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Julie Webb-Pullman: Tell the President
Monday, 26 July 2010, 4:38 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
"Tell the President (and I cannot stress this too strongly) that I seriously hope that Cuba and the United States can eventually sit down in an atmosphere of good will and of mutual respect and negotiate our differences." – Fidel Castro. More >>
Military and paramilitary harassment of Zapatista
Thursday, 15 July 2010, 4:13 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
The Zapatista Good Government Junta (JBG) of La Garrucha has denounced the Federal Army's return to operating intimidating patrols by day and night, using trucks and armoured vehicles. "Their helicopters are flying low over the communities. These ... More >>
Increased military harassment of Zapatista
Thursday, 15 July 2010, 2:57 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Operations by air and by land increased 15 days ago Hermann Bellinghausen, La Jornada, Tuesday July 13, 2010, p. 18 (originally published in Spanish, translation by UK Zapatista Solidarity Network) San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, July 12. The Zapatista ... More >>
Mexican Supreme Court Orders Atenco Prisoners Free
Monday, 5 July 2010, 11:04 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
On Wednesday June 30 the Supreme Court of Mexico overturned the convictions of the twelve political prisoners of Atenco, following four years of national and international struggle by their supporters. More >>
San Juan Copala – Mexico’s Gaza
Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 3:29 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
San Juan Copala, traditional centre of the indigenous Triqui people, lies in Oaxaca State, Mexico, and is one of the poorest and strife-torn areas in Mexico. In an attempt to break the cycle of poverty, inequality, exclusion, and persistent human rights ... More >>
Wellington Demonstration Against Israel: 5 June
Sunday, 6 June 2010, 12:25 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
More than 200 people today marched through Wellington city to demand that Isreal lift the blockade on Gaza, and that the New Zealand Government expel the Israeli ambassador and close down the Israeli Embassy in New Zealand. More >>
Photo Essay: Election Day in Cuba
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 1:15 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Photo Essay: Election Day in Cuba by Julie Webb Pullman Click to enlarge 2010 Cuban Elections Click to enlarge The ballot boxes are sealed, and in place Click to enlarge guarded by Cuban school children Click to enlarge Click to enlarge Some voters check ... More >>
The Political Prosecution of Dr. Remzi Kartal
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 1:25 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Remzi Kartal was born on 5 May 1948 in a village near the town of Wan (Van). After the successful completion of a university degree in dentistry, he worked in a hospital in Istanbul for two years. Subsequently, Kartal worked as a dentist in Wan until ... More >>
Cuban Elections: IV with Jorge Fariñas Molina
Friday, 16 April 2010, 1:05 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
I spoke with Jorge Fariñas Molina, retired university professor of chemical engineering and former president of his local electoral council, to find out the theoretical underpinning of the Cuban electoral system, and how the various bodies function in ... More >>
How Independent is the European Parliament?
Monday, 12 April 2010, 2:15 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
What do Margaret Page[i], José Bayardo Mairena[ii], Manuel Juárez[iii], Joseph Hernández Ochoa [iv] , David Meza [v], and Nahúm Palacios[vi] have in common? At least two things – firstly, they all died in March 2010, and secondly, the European ... More >>
Cuban Elections: On the Campaign Trail
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 11:08 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
I spoke with Valentin Valle Graupier, freshly-nominated by his zone as a candidate in the Municipal Elections to be held on 25 April. There are several fascinating features of the Cuban electoral process that provide a little insight into how this ... More >>
Cuban Elections: On the Campaign Trail
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 4:23 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
I spoke with Valentin Valle Graupier, freshly-nominated by his zone as a candidate in the Municipal Elections to be held on 25 April. There are several fascinating features of the Cuban electoral process that provide a little insight into how this ... More >>
Cuban Elections: Part One - Candidate Nominations
Tuesday, 6 April 2010, 11:26 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
I have taken up the invitation of Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly, to observe the Cuban electoral process, beginning with going to a couple of nomination meetings, then interviewing the successful candidates, or potential ... More >>
The Right to Choose: Zapata Tamayo
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 6:04 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Cuban petty criminal Orlando Zapata Tamayo died on Tuesday 23 February following an eleven-week hunger strike. It seems the ability to exercise reason, especially by European parliamentarians, may also have died on that day. Before the corpse was ... More >>
Alarcon on Cuba, Democracy, & the 2010 Elections
Monday, 8 March 2010, 3:49 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
In 2008 Cuba suffered three devastating hurricanes within a matter of weeks, followed hot on the heels by the world economic meltdown. Last week I asked Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly of Peoples’ Power, how the country and ... More >>
IV Ricardo Alarcon, President of the ANPP: Part II
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 4:33 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
While some other defendants in this infamous case[i] were also charged with failure to register as foreign agents, false identity and various conspiracy charges, Gerardo Hernández was hit with something so far out of left-field it ranks a right hook ... More >>
IV with Ricardo Alarcon, President of the ANPP
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 2:00 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
That conclusion is inescapable, Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly, indicated in Havana last week, referring to the five Cuban men still imprisoned in the United States, despite a 2005 decision by the United Nations Working Group ... More >>
Clinton Co-ordinating Haiti Relief
Monday, 15 February 2010, 11:29 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Ban Ki-Moon obviously has a very twisted sense of humour. As if the Katrina fiasco wasn’t sufficient evidence of the singular unsuitability of the U.S. to lead any sort of disaster effort, appointing a power-abusing sex-offending lying ex-President ... More >>
Obama’s latest sideshow - ‘new security measures’
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 11:37 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
If Ronald Reagan was a B-grade actor playing the role of President, Barack Obama looks every day more like the side-show clown with open grinning mouth into which you put money, and it’s balls drop. Only it seems Obama’s have dropped right ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Anyone for table-tennis?
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 11:15 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Tomorrow Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labanino will grace the Miami court with their presence once again - for yet another re-sentencing by a judge more renowned for her grotesquely inconsistent rulings than for the administration of justice. More >>
