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The Patriot's Guide to Legalization

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - Maybe the war against pot is about to get a lot uglier. After all, in the 1920s, Prohibition gave us Al Capone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and that was over plain old whiskey and rum. Are we about to start paying the same price for marijuana?

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Mexico: Water Shortages Affecting Nearly 2 Million Residents

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Issa Villarreal - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - Nearly two million citizens have been affected by the recent reduction of water services in the Valley of Mexico. According to Mexican Newspaper El Universal [es], the Cutzamala System, which manages 20% of the drinking water for the valley, is not working at full capacity and cannot supply its own region: 10 districts from the Federal District and 13 municipalities from State of Mexico.

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Stop Subsidizing Mexican Drug Gangs

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Bruce Mirken - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - Like it or not, marijuana is a massive industry. Some 100 million Americans admit to government survey-takers that they've used it, with nearly 15 million acknowledging use in the past month. That's a huge market -- more Americans than will buy a new car or truck this year, or that bought one last year. Estimates based on U.S. government figures have pegged marijuana as the number one cash crop in America, with a value exceeding corn and wheat combined.

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Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

prisonradio.org - By Mumia Abu-Jamal - Feb. 26 (Comment) - (Audio file link)

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All-American Canal, California-Mexico border

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

NASA - By NASA Earth Observatory - Feb. 23 (Statement) - The All-American Canal, the largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border, shows up in this astronaut photograph. This image captures about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) of the important infrastructure corridor just west of Yuma, Arizona. The prominent dark line crossing the image is the Canal, which is crossed in this view by Interstate Highway 8. The canal carries 740.6 cubic meters (26,155 cubic feet) of water per second westward from the Colorado River to support the intensive agriculture of California’s Imperial Valley to the northwest and nine cities, including San Diego. The canal system is the Imperial Valley’s only source of water, and it allows irrigation of more than 2,000 square kilometers (500,000 acres) of agricultural fields. The Coachella Canal, one of four main branch canals, leads water north to Imperial Valley.

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Ashoka Mexico: Challenging the norm

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

A Developed World - By Karina Weinstein - Jan. 03 (Press Release) - The passion and creativity of Mexican social enterpreneurs usually comes at the price of being at odds with social sentiments. The idea of social entrepreneurship is not understood or accepted in Mexico and tends to be associated more closely with conventional for-profit ventures. As such, social entreprenuers are constantly scrutinized for their choice of dedicating their professional life to develop a business to solve a pertinent social problem. At Ashoka, however, these "crazy" changemakers are not alone.

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A chink in the US-Mexico border fence

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By James Ridgeway - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - Close to the nation's busiest highway border crossing, from San Diego County to Tijuana, a border fence cuts across a park and a beach before stretching into the surf of the Pacific Ocean. This is the westernmost edge of the demarcation line in the US's war against unauthorised immigration, and we are heading into a militarised zone.

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A Primer on Plan Mexico

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Center for International Policy - By Laura Carlsen | May 5, 2008 - May. 05 (Editorial) - On Oct. 22, 2007 President Bush announced the $1.4 billion dollar "Merida Initiative," security aid package to Mexico and Central America. The initiative has fatal flaws in its strategy; instead of leading to a stable binational relationship and peaceful border communities, its military approach will escalate drug-related violence and human rights abuses.

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U.S. antes up to fight drugs in Mexico, as it cuts funding for programs here

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Marcela Sanchez - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - No one has yet called Mexico a narco-state, but drug-related violence and corruption have become so widespread that President Felipe Calderon has declared war on drug syndicates operating in Mexican territory. The United States has encouraged these reappraisals sometimes with sticks, now most often with carrots, lots of carrots. Since 2000, it has funneled more than $5 billion into Plan Colombia; now it plans to invest up to $1.4 billion in Mexico for what is being called the Merida Initiative, named for the city where it was proposed.

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Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Jim Hightower - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - In the last 15 years, Mexico's longstanding system of sustaining its huge population of poor citizens (including small self-sufficient farms, jobs in state-owned industries and subsidies for such essentials as tortillas) has been scuttled at the insistence of U.S. banks, corporations, government officials and "free market" ideologues. In the name of "modernizing" the Mexican economy, such giants as Citigroup, Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods and GE -- in cahoots with the plutocrats and oligarchs of Mexico -- have laid waste to that country's grass-roots economy, destroying the already-meager livelihoods of millions.

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What to Really Do About Immigration

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Jeff Faux - Jan. 22 (Editorial) - But the news from south of the border is not good. The number of Mexican workers continues to grow faster than the number of Mexican jobs that pay enough to earn a living. And there is no end to this problem in sight.

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Mexican Government Calls Foul on North Carolina Union-Busting

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:11:04 -0800

AlterNet - By International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, General Workers' Unions - Nov. 05 (Press Release) - A side accord [of NAFTA] is being used to challenge the lack of labor rights in North Carolina.... Specifically, the Mexican government asks, "What have the governments of the United States and North Carolina done in respect to the recommendation of the Freedom of Association Committee?"... [T]he North Carolina Public Service Workers Union has build a strong union membership of 3,000 workers in the US state, but most are without bargaining rights due to an archaic state law.

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How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:06:34 -0700

TCS Daily - By Robert M. Dunn Jr. - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - [F]ew Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory....There has been a stunning decline in the fertility rate in Mexico....

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Gateway to the Next Mexican Revolution?

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:14:23 -0800

CounterPunch - By John Ross - Dec. 28 (Editorial) - After a tumultuous year in which the red and black flags of civil insurrection unfurled on the barricades and the rancor of "los de abajo" ("those from below") took fire, newly sworn-in president Felipe Calderon and his transnational backers are banking on fading the color scheme to a ubiquitous gray in 2007. Their success will be measured by the fight back of a popular resistance that has surged from the bottom in many parts of the country during 2006.

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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Recount

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:33:14 -0700

The Guardian - By Greg Palast - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - In the six years since I first began investigating the burglary ring we call "elections" in America, a new Voting Reform industry has grown up. That’s good. What’s worrisome is that most of the effort is focused on preventing the installation of computer voting machines. Paper ballots, we’re told, will save our democracy. Well, forget it. Over the weekend, Mexico’s ruling party showed how you can rustle an election even with the entire population using the world’s easiest paper ballot.

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