As I mentioned in my last message, the US has a history of allowing non-citizens
who are resident aliens to vote in certain elections since the late 19th
century.
At present resident aliens vote at the local level in school board elections,
for
example. Basically, when it has been advantageous
to vote at many levels of government.
Coco Fusco
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and elsewhere, the actual
populations are small and relatively speaking quite poor. The stations that air
programming directed at those populations don't reach the vast majority of
Europeans, and don't play a determinant role in mainstream public life in
Europe.
Coco Fusco
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So much for Danish freedom of expression when it comes to naming children, the
state decrees what is acceptable.
Coco Fusco
From the New York Times
Jens and Vita, but Molli? Danes Favor Common Names By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Published: October 8, 2004
OPENHAGEN - If Denmark
: [spectre] Questioning the Frame
From: geert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: coco fusco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:12:18 +
dear coco, could you post this essay to nettime-l, so that the text
can be discussed? brian holmes already responded. i am not sure if you
have already
The racist spirit of Pim Fortuyn lives on in Holland -
this suggests that all liberal and progressive
attempts to argue that Fortuyn was an isolated
extremist are completely wrong.
Borders, borders and more borders...
coco
Dutch Lawmaker Urges Halting Immigration
Fri Nov 19, 2:38 PM ET
, to which
it sells more than 84 billion dollars' worth of goods and services a year,
with 40 percent coming from companies in its export-processing zones.
Coco Fusco
--- Jeebesh Bagchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even Mexico, where the minimum wage is not enough to
feed a family of four, is losing
a world power not only because of its 19th
century sweatshops but because of SLAVERY, a labor condition that ensured
the financial gain garnered from colonialism and that rested ideologically
on the institution of racism.
Coco Fusco
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BY THE NETTIMERS AND
OTHERS.
TIJUANA PRODUCES MORE TELEVISION MONITORS THAN ANY
OTHER CITY IN THE WORLD.
COCO FUSCO
MACLOVIO ROJAS COMMUNITY IN STRUGGLE
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, July 15, 2004
To the progressive and democratic organizations and
individuals receiving
BEHOLD RECENT NEWS OF OTHER INTELLECTUALS, ARTISTS AND
ACTIVISTS WHOSE CIVIL RIGHTS ARE SYSTEMATICALLY
VIOLATED IN THE US AND ELSEWHERE.IN THE HOPES THAT
SOME HERE MIGHT CONSIDER ADOPTING A BROADER, GLOBAL
APPROACH TO DEFENDING CIVIL RIGHTS AND EVEN INSTITUTE
A PERMANENT MECHANISMS FOR MONITORING
, but that at the
same time you would advocate tacitly endorsing the policies of a country
that is jailing its own radical intellectuals. Does that mean that civil
rights are only meant to be for Americans?
Coco Fusco
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ALERT -- ALERT -- ALERT
Workers at LG Electronics/Haeng Sung Request Urgent
Support
The workers ask that you send letters to LG
Electronics and to Haeng Sung demanding that they
respect the workers' collective bargaining agreement
or pay them severance pay.
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LG
SEGUNDA CARTA A EVE ENSLER
(sigue version en español abajo)
Ciudad Juarez, February first, 2004
Dear Eve Ensler,
As we have been object of manipulations and
accusations by the local V-Day Committee, we, as
mothers, relatives and close friends of young women
victims of kidnappings and
like playing the native informant all over
again. I may not agree with everything they say
always, but I respect their priorities and I know they
are not the enemy.
Best
Coco Fusco
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apropos of Coco Fusco's response to my piece on the WSF and the Old
Left in India
.
Coco Fusco
--- Aditya Nigam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Administrator,
I am pasting an article along with this mail for
your consideration - for
circulation in your list. The article addresses a
controversy over the
forthcoming WSF 2004 to be held in Mumbai in
January. This piece
Press Release
22 August 2003
Increased suppression of cultural _expression in Cuba
leads the Prince Claus Fund to withhold support from
the 2003 Havana Biennial
As a result of the arrest of 75 Cuban cultural and
social activists in recent months and their being
sentenced to harsh terms of
Though many in the globe trotting culture sector have
enjoyed sun and fun in Cuba, I've seen next to nothing
on alt.net sites about the recent imprisonment of 75
human rights activists there. Among those imprisoned
are freelance journalists found guilty of accepting
writing supplies from US
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