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Urewera 17 Profile: Valerie Morse
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 7:53 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Scoop.co.nz is continuing to profilie each of the so-called terrorists arrested on Monday 15th October and now known as the Urewera 17. Our fourth profile is of well-known Wellington activist Valerie Morse whose name suppression was lifted in ... More >>
Urewera 17 Profile: Ira Bailey
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 2:26 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Ira grew up in a family environment in which activism was not just accepted, but positively encouraged. A descendant of the peaceful resistance movement of Parihaka, which resisted the land-grabs from the 19th century until recent times, he belonged ... More >>
Wellington Marches Against Police "Terror" In Rain
Saturday, 27 October 2007, 8:34 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Wellington Marches Against Police "Terror" In Rain Photos & Audio by Julie Webb-Pullman More >>
Tears As Friends Locked Up & Sent To Auckland
Friday, 19 October 2007, 7:11 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Wellington District Court was today the scene of outrage, incredulity and tears, when four peace activists were again denied bail, and remanded by Judge Bruce Davidson in custody for transfer to appear for depositions in the Auckland District Court ... More >>
Zapatista Activists Among Those Imprisoned In NZ
Friday, 19 October 2007, 9:52 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
WELLINGTON: Two hundred people today demonstrated outside the Wellington District Court in New Zealand, to protest Monday’s detention of four Wellingtonians, the first under the country’s new Terrorism Suppression Act. Two peace activists compas ... More >>
Lose The RWC, Win A Nobel for Mindless Repression
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 11:38 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Prime Minister Helen Clark can only be seen as a very poor loser, or very bad strategist, in this week's unleashing of unprecedented illegal detentions to top off the quarterfinal loss in the Rugby World Cup. More >>
First Atenco, then Oaxaca – Chiapas, You’re Next
Saturday, 25 August 2007, 5:20 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
The ominous clouds looming lately over San Cristobal de las Casas, scene of the 1994 Zapatista uprising, are more than just a bad-weather warning - they portend the ratcheting up in Southern Mexico of even more rampant repression than that experienced in recent ... More >>
Second Zapatista Intergalactica – With Photos
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 4:02 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
This year it began early, in Tuxtla Gutierrez on 19 July, with a event in the main square in support of the People in Defence of the Land. With the indigenous peoples of Chiapas being traditional owners of large tracts of hardwood forests, there has ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Frequency Flyers Wings Clipped
Monday, 28 May 2007, 9:09 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
And how they squawk!!! Marcel Granier of Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) is running around like a headless chook, frenetically beating his drumsticks hoping that in the flurry of feathers no-one will actually notice that he is just full of....well, chicken-shit! More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Silencing The LAMBS
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:40 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Super-judge, Bush-appointed Federal Judge Kathleen Cardone, saving the day for the CIA. This intrepid defender of the values her Attorney-General Alberto Gonzalez holds so dear, like the separation of powers ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Ulises Ruiz Turns to Religion
Monday, 29 January 2007, 1:16 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Oaxaqeño authorities have yet again demonstrated just how bereft they are of the most minimal observation of human rights. Only a week after attacking a peaceful march of a thousand people in Miahuatlán, Oaxaca, detaining several including minors, ... More >>
Julie Web-Pullman: More Zapatista Encuentro Pics
Friday, 12 January 2007, 10:10 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
More pictures from Julie Web-Pullman of the The End of the Encuentro a New Year's Zapatista gathering in Mexico. More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: The End of the Encuentro
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 10:46 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
By New Year’s Eve the two thousand of Day One had swelled to four thousand, and over the next two days low cloud reduced visibility to about three feet – when it wasn’t raining. Occasional wind gusts swirled the mist away to reveal a landscape ... More >>
Best And Worst Of Zapatista Conference
Monday, 8 January 2007, 1:01 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
The autonomous Zapatista community of Oventik, in Chiapas Mexico, welcomed a couple of thousand people on 30 December to the Intergalactica, the first international encuentro, or meeting, between the Good Government Juntas and the people of the world. More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Oaxaca – Means and Ends
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 9:50 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) protest marches in Oaxaca of 20 and 25 November have seen an unprecedented escalation of violence, the former resulting in over 50 requiring hospitalisation and more than 100 detained, and that ... More >>
NZer Trapped In Oaxaca - Crackdown Underway
Monday, 27 November 2006, 2:55 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
NZer Trapped In Oaxaca As Violent Crackdown Underway Trapped In Autonomous University Of Oaxaca Surrounded By Federal Forces From Julie Webb-Pullman More >>
Mexico: The Good, The Bad, And The Hopeful
Monday, 27 November 2006, 12:09 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Mexican Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca on Monday backed down from his refusal to accept the recommendations of the National Commission on Human Rights in relation to the torture of Jesús Zúniga Velázquez, following criticism from the Geneva ... More >>
Human Rights in Mexico – Who Cares? Not U....N.
Friday, 17 November 2006, 2:40 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Monday in Mexico dawned as usual - while Felipe Calderón fiddled (with a guitar), and Andrés Manuel López Obrador celebrated his birthday by charming the ladies and kissing babies, paramilitary groups in Chiapas were doing what they do so well ... More >>
Images: Caravana Arrives in Oaxaca for Megamarch
Monday, 6 November 2006, 8:56 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
As the caravana of suporters from Mexico Federal District (DF) left the Hemiciclo yesterday at noon for Oaxaca, hundreds crowded the streets to cheer them on their way. The scene was repeated throughout the journey, with indigenous women in traditional ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: The Mad Hatter’s PRI Party
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:19 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
If memorial events for murdered Mexican human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa last weekend marked a melding of Mexico’s past and present, the future was forged this week, as Oaxaca unravelled in events of unrivalled insanity. More >>
