In the heat of the struggle—
Everywhere! And unrelenting
26 September 2007, by G.S. <george.salzman@umb.edu>
this page is at http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/S2/2007-09-26.htm
There are too many bases to touch, at least for me. Every day I feel engulfed by news that ought to be spread. I try to save stuff on my C-drive to use later, but the drive gets cluttered — like my brain — and when I write a note to my list I invariably forget about some things. Not very good. Knowing what is going on in the world, not in minute detail but overall, means for me avoiding the mass media, almost all of which is controlled by giant corporations or the national governments, which big money essentially owns and controls. I turn instead to individuals in whom I have confidence, and try to patch together my understanding. Here’s an initial list of some of my sources, with a few links and comments, to which I will keep adding in subsequent notes.
Some sources of information I tend to rely on.
I will flesh out (and correct) the descriptions in time.
Greg Palast, an investigative journalist who works with the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). http://www.gregpalast.com
. 1) Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans, an investigation by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Interviews by Palast and Amy Goodman of heroes and villains - the deep horror, the dark humor and the no-bullshit truth you won't get on CNN. http://www.gregpalast.com/%e2%80%9cthey-wanted-them-poor-niggers-out-of
-there%e2%80%9d/ . New Orleans two years after. Published August 29th, 2007. 2) Bush’s
Fake Sheik Whacked: The Surge and the Al Qaeda Bunny . 3)
Student
Tasered for ‘Armed Madhouse’ Question to Kerry . 4) Silenced
Rather Sues CBS-Read the story behind the lawsuit . September 19th 2007- Dan Rather has filed
a lawsuit
against CBS claiming violation of his contract- read the real story
behind
Bush’s guard service and the necklace-ing of the media from Palast’s
Armed
Madhouse. 5) DAN
RATHER: TASED AND CONFUSED . The Still-Unreported Story of “Top
Gun” George
Bush. Monday September 24, 2007.
Carmelo Ruiz Marrero <carmelo_ruiz@yahoo.com>
focuses principally on ecological issues as impacted by
social/political/economic forces. Puerto Rico
is his “local” beat, but he is also global in his interests. Usually I
get a
couple of e-mails daily. Lots on genetically modified crops. http://carmeloruiz.blogspot.com/
. http://bioseguridad.blogspot.com/
. To send him messages, <ruizcarmelo@gmail.com> . Much
of his
writing is in Spanish, though he is bilingual. Today he sent an
article
from the América Latina en movimiento website http://alainet.org/
titled
El Banco del Sur en perspectiva ambiental
, Bueno sería que el Banco del Sur, desde
su concepción,
definiera una agenda operacional orientada hacia estilos alternativos
de
desarrollo. Escribe
Héctor Alimonda (25/09/07).
The Bank of the South in
environmental perspective , It would be good
for the Bank of the South, from its conception, to define an agenda
oriented
towards alternative styles of development. Written by Héctor Alimonda
(25/09/07).
Mazin Qumsiyeh <qumsi001@hotmail.com>,
<qumsi001@gawab.com> is a
remarkable and
inspiring human being. I’ve written about him before. See my Turning
History
Around: a man we ought to know, at http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/S2/2007-09-19.htm
and Addendum to Turning History Around: and other folks we ought to
know,
at http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/S2/2007-09-20.htm
. Yesterday he sent another encouraging e-mail, with Subject:
[HumanRights]
More Jews are dissenting, and action items. As usual, full of
information. You
can get on his list by sending a blank message to <wheelsofjustice-subscribe@lists.riseup.net>
And
fascism is
working hard right here in Oaxaca
My most recent posting is the following:
Government agents violently kidnapped two people 25 May 2007 in Oaxaca City,
‘disappeared’ them 4 months ago, 25 September 2007.
An urgent call from the
Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights for international
pressure on
the officials and agencies of the Mexican Federal and Oaxaca State
governments. It is of course feared that they were murdered, but the
demand is
that the two men be produced alive. . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Yesterday’s NOTICIAS VOZ E IMAGEN DE OAXACA reported
“En ambos juicios de amparo,
subrayó, una vez que todas las autoridades señaladas como responsables
negaron
haber detenido, tener incomunicados, torturados y víctimas de tratos
crueles,
el PJF ordenó suspender el procedimiento el pasado día 7 y ordenó dar
parte al
Ministerio Público Federal para investigar los hechos.”
“In both
amparo* judgments, the judge [of the Federal Judicial Tribunal, PJF in
its
Spanish initials] underlined that once all the authorities designated
as
responsible denied arresting, holding incommunicado, torturing and
cruelly victimizing
the prisoners, ordered suspension of the proceedings of the 7th of
September, and
ordered the Federal District Attorney to investigate the facts.”
* An amparo
is a judicial order issued by a judge to protect someone against a
feared or
threatened action, e.g. against illegal arrest.
There are
several items on
this in yesterday’s NOTICIAS which I would
like to translate and post to the Oaxaca Study-Action Group discussion
list, at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/
, but have not yet been able to get to it.
It is
important that the
government officials hear from the international community on this
issue. They
are sensative to protests from abroad, and are clearly feeling they
must make
believe they are going to seriously investigate. Everyone knows they
will not
actually do more than make these pronouncements, but it is significant
that they
feel pressured. Their inability to act effectively (except by
repression)
continues to illegitimize the government in the people’s eyes. Letters
can be
in any language — Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, etc. — and
can be
brief.
Many thanks.
Sincerely,
All comments and criticisms are welcome. <george.salzman@umb.edu>
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