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Podur: The May 15 Mobilizations in Colombia
Znet Article, May, 17 2006
Justin Podur
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Colombia's peasant, indigenous, and union organizations called for a major mobilization on May 15, 2006. With elections on May 28, 2006, the organizations sought to demonstrate their opposition to the Colombian regime's Free Trade Agreement with t...
Podur: Free Software and ZNet
Znet Article, May, 01 2006
Justin Podur
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For several months ZNet, an activist website, has been exploring the possibility of converting to free software and so joining the 'free software movement', a movement that advocates for certain fundamental freedoms for computer users. Both ZNet a...
Podur: Six Nations Does Not Stand Alone
Znet Article, April, 24 2006
Justin Podur
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On Thursday April 20, Hazel Hill, one of the Six Nations Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) leaders on the blockade at the Douglas Creek Estates near Caledonia, told me about her beating at the hands of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) hours before. Early t...
Podur: Stop the Deadly Rumours
Znet Article, February, 21 2006
Justin Podur
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the US political police, mainly in the form of the FBI, infiltrated, spied upon, and violently attacked various social movement organizations. This effort, documented in Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall’s book, â&...
Podur: A Dishonest Case for a Coup
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
Justin Podur
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I was convinced, reluctantly, into replying to Deibert.
Podur: Kofi Annan's Haiti
Znet Article, February, 10 2006
Justin Podur
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In the vast corrugated-iron shanty town of Cité Soleil, home to quarter of a million people, all the schools are shut down and the one hospital closed. White armoured UN personnel carriers patrol the perimeter, half a dozen blue-helmeted heads po...
Podur: Aristide the Film
Znet Article, December, 13 2005
Justin Podur
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Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown ...
Podur: Detestable Murderers and Scumbags
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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ON JULY 11, 2005, WITH great nuance and tact, Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier described the forces arrayed against the NATO mission in Afghanistan: “These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I’ll tell...
Podur: Two Faced in Haiti
Znet Article, October, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the 'DDR' program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 'DDR' stands for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Molloy's previous experience, among other confl...
Podur: The Polls of Bel Air
Znet Article, September, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...
Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison
Podur: Refugees and Citizens
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at the description of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina as ‘refugees’. ‘It is just wrong’, Jackson sai...
