Murders |
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BTL:Growing Number Of Israeli Soldiers Refuse To Serve In Occupied Territory |
by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (verified) |
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13 Jun 2003
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Interview with Yaniz Iczkovits, Israeli reservist and cofounder of "Courage to Refuse," conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus |
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