India Strikes Blow Against Big Pharma
Cross-posted from TruthoutBy Dean BakerLast week, India's Supreme Court rejected the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis' patent on the cancer drug Gleevec. While the immediate issue was the ability...
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Mayan Peoples Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
By Carol SchachetCross Posted from Grassroots InternationalWidespread protests and strategic organizing succeeded in defending Mayan lands and food sovereignty in Guatemala. This marks a major – and...
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Garifuna communities in Trujillo and Puerto Castillo endure collective...
Part IV of Series from Journal of Agricultural Missions Delegation to Garifuna Territories in HondurasReleased on Agricultural Missions, Inc (AMI) November 5, 2014 Ag Missions’ Honduras...
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DREAM Activist Speaks from Broward Detention Center on Democracy Now
Cross-posted from Democracy Now.In a Democracy Now! exclusive, producer Ren
View Article"If Not Me, Then Who? If Not Now, Then When?" New Video on US Courts of Women...
Check out Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP)'s inspiring new video on the US Courts of Women on Poverty! Cross-posted from WEAP.US Courts of Women
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The Day after the Elections in Woody Guthrie’s Country
By Beverly BellNovember 1, 2012While all eyes and ears are trained on the elections, Woody Guthrie, whose 100th birthday we celebrate this year, offers up another perspective on politics. In his poem
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ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, BUILDING THE MOVEMENT TO RECLAIM DEMOCRACY
By Beverly BellDecember 10, 2012Larry Cohen has headed the 700,000-member Communications Workers of America (CWA), under the banner of
View ArticleGlobal Left Converges in Tunisia to Promote New Vision for Earth's Future
Cross-posted from Common DreamsBy Jordan Flaherty TUNIS, Tunisia
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FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI, THE SAD STATE OF DEMOCRACY AND...
An Interview with Human Rights Organizer Jackson DoliscarBy Beverly BellJackson Doliscar, community organizer and human rights defender. Some things never change. In Haiti, no matter the century or...
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Haitian Cholera Victims Tells UN to "Face Justice" in New Campaign
GENEVA, NEW YORK, PORT-AU-PRINCE, October 13, 2015—On the morning of October 14, activists will be erecting large portraits of cholera victims outside the United Nations (UN) offices in New York,...
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As Cholera Resurges in Haiti, The UN's Commitment to Prevent It Fails
By: By Nancy Young HINCHE, Haiti — We were driving back from watching a soccer game here in central Haiti when my friend instinctively rolled up his window. It can get dusty on Haitian country roads,...
View ArticleGustavo Castro Soto's Message to the People of Honduras
By: Gustavo Castro SotoTegucigalpa, HondurasMarch 15, 2016To the Honduran people:I don't know if you'll ever receive these lines I'm writing to you.I came to Honduras with so much hope. I hadn´t been...
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International Conference of Agrarian Reform: Marabá Declaration
(Marabá, April 17 2016) We are more than 130 representatives of La Via Campesina member organizations and allies from four continents, 10 regions and 28 countries of the world. We are here in Marabá,...
View ArticleMPDP Declaration Post Hurricane Matthew
MPDP’s position on the disaster of Hurricane Matthew in the countryBy: MOUVMAN PATRIOTIK DEMOKRATIK POPILÈThe Popular Democratic People’s Movement [MPDP in the original Haitian Creole] shares its...
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UN Apologizes to Cholera Victims in Haiti
By: Institute for Justice and Democracy in HaitiVictims & Advocates Commend Announcement of New UN Haiti Cholera ResponseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:Cross-Posted From: Institute for Justice and...
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