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Znet Article Landau: FTAA

Znet Article, November, 25 2003 Saul Landau
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Kevin Danaher is a founding director of Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org), an international human rights group based in San Francisco. His new book is "Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power," co-authored with Jason Mark (Routl...

Znet Article Klein: The War on Dissent

Znet Article, November, 25 2003 Naomi Klein
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In December, 1990, U.S. President George Bush Sr. travelled through South America to sell the continent on a bold new dream: "a free-trade system that links all of the Americas." Addressing the Argentine congress, he said that the plan, later to b...

Znet Article Engler: Miami's Trade Troubles

Znet Article, November, 24 2003 Mark Engler
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Jeb Bush wanted a win in Miami, and he got one, so the White House says. Any honest observer, however, knows that the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) failed before they ever began. Almost a week before the summit, trad...

Znet Article Bello: People Pour into Miami

Znet Article, November, 23 2003 Walden Bello
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MIAMI -- The United States will try to paint the Miami meeting of the Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA) as a success, but the reality is that the opponents have pulled off a victory. This was the assessment of movement leaders as thousands of prot...

Znet Article Landau: FTAA

Znet Article, November, 20 2003 Saul Landau
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As kids we swapped baseball cards, or sold them for money (10 cents). But today trade means something very different. Indeed, every child in the Americas should understand that those attending the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) meetin...

Znet Article Massaldi: Buenos Aires Consensus

Znet Article, November, 20 2003 Julian Massaldi
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Buenos Aires Consensus

Znet Article Pilger: Bush's Occupation Of Iraq

Znet Article, November, 20 2003 John Pilger
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JOHN PILGER is a veteran journalist and documentary filmmaker. In a career that spans more than three decades, he has reported from the scenes of some of the U.S. government's most terrible war crimes--from Vietnam and Southeast Asia, to the front...

Znet Article Escalera: Bolivia for Americans

Znet Article, November, 19 2003 Saul j. Escalera
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John Doe is a young and determined Texan who has established himself in the Panhandle region of his state.  His dream to have land for agriculture has been fulfilled and he and his family (wife and two children) are owners of 500 acres of good ara...

Commentary Adamovsky: Autonomous Politics And The Autonomists

Commentary, November, 17 2003 Ezequiel Adamovsky
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The recent rebellion in Bolivia brought some fresh air for Argentinean movements, at a time when the local political mood seems to be changing dramatically. The image of Bolivians banging pots and pans in La Paz and setting up road blockades all o...

Znet Article Street: "Bush's Best Speech"

Znet Article, November, 13 2003 Paul Street
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Shunning the Mirror According to the Buddhist writer Pema Chodron, "not harming ourselves or others is the basis of enlightened society.  It is how there could be a sane world."   In Chodron's view, "the first and most fundamental harm" is done...

Znet Article Engler: Victory In Miami?

Znet Article, November, 12 2003 Mark Engler
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Good news has arrived for people concerned with workers' rights and the state of the environment in the hemisphere: When trade ministers meet in Miami this month to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), their talks will probably fa...

Znet Article Mclellend: How Militant Civil Disobedience Brought Down The Bolivian Government

Znet Article, November, 10 2003 Jeff Mclellend
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"La protesta es una mujer de fierro sin partido ni caudillo"Teeming with tens of thousands of angry protesters and shaking from the resounding blasts of dynamite, the streets of La Paz on October 18th were the scene of a dramatic climax to the pas...

Znet Article Hylton: Popular Insurrection And National Revolution:

Znet Article, October, 31 2003 Forrest Hylton
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“Slave driver/ the table has turned/ Catch a fire/ you’re gonna get burned” Bob Marley On October 17, the Day of National Dignity—which commemorates the greatest achievement of socialist martyr Marcelo Quiroga Santa...

Znet Article Baynton: The US Response To Bolivia And Venezuela: A Study In Opposites

Znet Article, October, 29 2003 Dannah Baynton
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Hoping for consistency from the Bush administration is something like playing the lottery: You play the game, but deep down, you know you’re going to lose. But even for this administration, the U.S. response to recent events in Bolivia and...

Znet Article Street: Politics and Entertainment I

Znet Article, October, 29 2003 Paul Street
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Many years ago I sat in the home a misguided radical history professor who had invited the local branch of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) to tell 20 students about "the American Road to Socialism." The Party made a mis...

Znet Article Galeano: The Country that Wants to Exist

Znet Article, October, 25 2003 Eduardo Galeano
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A gigantic gas explosion: This was the popular uprising that shook all of Bolivia and culminated in the resignation of President Sanchez de Lozada, who fled, leaving behind him a trail of corpses. The gas was to have been shipped to California--f...

Znet Article Hayden: Evidence Of Things Unseen: The Rise of a New Movement

Znet Article, October, 23 2003 Tom Hayden
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By The chairman of our Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, has said that "Intelligence doesn't necessarily mean something is true. That's not what intelligence is." Keep that in mind as I discuss what James Baldwin called the "evidence of thing...

Znet Article Econoticiasbolivia: Carlos Mesa

Znet Article, October, 22 2003 Econoticiasbolivia
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Translated by: Latinsol La Paz, October 17, 2003 (hrs. 21:00).- The new President of Bolivia, Carlos Mesa Gisbert, was until recently, a declared "fan of Goni", a fervent admirer of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. He admired Goni's intelligence, his ...

Znet Article Stedile: Three Directions in Brazil

Znet Article, October, 22 2003 Joao pedro Stedile
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Talk given in Toronto, Oct 20 2003 [This is a brief talk Joao Pedro Stedile of the Movimento Sem Terra gave to a group of activists during a visit to Toronto.  The address was made in Spanish, and it is reproduced from notes taken by Justin P...

Znet Article Docena: Dying for McDonalds in Iraq

Znet Article, October, 22 2003 Herbert Docena
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MADRID, OCTOBER 23: In London last October 13, an investor’s conference entitled “Doing Business in Iraq: Kickstarting the Private Sector” was agog with reports that McDonalds, among other corporations, may begin selling Bi...

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