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Indigenous Rights Activists Banned by Newton Court |
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by Matt Feinstein, teo (nospam) riseup.net |
 Activists Vow to Find Other Means to Reveal Abuses of Chestnut Hill based Seaboard
Corporation
In an early morning court hearing in Newton District Court on Thursday, April 18th,
Judge Dyanne J. Klein banned international activists Cha-Cha Connors and Kevin Ksen
from future demonstrations against Chestnut Hill based Seaboard Corporation’s Board
of Directors. The one-year stay-away order marks an escalation of the Boston area
campaign in support of the Ava Guarani and Kolla indigenous communities in Northern
Argentina. In recent months, these indigenous communities have been violently
removed from their ancestral land, physically threatened and harassed by Seaboard
employees. |
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28 May 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Race |
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Native People Dissed in Greenfield |
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by d.o., |
 One might think that by the 21st century, 328 years since white men slaughtered unarmed American Indian women and children in Franklin County, their heirs would finally be able to get it right. In a sordid tale of what appears to be greed and racism, Greenfield's Mayor and pro-development forces in that Franklin County town have sought to discredit and undermine attempts by Native Americans to protect Indian remains that may date back to the massacre at Turners Falls that took place on May 19, 1676. Tomorrow at Unity Park in Turners Falls that tragic event will be marked with a gathering intended to seek reconciliation, but such sentiments do not seem to be on the agenda in Greenfield's town offices, the enclaves of developers, or for that matter, at the offices of the town's paper, The Greenfield Recorder. |
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19 May 2004
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Filed under: News / Race |
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There is Always more to a Story then its Headline |
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by Ted Forsyth, Knight0440 (nospam) yahoo.com |
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I was thinking about the Boston Herald headline the day after those “contractors” had been butchered in Iraq. That headline read, “Savages: Iraqi mob kills and burns 4 American civilians.” (Boston Herald, April 1, 2004, news.bostonherald.com) My mind raced. There had to be more to the story then what they were telling us in the headline. I mean, could the very people we were there to liberate suddenly become the savages the papers wanted to see massacred? Was there more to this story? Well, indeed there is always more to any story. |
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13 May 2004
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Filed under: News / International : Race |
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The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost – Yet Again |
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by Kweli Nzito, |
 Racism being crucial to the killing, torture and humiliation of Iraqis, ostensibly called "abuse", is hardly mentioned in discussions on the subject. So that any attempt to reverse the horrors will remain largely cosmetic. To claim that the savagery wa the work of a few, courtesy digital technology, is to make the equally absurd claim that the brutal beating of Rodney King was a simple aberration and thus racism in American is a thing of the past. Please watch carefully the rhetoric of denial and see through it. Then perhaps, an appreciation of the depth of entrenchment of racism might throw some light as to what awaits Iraqis – the much touted “American moral values". |
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International Solidarity Activists Successfully Talk to Seaboard President Despite Two Arrests |
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by Matt Feinstein, teo (nospam) riseup.net |
 International activists successfully penetrated SEABOARD Corporation annual shareholder’s meeting outside of Boston yesterday (Monday, April 26). SEABOARD, responsible for the eviction of at least two indigenous Guarani communities in Salta, Argentina, was confronted with photographs and the powerful stories of the Kolla and the Ava Guarani. Armed only with cameras and their voices, the activists were able to redirect the shareholders meeting to the issue of indigenous land rights in Salta, Argentina. |
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28 Apr 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Race |
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Seaboard Corp Publicly Revealed in Boston Area for Indigenous Rights Abuse in Argentina |
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by Matt / WoGAN, woganemail (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Activists from Worcester and Boston, Massachusetts brought the voices of the Ava Guarani to the front steps and office doors of the Seaboard Corporation this afternoon. This action was part of an international coalition, Alerta Salta (www.Alerta-Salta.org.ar), which has formed to support the indigenous community in Salta, Argentina. This Ava Guarani community has been displaced and severely repressed at the command of the San Martin del Tabacal sugar refinery, which is owned by the US-based Seaboard Corporation. |
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19 Mar 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Race |
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UMass students fight international student 'fee' |
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by Bryan G. Pfeifer, bgp (nospam) iacboston.org |
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In a heartening display of anti-racist unity and solidarity Dec. 11, 125 students and their allies denounced the administration’s plans to impose a new fee on international graduate students in the 2004 spring semester. The $65 per semester fee the administration plans on implementing is only applicable for international students, and is an added expense to the fees these students are required to pay. Its purpose is to fund a new program called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System or SEVIS. This fee would be addition to an already federally mandated $100 charge taxed to international students to pay for SEVIS. SEVIS is a database that links colleges and universities to the Department of Homeland Security to monitor their activities as part of the USA Patriot Act. |
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18 Dec 2003
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Filed under: News / Education : International : Race |
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