Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday August 27th, 2008.

Interviews from the DNC 2008

Interview with Fergal who had just returned from a weekend trip to Rossport and who puts the events of the last week in the context of the struggle of the last years.

In the US, democracy is a word that we throw out to justify armed invasions and illegal violations of international law -- it has no intrinsic meaning. In Pakistan, democracy is thriving and alive. It marched in the streets, it spoke in the courts, and it ran in the actions of Parliament, demanding impeachment.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday August 26th, 2008.

In fact, things are more repressive today than they were in '68, for then, anti-war activists and students could at least march through the streets. They got their asses whipped, but at least they marched. Today, city governments have built cages for protest. So much for respect for the constitution!

Coloquio con la participación de:

- Lucila Choque

- Karin Monasterios

- Jiovanny Samalamud

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday August 25th, 2008.

GI resister Robin Long, deported from Canada, convicted of desertion, and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, speaks with Courage to Resist from the El Paso County jail in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he is awaiting transfer to a military prison. 10:10

Hillary Clinton spoke today (Sunday, August 24) at the United Farm Workers 18th Constitutional Convention in Fresno. Her 15:32 minute talk is below in a .mp3 audio format. Also below are photos from the convention. Clinton was the last speaker at the convention and her speech was interrupted by emergency sirens and orders to leave the convention hall. She refused to leave and eventually finished her (brief) presentation.

One of Sanchez's compositions Una composición de Sanchez

Singer Goya Sanchez talks about the event before her performance. Cantante Goya Sanchez habla del evento antes de su canción.

Since its inception early this year the Belfast branch of WSM continues to go from strength to strength, growing in size and establishing new contacts. At the moment we distribute a 1000 copies of the Ulster edition of Workers Solidarity to homes across Belfast and at political events. We hope to expand our current distribution in the coming months. WSM members continue to take part in the current campaign against the water charges. We have attended and helped to organise pickets in solidarity with fellow workers on struggle in the midst of the current neo-liberal offensive and attacks on our living conditions and workers rights by the neo-colonial administration at Stormont.

Bruce Raynor, UNITE HERE International president, spoke at the United Farm Workers 18th Constitutional Convention in Fresno California. An .mp3 audio file of his speech is below. Raynor gave a powerful class conscious speech uniting low income workers from restaurants to the fields, calling on universal health care, and a strong emphasis on organizing the unorganized.

This year's graduating class of the Individualized Master of Arts program at Goddard College, VT, proudly invited Mumia Abu-Jamal to be the keynote speaker of their commencement this past Sunday, August 10th 2008. It was a unanimous decision made by all of the graduates to invite Abu-Jamal, alumni of the college, to shed his wisdom and insight as a renowned journalist, freedom-fighter, and scholar. Watch video of introduction / Listen to full speech

El secreto del sex appeal, en la simetría de los cuerpos

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El secreto del sex appeal, en la simetría de los cuerpos

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