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Living in the Shadows: Undocumented Children Strive to Succeed |
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by Sofia Jarrin-Thomas, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 As an immigrant, Araceli has a hard time feeling like she belongs. She fled social unrest in Guatemala with her family when she was only five years old, speaks English better than Spanish, but has been forced to live in the fringes of society because she is considered illegal. “I’ve been here for sixteen years. I consider myself an American,” she said.
The first time she found out about her status was when she tried to apply for college and was told the benefit of a higher education did not apply to her. One year after graduating from high school with a 3.5 GPA and unable to work legally in this country, she feels uneasy about her future. “Put your self in my shoes. I want an education and a career,” she said. |
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09 May 2005
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Filed under: News / Education : Globalization : Human Rights : Labor |
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Anti-Vivisection Activists Had A Busy Month |
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by Petrina Vegan (article) / Homefries (audio doc), petrinavegan (nospam) yahoo.com |
 On Saturday, April 16 and Saturday, April 30 members of animal rights groups such as The Animal Defense League of Boston (ADL), The Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition (MARC) and Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN) marched, rallied, chanted and otherwise expressed their disdain for the animal experimentation that happens with help from their tax dollars in their own home state.
viv·i·sec·tion - n. -The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research. [from dictionary.com]
Harvard Medical School's "New England Regional Primate Research Center" or NERPRC was the focus of these protests although many universities and private companies in Massachusetts experiment on animals, including M.I.T., Tufts University, and Charles River Laboratories. |
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02 May 2005
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Filed under: News / Environment : Globalization : Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Politics : Social Welfare |
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World Bank PR Bloodsuckers |
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by Just1pin, bdapinfo (nospam) gmail.com |
 On April 15 and 16, 2005 three members of the Boston Direct Action Project masqueraded as World Bank public relations representatives, with black suits, vampire fangs, and large black umbrellas. They hit the streets of Washington, DC during the mobilization against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to show “the true face of the World Bank.” |
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19 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / Globalization |
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Interview: Naomi Klein and her new Movie "The Take" |
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by Pete Stidman, pstidman (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Naomi Klein and Indymedia go way back to our beginnings in Seattle, where she was covering the nascent globalization movement as a columnist for the Toronto Star. Both Klein and Indymedia have grown since then, and maybe the tireless Klein has paced us. She has followed her book “No Logo” in 2000 with “Fences and Windows” in 2002, all the while writing hundreds of articles in publications like The Nation, The Guardian UK, Harper’s, The Toronto Globe and Mail and many others.
Now she and her husband, Avi Lewis, have produced “The Take,” a documentary about the occupied factory movement in Argentina. The film has graduated from the film festival circuit into the theatres, and it will be playing at the Brattle all this week (see http://www.brattlefilm.org for times). In her spare time (what little is left) she has been working on a new book about the Washington consensus and it’s effects on countries that are in transition to democracy.
In between writing her new book and promoting her new film at the Brattle’s opening night, she found a good chunk of time for an old media comrade, the amorphous Indymedia network. |
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06 Feb 2005
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Filed under: Interview / Globalization : International : Media : Organizing : Politics : Race |
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Greetings from World Social Forum, Day One |
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by arnie alpert, |
A report from the first day of the Fifth World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Imagine a large, urban university, but set up for only a six day period. Instead of becoming trained to take their places in the elites of a world defined by institutions of hierarchy and control, the students, participants really, are training each other to bring about change. Instead of ivy-covered brick or concrete buildings, classrooms are in tents of varying sizes. And instead of departments like biology, philosophy, or literature, the “university” has eleven “thematic spaces” with names such as “Peace, demilitarization, and the struggle against war, free trade, and debt,” or “Human rights and dignity for a just and egalitarian world.” Welcome to the fifth World Social Forum, in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil.
Arnie Alpert is the AFSC’s New Hampshire Program Coordinator. |
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01 Feb 2005
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Filed under: News / Globalization : International : Organizing |
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WWMLKD: What would Martin Luther King Do? |
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by Mara Voukydis, mvoukydis (nospam) faireconomy.org |
 Last year around this time, as throngs of protesters chanted and booed on the streets nearby, President Bush placed a wreath on Dr. King¹s grave in Atlanta. The President had said of King earlier that day that he wanted to "honor his life and what he stood for."
Now, as we usher in the President for a second term in office, it¹s time to ask whether he has lived up to Dr. King¹s legacy. On his watch working people and poor people, disproportionately people of color, lost ground.
"Every American deserves to be an owner of the American dream," said President Bush, but a great racial divide remains. If Bush wants to make this a nation where we can all be owners, he should be asking "WWMLKD?" |
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Local CEO exposed at his home for human rights abuses |
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by HarryGiveItBack, HarryGiveItBack (nospam) hotmail.com |
 Banner hung on Bresky's home this morning
Friday, December 16, 2004
CEO and President of Seaboard Corporation, H. Harry Bresky, is being complicit in a genocide of indigenous peoples in South America. Activists left him the above banner hanging on his home at 144 Evelyn Road, Newton, MA this morning to remind him of his urgent responsibility to return the land to and stop repressing the indigenous inhabitants in Salta, Argentina. |
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18 Dec 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Race |
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Indian labor leaders to visit Boston |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
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BOSTON -- A delegation of Indian labor leaders will address "outsourcing" and other international labor issues at a public event in Cambridge on December 2. Members of the tour are seeking a dialogue with U.S. workers about mutual interests in the fight to defend good jobs and ensure fair labor standards. |
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30 Nov 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : International : Labor |
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