Monthly Archive: May 2000

Download Audio US Military Once Again Helps Indonesia The US military has quietly resumed cooperation with the Indonesian military after cutting off ties last year during the violent repression in East Timor. American officials...

Download Audio IMPORTANT TECHNICAL NOTICE: This week’s story about pharmaceuticals in Buenos Aires does not contain voice over translations. Stations wishing to provide such translations may wish to use the following script for help...

Download Audio General Strike in South Africa South Africa’s powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions, which helped topple apartheid, are now turning their attention to global trade. About half of the country’s workers...

Download Audio Argentinean Workers Go on Strike Organized labor in Argentina began a national strike today to protest new laws that, activists say, are anti-worker. The strike is the latest in a string of...