Month: September 2013

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Greece: Behind the Rise of the Golden Dawn

Alexandra Politaki September 30, 2013 Alexandra Politaki

Source: The Progressive Magazine

Three years of hard economic crisis, poverty, and misery have nourished the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, which has emerged as a significant force in the Greek Parliament.

The criminal activities of Golden Dawn have long been known to the Greek and other European governments. Even while participating in the Greek Parliament, the Golden Dawn continued its goon squad activities: engaging in acts of violence even in schools, issuing death threats, and abusing and even murdering immigrants. read more

A Corporate Coup of a Different Order: The Growing Resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Arthur Phillips September 26, 2013 Arthur Phillips

In February, Obama claimed his to be “the most transparent administration in history.” Perhaps the least publicized example of that statement’s dishonesty is the White House’s efforts to negotiate the biggest trade agreement since the mid 1990s in near-total secrecy. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, has been in negotiations since 2007. In November 2009 the Obama administration made it a centerpiece of the United States Trade Representative’s work.

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Israel-Palestine: Waiting at the Checkpoint

Ella David September 25, 2013 Ella David

Source: The New Internationalist

Hours of queuing is the lot of Palestinian workers traveling to their jobs on the other side of Israel’s separation wall.

At 3 o’clock this morning, many Palestinian men were already awake and dressed, standing in a queue at Gilo checkpoint in Bethlehem in order to work on the other side of the separation wall. Approximately 4,000 people – mostly men between the age of 18 and 45 – have passed through this checkpoint every day, all year round, to get to their jobs in East Jerusalem or Israel since the construction of the wall began in 2002. Gilo checkpoint is just one of 500 roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank. read more

The Ancestral Values We Inherited: Protecting Indigenous Water, Land, and Culture in Mexico

Tory Field and Beverly Bell September 25, 2013 Tory Field and Beverly Bell

"Within our indigenous community of Xoxocotla, we continue to hold the ancestral values we inherited. It never crosses our mind to leave them behind. Because in daily life we are always in contact with nature, with our lands, with our water, with our air. We live in harmony with nature because we don't like the way that modernity is advancing, destroying our territory and our environment." - Saúl Atanasio Roque Morales, a Xoxocotla indigenous man from Morelos, Mexico