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Se vc ainda não viu, não perca. É uma série sobre a resistência não-violenta no século XX. São 6 documentários de meia hora mostrando histórias de sucesso do método mais civilizado de mudar o status quo.

Além da lutas de Gandhi e do movimento negro americano, há episódios menos discutidos como o boicote de consumidores na África do Sul nos anos 80 que ajudou a acabar como o Apartheid, a resistência dos dinamarqueses durante a invasão nazista, o movimento Solidariedade na Polônia e os protestos no Chile que retirar o Pinochet do poder. Vai passar na no sábado à partir das 16h e reapresentado no domingo às 13h.

Veja mais nessa nota e nesses endereços: aforcemorepowerful.org e PBS.

A fabricante de tênis que explora crianças do terceiro mundo Nike continua sendo alvo de ativistas. Dessa vez a coisa é mais ambiciosa. Veja o site da blackspotsneaker.org/ que tem o apoio da adbusters.

O buzzflash publicou uma entrevista bacana com o Paul Krugman. O professor e colunista do New York Times, explica que não faz parte do "clubinho" dos jornalistas, por isso fica de fora das últimas fofocas de Washington, mas isso é compensado pela maior independência de opinião.

Krugman tb critica o governismo de muitos colegas jornalistas americanos...

BUZZFLASH: You make the case that a revolutionary, right wing movement has set out to transform the United States, and they're succeeding. So much of the print media and so many television broadcast journalists have become more like stenographers for the official government spin than probing journalists. What's your take on that?

KRUGMAN: Well, a couple of things. The first is that a good part of the media are essentially part of the machine. If you work for any Murdoch publication or network, or if you work for the Rev. Moon's empire, you're really not a journalist in the way that we used to think. You're basically just part of a propaganda machine. And that's a pretty large segment of the media.

As for the rest, certainly being critical at the level I've been critical -– basically saying that these guys are lying, even if it's staring you in the face –- is a very unpleasant experience. You get a lot of heat from people who should be on your side, because they accuse you of being shrill, which is everybody's favorite word for me. And you become a personal target. It can be quite frightening. I've seen cases where a journalist starts to say something less than reverential about Bush, and then catches himself or herself, and says something like, "Oh, I better not say that, I'll get 'mailed.'" And what they mean by "mail" is hate mail, and it also means that somebody is going to try to see if there's anything in your personal history that can be used to smear you.

It's like shock therapy, aversion therapy. If you touch these things, you yourself are going to get an unpleasant, painful electric shock. And most people in the media just back off as a result.

O Technology Review do MIT traz uma reportagem sobre a busca de soluções para a economia cubana. Segundo o professor, Richard A. Muller, que visitou recentemente a terra do Fidel, o futuro da ilha é low-tech. Muller diz que a solução no curto prazo para os problemas economicos cubanos são gado e turismo, já que país não consegue mais competir no mercado de açúcar com países com melhor tecnologia como o Brasil, Índia e China.

Em mais uma cagada enorme, soldados americanos mataram 8 policiais iraquianos que perseguiam bandidos em uma estrada perto de Falluja. Veja Guardian e New York Times.

Assem Mohammed, 23, a police sergeant who was among the injured, told Reuters: "We were chasing a car when the Americans fired at us. They continued firing ... despite our pleas for them to stop and to tell them we are police and security." Policeman Arkan Adnan Ahmed said they were under fire for about 45 minutes. He was shot in the shoulder.

He said the sudden appearance of one of the police vehicles, an unmarked pickup truck with a machine gun mounted on top, may have prompted the Americans to begin firing. "We shouted 'we are police. We are police.' Then we drove off the road into a field."

Em outro tiroteio, perto em Ramadi, 2 soldados da coalizão morreram e 7 ficaram feridos em um tiroteio em Ramadi, cidade a oeste de Bagdá.

The military did not disclose the nationalities of the killed and wounded soldiers in the Ramadi raid. "They could be members of any country's army that is participating in the coalition," another military spokeswoman, Specialist Nicole Thompson, said by telephone from Baghdad.