por Virginia Giussani 29 de julio, 2009 Manos que hablan y se expresan. Manos que se extienden, gritan, que se abrazan. Manos que por generaciones estuvieron apretadas sosteniendo dentro de sus puños la libertad negada. Manos morenas atadas por la soga ávida del verdugo. Manos obedientes, calladas, resignadas.

by Elaine Elinson July 23, 2009 During the Vietnam War, GI dissent was both documented and nurtured by a slew of underground GI newspapers. Papers like “Up Against the Bulkhead,” “Harass the Brass” and “About Face” were mimeographed and passed from base to base, hand to hand. These bold, clever, ragtag papers gave voice to the soldiers’ [...]

La muerte de algún comunero será responsabilidad del gobierno socialista, dicen: * Todo el movimiento de recuperación de tierras se originó producto de la nula respuesta del gobierno de Michelle Bachelet.  Dirigentes mapuches habían viajado semanas atrás a La Moneda en Santiago con la ilusión de ser recibidos en audiencia por la presidenta o algún [...]

Lo que suena como un panorama fantástico para el Imperio norteamericano (las huelgas y los conflictos sociales) es un escenario de corto plazo que ya están manejando entre líneas analistas y medios norteamericanos a la luz de la crisis industrial y de las quiebras empresariales que están desatando una creciente ola de despidos y un [...]

Frente al avance de los movimientos indígenas, se recurre a la criminalización de sus protestas

por Steven Ramírez (sramirez@costaricahoy.info) SAN JOSÉ, 23 julio (CRH) – Un grupo de extrabajadores de la compañía FERTICA de la provincia de Puntarenas, se manifestó ayer en horas de la mañana en las afueras de Casa Presidencial en Zapote para pedir justicia tras 14 años de arbitrariedad.

by Sean Penn/Ross Mirkarimi/Reese Erlich July 21, 2009 During our travels to Iran in 2005, Penn and Erlich interviewed numerous ordinary Iranians. People were very friendly towards us as Americans but very hostile to U.S. policy against their country. We visited Friday prayers where 10,000 people chanted “Death to America.” Afterwards those same people invited us home [...]

Prisoners at airbase in Afghanistan refuse family visits and recreation time to highlight denial of legal rights by Associated Press July 16, 2009 KABUL – Hundreds of prisoners at the main American detention centre in Afghanistan are refusing privileges such as recreation time and family visits in protest at their lack of legal rights.

versión en español abajo by Noam Chomsky July 9, 200 June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.

by Farooq Sulehria July 10, 2009 A columnist in the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv told his readers on the day of election in Iran: “If you have friends in Iran, try to convince them to vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today. There is no one who will serve Israel’s PR interests better than him.” (12 June 2009)