The calendar was set at October 20, 2000. The political prisoners decided to resist the state of Turkey's project to set up isolation prisons. In the face of the state's uncompromising attitude, the prisoners started the Death Fast (a form of hunger strike). Because isolation and torture mean death. The prisoners preferred death while resisting to surrender.

Les calendriers montraient le 20 octobre 2000, lorsque les prisonniers politiques décident de se battre en résistance contre le projet d’isolation que le gouvernement turc avait décris. C’est contre l’attitude intransigeante du gouvernement que les prisonniers commencèrent au jeûne de la mort car l’isolation et la torture portait pour eux le même sens que la mort. Au lieu de se rendre vivant aux mains du gouvernement, les prisonniers ont préféré mourir dans leur combat juste.

 
On September 7, 2004, the owners of Venepal, a paper mill in Morón, Carabobo, in Venezuela, decided to cease their operations and not pay their 400 workers their wages. This is not the first time something like this has happened. A year ago the company took the same decision alleging financial difficulties. At that time the workers decided to occupy the premises in a bitter eleven-week struggle. Now they are demanding that the government nationalizes the company and puts it under workers’ control and management. This is an extremely important struggle which could be crucial for the future of the labor movement and the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela.

Venepal is one of the main producers of paper and cardboard in Venezuela and its installations are located in Morón, in the industrial state of Carabobo. At one point it employed a total of 1,600 workers, controlled 40% of the national market and was one of the main producers of Latin America in this sector. But the company’s management allowed the paper mill to slowly lose market shares and revenues. In April 2002, at the time of the short lived military coup against Chávez, some of its main shareholders were present at the swearing in ceremony for the new, illegitimate, "president" Pedro Carmona. During the bosses’ lockout against the Chávez government in December-January 2002-03 the workers resisted attempts by the employers to paralyze the installations.

 
United Nations commander deflecting responsibility for carnage in Haiti, chastising Kerry, supporting Bush on behalf of da Silva.

 
United Nations commander deflecting responsibility for carnage in Haiti, chastising Kerry, supporting Bush on behalf of da Silva.

 
Open letter to my grandfather, Austin A. O'Malley, who I never really got to know, as he died when I was only four years old. He came over to the United States from his native country, Ireland around 1889, as a little boy of eleven years. Like many other Irishmen from Louisburg, County Mayo, he settled in Clinton, Massachusetts. I know that he worked there for a baker for awhile untill the Spanish American War broke out. I also know that he was in and out of the Veteran’s Hospital all through his life. I also know that he liked to drink at bars in South Boston, sometimes with his dog beside him.

The morgue at the General Hospital issued an emergency call this afternoon stating that there was no longer space for new corpses and it had reached full
capacity.

 
Montreal, September 16th - The limited but welcoming space of Café Esperanza's "Waiting Room" was filled to the brim Friday night for the Montreal launch of "Peace Under Fire", a compilation of stories about the experiences of International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists in Israeli-occupied Palestine, and about the struggle of the Palestinian people in general.

 
Canadian, America, French, United Nations sanctioned genocide looms....