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Sunday June 28 ? This morning the president of Honduras was surrounded by military units and forcibly deposed. He is now in Costa Rica. The people are in the streets and the government has been taken over. In the middle of Sec. General Jose Insulza's statement, word arrived that the ambassadors of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have been kidnapped along with the Foreign Minister of Honduras.
At an emergency session of the OAS taking place at this moment, the Honduran representative Carlos (...) - Analysis and Articles / Americas, Honduras, News and analysis

The movement to call Israel to account for its crimes against the Palestinian people is growing. It is ?invading the mainstream discourse, becoming part of the constant and unrelenting drumbeat against Israel.? It could eventually threaten the existence of the Jewish state by undermining the support it receives from its strongest backer, the U. S. government. That was the message of alarm delivered by the Executive Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Howard (...) - Analysis and Articles / Israel, News and analysis , Boycott

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Our Rooftop Garden Project is selling "Ready-to-Grow" kits. Imagine...fresh lettuce growing on your roof, balcony or stairwell without having to water it every day. - Bulletin Alternatives - 24 juin 2009

Human Development and Global Environment Crisis
Conference by Vinod RAINA, Member of International Council, World Social Forum.
Date: June 29 at 7pm
Location: Alternatives, 3720 Avenue du Parc, 2nd Floor - Bulletin Alternatives - 24 juin 2009

The struggle within the power elite in Iran has spilled over into the streets and now threatens the theocracy.
The statement by Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, soon after the presidential elections, that the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a ?divine assessment? summed up the whole campaign and the outcome well. President Ahmadinejad, according to official results, won the elections by capturing 66% of the votes in the first round of the (...) - Analysis and Articles / Iran

"Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation?Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion."
Financial Times Editorial, June 15 2009
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There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried (...) - Analysis and Articles / Middle-East, News and analysis , Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu threw a rhetorical bone to President Obama in his much anticipated speech on June 14, when he used the term "Palestinian state." But he conceded nothing of substance, reiterating Israel's continuing rejection of real Palestinian statehood, independence, sovereignty, and self-determination. He demanded that the Palestinians recognize and accept Israel as the "national homeland of the Jewish People," not a state of all its citizens, thus requiring (...) - Analysis and Articles

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Labour brokers are quickly becoming common practice in the south african workforce. This system opens the door wide open for exploiting workers, sexual harassment, and intimidation. In - Intern chronicles / Africa, Labour, South Africa, Social Justice Movements

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Wentworth community in the suburbs of Durban is the neighbour of a oil refinery own by a multinational corporation. The residents ask that the state intervene - Intern chronicles / Africa, Abri - Logement, Environment, South Africa, Social Justice Movements

Bangladesh has a long history with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), having received cumulative public sector loans to the tune of 11,4 billion since 1973. Almost half of this money has gone towards the energy and transport sectors, with less than 10 percent devoted to water supply and sanitation, public policy, health and social sectors combined. In 2007 alone, the ADB approved over 1,1 $ billion in loans, of which half is earmarked for energy infrastructure projects.
These (...) - Intern chronicles / Asia, Development, Bangladesh, News and analysis

Barack Obama's speech in Cairo on the 4th of June 2009 definitely lived up to expectations ? provided we agree on what could have been expected. With regard to the form, Obama fully lived up to his role as the new black and human face of America in its relation with the rest of the world in general, and with the Muslim world in particular. He respected the specifications of his mission, seeking to repair the huge damage caused to America's image and "soft power" by the previous (...) - Analysis and Articles / News and analysis

Learning is a two-way street ? or so the members of Nomadic Massive experienced during a short jaunt to Brazil last November, a follow-up to a similar visit here by Brazilian hip hop artists earlier in 2008. The multi-ethnic, socially-engaged hip hop collective, based in Montreal, hit the road with more than just a few performances on the agenda ? a heavy dose of musical and cultural exchange were also in the mix. They paid a visit to the Brazilian chapter of the international (...) - Intern chronicles

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Credit rating agencies (CRAs) must be independent in order to be effective, says a new report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The report, by Doug Peters and Arthur Donner, is critical of the role CRAs played in the current financial crisis. They suggest that if a new Canada Securities Commission is instituted it should provide for an independent credit ratings system.
?The problem with our current bond and money market rating system is that the (...) - Analysis and Articles / Social Justice Movements, News and analysis , National

Pressure applied by the Canadian labour movement and civil society organizations has forced the Harper government to remove Colombia free trade legislation from the legislative agenda - at least for now.
Pressure applied by the Canadian labour movement and civil society organizations has forced the Harper government to remove Colombia free trade legislation from the legislative agenda - at least for now.
"We haven't won the final battle against this deal yet but the government has blinked," (...) - Analysis and Articles / Americas, Peace, Democracy and Citizenship, Other articles

Every day 300 million litres of water laced with sulphuric acid and heavy metals, known as acid mine drainage (AMD), bubbles to the surface around South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg.
New legislation, along with improved treatment plants to be built, aims to partly address the decades-old problem by incorporating new thinking on both AMD and mining, but environmental activists say the government needs to implement better land management and stricter regulation if water and food (...) - Analysis and Articles / Africa, South Africa, Social Ecology, News and analysis

A night of solidarity for the ongoing struggle of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, featuring groundbreaking native artists SAMIAN, CerAmony and Cheri Maracle.
When : Thursday, June 11, 2009 @ 8 pm Where : Petit Campus, 57 Prince-Arthur East, Montreal, QC
The concert takes place on June 11th, the first anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology for the residential schools system ? an apology that many survivors in Barriere Lake believe will take on real meaning only (...) - Calendar

Like most of the world, Quebec discovered the Alter-Globalist movement with 1999's Battle in Seattle. After a lull of a few years, a new kind of activism took hold of the world.
Over here, if the scale of events such as Quebec's Du Pain et Des Roses march of women against poverty in 1995, the 1997 Plan G occupation of a government building, and 1998's Opération SalAMI protesting the Multilateral Agreement on Investment opened the door, it was the massive protests of April (...) - Analysis and Articles / Canada, Forum social , Social Justice Movements, Our analysis

In 2004, we made a documentary called "The Take" (thetake.org) about Argentina's worker-run businesses. In the wake of the country's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, thousands of workers walked into their shuttered factories and put them back into production, forming worker cooperatives. Abandoned by bosses and politicians, they regained unpaid wages and severance pay, while reclaiming their jobs in the process.
As we toured Europe and North America with the film, one (...) - Analysis and Articles / Le monde entier, Social Justice Movements, News and analysis

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras, Jun 3 (IPS) - After heated debate, the 39th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) decided Wednesday to lift its 47-year suspension of Cuba, without conditions.
At its meeting in Honduras, the OAS sought to "fix an historic error" committed when socialist Cuba was expelled in 1962 from the main forum for political cooperation in the hemisphere as a result of pressure from the United States.
The OAS resolution adopted Wednesday by consensus (...) - Analysis and Articles / Americas

The opening night is friday June 5 and the workshop over the week-end. Alternatives organizes three workshop for the Montreal Citizen Summit.
Alternatives is proud to support the 5th Montreal Citizen Summit and invites you to participate. Events will be taking place from June 5-7 at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). J.-A DeSève Building, 320, Sainte-Catherine Street East.
Alternatives is organizing three workshops (in French) on June 6 and 7 :
On problems facing ethno-cultural (...) - Analysis and Articles / Canada, Peace, Democracy and Citizenship, National

Alternatives is proud to support the 5th Montreal Citizen Summit and invites you to participate. Events will be taking place from June 5-7 at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). J.-A DeSève Building, 320, Sainte-Catherine Street East.
Alternatives is organizing three workshops (in French) on June 6 and 7 :
On problems facing ethno-cultural elders (Saturday June 6th at 3:50pm, rooml DS M 440)
On urban gardening (Saturday June 6th at 3 :50pm)
Solidarity with Palestine: Testimonies (...) - Calendar

President Barack Obama's much-anticipated Cairo speech reflected a significant shift away from the ideological framework of militarism and unilateralism that shaped the Bush administration's war-based policy towards the Arab and Muslim worlds. His "not Bush" focus was perhaps most sharply evident in his public denunciation of the Iraq War as a "war of choice." Obama's call for a "new beginning" based on "the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition" was (...) - Analysis and Articles / Le monde entier, News and analysis

In response to a series of reports by human rights organizations and international legal scholars documenting serious large-scale violations of international humanitarian law by Israeli armed forces in its recent war on the Gaza Strip, 10 U.S. state attorneys general sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defending the Israeli action. It is virtually unprecedented for state attorneys general ? whose mandates focus on enforcement of state law ? to weigh in on (...) - Analysis and Articles / Middle-East, Peace, Democracy and Citizenship

Alternatives is proud to support the 5th Montreal Citizen Summit and invites you to participate. Events will be taking place from June 5-7 at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). J.-A DeSève Building, 320, Sainte-Catherine Street East.
Alternatives is organizing three workshops (in French) on June 6th and 7th :
On problems facing ethno-cultural elders (Saturday June 6th at 3:50pm)
On urban gardening (Saturday June 6th at 3 :50pm)
Solidarity with Palestine: Testimonies from a (...) - Bulletin Alternatives - 28 Mai 2009

Invited by Alternatives International, the World Social Forum (WSF) International Council will hold its next meeting in Montreal. The leaders of the Alter-Globalist Movement will discuss ways to reinforce the links between social movements around the world. The meeting will be held in October, just before the second Quebec Social Forum, which is organized by Alternatives with the support of unions and other community (...) - Bulletin Alternatives - 28 Mai 2009

Alternatives wishes to thank all the volunteers and participants who helped to make The 1k Intern Week a success. These events highlighted the importance of international internships. 1,000 interns in 15 years, now that's an accomplishment! Long live the internship program! - Bulletin Alternatives - 28 Mai 2009