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  • Hunger Strikers at University of Miami
    21 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Workers at the University of Miami need our help. They are struggling against oppressive management and getting no support from one of Bill Cllinton’s followers - Donna Shala, President of the school.
    http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_web...

  • Lessons of a Left Victory in France
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rick Wolff
    France’s leading bureaucrats, from President Jacques Chirac on down, have been defeated. French neo-liberalism — the dismantling of its welfare state in favor of business — has suffered a serious blow. A powerful alliance of high-school and university students and of organized labor achieved the victory against the government’s law that undercut job security for workers under 26 years of age. The alliance forced Chirac to annul the law — exactly what he and the other (…)

  • Why Oppose the Israel Lobby? By Gabriel Ash (Dissident Voice)
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Oppose the Israel Lobby? Comments on Mearsheimer and Walt Gabriel Ash, www.dissidentvoice.org
    April 18, 2006
    Two academics from the Chicago University Political Science Department and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University shocked the tender sensibilities of the chattering classes when they published a damning study of how and to what extent "the Israel Lobby" influences U.S. foreign policy.
    The paper has been dissected and criticized, often hysterically, by both (…)

  • Resistance: the Remedy for Fear By RON JACOBS
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Antiwar Movement Needs to Take a Look Around
    Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
    By RON JACOBS
    The French students and workers force the repeal of a law that would have provided employers complete control over the work lives of French youth. Immigrants and their supporters maintain a growing series of protests across the United States to oppose proposed legislation that would criminalize the existence of any US residents without the proper papers and those that assist them. On a (…)

  • Latin American School of Medical Sciences : free for all !
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Housed on a former military base in Havana, the Latin American School of Medical Sciences trains students from all over Latin America to be doctors, free of charge.
    Since the revolution in 1959, Cuba has had a long tradition of sending doctors and other medical personnel to countries in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean in need of their services. The devastation in Central America and the Caribbean caused by Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in 1998 increased this need exponentially, and (…)

  • France: The Issue behind the Barricades
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    Boy, those students sure have a lot of people in a tizzy. From the slightly left of center of the political spectrum all the way to the far right, pundits and politicians are outdoing each others to declare that something horrible is going on in the streets of France. At the former end, the students are being roundly ridiculed as lazy elitists, and on the far right, the whole French nation is being characterized as crazy. Some of the drivel passed on by the New York Times (…)

  • African Venezuelans fear new U.S. coup against President Chavez
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.sfbayview.com/092502/africanvenezuelans092502.shtml
    by Professor Alejandro Correa and Professor Emeritus Willie Thompson
    This month, for the first time in history, Venezuelan people of African descent have total control of their historic Black university, the Instituto Universitario Barlovento. They are already planning a university administered hotel and a restaurant for students, faculty and the community. This is an achievement of a lifetime, and the people of Barlovento (…)

  • Israel controversy threatens free speech (The Progressive)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel controversy threatens free speech By Amitabh Pal April 5, 2006
    Two academics who recently discussed the power of the so-called Israel lobby have come under intense fire. This episode threatens free speech-and not just on campuses.
    Harvard Professor and Academic Dean (no less) Stephen Walt and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer co-wrote a paper (republished in a shorter version in the London Review of Books ) that expressed concern over the influence of the pro-Israel (…)

  • Silence In Class
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?
    By Gary Younge
    After the screenwriter Walter Bernstein was placed on the blacklist during the McCarthyite era he said his life "seemed to move in ever-decreasing circles". "Few of my friends dropped away but the list of acquaintances diminished," (…)

  • France’s political crisis grows as 3 million take to streets
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Police fought running battles with rioters in central Paris last night as youths attacked officers with bangers, bottles and concrete at the end of a mass demonstration against a youth employment law that has caused a political crisis for Jacques Chirac’s ruling party.
    Trade unionists and student leaders said up to three million people took to the streets across France yesterday - the second time in eight days that the country has seen its biggest street (…)