This posting aims at presenting information and links on the movement calling for reparations for African Americans.
1.- Two comprehensive articles:
a. "Alive and Well" by Tatsha Robertson. The Crisis, May/June 2003.
"He traveled by train from Northeast Texas to North Carolina, carrying only a small suitcase, not really knowing what he would see or do. But 39-year-old former slave Andrew Jackson Hurdle, who was sold from his family nearly 30 years earlier, was determined to put the (…)
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Artículos
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US - Perspectives on the Slave Reparations Movement
21 February 2006, posted by John Malone
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US - NEW YORK - NYU Graduate Students Now on Strike For More Than 100 Days: Update From the Strikers (nyuinc.org)
19 February 2006, posted by John Malone
Hello GSOC supporters!
Today, Thursday, February 16, is the 100th day of our strike. We will remain on strike until the NYU administration agrees to negotiate with our union in good faith for a second contract.
Here are some of the things that we have been doing this semester, in order to convince President Sexton, the NYU Board of Trustees and the administration to bargain with our union. We have been picketing and leafleting President Sexton and the NYU Trustees wherever they go. (…) -
US - NEW YORK - NYU Graduate Students on Strike: Explanations (nyuinc.org)
18 February 2006, posted by John Malone
The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) of Local 2110/UAW is a union for graduate students who work at NYU as teachers, researchers, and graduate assistants.
In 2000, GSOC won an historic first contract that raised stipends 40%, provided healthcare and childcare benefits, and addressed important workplace rights for graduate employees. Now the NYU administration is attempting to dissolve the union, hiding behind a regressive legal decision made by the Bush-appointed Labor Board. (…) -
ESTADOS UNIDOS - Qué me Ocurrió Realmente: la versión de Cindy Sheehan sobre su Detención en el Capitolio (Rebelión)
8 de febrero de 2006, puesto en línea por Aurora Scott
08/02/06 - Rebelión - Como probablemente sepáis, anoche me arrestaron antes de que comenzara el discurso del Estado de la Nación. La furia que he sentido por lo ocurrido y el dolor que me produce ver lo que hemos perdido en nuestro país me dejan sin palabras.
La policía ha contado mentiras y la prensa ha distorsionado los hechos (¡oh sorpresa!). Así que os voy a contar lo que realmente ocurrió.
Por la tarde asistí al acto popular previo al discurso del Estado de la Nación donde me (…) -
US - Guns Over Butter Abroad and at Home (by Jim Loeb, IPS)
7 February 2006, posted by Aurora Scott
Despite his administration’s growing concerns about preventing the collapse of states in strategic parts of the world, U.S. President George W. Bush has proposed cuts in development and disaster assistance while increasing the defence budget by almost seven percent.
Under his 2007 budget request submitted to Congress Monday, Pentagon spending next year would rise to some 440 billion dollars, not including another 120 billion dollars that the administration is expected to ask for as a (…) -
MEXICO - La Creación de la Gran Muralla en la Frontera con Estados Unidos (Guillermo Rocha P.G, ADITAL)
5 de febrero de 2006, puesto en línea por Manuela Garza Ascencio
03/02/06 - Adital - En su reciente mensaje a la nación desde Tucson, Arizona y en medio de dos helicópteros negros amenazantes de la Patrulla Fronteriza, el presidente Bush se dirigió a la nación comenzado su mensaje con las siguientes frases: "La inmigración ilegal es un serio problema. Y nuestra responsabilidad esta clara. Nosotros vamos a proteger nuestra frontera!!!!". Con estas palabras arrancó una salva de aplausos y continuó con su discurso. Habló de cómo la tecnología está ayudando (…)
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US - Remaking USAID for a Permanent War on Terror? (Bill Berkowitz, IPS)
31 January 2006, posted by Manuela Garza Ascencio
27/01/2006 - IPS - In a series of developments — some more publicised than others — the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, has been undergoing a transformation that will more closely align its activities with the State Department and the Pentagon.
These changes could threaten the agency’s original emphasis of concentrating on long-term social and economic assistance projects, and steer it toward greater involvement in more immediate political and military (…) -
US - NEW YORK - TWU President Roger Toussaint Talks About MTA’s Latest Contract Proposal with WNBC’s Gabe Pressman (TWU Local 100 website)
28 January 2006, posted by John Malone
Announcer: From studio 6B in Rockefeller Center, this is a presentation from News Channel 4, Gabe Pressman’s News Forum. Now your host, senior correspondent
GABE PRESSMAN: Will there be a new trend to the strike? The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has proposed a new contract to the Transport Workers Union. And from the union’s viewpoint, the terms are worse than those its members rejected.With new labor unrest threatening the transit system on which New Yorkers depend, one man, (…) -
US - NEW YORK - Statement from TWU-Local 100 President Roger Toussaint on Contract Vote Outcome
26 January 2006, posted by Dial
"We are disappointed to report that the members of our Union have voted not to ratify the agreement that we reached with the MTA. More than 22,000 votes were cast and the margin was only seven votes. 11, 234 votes were cast against and 11,227 were cast in favor.
We believe that this result is the product of a number of negative and inappropriate influences. First, the Governor. As soon as our contract was announced, the Governor pronounced that the deal was too rich. As you will (…) -
US - Skull and Bones, the Elite of the Empire (voltairenet.org)
14 January 2006, posted by John Malone
Within the very exclusive and puritan Yale University, every year 15 children of very wealthy families are co-opted. They are members of a secret association of ghoulish rites: the Skulls and Bones. Throughout their lives, they support and assist each other in view of the democratic flightiness of the masses they detest. The next president of the United States is one of the 800 initiated: George W. Bush and John Kerry are members since 36 years ago.
The association Skull and Bones has (…)
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