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By BILL FLETCHER, Jr., AlterNet
In 2002, seemingly out of nowhere, then US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the USA henceforth considered the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and their armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), to be terrorist organizations. Additionally, they labeled a long-time Philippine revolutionary leader and theorist -- Jose Maria Sison -- to be a supporter of terrorism.
Sison had been living in exile in the Netherlands.
This labeling, denounced immediately by civil liberties advocates in the USA, the Philippines and other parts of the world, has resulted in myriad of legal ramblings and complications for all those associated with the NDFP (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) and CPP.
TEHRAN (FNA) - Iran and Russia have replaced US Dollar with their own currencies in their trade ties, a senior Iranian diplomat announced on Saturday.
Speaking to FNA, Tehran's Ambassador to Moscow Seyed Reza Sajjadi said that the proposal for replacing US Dollar with Ruble and Rial was raised by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Astana on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting.
http://psac.com/news/2011/releases/20110915-e.shtml
PSAC, September 15, 2011
 Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada march through downtown Iqaluit June 18, 2011 to protest planned cuts by the Harper government to federal public services. (Nunatsiaq Online) |
(Ottawa) -- More than five years since the coming into force of the Public Service Modernization Act, the legislation has failed to provide for a fairer and more accountable staffing process in the federal government, and fails to balance the political rights of workers with the need for an impartial public service, said the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) in a report released today.
Merit-based hiring has been severely weakened by the Act and accountability for unfair or biased staffing processes has deteriorated. Also, the Act has opened the door to stringent and unnecessary restrictions on the political rights of public service workers by the Public Service Commission.
By Jun Tae-il Labor Movement Institute
“Play, play, Gangjeong -- Peace Concert” on 3 September with 'Airplane of Peace' and 'Buses of Peace'
On 3 September, an ‘Airplane of Peace’ carrying 300 people from the mainland and 22 ‘Buses of Peace’ from other villages of Jeju Island gathered in the Gangjeong Stream Stadium for “Play, play, Gangjeong -- Peace Concert” and kept the peace in Gangjeong Village through non-violent, peaceful actions. Around 2,000 people urged cessation of construction of the base by holding cultural events.
All participants from all over the country from all parts of the society flew to Gangjeong Village in Seogwipo city by plane and bus cried out in chorus for peace.
