Greenpeace press releases

Contact: Press-releases@mailman.greenpeace.org

The international environmentalist and antiwar group needs little introduction, but as it has grown, coverage of its activities by the corporate mainstream media has shrunk. This email list lets you keep abreast of the swashbuckling adventures of the Rainbow Warrior and so on.

Infoarte
Contact: lizirod@hotmail.com

Lizi Rodriguez’s Spanish-language guide to what’s happening on the Panamanian arts scene.

La Carta de Panama
Contact: c-panama@lacarta.info

Retiree Juan Manuel Handal runs this locally influential mostly-Spanish bilingual list that includes various clippings and original articles and a wide-ranging discussion of topics related specifically to Panama and to life in general.

Truthout
Go to: http://www.truthout.org/membership/sub_mgmt.php

Left-leaning news and views that CNN and Fox like to ignore, a particularly good source of the other side of the story when George W. Bush and Tony Blair lead their countries off to war.

Victoria’s News
Contact: vfigge@cableonda.net

This mostly-English bilingual list is maintained by Victoria Figge, a prominent figure in the world of Panamanian business and finance. On an almost daily basis she forwards clippings about business topics --- broadly defined --- from international publications, plus a lot of documents and press releases about money laundering, the OECD’s efforts to suppress tax havens and other subjects of vital interest to the Panamanian financial sector.