The is extremely scary stuff, and with increased security, surveillance, and a tightening grip on freedom of speech, it is not just a random anomaly. There is a definite agenda on the part of the right to undermine the core values of the public university system.
-J
Arizona public schools would be barred from any teachings considered counter to democracy or Western civilization under a proposal endorsed Wednesday by a legislative panel. Additionally, the measure would prohibit students of the state's universities and community colleges from forming groups based in whole or part on the race of their members, such as the Black Business Students Association at Arizona State University or Native Americans United at Northern Arizona University. Those groups would be forbidden from operating on campus.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/114048
Arizona schools whose courses "denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization" could lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a House panel.
SB1108 also would bar teaching practices that "overtly encourage dissent" from those values, including democracy, capitalism, pluralism and religious tolerance. Schools would have to surrender teaching materials to the state superintendent of public instruction, who could withhold state aid from districts that broke the law.
Another section of the bill would bar public schools, community colleges and universities from allowing organizations to operate on campus if it is "based in whole or in part on race-based criteria," a provision Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, said is aimed at MEChA, the Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, a student group.
The 9-6 vote by the Appropriations Committee sends the measure to the full House.
http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=4338&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
An Arizona legislative committee has passed an amendment to a routine homeland-security bill that would prohibit students at the state’s public universities and community colleges from organizing groups based on race. The amendment was approved by the Arizona House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. It still awaits a vote by the state’s full House and Senate.
The amendment, introduced by State Rep. Russell K. Pearce, a Republican, would also allow state officials to withhold funds from public schools sponsoring activities that “denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization.” The proposal was added to Senate Bill 1108, a measure that has nothing to do with education but was intended to allow designees of mayors and police chiefs to serve on homeland-security advisory councils.
“This bill basically says, ‘You’re here. Adopt American values,’” State Rep. John Kavanagh, a Republican, told The Arizona Republic. “‘If you want a different culture, then fine, go back to that culture,’” he said.
http://www.aztlan.net/arizona_targets_mecha.htm
Arizona legislation will outlaw MEChA and Mexican-American studies
The Appropriations Committee of the Arizona House of Representatives has approved provisions to a "Homeland Security" measure that would essentially destroy the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and Mexican-American study programs in the state's public schools, colleges and universities.
The anti-Mexican provisions to SB1108 were approved yesterday and the bill is now scheduled for a vote by the full House. The provisions would withhold funding to schools whose courses "denigrate American values and the teachings of European based civilization." One section of SB1108 would bar public schools, community colleges and universities from allowing organizations to operate on campus if it is "based in whole or in part on race-based criteria," a provision Rep. Russell Pearce said is aimed at MEChA. Pearce is a Republican and the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee out of Mesa, Arizona.
According to Chairman Pearce, SB1108 would also bar teaching practices that "overtly encourage dissent from American values" such as Raza Studies at the Tucson Unified School District. In addition, SB1108 mandates the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to confiscate books and teaching materials that are deemed anti-American. Chairman Pearce said some of the teaching materials amount to "sedition" by suggesting that the current border between the United States and Mexico disappear with La Raza taking over the American Southwest. One book that would be confiscated mentioned by Pearce is "Occupied America - A History of Chicanos" by Professor Rodolfo Acuña.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/17/20080417unamerican0417.html?source=nletter-news
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/234865
Approved Amendment Text
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/48leg/2r/summary/h.sb1108_04-17-08_caucuscow.doc.htm
Summary of the proposed strike-everything amendment to SB 1108:
The proposed strike-everything amendment to SB 1108 states that a primary purpose of public education is the promotion of the values of American citizenship.
History
Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.), Title 15, Section 721 states that the governing board of a school district is required to approve the course of study of a common school, including the basic textbook for each course and all other units recommended for credit prior to implementing the course in the school. A.R.S. § 15-722 grants the same authority to a governing board to approve the course of study and textbooks of each course for a high school.
A.R.S. § 15-705 grants the governing board, in consultation with parents and teachers, to adopt policies and procedures relating to pupils’ participation in extracurricular activities. The State Board of Education is also required to prescribe rules for policies regarding pupils’ participation in extracurricular activities, including minimum statewide requirements.
Provisions
· States that the primary purpose of public education is the inculcation of the values of American citizenship.
· States that public tax dollars used in public schools should not be used to denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization.
· States that public tax dollars should not be used to promote political, religious, ideological, or cultural values as truth when such values are in conflict with the values of American citizenship and the teachings of Western civilization.
· Prevents public schools in Arizona from including any courses, classes, or school sponsored activities within the program of instruction that feature or promote as truth any political, religious, ideological, or cultural values that denigrate or overtly encourage dissent from the values of American democracy and Western civilization, including democracy, capitalism, pluralism, and religious toleration.
· Requires a public school to provide copies of curricula, course materials and syllabi to the superintendent of public instruction, upon his or her request. After a hearing is conducted, if a public school is found to have included such courses, the superintendent of public instruction may withhold a proportionate share of state monies and take reasonable and appropriate regulatory actions.
· Allows for the inclusion of diverse political, religious, ideological, or cultural beliefs within the program of instruction provided that the course, class, or school sponsored activity as a whole does not denigrate or overtly encourage dissent from the values of American democracy and Western civilization.
· Prohibits public schools in Arizona, universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Board of Regents, and community colleges under the jurisdiction of community college districts in Arizona from allowing organizations to operate on the campus of a school, university, or community college if the organization is based in whole or in part on race-based criteria.
· Defines public school.
Amendments
Appropriations
The strike-everything amendment was adopted.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Earth Day Teach Ins
Rights Action is pleased to promote these educational events with Joy Agner:
GUATEMALA: Weapons of a Contemporary War: Neoliberal "Development" Projects and
Communities' Defense in Rural Guatemala
Since the signing of the 1996 "Peace Accords", Guatemala has been fertile
ground for major "development" projects. Despite their euphemistic
title, these projects are often carried out at the expense of the poor
indigenous Mayan population and cause extreme cultural, physical, and
environmental degradation.
The purpose of this tour is to explore, through the case study of one Mayan
village contesting a large hydroelectric dam, what the effects of such
projects are, how the global north is promoting and benefiting from
these mega-projects, what human rights violations are involved, and how
(as citizens of the United States) we can work to support just change.
WHO: Joy Agner
lived for ten months in 2007 in the rural Mayan village Santa Maria
Tzeja with the support of a Fulbright Fellowship, a program designed
with the purpose of promoting peace through research. Her primary
focus was how indigenous communities resist harms that come from major
development projects (such as personal threat, displacement, loss of
land, loss of cultural identity, etc.).
WHAT:
Joy Agner says: "I want to tell the story of the proposed Xalala
hydro-electric dam project and petroleum extraction in the Ixcan region
of the Quiche department, while discussing the systematically
exploitative role of the U.S. in Guatemalan affairs. Because of the
dire human rights situation in Guatemala and the nature of these
projects, several of my informants felt at risk speaking
about resistance to the dam. But they did so because they felt it was
important to spread this information and use it for activism."
* * * * *
LENNY LEIS: SUSTAINABILITY AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING
Please join Jenny Leis in celebrating grassroots changemaking! After six
years of sustainability/community organizing in Portland, Jenny took a year
to explore the role of “full time cross-pollinator among grassroots
movements”, beginning by weaving through Portland, Tucson and Boston, and
then through East and Southern Africa after the 2006 World Social Forum in
Nairobi.
Jenny is overflowing with stories from her travels of successful grassroots
sustainability organizing models, ranging from permaculture education in
elementary schools in devastated, post-dictatorship Malawi to a
locally-powered, globally-impactful organization of “slum dwellers” to South
African high-density informal settlements (shanty towns) retrofitting
themselves into eco-villages to lessons from Zimbabwe, where they are
currently facing many of the conditions that are predicted for our post-oil
economy.
Jenny Leis is a community facilitator, enthusiastic speaker and spark for
creative community action. Jenny has now returned to the Portland community
to spark conversations and action about local “cross-pollination,” and dive
deeper into her work with The City Repair Project and Tryon Life Community
Farm. She is thrilled to share these tales with Portland’s critical mass of
changemakers, and hear feedback so that together we can foster better
cross-issue communication among changemakers here and afar. She can be
contacted at jennyleis@riseup.net or 503-548-8459. Also, check out:
http://journeydejenny.blogspot.com.
GUATEMALA: Weapons of a Contemporary War: Neoliberal "Development" Projects and
Communities' Defense in Rural Guatemala
Since the signing of the 1996 "Peace Accords", Guatemala has been fertile
ground for major "development" projects. Despite their euphemistic
title, these projects are often carried out at the expense of the poor
indigenous Mayan population and cause extreme cultural, physical, and
environmental degradation.
The purpose of this tour is to explore, through the case study of one Mayan
village contesting a large hydroelectric dam, what the effects of such
projects are, how the global north is promoting and benefiting from
these mega-projects, what human rights violations are involved, and how
(as citizens of the United States) we can work to support just change.
WHO: Joy Agner
lived for ten months in 2007 in the rural Mayan village Santa Maria
Tzeja with the support of a Fulbright Fellowship, a program designed
with the purpose of promoting peace through research. Her primary
focus was how indigenous communities resist harms that come from major
development projects (such as personal threat, displacement, loss of
land, loss of cultural identity, etc.).
WHAT:
Joy Agner says: "I want to tell the story of the proposed Xalala
hydro-electric dam project and petroleum extraction in the Ixcan region
of the Quiche department, while discussing the systematically
exploitative role of the U.S. in Guatemalan affairs. Because of the
dire human rights situation in Guatemala and the nature of these
projects, several of my informants felt at risk speaking
about resistance to the dam. But they did so because they felt it was
important to spread this information and use it for activism."
* * * * *
LENNY LEIS: SUSTAINABILITY AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING
Please join Jenny Leis in celebrating grassroots changemaking! After six
years of sustainability/community organizing in Portland, Jenny took a year
to explore the role of “full time cross-pollinator among grassroots
movements”, beginning by weaving through Portland, Tucson and Boston, and
then through East and Southern Africa after the 2006 World Social Forum in
Nairobi.
Jenny is overflowing with stories from her travels of successful grassroots
sustainability organizing models, ranging from permaculture education in
elementary schools in devastated, post-dictatorship Malawi to a
locally-powered, globally-impactful organization of “slum dwellers” to South
African high-density informal settlements (shanty towns) retrofitting
themselves into eco-villages to lessons from Zimbabwe, where they are
currently facing many of the conditions that are predicted for our post-oil
economy.
Jenny Leis is a community facilitator, enthusiastic speaker and spark for
creative community action. Jenny has now returned to the Portland community
to spark conversations and action about local “cross-pollination,” and dive
deeper into her work with The City Repair Project and Tryon Life Community
Farm. She is thrilled to share these tales with Portland’s critical mass of
changemakers, and hear feedback so that together we can foster better
cross-issue communication among changemakers here and afar. She can be
contacted at jennyleis@riseup.net or 503-548-8459. Also, check out:
http://journeydejenny.blogspot.com.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Movie Night Tonight
Hi Loves,
We hope your week has been great. This weekend we had the first workshop of
the year where we had excellent resources relaying info concerning the current
struggle in Oaxaca and the US-Mexico border issue--it was awesome! Thanks to
those who came and presented, and to those who were there to participate.
Things like this are happening all over the globe and in order to create change
we must be aware of whats happening! This is what we hope to help create--an
awareness--so that everyone joining us can be inspired to go outside of The
Green House and activate wherever they feel inspired!! There is so much work
needing to be done...lets stay hopeful and energized and keep on making our
magic!!
Tomorrow we will be showing The US vs John Lennon at The Green House. For
those of you who haven't seen it, this is an awesome, shocking, and inspiring
film. We hope you will join us tomorrow at 6 for a vegan potluck, followed by
the film and discussion at 7.
Have a great night and see you tomorrow!
In Peace, Love, and Solidarity,
Rhea and The Green House Collective
We hope your week has been great. This weekend we had the first workshop of
the year where we had excellent resources relaying info concerning the current
struggle in Oaxaca and the US-Mexico border issue--it was awesome! Thanks to
those who came and presented, and to those who were there to participate.
Things like this are happening all over the globe and in order to create change
we must be aware of whats happening! This is what we hope to help create--an
awareness--so that everyone joining us can be inspired to go outside of The
Green House and activate wherever they feel inspired!! There is so much work
needing to be done...lets stay hopeful and energized and keep on making our
magic!!
Tomorrow we will be showing The US vs John Lennon at The Green House. For
those of you who haven't seen it, this is an awesome, shocking, and inspiring
film. We hope you will join us tomorrow at 6 for a vegan potluck, followed by
the film and discussion at 7.
Have a great night and see you tomorrow!
In Peace, Love, and Solidarity,
Rhea and The Green House Collective
More on the Columbia FTA
Colombia trade agreement as a precedent - the Ludlow massacre
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Ninety-four years ago on April 20, America made international news when a
government-sanctioned paramilitary unit murdered Colorado union organizers at a
Rockefeller-owned coal mine. The Ludlow Massacre was "a story of horror
unparalleled in the history of industrial warfare," wrote the New York Times in
1914 - and the abomination was not just the violence, but the way political and
corporate leaders colluded on their homicidal plans to protect profits.
Sanitized history teaches that our government has since changed. Quite the
contrary, as the Bush administration attempted this week to legitimize the
methods of Ludlow through its Colombia Free Trade Agreement. That attempt
failed when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the House to a vote that
indefinitely postpones consideration of the pact.
Colombia resembles Colorado in the early 20th century, only with more frequent
slaughters. In the last two decades, more than 2,500 Colombian labor organizers
have been assassinated, making Colombia the world's most dangerous place for
unionists.
This violence is underwritten by companies like Chiquita, which has financed
Colombian death squads that "destroyed unions, terrorized workers and killed
thousands of civilians," according to Portfolio magazine. The brutality
deliberately depresses labor costs in a country where business analysts cite
exploitative conditions as reason to invest.
This situation, like Ludlow, developed not in spite of the governing elite, but
thanks to it. As the Washington Post reports, Colombia's "most influential
political, military and business figures helped build" the killing machine.
Recently, prosecutors connected these paramilitaries to Colombian President
Alvaro Uribe's allies.
Colombian labor leaders have begged the White House to drop the deal, saying it
will undermine their struggle for human rights by validating Uribe's
thug-ocracy. Nonetheless, President Bush bolstered Uribe with a pact giving
corporations incentives to leave America for the corpse-strewn pastures of
Colombia - a union hater's paradise.
Bush justifies the deal as "urgent for our national security." The rationale
asks us to believe that in backing tyrannical regimes, we will quell
anti-Americanism among the oppressed, rather than sow it.
Congressional Democrats voted down the agreement 224-195, overcoming the
pernicious forces in their midst. Specifically, the Colombian government and
corporate groups have hired former Clinton administration officials to champion
the deal, paid off former President Bill Clinton with an $800,000 speaking
contract, and employed Mark Penn - Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief presidential
strategist - to push the pact.
Oh, how we've regressed from Ludlow, when mere Rockefellers owned everything.
Today, Dubai princes purchase our stock exchanges, Chinese communists buy our
banks, and now Colombian goons bid on our politicians - and the results are
trickling in.
When Bush dropped the deal on Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi complained
only that his tactics are "jeopardizing prospects" for the pact's passage.
Instead of blocking the accord, she postponed it - a maneuver that could ensure
its approval. National Journal reports that Democrats are considering "delaying
a vote until after the November elections." The scheme would let Democratic
candidates campaign as aw-shucks populists promisin' to fight for the little
fella, and then head to D.C. to do the bidding of lobbyists and ratify the deal
in a lame-duck session.
Between equivocating press releases, Pelosi said she worries that if voted on
now, the pact "would lose, and what message would that send?" For starters, it
would say the Democratic Party joins most Americans in opposing job-killing
trade policies. It would also declare the party against rewarding murderous
regimes on behalf of Clintonites now living large off of Colombian blood money.
But, then, such principled stands are considered uncouth in this, the Ludlow
renaissance.
Calendars may say it is 2008, but the Establishment mentality is 1914. On the
anniversary of the butchery in Colorado, we see the hideous power of corruption
in all its pathological glory. Our government is showing that it views the
Ludlow Massacre not as an embarrassment, but as an ideal to be embraced and
exported.
David Sirota is a bestselling author whose newest book, "The Uprising," will be
released in June. He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a
board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan
organizations.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/11/EDK6103CKL.DTL
This article appeared on page B - 11 of the San Francisco Chronicle
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Ninety-four years ago on April 20, America made international news when a
government-sanctioned paramilitary unit murdered Colorado union organizers at a
Rockefeller-owned coal mine. The Ludlow Massacre was "a story of horror
unparalleled in the history of industrial warfare," wrote the New York Times in
1914 - and the abomination was not just the violence, but the way political and
corporate leaders colluded on their homicidal plans to protect profits.
Sanitized history teaches that our government has since changed. Quite the
contrary, as the Bush administration attempted this week to legitimize the
methods of Ludlow through its Colombia Free Trade Agreement. That attempt
failed when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the House to a vote that
indefinitely postpones consideration of the pact.
Colombia resembles Colorado in the early 20th century, only with more frequent
slaughters. In the last two decades, more than 2,500 Colombian labor organizers
have been assassinated, making Colombia the world's most dangerous place for
unionists.
This violence is underwritten by companies like Chiquita, which has financed
Colombian death squads that "destroyed unions, terrorized workers and killed
thousands of civilians," according to Portfolio magazine. The brutality
deliberately depresses labor costs in a country where business analysts cite
exploitative conditions as reason to invest.
This situation, like Ludlow, developed not in spite of the governing elite, but
thanks to it. As the Washington Post reports, Colombia's "most influential
political, military and business figures helped build" the killing machine.
Recently, prosecutors connected these paramilitaries to Colombian President
Alvaro Uribe's allies.
Colombian labor leaders have begged the White House to drop the deal, saying it
will undermine their struggle for human rights by validating Uribe's
thug-ocracy. Nonetheless, President Bush bolstered Uribe with a pact giving
corporations incentives to leave America for the corpse-strewn pastures of
Colombia - a union hater's paradise.
Bush justifies the deal as "urgent for our national security." The rationale
asks us to believe that in backing tyrannical regimes, we will quell
anti-Americanism among the oppressed, rather than sow it.
Congressional Democrats voted down the agreement 224-195, overcoming the
pernicious forces in their midst. Specifically, the Colombian government and
corporate groups have hired former Clinton administration officials to champion
the deal, paid off former President Bill Clinton with an $800,000 speaking
contract, and employed Mark Penn - Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief presidential
strategist - to push the pact.
Oh, how we've regressed from Ludlow, when mere Rockefellers owned everything.
Today, Dubai princes purchase our stock exchanges, Chinese communists buy our
banks, and now Colombian goons bid on our politicians - and the results are
trickling in.
When Bush dropped the deal on Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi complained
only that his tactics are "jeopardizing prospects" for the pact's passage.
Instead of blocking the accord, she postponed it - a maneuver that could ensure
its approval. National Journal reports that Democrats are considering "delaying
a vote until after the November elections." The scheme would let Democratic
candidates campaign as aw-shucks populists promisin' to fight for the little
fella, and then head to D.C. to do the bidding of lobbyists and ratify the deal
in a lame-duck session.
Between equivocating press releases, Pelosi said she worries that if voted on
now, the pact "would lose, and what message would that send?" For starters, it
would say the Democratic Party joins most Americans in opposing job-killing
trade policies. It would also declare the party against rewarding murderous
regimes on behalf of Clintonites now living large off of Colombian blood money.
But, then, such principled stands are considered uncouth in this, the Ludlow
renaissance.
Calendars may say it is 2008, but the Establishment mentality is 1914. On the
anniversary of the butchery in Colorado, we see the hideous power of corruption
in all its pathological glory. Our government is showing that it views the
Ludlow Massacre not as an embarrassment, but as an ideal to be embraced and
exported.
David Sirota is a bestselling author whose newest book, "The Uprising," will be
released in June. He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a
board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan
organizations.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/11/EDK6103CKL.DTL
This article appeared on page B - 11 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Border News
Action this Thursday
From student organizations at PSU...
Call to Action!
This Thursday April 17th @ 2:50pm
Smith Student Union Mezzanine
Portland State University
we will be marching to the Mexican Consulate to demand that a thorough investigation of the ambush and murder of two women in Oaxaca take place in Mexico. The Article describing the event is below. The two women were on their way to the State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the People of Oaxaca being held at the Section 22 Teacher's Union in Oaxaca. They were community radio advocates. They were ambushed and gunned down by paramilitaries. Although there is no direct evidence at this time, it is a common strategy of the Oaxacan state to use terror and other forms of oppression to suppress an active participatory and democratic movement. This act is a clear human rights violation and an attack on democracy and the right to be an activist. The event is particularly disturbing in light of the U.S. governments decision to radically increase military aid to Mexico (the 1.2 billion dollar Plan Mexico) to "restore order" in Southern Mexico and the border region. A full investigation must take place to ensure that U.S. military aid isn't supporting paramilitary or state-sponsored violations of human rights.
Come to the MECHA office in the Smith Bldg Mezzanine if you want to help make signs before!
In Solidarity,
PSU M.e.ch.a, North American Solidarity, and Cascadia Root Force
-<>
from: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/04/08/index.php?section=estados&article=035n2est
Matan a dos locutoras de radioemisora comunitaria Octavio Vélez Ascencio (Corresponsal) Oaxaca, Oax., 7 de abril. Dos indígenas triquis de la radioemisora comunitaria La Voz que Rompe el Silencio, del ayuntamiento popular de San Juan Copala, región de la Mixteca, fueron asesinadas a balazos cuando se dirigían a esta ciudad a participar en el Encuentro Estatal por la Defensa de los Derechos de los Pueblos de Oaxaca. Hubo tres heridos.
Las víctimas son Teresa Bautista Merino, de 24 años, y Felícitas Martínez Sánchez, de 20, informó el procurador general de Justicia del estado, Evencio Nicolás Martínez Ramírez. Además resultaron heridos Francisco Vásquez Martínez, de 30 años de edad; su esposa, Cristina Martínez Flores, de 22 años, y su hijo Jaciel Vásquez Martínez, de tres años.
De acuerdo con los primeros informes, las mujeres habían salido alrededor de las 13 horas de la estación afiliada a la Red de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas del Sureste, y abordaron una camioneta para trasladarse a esta capital, pero en las inmediaciones del paraje Llano Juárez fueron emboscadas. En un comunicado, el Centro de Apoyo Comunitario Trabajando Unidos (Cactus) condenó los hechos y exigió a las autoridades estatales investigar y castigar a los responsables del crimen. Las dos locutoras iban a coordinar la mesa Comunicación comunitaria y alternativa: radios comunitarias, video, prensa e Internet, en el Encuentro Estatal por la Defensa de los Derechos de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, que se iniciará el próximo miércoles en el hotel del magisterio de la sección 22 del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE). El procurador de Justicia dijo que en el lugar del atentado se encontraron 20 casquillos percutidos calibre 7.62, utilizados, entre otras armas, en rifles de asalto AK-47 o cuerno de chivo. Un agente del Ministerio Público con sede en Putla de Guerrero y peritos realizaron las primeras diligencias de la averiguación previa 105/2008.
from: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/04/374451.shtml
Community Radio Activists Murdered in Oaxaca
April 7th, 2008. Oaxaca, Mexico.
Two indigenous triqui women who worked at the community radio station La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (The Voice that Breaks the Silence), in the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala (Mixteca region), were shot and murdered while on their way to Oaxaca city to participate in the State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the Peoples of Oaxaca. Three other people were injured.
According to the State Attorney General, the victims are Teresa Bautista Merino (24 years old) and Felícitas Martínez Sánchez (20 years old). Francisco Vásquez Martínez (30 years old), his wife Cristina Martínez Flores (22 years old), and their son Jaciel Vásquez Martínez (three years old) were also injured in the attack.
According to prelimary reports, the women had left the station, which is part of the Network of Indigenous Community Radio Stations of the Southeast (Red de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas del Sureste), around 1:00 PM. They were travelling in a truck on their way to Oaxaca city, but were ambushed on the outskirts of the community Llano Juarez.
The two community radio activists were supposed to coordinate the working group for Community and Alternative Communication: Community Radio, Video, Press, and Internet, at the State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the People of Oaxaca, which was to begin the today (Wednesday) in the auditorium of Seccion 22 of the teachers union in Oaxaca.
The Center for Community Support Working Together (CACTUS as the spanish acronym) released a communique denouncing the murders and demanding that the state authorities investigate and punish those responsible for the crime.
The state attorney general said that 20 bullet shells, caliber 7.62, were found at the site of the murders, along with other arms including an AK-47.
People are encouraged to contact their local embassies and consulates (or to organize demonstrations at their local embassies and consulates) to express their condemnation of this paramilitary repression of indigenous women and community media projects.
Call to Action!
This Thursday April 17th @ 2:50pm
Smith Student Union Mezzanine
Portland State University
we will be marching to the Mexican Consulate to demand that a thorough investigation of the ambush and murder of two women in Oaxaca take place in Mexico. The Article describing the event is below. The two women were on their way to the State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the People of Oaxaca being held at the Section 22 Teacher's Union in Oaxaca. They were community radio advocates. They were ambushed and gunned down by paramilitaries. Although there is no direct evidence at this time, it is a common strategy of the Oaxacan state to use terror and other forms of oppression to suppress an active participatory and democratic movement. This act is a clear human rights violation and an attack on democracy and the right to be an activist. The event is particularly disturbing in light of the U.S. governments decision to radically increase military aid to Mexico (the 1.2 billion dollar Plan Mexico) to "restore order" in Southern Mexico and the border region. A full investigation must take place to ensure that U.S. military aid isn't supporting paramilitary or state-sponsored violations of human rights.
Come to the MECHA office in the Smith Bldg Mezzanine if you want to help make signs before!
In Solidarity,
PSU M.e.ch.a, North American Solidarity, and Cascadia Root Force
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from: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/04/08/index.php?section=estados&article=035n2est
Matan a dos locutoras de radioemisora comunitaria Octavio Vélez Ascencio (Corresponsal) Oaxaca, Oax., 7 de abril. Dos indígenas triquis de la radioemisora comunitaria La Voz que Rompe el Silencio, del ayuntamiento popular de San Juan Copala, región de la Mixteca, fueron asesinadas a balazos cuando se dirigían a esta ciudad a participar en el Encuentro Estatal por la Defensa de los Derechos de los Pueblos de Oaxaca. Hubo tres heridos.
Las víctimas son Teresa Bautista Merino, de 24 años, y Felícitas Martínez Sánchez, de 20, informó el procurador general de Justicia del estado, Evencio Nicolás Martínez Ramírez. Además resultaron heridos Francisco Vásquez Martínez, de 30 años de edad; su esposa, Cristina Martínez Flores, de 22 años, y su hijo Jaciel Vásquez Martínez, de tres años.
De acuerdo con los primeros informes, las mujeres habían salido alrededor de las 13 horas de la estación afiliada a la Red de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas del Sureste, y abordaron una camioneta para trasladarse a esta capital, pero en las inmediaciones del paraje Llano Juárez fueron emboscadas. En un comunicado, el Centro de Apoyo Comunitario Trabajando Unidos (Cactus) condenó los hechos y exigió a las autoridades estatales investigar y castigar a los responsables del crimen. Las dos locutoras iban a coordinar la mesa Comunicación comunitaria y alternativa: radios comunitarias, video, prensa e Internet, en el Encuentro Estatal por la Defensa de los Derechos de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, que se iniciará el próximo miércoles en el hotel del magisterio de la sección 22 del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE). El procurador de Justicia dijo que en el lugar del atentado se encontraron 20 casquillos percutidos calibre 7.62, utilizados, entre otras armas, en rifles de asalto AK-47 o cuerno de chivo. Un agente del Ministerio Público con sede en Putla de Guerrero y peritos realizaron las primeras diligencias de la averiguación previa 105/2008.
from: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/04/374451.shtml
Community Radio Activists Murdered in Oaxaca
April 7th, 2008. Oaxaca, Mexico.
Two indigenous triqui women who worked at the community radio station La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (The Voice that Breaks the Silence), in the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala (Mixteca region), were shot and murdered while on their way to Oaxaca city to participate in the State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the Peoples of Oaxaca. Three other people were injured.
According to the State Attorney General, the victims are Teresa Bautista Merino (24 years old) and Felícitas Martínez Sánchez (20 years old). Francisco Vásquez Martínez (30 years old), his wife Cristina Martínez Flores (22 years old), and their son Jaciel Vásquez Martínez (three years old) were also injured in the attack.
According to prelimary reports, the women had left the station, which is part of the Network of Indigenous Community Radio Stations of the Southeast (Red de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas del Sureste), around 1:00 PM. They were travelling in a truck on their way to Oaxaca city, but were ambushed on the outskirts of the community Llano Juarez.
The two community radio activists were supposed to coordinate the working group for Community and Alternative Communication: Community Radio, Video, Press, and Internet, at the State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the People of Oaxaca, which was to begin the today (Wednesday) in the auditorium of Seccion 22 of the teachers union in Oaxaca.
The Center for Community Support Working Together (CACTUS as the spanish acronym) released a communique denouncing the murders and demanding that the state authorities investigate and punish those responsible for the crime.
The state attorney general said that 20 bullet shells, caliber 7.62, were found at the site of the murders, along with other arms including an AK-47.
People are encouraged to contact their local embassies and consulates (or to organize demonstrations at their local embassies and consulates) to express their condemnation of this paramilitary repression of indigenous women and community media projects.
Monday, April 14, 2008
The US-Colombia Unfair Trade Agreement: Just Say No!
With Congress back in session, the Bush Administration is pushing hard to pass another trade agreement based on the failed NAFTA model, this time with Colombia. The Administration is in a race against public opinion, which is quickly turning against the kind of neoliberal trade deals that have worsened poverty and inequality in every country where they have been implemented and led to a massive loss of jobs in the United States. The proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia promises more of the same. The deal will also strengthen Colombia's government, which is responsible for severe human rights violations.
With more and more people--in Latin America and in the US--becoming aware of the repercussions of unfair trade rules, now is the time to take action and demand change.
Please sign our petition asking Congress to vote No on the US-Colombia FTA. Let your representatives know that a vote for this trade agreement is a vote for:
1. Worsening Rural Poverty and Hunger
The FTA cuts tariffs on food imported from the US but benefits only the few Colombian farmers who export to the US. Moreover, the deal bars the Colombian government from subsidizing farmers, while large-scale US corn and rice growers enjoy billions in subsidies. These double standards guarantee that US agribusiness can undersell Colombian farmers, who will face bankruptcy as a result. Many of Colombia's small-holder farmers are women and Indigenous Peoples who are losing their livelihoods and being forced off their lands.
2. Fueling Armed Conflict and Drug Trafficking
The intertwined crises of poverty, landlessness and inequality are at the root of Colombia's 50-year armed conflict. The FTA will further concentrate wealth in the hands of a few while worsening poverty for millions of people. Many Colombian farmers, whose livelihoods will be destroyed by the FTA, will be compelled to cultivate coca (the raw material for producing cocaine) to earn a living.
Continuing a trend begun in the wake of 9-11, the US has cast the FTA as a matter of its "national security," and the Colombian government has followed suit by treating anyone opposed to the deal as a terrorist. Colombia's workers, Afro-Colombians and Indigenous Peoples have taken a clear position against the FTA. Their peaceful protests have been met with severe repression, including murder.
3. Repressing Labor Rights
Colombia is already the world's deadliest country for trade unionists, with more than 2,000 labor activists killed since 1991. The FTA does not require Colombia to meet international core labor standards; it merely calls on the government to abide by its own weak labor laws. Without enforceable labor protections, the trade deal will put more workers at risk. US workers' power to negotiate better wages will also be weakened by a deal that allows corporations operating in Colombia to keep labor costs down through sheer violence.
4. Exacerbating Climate Change and Threatening Biodiversity
The FTA will increase logging in the Colombian Amazon, weakening the rainforest's capacity to stabilize the Earth's climate. Under provisions sought by the US, corporations that have bought the rights to a country's forests, fishing waters, mineral deposits or oil reserves can totally deplete these resources, with grave consequences to ecosystems and the many species that inhabit them. Small-scale farmers and Indigenous Peoples who depend directly on these natural resources will be the first people to suffer.
5. Subordinating National Sovereignty to Corporations
By allowing corporations to sue governments for passing laws that could reduce profits, the FTA erodes Colombia's prerogative to regulate foreign investment and undermines citizens' chances of improving health, safety and environmental laws. In anticipation of the FTA, the US pressed Colombia to pass a law that would expropriate land from Indigenous and Afro-Colombians and allow multinational corporations to gain control of millions of hectares of rainforest. The forestry law was part of a series of constitutional "reforms" undertaken to meet the conditions of a US trade agreement. In January 2008, Colombian civil society won an important victory: the forestry law was struck down as a violation of Indigenous rights. Had the FTA already been in place, US corporations would now be allowed to sue the Colombian government for "lost future profits."
6. Deteriorating Public Health
By extending patent rights on medicines produced in the US, the FTA hinders the use of far cheaper generic drugs and puts life-saving medicines out of reach for millions of Colombians. Women, who are over-represented among the poor and primarily responsible for caring for sick family members, are particularly harmed by this provision.
7. Loss of Vital Public Services
The FTA requires the Colombian government to sell off critical public services, including water, healthcare and education. Elsewhere in Latin America, this kind of privatization has resulted in sharp rate increases by new corporate owners that deny millions of people access to essential services. Women are hardest hit because it is most often their responsibility to meet their families' needs for such basic services.
8. Harming Indigenous Women
The FTA would enable corporations to exploit Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge by allowing companies to patent seeds, plants, animals and certain medical procedures developed and used by Indigenous women over centuries. Under the FTA, Indigenous women could lose access to important medicinal plants and agricultural seeds unless they pay royalties to patent holders. Indigenous women's role as the protectors of their community's natural resources and traditional knowledge would be eroded, threatening Indigenous cultures and women's status within the community.
There Are Viable Alternatives to Free Trade Agreements
Despite more than a decade of failed NAFTA-style trade deals, the US continues to insist that its trading partners adhere to rigid neoliberal economic policies. But Latin America's social movements are articulating viable alternatives for regulating trade and economic integration in ways that benefit women, families, communities and the environment. The women of MADRE's sister organizations in Colombia and throughout Latin America affirm the need for Fair Trade Agreements that:
1. Are negotiated through democratic processes with effective participation from communities that will be impacted, including women's organizations.
2. Ensure that life-sustaining resources such as water, food staples and medicinal plants are guaranteed to all people and not reduced to commodities.
3. Ensure that access to basic services, including health care, housing, education, water and sanitation, are recognized as human rights that governments are obligated--and empowered--to protect.
4. Institute the region's highest, rather than lowest, standards for labor rights and health, safety and environmental protections.
5. Adopt principles of "fair trade," including social security and development assistance programs that protect small farmers and workers and that recognize the economic value of women's unpaid labor in the household.
6. Require foreign investors to contribute to the economic development of the communities where they have a presence.
7. Promote policies that respect local cultures and collective Indigenous rights and that preserve traditional agricultural techniques and biodiversity in agriculture and nature.
8. Recognize the links between economic growth, environmental sustainability and building peace.
With more and more people--in Latin America and in the US--becoming aware of the repercussions of unfair trade rules, now is the time to take action and demand change.
Please sign our petition asking Congress to vote No on the US-Colombia FTA. Let your representatives know that a vote for this trade agreement is a vote for:
1. Worsening Rural Poverty and Hunger
The FTA cuts tariffs on food imported from the US but benefits only the few Colombian farmers who export to the US. Moreover, the deal bars the Colombian government from subsidizing farmers, while large-scale US corn and rice growers enjoy billions in subsidies. These double standards guarantee that US agribusiness can undersell Colombian farmers, who will face bankruptcy as a result. Many of Colombia's small-holder farmers are women and Indigenous Peoples who are losing their livelihoods and being forced off their lands.
2. Fueling Armed Conflict and Drug Trafficking
The intertwined crises of poverty, landlessness and inequality are at the root of Colombia's 50-year armed conflict. The FTA will further concentrate wealth in the hands of a few while worsening poverty for millions of people. Many Colombian farmers, whose livelihoods will be destroyed by the FTA, will be compelled to cultivate coca (the raw material for producing cocaine) to earn a living.
Continuing a trend begun in the wake of 9-11, the US has cast the FTA as a matter of its "national security," and the Colombian government has followed suit by treating anyone opposed to the deal as a terrorist. Colombia's workers, Afro-Colombians and Indigenous Peoples have taken a clear position against the FTA. Their peaceful protests have been met with severe repression, including murder.
3. Repressing Labor Rights
Colombia is already the world's deadliest country for trade unionists, with more than 2,000 labor activists killed since 1991. The FTA does not require Colombia to meet international core labor standards; it merely calls on the government to abide by its own weak labor laws. Without enforceable labor protections, the trade deal will put more workers at risk. US workers' power to negotiate better wages will also be weakened by a deal that allows corporations operating in Colombia to keep labor costs down through sheer violence.
4. Exacerbating Climate Change and Threatening Biodiversity
The FTA will increase logging in the Colombian Amazon, weakening the rainforest's capacity to stabilize the Earth's climate. Under provisions sought by the US, corporations that have bought the rights to a country's forests, fishing waters, mineral deposits or oil reserves can totally deplete these resources, with grave consequences to ecosystems and the many species that inhabit them. Small-scale farmers and Indigenous Peoples who depend directly on these natural resources will be the first people to suffer.
5. Subordinating National Sovereignty to Corporations
By allowing corporations to sue governments for passing laws that could reduce profits, the FTA erodes Colombia's prerogative to regulate foreign investment and undermines citizens' chances of improving health, safety and environmental laws. In anticipation of the FTA, the US pressed Colombia to pass a law that would expropriate land from Indigenous and Afro-Colombians and allow multinational corporations to gain control of millions of hectares of rainforest. The forestry law was part of a series of constitutional "reforms" undertaken to meet the conditions of a US trade agreement. In January 2008, Colombian civil society won an important victory: the forestry law was struck down as a violation of Indigenous rights. Had the FTA already been in place, US corporations would now be allowed to sue the Colombian government for "lost future profits."
6. Deteriorating Public Health
By extending patent rights on medicines produced in the US, the FTA hinders the use of far cheaper generic drugs and puts life-saving medicines out of reach for millions of Colombians. Women, who are over-represented among the poor and primarily responsible for caring for sick family members, are particularly harmed by this provision.
7. Loss of Vital Public Services
The FTA requires the Colombian government to sell off critical public services, including water, healthcare and education. Elsewhere in Latin America, this kind of privatization has resulted in sharp rate increases by new corporate owners that deny millions of people access to essential services. Women are hardest hit because it is most often their responsibility to meet their families' needs for such basic services.
8. Harming Indigenous Women
The FTA would enable corporations to exploit Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge by allowing companies to patent seeds, plants, animals and certain medical procedures developed and used by Indigenous women over centuries. Under the FTA, Indigenous women could lose access to important medicinal plants and agricultural seeds unless they pay royalties to patent holders. Indigenous women's role as the protectors of their community's natural resources and traditional knowledge would be eroded, threatening Indigenous cultures and women's status within the community.
There Are Viable Alternatives to Free Trade Agreements
Despite more than a decade of failed NAFTA-style trade deals, the US continues to insist that its trading partners adhere to rigid neoliberal economic policies. But Latin America's social movements are articulating viable alternatives for regulating trade and economic integration in ways that benefit women, families, communities and the environment. The women of MADRE's sister organizations in Colombia and throughout Latin America affirm the need for Fair Trade Agreements that:
1. Are negotiated through democratic processes with effective participation from communities that will be impacted, including women's organizations.
2. Ensure that life-sustaining resources such as water, food staples and medicinal plants are guaranteed to all people and not reduced to commodities.
3. Ensure that access to basic services, including health care, housing, education, water and sanitation, are recognized as human rights that governments are obligated--and empowered--to protect.
4. Institute the region's highest, rather than lowest, standards for labor rights and health, safety and environmental protections.
5. Adopt principles of "fair trade," including social security and development assistance programs that protect small farmers and workers and that recognize the economic value of women's unpaid labor in the household.
6. Require foreign investors to contribute to the economic development of the communities where they have a presence.
7. Promote policies that respect local cultures and collective Indigenous rights and that preserve traditional agricultural techniques and biodiversity in agriculture and nature.
8. Recognize the links between economic growth, environmental sustainability and building peace.
Oregon's 2008 Anti-Immigrant Ballot Measures - #19 and #112
#19: Prohibits Teaching Public School Student In Language Other Than English For More Than Two Years
Filed By: Alan Grosso, Bill Sizemore, and Russell Walker
Summary of Initiative
* Non-English speaking students who enter the public school system will be limited to not more than two years of English Immersion classes.
* The amount of time for ESL classes depends on the grade of non-English speaking student enter the public school system.
“Yes” statement: “Yes” vote prohibits teaching public school student in language other than English for more than two years (exception for teaching foreign language to English speakers).
“No” statement: “No” vote retains requiring English courses for students unable to profit from classes taught in English, permitting Multilanguage instruction to assist transition to English.
Significant Impact/Concerns
* This initiative does not consider individual learning levels or students with special needs.
* What are the consequences for non-English speaking students who are prematurely forced into English only classes?
* How will this affect refugee children who have come directly from refugee camps with little formal education?
* How will this affect ESL funding, school funding, and curriculum?
#112: Allows state cooperation with Immigration Enforcement; Requires “Legal Presence”/Citizenship for Specified States Rights/Privileges
Filed By: Mehran Smith and Shahriyar Smith
Summary of Initiative
* No Statute, regulation, or agency/instrumentality of the state can prohibit public employees from cooperating with federal agencies in the enforcement of federal immigration law.
* First time Oregon voters must provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
* Proof of legal residence is required for driver license applicants.
“Yes” Statement: “Yes” vote allow state/local cooperation and resources for immigration enforcement; requires certain documentation of citizenship for voter registration, “legal presence” for driver/identification documents.
“No” Statement: “No” vote retains current state/local limits on cooperation and resources to enforce immigration laws, current requirements for voter registration, and grant of driver/identification documents.
Significant Concerns/Impacts
* Would state and local police have the ability to arrest undocumented immigrants on a regular basis? Would state and local police receive proper training, funding and support to carry out federal immigration enforcement?
* Would this initiative require all government workers (hospitals, schools, etc.) to report undocumented immigrants? Would this initiative promote racial profiling?
* Would this eliminate the ability to hold street-side voter registration drives?
* How long will it take to verify a voter’s status under the new system?
Filed By: Alan Grosso, Bill Sizemore, and Russell Walker
Summary of Initiative
* Non-English speaking students who enter the public school system will be limited to not more than two years of English Immersion classes.
* The amount of time for ESL classes depends on the grade of non-English speaking student enter the public school system.
“Yes” statement: “Yes” vote prohibits teaching public school student in language other than English for more than two years (exception for teaching foreign language to English speakers).
“No” statement: “No” vote retains requiring English courses for students unable to profit from classes taught in English, permitting Multilanguage instruction to assist transition to English.
Significant Impact/Concerns
* This initiative does not consider individual learning levels or students with special needs.
* What are the consequences for non-English speaking students who are prematurely forced into English only classes?
* How will this affect refugee children who have come directly from refugee camps with little formal education?
* How will this affect ESL funding, school funding, and curriculum?
#112: Allows state cooperation with Immigration Enforcement; Requires “Legal Presence”/Citizenship for Specified States Rights/Privileges
Filed By: Mehran Smith and Shahriyar Smith
Summary of Initiative
* No Statute, regulation, or agency/instrumentality of the state can prohibit public employees from cooperating with federal agencies in the enforcement of federal immigration law.
* First time Oregon voters must provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
* Proof of legal residence is required for driver license applicants.
“Yes” Statement: “Yes” vote allow state/local cooperation and resources for immigration enforcement; requires certain documentation of citizenship for voter registration, “legal presence” for driver/identification documents.
“No” Statement: “No” vote retains current state/local limits on cooperation and resources to enforce immigration laws, current requirements for voter registration, and grant of driver/identification documents.
Significant Concerns/Impacts
* Would state and local police have the ability to arrest undocumented immigrants on a regular basis? Would state and local police receive proper training, funding and support to carry out federal immigration enforcement?
* Would this initiative require all government workers (hospitals, schools, etc.) to report undocumented immigrants? Would this initiative promote racial profiling?
* Would this eliminate the ability to hold street-side voter registration drives?
* How long will it take to verify a voter’s status under the new system?
Sunday April 13 Workshop
Hey all, thanks for attending our first workshop of 2008. Thanks especially to Jesus for his powerful and informative summary of the autonomy movement in Oaxaca. I've uploaded a few pictures from my recent trip to El Paso/ Ciudad Juarez. You'll note the military presense (2,500 Mexican troops have just been sent to the region to combat drug cartels and corrupt police) that I talked about on Sunday.
Also, we're going to do our best to keep a record of our films and discussion/ workshop topics on this forum. Please feel free to post thoughts, readings, and upcoming events and keep the conversations going that we begin on Thursday nights! In solidarity,
-Jake
Also, we're going to do our best to keep a record of our films and discussion/ workshop topics on this forum. Please feel free to post thoughts, readings, and upcoming events and keep the conversations going that we begin on Thursday nights! In solidarity,
-Jake
Event: April 23, 7 pm
THE COLLAPSE OF NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION
A DISCUSSION WITH MARK ENGLER, AUTHOR OF:
"How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy"
WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 7-9PM
IN OTHER WORDS BOOKSTORE
8 NE KILLINGSWORTH ST.
(CORNER OF NE KILLINGSWORTH ST. AND WILLIAMS AVE.)
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE PORTLAND CENTRAL AMERICA SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE AT:
503 236 7916 OR INFO@PCASC.NET
In conversation about his new book, How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy, journalist, activist, and policy analyst Mark Engler will discuss the collapse of neoliberal globalization and the challenges of fighting empire after Bush.
Mark Engler is a writer based in New York City and an analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. His articles appear in Dissent, The Nation, Newsday, The Progressive, the San Francisco Chronicle, Z Magazine, Mother Jones, and In These Times. An archive of his work is available at www.DemocracyUprising.com.
A DISCUSSION WITH MARK ENGLER, AUTHOR OF:
"How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy"
WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 7-9PM
IN OTHER WORDS BOOKSTORE
8 NE KILLINGSWORTH ST.
(CORNER OF NE KILLINGSWORTH ST. AND WILLIAMS AVE.)
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE PORTLAND CENTRAL AMERICA SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE AT:
503 236 7916 OR INFO@PCASC.NET
In conversation about his new book, How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy, journalist, activist, and policy analyst Mark Engler will discuss the collapse of neoliberal globalization and the challenges of fighting empire after Bush.
Mark Engler is a writer based in New York City and an analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. His articles appear in Dissent, The Nation, Newsday, The Progressive, the San Francisco Chronicle, Z Magazine, Mother Jones, and In These Times. An archive of his work is available at www.DemocracyUprising.com.
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