Day: July 10, 2005

THE NEW RESISTANCE IN ARGENTINA

Workers Defend “Recovered Factories” by Yeidy Rosa When Luis Zanon decided to abandon the ceramic factory in Argentina’s southern province of Neuquen, over which his family had held legal ownership since 1984, the factory’s debt was more than $170 million…. Read moreTHE NEW RESISTANCE IN ARGENTINA

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THE RE-OCCUPATION OF HAITI Lawlessness Brings Call for New U.S. Military Role by Kody Emmanuel THE NEW RESISTANCE IN ARGENTINA Workers Defend “Recovered Factories” by Yeidy Rosa LEBANON’S POST-ELECTORAL CROSSROADS Michel Aoun and the Sectarian Shadow by Bilal El-Amine with… Read more#. 111. July 2005

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PARANOIA ON ROUTE 66

An Algerian Immigrant’s Kafkaesque Journey in Post-9-11 America by Bill Weinberg Still Moments A Story About Faded Dreams & Forbidden Pictures Zighen Aym ZAWP, POB 411, Mossville, IL 61552-411 Of all the nightmares which have befallen immigrants from the Islamic… Read morePARANOIA ON ROUTE 66

CENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA ENDGAME LOOMS

from Weekly News Update on the Americas DR-CAFTA SHOWDOWN NEARS On June 30 the US Senate voted 54-45 to approve the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a pact largely eliminating tariffs on about $32 billion in annual trade… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA ENDGAME LOOMS

VENEZUELA: PARAMILITARY TERROR EMERGES

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 23, several armed assailants firing from a pickup truck shot and wounded Venezuelan campesino leader Braulio Alvarez in the community of Sabana de Parra, Pena municipality, Yaracuy state. Alvarez is a… Read moreVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARY TERROR EMERGES

ECUADOR: HUAORANI BLOCK OIL DRILLING

from Weekly News Update on the Americas The Government Council of the Huaorani Nationality of the Ecuadoran Amazon (ONHAE) announced on July 1 that it will seek to block the Brazilian oil company Petrobras from entering the Yasuni National Park… Read moreECUADOR: HUAORANI BLOCK OIL DRILLING

PERU: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPS

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 29 in Tocache province, in the Huallaga valley of San Martin in north central Peru, at least 3,500 campesino coca growers (cocaleros) armed with sticks surrounded a group of 230 police… Read morePERU: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPS

BOLIVIA: PRESIDENT OUSTED AGAIN

from Weekly News Update on the Americas PROTESTS TOPPLE PREZ–AGAIN Indigenous and campesino protests that had shaken Bolivia since May 16 continued on June 6 around demands for the nationalization of natural gas resources and the seating of a constitutional… Read moreBOLIVIA: PRESIDENT OUSTED AGAIN

BATTLEGROUND BROOKLYN

Muslims Still Targeted for Police, FBI Harassment by Thomas Tracy and Stephen Witt One of the largest and fastest-growing Muslim communities in the United States is in the borough of Brooklyn, and incidents of harassment and “profiling”—by both the New… Read moreBATTLEGROUND BROOKLYN

THE RE-OCCUPATION OF HAITI

Lawlessness Brings Call for New U.S. Military Role by Kody Emmanuel Since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in March 2004, Haiti has largely disappeared from the headlines. But the country remains torn by violence and deep in political crisis. The… Read moreTHE RE-OCCUPATION OF HAITI

IRAQ: MEMOGATE AND THE COMFORTS OF VINDICATION

Yeah, Bush Lied–So What Do We Do About It? by Bill Weinberg Two years and counting after the invasion, a year after the official transfer to Iraqi “sovereignty,” and two months after the formation of an elected government, Iraq remains… Read moreIRAQ: MEMOGATE AND THE COMFORTS OF VINDICATION