#200, September 7, 2007
GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER #200, September 7, 2007
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Dear friends,
Full Coverage: Iranian Hunger Striker Released
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00054.htm
Amnestys on Returning Christian Converts To Iran - Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International opposes the return of proven Christian converts to Iran as any such return would be unsafe.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00084.htm
FEATURE ARTICLE – JANE KELSEY ON APEC
Jane Kelsey - Critical Overview Of APEC’s Agenda - Professor Jane KelseyProfessor Jane Kelsey: It is difficult for APEC veterans to take the whole circus very seriously. It has always been a poor relation (in liberalization terms) to the regional initiatives in Europe and North America that its instigators
(led by Australia) ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00117.htm
APEC MEDIA ROUNDUP: PROTESTS – SEPTEMBER 6, 2007
APEC 2007Links to coverage of the APEC 2007 protests in Sydney this week from media around the Pacific rim.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00087.htm
Leaders Urged To Be Honest About APEC Impact - Selwyn ManningScoop News: Representatives of 21 NGOs from the Asia Pacific region have delivered an open statement urging APEC leaders to "stop making claims" that APEC reduces poverty. The group gathered in the heart of Sydney's CBD outside the city's Town Hall.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00116.htm
STATE OF THE WORLD LECTURE SERIES
The State of the World – a series of 3 lectures offered by CCE at The University of Auckland. Lecture 1: The State of the Planet, Wed 3 October, 7-9pm. Klaus Bosselmann & David Kettle. Lecture 2:The State of our People, Wed 10 October, 7-9pm. Susan St John & Barry Coates. Lecture 3: The State of Peace, Wed 17 October, 7-9pm. Terence O’Brien & Treasa Dunworth. For full details or to enroll contact CCE: ph: 09 373 7599 ext 87831/87832, or email conted@auckland.ac.nz
www.cce.auckland.ac.nz
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself”: Archibald Macleish:
“There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit”: John Lindsay
“We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship’, we call it ‘concern for commercial viability’.”: David Mamet
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent”: Gore Vidal
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ONLINE MESSAGE FOR APEC LEADERS
I thought you'd like to know about this urgent call for action on global warming. I'm one of hundreds of thousands who've signed a petition on climate change at Avaaz.org. This petition will reach leaders from some of the world's largest polluters at the APEC summit--please join me in challenging them to address the climate crisis! Click here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/apec_petition/tf.php
ONLINE PETITION FOR RELEASE OF JOSE MARIA SISON
Dear Friends and Allies: As part of the international campaign demanding justice and freedom for Prof. Jose Maria Sison, BAYAN USA, in partnership with the Troops Out Now Coalition http://www.troopsoutnow.org/ has generated the following petition site addressing accountable bodies such as Dutch government officials, Philippine government officials, US government officials, United Nations representatives and media contacts worldwide to address Joma's case immediately. Please visit http://www.freejomapetition.org/ for information on our call for a phone/fax/email brigade for Joma's release. Please forward to your networks. Justice for Prof. Jose Maria Sison! Thank you, BAYAN USA http://www.bayanusa.org/
SOLICITER GENERAL TRIES TO SHUT DOWN WEBSITE
Friends,You may or may not be aware that the NZ Solicitor General conspired with the 'Domain Name Commissioner' of NZ to lock the www.kiwisfirst.co.nz domain last Friday (31/8/07). This was a blatantly unlawful act that they were forced to reverse today. The website is now back active.
www.kiwisfirst.co.nz is not written anonymously: I back up all the stories on it with well-researched facts. No judge or party named on it has made a claim that what I have published is false for good reason (except of course for Stiassny but his defamation claim against me is gathering dust after 2 1/2 years of him sitting on it). I encourage you to read the current articles on it to see why certain judges have tried to have the site shut down illegally. Best regards, Vince Siemer, MBA, 27 Clansman Terrace
Gulf Harbour, Auckland. Phone: 64 9 428-2121
NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR THE THE ROGER AWARD
Nominations are now open for this most prestigious and keenly contested annual Award (won by Progressive Enterprises in 2006; the previous winners are: Westpac/BNZ, Telecom, Juken Nissho, Carter Holt Harvey, TransAlta Monsanto and TranzRail – 3 times). Nominations close on October 31.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0706/S00327.htm
INVITATION TO JOIN THE NEXT AUSTRALIAN SOLIDARITY BRIGADE TO VENEZUELA
November 23 - December 3, 2007 - The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s brigades to Venezuela are a unique opportunity to see first-hand the unfolding revolution in that country. The Venezuelan people, led by George Bush’s arch-enemy, President Hugo Chavez, have taken over more workplaces, set up more cooperatives, established hundreds of free public education and health programs, organised their neighbourhoods and taken big steps towards exercising “popular power” at every level of their society. Participants on the November-December 2007 brigade will meet with a wide range of community organisations involved in transforming Venezuelan society, visit occupied factories and educational institutions, see participatory democracy at work in the communal councils and people’s banks, and speak to government and grassroots organisations about the radical changes being implemented by the Venezuelan people. This brigade will include a special focus on justice for Indigenous people, and will include visits to Indigenous communities and meetings with Indigenous activists and leaders. Accommodation, transport and English translation in Venezuela will be organised for participants, and the AVSN can help you book your travel to and from Australia. The total cost, including return international airfares, is around A$4500. The deadline for registering for the November-December 2007 brigade is August 31. If you are interested in being part of this inspiring and educational experience, please complete the registration form at www.venezuelasolidarity.org, email brigades@venezuelasolidarity.org
VISIT CUBA THIS SUMMER
Cuba consistently makes the news: whether it is it’s health care system (see Salud or Sicko), its response to its oil crisis, its environmental programmes, or by remaining a political opponent of US imperialism for forty years. It is also the home of salsa and its music is world renowned.
Registrations are open for the 25th Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba. Members of the Brigade, which is made up of Australians and New Zealanders, spend approximately four weeks in Cuba, leaving 27th December and returning 24th January. The all up cost is $5500, including airfare, spending money and all accommodation and meals. Members of the Brigade often stay longer in Cuba as private travelers or move onto other countries in the region. For further enquiries and registration e- mail Ina at inashina@clear.net.nz or Paul at wkcultur@ihug.co.nz (03 732 4010).
Register now for the LATIN AMERICA AND ASIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FORUM - OCT 11-14, 2007
"Fighting and organising globally against neo-liberalism" Trades Hall & RMIT Storey Hall. Melbourne, Australia. Trade unionists, social movement activists, academics, students, progressive political parties and all interested members of the community are invited to participate in the Latin American & Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum. The four-day forum aims to strengthen international coordination and solidarity with those fighting neoliberalism. More than 30 representatives from progressive organisations and campaigns in 22 countries will address the forum. (see list below). Feature sessions include:
* Resisting war and neo-liberalism
* Che Guevara 40 years on: the influence of his example and ideas today
* Alternatives to neo-liberalism
* Indigenous struggles and resistance
* Workers' struggle, global fight
* The global influence of the Zapatista struggle
* Confronting the new colonialism in the Pacific
* Strategies for ecological & human survival
* Movements of resistance in the Asia Pacific
* The Venezuelan revolution and its global impact
* Rebellion in Latin America
* Building links, strengthening international solidarity"
Register early and help fund the forum. You can register and pay online using PAYPAL (a secure third-party payment site). PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE. http://solidarityforum2007.org/?q=node/8
Or you can Download a registration form http://solidarityforum2007.org/?q=node/8 and send the completed form with your payment attached to LAAPISF, PO Box 813, North Melbourne 3051. Make cheques/money orders payable to Latin America & Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum. Or you can deposit registration fees directly into the forum bank account. Please then email info@solidarityforum.org to confirm and identify the payment. Bendigo Bank; BSB: 633000 Account number: 130716889
Submit a workshop proposal: Conference organisers are inviting all interested groups and individuals to submit workshop proposals. You can submit your proposal online http://solidarityforum2007.org/?q=node/5
DOWN LOAD THE LEAFLET http://venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=/files/images/LAAPISF_Leaflet_FINAL2.p...
Visit the October Forum website http://solidarityforum2007.org Further Information: Email solidarityforum2007@yahoo.com
INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS
AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND
* Sina Brown Davis, Maori/Pasifikan activist
* Vaughan Gunson, Socialist Worker NZ
BANGLADESH
* Abul Hossain, President, United Labour Federation
BOLIVIA
* An activist from the life and water social movements coalition
CANADA
* Roger Annis, Canada Haiti Action Network
* John Riddell, Socialist Voice
* Suzanne Weiss, Venezuela We are With You
COLOMBIA
* A representative of the National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions (Fensuagro)
CUBA
* Nélida Hernández Carmona & Ifrahim Miranda León, Cuban Consul-General & Consul in Australia
EAST TIMOR
* Avelino Coelho, General Secretary, Socialist Party of Timor
EUCADOR
* Efren Calapucha, Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE)
EL SALVADOR
* Sigfrido Reyes Morales, Member of Parliament, FMLN Political Commission.
INDONESIA
* Dita Sari, Founding chairperson of Centre for Indonesian Workers Struggle (FNPBI)
* Agus Priono, Chairperson, National Liberation Party of Unity (PAPERNAS)
KOREA
* Reverend Jang Chang Weon, Osan Laborers and Migrants Shelter, Reconciliation and Unification Mission Center
MALAYSIA
* Irene Xavier, Coordinator, Transnational Information Exchange Asia
PHILIPPINES
* Franciso Nemenzo, Chairperson, Laban ng Masa
PAKISTAN
* Farooq Tariq, General Secretary, Labour Party Pakistan
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
* John Chitoa and Rosa Koian, Bismarck Ramu Group
VENEZUELA
* Eva Golinger, author of The Chavez Code and Bush vs Chavez: Washington¹s War on Venezuela
* Vladimir Villegas, Vice-Minister for Asia, Middle East and Oceania.
* Sandino Carrizales, Youth activist and Communal Councils organiser.
* Nelson Davila, Venezuela's Charge d'Affairs in Australia
VIETNAM
* Tran Quoc Khanh, Vietnam's Deputy Consul General in Australia
WEST PAPUA
* Anak Jehudi, Patron, West Papua Students Association, Port Morseby.
WHAT’S ON IN AUCKLAND
Tuesday, September 11, 4pm, Aotea Square to US Consulate Customs St
SOLIDARITY ACTION WITH US PROTESTS AGAINST WAR5 AND TO DEFEND THE BILL OF RIGHTS http://www.revoltingworld.org/sept112007/
Thursday, September 13, 7.30pm, Auckland Centre University of Otago House 385 Queen Street (Free Parking ) PROF WILLIAM HARRIS - POLITICAL STUDIES - MIDDLE EASTERN SCENARIOS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Part of a series of free public lectures starting May 10 at the University of Otago Auckland Centre. http://www.otago.ac.nz/aucklandcentre/whatson/index.html
Sunday, September 23, 3pm, St. Matthew-in-the-City, crn. Hobson and Wellesley Streets
United Nations International Day of Peace –Celebrates the declaration of Auckland Peace City and the 20th Anniversary of Nuclear Free New Zealand legislation. Also, SGI Exhibition launch for ‘Creating a Culture of Peace: The Right to Human Security’. The event includes Interfaith Choirs, music and youth readings, plus Mayor Dick Hubbard and local MPs. Event organised by UNANZ, Ak. Interfaith Council and Soka Gakkai International. More info. contact Laurie Ross on 811 8696 laurie-ross@xtra.co.nz
24th Sept. – 5th Oct. – Exhibition ‘Creating a Culture of Peace: The Right to Human Security’ produced by Soka Gakkai International as part of the United Nations Decade for Peace. Available for public viewing at AUT Library foyer in Wellesley Street.
Monday, September 24, 7-9pm, Auckland Central Methodist Mission, 370 Queen Street, opposite
the Town Hall.
FORUM FOR AUCKLAND CITY MAYORAL CANDIDATES: The Auckland Green Party is proud to host a "Forum for Auckland City Mayoral Candidates". The Mayoral Forum provides candidates, including Dick Hubbard and John Banks, the chance to express their policy positions during both prepared speeches and answered audience questions. Candidates will address questions based around the Green Party's four principles of ecological wisdom, social responsibility, appropriate
decision-making, and non-violence. The questions will touch on distinctively local issues including
public transport, housing affordability, regional governance, and public safety. People with a passion for a Greener future for Auckland City are encouraged to attend.
Tuesday, September 25, Aotea Chapel, 370 Queen St, Auckland Centreal
RAJ PATEL, AUTHOR OF ''STUFFED AND STARVED - MARKETS, POWER AND THE HIDDEN BATTLE FOR THE WORLD FOOD SYSTEM'', will be visiting New Zealand September
20-26. He will be giving public talks and leading activist workshops in Christchurch (Friday 21 / Saturday 22), Wellington (Monday 24) and Auckland (Tuesday 25/Wednesday 26). Raj's visit is a unique opportunity to hear and to work with an intellectual and activist from the frontline of the struggle against unjust, unsustainable globalisation. If you are able to publicise Raj's visit to your networks/members please get in touch, and we will send a poster and full programme. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Christine Dann for Fair World Links. (Raj's visit is organised by Fair World Links and supported by Christian World Service, THE Council for International Development, the Development Resource Centre, Nature's Organics, Oxfam, Trade Aid, and World Vision. So far - if
you/your organisation would like to make a donation towards the tour then cheques (made out to Fair World Links) can be posted to P.O. Box 46, Diamond Harbour 8941, or money can be deposited in Kiwibank account Fair World Links 389002 0983080 00 50) Contact: Christine Dann christine.dann@clear.net.nz
Wednesday, September 26, 12-2pm, AUT Student Quad
Special lunchtime event to mark the annual U.N. International Day of Peace. Speakers, music, information stalls. More info. contact Laurie 811 8696
Thursday, September 27, 5-6.30pm, WS116/7, Science and Technology Building, AUT, 24 St Paul Forum on Maori TV current affairs: Native Affairs - behind the scenes with a challenging new programme. Native Affairs presenter Julian Wilcox. Pacific Media Centre/Creative Industries Research Institute.. Thursday, September 27, 5-6.30pm. Followed by drinks.
Saturday, October 6, 7.30pm, the Crypt, St Benedicts Church, 1 St Benedicts Church, Newton: entrance on Alex Evans St - (signposted on the night)
THE TEKEE TOKEE TOMAK TOUR - clarinettist Ros Dunlop and composer Martin Wesley-Smith
a program of multimedia pieces about West Papua, East Timor etc. Admission: Koha (funds raised above costs go to IHRC) Organised by Indonesia Human Rights Committee – contact: maire@clear.net.nz
BEST ON THE WEB
NEW ZEALAND
Poroporoaki: Syd Jackson
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00028.htm
Minimum Wage (New Entrants) Amendment Bill - Green Party - For too long young workers in this country have been underpaid and devalued. When I started work on this Bill just after the 2005 election I was motivated by anger at the unfairness of the way in which 16 and 17 year old workers are paid less
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00075.htm
NZ Post accused of contempt and intimidating staff - That is why the company was found to have breached the Employment Relations Act over the industrial action last year" says Postal Workers Association organiser Mike Treen.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00092.htm
Demonstration Against NZ, Australia & Canada - International Forum On GlobalizationOver two dozen national and international NGOs in the United States and Canada have come to New York City to announce their support for Indigenous peoples rights and to protest the opposition to the Declaration being led by the governments of Canada, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00717.htm
Israeli tennis player challenged - Palestine Human Rights Campaign Shahar Peer the Israeli tennis
player has been approached by the Palestine Human Rights Campaign to state her position on the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0501/S00042.htm
Labour loses at Vienna, but the planet wins - The Green Party is welcoming the important decision
last night by the UN Vienna meeting on climate change to endorse an ambitious greenhouse emission reduction target. But the Greens are asking why the Labour-led Government opposed the ambitious
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00004.htm
Turia Incensed Over Maori Health Inaction - The Maori Party“I am absolutely incensed that despite the fact that Maori health is identified as one of the five major health areas for the Whanganui rohe (others are heart disease, lung disease, cancer, diabetes), not one of the 53 recommendations suggests actions
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00001.htm
REVIEW
Shocked and appalled - If there's anyone who knows the ins and outs of a successful marketing campaign, it's Naomi Klein. So why is the author of the bestselling No Logo, the 2000 book that tore apart the pretensions of “Just Do It” brand-building while inspiring the social-justice spirit in young consumers, walking away from a screening of the video for her long-awaited new book, The Shock Doctrine?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070831.cover01/BNSt...
The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - A Must Listen Audio Interview With Naomi Klein: Klein argues that instability is being both fostered and used as a way to engage in policies of economic engineering around the world whether in Pinochet's Chile or today, in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18327.htm
It Takes a Crisis: Naomi Klein looks at free-market fundamentalists and economic turmoil
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_03/846
Review: Ecology Against Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1618/81/
Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia
http://www.geocities.com/hkhemlock/mus-joe.html
ENVIRONMENT
It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both - Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,5389340-103605,00.html
JOHN PILGER
Class Is Still The Issue By John Pilger - Just as elite power seeks to order other countries according to the demands of its privilege, so class remains at the root of our own society's mutations and sorrows.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18328.htm
AUSTRALIA
Anti-APEC protesters: united and peaceful
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/723/37548
Anti-APEC march photos
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/723/37550
Full Scoop Coverage: APEC 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/features/APEC2007.html
Photos: Sydney students walkout against Bush and Howard
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/723/37544
APEC: road show of the ‘new world order’
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/723/37542
WEST PAPUA
Indonesian Military Operation Causes Starvation
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00705.htm
USA
The War On Working Americans By Stephen Lendman - As Labor Day approaches, what better time to assess the state of working America. It's under assault and weakened by decades of eroding rights in the richest country in the world once regarded as a model democratic state. It's pure nonsense in a nation always dedicated to wealth and power, but don't try finding that discussed in the mainstream.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18273.htm
IRAN
CounterPunch Diary - Will the US Really Bomb Iran? - By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn09082007.html
US Has Prepared to Attack Iran - Detailed Pentagon plans for a military attack on Iran are far more extensive than has been reported in the U.S., according to top British military analysts. There have been occasional news reports on various strategic bombing options - both conventional...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00385.htm
Speaking From Experience, Part II: Former CIA official expects war with Iran
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001112
IRAQ
Cut and Run: Bush heralds cut in troops as British forces head for exit
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2924388.ece
British leave last remaining Basra base: What was achieved?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2921892.ece
Marines Ordered To Execute Civilians In Nazi-Like Slaughter - Latest evidence compounds catalogue of war crimes
http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/310807Slaughter.htm
Billions over Baghdad - Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency-much of it belonging to the Iraqi people-was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18323.htm
LATIN AMERICA
Spirit of Che rises again as region is swept along on a pink tide - Close to 40 years after his death, the revolutionary is more than ever a hero
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2161848,00.html
BOLIVIA
The government of president Evo Morales ordered the social organisations linked to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) to mobilise at least 100,000 campesinos and indigenous peoples to the city of Sucre on September 10 with the aim of "retaking the reigns" of the constituent assembly, today grid locked by the debate over the capital.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=52&ItemID=13650
Governor of Cochabamba asks for Evo’s resignation, the government calls for protests
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/governor-of-cochabamba-asks-fo...
President Evo Morales Ayma denounced this Wednesday that leaflets were circulating in Santa Cruz and Sucre (Chuquisaca), entitled “Plan to bring down this Indian shit”, which aim to oust him from the position of head of state.
http://www.bolivariancircle.org/?q=node/336
VENEZUELA:
Uniting revolutionaries to end capitalism
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/723/37517
Some Aspects of Venezuela's Constitutional Reform
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=2128
Chávez pours millions more into pioneering music scheme
http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,2161871,00.html
Bolívar and Chávez The Spirit of Radical Determination by Istvávan Mészáros: "The task of radical renewal is by no means confined to Latin America. The social and political movements of the European left, as well as of North America, are also in need of a major reassessment of their past
and present strategies, in view of their painful defeats in the last few decades."
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0707meszaros.htm
CHILE
Protest violence spreads in Chilean capital, 750 arrested: The protest was called by Chile's largest labor federation to demand better conditions for workers frustrated that they haven't received a greater share of the nation's economic boom.
http://snipurl.com/1q5bw
CUBA
Notes on the Cuban electoral system
http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs1508.html
This interview with Leonard Weinglass, appeals attorney for Antonio Guerrero was conducted by Gloria La Riva, coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, on August 1, 2007.
http://www.bolivariancircle.org/?q=node/332
SOMALIA
8 months on, Somalia's government cannot tame occupied Mogadishu: The killings in Mogadishu, Somalia's bloodstained capital, are not going away. Nearly every day, the city endures street battles, roadside bombs, showers of bullets.
http://snipurl.com/1q5bv
USA
Hurricane George: How the White House drowned New Orleans
http://www.gregpalast.com/hurricane-georgehow-the-white-house-drowned-ne...
Travails of the Super-Rich
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070910/ehrenreich
PHILIPPINES
More wars for Gloria to fight - Manila---Communist leader Jose Maria Sison’s arrest by the Dutch police for two murders committed in the Philippines is yet one more example of the Philippines, a sovereign country, giving up its sovereignty to a foreign power by acknowledging The Netherlands’ jurisdiction over a case, or cases committed on Philippine soil.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20070830com1.html
Filipino Revolutionary, Cleared of EU “Terrorist” Charge, Arrested in Holland
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/filipino-revolutionary-cleared-of-eu-“terrorist”-charge-arrested-in-holland/
ARGENTINA
"Occupy, resist, produce" - Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis report on how Argentina's worker-run factories have nurtured a powerful social movement, while seamstress Matilda Adorno explains how a dispute over pay became a political struggle
http://www.newstatesman.com/200708300023
BURMA
Myanmar monks seize govt officials, burn cars
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29369820070906?feedTyp...
Goon Squad: Conclusion Of The Burmese Regime's "National Convention"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00095.htm
Myanmar: Experts Call For Release Of Protesters - United NationsDeploring the arrests of more than 100 peaceful protesters following demonstrations in Myanmar over the recent surge in fuel prices, a United Nations independent human rights expert today appealed for the immediate release of the detainees.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00017.htm
CHINA
Child labour is now a widespread, systemic and increasingly serious problem in China, according to a 40-page English language report released today by China Labour Bulletin.
http://www.china-labour.org.hk/fs/view/research-reports/Child_labour_rep...