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Gibler: Indigenous teachers defend ´a just cause´
Znet Article, October, 11 2006
John Gibler
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OAXACA CITY - Every night streets here become battlefields in waiting. But behind the commandeered city buses, burned trucks, and coils of barbed wire, a group of atypical urban rebels stands guard. Watching over a barricade where a small altar t...
Engelhardt: George Bush's Iraq in 21 Questions
Znet Article, September, 29 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Recently, in one of many speeches melding his Global War on Terror and his war in Iraq, George W. Bush said, "Victory in Iraq will be difficult an...
Palast: Hugo Chavez
Znet Article, September, 24 2006
Greg Palast
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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...
Hawkins: Rebuilding the Labor Movement in the United States
Znet Article, September, 05 2006
Howie Hawkins
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Unions need to offer a vision of how a just society should be organized. We need to organize for real solutions like fair trade, national health insurance, labor law reform, internal union democratic reforms to re-engage the rank and file, and a m...
Cohen: Notes on the Ecological Dimension
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Mitchel Cohen
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(A talk by Mitchel Cohen at the "Another World is Necessary" conference on July 24, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice.) There is a kind of environmentalist who argues that police clubs must be made...
Lendman: Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City
Znet Article, August, 29 2006
Stephen Lendman
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It began on May 15 this year when teachers belonging to the 70,000 strong National Union of Education Workers in Oaxaca, Mexico took to the streets for the first time to press their demands to the state government to address their long-neglected n...
Lendman: Alternatives To the Collapsed WTO Doha Round Talks
Znet Article, August, 23 2006
Stephen Lendman
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On July 24, 2006, World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy was forced to halt the five years of negotiating of the so-called Fourth WTO Ministerial Doha Round that began in Doha, Qatar in November, 2001 and ended (for now, at le...
Finkelstein: Descent Into Moral Barbarism
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Norman Finkelstein
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As Israel's military bravely fires away shells and missiles to lay waste the fragile human and physical infrastructure of Lebanon, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, waging battle on a second front to legitimize Israel's criminal aggression, b...
Gibler: Pistol Policy
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
John Gibler
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Throughout the past week gunmen of have opened fire on members of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO for its initials in Spanish) killing four and wounding at least 10. Organizations and citizens across Oaxaca formed the APPO shortly ...
Raina: Indian Muslims
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Badri Raina
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My chief concern here is to understand the situation of muslims in India. But, to the extent that the issue is inevitably affected by the condition of muslims world-wide, it is relevant to take note of factors that impinge upon that condition even...
Gibler: Designer Uprising
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
John Gibler
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Mexico City is in the grip of a designer uprising, a massive civil disobedience campaign organized by a national political party—the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD—and involving thousands of grassroots citizens. The mov...
Gibler: Scenes from the Oaxaca Rebellion
Znet Article, August, 04 2006
John Gibler
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On Tuesday, August 1, about 3,000 women marched through downtown Oaxaca City banging metal pots and pans in an oddly melodious cacophony that served as the background for their chants demanding the ousting of governor Ulises Ruiz. They stopped by ...
Emersberger: Unions and Israel
Znet Article, July, 23 2006
Joe Emersberger
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To Buzz Hargrove (President of Canadian Auto Workers) July 19, 2006 Buzz, Israel has killed nearly 300 Lebanese civilians and displaced half a million. It has been given cart blanche by the international community - including Harper's governmen...
Wilpert: The Meaning of 21st Century Socialism for Venezuela
Znet Article, July, 22 2006
Gregory Wilpert
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In what appeared to be a surprise to almost everyone, on January 30, 2005, in a speech to the 5th World Social Forum, President Hugo Chavez announced that he supported the creation of socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela. According to Chavez...
Raina: We The People
Znet Article, July, 19 2006
Badri Raina
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In perhaps the first public statement he made after the event of December 13,2001 when the Indian Parliament became the target of a terrorist attack, (although there are those who still speculate about who the real attackers might have been), the ...
Lendman: Democracy in Mexico Part II
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Stephen Lendman
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There's much happening in Mexico in the aftermath of the nation's most contentious election ever, but it began many months before the first vote was cast. The popularity of leftist opposition candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of t...
Gibler: Mexican Elections Mired in Anomalies
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
John Gibler
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For five days following the July 2 presidential elections, Mexico was in the grip of anticipation as the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) labored to tally—or rig—the votes. On Thursday, July 6, the anticipation passed into a spli...
Achcar: Italian Antiwar MPs - A call for International Solidarity
Znet Article, July, 09 2006
Gilbert Achcar
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Italian Antiwar MPs - A call for International Solidarity
Edwards: A Superb Demolition Part 3
Znet Article, July, 01 2006
David Edwards
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A Superb Demolition Part 3
Christini: none
Znet Article, July, 01 2006
Tony Christini
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We hear a steady stream of progressives say that progressives need to "learn from the South" where they are having more success at social change -- Venezuela, in particular -- but much less frequently do we hear what exactly there is to learn; exc...
