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Need Writers

mmm — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:58:06 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I need someone to write a piece for a magazine of 1000-1500 words in length about the origins of Samba and its place in Brazilian culture today.

This will be published online and in print in a new magazine about global dance culture. At present time there is no budget, however we can link to your site and plug your other creative works.

If interested, please send me a private message. *and feel free to pass this message on*

Thank you!

**sorry for posting in English.... the writing we need is in English too*

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JOKE/PIADA

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:28:20 GMT

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He
concludes by
saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously
watching as the
President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a
brazillion?

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hilário

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:14:26 GMT

Teste de aprovação para concorrer a uma vaga de Deputado ou Senador da
República, elaborado pelo digníssimo Presidente da Câmara, Severino
Cavalcante:
1) Um grande presidente brasileiro foi Castelo ________
( ) Roxo
( ) Preto
( ) Branco
( ) Rosa choque
( ) Amarelo
2) Um líder chinês muito conhecido chamava-se Mao-Tse ______
( ) Tang
( ) Teng
( ) Ting
( ) Tong
( ) Tung
3) A principal avenida de Belo Horizonte chama-se Afonso _______
( ) Pelo
( ) Pentelho
( ) Penugem
( ) Pena
( ) Cabelo
4) O maior rio do Brasil chama-se Ama _________
( ) boates
( ) zonas
( ) cabarés
( ) dor
( ) ciado
5) Quem descobriu a rota marítima para as Índias foi __________
( ) Volta Redonda
( ) Fluminense
( ) Flamengo
( ) Botafogo
( ) Vasco da Gama
6) A América foi descoberta por Cristóvão Co _______
( ) maminha
( ) picanha
( ) alcatra
( ) lombo
( ) carne do sol
7) Grande Bandeirante foi Borba _______
( ) Lebre
( ) Zebra
( ) Gato
( ) Veado
( ) Vaca
8) Quem escreveu ao Rei de Portugal sobre o descobrimento do Brasil foi Pero
Vaz de ________
( ) Anda
( ) Para
( ) Corre
( ) Dispara
( ) Caminha
9) Um famoso ministro de Portugal foi o Marques de _________
( ) Galinheiro
( ) Puteiro
( ) Curral
( ) Pombal
( ) Chiqueiro
10) D. Pedro popularizou-se quando ____________
( ) eliminou a concorrência
( ) decretou sua falência
( ) saturou a paciência
( ) proclamou a independência
( ) liberou a flatulência
11) Pedro Álvares Cabral _____________
( ) inventou o fuzil
( ) engoliu o cantil
( ) descobriu o Brasil
( ) foi pra puta que pariu
( ) tropeçou mas não caiu
12) Foi no dia 13 de maio que a Princesa Isabel ____________
( ) aumentou a tanajura
( ) botou água na fervura
( ) engoliu a dentadura
( ) segurou a pica dura
( ) aboliu a escravatura
13) Um grande ator brasileiro é Francisco Cu______
( ) sujo
( ) de ferro
( ) oco
( ) largo
( ) apertado
14) O autor de Menino do Engenho foi José Lins do ______
( ) Córrego
( ) Cu
( ) Rego
( ) Furingo
( ) Forévis
15) O mártir da independência foi Tira___________
( ) gosto
( ) cabaço
( ) que esta doendo
( ) dentes
( ) e põe de novo
16) D. Pedro I. as margens do Rio Ipiranga, gritou _______________
( ) Hortênsia volte!
( ) Eu dou pro esporte!
( ) Como dói, prefiro a morte!
( ) Independência ou morte!
( ) Maria, endureceu! Que sorte!

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ninguém mente

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:35:09 GMT

Me mandaram esse e-mail e achei engraçado (e triste):

Nessa crise política, ninguém mente: todos colocam a verdade aberta-mente.

Antonio Palocci, veemente-mente; Rogério Buratti, isolada-mente; Geany Corner, sexual-mente; Marcos Valério, descarada-mente; Delúbio Soares, leal-mente, Duda Mendonça, criativa-mente; José Dirceu, mafiosa-mente; João Paulo Cunha, democratica-mente; José Mentor, impune-mente; Luizinho, professoral-mente; Edson Palmieri, ameaçada-mente; José Janene, escandalosa-mente; Severino Cavalcanti, esperta-mente; e Valdemar Costa Neto, marital-mente.

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falta de laicismo

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:16:21 GMT

Em que se mais caracteriza o atraso brasileiro? A mesma doença que corroi a liberdade dos povos de toda a América do Sul, a falta de laicismo. O único estado livre e democrático é o estado laico. Um país como nosso que sofre males terríveis como a violência, a falta de saneamento, a falta de emprego por sua super-população descontrolada precisa mais que nunca o aborto legal! O estado laico é o único que garante os direitos reprodutivos da mulher! O que nos impede a dar esse passo definitivo ao primeiro-mundo é a igreja Católica e as mil seitas que tem poderosa influência no Planalto. Nunca num país democrático um homem com título de 'bispo', 'padre' ou 'pastor' poderia chegar a ser um parlamentar.

O primeiro passo seria tirar "deus seja louvado" das notas de Real. É uma vergonha que a nossa moeda nacional represente o abismo entre o nosso sistema governamental e a verdadeira democracia. Só o dinheiro que seria poupado com o gasto de tinta poderia ser usado para instalar computadores em escolas públicas ou levar o atendimento médico às regiões carentes do país.

O que adianta a entrega cega de alimentos à populações carentes quando o alimento não é acompanhado de educação sexual e acesso a contraceptivos e a esterelização gratuita? Não adianta nada, prorroga o problema, é jogar gasolina no fogo. Mas as igrejas chamam a gasolina de água benta e continuam a 'benzer' os pobres.

E a liberdade de expressão religiosa dos povos originários? Por que as embaixadas brasileiras continuam a ceder vistos à pastores extrangeiros que vêm ao Brasil 'converter' os nossos Indígenas. Na verdade a conversão chega com abusos sexuais e torturas terríveis e as vezes até assassinatos.

Basta! Chega da mão sinistra e perversa dessas igrejas que se aliaram à ditadura, que limitam as vidas da mulheres brasileiras, que dissimulam o ódio ao homosexual e que não tem respeito nenhum pelo pobre e pelo Indígena. Enquanto o mundo desenvolvido toca para frente, legalizando o casamento gay, promovendo o respeito pelos seus povos indígenas, e elegendo e empregando mulheres à cargos cada vez mais importantes o Brasil continua na lama da superstição.

Vamos lançar um movimento novo, um novo passo adiante que fale abertamente do horrível peso que a religião tem sobre o nosso país. O Brasil poderia ser o Canadá dos trópicos invés do Irã tropical que hoje é. Assim daremos o exemplo pro resto do terceiro-mundo, tendo dado nossos primeiros passos ao futuro. Aborto legal! Casamento gay legal! Abaixo ao visto religioso! Liberdade já!

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Soy, Brasil and Monsanto

flavio — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:26:33 GMT

The soy producer that used Monsanto's GE soy will have to pay R$0.88 ~ US$0,36 per kilogram to Monsanto!

Transroyalties
O produtor que optar pela soja transgênica nesta safra vai pagar R$ 0,88 por quilo de royalties. Esse foi o valor divulgado ontem pela Monsanto.

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Artist Augusto Boal on the "Theater of the Oppressed"

flavio — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:37:57 GMT

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/03/1351233

Famed Brazilian Artist Augusto Boal on the "Theater of the Oppressed"

We are joined in our studio by one of Latin America's most famed dissident artists, Brazilian Augusto Boal. He reflects back on his life in exile and his use of theater as a tool of resistance. Brazilian artist and activist Augusto Boal sees theater as a dialogue and an opportunity to act out social change. Drawing on Paulo Friere's pedagogy of the oppressed, Boal developed Theater of the Oppressed out of his experimental work at the Arena Theater in Sao Paulo during the 1950s and 60s. Boal took the theater to factories and farms throughout Brazil and developed plays around the experiences of people silenced by poverty and oppression.

Boal's plays were increasingly censored by the government and in 1971, the military dictatorship imprisoned him for four months. When he was released he was forced into exile and spent fifteen years in Argentina, Portugal and France before returning to Rio.

Theater of the Oppressed techniques--from QUOTE "Invisible Theater" on the streets to solution-oriented "Forum Theater"--spread around the world. Boal is in New York this week running a theater workshop at the Brecht Forum and he joins us now in our firehouse studio. Welcome to Democracy Now.

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Situacao no Haiti e sobre o Sr. Yvon Neptune (ex-primeiro ministro do Haiti em greve de fome)

flavio — Wed, 11 May 2005 06:17:50 GMT

ENVIEI ESTE EMAIL PARA O GOVERNO BRASILERIO PEDINDO A ELE PARA FAZER ALGUMA COISA PELA DEMOCRACIA DO HAITI E PARAR DE COMETER CRIMES CONTRA OS DIREITOS HUMANOS LA.

Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:13:23 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Situacao no Haiti e sobre o Sr. Yvon Neptune (ex-primeiro ministro do Haiti em greve de fome)
To: presidente@planalto.gov.br
CC: cgm@minc.gov.br, anetto@minc.gov.br, turiba@minc.gov.br, daf-i@mre.gov.br, dai@mre.gov.br, dhs@mre.gov.br, imprensa@mre.gov.br

Ainda com respeito ao atual governo brasileiro,
mas atento a tudo que esta acontecendo no Haiti neste
momento. Venho atraves deste email, comunicar meu
edscontamento e tristeza pelo envolvimentodo Brasil
indiretamente em crimes contra os Direitos Humanos no
Haiti. Quando o Brasil, trabalha em conjunto a um
regime que destruiu a democracia Haitiana e que
assassinou mais de 10000 haitianos somente por
apoiarem o ex-governo Lavalas. As tropas da ONU
liderados pelo Brasil estao cometendo crimes contra os
direitos humanos quando nao proteje os haitianos de
sua atual policia.

Hoje por exemplo no DemocracyNow estou assistindo a 1
hora de entrevista com o ex-presidente deposto pelas
tropas americanas Jean-Bertrand Aristide que
atualmente reside na Africa do Sul aguardando um dia
voltar ao Haiti para voltar ao Haiti e comprir a
constituicao haitiana. Alias, ele de la nao deveria
ter saido. Esta entrevista esta em ingles (obvio) e
pode sre vista integralmente aqui:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/1319233

Eu pessoalmente acompanho a ocupacao do Haitiana
pelas forcas da ONU (UN) faz bastante tempo. Sendo
brasilerio e cada vez mais preocupado com as horrendas
violacoes de Direitos Humanos acontecendo no Haiti
hoje com suporte internacional. Milhares de pessoas
foram assassinadas e despejados ao mar como indigentes
pelo atual regime e policia Haitiana e o genocidio
continua sobre a protecao da ONU. O Brasil lidera as
forcas da "paz" no Haiti e no momento me envergonha o
Brasil estar sendo condizente com um regime
anti-democratico e principalmente de criminosos no
Haiti.

Perto de todos os eventos que estao acontecendo no
Haiti realmente me envergonha toda a operacao militar
brasileira juntamente com a ONU na ilha. Acompanho
todos os dias os jornais brasileiros e nada e dito
sobrea situacao anti-democratica no Haiti. Eu
acompanhei toda a historia do sequestro do
ex-presidente Aristides pelas tropas americanas e a
operacao que o levou para a Africa central longe de
qualquer comunicacao. Estou acompanhando todas as
atrocidades que estao acontecendo no Haiti todos os
dias.

Sexta feira passada escutei um jornalista no Haiti
pelo programa Flashpoints da radio KPFA.org (Berkeley)
as seguintes acusacoes:

1) As tropas da ONU estavam "supostamente" protegendo
uma manivestacao pacifica contra o atual regime mas
sem aviso, deixaram de proteger esta manifestacao
deixando todos frente-a-frente com a policia Haitiana.
Este "lindo" gesto das tropas de "paz" da ONU deixou
muitas vidas em desnecessario risco. A policia
Hiatiana e formada por assassinos e estao lutando por
um regime anti-democratico.

2) O que militares brasileiros estava fazendo com
cameras, tirando fotos da manifestacao pacifica? O que
a policia Haitiana (criminosa) estava fazendo com
rifles de londa distancia? Quem eles estavam querendo
assassinar? Os brasileiros estava ajudando a policia
hiatiana a assassinar mais pessoas?

3) Porque o Brasil e a ONU nao ajuda o ex-primeiro
ministo Ivon Neptune pois o atual regime o mantem a 10
meses na cadeia sem acusacao? Ele esta em GREVE DE
FOME hoje e sua situacao segundo medicos argentinos e
muito grave.

4) Qual o interesse brasilero no Haiti alem da cadeira
da ONU e o petroleo em aguas profundas?

O Brasil e a ONU estao claramente suportando um
governo (regime) anti-democratico no Haiti e
protegendo os EUA, Franca e Canada de suas
responsabilidades. Quem sofre e a "verdadeira"
Democracia e os Direitos Humanos mundial. Todos
estamos perdendo com isto em minha opniao.

Espero ver o Brasil fora do Haiti e/ou se
limitando a proteger a democracia e tirar o atual
regime anti-democratico fora do poder.

Preste atencao em tudo que tenho recolhido sobre a
situacao do Haiti desde antes de tudo isto estar
acontecendo. Todas as reportagens podem ser ouvidas
pela internet via streamming neste site:

http://www.kpfa.org/archives/archives.php?id=9&limit=N

Paz e espero realmente receber alguma comunicacao
das nossas autoridades sobre este assunto.

May 5th 2005
more on the life and death situation of Haitian Prime
Minister Yvon Neptune;

May 2nd 2005
Haiti’s imprisoned Prime Minister hangs on by a thread
in the fifteenth day of his second hunger strike;

April 19th 2005
An update on the critical situation in Haiti with
Kevin Pina;

April 18th 2005
San Francisco-based Goldman Foundation gives a
$125,000 environmental award to a well-known violator
of human rights in Haiti, and an update on how the US
violated its own 13-year old arms embargo to provide
new weapons to the death squads of the Haitian
National Police;

April 13th 2005
A full update on Haiti and the illegal arms transfers
by the United States; plus, what’s next for the
Patriot Act, and how potential changes will further
affect civil liberties; a look at the unraveling
political crisis in Nepal; our weekly environmental
segment, Earth Matters; and the Knight Report.

April 8th 2005
New evidence on how the United States government is
secretly and illegally arming the US-installed coup
government of Haiti;

March 31st 2005
Also, tensions between pro democracy activists and UN
forces in Haiti at an all time high as the US
installed Prime Minister calls for the lifting of the
ARMS embargo.

March 29th 2005
UN forces prevent pro democracy activists from
protesting in Haiti and open up on Haitian activist
with tear gas and rubber bullets. We’ll have special
reports form Father Gerard Jean Juste in Port Au
Prince.

March 28th 2005
We’ll go live to Port au Prince to update the
situation around the attempted assassination of
leading Haitian pro-democracy activist and liberation
theologist Father Jean Juste,

March 17th 2005
The wholesale purge of the Lavalas pro-democracy
movement in Haiti continues unabated.

March 8th 2005
Congresswoman Maxine Waters pleads for the life of
Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, now on a second
week of a life or death hunger strike in Haiti’s
National Penitentiary. We’ll speak with the
Congresswoman just back from Haiti, and with an
attorney for the Artistede government, who was
prevented from entering the country.

March 3rd 2005
We have an update on the bloody situation in Haiti.

February 28th 2005
Haitian National Police open fire on a peaceful
lavalas demonstration calling for the return of Jean
Bertrand Aristide. We’ll feature an eye witness
account of the melee. Also, activists worry for the
safety of the Haitian prime minister Evan Neptune,
who’s where abouts are unclear at this time.

February 25th 2005
An exclusive story on Saturday’s phony prison break in
Haiti and the former soldier who now claims he was
paid by a member of the Latorture government to
assassinate Prime Minister Yvonne Neptune.

February 21st 2005
Violence and heartache continue to explode in Haiti as
the anniversary of the kidnapping of President Jean
Bertrand Aristide nears, a conversation with Kevin
Pina and Tom Griffin on the latest of Regimes Human
Rights abuses;

January 24th 2005
A brazen attack on the party headquarters of
US-installed puppet prime minister and confirmed mass
murderer Iyad Allawi; also, in Haiti, UN troops
continue to collaborate with Haitian National Police
and death squads to crush the pro-democracy movement;

December 24th 2004
On Flashpoints en Español we speak with Haitian
activist regarding the ongoing purge of the
Pro-Democracy Movement.

December 23rd 2004
Lyn Duff interviews a Haitian woman whose son was shot
in the back by a Haitian military death squad; also,
we'll interview a pro-Lavalas mayor in hiding in
Haiti;

December 15th 2004

UN forces occupy Cite Soleil, one of the poorest
neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere as part of the
ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti;
also, Michael Ratner discusses new revelations about
US torture in Iraq, including electrical shocks and
setting prisoners on fire; plus, human rights activist
Chris Brown on Israeli settler violence in occupied
Palestine; and the Knight Report.

November 30th 2004

An exclusive interview with Father Gerard Jean Juste
following his release from prison in Haiti, we’ll talk
about the ongoing Haitian killing fields and the
US-supported purge of democracy;

November 29th 2004
Kevin Pina reports on murders of street children in
Haiti by the US backed Haitian police; and the Knight
Report.

November 24th 2004
We continue our drumbeat coverage of the purging of
the pro-democracy movement in Haiti by US-backed coup
leaders;

November 22nd 2004
Kevin Pina on the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy
movement in Haiti and the complicity of the US
mainstream media; and the Knight Report.

November 19th 2004
President Aristide issued an arrest warrant by the
US-supported coup leaders of Haiti;

October 28th 2004
in studio with Flashpoints special correspondent
Kevin Pina on the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy
movement in Haiti, plus a live report from the Haiti
protest in San Francisco;

October 25th 2004
Brazils reality politics in strife-torn Haiti.

October 22nd 2004
Drumbeat coverage of the unfolding events in Haiti,
we’ll have a live update from Kevin Pina in
Port-au-Prince;

October 20th 2004
Francois Sorel, a national leader of the Lavalas
pro-democracy movement, escapes the death squads of
Haiti, we’ll also have an update with our
correspondent Kevin Pina

October 19th 2004
Francois Sorel, a national leader of the Lavalas
pro-democracy movement, escapes the death squads of
Haiti, we’ll also have an update with our
correspondent Kevin Pina in the field;

October 18th 2004
The pro-Bush commander of the UN peacekeeping team in
Haiti collaborates in a bloody purge of members of the
Haitian pro-democracy movement, we’ll have a special
report from Port-au-Prince;

October 15th 2004
Haitian death squad activists given the keys to the
city of Port-au-Prince as the US-installed government
continues to beat, kidnap, arrest and kill members of
Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas movement for
democracy, we’ll have an update on the arrest of
leading pro-democracy activist and Aristide friend
Father Gerard Jean Juste;

October 14th 2004
Haitian death squad activists given the keys to the
city of Port-au-Prince as the US-installed government
continues to beat, kidnap, arrest and kill members of
Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas movement for
democracy, we’ll have an update on the arrest of
leading pro-democracy activist and Aristide friend
Father Gerard Jean Juste;

October 13th 2004
breaking news from Haiti, we’ll speak with Lavalas
activist and priest Jean Juste as he is arrested by
masked gunmen while serving poor children food;

September 29th 2004
an update on the severe humanitarian crisis in Haiti;

September 21st 2004
a report from the ground on Haiti after the flood
which has killed over 700 people in the last few days;

September 15th 2004
a report from Haiti, still under severe occupation by
the US-supported death squads;

September 8th 2004
the continuing reign of terror of the US-supported
death squads in Haiti, we’ll go to Port-au-Prince for
a full update;

August 18th 2004
We focus on Hemispheric Crises and Revolution. We'll
speak to members of a delegation just returning from
Haiti. We'll speak with Doug Spalding and Casey
Corbett from the Haiti Action Committee about the
ongoing U.S. sponsored bloodshed. Plus landless
workers in Brazil fight for self determination.

August 13th 2004
The Lavalas movement stages a resistance caravan -
we'll have reports from the route in Haiti

July 27th 2004
We go to the Haiti Forum in Boston where members of
Congress, journalists and Haitian activists come
together to talk about the Bush-supported coup, the
kidnapping of President Aristide, and what the future
holds for Haiti; plus sounds of protest against the
DNC;

July 21st 2004
Haitian pro-democracy activists still being hunted
and arrested by US-supported coup leaders;

June 30th 2004
Another fake transfer of power in a destroyed Haiti;

June 24th 2004
an update on the situation in Haiti forgotten by
mainstream media;

June 15th 2004
an update on the continuing horrors in Haiti with our
special correspondent Kevin Piña;

June 14th 2004
we go back to occupied Haiti with Kevin Pina, on the
unlawful arrests by foreign troops;

June 4th 2004
Our special correspondent Lyn Duff in Haiti visits a
penitentiary where journalists are being detained; an
update on the massive march against war and occupation
tomorrow in San Francisco;

June 1st 2004
Lyn Duff in Haiti talks about the children who are
targeted by the US-supported death squads because of
their work with the youth-run radio station;

May 12th 2004
a report from Haiti on the ongoing human rights
abuses; we’ll play excerpts of an evening with Kevin
Pina, Pierre Labossiere and Congresswoman Barbara Lee
discussing the situation in Haiti;

April 23rd 2004
In Haiti, US marines close in on entire neighborhoods
where President Aristide had his strongest support.

April 22nd 2004
also special excerpts from a teach-in on the
occupation of Haiti with Pierre Labossiere, founder of
the Haiti Action Network;

April 16th 2004
Haitians still in hiding, we’ll speak with
Flashpoints special correspondent Lyn Duff on the
ground in Port-au-Prince;

April 14th 2004
the former Justice Minister of Haiti talks about the
phony attempt to indict President Aristide on drug
trafficking charges;

April 13th 2004
Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina in studio
to report on the ongoing US-supported massacres in
Haiti’s killing fields;

April 12th 2004
we’ll also hear a report from the ongoing killing
fields in Haiti after the US-led coup there;

April 9th 2004
an update from the Haitian killing fields;

April 7th 2004
also, an in-depth discussion on the climate of
political terror in Haiti as the death squads and
former military continue their reign of terror, we’ll
be joined in-studio by Flashpoints Haiti correspondent
Kevin Pina, and also speak with a human rights
attorney about the growing numbers in Haiti’s killing
fields;

April 6th 2004
Also Flashpoints Special Correspondent Lynn Duff
reports from Haiti on the continuing violence against
pro-democracy activists and the arrest of high level
Aristide Officials.

April 5th 2004
we’ll speak with Dr. Paul Farmer about the current
political situation in Haiti as well as the dire
medical catastrophe that is worsening by the day;

April 2nd 2004
we’ll have an update from the ground in Haiti; and
we’ll open the phones to discuss the situation in Iraq
and Haiti.

March 30th 2004
The US government pressures Jamaica to evict Aristide
from the region as the repression in Haiti continues,
we’ll feature a special report from Brian Concannon,
attorney for President Aristide just back from the
Dominican Republic; also, we’ll hear from a leader of
Lavalas who risked his life to leave the country to
testify before Congress;

March 29th 2004
An exclusive interview with Haiti’s former drug czar
and defense minister, Patrick Elie, on CIA involvement
with terrorists and drug traffickers in Haiti; also, a
report from Lyn Duff on a member of Lavalas in hiding
from the death squads;

March 26th 2004
An on the ground report from Haiti where the body
count continues to rise;

March 24th 2004
A report from a woman in hiding and in fear of her
life in Haiti;

March 22nd 2004
Today on Flashpoints, Haiti’s newly-installed US
puppet government praises the death squad coupists as
pro-democracy activists continued to be hunt down,
tortured, imprisoned and killed; in Palestine,
US-supported Israeli colonialists assassinate the
spiritual leader of Hamas, and the streets of Gaza
erupt into angry protests; Robert Fisk reports from
occupied Iraq on the latest det

Listen

March 18th 2004

Today on Flashpoints, we follow the lives of those in
hiding and under death threat since the US coup that
drove President Aristide out of Haiti. We’ll speak
with a youth reporter whose collegue was murdered by
US backed members of the former military. We hear from
Haitian human rights activist Mietzlean Wilson, also
in hiding; and an Aristide official who snuck out of
Haiti to brief members of congress and demand
temporary asylum for the growing numbers of Haitians
fleeing the violence. We’ll hear from an American
pro-democracy activist now in Haiti protesting at the
US embassy who was threatened by American soldiers. A
report back from occupied Palestine where today
Israeli soldiers killed two children. And of course,
the Knight report.

Listen

March 17th 2004

Today on Flashpoints, we present a breaking story on
false translation of what the US embassy called Jean
Bertrand Aristide’s resignation; we continue our
coverage of pro-democracy activists now in hiding in
Haiti facing beatings, torture, prison and
assassination; a massive car-bombing of a downtown
Baghdad Hotel kills more than 25 and wounds scores.
We’ll speak to a reporter from Al-Jezera about the
bombing and about US coverage of the war. We’ll be
joined in studio by Laura Flanders talking about Bush
women. And of course, the Knight Report.

Listen

March 16th 2004

A frontline report from Haiti’s US-sponsored killing
fields, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recognizes
Jean-Bertrand Aristide as the legitimate leader of
Haiti and offers him sanctuary in Venezuela;
remembering Rachel Corrie, we’ll feature excerpts of
an interview we did with members of her family after
she was killed; the Mayor of Santa Cruz proclaims
today Rachel Corrie day in her honor; we’ll speak to
Brian Avery who was shot in the face while standing in
solidarity with the Palestinian people in the West
Bank; and a poem by Aurora Levins-Morales dedicated to
Rachel Corrie. And of course, the Knight Report.

Listen

March 15th 2004

While President Aristide lands in Jamaica, Haiti's
U.S. trained killers and Death Squads continue to hunt
for pro democracy activists; Despite mainstream media
reports to the contrary, U.S. Marines open fire on pro
democracy demonstrators without provocation; The
people of Spain reject support for the Iraqi War and
elect a socialist to lead the government; The Knight
Report

Listen

March 12th 2004

Two pro-democracy activists are killed and seven
wounded in a mass protest calling for the restoration
of democracy in Haiti and the return of President
Aristide; A special report from the ground on today’s
killings; Continued coverage of pro-democracy
activists under attack or in hiding from US-sponsored
military death squads; We hear from the Mayor of Milo
in northern Haiti who has been in hiding since the
coup and fears for his life; We hear from Haiti’s
foreign press liason on the steps that led up to the
coup and the action taken by the international
community to restore Aristide; The Knight Report.

Listen

March 11th 2004

Two pro-democracy activists are killed and seven
wounded in a mass protest calling for the restoration
of democracy in Haiti, and the return of President
Aristide; We'll feature a special report from the
ground on today's killings; We'll also continue our
coverage of pro-democracy activists under attack or in
hiding from US-sponsored military death squads; We'll
hear from the mayor of a northern Haiti city who has
been in hiding since the coup and fears for his life;
We'll hear from Haiti's foreign press liason on the
steps that led up to the coup, and the action taken by
the international community to restore Aristide; and
from New York, the Knight Report

Listen

March 10th 2004

Haiti’s US supported Death Squads continue to
terrorize thousands of supporters of Jean Bertrand
Aristide; We’ll be joined by Kevin Pina in
Port-au-Prince, we’ll hear from Father Gerald
Jean-Juste now under death threat by US trained
killers. We’ll also speak with the President’s
attorney just back from the Central African Republic.
And of course, the Knight report.

Listen

March 9th 2004

Attorneys for Jean-Bertrand Aristide start legal
proceedings against the United States government for
their involvement in the coup against the sitting
president of Haiti. We’ll continue our on-the-ground
reporting from Port-au-Prince, we’ll hear from a young
Haitian media activist now in hiding and fearing for
his life, we’ll also go back to occupied Palestine
where Israeli occupiers have killed at least fifteen
in Gaza and others in Jenin, and the Knight Report.

Listen

March 8th 2004

Today on Flashpoints, we continue our drumbeat
coverage of the situation in Haiti as the violent,
US-backed coup surges into another week. We hear the
words of a twelve year-old Haitian girl in hiding from
the death squads; Flashpoints correspondent Kevin Pina
returns with an on-the- ground report; We go to the
Central African Republic where Aristide’s lawyers meet
with him for the first time as they begin to map out a
legal strategy to undo the coup; A rebroadcast of
Aristide’s first address to the Haitian people, a
Flashpoints exclusive; A roundtable discussion on
Haiti through the eyes of Haitian and American women
activists; Poetry by homeless youth on a new
Flashpoints segment, Roaddawgz

Listen

March 4th 2004

We continue our reporting from the US-sponsored
killing fields of Haiti, also, the Ambassador to the
United States from the Central African Republic admits
collaborating with the US to silence Aristide as he
remains under armed guard, excerpts from yesterday’s
Congressional hearings on the US coup against Haiti
and the kidnapping of the elected President, and we
focus on the situation in Venezuela where the US
government’s destabilization attempts have failed to
date but continue unabated, and a protest against Bush
policy in Haiti, the Middle East and domestically as
the selected President stumps California for
re-selection.

Listen

March 3rd 2004

Today on Special Two Hour Edition of Flashpoints:
Haiti's U.S. supported killers continue to exact their
bloody revenge against leaders of Lavalas. We'll have
our special reports from our correspondent Kevin Pina,
on the ground in Port-au-Prince about these latest
killings and about the treatment of the Prime
Minister. We'll hear about a tax on community
organizations and we'll counteract the massive
disinformation campaign being carried out against
President Aristide by U.S. architects of the coup.
Thanks to Hard Knock Radio for allowing us this two
hour work. For historical perspective leading up to
the current crises in Haiti listen to the excellent
coverage on Guns and Butter today. Covering why Haiti
is important not only the U.S. and France, but to the
global world view.

Listen

March 2nd 2004

The US turns the keys to Haiti's killing fields back
over to the killers; We'll have a report from
Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina in
Port-Au-Prince on revenge attacks against Aristide
supporters and on the Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune;
We'll also speak to Haitian activists across the
country, and with Hazel Ross-Robinson, a close
personal friend of the Aristides; and from New York
City, the Knight Report

Listen

March 1st 2004

Today on a special national edition of Flashpoints,
the Anatomy of a Coup and the Kidnapping of a
Democratically-Elected President by the US Marines.
We’ll feature an on-the-ground report from our
Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina under
fire; we’ll hear about an attack on a radio station
set up by Aristide and destroyed today by
anti-Aristide thugs as US Marines stood by; we’ll
speak with Ira Kurzban, General Counsel to the Haitian
government and the Aristides; we’ll also speak with a
close personal friend of the Aristides, Hazel
Ross-Robinson, former senior foreign policy analyst
for Ron Dellums; The Knight Report.

Listen

February 27th 2004

Today on a special national edition of Flashpoints, we
spend the whole hour on the expanding crisis in Haiti.
We’ll feature a live report from our special
correspondent Kevin Pina, live in Port-au-Prince,
we’ll speak with Representative Barbara Lee of
California, co-chair of the Congressional Black
Caucus, we’ll speak with Former Attorney General
Ramsey Clark, and the host of Family Lavalas on Radio
Soleil in Brooklyn, along with several Haitian
activists.

Listen

February 25th 2004

US-supported death squads continue their march towards
Port-au-Prince while the poorest people in the city
prepare to resist the overthrow of democracy at all
costs. Is the US trying to make Venezuela the next
Haiti? British intelligence whistleblower Katharine
Gun walks away from charges. The Knight Report.

Listen

February 24th 2004

Haiti's US-supported coup leaders continue their
rampage against democracy and the people's will; we'll
continue our reports from Haiti and also get
background from Washington on the Bush connection to
the Haitian killing fields. Also, 25% of the
Palestinian population of East Jerusalem are slashed
away from their land by the apartheid wall even as
talks contesting its legitimacy continue in the Hague;
and from Greensboro NC, the Knight Report.

Listen

February 23rd 2004

Former death squad members continue their rampage
through Haiti. We feature a special report from the
streets of Port-au-Prince on the 2-year
destabilization campaign, and deep background on these
US-supported coup leaders. Also, Palestinian lawyers
testify at the Hague against the apartheid wall; we’ll
speak to a lawyer for the PLO. Will Bush’s chief
campaign contributor Ken Lay get indicted for his part
in Enron? From New York City, the Knight Report.

Listen

February 19th 2004

An on-the-ground update on the violence and civil
unrest in Haiti; we speak to a Venezuelan activist
about the destabilization process already in the works
for Venezuela; and a broadcast of the radical
documentary, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq
War.

Listen

February 17th 2004

The General Council for the government of Haiti in the
United States speaks out against US support of
right-wing opposition in Haiti; Robert Fisk discusses
the ongoing violence in Iraq; and Larry Everest talks
about Empire and the US Global Agenda.

Listen

February 16th 2004

We continue our coverage of the expanding US-supported
destabilization campaign in Haiti, we’ll get a live
report from Port-au-Prince with the latest details.
Kevin Cooper speaks to us from his cell on death row
one week after his last minute stay of execution.
Excerpts from the hard hitting documentary Aftermath:
Unanswered Questions from 9-11.

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http://www.makepovertyhistory.org

flavio — Fri, 06 May 2005 14:56:50 GMT

Nice group. I am there!

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Monsanto nas escolas

phil — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:00:23 GMT

Chegou no meu email hoje :

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A Monsanto está anunciando com orgulho a assinatura de uma parceria com a editora Horizonte Geográfico, que prevê a distribuição de material didático e sobre agricultura e ambiente às escolas públicas do Brasil.

Travestido de ação de "responsabilidade social", o projeto nada mais é que uma tática sutil para a multinacional formar futuros consumidores de grãos transgênicos. A questão já é grave o suficiente, mas se torna mais grave ainda ao evidenciarmos que o projeto tem apoio do Ministério da Cultura, através da Lei Federal de Incentivo à Cultura.

Esta empresa, além de incentivar o contrabando de soja transgênica no Brasil, fazer lobby para a aprovação de Lei de Biossegurança e cobrar caro pelo uso das sementes, agora investe pesado na lavagem cerebral de milhares de crianças. Segundo a própria empresa, todos os alunos de 5a a 8a séries, de 5.049 escolas de rede estadual da Bahia, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Rio Grande do Sul e Distrito Federal, além de 560 educadores do ensino fundamental, estão recebendo "informações, material de apoio e cursos sobre dois dos assuntos de maior destaque da atualidade: agricultura e ambiente".

Qual será o conteúdo desse material? Na página da Horizonte Geográfico, parceira da Monsanto no projeto, temos uma pista. A editora sugere: "coloque na lousa a questão: 'Quais alimentos contêm soja?' A partir daí, veja o guia de atividades do projeto 'O grão que conquistou o Brasil'". É isso que os estudantes devem discutir em sala de aula?

O Brasil liberou os transgênicos irresponsavelmente, e as conseqüências desse ato ainda estão por vir. "Não se interfere, impunemente, no âmago da própria natureza", já disse Dom Tomás Balduíno. Não bastasse ter patrocinado a invasão transgênica no Brasil, a Monsanto mais uma vez usa de práticas escusas para divulgar seu "projeto". Esta empresa, que incentivou o desrespeito à lei e agora faz propaganda enganosa nos meios de comunicação, vai utilizar a rede de ensino público para atingir milhares de crianças com sua cartilha do mal.

Os professores e as professoras da rede pública devem ficar alerta a esta questão, estudar o tema dos transgênicos e se preparar para
resistir a essa invasão da Monsanto às salas de aula.

Denunciamos este absurdo e afirmamos ser inadmissível o apoio do
Ministério da Cultura a um projeto desta natureza. Pedimos que todos os companheiros e companheiras encaminhem mensagens ao Ministério da Cultura, pedindo que a questão seja revista.

Endereços do Ministério da Cultura:

Gilberto Gil - Ministro da Cultura

cgm@minc.gov.br

Adolpho Netto - Chefe de Gabinete

anetto@minc.gov.br

Luiz Artur Toríbio - Assessor de Comunicação Social

turiba@minc.gov.br

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Starbucks & Nike, Doing the Right Thing... espero que seja verdade!

flavio — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:45:04 GMT

Espero que seja verdade...quem sabe eu ja nao comeco a usar Nike novamente ;) Espero que a Nike tenha parado de explorar criancas na Asia agora com seu novo "Relatorio de responsabilidade" possa mudar isto.

Parabens a big corporacao de vendas de cafe Starbucks em se comprometer a usar 5% de energia renovavel em suas lojas...espero que eles facam um esporco muito maior que isto como tratar melhor seus funcionarios...Mas ja e um bom exemplo de como temos que ser mais responsaveis em TUDO! Como uma comunidade universal ;)

Starbucks & Nike, Doing the Right Thing
QuickChanges

Starbucks is #42 on the Business Ethics 100; Nike is #31. Neither firm is without controversy. But today comes a bit of news about each which underscores why these companies made the list.

Starbucks announced today that it is committing to buying 5% of the electricity for US stores from renewable power sources; the move will cut emissions by an amount comparable to removing about 3,200 cars from the road. Now, five percent isn't that much, and in years to come we'll all do much better than that simply by being on the grid. Nonetheless, high profile companies making efforts like this is one of the drivers that will bring that future about faster.

Nike, fresh from unveiling its Considered line of enviroshoes, has just released a detailed corporate responsibility report (after having been silent on the issue since 2002). Among the topics covered in the report is a full list of its suppliers, a move to greater transparency which should be applauded, even by those who remain concerned about past practices. Nike is aware of the need for greater transparency in order to regain public trust: "We felt the risks of any future lawsuit were far outweighed by benefits of transparency," says Hannah Jones, Nike's vice-president of corporate responsibility. "Because if we've learned anything as a company, it's that closing down and not talking about the challenges and opportunities doesn't get you far."

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Parabens ao jogador Graffite do Sao Paulo F.C.

flavio — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:44:03 GMT

Racismo e crime!

O jorgador (nao importa de onde ele veio) que chamou o jogador do Sao Paulo de "macaco", "negro", etc pelo jogo da Libertadores da America no Morumbi foi preso em SP depois da acusacao do jogador Graffite e que ficou tudo registrado nas cameras de televisao.

Parabens Graffite! Racismo e crime e deve ser denunciado!

(eu fico feliz em ver um jogador de futebol com nocao de cidadania e direitos de igualdade e que exerceu seus direitos)

Este jogador que foi preso, ficou dois dias em uma delegacia de SP, pagou fianca de R$10.000 e ficou de voltar ao Brasil quando for requisitado ;)

Mas o que me choca tambem e que fizeram uma reportagem neste pais vizinho do Brasil e algumas pessoas acham normal chamar um pessoa de "negrito" :( E mole....vai ver que e por isto que temos entres estes dois paises grande rivalidade levando quase que uma guerra em campo :( coisa de macho....stupid!

Valeu Graffite!!! Este "gol" foi de placa!!!!

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Haiti x Brasil

flavio — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:46:35 GMT

Alguem sabe me dizer o que o Brasil esta fazendo no Haiti?

Tenho minha opniao mas quero ver a dos brothers and sisters aqui primeiro e se existe vida neste grupo pois nao vi quase nada ate agora :)

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novo neste grupo & Gil em Berkeley

flavio — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:43:24 GMT

Ola,

Sou novo neste groupo e adorei o tema:) Imagina, nem gosto de justica, verde, etc, etc :)

Sou nascido em SP, crescido no RJ e morador do norte da Califa.... Anyways...acho que neste grupo vamos ter liberdade de discutir os issues e falar a verdade e talvez criar um grupo que mova alguma coisa para frente...sei la, quem sabe ne?

Mas para nao assustar em meu primeiro email, vou sugerir a assistir o Giberto Gil aqui na universidade de Berkeley, California, um ou dois meses atras. O endereco e este aqui: http://clas.berkeley.edu e o webcast do video (mais ou menos 1 hora e 40 minutos) requer o Real Player ( www.real.com ) para rodar... By the way, a camisa do Bob fui eu mesmo que dei para Gil! ;)

peace,

Flavio.

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Oi! São Brasileiros? Que bom!!!

beijinha — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:57:35 GMT

Sabe este lance de Orkut está me irritando porque sempre ocorre erros e por esses erros que cometeram lá estou em jail! Dái eu vim para cá! como que é o tribe?

Eu sou de Niterói/RJ. ICQ: 140196979
MSN: beijinha_rj@hotmail.com

Sou Anne, tenho 23 anos e faço Jornalismo, na UniverCidade da Unidade: Ipanema/RJ, sem namorado e com muita felicidade e amor para o mundo! E vocês? Se apresentem!!!

Beijinhos da Anne

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Alguém vivo?

Faty — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:41:09 GMT

Cadê, as opiniões, se tiverem de férias curtam bastante. Cuidado não gastem demais.

Beijos

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testando

Luis — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:03:29 GMT

Estou testando o sistema. Parece que o Google tem relação com um sistema de friend-friend parecido com o tribe.net, é o ORKUT ( http://www.orkut.com ). Por enquanto parece que só entra quem é convidado por alguém.

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2004!!

margot — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:42:05 GMT

Gentem!!
Feliz Ano Novo para todos, e que em 2004 estejamos mais motivados para fazer diferenca no nosso raio de atuacao para tornarmos os nossos paises um tanto melhores.

Beijaum para todos!!!

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MP - Medidas Provisórias

margot — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 00:09:10 GMT

Que falta de vergonha é essa no nosso país!!!!
Com o título de "Pegadinha", um jornalista denuncia que diversas médidas provisórias estao sendo utilizadas para aprovar de maneira indevida , materia que seria de lei complementar.
Vejam:
Oposição não gosta que Congresso aprove MPs que tratam de temas diferentes

07/11/2003

Os partidos de oposição - e também muitos integrantes do próprio PT não estão gostando nada de uma certa prática do governo. Aprovar no Congresso determinadas matérias escondidas em medidas provisórias que tratam de temas completamente diferentes.

Até agora, o governo Lula editou 34 medidas provisórias. Em uma das últimas, foi criado o Programa Especial de Habitação Popular, para famílias de baixa renda. De carona, o Artigo 6º, prorroga o prazo previsto para adesão ao termo de responsabilidade sobre a produção de soja transgênica. Como mostrou o colunista Merval Pereira, na edição de "O Globo", hoje.

É de praxe, no Congresso, dar nome às medidas provisórias: MP dos Medicamentos, MP do setor elétrico. Muitos parlamentares não sabem os detalhes do texto que estão votando. Mas os principais líderes não só sabem como acabam sendo coniventes com a infração à Lei Complementar 95, que eles mesmos aprovaram. A lei proíbe que assuntos diferentes façam parte da mesma lei.

"Nós já ponderamos ao setor jurídico do governo que não é recomendável essa prática. Não podemos alimentar a repetição desse tipo de procedimento porque isso não faz bem ao Legislativo, já que nós criamos a lei complementar e devemos obediência a ela", afirma o líder do PT no Senado, senador Tião Viana.

Na votação da MP que instituiu o sistema de certificação de importação e exportação de diamantes brutos, a oposição viu que no mesmo texto havia um artigo tratando de parcelamento de dívidas com o INSS, o refis. Mas a reclamação chegou tarde.

"O que poderíamos fazer é pedir atenção dos relatores e dos lideres na Câmara e no Senado para que examinassem com mais detalhe as medidas que fossem apresentadas de modo a não ocorrer o fato que está ocorrendo nesse momento", disse o presidente do Senado José Sarney, em 8 de outubro de 2003,

Na MP que regula o setor farmacêutico, com as regras para reajuste de preços de medicamentos, havia um artigo autorizando a rolagem da dívida do governo com a Petrobras, de R$ 500 milhões. A lei também foi aprovada assim.

- Agora! Minha gente , uma coisa eu nao entendo !
Esse povo do congresso , tao bem pagos, nao se dá ao trabalho de ao mínimo passar uma vista no texto??

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Nova Pontência Mundial

Faty — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:07:45 GMT

Segundo a revista VEJA, a nova potência mundial, daqui a 30 anos, será a China, como será a política? Temos que aprender chinês? Pelo temos 30 anos para isso.

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Agora temos que nos calar diante da criminalidade?

Faty — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:27:19 GMT

Hoje as pessoas que tem coragem de dununciar algum ato de corrupção são ameaçadas de morte e assassinadas. Estamos vivendo em um mundo onde temos que ter medo de ser justos e de brigar por nossos direitos. A quem reclamar? Em quem confiar?

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