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By Orlando Oramas Leon
Special for Granma International Havana. October 20, 2003 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/octubre03/lun20/42boli3-i.html
THEY are not an image of terrorism, those weather-beaten faces of Bolivian miners and campesinos creased with premature yet ancient wrinkles who flooded the steep streets of La Paz in their rivers of rebellion.
On the contrary, they are the features and fortunes shared with indigenous Ecuadorans, the Chiapas native Indian population and those (…)

Econoticiasbolivia (Translated by: Latinsol) (18/10/2003 05:54) http://bolivia.indymedia.org/es/2003/10/3773.shtml
After bringing down with stones and wooden sticks the government of millionaire Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, the rebellion of the poor and excluded has demanded from the new President Mesa to not export the gas, to industrialize it in the country and recover it from transnational hands. Huge task for a man without a party nor social support, sustained only by the U.S embassy and (…)

By Isabel Hilton The Guardian (UK) - October 21, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1067411,00.html
Bolivia’s president of 15 months, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, was protesting to the last when he finally resigned on Friday after months of street protests. His resignation, he remarked sourly, was a blow for democracy in Bolivia and Latin America.
The president’s democratic credentials were not impeccable: he was elected, certainly, but with only 22% of the vote. By last (…)

Foreign Policy Experts Target U.S. ’Empire-Building’
By Jim Lobe
October 17, 2003 by OneWorld.net
http://www.oneworld.net/external/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstory.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Foneworld%2F20031017%2Fwl_oneworld%2F4536706431066394238
WASHINGTON — Representatives of a new coalition of prominent foreign-policy scholars and analysts whose political views range from right to center-left announced here Thursday they hope to spearhead opposition to the imperial (…)

By Michael McCarthy
October 17, 2003, The lndependent/UK
British Scientists delivered a massive blow to the case for genetically modified crops yesterday when they showed in a trail-blazing study that growing them could harm the environment.
Their findings, which will spark controversy around the world, are likely to present a serious obstacle to Tony Blair in his desire to bring GM technology to Britain, and will be viewed with concern and anger in the United States, home of GM (…)

Collin Powel was forced NOT to visit Athens on 22 of October and this is great victory for our antiwar movement!
On Sunday the biggest newspapers announced all the details of the visit and that State Department send to Greek Foreign Ministry an advanced team to check security of the meeting place. The same day finally the greek government announced that he can visit due to "heavy programm".
When we learned about this visit we moved very quickly.Stop the War Coalition called a demo on 22 (…)

Poll: Public Supports Health Care for All
by Will Lester
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1019-10.htm
Published on Sunday, October 19, 2003 by the Associated Press WASHINGTON — The public’s growing unease with the current health care system has built support for a new approach that would mean care for all Americans and changes in laws governing prescription drugs, a poll suggests.
A sizable majority, 70 percent, said it should be legal for Americans to buy prescription (…)

Slaughterhouse of Civilization
by Richard North Patterson
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1020-05.htm
Published on Monday, October 20, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times
We Americans tend to think of gun violence in terms of some traumatic event: Columbine or Martin Luther King Jr. or Robert Kennedy, rather than as a daily fact of American life. All of us know that every assassination of an American president was committed with a gun. All of us who were alive remember the terrible (…)

David Morris, AlterNet October 19, 2003 Viewed on October 20, 2003
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16994
Last week John Paul II celebrated the 25th anniversary of his pontificate to thunderous applause by many conservatives. The Weekly Standard’s David Brooks argues in his new column in the New York Times that the Pope deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. The San Diego Union Tribune gushes that "John Paul II is one of the towering figures of the last century...no one questions the (…)

The project to hold the European Social Forum in London is gaining broad support in the movement in England. The project has the backing of the London Mayor.
The vote to support the project at the executive of the South East Region of the Trade Union Congress means that the whole spectrum of the trade union movement in the South of England supports the bid.
This backing was underlined two days ago when the London Executive of the RMT railworkers’ union confirmed its support. (…)