Bulletin archive

Solidarity Newsround

alan@aktivix.org (Mario Novelli & Gareth Gordon) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:21:58 +0000

SOAW - Growing Stronger Together

The vigils outside the US Embassies in London and Dublin on 16 November was the first time that the annual protest against the School of the Americas in Fort Benning in Georgia USA had simultaneoous international events. 10,000 people protested in Georgia. Close to 100 people arrested, most of whom
had a trial date set for 27 January. They all had to pay bond fees to be released until their trial. We should focus on the upcoming trial. Letters to SOAW and to the activists when they are in prison after that would be good. More info on SOA Watch www.soaw.org Sarah Bania-Dobyns

40,000 Gather to Create a People's Europe

alan@aktivix.org (Nick Dearden) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:19:02 +0000

The gathering of tens of thousands of Europe's radicalised youth in Florence in November was proof of far more than the scale of mass disaffection, which would barely have been news, but was testimony to the competence, creativity and capability of the largest and most diverse movement in history.

Desperate Situation for Refugees

alan@aktivix.org (Zoe Goodman) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:17:11 +0000

A desperate situation faces more than one hundred families who fled Colombia in 2002 following death threats. One group of eight families, who had applied for asylum in Australia with the help of the CUT (Colombian Trade Union Congress), was forced to flee to El Salvador due to repeated death threats while their cases were being considered.

Coca Cola Genocide

alan@aktivix.org (Meg Willams) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:14:21 +0000

The incandescent red and white logo of Coca-Cola - the world’s fastest selling non-alcoholic beverage - has long secured its niche as the global mascot of The American Dream and the successes and happiness rendered by capitalism.

Another Nestl? Scandal

alan@aktivix.org (Colombia Solidarity) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:13:01 +0000

Nestlé's money grabbing demand on Ethiopia has refocused attention on the activities of this Swiss based multinational, the largest food processing company in the world. Nestlé is at the centre of another scandal.

Review: Unmatched Power, Unmet Principles *, Amnesty International USA

max.fuller@btopenworld.com (Max Fuller) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:11:49 +0000

According to this report by Amnesty International USA, the US trains more than 100,000 foreign police and soldiers from over 150 countries each year, but fails to provide sufficient oversight or emphasis on humanitarian law to prevent serious abuses of human rights

US Military Doctrine and Colombia's War of Terror

alan@aktivix.org (Doug Stokes) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:09:27 +0000

Under the new presidency of Alvaro Uribe Vélez paramilitarism is once again legal. His network of a million paid informants essentially makes overt what has long been a joint covert US-Colombian strategy of brutal counter-insurgent paramilitary warfare. To fully grasp the relationship between US military training and aid, paramilitarism, and human rights abuses in Colombia today it is necessary to examine the evolution of US counter-insurgency doctrine.

US Troop Build Up

alan@aktivix.org (Peter Gorman) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:08:06 +0000

Marines Ordered In via Peru

Around October 2002 two battalions of US Marine Jungle Expeditionary Forces received deployment orders for insertion into Colombia in February, 2003.

From Liberator to Destroyer

colombiasolidarity@riseup.net (Andy Higginbottom) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:06:01 +0000

Colombia's first president Simón Bolívar liberated six countries from Spanish colonial rule. He deservedly earned the popular title The Liberator. Bolívar's great vision of an independent Latin America, united and equal amongst the nations of the world, was sadly already falling apart by the time of his death. In a perverse reversal of history, Colombia's latest president Álvaro Uribe Vélez is preparing to surrender not only his own country's sovereignty, but to sacrifice the independence of the Andean region and subjugate it to the demands of the US empire, thereby breaking the prospect of continental unity.

Popular Rage Against FTAA

alan@aktivix.org (Justin Ruben) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:02:08 +0000

Please accept this bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I don’t know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I saw today, because my mucous membranes are shot to hell from too much tear gas, or from sheer exhaustion. But I want to get this out while it is fresh in my mind.