New York Governor David Paterson has instructed all state agencies to revise policies and regulations to recognise same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions, the Associated Press reported May 29. Such issues include family health care plans, joint
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Hector Antonio Ventura and 13 others, now known as the Suchitoto 14, were arrested in July last year for their participation in an anti-water privatisation forum in the town of Suchitoto.
We all know about climate change, forest destruction and other ecological threats, but in Latin America environmental concern is treated more seriously than perhaps in any other part of the world.
On June 1, the eastern Bolivian provinces of Beni and Pando followed the May 4 referendum in Santa Cruz, holding referendums for 鈥渁utonomy鈥 from the national government. Together with Tarija, whose 鈥渁utonomy鈥 referendum is scheduled for June 21, these four eastern provinces, known as the 鈥渉alf moon鈥, are a stronghold of the right-wing oligarchy that is attempting to destablise the government of President Evo Morales.
Farmer and civil society leaders carrying out a peaceful action on June 3 in Rome, at the UN Food and Agricultural Organization Summit on the Food Crisis were forcefully removed from the premises. During the action, the security guards seized a
May marked 60 years since the formation of the state of Israel. Resistance, the socialist youth, organised a national tour of Israeli peace activist Isaac Suisha. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Ewan Saunders spoke to Suisha, who grew up in Israel.
On June 4, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the US issued its ruling upholding the convictions of the five Cuban nationals being held in US jails, including the espionage and murder conspiracy convictions. The 聯Cuban Five聰 had infiltrated right-wing Cuban exile groups in Miami to help prevent terrorist attacks.
At the same time, the US government has refused demands from the Cuban and Venezuelan governments to extradite convicted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed all passengers, to Venezuela where he escaped from jail.
Below, is an abridged statement at a May 20 press conference by Gloria La Riva on behalf of the US National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. For more information, visit http://freethefive.org.
According to a June 5 Prensa Latina report, Cuba condemned the Declaration of the Rome Summit on Food Security, describing it as "the result of the lack of political will of the countries of the North" to promote a fair, lasting solution to the
Below is an abridged statement by the US-based Venezuelan Information Office. Visit http://rethinkvenezuela.com.
NSW Treasurer Michael Costa鈥檚 third budget, on June 3, included massive handouts to big business and a nasty backhander to workers.
According to a May 25 Tolo TV report, translated and posted on http://rawa.org, civilians in Garmsir District of Helmand Province claim that US forces, involved in military operations in the district in the past two weeks, have killed and imprisoned
麻豆传媒 Weekly asked these Resistance activists what they hope to get out of the national conference in Sydney later this month.
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