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United Towards a Common Future

Indigenous Leaders Affirm their Priorities

by Fiona Meyer Cook

Cuzco (Pérou) | 25 July 2006

The struggle against neo liberalism, and towards self determination, were two of the key priorities named by indigenous leaders during the 1st Congress of the Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations, which took place in the historic sanctuary of Cusco, July 15-17.

Can We Live Without Conventions?

by Leonardo Boff

Caracas (Venezuela) | 11 July 2006

Philosopher Ludwig Wittgestein used to teach that our communication is nothing more than a great game of words. There is no direct relation between words and things. The words are arbitrarily invented. Their meaning is the result of conventions: everything depends on how we use them. And the (…)

Step Back Renews Women’s Drive to Move Forward in Venezuela

by Humberto Márquez

Caracas (Venezuela) | 3 July 2006

A recent Supreme Court ruling that undermines the safety of domestic violence victims has galvanised activists in Venezuela, who vow to step up the fight against a scourge that the country’s advanced gender-equality laws have so far failed to eradicate.

Chavez Opens Venezuelan Film Studio to Counter Hollywood

by Pablo Navarrete

Caracas (Venezuela) | 3 July 2006

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez inaugurated a new film studio complex aimed at challenging what he called “Hollywood’s cultural dictatorship”.

Is Latin America Really Turning Left?

by James Petras

Caracas (Venezuela) | 24 June 2006

A new series of social and national polarities in the WesternHemisphere has dominated political life over the past few years. Atthe beginning of the new millennium the national confrontation was between Cuba and the US/EU, and the social confrontations between therural/indian and (…)

Biodiversity and The Future of Life

by Leonardo Boff

Fortaleza (Brazil) | 12 April 2006

Letter of the Earth Commission
From March 20th to the 31st an important world gathering of the United Nations on biodiversity is taking place in Curitiba, Brazil, addressing items of the 1993 Convention on Biological Diversity adopted by 188 countries.
This gathering is the most important of (…)

Bid to give AIDS drugs to poor nations lag

by Alexander G. Higgins

Caracas (Venezuela) | 4 April 2006

The United Nations’ attempt to put 3 million HIV-infected people around the world on antiretroviral drugs by last year fell far short of its goal, but it saved hundreds of thousands of lives nonetheless, the U.N. health agency said Tuesday.

"Reflect circles" of adults cooperate to tackle development projects

Caracas (Venezuela) | 31 March 2006

In the middle of this settlement on the
southern edge of Johannesburg, a place where poverty and sickness often
squeeze out hope and plans, a group of women sit in a circle, recording
their goals for the year.

A New Ethics Needed to Save Life on Earth

by Mario Osava

Caracas (Venezuela) | 29 March 2006

Affect, care, cooperation and responsibility are the four central principles of a new ethics that humanity urgently needs to adopt, in order to avoid becoming extinct as "a victim of itself," Leonardo Boff, one of the founders of liberation
theology, said Thursday.

Venezuela’s Sexual Revolution Within the Revolution

by Maurice Farrell , Rachel Evans

Caracas (Venezuela) | 29 March 2006

At the January World Social Forum in Caracas, Green Left Weekly’s Rachel Evans and Maurice Farrell caught up with Ricardo Hung from the Alianza Lambda gay-rights organisation and Moises Rivera Lopez, the coordinator of the Sexual Riverside Network for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (…)

Chavez Slams Bush as “Coward, murderer”

by Coral Wynter , Jim McIlroy

Caracas (Venezuela) | 29 March 2006

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has rejected recent attacks by the US administration on his government, and slammed President George W. Bush as a “coward, murderer and responsible for genocide,” in an outspoken talk on his weekly TV program, Aló Presidente, on March 19.

Loads with transgenic products will have definitive identification in 2012.

by Maurício Thuswohl

Fortaleza (Brazil) | 24 March 2006

If it is taken into account that since the first Meeting of the Parties of the Cartagena Protocol (MOP-1), held in 2004, that discussion was blocked due to the different positions among countries, the agreement reached at the MOP-3, that was held this week in Curitiba, represents a victory. (…)

A Night at the WSF: Speeches as Spectacle in Chavez’s Venezuela

by Alex Holland

Caracas (Venezuela) | 2 February 2006

Venezuelans love a spectacle. They love watching one. They love creating one. Their fanatical passion for baseball is an example of this. The crowd, the stadium, and the audience in the street create a mass energy that has to be seen to be believed

A Loud, Multicoloured ’No’ to Imperialism and War

by Humberto Márquez

Caracas (Venezuela) | 31 January 2006

Although the sixth World Social Forum grants equal
importance to all of the myriad workshops, seminars and other activities
taking place this week in the Venezuelan capital and to all of the
participating civil society groups and figures, that has not kept some
personalities from standing (…)

Small and Earnest Alternative Social Forum in Venezuela

Caracas (Venezuela) | 31 January 2006

An Alternative Social Forum, or ASF, set up in protest against the World Social Forum is quietly taking place in Caracas now. One of its organisers, Esteban Mejiaz said, “We have created a space outside the forum where a more critical debate about Venezuela can take place.”

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