May 11, 2001
Download Audio NO ALOHA FOR THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK In a precedent-setting anti-globalization protest, 1,000 peaceful marchers drummed, danced, and shouted in jubilee against the meeting of the Asian Development Bank, or ADB,...
Category: 2001
May 4, 2001
Download Audio INDIGENOUS RIGHTS BILL DISAPPOINTS ZAPATISTAS In Mexico City this week, a watered down version of the Indigenous Rights and Culture Initiative passed both houses of Congress. The so called “light” legislation,...
April 27, 2001
Download Audio TEAR GAS AND FREE TRADE Last weekend in Quebec City and around the hemisphere citizens took to the streets to voice their concern about the Free Trade Area of the Americas,...
April 20, 2001
Download Audio COPS GALORE AS FTAA NEGOTIATORS AND PROTESTERS GO TO WORK Thousands of citizens from all over the Americas have gathered in Quebec City to counter the Summit of the Americas, where...
April 13, 2001
Download Audio CURFEWS AND KILLER COPS IN CINCINNATI Scores of youth took to the streets of Cincinnati this week, throwing stones, breaking windows, and assaulting motorists following Saturday’s police killing of Timothy Thomas,...
April 6, 2001
Download Audio HAGUE TRIBUNAL DEMANDS THE ARREST OF MILOSEVIC In Belgrade Yugoslavia, prosecutors from the UN War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague have handed the government of Vojislav Kostunica an official arrest warrant for...
March 30, 2001
Download Audio ZAPATISTAS IN FRONT OF MEXICO’S CONGRESS Two days after an historic appearance before a joint session of Mexico’s Congress to lobby for an indigenous rights bill, representatives the Zapatista rebel army are...
March 23, 2001
Download Audio BOEING BOLTS — SEATTLE JOLTED In an abrupt announcement this week, Boeing said it would move its headquarters away from Seattle, where the company has done business since 1916. Boeing CEO Phil...
March 16, 2001
Download Audio WILL BUFFER ZONE BE FLASHPOINT FOR BALKAN WAR? In the south of Serbia, the Yugoslav Army is completing it deployment to a buffer zone separating Kosovo from the rest of Serbia. NATO...
March 9, 2001
Download Audio ZAPATISTAS MARCH ON MEXICO CITY On New Year’s Day in 1994, as the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, the Zapatista National Liberation Army took over the southern Mexican state...
