Conference

Brenda Norrell | November 4, 2009

Indigenous
Peoples from Bolivia, Alaska, and throughout Indian country gathered at
the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum and told the same story:
Uranium mining is a hate crime in Indian country.

"Leave it in the ground," said Native Americans whose parents,
brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles died from cancer, respiratory
diseases, and brain tumors resulting from uranium mining.  read more »

This is from the listserve of an organization named  May I Speak Freely www.mayispeakfreely.org/     It isfantastic that there is finally an organization focussing on issues in Honduras. Please check them out!  -Rick  read more »

Festival Cinematográfico Internacional El ojo cojo

400 películas de 72 países

Éxito absoluto de convocatoria para un festival cinematográfico que ha crecido en prestigio y calidad.

Este año el Comité de preselección que debió visionar los 400 títulos propuestos al festival estuvo integrado por:

Sergio Hernández (México) Licenciado en Psicología Social por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana en México, Master en Estudios Superiores Iberoamericanos, Doctorado en Historia de la Comunicación Social. En el Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de México fue responsable del área de Cultura zonas de escasos recursos, organizando festivales, exposiciones y talleres.  read more »

I really enjoyed this speech. Moyers ranges over topics from the alarming shrinkage in daily papers' new sections (replaced by "advertisements, celebraties, nonsense and propaganda") to the future of the internet, the state of democracy, and the importance of the growing media reform movement. Watch it if you've got the time!

By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Thu Dec 6, 2007

BALI, Indonesia - The impact of climate change plus deforestation could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60 percent of the Amazon forest by 2030 — making it impossible to keep global temperatures from reaching catastrophic levels, an environmental group said Thursday.  read more »

"Many of the women who contracted cancer were the mothers, the aunties, and the sisters. They cleaned the clothes for their sons, brothers, and husbands who went to work in the mines. A lot of the time people were doing double shifts at the mine sites, so people would come home after 16 hours of work and literally take their coats off and fall asleep, not change their clothing or anything."
– Deb Abrahamson

Deb Abrahamson, SHAWL Society
(Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water and Land)  read more »

by Brenda Norrell
Saturday, November 10, 2007  read more »

By Jared Jacang Maher
Published: October 25, 2007
http://www.westword.com/2007-10-25/news/anarchists-arise

The group that may be the most prepared for the 2008 Democratic National Convention is also the least likely to be prepared. It doesn't represent labor unions or mainstream progressives, but anarchists. A loose coalition of anti-authoritarian factions from across the nation have formed an outfit called Unconventional Action, with the express goal of disrupting and shutting down the DNC and RNC. Activists say that anarchists in this country have never planned such a large-scale action so far in advance of a specific event, and certainly not with such openness and strategy.  read more »

A Dispatch from the First Ever Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky via Infoshop News  read more »

Thomas Riggins

Some reflections on the current Turkey/PKK standoff in Northern Iraq. If Turkey wants to end PKK attacks it might try, as a first measure, extending full citizen and human rights to the Kurdish population of Turkey. The Kurds are not allowed to freely use their language. A people's culture and traditions can not be preserved and respected if the state persecutes them with regard to the use of their national language.

Turkey should end efforts at forced assimilation of Kurdish children to "Turkishness" and other efforts at cultural genocide. Turkey should also end policies of violent repression of peaceful manifestations of Kurdish nationalism.  read more »