Archive for the 'Latin America' Category



Thousands marched in San Francisco on Thursday to mark May Day. Demonstrators chanted in support of amnesty for all immigrants, demanding US troops withdrawal from Iraq and an end to the Zionist occupation of Palestine…

You can view the whole set here… Check out also some of the photos taken by Isabel…

Uruguayan author, teacher, and political activist Hibert Conteris wrote the following solidarity message to the Mahalla workers and detainees…
We, the Latin American workers, students and intellectuals, express our solidarity to all of you who resist oppression and fight against injustice. Your world is our world, your fight is our fight…
Hiber Conteris
Hibert was detained amid Latin [...]

Amado, the future liberator of Puerto Rico…

My friend Genevieve blogs about her son Amado, family, and world politics…

By Mark Steel…

An art installation by Salvadoran-born artist, Victor Cartagena, at Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco…

Info on the (Israel, US-backed) Dirty War in El Salvador is available here…

A 2004 art installation, by Mariana Viturro and Angelique-Marie Gonzales, commemorating the at least 3000 people who have died or been killed trying to cross the US-Mexico border since operation Gatekeeper began in 1994. Each heart represents one of them. [St. Peter's Housing Committee, San Francisco.]

Portraits of working class Latino immigrant families who recently fought against house evictions in San Francisco, with the help of activists from St. Peter’s Housing Committee…

Carlos Lola…

Arturo Aguilar…

Rigoberto Gutierrez…

Thalia Herrera and her two kids, Naim and Daria…

Naim…

Leticia Landaverde…

Katherine…

Katherine, Daria and Naim…

Katherine, Leticia, Naim, Thalia and Daira…

From Socialist Worker…
“You were a good son, a good father, a good brother and a good husband. I only hope that you give strength to your brothers and sisters to keep fighting.”
Those were the emotive words of a grieving mother speaking at the funeral of Al Iromi Smith, a construction worker recently killed by [...]



Via BWL…

You can read more about Morales here…

Inspired by the Ghazl el-Mahalla strikers, Brazillian cartoonist and friend Carlos Latuff has sent me the following cartoon…

Bloggers heading up north please print out the cartoon and distribute it among the strikers… Tell them their struggle is inspiring people in other continents as far as Latin America…
Thanks Latuff!


Via Red Flags…




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