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G20 UPDATE: Oakland is on Fire -- Just Another Thursday Night in Pittsburgh |
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by Twin Cities Indymedia, |
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An eyewitness account of the riots in Oakland last night at the G20. |
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29 Sep 2009
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Filed under: News / Globalization |
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G20 UPDATE: Thursday: The People's Anger and the Property Destruction Debate Both Rage On |
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by TC Indymedia, |
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An eyewitness account of the People's March yesterday at the G20. |
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29 Sep 2009
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Filed under: News / Globalization |
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Nicaragua: Pellas Group displays a shameful insensitivity |
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by Giorgio Trucchi - Rel-UITA, |
 In April 2009 a youth group launched a boycott against Flor de Caña, the famous Nicaraguan rum. The boycott is in solidarity with former sugar cane workers who are members of the Nicaraguan Association of Those Affected by Chronic Renal Insufficiency (ANAIRC). |
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22 Jun 2009
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Filed under: News / Globalization |
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Appalachia and Colombia: The People Behind the Coal --an interview with Aviva Chomsky |
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by Hans Bennett, UpsideDownWorld.org, hbjournalist (nospam) gmail.com |
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Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Massachusetts, and is a founder of the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee, which has been working since 2002 with Colombian labor and popular movements, especially those affected by the foreign-owned mining sector. She just returned from a Witness for Peace delegation (May 28 – June 6) that traveled to two regions devastated by coal mining: the state of Kentucky and to northern Colombia. |
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16 Jun 2009
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Filed under: Interview / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Organizing |
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Manipulation - How Markets Really Work |
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by Stephen Lendman, lendmanstephen (nospam) sbcglobal.net |
 Wall Street's mantra is that markets move randomly and reflect the collective wisdom of investors. The truth is quite opposite. The government's visible hand and insiders control markets and manipulate them up or down for profit - all of them, including stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.
It's financial fraud or what former high-level Wall Street insider and former Assistant HUD Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts calls "pump and dump," defined as "artificially inflating the price of a stock or other security through promotion, in order to sell at the inflated price," then profit more on the downside by short-selling. "This practice is illegal under securities law, yet it is particularly common," and in today's volatile markets likely ongoing daily. |
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The World to Come: Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Economy |
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by Jericho Boston, |
 "I'm always intrigued when talking heads rush to comfort their viewers with news that the economy is bouncing back because, for that day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average may be performing well..." [LISTEN TO AUDIO]
BOSTON EVENT FOR MUMIA, APRIL 24: Friday, April 24th, 6:30 pm, Boston, MA: Great Hall, Codman Square, 637 Washington St, Dorchester, MA |
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NorthEast Anarchist Network: "Direct Action = Solidarity. Confront the Bankers in April!" |
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by Northeast Anarchist Network, |
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The NorthEast Anarchist Network is endorsing the "Self Described Anarchist Collective" and Global Justice Action calls for a diversity of tactics, including direct action, to disrupt the Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, DC. Even in this era of uncontrolled economic retraction and collapse, the IMF and World Bank continue to reach for their misleading, self-proclaimed objective of "eradicating poverty", while paradoxically ignoring the needs of poor and indigenous communities. |
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08 Apr 2009
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Filed under: Announcement / Environment : Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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Mexico Presents Flawed Theory in Shooting Death of American Journalist |
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by Physicians for Human Rights, |
 (Cambridge, Mass.) February 4, 2009 - Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges that Mexico's investigation into the shooting death of an American video-journalist has presented a scientifically flawed theory that ignores PHR's conclusive findings, including the discovery that one of the bullets was a ricochet. |
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06 Feb 2009
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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