The Howard Settler Governments invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. This invasion is part of the neo liberal structural adjustment programme of Intuitions such as the World, Bank, the IMF & APEC to diminish and extinguish Indigenous rights forever.
Latin America - Four Competing Blocks of Power
In reality there are four competing blocs of nations in Latin America, contrary to the highly simplistic dualism portrayed by the White House and most of the Left.
By James Petras
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Short interview with journalist Hollman Morris VIDEO The Other Colombia
By James Petras (April 2008)
Introduction
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading secular, democra- tically elected political leader who has consistently and publicly opposed imperialist wars in the Middle East, attacked extra-territorial intervention and US and European Union complicity in kidnapping and torture.
By Naomi Klein
Nativity scenes are plentiful in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a colonial city in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. But the one that greets visitors at the entrance to the TierrAdentro cultural center has a local twist: figurines on donkeys wear miniature ski masks and carry wooden guns.
After 6 months of struggle and protest in the so-called “Water War” in Cochabamba, Bolivia the people successfully expelled the company Aguas del Tunari (joint venture with U.S. company, Bechtel).
Comrades and friends:
Despite the hot day and the holidays, the action in support to Mapuche People denounces Chilean government injustice and lack of humanity. Here are some photos from yesterday January 15 rally/Meeting in Solidarity with Mapuche struggle in the streets of Melbourne Australia.
Mapuche Political Prisoner Patricia Troncoso in Critical Condition, more than 95 days in Hunger Strike(Attached whole info)
FOR THE LIFE OF PATRICIA TRONCOSO!
NO TO MINING, FORESTRY AND ENERGY EXPLOITATION ON HISTORIC MAPUCHE TERRITORY!
STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF MAPUCHE LAND!
FREEDOM FOR ALL MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS IN CHILE, NOW!
BARRICK GOLD OUT OF CHILE AND ARGENTINA
JANUARY, TUESDAY 15, 2008
5 PM AT MELBOURNE GPO,
CNR SWANSTON AND BOURKE STREETS
“Patricia Troncoso who began her fast in early October was taken to the hospital from her jail in the southern city of Angol to treat her deteriorating heath. She and three others were found guilty of “terrorism” for a series of “called” arson attacks on Mapuche lands, but owned by forestry companies.
The US has lost ground in Latin America over the past decade, since the project to develop the Free Trade Area of the Americas flopped and since leftwing governments took power and used it with imagination and vigour. The US continues to try to block such emancipation by promoting more free trade agreements, and increasing military cooperation in the name of the war on terrorism and narcotics and the defence of market democracy.
SN Power’s tough learning curve. More protests, this time in Chile
"Our decision is clear from the beginning. We don’t want this kind of project. We are convinced that it will not be good for the communities. We are afraid of the negative environmental consequences. We don’t want to be forced into this. We have the right to say ‘no’."
Four deaths in Sucre intensify the confrontation
It’s possible that it all began in March 2006 when the Evo Morales government negotiated the Constituent Assembly’s representative base.
The right-wing parties—defeated from almost every angle by the social movements over the past few years—were allowed new breathing room and maintained, together with the governing party, its monopoly of the political representation in Bolivia.
If people are interested: To know further about the last development in Bolivian volatile situation, Rosalio Tinta member of Bolivian social movements currently in Australia is available for interviews and meetings, just write to lasnet@latinlasnet.org or call 0400 914 944, thanks.
