PCdoB -Pronunciameno da Socorro Gomes na Argentina/ Socorro Gomes' Speech in Argentina

Estimados Camaradas, 
Segue anexo, em português e inglês, o pronunciamento da Cda. Socorro Gomes, Presidente do Conselho
Mundial da Paz-CMP e do Cebrapaz, na  Conferência Internacional: A OTAN, Malvinas e a Reativação da
Quarta Frota dos EUA em Buenos Aires, Argentina de 19 a 20 de Março de 2009.

Saudações fraternais 

Maria Helena D' Eugenio
p/ Secretaria de Relações Internacionais
do CC do PCdoB 
(11) 30541822 ou 00
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Dear Comrades, 

Please find attached, in English and Portuguese languages, the speech did by Socorro Gomes, the President
of World Peace Council and Cebrapaz, during the Interancional Conference: NATO, Falkland Islands and
the reactivation of the Fourth Fleet, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 19-20, 2009.
Fraternal greetings

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Israeli exporters forced to slash prices due to boycott

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=36788 

  

Ma’an News Agency
                                                                                                            
31 / 03 / 2009   

  

Israeli exporters forced to slash prices due to boycott 

  

Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli exporters have been forced to cut prices in part because of a worldwide
boycott of Israeli products in protest of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, a leading industry
association reported this week. 

  

Israeli exporters have been “losing foreign markets and customers because of the global economic
crisis and a growing anti-Israel boycott of locally made products following Operation Cast Lead.” 

  

The findings were made available by the Israel Manufacturers Association on Sunday, and published in the
Jerusalem Post the following day. 

  

[BillTottenWeblog] The Man Who Sold the World

The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main
Street America, by William Kleinknecht (Nation Books, 2009)
	
BuzzFlash Review by Joe Conason

BuzzFlash.com

The myth of Ronald Reagan's greatness has reached epic proportions.
The public rates him as one of the most popular presidents, and
Republicans everywhere seek to cast themselves in his image. But
award-winning journalist William Kleinknecht shows in this
penetrating analysis of his presidency that the Reagan legacy has
been devastating for the country - especially for the ordinary
Americans he claimed to represent.

So much that has gone wrong in America - including the subprime
mortgage crisis and the meltdown of the financial sector - can be
traced directly to Reagan's policies. The financial deregulation
launched in the 1980s freed banks and securities firms to squander
hundreds of billions of dollars and make a shambles of the economy.
Boom-and-bust cycles, obscene CEO salaries, blackouts, drug-company
scandals, collapsing bridges, plummeting wages for working people,
the flight of US manufacturing abroad - these are all products of
Reagan's free-market zealotry and his gutting of the public sector.
Reagan pioneered the use of wedge issues like race and the war on
drugs to distract America while his administration empowered
corporations to lay waste to our traditional ways of life.

In the spirit of Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?
(2004), Kleinknecht takes us to Reagan's hometown of Dixon,

Contracts Now Seen as Being Rewritable

<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/business/economy/31contracts.html>
March 31, 2009
Contracts Now Seen as Being Rewritable
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH and JONATHAN GLATER

Contracts everywhere are under assault.

The depth of the recession and the use of taxpayer dollars to bail out
companies have made it politically acceptable for overseers to tinker
with employment agreements.

So federal and local governments are looking for ways to pare payouts,
endangering the promises made before the financial storm to people
like Wall Street traders, automobile workers and garbage collectors.

“We run roughshod over some contracts and not over others,” said David
A. Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, about
economic downturns. “Right now, employment contracts seem to be the
type of contract that is viewed as eminently rewritable.”

The Treasury Department is seeking broad powers to seize troubled
companies and rewrite contracts like the ones promising bonuses at the
American International Group. Some A.I.G. employees, meanwhile, have
been pressured by officials into repaying their bonuses to the giant
insurance company rescued by the government.

Across the country, Vallejo, Calif., just got permission in bankruptcy
court to tear up its contracts with firefighters and other workers. In
Stockton, the city manager is studying whether to follow Vallejo’s
lead.

NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal

http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=14743

  posted 31-03-2009 [24 page views]
	
NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is  
appealing to the federal Liberal Party to join with other opposition  
parties to block the new Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), Canada

NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal

27 March 2009

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is  
appealing to the federal Liberal Party to join with other opposition  
parties to block the new Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Legislation to implement the agreement was introduced in the Commons  
on March 26.

NUPGE president James Clancy, in a letter to Liberal Leader Michael  
Ignatieff, says it is "deeply inappropriate" for Canada to sign an  
agreement with the brutal Colombian regime of President Alvaro Uribe.

"I am asking that your party join with the New Democratic Party and  
Bloc Québécois in opposing this agreement," Clancy writes.

Minister defends [indefensible] Colombia free-trade deal

http://www.canada.com/news/Minister+defends+Colombia+free+trade+deal/1445018/story.html

Minister defends Colombia free-trade deal

By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News ServiceMarch 30, 2009Compliments of  
TD Waterhouse

Parliamentary hearings will give a fulsome airing to critics of  
Canada's proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia, says the Harper  
government's Latin American cabinet minister, Peter Kent, the minister  
of State for Foreign Affairs.

Parliamentary hearings will give a fulsome airing to critics of  
Canada's proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia, says the Harper  
government's Latin American cabinet minister, Peter Kent, the minister  
of State for Foreign Affairs.
Photograph by: Peter J. Thompson, National Post

OTTAWA — Parliamentary hearings will allow criticism of Canada's  
proposed free trade agreement with Colombia, says the Harper  
government's minister responsible for Latin America.

But Peter Kent, the minister of state for foreign affairs, also made  
clear that he expects the deal to be ratified by Parliament by June,  
as he accused left-leaning critics of the deal of living in the past,  
and not giving Colombia credit for progress it has made after years of  
drug-fuelled carnage.

"We want this to be discussed openly," Kent said Monday from Medellin,  
Colombia. "Through the hearing process as well as submissions from  

Re: NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal

No harm in asking, especially if the question threatens to generally reveal 
Ignatieff's support for the Bush policy of "enhanced interrogation" methods. 
The Colombians, of course, don't bother with all that enhanced stuff; they 
just murder whatever trade unionist gets in the way of corporate profit. 
Whatever the reaction on the part of Ignatieff, the mainstream press 
wouldn't cover the story anyway (muckraking journalism always gets trumped 
by intellectual prostitution), so Ignatieff is quite safe in simply ignoring 
NUPGE, which is what he'll do.

At the very least this could turn into a campaign to expose the bastard and 
his support for torture.

Richard M.

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From: "Anthony Fenton" <fentona <at> shaw.ca>
To: "Richard Menec" <menecraj <at> shaw.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:39 PM
Subject: [R-G] NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal

http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=14743

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NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is
appealing to the federal Liberal Party to join with other opposition
parties to block the new Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

[BillTottenWeblog] Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Book Review

by Harold W Wood, Jr

www.pantheist.net

We seek renewed reverence for the biosphere as the ultimate context for
human existence ...

Pantheists have found a new prophet, and he is a Gorilla.

No ordinary Gorilla, Ishmael is uncommonly intelligent, with an ability
to not merely understand human speech but to recognize the fundamental
flaw of contemporary western culture and, what's more, to point the way
toward a solution.

Who better than a Gorilla that has been held in captivity for decades to
describe the human condition as a form of captivity? Ishmael points out
that modern humans, for the most part, are "captives of a civilization
system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in
order to live".

The frustration that Pantheists share with environmentalists - the
increasingly rapid loss of the natural world - is one that a few
environmental laws, a few scientific studies, and a few people recycling
their newspapers seem to do little to allay. One thing that Pantheists
recognize - as only a few environmentalists seem to do - as the root of
the environmental crisis is the intellectual disease of
anthropocentrism. What Daniel Quinn has done in this novel is provide us

Ward Churchill, George Galloway: Speaking at Concordia University

http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/ward-churchill-george-galloway-speaking-at-concordia-university/

Ward Churchill, George Galloway: Speaking at Concordia University
Posted in ADVOCACY, DECOLONIZATION, LIBERATION by Maximilian Forte on  
April 1st, 2009
Ward Churchill at Concordia

I am very happy to announce that Ward Churchill will be speaking at  
Concordia University, on Wednesday, 15 April 15, at 7:00pm, at the Sir  
George Williams campus in downtown Montreal, in the Hall Building,  
room H-110. The admission cost is a voluntary donation. For more  
information, contact: scott.montreal <at> sympactico.ca or the Concordia  
chapter of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group, QPIRG Concordia:  
514-848-7585, info <at> qpirgconcordia.org.

Needless to say, I will be attending and reporting on the event  
shortly thereafter.

••••••• ••••••• •••••••
George Galloway at Concordia

Let us hope that this time, with Ward Churchill, that our rather  
extremist, hard bitten, neo-con government does not do the same as it  
did to British parliamentarian, George Galloway, who has been banned  
from entering Canada and speaking to anti-war groups because he is an  
alleged “security threat.” The message seems to be that being against  
war is to be against security, as if we needed another lesson in that  
“logic.” In the meantime, a war criminal like George W. Bush was  
permitted to enter the country and speak at a high-priced private  
function in Calgary.

U.S. Military Funded Mapping Project in Oaxaca

U.S. Military Funded Mapping Project in Oaxaca

Geographers used to gather intelligence?

By Cyril Mychalejko, with Ramor Ryan reporting from Mexico

http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag/viewArticle/21044
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