The historic struggle for national liberation, economic sovereignty, and the 鈥渞efoundation鈥 of Bolivia on the basis of justice for the impoverished indigenous majority achieved an important milestone on January 25, with the approval of the new Political Constitution of the State (CPE) by 61.43%.
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聯We are the bat people, the people who lived under bridges in Manila聰, explained urban poor organiser Ka Lisa as she took a small group of international observers around a section of an urban poor relocation settlement in Bulacan, about 60 kilometres north of Manila.
Sri Lankan Air Force bombers destroyed the Ponnampalam Memorial Hospital in the town of Puthukkudiyiruppu in northern Sri Lanka on February 6. According to Tamilnet.com, 61 patients were killed in the attack.
Luis Bilbao is an Argentine socialist currently based in Venezuela. He is the editor of the Latin America-wide magazine America XXI and is a central participant in the construction of the mass-based United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the party initiated by President Hugo Chavez to help unite Venezuela鈥檚 revolutionary forces to push for the construction of a 鈥渟ocialism of the 21st century鈥.
As Ecuadorians prepare for their first general elections under the progressive new constitution adopted in a referendum last year, tensions with the United States continue to rise with the government expelling a key US diplomat.
On February 4, Auckland鈥檚 Tamil community held a demonstration against the Sri Lankan Army鈥檚 (SLA) massive onslaught the Tamil people in the north of Sri Lanka. The day is Sri Lanka鈥檚 independence day.
Five years ago, on February 29, 2004, Haiti鈥檚 popular, elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by a right-wing paramilitary rebellion that received essential material and political backing from the United States, France, Canada and neighbouring Dominican Republic.
Revolutionary Road
Directed by Sam Mendes
Written by Justin Haythe and Richard Yates
With Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
In cinemas
Directed by Sam Mendes
Written by Justin Haythe and Richard Yates
With Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
In cinemas
The following is an open letter to Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin regarding the Northern Territory intervention. The letter was signed by the Prescribed Area People鈥檚 Alliance delegation to Canberra and presented to Macklin and others on February 4, 2009.
On February 15, Venezuelans vote in a referendum on a proposed constitutional amendment that will allow for any candidate to stand for any elective office, without restriction on the number of terms they may serve.
Dr Julian Isaias Rodriguez, a former vice president and participant in the drafting of the 1999 Venezuelan constitution, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly that the proposed constitutional amendment to be voted on by the Venezuelan people on February 15 will 聯allow people to be real protagonists and fundamental actors in making their own history聰.
The death of Gemma Thoms at the Perth Big Day Out music festival on February 1 was tragic and preventable.
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