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  • Latin America : Social Movements in Times of Economic Crises
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Prof. James Petras Global Research, August 12, 2009
    The most striking aspect of the prolonged and deepening world recession/depression is the relative and absolute passivity of the working and middle class in the face of massive job losses, big cuts in wages, health care and pension payments and mounting housing foreclosures. Never in the history of the 20-21st Century has an economic crisis caused so much loss to so many workers, employees, small businesses, farmers and professionals (…)

  • On the Road to Tegucigalpa with Father Andrés Tamayo
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Honduras Anti-Coup Marchers Defy Media Conviction that They Do Not Exist
    By Belén Fernández
    AUGUST 10, 2009, CATACAMAS-TEGUCIGALPA HIGHWAY, HONDURAS: Myriad anti-coup marches en route from different parts of Honduras have merged into eight and are set to converge tomorrow, August 11, on the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
    Catholic priest and environmental leader Father Andrés Tamayo counted with government protection prior to the June 28 coup d’etat in Honduras. Now he walks (…)

  • Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion
    9 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion
    Posted by Al Giordano - August 8, 2009 at 11:39 am
    By Al Giordano
    In three decades of organizing or reporting on social movements, one develops a very good memory of which of them won their battles, which were defeated, and what made the difference between those that won and those that lost.
    If it could be boiled down to a single factor it would be this: In victorious struggles, a critical mass of the organizers arm (…)

  • Toppling a Coup, Part I: Dilemmas for the Honduras Regime
    9 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Al Giordano
    Last Saturday, at a hastily called public meeting in Tegucigalpa, more than one hundred rank and file participants in the Honduran civil resistance and some of its known leaders came out to speak with Ivan Marovich, the Serbian resistance veteran who had been invited by local and national anti-coup organizations to share his experiences.
    It was one of three such sessions, and the only public meeting of the three. Almost immediately upon the completion of the screening of (…)

  • Venezuela: El Libertario warns of possible sentence to the 14 Sidor workers
    25 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    In 05 September 2006 a group of workers and union leaders staged a protest against the carrier Camila, a contractor to SIDOR (Siderúrgic of the Orinoco), the principal steel core business located in Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state, in Venezuela. The workers were protesting the failure to pay wages, and maintain health and safety, as well as the lack of tools to accomplish their work. The protest was endorsed by Readers of the “Sindicato Único de Trabajadores Siderúrgicos y Similares (Sutiss)”, (…)

  • The Coup in Honduras: A Teachable Moment for Obama?
    12 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “I bewail the consequences of those furious passions which seem to belong to man.” - Chief Justice John Marshall
    A surreal event took place on July 7, 2009, at the National Press Club, (NPC), in Washington, D.C. Some of the representatives of the “de facto” regime in Honduras, repeatedly denied, in differing fashions, that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a military coup d’etat on June 28, 2009. Not long after the press conference began, however, three gutsy protesters, holding (…)

  • Video: When is a Coup Not a Coup?
    8 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A surreal event took place on July 7, 2009, at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. It was so strange that I thought that the late, great British comedic actor, Peter Sellers, was going to make a cameo appearance! Some of the representatives of the “de facto” regime in Honduras, repeatedly denied that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a military coup on June 28, 2009. At the beginning of the press conference, protesters staged a brief demonstration. On this video, you will (…)

  • RADIOSUR EN VIVO
    6 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
  • TELESUR EN VIVO
    6 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
  • The US and the Honduran coup
    4 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US and the Honduran coup
    1 July 2009
    Washington’s criticisms of the June 28 military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras lack any element of sincerity or historical truth. The Obama administration is uneasy at the ouster of Zelaya, a conservative-turned-populist allied to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, because it reveals all too clearly the character of US foreign policy.
    President Barack Obama’s condemnation of Zelaya’s overthrow as a “terrible precedent” is (…)