[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Alternative Press E-newsletter, # 4 - April 2005

[Alfred Kagan]

Congratulations to Ricky for making the pick of the month.  See below.

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> Date: March 24, 2005 5:19:07 PM CST
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> Subject: Alternative Press E-newsletter, # 4 - April 2005
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> AltPress E-Newsletter No. 4, April, 2005
>
> The Alternative Press Center's "Radical Picks of the Month!"
>
> Article 1. "U.S. proxies terrorizing workers in Haiti...again"
> by Ricky Baldwin
>
> When Dominican troops crossed into Haiti's Codevi Free Trade Zone in 
> June,
> it was not the first time troops had attacked Haitian factory workers
> there. Since the US-backed coup overthrew the Haitian government in
> February 2004, management at Grupo M, a Dominican-owned subcontractor 
> for
> Levi Strauss, has repeatedly sicced troops of Haitian and/or Dominican
> origin on union sympathizers at the plant.
> Z Magazine (September 2004)
> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Haiti/US_Proxies_Terrorize_Haiti.html
>
> Article 2. "Far from democracy in the gulf--Bahrain: the royals rule"
> by Marc Pellas
>
> President George Bush has hailed Bahrain's progress towards democracy. 
> Yet
> Bahrain's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, proclaimed himself 
> king
> three years ago, promulgated a constitution giving him full powers, and
> has attacked the few remaining civil liberties. Arbitrary imprisonment 
> is
> commonplace and one of the main human rights organizations, the 
> Bahraini
> Centre for Human Rights, has been closed, reports Marc Pellas.
> Le Monde Diplomatique (March 2005)
> http://mondediplo.com/2005/03/09bahrain
>
> Article 3. "What happened to Brown? A review essay"
> by Reginald Wilson
>
> 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the "Brown v. Board of Education"
> Supreme Court decision which required the desegregation of public 
> schools
> in the United States. The year witnessed many celebrations and critical
> reflections on the effects of this landmark case. Reginald Wilson 
> reviews
> three substantive books which examine the 50 years since "Brown." 
> Wilson
> suggests that the 'force of "Brown"' may have been lost for the near
> future.
> New Politics (Winter 2005)
> http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue38/wilson38.htm
>
> Article 4. "Lula and Chavez in Latin America"
> by Francois Sabado
>
> While Latin America has accumulated a profound wealth of revolutionary
> history and experience over the last 30 years, the continent currently
> lies devastated under regimes of capitalist globalization and
> neoliberalism.  In these conditions, social movements have once again
> flourished, and have seemingly even brought about  change in the 
> electoral
> arena from Ecuador, to Uruguay, and from Venezuela and Brazil. It is in
> the latter two countries, however, that the left can best draw lessons 
> as
> to what prospects lie ahead. In Brazil, Lula has wound up continuing 
> many
> of the policies of his predecessor Cardoso--a classical policy of
> financial and budgetary orthodoxy aimed to curb inflation and spur 
> modest
> economic growth while simply deepening existing social inequalities.  
> Asa
> result, the mass movements have suffered a setback and in some cases, a
> demobilization. In Venezuela, Chavez, by basing his policies on mass
> mobilizations of the Venezuelan people, was able to confront US
> imperialism and its allies on the right more directly, and so far, has
> gained an important victory,
> one which entails further possibilities of more mobilizations and other
> opportunities for the self-organization of the Venezuelan people. In 
> both
> instances, it is a matter of the political will to confront 
> imperialism in
> a way that can strengthen, not weaken the growing power of social
> movements.
> International Viewpoint (March 2005)
> http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=634
>
> Article 5. "Letter from Beirut"
> by Jim Quilty
>
> Jim Quilty gives a first-hand account of the massive March 14
> demonstration in Lebanon, where hundreds of thousands of people 
> gathered
> in Beirut called for Syria to withdraw all troops from the country.
> Demonstrators also demanded that they be told the truth behind the
> assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
> Middle East International (March 18, 2005)
> http://meionline.com/backcover/337.shtml
>
> Article 6. "Speaking in (Native) tongues"
> by Barb Jacobs
>
> Barb Jacobs brings to light a recent piece that ran in the "Christian
> Science Monitor" by Diana West and Stacy Teicher describing Native
> American language classes offered at elementary schools around the US.
> Lost City Elementary School in Oklahoma, for example,  is the first 
> public
> school to run a voluntary Cherokee language immersion program for 
> children
> ages 3-6.  Advocates of the program hope it can help preserve the 
> language
> as well as create a source of cultural pride.
> Utne Magazine (March/April 2005)
> http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2005_191/news/11604-1.html
>
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Al Kagan
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