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From Seattle to Detroit: Ten Lessons for Movement Building on the Tenth Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown
 Stephanie Guilloud
For five days in 1999, 80,000 people from Seattle and from all over the country stopped the World Trade Organization from meeting. Despite extreme police and state violence, students, organizers, workers, and community members participated in a public uprising using direct actions, marches, rallies, and mass convergences.
Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires
 Elizabeth Gorman
Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this New Year's Eve.
U.S. Criticised for Recognising Honduran Post-Coup Poll
 Matthew Berger
The U.S. decision has also been criticised as lending legitimacy to a regime that came to power through a coup. Asked if the U.S.'s recognising the results runs the risk of encouraging further coups, Valenzuela said no.
Argentina Halts 1st Latin American Gay Marriage
 Vanessa Hand Orellana
They had planned a wedding day like Latin America has never seen. But as Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre were being fitted for their tuxedos an Argentine judge issued an order late Monday blocking the continent's first gay marriage on Tuesday.
Extortion Warning for Americans Living in Mexico
 Steven Aguirre
With remaining unstable economies in both the U.S. and Mexico, particularly now approaching the holiday season, scam artists are up and on the prowl for new victims all around the country.
Mexico's Reaction to Economic Crisis has Been Weak, Says Nobel Winner Stiglitz
 Deborah Bonello
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, thinks Mexico's reaction to the global economic crisis has been one of the worst anywhere.
Building Blocks Towards an Asia-Pacific Union
 Dana Gabriel
Although some may have viewed President Barack Obama’s recent Asian trip as uneventful and perhaps unsuccessful, he appears to have recommitted to the principles of globalization as the answer to the world’s economic woes.
Is Your Seafood Harvested by Slaves?
 Patrick Winn
Life is hell for Thailand’s fishermen slaves, a largely Burmese workforce lured into the Thai fishing industry by brokers. As promised, jobs await these migrants, who pay $350 to be smuggled into Thailand and introduced to a fishing crew. But often, the work doesn’t pay and quitting is not an option.
Study Shows Government Contract Fraud Is Hitting Disabled Veterans
 Jim Wyss
A government investigation found that fraud and abuse are diverting millions of dollars in contracts intended to go to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
Return to Alcatraz: 40 Years of Resistance
 Brenda Norrell
With the sounds of the Miwok singers and the calling out of the names of the original occupiers of Alcatraz, American Indians ushered in a new era of resistance, remembering how the act of holding the rock became the bedrock of a new generation.
 Honduras: Elections as Coup Laundering
 The Real News Network
Report from Tegucigalpa: Coup regime rides police state repression into elections hoping for clean slate.
Amy Goodman Felt ‘Violated’ by Canadian Border Officials
 David Edwards
A U.S. journalist was grilled by Canadian border officials for 90 minutes Wednesday. Officials demanded to know if Democracy Now's Amy Goodman was going to speak against hosting the Olympic games in Canada.
Hacked Climate Change Email Furor
 The Real News Network
Hacked climate change emails - a tempest in a teapot or a real storm? Paul Jay talks to Michael Brklacic.
The Stress of War: US Military Divorces Increasing
 Pauline Jelinek
The divorce rate in the armed forces continues to edge higher, despite efforts by the military to help struggling couples.
Region Finds U.S. Lacking on Honduras
 Ginger Thompson
Drug cartels are running amok in Mexico, Raúl Castro is tightening his grip on Cuba and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is making mischief with Russia and Iran, but it is a relatively obscure backwater, Honduras, that has provided the Obama administration with its first test in Latin America.
Cuba: Conference Advances Fight to Free Cuban Five
 Martín Koppel & Jacob Perasso
The U.S. government’s request to a federal judge that Antonio Guerrero’s prison sentence be reduced to 20 years, said Ricardo Alarcón, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, registered the accomplishments of the international campaign to win the release of Guerrero and four other Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States for their actions to defend the Cuban Revolution.
Luladinejad
 The Real News Network
Pepe Escobar: How the West could learn from Lula's way of playing politics.
Mexico: Manufacturing Poverty for Women
 Emilio Godoy
A group of workers in Honduras managed to prevent the closure of an assembly plant manufacturing sportswear for the U.S.-based sports apparel maker Russell Athletic, thereby saving 1,200 jobs. But workers at the Vaqueros Navarra firm in the southern Mexican state of Puebla, which produces garments for several U.S. labels, were not so lucky.
Mexican President: Gangs Were 'Taking Over' Mexico
 Mark Stevenson
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview that crime gangs and drug cartels were "taking over Mexico" before he launched his offensive against them, and said the crackdown had achieved uneven results.
Activists Target "World of Coca-Cola"
 Matthew Cardinale
Activists from the U.S. and Colombia are targeting the World of Coca-Cola museum, located near its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing the company of "union busting", paying its workers "poverty wages", and engaging in environmentally destructive practices.
The 'Real' US Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed
 Jeff Cox
As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed.
Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport this Thanksgiving
 Liliana Segura
Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces. Here's a question to ponder the next time you're taking off your shoes at airport security: Can you spot terrorists by the look on their faces?
Do They Support Sarah? You Betcha! Why? Duh!
 New Left Media
Oh, they love Sister Sarah and they don't care much for Barack Obama but when pressed for specifics they resemble the woman of their affections, they just can't say why.
Prison Factories: Slave Labor for the New World Order?
 Charles Overbeck
The Justice Department reported in August that there are nearly 1.6 million men and women incarcerated in the United States - currently the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. This startling figure tops off a decade of rapid expansion of America's prison population, fueled by a "war on drugs" that is steadily undermining the rights so succinctly expressed in the Bill of Rights more than 200 years ago.
'US Graft Adds to Mexico's Woes'
 BBC News
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's John Simpson, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has warned that corruption among American officials may be making it harder to deal with drug-trafficking between Mexico and the US.
Will the U.S. Media Meddle in Mexico's Presidential Race?
 Patrick Corcoran
Influential publications like The Atlantic, Forbes, The New Yorker, and Mother Jones (among many others) have all run lengthy articles on the Mexican drug wars in the past year, and while none have accused a public official quite as openly as did a Times piece from 1997, the articles have advocated some wild theories with very little basis in fact.
Should We Defend Undocumented Workers?
 David Bacon
We can have an immigration system that respects human rights. We can stop deportations. We can win security for working families on both sides of our borders.
Ron Paul: End the War in Afghanistan
 The Real News Network
Paul: Are we staying in Afghanistan to save face?
Central American Disorder — a Threat to Mexico's Security
 Sylvia Longmire
Security in Mexico is perceived as mostly an internal problem. But Mexico is not an isolated country, and the ongoing turmoil in neighboring countries is having both a direct and indirect impact on Mexico’s security situation.
Mexico's Rural Mennonites Feel Impact of Drug Violence
 Kate Joynes-Burgess
Mexico's rampant drug-related violence is making headlines, with thousands of deaths linked to the turf wars this year. But while the focus is on urban centres like Ciudad Juarez, rural communities have also felt the effects first hand.
Forced Labour and Rape, the New Face of Slavery in America
 Paul Harris
In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.
US Builds Up Its Bases in Oil-Rich South America
 Independent UK
The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia.
Mexico and US Align Against Common Foe: Brutal Narcotics Trade
 William Booth & Steve Fainaru
After decades of mistrust and sometimes betrayal, Mexican and U.S. authorities are increasingly setting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy.
New Perils in Mexico for U.S.-Bound Migrants
 Jason Beaubien
Despite the downturn in the U.S. economy and tough new security measures along the southern border, migrants continue to try to get to the United States. And each year, tens of thousands of them are robbed, kidnapped and even killed attempting to cross Mexico.
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