By Staff, Occupy Oakland | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Occupy Oakland will march through downtown Oakland on Tuesday Feb 14, 2012, Valentine’s Day, with flowers, flower petals, bubbles, glitter, confetti, to share with each other and the community. In the event of oppressive police presence, participants will hug and kiss.
Continue reading →By Thalif Deen, IPS. Compared to the $5.4 B U.N. budget for 2010-11, the 2012-13 budget will be cut by $260 M. This is a cut of less than 5%, but the news are still significant because, since its inception over 50 years ago, the U.N. has expanded every year, except for one instance 14 years ago. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Access Now | YouTube | Haiti Chery. Protests against ACTA will take place worldwide on Saturday February 11, 2012. Over 1.75 million people have signed a petition against ACTA that is expected to get the endorsement of more than 2 million.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | By Yaima Puig Meneses, Granma. Participants ratified Haiti’s participation as a permanent special invitee and agreed to hold the next summit of the ALBA Foreign Ministers in Jacmel, Haiti.
Continue reading →By Gilbert & Sullivan, Sung by Michael Rayner | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Utopia, Limited is a prescient operetta from 1893 that warned of the dangers of corporatism.
Continue reading →By Staff, Occupy Oakland and Occupy Wall Street | Haiti Chery. Occupy Oakland moved to convert a vacant building into a community center to provide education, medical, and housing services for the 99%; police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbag rounds, and mass arrests.
Continue reading →By Olivia Solon, Wired | Kader Arif, European MP Socialists & Democrats of the EU, Translated from the French by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. It is not over. ACTA will not become law if the European Parliament is prevented from making it so in June 2012. Translation of full statement from Kader Arif included. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Marcela Valente, IPS | Periodismo Humano | TN Argentina | You Tube. Thousands in the northwest Argentina province of La Rioja are mobilizing to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area’s sole source of drinking water. “We take turns [blocking the road to the mountain], and we’re going to hold our ground until the government and the company drop this project,” – Carina Diaz Moreno, teacher from Famatima. (English | Spanish | Portuguese | Includes music video)
Continue reading →By Ellen Cantarow, Tom Dispatch. “This is what my kids are made of. They are made of water. They are made of the food that is grown in the county that I live in. And they are made of air…. And when you poison these things, you poison us.” – Sandra Steingraber
Continue reading →By John Kennedy, Silicon Republic | Sharon Polsky, Interweb Freedom | YouTube (courtesy of Defend Your Freedom) | Why You Should Care About ACTA (booklet, in multiple languages), European Digital Rights | Assembled by Haiti Chery. European countries, including Ireland, might later this week join the US, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada in supporting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA. This bill would deputize Internet Service Providers to spy on their customers, among other things. Includes PDF with text of ACTA. UPDATED Jan 26th.
Continue reading →By Staff, Longshore & Shipping News. International Longshore and Warehouse Union ILWU and Export Grain Terminal EGT reached a tentative settlement, according to a press release today from Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington state. “This is a win for the ILWU, EGT, and the Longview community.” – ILWU President Robert McEllrath. URGENT UPDATE Thu Jan 26: “Scab’s contract has officially been terminated. Pickets have been taken down. There is still no contract! No real answers! No backing down!” – Longview Caravan. UPDATE Jan 27: Settlement reached and approved unanimously by ILWU membership! Congratulations ILWU, Occupy Oakland, and Longview community! UPDATE Feb 11: Longshore workers name Occupy Movement as crucial in settlement with EGT.
Continue reading →By Editors, Occupy Everything. On Monday Jan 23, 2012, the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee and the Committee to Defend the ILWU will protest the use of armed Coast Guard cutters and helicopters to escort a grain ship to a terminal being picketed by the ILWU.
Continue reading →By David Malone, Golem XIV | Staff, IRIB News. Once it becomes more profitable for countries to use a basket of currencies tied to the yuan, then the yuan will effectively become the world’s reserve currency.
Continue reading →By Ben Agande and Emman Ovuakporie, Sweet Crude. “How could the nation be made to pay for 59 million liters daily when we consume only 35 million liters daily?” – Farouk Lawan, Chair of Nigeria House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee investigating management of fuel subsidy.
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