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Robinson: Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States
Znet Article, March, 10 2007
William Robinson
Robinson's ZSpace page
Keynote Presentation for “El Gran Paro Americano II†Immigrant Rights Conference, Feb 3-4 2007, Los Angeles It is an honor and a privilege to be here with you today, with the leaders and organizers of one of the most vital, just a...
Burbach: Bush Trip to Counter Chavez is Destined to Fail
Znet Article, March, 10 2007
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
Bush's trip to Latin America is a calculated effort to counter Hugo Chavez's growing influence in the region and to separate the "bad left" from the "good left", namely Uruguay and to some extent Brazil. He hopes to add them to the dwindling bloc ...
Fuentes: Bolivia
Znet Article, February, 13 2007
Federico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
La Paz.- Between December last year what has passed of February, the government of Evo Morales has traversed through the most difficult period of its term, characterised by an intensification of demands and mobilisation that have obliged it to go ...
Barker: Conform or Reform?
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Michael Barker
Barker's ZSpace page
Abstract: The mass media is an important outlet for social movements, where the quality and nature of media coverage strongly influences how they are perceived in the public eye. This paper examines the complex interface existing between the mass ...
Ngugi: Israel and the Palestinian
Znet Article, January, 21 2007
Mukoma wa Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
[Note: Mukoma Wa Ngugi's ZNet article, "Africa and the Middle East", was published in Kenya's Daily Nation, where Israel's ambassador to Kenya replied. We republish Mukoma's response to the ambassador here.] In response to my commentary “...
Gavrielatos: Australia Battles Privatization
Znet Article, January, 21 2007
Angelo Gavrielatos
Gavrielatos's ZSpace page
[Following is an interview with Angelo Gavrielatos, deputy president of the Australian Education Union. Gavrielatos was recently in the United States to meet with union leaders. Barbara Miner of Rethinking Schools interviewed him on conservative e...
Mondragon: Democracy and Plan Colombia
Znet Article, January, 14 2007
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
President George W. Bush has asked the American people to "be patient" so that Iraq can become like Colombia—so that the Iraqis can defeat terrorism and establish a stable democracy like the one Washington has nurtured in Colombia. I would...
Tarlau: Protests in Cochabamba
Znet Article, January, 11 2007
Rebecca Tarlau
Tarlau's ZSpace page
The main plaza of the Bolivian city of Cochabamba looked like a war zone on January 8th, as protestors demanding the resignation of Cochabamba’s governor, Manfred Reyes Villa, tried to take over the government offices and were faced with v...
Fernandes: Savvy Marketing or Debating the Issues
Znet Article, January, 11 2007
Sujatha Fernandes
Fernandes's ZSpace page
As several more leftist leaders were elected or re-elected during recent elections in Latin America, what kinds of changes have there been in their campaigns? On December 3, radical leftist president Hugo Chávez was reelected in Venezuela with 62...
Burbach: Confrontation in Bolivia over Agrarian Reform
Znet Article, December, 04 2006
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
The government of Evo Morales and the indigenous social movements of Bolivia have won an historic victory with the passage of an agrarian reform law that calls for the "expropriation of lands" that "do not serve a just social-economic function." A...
La pepa: Ecuadorians Vote for Systemic Change
Znet Article, November, 29 2006
La pepa
La pepa's ZSpace page
On October 15, 2006, Ecuadorians went to the polls to vote in the first round of the presidential elections. The results were surprising, if not suspicious, when the supreme electoral tribunal declared Alvaro Noboa, a banana magnate and the riches...
Tarlau: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
Znet Article, November, 22 2006
Rebecca Tarlau
Tarlau's ZSpace page
The woman sitting next to me interrupted the discussion by yelling, "Enough of this analysis, let's start talking about the actual demands we have for Bolivia's future!" A murmur of agreement went up around me and everyone started shouting out the...
Elie: What Future for Haiti?
Znet Article, November, 03 2006
Patrick Elie
Elie's ZSpace page
This article was originally published on NACLA News, a new source of news and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean produced by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). In February 2004, U.S. Marines whisked away then-President...
Various: Will Bradley Roland
Znet Article, October, 29 2006
Various
Various's ZSpace page
From: Camilleviv @ aol.com Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:35:53 EDT Subject: Brad Will RIP, a companero and a journalist Brad Will, a friend and a friend to the international struggle for justice, was murdered. I meet Brad when went we traveled cross...
Lamrani: Reporters Without Borders and its contradictions
Znet Article, October, 04 2006
Salim Lamrani
Lamrani's ZSpace page
On September 12, 2006, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an open letter “in response to its detractors,†who denounce its lack of impartiality, the financing it receives from the United States and its political agenda âS...
Palast: Hugo Chavez
Znet Article, September, 24 2006
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katri...
Barker: Corporate fronts, astroturf groups and co-opted social movements
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Michael Barker
Barker's ZSpace page
Challenging power is crucial to the stability of democracy, without dissent there would be few checks on unbridled power. The overwhelming power of dissent and popular democracy to effect social change is widely acknowledged by corporate and gover...
Ngugi: Africa and Latin America
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989. It becomes a symbol of freedom and new beginnings. A few months into 1990 the Soviet Union collapses and from its ruins a plethora of nations...
Morales: Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America
Znet Article, September, 04 2006
Evo Morales
Morales's ZSpace page
Bolivia's President Evo Morales, 46, talks to DER SPIEGEL about reform plans for his country, socialism in Latin America, and the often tense relations of the region's leftists with the United States. SPIEGEL: Mr. President, why is such a large...
Kunin: Supporting CUPE's Israel Boycott
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Jason Kunin
Kunin's ZSpace page
Not many people in North America were paying attention in July 2005 when The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, along with over 170 Palestinian unions, political parties, and organizations called for a global campaign...
