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Long live Brazil my friend! The New York Times today (password) runs a nice piece on Brazil and their increasing promotion of opensource software, that many in the open source community have been following closely. (mirror: Int’l Herald Tribune)
They credit “President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [with turning] Brazil into a tropical outpost […]

In an article entitled: Coke: The New Nike the Nation magazine reports that students in the U.S. (and other countries) are backing a Colombian workers’ union pleas to boycott Coke for human rights abuses. Apparently six colleges and universities are on-board, cancelling contracts and banning vending machines from the company. […]

Driving home from work on Friday night I was listening to KPFK 6:00 news, which in part plays Free Speech Radio News. That evening, FSRN ran a special report presented by Azania Al-Shabazz, a 6th grader at Crossroads Middle School in Harlem, New York. I was so in awe of the entire spot […]

I love reading and wish more of it upon myself and others. Partially in the selfish hopes that participating will grant me several years of literary bliss, (ha!) I’ve chosen to replicate this book-survey meme Saheli passed on to me.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The Kin […]

Thank you to the people of Italy…
…for crying out against the bogus war on Iraq. Finally, we hear a commitment to bring your soldiers home, even though it may be too little, too late. My condolences for all of the deaths you’ve suffered because of being put in harm’s way for a […]

I instant messaged with a friend in Italy after the shooting of Nicola Calipari, the Italian secret service officer who died by taking bullets? shrapnel? a single round to the temple while heroically throwing his body over Giuliana Sgrena’s. She is the Italian journalist who had just been released from being a hostage […]

(Fast Foward to ENGLISH at the End)
Mujeres valientes: ¿enemigos del estado?
Hablamos de Dora María Téllez, Giuliana Sgrena, y Digna Ochoa.
Hay trés mujeres en las noticias de los últimos trés días que han sido víctimas de los abusos de poder. Sus historias no son directamente relacionadas, pero las tomo como otros ejemplos del maltrato a […]