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...Institute of Politics (IOP) study group on social protest movements, were victims of an extraordinary show of police power which drew sharp criticisms from the Florida Council of Churches, the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter and eyewitness observers like John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO. The police presence cost $8.5 million in federal funds, diverted directly from the Iraq war budget. Miami’s mayor called the preventive arrests and closure of downtown a “model of homeland security...
...being unbusinesslike." Both sides knew that global trade relations had changed. The impasse between rich nations and Brazil's "G-22" group collapsed the five-day Cancún meeting - which Zoellick blamed on a cabal of "can't-do" countries led by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has emerged as the spokesman for the developing world. It looks as if Lula may have more to talk about this week. The battle over First World subsidies could torpedo a new round of talks in Miami - talks meant to lead to the Free Trade Area...
...reforms that have so far done more harm than good for the region's 500 million people in poverty - could revive the failed left-wing economic policies that provoked those free-market reforms in the first place. Brazil, for example, last year elected former labor leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as President. In Peru, antiglobalization riots (most often prompted by complaints over industry privatization) have become common. And the "Bolivarian Revolution" of left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has brought double-digit economic contraction to that country. As a result, Mesa's support in Bolivia...
...policy—Kubik was one of the few audience members who didn’t ask about the nature of communist economic oppression, the daunting tasks facing China when (and if) it makes the switch to a capitalist system, or Brazilian labor leader-turned-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. No, Kubik went for a more specific topic...
Last Monday, 151 people, including AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, were arrested during a 5,000-protester rally to support the workers...