13:00 -

Quatre bars et restaurants.
Quatre personnes se tiennent debout et ouvrent un parapluie.
On vient à eux, comme stipulé dans un courriel reçu peu de temps auparavant.
Des instructions sont distribuées.
On discute inaudiblement...

In the fragmentation project which is being operated by the government (this is the real agenda of the political parties and the three branches of the government, not the one which appears in the press), Mexico will be divided in 3:  The north, with its states incorporated into the economic and commercial framework of the American Union;  the center, as provider of consumers with middle and high level purchasing power; and the South-Southeast, as a territory to be conquered for the appropriation of natural resources which, in the globalized destruction, are increasingly more important: water, air and land (wood, oil, uranium...and people)...

Bruxelles, le 8 août 2003 : Quinze années, jour pour jour, se sont écoulées depuis l’un des pires actes de répression jamais commis par la dictature militaire birmane, une date que la CISL a choisie pour publier un rapport cinglant documentant la souffrance de l’enfance et de la jeunesse birmanes sous la dictature.

Selon la FECSM, il y aurait 5 morts du côté étudiant.

Les manifestations contre la réunion mini-ministérielle à Montréal, fin juillet, ont donné l'occasion à la police de poursuivre sa campagne de répression politique à l'égard des mouvements sociaux d'extrême gauche actifs au Québec. Seules les personnes à la mémoire courte ou à la perspective étroite en seront restées surprises.

The Fifth Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organization (WTO) would be held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003, in the midst of several controversial issues. There has been no meaningful progress on agriculture, TRIPs and public health, “special and differential treatment

URGENT! Montreal Activist Detained by
Israeli Occupation Forces in West Bank

Tuesday August 5th 11am EST

Soledad Delgado a Montreal area activist, is being illegally detained in
Palestine by the Israeli Occupation Forces. She, along with 46 other
Palestinian and foreign nationals are participating in the Freedom Summer
Campaign with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Palestine .
They were captured last night during an action organized by the ISM which
was attempting to prevent the demolition of a home in Masha Palestine
(near Nabulus) that lies in the projected path of the Israeli separation
(Apartheid) Wall.

Bruxelles, le 4 août 2003 (CISL En Ligne) : Suite à l’annonce d’un raid mené par la Israeli Defence Force sur le bureau régional de l’affiliée de la CISL à Jenin, la Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), la CISL envoyé une lettre de protestation bien sentie au Premier ministre israélien Ariel Sharon.

The following will continue to be the exclusive government functions of the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities:  the provision of justice; community health; education; housing; land; work; food; commerce; information and culture, and local movement...