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... Democratic Unification Party (UD), which has been the only party to officially denounce the coup, decided in an assembly on Nov 21 to participate in the electoral process after initially denouncing them. ...
... the day of unity. But unification followed. As Brandt himself said, the day after the wall came down, in a piece of characteristic inspirational vagueness: "Now what belongs together is growing together." ...
... two men were tapped to push the first domino. Music from Bon Jovi and Beethoven recalled the joy of the border's opening, which led to German reunification less than a year later and the swift demolition ...
... in power, just like the current presidents of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador,” added Micheletti. Rep. Marvin Ponce, of the leftist Democratic Unification Party (UD), pointed out that the 1954 strike concentrated ...
... Hugo Chávez, put him at loggerheads with the country's conservative elites, including his own party. Meanwhile, presidential candidates César Ham of the left-wing Democratic Unification Party and Carlos ...
... Taiwan enjoys democracy - that you must preserve." The Tibetan leader got a taste of the island's raucous democracy immediately after he arrived. Holding up banners and the Chinese flag, dozens of pro-unification ...
... also coincided with memorial services for Kang Hui-Nam, a Christian activist who committed suicide and left a note denouncing Lee's government. Kang, 89, had been jailed several times for pro-unification ...
... press as a rally to tell the "truth" about Tibet and "safeguard the reunification of the motherland."       Several major Chinese-language media outlets in Canada ...
NEWSFLASH
Bread & Roses: The Strike Led and Won by Women » Jan. 12 was the anniversary of the start of the 1912 Bread and Roses strike--one of the most significant struggles in the history of the U.S. working class--in Lawrence, Mass. A new state law had reduced the work week from 56 to 54 hours. A small gain for workers? Sounds like it. But of course the bosses found a way to gain the advantage. They speeded up the looms and cut the average measly wage of $6 a week--a last straw for workers living on the edge...
Fishermen protest Fuel Prices » Riot police armed with shields and batons charged hundreds of protesting fishermen outside European Union headquarters Wednesday after a demonstration over high fuel prices turned violent.Protesters hurled flares, firecrackers and rocks at police beyond razor-wire barricades. They also fired flare guns at the EU headquarters building. As they retreated down the main boulevard through Brussels' European Union district, protesters broke into EU buildings, smashing windows and dragging out flags ...
South Africa: Activists Demand Fair Climate Deal » Johannesburg — GREENPEACE activists in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg on Saturday placed banners on statues of local leaders to urge President Jacob Zuma to provide leadership during the Climate Summit in Copenhagen this December.Greenpeace's action was part of a global day of action, initiated by the 350.org campaign, which involved millions of people in more than 170 countries demanding a fair, ambitious and binding deal to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Colombia rights defenders say they're under constant attack » BOGOTA -- Human rights defenders in Colombia are under constant attack for their work, facing murder, death threats, illegal surveillance, arbitrary detentions and prosecutions, activists told a congressional panel in Washington on Tuesday.Speaking before the House Human Rights Commission, Colombian activist Gabriel Gonzalez recounted how he spent more than a year in jail on charges of being a member of the country's leftist guerrillas. A judge threw out the charges as baseless, but the ruling w...
Honduras lifts opposition media ban » The de-facto Honduran government has lifted a three-week-old ban on opposition radio and television stations.Radio Globo and Channel 36 were back on air on Tuesday hours after Roberto Micheletti's administration removed a decree that limited constitutional guarantees including freedom of the press and freedom of assembly.Micheletti's representatives also met with Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, on Tuesday in an attempt to kick-start talks on the nation's political crisis that had stalled....
Naked protest by “400 Pueblos” over land eviction » In the Mexican state of Veracruz prized for oil and agriculture and beautiful beaches, at about four o’clock on a 1992 morning, hundreds of campesinos and their families in three pueblos were shaken awake by rumbling. Some were too startled to move. Others ran out of their wood and cardboard shacks and saw caterpillars grinding toward them and waved at the drivers to stop. The drivers and their armed and uniformed escorts motioned and yelled for everyone to clear out. The c...
Seoul activists want probe on NKorean rights abuse » SEOUL, South Korea — A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal Thursday to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial.The group is to fly to Hague next week to file its petition calling for an investigation at the International Criminal Court, the first such move on the North Korean rights issue, lead activist Ha Tae-keung told reporters in Seoul."Our aim is to get the arrest warrant on Kim Jong...
Hunger Strikers Press for Iraq’s Release of Iranian Exiles » WASHINGTON — Wednesday was the 50th day of their hunger strike, but Hamid Goudarzi, 26, and his fellow Iranian-immigrant protesters here swore they would never give up.Two Iranian immigrants, Reza Haghelahi, left, and Khalil Parsae, are part of a hunger strike outside the White House. “I’m getting weaker every day,” said Mr. Goudarzi, who gave up his job in San Antonio to join the protest. “But I’m here to the end.”He is among two dozen hunger strikers encamped a stone’s throw from the White Hou...
Ahmadinejad gets cabinet boost » Iranian legislators have approved most of the cabinet nominees proposed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, including Iran's first female minister and a man linked to the bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina.Parliament on Thursday rejected only three of Ahmadinejad's proposed new 21-member cabinet, signalling only a limited setback for the president as he enters his second term.Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's new defence minister, received overwhelming backing from the parliament, garnering 227 out...
“Integrate This!” » From August 20-21, 2007, Stephen Harper welcomed his American idol George W. Bush and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon to Montebello, Quebec to review the progress of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The SPP – which is being implemented without any public or parliamentary scrutiny – is about eliminating Canada’s ability to set its own independent regulatory standards, environmental protection measures, energy security, foreign, military, immigration and a frighteningly wide r...