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Venezuela: the myth of "Eco-socialism of the XXI Century" Maria Pilar Garcia Guadilla 2010-04-14 5:41 PM

* This text, which appeared in El Libertario # 58, March-April 2010, critically examines what has been meaning the government of Hugo Chavez from an environmental point of view, highlighting the clear separation between the rhetoric speeches that are emitted from power and the specific facts being promoted and implemented. (image/jpeg)

250 March for Healthcare & Education Against Repub Cuts Matt Olson 2010-04-10 11:04 PM

The Southern Republican Leadership Conference, featuring Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Louisiana's own Governor Bobby Jindal, came to New Orleans this weekend and was met by at least 300 protesters in the street. The local focus of the protest: stop cutting education and social services, like health care, first when balancing Louisiana's budget. [PHOTO: UNO Professors Rachel Luft and Steve Striffler in Lafayette Square on Friday] (image/jpeg)

GOP Welcome Banner Drop in CBD, NOLA Anon 2010-04-09 8:01 PM

A banner was dropped from a parking garage in the Central Business District in New Orleans, LA today, providing a welcoming message to republicans attending the 2010 Republican Southern Leadership Conference. (image/jpeg)

Brazil-Paraná-Curitiba: The creation of a new transport company in the big city. Emilio José Lemos de Lima 2010-04-09 4:56 PM

A very specific historical-political phenomenon has happened here : the bus companies have become so important and powerful, in such a close symbiosis with politicians of the city, that simply was not possible to walk the steps that everyone has walked, in the direction of urban trains, the subways and other solutions universally enshrined. (image/jpeg)

Rwanda Genocide; Honoring the Dead without Honoring the Lie Ann Garrison 2010-04-09 2:33 AM

On April 7 the United Nations began its annual commemoration of the anniversary of what we know as the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, when as many as one million Rwandans were slaughtered in 100 days. The ceremonies raise several questions for all those who contest the received history of the Rwanda Genocide: How to honor Rwanda’s dead without honoring the lies? And, how to honor six million more Congolese dead, but not commemorated, in the ongoing aftermath of the Rwanda Genocide when Rwanda’s war crossed its western border into neighboring D.R. Congo? (image/jpeg)

2010 Topanga Film Festival wants to hear from New Orleans Milena Rimassa 2010-04-08 4:43 PM

Topanga Film Festival, now in its 6th year, seeks voice and vision from New Orleans to participate in the Suitable for All Screens Competition -- dedicated to bettering the planet one media work at a time (image/jpeg)

New Orleans Angola 3 Support Angola 3 News 2010-04-08 5:27 AM

Below is an excerpt from the new issue of the newsletter published by the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3. This excerpt focuses on organizing in New Orleans. You can read the full newsletter at our main website. (image/jpeg)

Media Justice and the Crime of Poverty --An interview with Tiny from POOR Magazine Angola 3 News 2010-03-27 4:34 AM

Tiny (aka Lisa Gray–Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, PO' Poet, spoken word artist, welfareQUEEN, lecturer, Indigena Taina/Boriken/Irish mama of Tiburcio and daughter of Dee and the co–founder and executive director of POOR Magazine/ PoorNewsNetwork. (image/jpeg)

Their crime was to be black at the wrong time in the US Gordon Roddick, The Big Issue In Scotland 2010-03-24 12:12 AM

As a new film charts the story of the Angola 3, wrongly imprisoned in America’s most notorious penitentiary for 37 years, the documentary’s producer and Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick tells of the campaign, started by his late wife Anita, to reverse the injustice. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Preventing the State’s infiltration of social movements El Libertario, Venezuela 2010-03-23 11:28 PM

*This article was originally published in El Libertario #58, March-April 2010. Although originally based on the actual experiences of Venezuela’s social struggles, it deals with situations and facts of interest to activists anywhere. (image/jpeg)

Why is there popular protest in Venezuela? El Libertario, Venezuela 2010-03-23 11:25 PM

* For the benefit of those who find themselves surprised or disconcerted by the generalised decline of conditions in Venezuela, as well as the increase in popular struggle (2,893 street demonstrations between October 2008-September 2009; compared with 1,763 in the same period in 2007-08) – either because they are unaware of the situation here, they are based abroad, or because they always accept the official version of events – we expound below on some factors which contribute to social conflicts here. (image/jpeg)

Descifrando la campaña mediática de Nicaragua Sugar Estates-Grupo Pellas Movimiento Social Nicaragüense 2010-03-20 12:20 AM

ANAIRC sigue siendo la piedra en el zapato (image/jpeg)

Museveni and Kagame attack independent press Ann Garrison 2010-03-18 8:10 AM

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President Paul Kagame are attacking independent press amidst increasing strife and deadly violence, which many charge the Museveni and Kagame governments are themselves responsible for. (image/jpeg)

Rhetorical Militancy for a Rhetorical Mass Movement? If Only We Could Make Them Like Us… John Garvey 2010-03-18 12:25 AM

The main purpose of this article is to address the questions of strategy and tactics in the anarchist movement with specific reference to the roles the Black Block tactic, and militant direct action play in our movement. (image/jpeg)

Human Rights Groups Carry the Same Message of Created Free and Equal Chad Andro 2010-03-16 11:11 PM

Violations of basic human rights is what unites groups with different, but similar purposes. (image/jpeg)

Rwanda accuses Hotel Rwanda hero of 'Double Genocide Theory' Ann Garrison 2010-03-15 11:10 PM

Rwanda's government has accused Paul Rusesabagina, the Rwandan exile played by actor Don Cheadle in the movie Hotel Rwanda, of being a "revisionist" who "harbors the Double Genocide Theory." (image/jpeg)

Lebanon: Checkpoints and more (Film) a-films 2010-03-15 2:29 PM

Nahr al-Bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. (image/jpeg)

Youth Are The Voice of Today for Human Rights Chad Andro 2010-03-11 3:18 AM

If You Think Slavery Has Been Abolished, You’re Mistaken. Walkathon 2010 Gets the Human Rights Message Out. (image/jpeg)

37 Years of Solitary Confinement: The Angola Three Erwin James 2010-03-11 3:17 AM

At Angola eighty per cent of the prisoners are African-Americans and, under the watchful eye of armed guards on horseback, they still work fields of sugar cane, cotton and corn, for up to 16 hours a day. "You've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night," says Warden Burl Cain, a committed evangelist who believes that the rehabilitation of convicts is only possible through Christian redemption. (image/jpeg)

Rwanda: 256.com correspondent Godwin Agaba blames government for Kigali bombings Ann Garrison 2010-03-11 3:05 AM

On Thursday, March 4th, two days after Senator Russ Feingold, Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Africa, called for the opening of political space in Rwanda, grenades exploded again in Kigali, with 16 people hurt, some critically (image/png)

The Racialization of Crime and Punishment--part 2 of an interview w/ Nancy A. Heitzeg Angola 3 News 2010-03-04 1:24 AM

As movements for Abolition and Civil Rights worked to end the institutions of slavery, lynching and legalized segregation, new and more indirect mechanisms have emerged for perpetuating systemic racism and its economic underpinnings...The prison industrial complex is the current manifestation of the legal legacy of the racialized transformations of plantations into prisons, of Slave Codes into Black Codes, of lynching into state-sponsored executions. (image/jpeg)

Patois - 7th annual New Orleans international human rights film festival Repost - Patois 2010-03-02 5:18 AM

Founded by New Orleans artists and activists, we are dedicated to nurturing our city’s human rights community, supporting the work of local organizers and organizations involved in these struggles, and providing a forum for artistic expression of local and international issues. March 12 - 21 2010 Film Schedule announcements (image/jpeg)

Is Reform Possible in the New Orleans Police Department? Repost of from LJI 2010-03-02 5:10 AM

More news has come forward in Federal investigations of the New Orleans Police Department. According to today's Times-Picayune, Lt. Michael Lohman, a 21-year veteran of the NOPD who was involved in the investigation of the Danziger Bridge shootings but not the incident itself, will be charged in a bill of information. The Picayune notes that "Such a charge usually signals that a defendant is cooperating with the government and thus would represent a major break in the case for federal prosecutors." (image/jpeg)

FERNANDO LUGO ALIADO A ENEMIGOS DE HUGO CHAVEZ Dreyfusard 2010-02-28 2:20 PM

FERNANDO LUGO ALIADO A ENEMIGOS DE HUGO CHAVEZ (image/jpeg)

Canada moves to make baby Seal clubbing an Olympic Sport David Giles 2010-02-28 3:46 AM

Canada moves to make baby Seal clubbing an Olympic Sport a report by Mike Rhodes (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Honduras: A selective and low-intensity human hunt Rel-UITA 2010-02-26 11:18 PM

Another murder in broad daylight (image/jpeg)

Checkpoints this weeked / Retenes este fin de semana (25-27/feb/2010) Checkpoint response 2010-02-26 12:35 AM

Por fin la cuestión de los retenes ha salido a la luz, debido a una investigación llevado a cabo en la Universidad de California y publicado a través del <i>New York Times</i> y PBS, entre otros.<br> At last, the issue of the checkpoints has come to light, thanks to an investigation done aat UC Berkeley and published in the <i>New York Times</i> and PBS, among others. (image/jpeg)

U.S., French, & UK Imperialist Hands off Niger! Steven Argue 2010-02-22 3:42 AM

In Niger human rights organizations, trade unions, and opposition parties (including the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism) are all supporting the coup. 10,000 people rallied in support on February 20th. Meanwhile the US, France, UK, UN, and African Union all have been quick to condemn the coup. Tandja did the bidding of U.S. imperialism. Meanwhile, according to the UN Development Program’s 2006 Human Development Index, Niger is the poorest country in the world. Sixty percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, life expectancy is only to 45-years old, and adult illiteracy is 71%. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Election Rwanda 2010: Who will be allowed to run? Ann Garrison 2010-02-21 4:12 PM

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have both called on the government of Rwanda to stop attacking opposition parties in the country's 2010 presidential election. Few Americans realize that the Rwandan Army, under President Paul Kagame, is the Pentagon's proxy in Africa. (image/jpeg)

Election Rwanda 2010: Who will be allowed to run? Ann Garrison 2010-02-21 4:00 PM

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have both called on the government of Rwanda to stop attacking opposition parties in the country's 2010 presidential election. Few Americans realize that the Rwandan Army, under President Paul Kagame, is the Pentagon's proxy in Africa. (image/jpeg)

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