Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 02:18.
Hundreds of thousands of Honduran workers, campesinos, teachers, students and others marched in six cities around the country on May 1 to mark International Workers' Day. Unions that normally divide along political lines marched together under the slogan "united against savage capitalism." Marchers demanded that the Honduran government combat poverty and crime and reduce the 30% unemployment rate. They carried signs denouncing the US-backed Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and burned US president George W. Bush and Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in effigy. The marches also commemorated the 53rd anniversary of a 1954 strike against the US-based Chiquita Brands and Standard Fruit. (Diario La Prensa, Tegucigalpa, May 1)
Relatively small May Day marches in Nicaragua were divided along party lines. Former presidential candidate for the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS) Edmundo Jarquin led a march starting from Managua's Colonia Tenderi with least 1,000 workers, including laid-off teachers and other public employees demanding jobs, raises and better working conditions from the government. Meanwhile more than 1,500 members of the National Workers Front (FNT) marched to the Monument of the Unknown Soldier, where they heard a speech from President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Labor leader Roger Guevara said FNT members were warned to march or risk being laid off. (El Nuevo Diario, Managua, May 1)
In El Salvador, various social organizations organized marches on May 1 in solidarity with pro-immigrant marches being held in the US that day. (Diario Colatino, San Salvador, May 1)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Central America May Day marches
Hundreds of thousands of Honduran workers, campesinos, teachers, students and others marched in six cities around the country on May 1 to mark International Workers' Day. Unions that normally divide along political lines marched together under the slogan "united against savage capitalism." Marchers demanded that the Honduran government combat poverty and crime and reduce the 30% unemployment rate. They carried signs denouncing the US-backed Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and burned US president George W. Bush and Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in effigy. The marches also commemorated the 53rd anniversary of a 1954 strike against the US-based Chiquita Brands and Standard Fruit. (Diario La Prensa, Tegucigalpa, May 1)
Relatively small May Day marches in Nicaragua were divided along party lines. Former presidential candidate for the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS) Edmundo Jarquin led a march starting from Managua's Colonia Tenderi with least 1,000 workers, including laid-off teachers and other public employees demanding jobs, raises and better working conditions from the government. Meanwhile more than 1,500 members of the National Workers Front (FNT) marched to the Monument of the Unknown Soldier, where they heard a speech from President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Labor leader Roger Guevara said FNT members were warned to march or risk being laid off. (El Nuevo Diario, Managua, May 1)
In El Salvador, various social organizations organized marches on May 1 in solidarity with pro-immigrant marches being held in the US that day. (Diario Colatino, San Salvador, May 1)
From Weekly News Update on the Americas, May 13
See our last posts on Nicaragua and Honduras.