On April 30 in Lima, Peru, over 2,000 women protested against rising food prices. This recent outburst is part of a food crisis that is sweeping the globe, from Kazakhstan to Haiti. In Lima, women from poor communities and soup kitchens beat on empty pots and carried signs in front of the congress, chanting to President Alan Garcia: "The pot is empty, Garcia!"
On a special May Day 2008 broadcast, we'll hear from worker's struggles around the world. We go to
The following articles provide viewpoints that counter mainstream media coverage of the conflict between Tibet and China. They pay particular attention to role of Washington and the Western media in the crisis.
"Free trade" has produced some of the most contentious political debates of our times. In a famous April 2000 article in the New Republic, economist Joseph Stiglitz argued, "Economic policy is today perhaps the most important part of America's interaction with the rest of the world. And yet the culture of international economic policy in the world's most powerful democracy is not democratic." During the Bush years, economic policy received far less attention in political discussion than before; the use of military force took center stage.
Asunción, Paraguay - Even before the official results were announced on April 20th, supporters of leftist candidate Fernando Lugo were in the streets of Asuncion celebrating what many called a dream come true.At a Lugo Rally in Asunción
Food riots in Haiti brought the issue of hunger to the front gates of Haiti's presidential palace and death to a United Nations peacekeeper from Nigeria who was shot by the crowd surging from a slum area of Port-au-Prince. The Prime Minister, Jacques-Edouard Alexis, was forced to resign for having failed to act despite sharp increases in the price of food over the past several months, pushing people who are already poor into deeper poverty.More Empty Shelves
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