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Tahiti: Nuclear cover-up stokes tension with France

Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly August 16, 2006 Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly

Oscar Temaru, the pro-independence president of the Tahiti Nui (Temaru’s preferred name for the French colony known as French Polynesia), dropped a political bombshell in the Pacific country’s parliament on July 28. Temaru released a letter from a respected government health expert in Paris that officially confirmed for the first time what most Tahitians have long known and France has always denied: that French nuclear explosions in their territory have increased cancer rates throughout the Tahitian islands. The revelation has further strained tensions between the Temaru-led coalition government and Tahiti’s colonial masters in Paris. read more

Murray Bookchin, Visionary Social Theorist, Dies At 85

Brian Tokar August 2, 2006 Brian Tokar

Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30th in his home in Burlington, Vermont. During a prolific career of writing, teaching and political activism that spanned half a century, Bookchin forged a new anti-authoritarian outlook rooted in ecology, dialectical philosophy and left libertarianism.

The Chagos Islanders: Britain’s Historic Injustice

Iain Orr June 14, 2006 Iain Orr

Britain's treatment of the inhabitants of a small island territory in the Indian Ocean is a political, legal and national disgrace that must be redressed.

Letter From Prison: Support the Independent Press!

Robin Lloyd June 6, 2006 Robin Lloyd

Dear Toward Freedom Friends:

If you've visited the website recently you know that I am writing you from a federal prison camp in Danbury, Connecticut. No, I did not abscond with TF funds, or get caught trafficking drugs. I'm here, along with 31 other protesters who self reported to federal prisons across the country on April 11, for trespassing at a military base in Colombus, Georgia, where the School of Americas is located; the school that trains Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency and state terrorism.

Still Unprotected: Bakes Sales Raise Money for Body Armor in Iraq

Eric Tsetsi May 24, 2006 Eric Tsetsi

Tammara Rosenleaf's husband, Sean was deployed to Iraq for his first tour of duty in December 2005. He was sent to battle without an adequate set of body armor. Not only did he have an incorrect size of chest and back protection, he wasn't provided with critical side and deltoid plates.

WINDS OF CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE

Super User February 28, 2006 Super User

What?
WINDS OF CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE

Why?
-Our keynote speaker, Leonida Zurita Vargas, is an indigenous woman from Bolivia, a coca farmer and powerful grassroots leader who will shed light on Bolivia’s strong and growing social movements and recent election of a new government under Aymara indigenous President Evo Morales. (See below update on Leonida who was, last week, denied entry to the US by the US embassy that has outrageously suggested that Leonida has ties to terrorist organziations! IF WE CAN’T GET LEONIDA HERE IN PERSON SHE’LL BE ON THE PHONE!) George Ann Potter, Zurita’s political advisor, will be talking at the conference as well as translating and introducing Leonida. read more