Cancun Files: WTO Opens to Tragedy and Protest
The ritual suicide of a South Korean farmer in protest of WTO policies marked the end of a day of confrontation.
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The ritual suicide of a South Korean farmer in protest of WTO policies marked the end of a day of confrontation.
Thousands of campesinos are gearing up to stage a series of protests to empower delegates from developing countries to just say no to trade agreements.
The world's sole superpower is feeling lonely at the Mexico summit, besieged by dissent inside the WTO and grassroots protests on the outside.
For the moment, progressive networks are vibrant in Iowa, fueling a rising sense that George Bush can be defeated in 2004.
The inevitable assassination of Saddam Hussein will be a public spectacle intended to reassure an insecure America -- but it won't end the guerrilla war in Iraq.
It's going to take pressure from the populace and the military to end the pointless drumbeat of U.S. casualties.
In this excerpt from the book, "It's a Free Country," Tom Hayden explains how conservatives are playing patriot games with the nation's future.
It's easier to get fruit and vegetables across the heavily militarized US-Mexico border than human beings who work for a subminimum wage.
This is the story of Gato and Alex, two Salvadorans who as children became refugees from America's war in their homeland only to become rivals in America's gang war on the streets of Los Angeles. When these two homeboys finally turned their lives toward peace, there was no safe place for them. They were among the New Untouchables, the supposedly incorrigible "superpredators," whose specter justified the war on gangs that has become the worst police scandal in Los Angeles history.
Social change results from the clashes and accommodations between two contending forces, social movements and Machiavellians (or power elites). In the case of American history, reform is the perennial result, as opposed to either full repression or revolution.