While the Occupy Movement has taken the world by storm, a long history of different types of social movement occupations have marked Latin America for decades. Toward Freedom and Between the Lines Radio Newsmagazine have organized a panel on this topic for this year’s Left Forum.
Greg Palast, the BBC investigative reporter who busted open the theft of the election in Florida, is back with a new book, Vultures' Picnic. He will be speaking in Burlington, Vermont on December 12, 2011.
Macrina Cardenas de Alarcon, a community activist based in Tijuana, Mexico with the Casa del Migrante, will be speaking at the VT Workers' Center in Burlington, VT on Tuesday, November 1st. She will be discussing the root causes of the increasing violence along the US-Mexico border.
For information, videos, news and analysis on the occupation of Wall Street, visit this website: https://occupywallst.org/
Source: Vermont Migrant Farm Worker Solidarity Project
Excerpt from report:
VT Farmworker leader Racially Profiled. Vermonters Mobilize with Rapid Response Prompting Governor to Intervene
September 13th was a long and painful day for the Vermont farmworker community and friends. Our dear friend and one of the community’s most courageous and outspoken leaders, Danilo Lopez, was racially profiled by State Police on I-89 just north of Middlesex during a routine traffic stop. Danilo and his co-worker Antonio spent the day incarcerated by State Police and later Border Patrol, and, after a long day of mobilizing, were eventually released to cheers, hugs and tears by two dozen friends and supporters at 8pm on Tuesday.
Hurricane Irene received a massive amount media coverage, but television reports made little or no reference to the role global warming played in the storm. We speak with someone with his eye on climate change and its impact. “We’ve had not only this extraordinary flooding, but on the same day that Hurricane Irene was coming down, Houston set its all-time temperature record, 109 degrees,” says Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org. “We’re in a new situation.” McKibben is among hundreds of people arrested last week during ongoing sit-ins outside the White House, protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, the U.S. State Department’s final environmental review of the proposed pipeline found that the project will have “limited adverse environmental impacts.” Protesters will begin their second week of sit-ins today, and continue to demand President Obama veto approval for the pipeline. “There’s never been a purer test of whether or not we’re prepared to stand up to climate change or not,” says McKibben. [includes rush transcript]
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