Notícias del IV Foro Social Américas

Por Compas

AMERICA LATINA - IV Foro Social Américas – Paraguay. Información sobre el Foro que se realiza en agosto; palabras de Magy Balbuena del grupo facilitador paraguayo. BRASIL: - Radio Agencia Planalto informa sobre denuncias de irregularidades en Estudios...

Occupied Palestine: Good News And Bad

Por Stephen Lendman

On June 22, the International Middle East Media Center reported that the UN Human Rights Council (that established the Goldstone Commission) approved "forming an international committee to probe the deadly Israeli" Flotilla attack, massacring and injuring ...

The Arab Flotilla To Gaza, Now Scheduled For Wednesday, June 30

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. Yasser Kashlak, a Syrian of Palestinian decent, businessman, and chairman of Lebanese Institute of International Studies heads the international group Free Palestine Movement that is organizing the trip. American delegation to join international huma...

“¡Adiós, maestro!: Viejo, libre y radical, como José Saramago”

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Una vez les dije a unos amigos que si llego a viejo me gustaría ser un viejo como José Saramago. Y quién con dignidad para la vida no desearía ser (en actitud) como un hombre que a los ochenta años se autodefine “cuanto más viejo más libre, y cuan...

Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening

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DETROIT—“I have a dream.” Ask anyone where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first proclaimed those words, and the response will most likely be at the March on Washington in August 1963. In fact, he delivered them two months earlier, on Jun...

Detroit’s renewal: Can it inspire the social forum?

Por Sarah van Gelder

Detroit was not an accidental choice for the U.S. Social Forum (USSF). Take a look at the decaying Packard Plant or at boarded-up homes and small businesses, and you'd say this city is dying. Less well known is that it is a city in the midst of a rebirth f...

Despite the desire for change…

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The US Social Forum in Detroit 22 June 2010 Thousands of people will convene in Detroit Tuesday for the US Social Forum, which advertises itself as “a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis.” T...

I Am That Dolphin Dying In The Gulf Of Mexico

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MY DOLPHIN POD & OUR PAIN & SUFFERING due to the OIL & DISPERSANTS: The Gulf of Mexico oil spill & the toxic dispersants are giving my dolphin pod, my family & me headaches. Now when we breathe air into our blow holes in the top of our heads we often breat...