Protesting the sponsors not the host country of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Suddenly the big money sponsors of the Olympic Games are re-branding themselves as born-again companies with a social conscience, as champions of the poor perhaps? ""[H]aving spent huge sums, the companies sponsoring the Beijing games are about to find themselves the...

Argentine farmers end strike

After 16 days, Argentina's farmers have ended their strike against export tax hikes and have opened up the floor for dialogue."The country's four big farming organizations-enterprises, Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Coninagro, Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) and...

Thousands face down Pakistani police

"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Police fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the troubled Muslim nation. More than 1,500 people have been arrested in...

Looking for some Dam Justice

Yesterday the group that Christine works for organized a protest against the dams the government is building, among other things like mining and water privatization. Basically, we blocked off an entire lane of the Pan American highway at a major intersection,...

Ferry Passengers Face Egg Barrage

"Cars from Jersey and Guernsey have been pelted with eggs in St Malo by French dockers protesting about ferry companies employing foreign workers. Passengers who arrived on the Friday morning Condor 10 ferry, were driving out of the ferry terminal when they were attacked. The...

The Real Mother’s Day Tradition

""Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears!" So begins the original Mother's Day proclamation of 1870, written by Julia Ward Howe, who also authored "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" as an anti-slavery...

IT WAS ALL ABOUT OIL

"Despite years of protestations that we didn't invade Iraq because of oil, a claim even most Republicans I talk to don't believe, we now have nearly irrefutable evidence that it was. Today's Washington Post reports the following: House and Senate negotiators reached...

Japan whaling ship catches fire

Japanese whaling ship has caught fire near Antarctica, leaving one crew member missing and raising fears of environmental damage. The blaze on board the Nisshin Maru prompted the evacuation of its crew onto other ships. The cause of the fire is still unknown, but New...

Bush cancels meeting with Iraq PM; "Unheard of development" says AP

This was supposed to have been a big deal, until the New York Times reported a secret White House memo leaked Nov. 28, just a day before the meeting was to have taken place. Now Pres. Bush has cancelled the "Iraq summit meeting" with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki....