President Bush met with counterparts in the Caribbean yesterday. This is the joint statement that came out of the conference. Read the Miami Herald‘s coverage. Joint Statement: Conference on the Caribbean read more
Update from SOA Watch on Foreign Operations Vote and amendment to close the SOA. FOr the latest go to SOA Watch website. SOA Watch has received NEW information, that WHINSEC has a secret weapon and that the Pentagon’s public relations campaign has won some influence with the Representatives who have already told you they will vote YES read more
June 27-July 1, 2007ART is offering a full slate of dynamic workshops together with our partner networks from Mexico, Central and South America and Canada. For a full description of workshops, times and locations, read more. read more
Jeb Sprague and Wadner Pierre wrote a great article for Inter-Press Service on the strike last week – providing background on PetroCaribe implementation and more background on the demands of the strikers. The article also appears on Haiti Analysis and was picked up by the Caribbean News Net.
Congress will vote today on McGovern Amendment to close the School of Assassins – that has trained some of the worst human rigths abusers in the Latin America. Make the call! Below is an alert from SOAWatch with an introduction from the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. read more
See story from Alter-Presse – (translated from French below) Haiti : Strike of Public Transport against price increase of petrol products Translated from French by Menno Ernst Tuesday 12th June 2007
The New York Times ran a front page story yesterday based on the findings of a recent study that found an extremely high level of bias in the way that asylum cases are decided. The paper, titled Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication, will be in the Stanford Law Review’s next issue and can be read on-line here.
Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies wrote an excellent commentary on Mr. Zoellick’s nomination to run the World Bank. Anderson reminds us of Zoellick’s hardball tactics and many uncompromising, ideological stances that have been the hallmarks of his career in the Bush administration read more
The Bush administration will be putting forth Robert Zoellick as their nomination to be the next head of the World Bank – in the wake of Paul Wolfowitz’s resignation amidst a corruption scandal.
