On June 19 US District Judge Leonard Sand of the Southern District of New York ruled against Chevron Corp.‘s efforts to have the American Arbitration Association settle its dispute with Ecuador and the Ecuadoran state oil company Petroecuador. This was a… Read moreSetback for Chevron in Ecuador suit
On June 28, the US and Panamanian governments signed a free trade treaty (TLC) at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington. The treaty must still be ratified by the legislatures of the two countries. Panamanian grassroots… Read morePanama: trade pact signed amid protests
On the evening of June 26, hundreds of people vigiled in Lima, Peru, to protest the efforts of the ruling Aprista party majority in Congress to push through the “addenda” of a free trade treaty between the US and Peruvian… Read morePeru: trade pact approved amid protests
On June 27, hundreds of police agents used tear gas in an effort to break up a blockade of Peru’s central highway by miners carrying out a regional strike. The miners struck back with rocks, and one police agent was… Read morePeru: deadly violence at miners’ protest
On June 26, nearly 1,200 people camped out on the BR 428 highway between Cabrobo and Oroco municipalities in Brazil’s Pernambuco state to block national army engineering battalions from proceeding with the construction of a canal project on the Sao… Read moreBrazil: protests block canal project
The Agrarian and Popular Movement (MAP) of Paraguay reported in a June 26 statement that base-level MAP leader Perfecto Irala was abducted and disappeared by police on June 25 from Pariri, in Vaqueria district, Caaguazu department. Since last Feb. 26,… Read moreParaguay: campesinos disappeared, killed
On June 25, some 5,000 campesinos set out from 11 different areas of Argentina on a “national march for rural development.” The mobilization culminated with a rally in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on June 28, where the… Read moreArgentina: campesinos march
Summer’s here—and time is right for the twice-yearly fund drive that sustains our existence. We hope that WW4 REPORT represents a unique voice in a frankly over-saturated blogosphere. While too much of the media—including the “alternative” media—today condescendingly tell the… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog IRAQ: A NEW AGE OF GENOCIDE? by Bill Weinberg, New America Media VOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERS Oil & Utility Union Leaders on the Struggle Against Privatization from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio ISRAEL & PALESTINE:… Read moreIssue #. 135. July 2007
Oil & Utility Union Leaders on the Struggle Against Privatization from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio On June 18, “Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report,” hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash on New York’s non-commercial WBAI Radio, ran an… Read moreVOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERS
Continue ReadingVOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERSby Bill Weinberg, New America Media Amid daily media body counts and analyses of whether the “surge” is “working,” there is an even more horrific reality in Iraq, almost universally overlooked. The latest annual report by the London-based Minority Rights… Read moreNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQ
Continue ReadingNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQIs There a Model-T in Your Future? by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY I remember the future. I believe we were supposed to be wearing silver suits and zipping about in atomic-powered hovercrafts. The future of my childhood, however,… Read moreTHE GAS-GUZZLER LOBBY STOPS TIME
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