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"You Have To Have Power In Order to Change It.”
The Venezuelan president’s meeting with members of the “In Defense of Humanity” network"
By Pascual Serrano - Rebelión & www.pascualserrano.net
16/04/08 -- - Translation: Machetera
This past April 12th, some hundred intellectuals and artists met with Venezuela’s president during the international conference convened by the network of networks, “In Defense of Humanity” under the theme “Armed With Ideas.”
Over five hours, during which intellectuals posed a variety of questions, Hugo Chávez, in military dress following his participation in a military parade, spoke of the coup d’etat six years prior, the situation in Colombia, in Venezuela of course, their political principles and many other subjects. (Full Story).
NICARAGUA - WHAT HAVE THE SANDINISTAS ACCOMPLISHED?
By: ARNOLD H. MATLIN, M.D.
Daniel Ortega was inaugurated as President of Nicaragua on January 10, 2007. What difference does it make to Nicaragua to have a progressive left-wing president instead of a reactionary right-wing president? (Full Story).
Destroying democracy at home and abroad
by Chuck Kaufman
Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network and National Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice. Talk in Rochester, NY, 2/29/08.
The United States spends hundreds of millions of US taxpayer’s dollars each year on so-called “democracy building” programs. Everyone is in favor of democracy, right? We’d like to see it spread to every country in the world. I know I would. So how do these programs work? Let me lay out a couple of imaginary scenarios. (Full Story).
Representing Moussad
Protesting the Guantanamo Concentration Camp at the Supreme Court --
A Direct Action Organized by Witness Against Torture [www.witnesstorture.org] By Ed Kinane
On 11 January ’07, the fifth anniversary of the opening of the U.S. concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dozens of us solemnly assembled inside Federal District Court in Washington, DC. While we were allowed to do a liturgical program there, we were arrested for refusing to remove our bright orange Close Guantanamo T-shirts. (Shouldn’t T-shirt slogans be protected speech?) Just outside the court building that day many other demonstrators, some in orange jump suits, were also arrested. (Full Story).