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Toward Freedom ‘Webcam Chat’ with Bolivian activists

Toward Freedom November 9, 2006 Toward Freedom

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Burlington International Website plans ‘Webcam Chat’ with Bolivian activists

TowardFreedom.com is pleased to invite the public to our first ever ‘webcam chat’ with our webmaster and political activists in La Paz, Bolivia. We will meet in the studio of CCTV from 7 to 8:30 pm, Tuesday, Nov. 14, and discuss, with questions and answers through an audio and visual link, the current political situation in Bolivia with our associates at a cyber cafe in La Paz, Bolivia. Both images will be viewed on a large monitor at the CCTV studio. read more

Hungary: Bloody Monday

John Horvath November 9, 2006 John Horvath

The police crackdown against peaceful demonstrators on the night of October 23, 2006, shows that there is very little difference between the past and the present.

Congo massacre: Australian mining company’s managers indicted

Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly November 9, 2006 Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly

Source: Green Left Weekly

A Congolese prosecutor has called for three former managers of the Perth-based Anvil Mining corporation to be indicted for "complicity in war crimes" – involvement in the massacre of up to 100 people in the village of Kilwa in October 2004. The slaughter, committed by Congolese Armed Forces soldiers ferried to the scene by Anvil-chartered planes and company-owned trucks, took place 50 kilometres from the company’s Dikulushi silver and copper mine in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. read more

A Media Innovator Leaves the Scene

Rene Wadlow November 8, 2006 Rene Wadlow

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber -JJ-SS as he was known to headline writers and his numerous friends and enemies in the French media- was a bright star of life in the 1950s, although he only died on 7 November 2006 at the age of 82.

Kentucky Voters Could Reclaim Local Water Supply

Shreema Mehta November 7, 2006 Shreema Mehta

Source: NewStandard News

Voters in a Kentucky county today could approve a referendum that would make their privatized water system public.

Citizens who vote "yes" on the referendum could empower the Lexington-Fayette Urban County government to purchase the water company that serves more than 310,000 people in the area. The ballot measure calls on the county to purchase Kentucky American Water using the most effective means possible, including eminent domain.

The company is a subsidiary of American Water, which in turn is part of the German conglomerate RWE AG. read more

Ecuador on the Edge: A Tale of Two Presidential Candidates

Cyril Mychalejko November 2, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko

The question of who wins the election race in Ecuador on November 26 may be overshadowed by the uncertainty over whether the winner will actually survive a full term. The politically unstable South American nation has had nine presidents over the last ten years. The current front-runner is Alvaro Noboa, a billionaire banana tycoon who has run unsuccessfully twice in the past. He won 27 percent of the vote in the first-round, edging out Rafael Correa (and 11 other candidates), a U.S trained economist who ran on a platform that attacked Washington's neoliberal policies, as well as the traditional corruption plaguing Ecuador's political system.