Special units attacked the 1st of mai demonstration in Russia, Niznij Novgorod. One demonstrator got run over by a military transporter of the special unit OMON, which was suddenly driving into the crowd and the demonstrator was imediatedly dead.
'From being a fight over the fate of a river valley, the struggle against big dams in the Narmada Valley has begun to raise doubts about an entire political system. What is at issue now is the very nature of India's democracy. Who owns this land? Who Owns its rivers? Its' forests? Its Fish?' Arundhati Roy, The Greater Common Good
Indigenous Guaranà in the southeast of Bolivia block the gas conveyor systems of multinational corporations and demand the reversal of the law from 1996 about the sell-out of the Bolivian natural gas. The union of farm workers and Aymará of the Anden region set a four day time limit for the governemt Mesa to fulfill their demands.
Streetblockades are prepared.
Anniversary: 20th birthday of the MST and EZLN in the university of Sao Paulo (USP)
- translation of feature from Indymedia Brasil, pictures and report by Latuff.
