By Greg Berger, October 22, 2006

Only six short months ago, the town of Texcoco, in Mexico State, was made infamous throughout Mexico and the world as the place where one of the worst police massacres in recent Mexican history began. Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left’s most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular …

World Indigenous Empowerment Summit
La Paz, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) The multinational state, the Constituent Assembly, resistance and democracy are on Monday s agenda for delegates at the Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala.

Over a thousand representatives from Bolivia, the US, Canada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Uruguay are presenting their experiences with unity in native peoples.

They will discuss international rights, identity and coexistence as well as culture, education, language and historical social debts in work commissions.

The event ending October 12 will spurn Washington´s new colonization strategy through the Free …

Michael Albert was a founding member of South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet; has been active in movements since the late 1960s; has authored numerous books and articles, speaks publicly often, is a member of OLS; and is currently highly active as the system operator of ZNet and co-host of the Learning On Line University with Alfredo Lopez of People-Link.

Sonia Shah of South End Press Interviews Michael Albert

SOUTH END PRESS: What achievements of the Left have given you the most hope for the future?

ALBERT: Ending feudalism, ending slavery, enacting labor laws, winning universal suffrage, ending …

New Left Review 9, May–June 2001
What is ‘the anti-globalization movement’? [1] I put the phrase in quote-marks because I immediately have two doubts about it. Is it really a movement? If it is a movement, is it anti-globalization? Let me start with the first issue. We can easily convince ourselves it is a movement by talking it into existence at a forum like this—I spend far too much time at them—acting as if we can see it, hold it in our hands. Of course, we have seen it—and we know it’s come back in Quebec, and on the US–Mexican border …

The following is by some friends - An excellent site worth exploring in depth on strategies for people power is peoplepowerstrategy.org

Many stimulating articles, including David Solnit’s “A People Power Strategy to End the War,” George Lakey’s classic “Strategy for a Living Revolution” and some others.

This ensemble of concrete strategy and revolutionary vision is feeding into discussion in the new SDS/Movement for a Democratic Society and will bear fruit there.

Part of what is missing in discussion of transforming Israel/Palestine is this vision of how to build a movement for truly radical change among Israelis, and radical democratic synergy between …

QUITO, March 24 (PL).—Given the rejection by Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio of the demands made by the popular sector, the indigenous movement is today to assume power itself and convene a popular consultation on the Free Trade Agreement.

Santiago de la Cruz, vice president of the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), emphasized last night that “the people need to be consulted,” to which end his organization will carry out its own consultation process.

He stated that that decision had been taken on account of the dictatorial attitude of the president, who has not allowed the channels for dialogue that would …

Article By Democracy Center, COA - The Cochabamba water revolt - which began exactly six years ago this month - will end this morning when Bechtel, one of the world’s most powerful corporations, formally abandons its legal effort to take $50 million from the Bolivian people. Bechtel made that demand before a secretive trade court operated by the World Bank, the same institution that coerced Bolivia to privatize the water to begin with.

Faced with protests, barrages of e-mails, visits to their homes, and years of damaging press, Bechtel executives finally decided to surrender, walking away with a token payment equal …

The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell was considering pulling out of the volatile Niger Delta region yesterday after heavily armed militants stormed one of its facilities and killed at least 17 people.

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta statement:

“It must be clear that the Nigerian government cannot protect your workers or assets. Leave our land while you can or die in it. Our aim is to totally destroy the capacity of the Nigerian government to export oil.”

Shell may pull out of Niger Delta after 17 die in boat raid
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article339109.ece

By Daniel Howden
Published: 17 January 2006
The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell …

Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement, or in Portuguese Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized in 23 out 27 states. The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution. In Brazil, less than 3% of the population owns two-thirds of the land on which crops could be grown.

Since 1985, the MST has peacefully occupied unused land where they have established cooperative farms, constructed houses, schools for children and adults and clinics, promoted indigenous cultures and a healthy and sustainable …

Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and medium sized producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. It is integrated by national and regional organizations whose autonomy is jealously respected. Via Campesina is organized in seven regions as follows: Europe, Northeast and Southeast Asia, South Asia, North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Via campesina has one member and is collaborating with other organisations in Africa.

What are its priorities?
The principal objective of Via …