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Patagonia’s Pascua River Threatened By Massive Dam Project

Benjamin Witte April 1, 2008 Benjamin Witte

Pascua River

There is a place in far southern Chile, in the remote region of Aysén, where the long road south - the famed Carreterra Austral - simply comes to an end. Via a joint entity called HidroAysén, two companies are looking to build five massive dams in Aysén that would together generate some 2,750 MW of electricity - roughly equivalent to 20 percent of Chile's current overall generating capacity. However, HidroAysén's plans have generated a formidable backlash.

A Look at World War 3 Illustrated

Paul Buhle April 1, 2008 Paul Buhle

The pages of World War 3 Illustrated contain one of the best kept and mistakenly kept secrets of the fast-developing world of comic art here in the US. Launched in 1979 by a couple of youngsters moving from Cleveland to New York's Lower East Side, the magazine first developed mainly as a forum for resistance to the gentrification of the long-famous radical neighborhood.

Thirty Two Years Later, Argentines Still Seeking Disappeared

Marie Trigona March 27, 2008 Marie Trigona

Argentina marked the 32nd anniversary of the nation's 1976 military coup on March 24. An estimated 30,000 were disappeared during the so called dirty war. Thirty two years later, the bodies of the disappeared still remain to be found and identified. Since 1984, a team of anthropologists, The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, has investigated human rights violations committed by bloody military junta.

Former TF Editor’s New Blog Assesses Media Politics and the Alternative Press

Toward Freedom March 25, 2008 Toward Freedom

"The technology of journalism has advanced more in the last decade than in the 100 years before," notes former Toward Freedom Editor Greg Guma in a recent post on his new blog, Maverick Media. A witness to and participant in many of the radical changes in mass media since the late 1960s, he became Pacifica Radio's executive director in 2006. Now, after 40 years as a journalist, organizer and manager, he looks back - and forward - at media politics and the alternative press.

Tibet: Unrest in the ‘Roof of the World’

Carole Reckinger March 24, 2008 Carole Reckinger

Tanks in Lhasa

On March 10th, a group of about 500 Buddhist monks marched from the Drepung monastery to demand the release of monks arrested last October for celebrating the award of a US congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama. Between fifty and sixty monks were arrested as police and paramilitary units blocked roads and surrounded other monasteries in the Lhasa area to prevent protests from growing. Despite the heavy crackdown, over the next days the protests rapidly spread and unrest has been reported throughout Tibet and in provinces close to Tibet with large ethnic Tibetan populations.

Tibet: Universal Responsibility

Rene Wadlow March 24, 2008 Rene Wadlow

Recent protests of Tibetans in Lhasa and in Tibetan-majority areas in Chinese provinces have drawn attention to the ever-growing frustration and anger of Tibetans as Chinese settlers take over the economy of Tibet. For the first time, there has been violence used by angry Tibetans against Chinese and Muslim merchants in Lhasa.