The People of Guatemala Fight Back Against Rich Investors

28 kilometers northeast from Guatemala City, community members of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, have blocked the entrance to the Tambor gold mine since March 2nd, 2012. The mining project, also known as Progreso 7 Derivada, belongs to Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala, S.A. (EXMINGUA), local subsidiary of Canadian junior mining company Radius Gold Inc.

“The community members in resistance who have come together to form the so-called North Metropolitan Peoples in Resistance Front (FRENAM), base their principal demand on their constitutional right to a community consultation, or local plebiscite. The industrial mining project began exploratory operations earlier this year without any consent from the local population nor has the government of Guatemala, at any level, carried out a consultation.”

Click below for more of the story, more pictures and video.

Third month of resistance in Guatemala

Read Full Post »

The Corporate Democratic Party Failed to Support Its Base in Wisconsin

Where was the Corporate Democratic Party in the lead up to the recall election of Governor Scott Walker? The national Democratic Party was no where to be seen during the weeks leading up to the election, until it put in a relatively paltry 100K during the last five days.

This suggests only one thing. The Corporate Democratic Establishment wanted the base to lose in Wisconsin. Labor unions force the establishment to listen to their arguments in order to get their votes, even if the establishment barely listens. The establishment prefers to listen to the billionaire club, which funds their elections. You know. People like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, as well as members of financial companies like Goldman Sachs.

Those are the people that benefit from the destruction of labor unions. So quite naturally, the national Democratic establishment had no intention of helping its Wisconsin grass roots base, which was outspent six to one from mostly out of state money.

The Party establishment had to help in some miniscule way, so it tossed a measly 100K into the fight, most likely to show the base that it cares, when the folks at the top of the party don’t give a rats ass about the base. President Obama wouldn’t come to the aid of the union members of Wisconsin, so hopefully, they have learned their lesson, and they won’t work for Obama during the upcoming election season.

Wall Street is the financial base of the Democratic Party, not labor unions, and not working people. A victory for labor unions and working people is a defeat for Wall Street. This fact is not lost on the Democratic Party Establishment, and that includes Mr. Obama.

Read Full Post »

The Wisconsin Senate is Now Controlled by the Democrats

There’s something the corporate press isn’t telling us about last night’s recall election in Wisconsin. Mark Miller is the new Senate majority leader after Democrat John Lehman won a Senate recall election. The result shifted control of the senate to the Democrats. And, oh yeah, Scott Walker won his recall election against Tom Barrett, so he continues as governor.

Read Full Post »