NACLA Update 6/10/10 - Interview With Laura Castellanos/Brazil's Nuclear Diplomacy

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Violence Against Journalists in Mexico: An Interview With Laura Castellanos
by Paola Reyes
Aggression against journalists in Mexico often gets lost in the murky impunity of the country's violent drug war. However, a report by Mexican freedom-of-the-press organizations asserts that 65% of attacks on journalists have been not at the hands of drug cartels, but rather at the hands of the state. This interview is with independent journalist and writer Laura Castellanos. On May 10 still-unknown assailants ransacked her apartment, stealing only her laptop and reporter's pad, while leaving other items of value behind. Castellanos's experience is only one more incident in the recent surge of violence against journalists in Mexico, the most dangerous place for the profession in Latin America, according to Reporters Without Borders.
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Brazil's Nuclear Diplomacy and Its Quest for a New International Politics
by Samantha Eyler Reid
On May 18 Brazilian President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan negotiated with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regarding Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium. The success of the negotiations was hailed internationally, sealing Brazil's designation as a rising global power in what many are calling a new multi-polar world. However, this new wave of south-to-south solidarity also challenges what once was Washington's unipolar stranglehold on global politics.
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The SEIU: The Fastest Growing Union in the United States
by Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens
The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) continues to defy the trend of record-low union membership in the United States. After doubling its membership from 1.2 million in 2000 to 2.2 million today, it is among the fastest growing unions in the country. Indeed, the union's long history of innovation and transformation at least partially explains its growth, as depicted in Ken Loach's critically-acclaimed film Bread and Roses (2000), which focused on the union's Justice for Janitors campaign. Now the SEIU is proposing to unite janitors with security guards, a traditionally African-American dominated labor force. This gritty work of creating solidarity across ethnic lines is perhaps the most significant response to the hostile anti-immigrant climate that pervades the United States today.
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