Coordinated acts of nonviolent civil disobedience took place at six different locations across the city May 7 in a protest against the not-guilty verdict for three police officers who shot and killed unarmed African American man Sean Bell with 50 bullets on the night before his wedding.
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A realignment of political forces appears to be underway in East Timor, with the signing of an agreement for a strategic alliance for future elections between the largest party in parliament, the Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (Fretilin), and the Timorese Social Democratic Association (ASDT) the second largest party in the coalition of non-Fretilin parties that has held government since the July 2007 parliamentary elections.
Deaths and injuries are soaring in Sadr City as US troops increase their military and economic pressure on the Iraqi capitals huge Shiite slum district, the English-language website of Baghdad Azzaman daily reported on May 5.
Below is a statement from the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Visit http://space4peace.org.
Originally published in Liberation, the magazine of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist Liberation. A longer version can be found at the socialist e-journal, Links, http://links.org.au.
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
By Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes
Allen Lane, 2008
311 pages, $32.95 (pb)
By Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes
Allen Lane, 2008
311 pages, $32.95 (pb)
“If the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave”, a demonstrator said in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “If the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that’s OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we’ll die of hunger.”
Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro proposed that Latin American countries create a food bank to counter food supply problems and that oil profits of the region go towards a new food fund. Maduro made the proposal during the Food summit held in Nicaragua on May 7.
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