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Even though I admire and respect non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International, I’m continuously compelled to point out that they have a number of responsibilities which extend far beyond their mandate, whatever it may be.

Among others, this includes a social responsibility to act in the best interests of those effected by their actions; as well as to be fair and balanced/ to not take sides if there mandate is, for example, something as encompassing as protecting human rights.

Such organizations do not or should not have the luxury to pick and choose what they want to do, as they see …

Haiti Justice - Investigators, human rights groups, journalists, members of Congress and national leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean have made serious allegations that the U.S. Government played a key role in the February 2004 overthrow of constitutional President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by supporting his armed and unarmed opponents, weakening the government through a development assistance embargo and eventually forcing him onto a plane. If these charges are true, the Bush Administration’s actions directly contradicted the fundamental U.S. commitment to democracy, both here and abroad. If the Bush Administration did not intervene to destabilize President Aristide, it deserves to have …

The audio on this page was part of a special 12-hour New Year’s Day broadcast on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal. The shows combined are a look back at the resistance of local and global social justice movements in 2006, and a look ahead to the struggles to come in 2007.

In the audio player to the right you can listen to 16 of the 28 shows. If you want to listen to the rest, please head over to this page on the CKUT blog

Thanks to Jaggi for sending this out.

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The Haitian Arawak Movement is anything but new. On the contrary, it is quite old; more than 500 years old. It started on December 5, 1492, when one of the world’s most wicked and evil man, Christopher Columbus, and his savage companions (the Spaniards) set foot on our shores, the beautiful island of Quisqueya/Haiti. Our ancestors quickly understood that those savages, to whom they had offered hospitality, given gold and diamonds, were here to steal their land and enslave them. Consequently, the fearless cacique Caonabo and his warriors yelled: Aya Bombay! (we’d rather die than live as slaves!).

Our ancestors decided …