[LAAMN] El Salvador: Mining companies want their share
http://lo-de-alla.org/2013/04/el-salvador-mining-companies-want-their-share/#more-3935 El Salvador: Mining companies want their sharehttp://lo-de-alla.org/2013/04/el-salvador-mining-companies-want-their-share/ *Environmental contamination and sickness are the result of years of mining in La Unión* [Translation of an article from *ContraPunto* of El Salvador for April 13, 2013. See original herehttp://www.contrapunto.com.sv/ambiente/mineras-a-por-su-tajada-sin-responder-por-los-danos .] By Gerardo Arbaiza *San Salvador* In the extreme east of the country, in the canton of San Sebastián in the Santa Rosa de Lima municipality of La Unión, is a good example of extreme neglect by government authorities, despite its being beside the most profitable gold mine in the country, a mine worked from 1968 to the beginning of the 80s by the United States company Commerce Group, from which a total of seven billion dollars is said to have been extracted, from which no benefit for the community is to be seen. The list of tribulations in San Sebastián is long: the sulphurous color of the water in the San Sebastián River extends a depressing welcome to a community that, its inhabitants say, is visited by officials only when legislative and mayoral candidates are looking for votes. The acidity of this water (pH between four and five) makes it impossible to drink, comments Cidia Cortez, a researcher with the Centro de Investigación sobre Inversión y Comercio (CEICOM Center for Research into Investment and Commerce). According to Cortez, the sulphurous rock taken from the mine, which also has high levels of iron, turns the water reddish upon contact. Animals continue drinking the water and it is feared that the harmful substances taken from the mine are getting into peoples bodies through the food chain. Cortez points out another detail as well: upstream, the water is more clear, so the people use it a little more confidently, but she delares that it is just as contaminated. The mine waste is spread throughout the area and the adobe in some houses is made with the waste, she adds. People here are aware of the dangers but some seem indifferent, Humberto Cruz of the Comité del Medio Ambiente [Committee on the Environment] of Santa Rosa de Lima says. Cruz explains that another problem for the community is the contamination of the soil because of the sulphur, for which reason it cannot be used for cultivation. Cruz says that because of this phenomenon very few people work in agriculture and leave for other areas outside the canton. In addition, others move to Santa Rosa de Lima to work in the service sector. The activist indicates that there have been attempts in the past by other companies to resume the intensive mining operation but that opposition from the communities has prevented it. Several other businesses have come here to try to exploit but we know that they are the same people, who have changed costumes and claimed they are new, that it was the others who caused the damage, Cruz declares. Despite the fact that there is no large-scale exploitation, the * güiriceros* are another particular element in this context. The * güiriceros* separate gold in an artisanal way, with a solvent based on mercury, without the protection called for and in the same way go into the mine, subjecting themselves to high temperatures. Another concern is access to potable water from other sources. Luis Alonso Blanco, a resident of the area, says that in summer the wells cannot be used and that the only source of useable water comes from the surface of the wells and only in winter. In general, Blanco explains, well water is used only to wash dishes and clothes, so they need to buy barrels of water to drink, at a cost of two dollars and fifty cents. CEICOM specialists mention that the contaminants in the water and the soil are related most importantly to renal insufficiency and to the rare Guillain-Barré syndrome, which has a serious effect on the nervous system. CEICOM reports from the area list six cases of the syndrome in the community of 3,000 inhabitants. The World Health Organization has established that the average level of incidence of the syndrome is one case for every 100,000 persons. Commerce Group abandoned its operations in the San Sebastián mine in 1983, leaving a legacy of contamination that has expanded gradually in the three decades since then. In 2006, the Salvadoran state denied Commerce Group a permit to continue operating in San Sebastián and the mining company counter-attacked with a 100-million-dollar lawsuit before the tribunal of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). They argued in their lawsuit that the Salvadoran state had denied them the ability to extract the estimated 3.5 million ounces of gold still in the mine. On the international market, an ounce of gold is valued on the New York market at 1480 dollars. Humberto Cruz states that at the current rate of
[LAAMN] Mariano, the struggle for justice does not end
[Published in Prensa Obrera by Partido Obrero (Argentina) | April 11, 2013 | http://po.org.ar/po1263/2013/04/11/mariano-la-lucha-por-justicia-no-term\ ina/] On April 19, the verdict On April 19, the court hearing the trial for the murder of our comrade Mariano Ferreyra will reach a verdict. The proximity of the date has sparked strong political pressures to bear on the outcome of the verdict. Jorge Asís, concerned about the fate that may befall his associate, the former governor of Neuquén Jorge Sobisch, responsible for the murder of teacher and activist Carlos Fuentealba, has just called out to the union bureaucracy from his blog, calling on them to join forces to prevent a decisive conviction against [Railway Union leader] Pedraza and his gang. The rightwing scribe forgot the admiration lavished on the members of our party in the fight against the dictatorship in his novel on [the newspaper] Clarín, to take up a stance against what he now qualifies as the aggressive left, following a line whose ultimate goal is amnesty for the last military dictatorship. The Crime and the State Public knowledge of the audio of conversations between [Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security] Carlos Tomada and Pedraza, requested by a suit we brought before the Court some time ago, reveals close political ties between a major government ministry (no less than that created by Peron) and the union bureaucracy, and consequently has become an additional pressure brought to bear on the government. A life sentence for Pedraza and his gang would unleash an unquestionable crisis among all the union gangs and football club hooligans banked by top political leaders, especially the PJ [Justicialist Party, i.e. non-Kirchnerist Peronists] and the FPV [Kirchnerist Front for Victory]. After the establishment of association between the former Secretary and former Under-Secretary of Transportation --Schiavi and Luna, respectively-- with corruption rife in the railways, and the responsibility of both in the massacre of the Once station train crash, the political responsibility of the government in relation to the murder of our comrade --determined by those interests-- is irrefutable. [See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104929/Argentina-train-crash-Bu\ enos-Aires-kills-49-brakes-fail.html - see also background in Spanish http://po.org.ar/blog/2012/03/01/de-tecnopolis-a-la-tragedia-de-once/ and http://po.org.ar/blog/2012/03/01/plaza-once-estacion-terminal/] This is a statement of some magnitude, coming at a time when the government is calling for a 'judicial reform' placing the Judiciary in tune politically with the Executive branch of government. The verdict will be announced one month after the so-called 'incidents' of March 24, which turned the President from plaintiff to defendant when the presence of hooligans egged on by [Secretary of Domestic Trade] Guillermo Moreno was revealed. [See http://po.org.ar/blog/2013/03/31/la-provocacion-del-24-de-marzo-partio-d\ el-gabinete-nacional/ ] After a pilgrimage to the Vatican and with the discovery that the incoming Pope was nothing less than a Peronist, the McCarthyite barrage made by CFK [President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner] against the left and the red flags revealed a side of the government in violent contradiction with progressivism. It is true that Bergoglio transfered from the subway to the bus in order to get to the Bajo Flores neighborhood, but the deep links between the Social Pastoral and he himself with the trade union bureaucracy are equally significant. It is impossible not to notice this conjunction of McCarthyism and clericalism on the eve of the verdict. The murder of our comrade cannot be analyzed in any other way, because it is a political crime against the working class and youth in struggle. The lawsuit accuses In the course of the 75 hearings held over eight months of trial, our lawyers passed before the court, one after the other, with overwhelming evidence gathered against José Pedraza, his gang and the police charged with the murder of Mariano, and clearly demonstrated all the connections between this crime and the political, trade union and bosses power involved in the administration of the railways. [For a short background statement on the event in English see http://crciweb.org/en/node/431] In short, they gave expression in the courtroom to the social truth expressed in the streets by the hundreds of thousands of workers and youth, artists, journalists and intellectuals. The crime of Mariano sheds new light on problems that workers face daily: job insecurity, the union bureaucracy, the integration of the latter with the bosses and the state, and the irreversible decay of the repressive apparatus. A political crime against the working class cried out the front page of Prensa Obrera only hours after the murder of Mariano. The evidence gathered during the investigation did nothing more than to give legal form to that political
[LAAMN] Cuban Doctors,fireman,collectives help save clinic European United Left denounces attempts to undermine Venezuelan democracy
*Last night there was still some violence by the fascists in a few cities and towns, a MERCAL store was and attacked and a another health clinic, but thanks to the collectives who alerted people early this was happening those collectives, Venezuelan fireman and Cuban Doctors helped saved the day.* [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @*HOVcampaign*https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign Cuban doctors and Venezuelan firefighters defend Palo Verde health centre against arson attack pic.twitter.com/sysqykLpWh http://t.co/sysqykLpWh @* FBUNational* https://twitter.com/fbunational [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @*HOVcampaign*https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign European United Left @*GUENGL* https://twitter.com/GUENGL denounces attempts to undermine Venezuelan democracy by Capriles http:// guengl.eu/news/article/g ue-ngl-news/gue-ngl-denounces-attempts-to-undermine-venezuelan-democracy http://t.co/2SyrWRnM0M(English/Spanish) GUE/NGL denounces attempts to undermine Venezuelan democracy 17/04/2013 El GUE/NGL denuncia los intentos de desestabilizar la república bolivariana de Venezuela [image: GUE/NGL denounces attempts to undermine Venezuelan democracy] Credit: Joka Madruga / Terra Livre Press The GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament has warned of the destabilisation campaign and violence generated by Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles who has not recognised the presidential election results that gave victory to Nicolas Maduro in a fair and democratic poll carried out in a reliable electoral system. The GUE/NGL denounces the putschist attitude of the opposition and its candidate. All international organisations must support the free and sovereign decision of the Venezuelan people. It is not the first time that the Venezuelan right has breached democratic norms to destabilise the democratic will of Venezuelans. Opposition groups have unleashed a wave of violence, burning public health centres and assaulting the employees of the National Electoral Council. These actions have caused several deaths, in a scenario similar to the lead up to the 2002 coup against democratic constitutionality. The Chairperson of the National Electoral Council, Tibisay Lucena, declared Maduro the winner with 7,563,747 votes, 50.75% versus 48.97% for Capriles with a turnout of 78.71%. In fact, the very day of the election the Council proceeded with a manual check of 54% of the ballot boxes as part of the audit process. With the participation of witnesses from all political parties, this process indicated a 100% correlation between the recounted votes and the result of the automated system. Given the right's destabilising manoeuvres, the GUE/NGL reiterates its solidarity with the people of Venezuela, with President Nicolas Maduro and will denounce in all fora such attempts to destabilise, through putschist acts, the sovereign will of the people Venezuela yet again expressed at the ballot box. *ES* *El GUE/NGL denuncia los intentos de desestabilizar la república bolivariana de Venezuela* El Grupo de la Izquierda Unitaria Europea/Izquierda Verde Nórdica en el Parlamento Europeo ha alertado sobre la campaña desestabilizadora mediante actos violentos instigados por el candidato opositor Capriles al no reconocer el resultado electoral que dio el triunfo a la candidatura de Nicolás Maduro en unas elecciones limpias y democráticas realizadas en un sistema electoral absolutamente confiable. El GUE/NGL denuncia el espíritu golpista de la oposición y de su candidato Capriles ante todos los organismos internacionales, que deben acompañar la decisión libre y soberana del pueblo de Venezuela. No es la primera vez que la derecha venezolana se sitúa fuera de las normas democráticas para intentar desestabilizar la voluntad democrática de las y los venezolanos. Grupos opositores han desatado una ola de violencia, incendiando centros de salud públicos y agrediendo a trabajadores del Consejo Nacional Electoral, acciones reprobables que han provocado varios muertos, en un escenario similar al previo al golpe de Estado de 2002 contra la constitucionalidad democrática, recordaron. La Presidenta del Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, proclamó como triunfador a Maduro con 7.563.747 votos, el 50,75 %, frente al 48,97 % del candidato Capriles con una participación del 78,71%. De hecho, el propio día de las elecciones el CNE procedió a una verificación manual del 54% de las urnas electorales como parte del proceso de auditoría, junto con técnicos y testigos de todos los partidos políticos que arrojó una coincidencia del 100% entre los comprobantes de voto escrutados y el resultado del sistema automatizado. Ante estas maniobras desestabilizadoras de la derecha, la Izquierda Unitaria Europea/Izquierda Verde Nórdica redoblará su solidaridad con el pueblo de Venezuela, con su Presidente Nicolás Maduro, y denunciará en todos los ámbitos posibles los intentos de
[LAAMN] El intento de golpe de estado se combate con la movilización revolucionaria
http://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/venezuela-leftmenu-161/7349-como-combatir-el-golpismo El intento de golpe de estado se combate con la movilización revolucionariahttp://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/venezuela-leftmenu-161/7349-como-combatir-el-golpismo[image: Imprimir]http://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/venezuela-leftmenu-161/7349-como-combatir-el-golpismo?tmpl=componentprint=1layout=defaultpage=[image: Correo electrónico]http://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/component/mailto/?tmpl=componentlink=2920c8f94f5f71392113a1d2e5c0f23a59628c1bEscrito por Prensa Lucha de Clases Miércoles 17 de Abril de 2013 DECLARACIÓN DE LA CORRIENTE MARXISTA *LUCHA DE CLASES* DEL PSUV: Lo que hemos visto en los últimos días es un golpe de estado en desarrollo como lo correctamente lo describió el camarada presidente Nicolás Maduro. No se trata simplemente de protestas pacíficas de compatriotas que creen que ha habido fraude, sino de un plan orquestado para tumbar el gobierno bolivariano y aplastar la revolución. ¿Cómo combatirlo? En el plan están implicados los medios de comunicación privados, los EEUU, la OEA y el gobierno español del PP, la oligarquía local (capitalistas, banqueros y terratenientes). Hemos presenciado una campaña coordinada de ataques a todos los símbolos de la revolución bolivariana y sus conquistas: Centros de Diagnóstico Integral, edificios de los Simoncitos comunitarios, Mercales y PDVALes, medios de comunicación del estado y comunitarios, PDVSA, casas del PSUV, Petrocasa, además de edificios del CNE y residencias particulares de funcionarios del estado y dirigentes bolivarianos y sus familias. Desde el día del cierre de campaña de Maduro en Caracas hemos visto además un factor nuevo, la presencia de sicarios, en muchos casos motorizados, disparando aleatoriamente contra activistas revolucionarios. Siete militantes fueron asesinados en la noche del lunes al martes en varias partes del país cuando defendían la revolución. La combinación de declaraciones públicas con amplia cobertura mediática, presión internacional, marchas en las calles, actos de violencia sistemática y organizada, cortes eléctricos, desabastecimiento, sabotaje de la economía, amenaza de paro patronal, etc. está calculada para crear una situación de zozobra e ingobernabilidad que pueda forzar a sectores del aparato del estado a intervenir contra el gobierno legítimo. ¿Cómo respondemos a éste plan golpista? La única manera de responder a una amenaza de este tipo, como demuestra toda la experiencia anterior de la revolución, es mediante la movilización revolucionaria. Eso no quiere decir caer en provocaciones sino la movilización organizada y consciente del pueblo revolucionario y la clase trabajadora. Esto es lo que ya ha empezado a suceder en los últimos días en los barrios y ciudades del país, cuando activistas revolucionarios han retomado y defendido las instalaciones de VTV, recuperado centros regionales del CNE, defendido CDIs, etc. Es necesario darle a esta movilización espontánea un carácter organizado y coordinado. En cada barrio y en cada fábrica hay que formar comités contra el golpe, que organicen la vigilancia revolucionaria, con patrullas de autodefensa para defender los espacios (Simoncitos, CDIs, medios estatales, locales revolucionarios, etc). En estos comités deben de estar integrados todos los factores revolucionarios, motorizados, sindicatos clasistas, consejos de trabajadores, medios comunitarios, CTUs, consejos comunales, comunas socialistas, etc que hacen vida en cada lugar. Ellos están amenazando con un paro nacional. Los trabajadores de Polar ya denunciaron la existencia de galpones secretos de acaparamiento. El gobernador de Mérida Vielma Mora denunció que los ganaderos estaban organizando el sabotaje de la distribución de leche y carne. A estas amenazas sólo se puede responder con el control obrero. Si hay paro patronal o cualquier intento de sabotaje de la economía hay que aplicar, como muy correctamente explicó la camarada Blanca Eekhout, la consigna del 2002: a fábrica cerrada, fábrica tomada y habría que añadir y expropiada. En todas las fábricas, empresas e instituciones hay que organizar asambleas masivas de trabajadores para discutir la situación y crear comités de control obrero y vigilancia revolucionaria. Estos comités deben de rendir cuentas a la asamblea de trabajadores y ejercer la vigilancia contra los patronos y también contra los burócratas y elementos infiltrados en empresas e instituciones del estado. A la primera señal de sabotaje de la economía el gobierno debe expropiar las empresas responsables y ponerlas bajo control obrero. La amenaza que el camarada Maduro le hizo a Repsol y demás empresas españolas, se aplica también a la burguesía nacional. Ante el sabotaje eléctrico hay que responder con el control obrero por la base. No es posible que haya infiltrados en estas instituciones que saboteen el suministro eléctrico en los momentos cruciales. Declarar la electricidad como institución de
[LAAMN] Honduras:Partido Libre does not accept electoral reforms
[image: Partido Libre]*Partido Libre* @*partidolibrehn*https://twitter.com/partidolibrehn 8m https://twitter.com/partidolibrehn/status/324556278384979968 (Foto) COMUNICADO: NO ACEPTAMOS LAS REFORMAS ELECTORALES PROPUESTAS POR LOS MAGISTRADOS DEL @*tsehonduras* https://twitter.com/tsehonduras #*Honduras*https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Hondurassrc=hash pic.twitter.com/KPtXUdoaQZ http://t.co/KPtXUdoaQZ 1. Noticias Libertad y Refundación | Partido Libertad y Refundación * Libre* http://libre.hn/ *libre*.*hn*/ - Translate this pagehttp://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=esu=http://libre.hn/prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwww.libre.hn%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D606sa=Xei=Hs1uUbPRJYLu9AT6wYCoCAsqi=2ved=0CDcQ7gEwAA El Partido Libertad y Refundación, *LIBRE*, saluda al valiente pueblo de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela por una nueva jornada democrática, en la que *...* 2. Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular - Sitio Oficialhttp://www.resistenciahonduras.net/ www.resistenciahonduras.net/ - Translate this pagehttp://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=esu=http://www.resistenciahonduras.net/prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwww.libre.hn%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D606sa=Xei=Hs1uUbPRJYLu9AT6wYCoCAsqi=2ved=0CEEQ7gEwAQ En la década de los ochenta, en plena guerra de agresión contra Nicaragua *Libre*, en tiempos de la vergüenza nacional, de la ocupación y el militarismo *...* Noticiashttp://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_contentview=sectionlayout=blogid=11Itemid=292 - Sitio Oficialhttp://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_contentview=frontpageItemid=276 - Fuerza de Refundación Popularhttp://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_contentview=sectionlayout=blogid=40Itemid=416 - Documentos del FNRPhttp://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_contentview=sectionlayout=blogid=10Itemid=316 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Peace Activist Carlos Arredondo Hailed as Hero for Aid to Boston Marathon Bombing Victims ~ Carlos his Wife Melida were on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman on April 16th.
Peace Activist Carlos Arredondo Hailed as Hero for Aid to Boston Marathon Bombing Victims Carlos his wife Melida were on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman on April 16th. www.democracynow.org/2013/4/16/peace_activist_carlos_arredondo_hailed_as Peace http://www.democracynow.org/topics/peace activist Carlos Arredondo http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/carlos_arredondo has come to be known as the man in the hat and widely described as a hero for a viral image of him in a cowboy hat pinching the severed artery of a bloodied, wheelchair-bound victim in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Arredondo is no stranger to tragedy: He became a prominent opponent of the Iraq http://www.democracynow.org/topics/iraq War http://www.democracynow.org/topics/war after his son, Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo, was killed in Iraq in 2004. His surviving son, Brian, committed suicide in 2011. Carlos and his wife Mélida, join us to describe witnessing the Boston Marathon bombings and the immediate response to aid the victims. I have met Carlos Melida many times over the years. They are such very nice people. I remember the first time I met Carlos was at an anti-war event in San Diego. He took the time to help me carry boxes of books DVD to my table. I saw them at the Veterans For Peace Convention last August. And I saw them in October of 2012 in Hollywood at the premiere screening of: THE PROSECUTION OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT, An Explosive Documentary ON THE TRUTH BEHIND THE IRAQ WAR - Based on THE Book by Vincent Bugliosi: www.prosecution2012.com . They are both in that very well done film. So are Jane Jim Bright. You can read more about Carlos Melida at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Arredondo Transcript - www.democracynow.org/2013/4/16/peace_activist_carlos_arredondo_hailed_as AMY GOODMAN: We begin today's show with Carlos Arredondo http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/carlos_arredondo and his wife Mélida. They're joining us now on the phone from Boston. They were both at the scene of the bombing yesterday. We welcome you to Democracy Now! Carlos, let's begin with you. Tell us what you experienced, what you saw, where you were. CARLOS ARREDONDO: I was across the street from where the bombs explode with Mélida. And what I saw in the beginning was a big fire coming out across the street from where we are at the time. And then the loud noise occur, and then the big smoke. And people running. And a second explosion just right after that. My reaction was to just jump the fence, where the-to the street and cross to jump the second fence and landing in this area where was pretty much the serious injuries. You know, everybody was on the ground. There was broken limbs, people with no limbs, people totally passed out, so many injuries today. I never see in my life like this. You know, it was a very, very horrible moment in that particular moment there. People was running. And a lot of people was really doing a great job in handling the best we could at the time. AARON MATÉ: And, Carlos, you're being cited in the media as a hero for what you did for the victims. Tell us how you reacted to the bombing. CARLOS ARREDONDO: Well, it took really few minutes to understand that this was a IED explosion. And my first reaction, being a volunteer for the Red Cross http://www.democracynow.org/topics/red_cross , and my first reaction was to just go, you know, and do my duty. So many people was doing the same thing-police officers, National Guards, people from the stands, veterans http://www.democracynow.org/topics/veterans . You know, everybody just got together into the side. You know, we didn't know if it was a third bomb waiting for anybody there, you know, but everybody removed the fence by their hands and pushed everything around. And in a matter of time, everybody was wheeled out to the next 150 yards, you know, emergency area, which was piled with emergency medical service and units. That was a lot of help. AMY GOODMAN: Carlos- AARON MATÉ: And tell-I'm sorry. AMY GOODMAN: Carlos, you helped a man. You tied a tourniquet around his leg. You were there because one of the runners was honoring your dead son in Iraq http://www.democracynow.org/topics/iraq ? CARLOS ARREDONDO: One of the runners was doing it to remember Alexander, and two of the National Guard members start 4:00 a.m. that morning walking. They went-they start going by a little bit around 2:00 in the afternoon. I was right in the street waiting for the one who was running for my son, because they was passing by at around between 2:00 and 3:00. And the explosion happened before 3:00. And fortunately, none of them got hurt. AMY GOODMAN: But you were helping wounded people. CARLOS ARREDONDO: I just concentrate in removing the fence to help everybody coming to the scene. And then I concentrate on a young man who lost both of the limbs. I ripped up a T-shirt, and another gentleman helped me out, and we put this tourniquet on the legs. And then the
[LAAMN] URGENT CALL TO DEFEND THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO
URGENT CALL TO DEFEND THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURONO TO ANY US-BACKED CAPRILES COUPRESPECT VENEZUELA’S ELECTION RESULTS CHAVEZ PRESENTE, MADURO PRESIDENTE!Right-wing elements backed by U.S. imperialism are attempting a coup against constitutional rule in Venezuela. Seven people in Venezuela have already been killed. There is a witch hunt against Cuban doctors who have made great sacrifice to provide health care there. The Venezuelan masses, other Latin Americans and progressives worldwide have stood up and said “no” to this coup, which follows the rightist defeat in that country’s free and fair election April 14.There is no question that the Bolivarian candidate, Nicolas Maduro, won the election. With a much higher proportion of the population voting than in U.S. elections, Maduro’s victory was as substantial as Barack Obama’s last November and much stronger than any of George W. Bush’s. And he won this election even though 90 percent of the still privately owned media slandered him and his party throughout the campaign.No one outside Venezuela has any right to challenge the authenticity of the April 14 election. That the Obama administration has demanded a recount is only proof of the dangerous intervention of U.S. imperialism in Venezuelan and Latin American affairsObama’s aggressive stand is a sign that Washington believes that the Bolivarian movement can be overthrown now that Hugo Chávez is no longer alive. The European Union and especially the Spanish regime has joined the U.S. in this attempt. This imperialist offensive must be stopped.JOIN THE NATIONAL DAYS OF SOLIDARITY WITH VENEZUELA FRIDAY, APRIL 19In New York City @ 4-630pm in front of the Venezuelan Consulate7 East 51st. St. Take the “M” or “E” to 5th Ave, “F” to 47-50 Rockefeller CenterSponsored by Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, International Action Center, HondurasUSAResistencia, IFCO/Pastors for Peace, July 26 Coalition, Casa de las Americas, FMLN, La Peña del Bronx, May 1st Coalition, Peoples Power Assembly, Alianza Paiz de Ecuador, Peoples Power Movement, International Concerned Friends Family of Mumia,ProLibertad, Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5; [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Angela Davis Friday, Jericho Saturday, Kathleen Cleaver Sunday + more
Friday April 19, 7:30 AM, Angela Davis at African American Museum in Exposition Park. Saturday, April 20, 5-7:00 PM, Jericho Amnesty Movement L.A. chapter meeting: Free Russell Maroon Shoatz, Southern CA Library, 6120 S. Vermont Ave. Sunday, April 21, 2 PM, Black Panther Alumni fundraiser for Elder Freeman with Kathleen Cleaver, Emory Douglas, and screening of 41st Central, Mayme A Clayton Library, 4130 Overland, Culver City CA Monday, April 22, 6 PM, UC Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center Lounge, Dreaming of Freedom: Prisons, Politics, and Black Liberation, Theresa Shoatz and Quincy Saul discuss Maroon the Implacable by Russell Maroon Shoatz, former Black Panther and current political prisoner. Part of national campaign to Free Maroon from solitary. For more information, call 323 901 4269, or email antiracistaction...@yahoo.com --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] demands rise on congress to guarantee immigrant rights
DEMANDS RISE ON CONGRESS TO GUARANTEE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS By David Bacon TruthOut (4/15/13) http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15788-demands-rise-on-congress-to-guarantee-immigrant-rights In San Diego, California, nine activists completed six days of a hunger strike outside the Mission Valley Hilton Hotel on April 10 -- the day demonstrations took place across the U.S. demanding immigration reform. Hunger strikers were protesting the firing of 14 of the hotel's workers, after Evolution Hospitality, the company operating the Hilton franchise, told them that it had used the government's E-Verify database to determine that they didn't have legal immigration status. The company says that E-Verify is making them do this, even though many of the workers have been working here for years, said Sara Garcia, a supporter and hunger striker from House of Organized Neighbors, a local community organization. But they started firing them when the workers were organizing a union. I clean 16 to 18 rooms a day, and they pay me $8.65 an hour. No one can live on that, explained Leticia Nava, a fired worker. I'm a widow with three children who depend on me. What is happening is not just. We are immigrant workers, and the only thing we're asking is to work. That's not hurting anyone. Garcia and Nava accuse the company of using the government system for immigration enforcement in the workplace, a database called E-Verify, in order to retaliate against 14 women for their union support. But they also say that the E-Verify system is used much more extensively, to fire workers even where no union organizing is taking place. San Francisco demonstrators call for an end to immigration-based firings. Many companies are doing the same thing. They're manipulating the system because what they're really interested in is low wages, Nava charged. This isn't the first time this happened to me. I was fired the same way two years ago. Now my children are all scared because they see it's harder for me every day. Tomorrow I'll have to go out and find another job, and E-Verify makes that more and more difficult. The impact on us is not just money - it affects all aspects of my life. Nava and Garcia joined the tens of thousands of immigrants and immigrant rights activists who demonstrated on April 10, calling for the reform of U.S. immigration laws. Yet on the same day, legislators drafting reform proposals in the U.S. Senate proposed changes that would make Nava's experience more widespread than ever, which were then contained in a bill they introduced a week later. Both Garcia and Nava agreed that getting rid of E-Verify should be part of immigration reform. This part of the law is inhumane and unjust, Garcia says. It has economic, psychological and even moral effects. Instead of children worrying about schoolwork they're worried about how they'll survive or even just eat. Nava declared simply, This part of the law should be eliminated. Congress, however, proposes to exact a price for the legalization of undocumented immigrants. The Gang of Eight Senators drafting the reform bill announced they intend to expand the E-Verify system to cover all employers, and make its use mandatory. This was only one of a number of measures that would increase the severity of many of the anti-immigrant measures already part of U.S. law. Lorena Reyes, who was fired from her job as a housekeeper at the San Jose Hyatt Hotel because she supports the union and protested sexual harassment, marched for immigrant rights. The Hilton workers and their supporters, as well as the union helping them, UniteHere, all believe that immigration reform should include a legalization process. They want one that would give the 11-12 million undocumented people living in the United States a quick and accessible way to gain legal status. That demand ran through all of the hundreds of demonstrations around the country, from the 30,000 people on the mall in front of the Capitol Building in Washington DC to the thousand marchers in downtown San Francisco. It was a demand voiced by hundreds of janitors and security guards in Silicon Valley, and by teachers and elementary school students in Berkeley, California. The Senators, however, are proposing a plan that would require undocumented people to spend a decade in a provisional status before even being able to apply for permanent legal residence. Then they would have to maintain that status for another three years before they could apply to become citizens, and gain basic political rights. The citizenship process is so overloaded that processing applications now takes months, even years. And instead of anticipating the logistical bottleneck of millions of people applying for citizenship at the same time, the Senators declared that
[LAAMN] El Salvador, April 19, in Defence of the Bolivarian revolution
[image: B.P.J.]*B.P.J.* @*BPJCMI* https://twitter.com/BPJCMI Publiqué una nueva foto en Facebook http://fb.me/2WIPM6KOX http://t.co/3PTg284o6n [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @*HOVcampaign*https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign Mexico rally against coup in Venezuela April 18 FB Event: https://www. facebook.com/events/501326739914868/ https://t.co/7HuOBfbwpS @* LaIzqSocialista* https://twitter.com/LaIzqSocialista pic.twitter.com/JKEyulbl5V http://t.co/JKEyulbl5V [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @*HOVcampaign*https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign El Salvador, April 19, in defence of the Bolivarian revolution pic.twitter.com/p0ewQOlHds http://t.co/p0ewQOlHds 16m https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/324691639010463744 El Salvador, April 19, in defence of the Bolivarian revolution pic.twitter.com/p0ewQOlHds http://t.co/p0ewQOlHds *Details* https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/324691639010463744 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
