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Lottery for venezuela future

07-08-2004 12:12 | Venezuela | World

The cash starved campaign backing Hugo Chevez has turned to selling lottery tickets in order to raise funds. Polls vary, many predicated over 60% support for Chavez while others suggest (and hope for) the opposite. Meanwhile, the info war facilitated by the media in Venezuela apparently favors the opposistion by almost 10 to 1.

New crisis in Venezuela

07-08-2004 12:03 | Venezuela | World

There is a beautiful little section in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: It says that every elected official can be removed from office half way through his/her term of service (Article 72). The Constitution became the law of the land after being given a 70% voter approval in December 1999...

Unrest in Venezuela likely

The president, Hugo Chavez, will face a revocatory referendum on his tenure on August 15th. The date was announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on June 8th, after it ruled that a campaign by the opposition to garner signatures from 20% of the electorate in support of a petition demanding a referendum had been successful. The result of the referendum is uncertain, as are its implications for the Chavez regime. Whatever the outcome, there is a high probability that the losing side will challenge it, either in the courts??whose neutrality is disputed by both government and opposition??or on the streets. Political instability and a policy environment subservient to the government's priority of self-preservation therefore appear likely to persist for some time...

electronic voting

07-08-2004 11:39 | Venezuela | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

In this year's U.S. presidential elections, electronic voting systems will be used by an estimated 30 percent of those who vote. If you were the type to validate the partical political system by voting, would you trust your vote to these systems?

This year, a US company sold 20,000 of its election machines and licenses for their software to Venezuelan authorities for $63 million and won a $27-million contract for service during the recall vote against Hugo Chavez which takes place in August. This controversial and critical referendum may end up putting the technology on trial...

Referendum on the Revolution

It took a while for Venezuela’s political opposition to figure out the best way to get rid of a president it doesn't like. First it tried general strikes, then a coup last year, then the shutdown of the country’s main industry, then an unconstitutional petition drive. Now, about two years after its campaign began, it's opting for the only constitutional way to oust an elected president: a recall referendum...

Venezuela Counterpunch

On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela's urban and rural poor. If Chavez is defeated and if the Right takes power, it will privatize the state petroleum and gas company, selling it to US multinationals, withdraw from OPEC, raise its production and exports to the US, thus lowering Venezuelan revenues by half or more. Internally the popular health programs in the urban "ranchos" will end along with the literary campaign and public housing for the poor. The agrarian reform will be reversed and about 500,000 land reform recipients (100,000 families) will be turned off the land. This will be accomplished through extensive and intensive state bloodletting, jailing and extrajudicial assassination, and intense repression of pro-Chavez neighborhoods, trade unions and social movements. The apparently "democratic" referendum will have profoundly authoritarian, colonial and socially regressive results if the opposition wins.

PGA conference report Belgrade

06-08-2004 11:45 | Oxford | World

Seven Oxford activists went to the 3rd European conference of Peoples' Global Action in Belgrade last week. I was one of them, and this is my highly personal, subjective and in all ways partial report.

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/6/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

06-08-2004 00:38 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, China, Russia, and Cuba.

Paynes Lane Rally

05-08-2004 21:24 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Paynes Lane Rally News

BUSHMEN DESCRIBE EVICTION HORROR IN COURT

05-08-2004 20:48 | World

Botswana's High Court has heard the first Bushman witnesses in their
case against the government tell their harrowing stories of eviction
from their ancestral land.

Gays in Zimbabwe flee mob attack.

05-08-2004 15:15 | Social Struggles | World

Gay flee exhibition after mob attack at book fair in Zimbabwe.

Mobile Mast Torn Down

05-08-2004 12:31 | Health | Repression | Technology | World

This is the sort of action that anyone interested in changing the world we live in for the better should be engaged in...what's to stop you? Tear down all the masts-forget about your phone- live a little- be uncontrollable for a while?

Darfur - Another Brit COlony Abused - British Hypocrisy Everywhere

04-08-2004 22:25 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

In any instance, it is clear that the gunmen who have caused so much havoc in Darfur have had considerable outside assistance. The 'Sudan Liberation Army' were reported by Agence France Presse to have "weapons, vehicles and modern satellite communications". (12) UN media sources have also noted claims by tribal leaders that the rebels have better weapons than the Sudanese army. (13) The rebels have also been receiving military supplies by air. (14) And, in a disturbing resonance of the gunmen who have dominated parts of Somalia in four-wheel drive "technicals", the gunmen have also been operating in groups of up to 1,000 men in four-wheel drive vehicles.(

What is Privatization?

04-08-2004 19:06 | Globalisation | World

"The core of the problem is that individual economic profit is decisive for the conduct of private enterprises, not the public interest..Privatization aims at opening up ever-greater areas of society for private profit maximization. Those who don't have enough money are excluded from essential public goods. This leads to de-solidarity and social polarization.."

Human Rights Horros in Haiti

04-08-2004 18:55 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

What did the imperial powers give Haiti for their 200-year anniversary of independence from slavery? A coup and the murder of several thousand pro-democracy Haitians. Read about the news the "deniers" don't wan't you to know or care about...

BOTSWANA'S PRESIDENT 'BRIBES' BUSHMEN - AGAIN!

04-08-2004 16:44 | World

Botswana's President this week handed out blankets and sweets to
Bushmen in a relocation centre. His action comes in the middle of a
court case in which the Bushmen are suing his government for the
right to return to their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game
Reserve (CKGR).

CSOA Hamsa evicted Barcelona

04-08-2004 12:07 | Free Spaces | World

CSOA Hamsa a squatted space in Barcelona was evicted by armed police during the early hours of this morning. Inside were a number of activists who have been resisting impending eviction for almost 100 days.

Beenie Man's PR denies apology

04-08-2004 12:06 | Culture | Gender | World

Beenie Man's management distance star from "apology".

Scottish Reiki Festival 2004

03-08-2004 19:23 | Culture | Education | Health | World

Scottish Reiki Festival 2004

"Wars are Good for the Economy": The Global Free Trade System

03-08-2004 17:09 | Globalisation | World

"The international free market was created artificially in the 18th and 19th centuries with the force of the English colonial state and did not develop naturally from the free exchange of goods as neoliberals constantly claim. According to Polanyi, foreign trade originally had the character of piracy, robbery and belligerent conquest more than peaceful exchange.."

World Newswire Archive

Lottery for venezuela future

New crisis in Venezuela

Unrest in Venezuela likely

electronic voting

Referendum on the Revolution

Venezuela Counterpunch

PGA conference report Belgrade

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/6/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

Paynes Lane Rally

BUSHMEN DESCRIBE EVICTION HORROR IN COURT

Gays in Zimbabwe flee mob attack.

Mobile Mast Torn Down

Darfur - Another Brit COlony Abused - British Hypocrisy Everywhere

What is Privatization?

Human Rights Horros in Haiti

BOTSWANA'S PRESIDENT 'BRIBES' BUSHMEN - AGAIN!

CSOA Hamsa evicted Barcelona

Beenie Man's PR denies apology

Scottish Reiki Festival 2004

"Wars are Good for the Economy": The Global Free Trade System

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