This Friday American historian and activist Howard Zinn and Italian surgeon and author Gino Strada will be featured in a symposium on the theme JUST WAR..
Strada’s presentation will illustrate EMERGENCY’s work world wide, including a proposed regional cardiac center to be constructed in Sudan. Zinn will discuss his most recent book, Just War, for which Strada wrote the introduction; copies will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Audience Q & A will follow the colloquy.
From the Calendar: ”Just War”
LA PUENTE, CA, 7 May 2006--Forty people lined the entrance road to WalMart in La Puente today, part of a trio of protests in California to end government oppression in the indigenous town of San Salvador Atenco. They were standing up against a government land grab and police brutalization in Atenco, in the state and country of Mexico nearly 1400 miles away. In all, they had broken through the mainstream media disinformation about "crazed" and "hysterical" farmers in the small flower-farming community of San Salvador Atenco, and connected the farmers' plight to globalization, land rights, and Indigenous oppression.
... Full report:
Atenco No Está Solo
by Leslie Radford