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Comandante Ramona, a leader of Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement has died after a long struggle with a kidney disease. Zapatista leader Marcos, said: “The world has lost one of those women it requires. Mexico has lost one of the combative women it needs and we, we have lost a piece of our heart.”
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Among the indigenous commanders there is a tiny woman, even tinier than those around her. A face wreathed in black still leaves the eyes free and a few hairs dangling from the head. In that gaze is the glitter of one who searches. A 12 calibre sawed-off shotgun hangs from her back.

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“And no matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says we’re here to tell you that not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people, millions support your revolution, support your ideas and are expressing our solidarity with you.” - Harry Belafonte appearing on President Hugo Chavez’s weekly television program.

A new study by Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes concludes that the total costs of the Iraq war could top the $2 trillion mark. Reuters reports this total, which is far above the US administration’s prewar projections, takes into account the long term healthcare costs for the 16,000 US soldiers injured in Iraq so far.

A Taleban spokesman has rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s offer of contact. Mr Karzai had told the news organization, the Associated Press, that he would be happy for Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar to “get in touch” if he wanted peace. Mohammed Hanif, who claims to speak for the Taleban, said Mr Karzai was a “mouthpiece of Americans” and saw it as a move to weaken their morale. On Monday Mullah Omar promised to step up attacks against the US forces in Afghanistan in 2006. The Taleban regime, toppled in late 2001, are fighting to oust the Karzai government.

On August 19, 1995, the Omai Gold Mines tailings dam collapsed and spilled 3.2 million cubic metres of cyanide-tainted waste into the Omai River and then into the Essequibo, the country’s largest river. This is considered Guyana’s worst environmental disaster.

Nothing much happening
In June last year, the government unveiled a five-year drug strategy master plan which included such innovations as wiretapping legislation and an enforcement post near the Orinoco Delta, but six months on nothing has been done and there is no indication as to when the proposals will be implemented. Read the rest of this entry »

A prison visit is like nothing you’ve lived before. Holding the hand of a compañera inside and feeling her strength and resistance is a unique experience that can only compare to the feeling of wanting to see these women free.

I’ve put together some blended stories that are the voice of many women inside and should give us all inspiration to struggle. Read the rest of this entry »

by Michael Parenti

In December 2005, the reactionaries who are running the government and ruining the country decided to cut about $42 billion from the human services budget over the next few years. Most of the cuts will come out of the hides of the very poorest among us. The victims include persons afflicted with disabling diseases who already have trouble trying to live on a monthly federal pittance. Read the rest of this entry »

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has suggested the Taleban leader Mullah Omar contact him with a view to reconciliation. In an interview with the news organisation the Associated Press President Karzai said he did not expect Mullah Omar to come out of hiding. He also said the militant leader would be expected to account for his actions. Read the rest of this entry »

Witnesses: US Bombing of Ramadi Neighborhood Kills 6 Teens
“In the western city of Ramadi say a US air strike killed six teenagers Saturday. The teenagers were reportedly gathered near their homes when their neighborhood was shelled by US military planes.”
Unidentified Ramadi resident: “They were children, only 16 and 17 years old. They were playing here and cleaning the sewage near their houses. The planes hit them with rockets, we did find their bodies but flesh and blood.”