Understanding the Coup in Honduras by Felipe Stuart

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 6:37pm
Felipe Stuart is an old friend and comrade who went to Nicaragua in the 1980's but unlike many revolutionary solidarity activists, he stayed and became a citizen and a member of the FSLN.  He is writing with considerable knowledge about the coup in Honduras
Here are some working notes for an article I am about to publish on the meaning of the coup, and the US bases in Colombia.* There are a number of salient points that must be understood in order to understand the "Tegucigolpe" (coup) in Honduras:
 
First, the coup was made in Washington and the US Soto Cano (formerly Palmerola) airbase. Washington participated, through mostly Bush appointees and some going back to the Clinton presidency), in conceiving, planning, and carryout the coup. As always, US coup-making was conducted with all the appropriate disguises and trickery to lay the basis for plausible denial and even "opposition" in the event the "dress rehearsal coup" won on the ground but blew up in their faces internationally.
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In Honour of the 64th Anniversary of Hiroshima

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 3:12pm

Please take a moment on this 64th Anniversary of Hiroshima to watch this movie video by Velcrow Ripper entitled "Lanterns of Memory"  It includes an interview with a survivor
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An Evening in Burqin by Pierre Beaudet

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 7:25pm

The sun is slowly coming down in this northern West Bank village. We are really a few kilometers from Galilee just outside the green line. Around the city of Jenin and the nearby villages, a cluster of Israeli settlements remind us of the occupation, as well as numerous checkpoints controlled by Israeli soldiers.

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My not so secret life as a movie buff

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 9:54am

Sometime in 2006, I met Cathi Bond, whom  I knew as the CBC's DVD Diva (a title she hates but I love) .  I'm not sure why,  but we got into an argument about Kill Bill I (a film which she loved but I hated).  It was a debate that reflected the difference in generation, she's about 20 years younger than me, and I realized later cultural sensibilities.  We both like action films but she loves the really over the top ones, especially Korean.  She asked if I wanted to debate Kill Bill for rabble radio,

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John Cartwright Reviews "Transforming Power"

Submitted by Steve on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 5:32pm

John Cartwright, President of the Toronto and York District Labour Council, offers up his thoughts on Transforming Power. Click on the .pdf below to download and read the review that originally appeared in Our Times

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The Toronto Municipal Strike: Who Do We Get Mad At?

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 3:54pm

 By Sam Gindin

Public sector strikes are frustrating to both the public and the strikers. The public is upset with losing daily services they have come to depend on, while the strikers are upset with the apparent lack of respect for the work they do.

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RT @ Persepolis

Submitted by Steve on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:43am

    Hi all. Judy is still away on vacation, so I’m still filling in as a guest-blogger here at Transforming Power. Judy will be back towards the end of the month, as energizied and invigorated as ever! In the meantime, here’s my latest post. Enjoy.
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Not In My Backyard (or Park)!

Submitted by Steve on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 10:14pm

Well, file this in the interesting but not surprising category, but it turns out that social media is already playing a significant role in the Toronto Public Workers Strike. Case in point – the reaction of the Toronto community group “Friends of Christie Pits Park” to the city’s decision to turn a portion of the eponymous park into a temporary garbage dump.

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From babbling to crushing on Stephen Harper

Submitted by Michelle on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 11:22am

Judy is off on vacation for a couple of weeks, so I'm going to take over her blog and post videos of Michael Jackson here.  (Just kidding.  We've all seen enough of that on Twitter and Facebook.  Pam Kapoor wrote an interesting article about that here, in fact.)

What I really want to blog about is social media, which Judy also talks about in her book, in chapter 8.  I just went to a fantastic conference a couple of weeks ago - Social Tech Training 2009.  In a nutshell, the conference was for people who want to learn and share ideas about how to use social media to organize, promote, and create social change.  Instead of taking notes, I tweeted them out on twitter as a way of staying in touch with Judy about what I was learning (since I was there for both of us), and you can find my play-by-play and other participants' notes from the conference under the hashtags #stt09 and #ncwk.  So I won't rehash (ha, get it?) that here.

Instead, I'll talk about my own journey with social media, and I invite you to share yours in the comments here if you feel so inclined.

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Evo Morales: The Earth is much more important than the stock exchanges of Wall Street and the world

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 3:06pm
Another visionary in ending the scourge of industrialization and solving the problems of climate change is Evo Morales, President of Brazil.  In a recent speech to the UN he outlined ten points for solving climate change.  They are republished below:

By Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia

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