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  • Indigenous Women Position on Canada-US-Mexico Borders
    15 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Invaders of the Western Hemisphere, all their criminal agencies and departments, their international terrorist allies and the useless United Nations [the Kaianerehkowa supercedes their Charter and the Constitution of the US].
    RE: Inherent right of Rotino’shonni:onwe to traverse Indigenous lands of Onowaregeh, Great Turtle Island, and beyond without hindrance from invading aliens.
    PREAMBLE:
    Creation placed us on Great Turtle Island. We cannot forfeit ourselves or our territory. We (…)

  • letter of november to the President Obama
    5 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mister President Obama,
    The White House,
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
    Washington, DC 20500
    November 2nd of 2009
    Mister President Obama,
    Already eleven years and two months have passed since the imprisonment of the Cuban Five Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramòn Labañino, and René Gonzalez, who are still in the United-States prisons.
    Antonio received a new sentence in Miami, instead of life (…)

  • HONDURAS: OBAMA’S LATIN AMERICAN POLICY
    20 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    “We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms. But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. I am here to launch a new chapter of engagement that will be sustained throughout my administration."
    Barrack Obama, Summit of the Americas, April 2009
    The United States Civil War – a war that cost over 600,000 lives – was a blessing to the indigenous tribes of the North American continent. While the white (…)

  • letter to President Obama after his Nobel price
    18 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mister President Barak Obama 14/10/09 The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington, D. C. 20500
    Mister President Obama,
    First let me congratulate you for recently receiving the Nobel Price for Peace.
    This is not by coincidence if you were elected.
    To hand out such a prize to a newly elected president of United States, is a proof that the world desires to witness your country’s politics based on principles of justice, rather (…)

  • letter to President Obama
    3 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Barak Obama, The White House, 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue N. W., Washington D.C. 20500
    1st October 2009
    Dear Mister President Obama,
    October is here, and the five Cubans Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and René Gonzalez are still imprisoned in your country.
    Following their arrest on 12th September 1998, they were placed in isolated “holes” during 17 months in the Miami’s prison, in such totally inhumane conditions. Once the trial was (…)

  • letter to President Obama
    2 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear President Obama September 1st 2009 The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20500
    Eleven years have passed since five Cuban men have been imprisoned in the United States. Their only crime was to be devoted to the protection of their country subjected to terrorist attacks from the United States. Since the beginning, all the American governments have managed to get rid of the Cuban Revolution once of all. What gives a country, (…)

  • The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre
    23 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Breaking the Silence
    The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 283
    Posted - August 20, 2009
    For more information contact: Kate Doyle - kadoyle@gwu.edu
    In Guatemala (until Monday, August 24): 502 4408-9899 New York office: 646-613-1440, ext. 238
    Research Assistance: Susana Zavala and Emilene Martínez-Morales
    NOTE: The article in this briefing book appeared in Spanish in the Mexican newspaper Milenio on August 20, 2009 (…)

  • With Amanda Villatoro, of CSA: CRF must be recognized as an occupational illness
    21 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.rel-uita.org/agricultura/agrotoxicos/irc/2009/con_amanda_villatoro-eng.htm On July 26, a large delegation of trade union representatives from different countries was invited by the trade unions active in Ingenio San Antonio (ISA), a sugar mill owned by Nicaragua Sugar Estate Ltd., company member of the Pellas Group, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Confederation of Workers (CST) and inform about the content of a controversial agreement signed between the (…)

  • Fidel Castro slams U.S. for battle over healthcare
    20 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fidel Castro slams U.S. for battle over healthcare
    Wed Aug 19, 2009
    HAVANA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro criticized the United States on Wednesday for being willing to spend billions on its high-tech military but finding it difficult to approve healthcare reform that would protect its poor people.
    He wrote in a commentary published on a state-run Internet site that huge military budgets are approved easily by the U.S. Congress but U.S. President Barack Obama is (…)

  • Urgent Plea from Radio Progreso
    17 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Urgent Plea from Radio Progreso (my translation)
    Sun, 08/16/2009 - 12:30 — AP
    Help! Our Voice, Radio Progreso and ERIC SJ
    Our Voice in the political crisis:
    Radio Progreso and the Team for Reflection, Investigation and Communication ERIC of the Jesuit community in Honduras
    Saturday, August 15, 2009
    HELP!
    Radio Progreso was placed under siege by an army contingent the very day of the coup d’etat. At gunpoint and without a warrant, the military penetrated our facilities and (…)