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Resistance.

This post covers all the resistance movements I’ve read about this week.

Surprisingly, there are quite a few. The most amazing one I’ve read about
was in Bolivia. In a shift from Latin America's usual pattern of natural
succession - Dictator, Revolution, Anarchy, Dictator, Revolution, etc...-
there was just a huge coup in which 70 people were killed but they kicked
out their US / gas loving president and will have elections in the near
future. I’m not too sure on the specifics outside the articles below but it
seems that his resignation was yet another step in the movement for Latin
America to shed the economic imperialism of the States. But it just blows my
mind…I sit here in a little cube all day while these revolutions are
blooming and change seems to be happening. It’s really hard to know how to
help. Or even who should be helped. Thus the spam. It’s good reading though.

The beautiful and impeccable rallying cry of the Bolivian Revolution

Most recent events according to the Economist

A Bolivian perspective from the 17th.

And this is a beautiful speech by Gerry Adams on the elections being
scheduled in Northern Ireland and the on going effort to reunite Ireland.
(Keep in mind that their republicans are different that ours…)

Here’s some background on the Sinn Fein.

And here is a hopeful article on an upcoming trial brought by a group of
30,000 people in the Ecuadorian Amazon against ChevronTexaco for pretty much
killing them and the ecosystem by dumping oil waste in unlined pits in the
middle of the rainforest. Their defense is that “this was a generally
accepted operating practice.” Supposedly this lawsuit could change how
multinational corporations do business throughout Latin America.

Posted by bluprnt at October 21, 2003 04:05 PM