Audio recordings of several panel discussions recorded at this year's Left Forum, March 20, 2010 at Pace University, New York City are available here. Recorded panels include: Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis; Reimagining Society: The Nature of the Task; Going Undercover: The Yes Men; The Future of Labor in the U.S.
Source: IPS News
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 30, 2010 (IPS) – On an empty road in Cite Militaire, an industrial zone across from the slums of Cite Soleil, a group of women are gathered around a single white sack of U.S. rice. The rice was handed out Monday morning at a food distribution by the Christian relief group World Vision.
According to witnesses, during the distribution U.N. peacekeeping troops sprayed tear gas on the crowd.
"Haitians know that’s the way they act with us. They treat us like animals," said Lourette Elris, as she divided the rice amongst the women. "They gave us the food, we were on our way home, then the troops threw tear gas at us. We finished receiving the food, we weren’t disorderly. "
Shifts in global power, ongoing or potential, are a lively topic among policy makers and observers. One question is whether (or when) China will displace the United States as the dominant global player, perhaps along with India. Such a shift would return the global system to something like it was before the European conquests.
Source: Green Left Weekly
In every corner of Greece, popular anger over the government’s latest neoliberal assault on job security, pensions and social services has lead to a series of general strikes involving hundreds of thousands of militant workers.
The Greek government’s attacks are being implemented at the behest of the European Union, which is seeking to make Greek workers carry the burden of debt generated by Greek governments in collusion with major banks such as Goldman Sachs.This is part of a broader international struggle by working people against capital’s drive to make ordinary people pay for the global financial crisis it caused.
But Greek strikers have drawn on an indigenous political culture with deep roots – a culture that validates the people’s right to rise collectively as agents of change.
Thousands of Paraguayan farmers raised their clubs, fists and placards into the air while marching through the streets of Asunción, the capital city, on Thursday, March 25. The farmers demanded that President Fernando Lugo follow through on his campaign promises for agrarian reform. After a year and a half in office, Lugo's failures to meet such demands have led various farmer organizations to directly oppose his administration.Photo from Telesur
Mayo fisherman Pat O'Donnell, described by Judge Raymond Groarke as a thug and a bully, was jailed for seven months in Castlebar Courtin February for his activism against Shell's planned gas pipeline through his community. For most people observing from afar, with little more than tabloid headlines to feed on, the story ended there. Pat O'Donnell
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