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Popular Theater takes on La Quesera Massacre in El Salvador

Aryeh Shell March 6, 2007 Aryeh Shell

We rode through the rural communities of the Bajo Lempa in a white pickup, picking up the survivors one by one. Maria. Elsa. Irma. Luisa. Lencho. Chici. All clamored into the back of the truck, chatting about this and that, their laughter filling the sweltering air around us. We were going to listen to stories that no one should ever have to tell: testimonies from survivors of the massacre of La Quesera, a brutal attack by the Salvadoran Army which took the lives 600-800 innocent people, mostly women, children and elders.

Nuclear Hypocrisy and Iran

Frida Berrigan, FPIF March 4, 2007 Frida Berrigan, FPIF

The Bush administration is very focused these days on Iran's nuclear program. This focus has only sharpened in the aftermath of the International Atomic Energy Agency's recent report that Iran continues to enrich uranium in defiance of a UN Security Council demand.

Is China Africa’s new imperialist power?

Eva Cheng, Green Left Weekly March 4, 2007 Eva Cheng, Green Left Weekly

China's much increased economic activities in Africa in recent years - investments in energy and natural resources extraction and loans to African governments - have provoked accusations that it is becoming a new neocolonial power in the continent.

A Bleak Resurgence of the Russian Radical Right

Dan Read February 28, 2007 Dan Read

For many, Russia is now a land of dashed hopes and profound disappointment. After the heady days of the Solidarnosc, the resounding defeat of the August 1991 coup, and the eventual collapse of the USSR itself, a feeling of numbing disillusionment has set in. For those who had held out hope of a new dawn of social equality and, dare I say it, economic abundance, the current epoch lies in stark contrast to the times of the late 1980s and early 1990s and the intense political enthusiasm they brought with them.

Russell Davenport: World Citizen, Political Strategist

Rene Wadlow February 28, 2007 Rene Wadlow

With the US presidential campaign preliminaries beginning in the Democratic and Republican parties, it is useful to recall one of the most innovative of campaign strategists, Russell Davenport, the spirit behind those chanting "We want Willkie" at the 1940 Republican convention in Philadelphia.

GOP ‘Catch the Immigrant’ Game Catches Flak

Sam Graham-Felsen February 27, 2007 Sam Graham-Felsen

The stunt works like this: College Republicans give a student a name tag that reads "Illegal Immigrant" and players scour the campus to find him or her. The winner gets a gift certificate. This kind of event has been staged by College Republican chapters all over the country.