This online film remembers King's overlooked critique of exploitation and militarism. A familiar refrain, as of late, has been Rosa sat, King walked so that he (Obama) could run or some variation thereof. Was that the goal of King's struggle?
On January 1, US drones pounded Waziristan in Pakistan's north-western tribal areas, killing five people. It was an obnoxious new year message to Pakistan (reiterated on January 2, leaving three dead): 2009 would be no different from 2008.
In the morning on Sunday, January 18, after a heavy rain fell on La Paz, Bolivia, the sun came out, drying the umbrellas of thousands of marchers winding through the city streets. The mobilization was in support of a new constitution which is to be voted on this January 25.
In this interview Mark Meinster, the International Representative for the United Electrical Workers (UE) - the union the Republic workers belong to - talks about his role as the coordinator for the December 2008 factory occupation in Chicago, connections between the struggle of the Republic workers and workers struggles and tactics in South America, the fight to re-open the plant, and what the Republic workers' strategies say about social change in an economic downturn.Occupation of Republic Plant
Nowadays, the only thing as unpredictable as the market is the weather. At least, that's what South America's Southern Cone has been feeling lately. In just one week in late November, torrential downpours in Brazil's Southern state, Santa Catarina caused "the worst climatic disaster" of Lula's (Luis Inacio de Silvia) presidency, with more than 150 dead, 100,000 homeless, and 1.5 million affected. Mudslide in Florianopolis, Brazil
On January 5 John Bolton, the former unconfirmed U.S. envoy to the United Nations, advocated in The Washington Post a "three-state solution" to the Palestinian problem. This "solution" involved returning Gaza to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan because the Palestinian state has manifestly failed.
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