Argentine environmentalists .. bridge blockades to protest .. pulp mills

[struggle4progress]

Argentine environmentalists to resume bridge blockades to protest Uruguayan pulp mills

The Associated Press
Published: October 11, 2006


BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Argentine opponents of Uruguayan pulp mill projects that have strained ties between the South American neighbors have vowed to resume border bridge blockades this weekend even as the government of President Nestor Kirchner urged calm Wednesday.

Some 800 activists voted late Tuesday to blockade two of three international bridges to renew attention to its claim that the planned wood pulp plants will contaminate farmland and tourist areas in northeastern Argentina.

Dissenters have argued that sporadic bridge blockades earlier this year drew sufficient attention to the environmental dispute ...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/11/america/LA_GEN_Argentina_Pulp_Mill_Protests.php

[Peace Patriot]

1. This is why global corporate predators support fascist government

everywhere on earth including here. If you have a government that is truly representative of the majority of the people, resulting from honest, aboveboard, transparent elections, then that government is obliged to listen to the people. The two greatest concerns of people everywhere are, a) labor issues--decent wages, benefits, the right to organize, including the right not to be punished for organizing by the outsourcing of jobs to cheap labor markets, and 2) the protection of the environment--forest protection, clean water, availability of water, recovery of the ocean fisheries, and stopping pollution of all kinds, including the pollution of genetically modified seeds and organisms.

50,000 of us North Americans protested the failure of labor protections and environmental protections, and the lack of democracy in the World Trade Organization and other unfair trade deals, in Seattle 1999--the most well-organized and peaceful protest I've ever participated in, until the police riot--and also the most universally slandered protest, by the corporate news monopolies. The result of that protest: stolen elections in 2000, 2002 and 2004, and outright fascism in the federal government.

Argentina--like Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Bolivia and soon Ecuador (and next Peru), virtually all of the South America--now has truly representative, leftist (majorityist) government. Government that has to listen. Government of the people, by the people and for the people. Government that IS listening--on a host of issues of vital concern to workers, the poor and the middle class--the majority.

Why don't we have such protests here any more, pointing humongous environmental problems, and grave assaults on labor rights and protections? Because Bushite corporations are now "counting" all our votes on the new electronic election theft machines, that have proliferated all over the country, and that use TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code. Our government is no longer representative of its people, and is deaf to our concerns.