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| 9 Razones Para Oponerse el ALCA | | 2002-06-01 |
| 9 Razones Para Oponerse el ALCA |
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| A bad start for biosafety | | 2002-04-01 |
| The year 2000 marked a turning point in global biosafety regulation. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB), the first international law to regulate genetic engineering, was adopted by more than 130 countries. This reflected a global climate of concern |
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| A Brief History of Migration | | 2002-12-02 |
| Human history is the history of migration and the most 'sophisticated' civilizations arose where human traffic was heaviest. |
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| Access and benefit sharing - key issues | | 2002-04-01 |
| The Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) agreement is an attempt to clarify arrangements for dealings between ‘providers’ and ‘users’ of biological genetic resources. Indigenous peoples and small farmers in developing countries are maj |
| | | | Rod Harbinson |
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| Accompanimente | | 2002-06-01 |
| Mientras los pueblos son hundidos en la miseria por las políticas neoliberales, su resistencia crece provocando alarma para el capital global. En un documento “consultivo” de EEUU (Santa Fe 4), esta situación se plantea como una amenaza a su seguridad nac |
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| ALCA Editorial | | 2002-06-01 |
| El Área de Libre Comercio de Las Américas (ALCA) es un tratado de negocios internacional disfrazado de unión propuesta con intención de crear la zona más grande de libre mercado del mundo –ésto afectaría a 650 millones de personas y movería un capital de |
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| An Indigenous reaction to biopiracy | | 2002-04-01 |
| Time and time again, global initiatives have provided governments and pharmaceutical companies with a legal avenue in which to exploit indigenous communities. |
| | | | Debra Harry |
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| An Interview with Evo Morales | | 2002-06-02 |
| Evo Morales Ayma, 43 years old, is president of the coca farmers' federation in Chapare and he's a symbol of the struggle against neoliberal politics in Bolivia and the host of the International People's Global Action conference in Cochabamba last year. |
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| anti-terrorism bill | | 2002-01-28 |
| In the wake of September 11, the British government rushed the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 through Parliament. The emergency legislation is a classic example of what happens when politicians "legislate in haste [and] repent at leisure."
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| Biodiversity vs. carbon sinks = major hypocrisy | | 2002-04-01 |
| The CBD parties state in the first paragraph of the convention that they are “conscious of the intrinsic value of biological diversity.” However, the concept of carbon sinks gives “carbon credits” to large-scale monoculture plantat |
| | | | Julie Chadwick |
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| Biohazard in the lowlands | | 2002-04-01 |
| Despite the fact that Aventis Liberty Link maize was the first transgenic corn to have been cleared through all the appropriate channels for commercial cultivation, you will not find it in any fields in the Netherlands in 2002. |
| | | | Wytze de Lange |
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| Border Camps : The New ‘Sexy’ Thing? | | 2002-12-02 |
| A personal account of the Strasbourg noborder camp and its wider implications for where "we" are going. |
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| Border Panic: White Imperialism and Illegality | | 2002-12-02 |
| Attention to national borders has figured prominently in the post-9-11 world. At the same time that some national state boundaries are flagrantly ignored - as in the US-led bombing of Afghanistan and Iraq - the borders that define ‘First World’ space are |
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| borders editorial | | 2002-12-02 |
| Obviously we couldn’t include everything about borders that we wanted to, so in time honoured greenpepper tradition, we’ve tried to include a bit of everything; specific situations, the broader political and economic implications of migration control, a f |
| | | | alex and kev |
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| Borders Resistance! | | 2002-12-02 |
| Resistance to borders is always happening in varying degrees of visibility; from the people who cross borders clandestinely, who travel without papers, or with false ones, to those holding hunger strikes inside camps, resisting their deportation, from com |
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| Carbon Colonialism | | 2001-07-01 |
| Looking at how the trading of clean air on a global scale. Is it going to be a continuation of the old systems, The old players , The old Games. |
| | | | Ricardo Carrere |
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| Certain access, uncertain benefits | | 2002-04-01 |
| For those who were not part of the discussions on ‘access and benefit sharing’ that took place in Bonn recently, the recommendations reached by some of the discussants seem a bit perplexing. One finds certainty about the necessity for access t |
| | | | Frieda Morris |
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| Cimarronaje y los Palenques: Resistencia Ancestral | | 2002-06-01 |
| En 1540, “tan solo siete años después de la fundación de Cartagena de Indias, aparece la primera cedula real referente al problema de los negros cimarrones” , problema que no se acabaría si no con el reconocimiento de la libertad de los esclavizados |
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| Climate of Racism | | 2001-07-01 |
| The historically exploitative relationship between the colonised and their colonisers continues today, in more subtle ways. The comparative advantage that the colonisers achieved through warfare, fear and violence during the days of rampant colonialism is |
| | | | Heidi Bachram |
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| climate talks | | 2000-11-01 |
| Since 1990, the UN’s own scientists have recommended a minimum 60% reduction in world greenhouse gas emissions below the levels they were at in 1990 - which must mean massive social and economic change. As for the world of politics...
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| Coca-cola : Bebida universal, violacion de los derechos sind | | 2002-06-01 |
| La receta del Coca-Cola es uno de los secretos más guardados de la industría agroalimentaria. La multinacional americana está muy preocupada por la calidad de su produccíon en todos los sitios dónde se fabrica el Coca-Cola. No parece estar tan preocupada |
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| Coca-Cola: universal drink, unrespected union rights | | 2002-06-02 |
| Among trade union leaders who were recently murdered in Colombia, 7 of them were working for the Coca-Cola company. |
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| Como Afectara el ALCA a la Mujer? | | 2002-06-01 |
| Segun un informe del Fondo International para el Desarrollo Agricola (FIDA), a pesar del crecimiento economico generalizado en America Latina, la pobreza rural ha aumentado de un 10 a un 20 por ciento en los ultimos tres años. |
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| Comunidades Afrodescendientes : Resistir es Aferrarse a la V | | 2002-06-01 |
| Los procesos de resistencia, son hoy por hoy una de las mas importantes alternativas populares a la guerra y a sus atrocidades, que no son mas que las manifestaciones de la degradación del conflicto armado que durante las ultimas cinco décadas ha vivido C |
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| Consecuencias del Plan Puebla Panamá en Guatemala | | 2002-06-01 |
| El Plan Puebla Panamá es parte de la expansión del gran bloque comercial del mundo, denominado “Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas” (ALCA)” que es de mucho interés para el gobierno y empresarios norteamericanos. Dicho plan juntamente con el Plan |
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| Corporate Agri-Business Promotion | | 2002-04-01 |
| When will the European Union stand up to agri-business and help Europeans develop sustainable rural solutions? |
| | | | Fernando Garcia Dory |
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| Corporate Profiles | | 2003-03-02 |
| Ten corporate players dominate the global water industry which is estimated to be worth $400 billion annually. Corruption, bribery, environmental problems, maintenance deficiencies, and huge price increases make up much of their history. |
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| Damming the Future on the Road to Prosperity | | 2003-03-02 |
| Giant dams were once billed as the new clean way of producing electricity, supplying industrialisation and urbanisation with the increasing levels of power they demanded. |
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| Death and the Second Sex | | 2001-10-01 |
| Sipewe Mhakeni used herbs from the Mugugudhu tree. After grinding the stem and leaf, she inserts it into her vagina for 10 to 15 minutes. The herbs swell the soft tissues of the vagina, make it hot, and dry it out. |
| | | | John Schoofs |
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| Destroy the Meter, Enjoy the Water! The Orange Farm Water St | | 2003-03-02 |
| When Johannesburg Water started installing pre-paid water meters in their community in the weeks running up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (W$$D), residents of Orange Farm in South Africa got a taste of today’s conception of ‘sustainabilit |
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| diy cryptography | | 2002-01-28 |
| "Don’t send me this via email" your friend tells you, "someone may read it".
How many times have you heard this, and wondered who is likely to read your email, how they are able to, what the law says about it and how you can protect your privacy.
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| Dying for Compensation | | 2001-07-01 |
| Our people have a long and well-documented |
| | | | Lori Goodman |
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| Earth Criminals on Trial | | 2002-04-01 |
| The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was one of the main commitments made by world leaders at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Since then global extinction of varieties and species has accelerated to unprecedented levels, characterising the last de |
| | | | Rod Harbinson |
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| echelon | | 2002-01-28 |
| WHAT IS ECHELON?
The door to paranoia opens benignly—and early. Just think of Santa. He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good, for goodness' sake. And he knows these things all the time, even t |
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| Economia Campesina Peruana : Un Reto contra el ALCA | | 2002-06-01 |
| El ALCA pretende que nuestros países se reduzcan a producir materias primas para que sean transformadas por los yankis y que renunciemos a ser productores para resignarnos a ser consumidores de las mercancías de sus empresas. |
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| Editorial: Redefining Terrorism | | 2001-01-27 |
| Since the violent images of the collapsing twin towers burned its way into our collective consciousness the world has gone to war, following Bush’s lead, to "crack down on terrorism." |
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| Editorial: the AIDS edition | | 2001-10-01 |
| AIDS is more than just a disease - it encompasses our fear of death; it brings out homophobic, racist and sexist reactions; and it is an epidemic that is being exploited for profit by multinational corporations and international institutions. |
| | | | Debbie & Ishka |
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| El Agua : Un Derecho de Todos | | 2002-06-01 |
| En Bolivia, al igual que en el resto de los países del continente, a partir de la década de los ochenta, se implementa el modelo económico neoliberal como una forma de reacomodo de las fuerzas reaccionarias en el ámbito mundial, que agrupadas en los paíse |
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| El ALCA : La Conquista Continua | | 2002-06-01 |
| Esta masiva expansión del NAFTA a 34 países está siendo negociada ahora mismo en secreto por los ministros de comercio de América del Norte, Central y del Sur. El objetivo del ALCA es imponer el modelo del NAFTA de nuevas inversiones corporativas y protec |
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| El pueblo de Embera Katio : Luchando contra la extincion | | 2002-06-01 |
| Somos una étnia milenaria compuesta actualmente por 2800 personas. Vivimos al norte de Colombia, en el Departamento de Córdoba, municipio de Tierralta, en la región comprendida entre tres importantes ríos: Sinú (Kerado), Esmeralda (Kuranzado) y Verde (Iwa |
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| El verdadero núcleo de la “globalización” | | 2002-06-01 |
| Hace un siglo el sueño de John Pierpont Morgan era unir a todos los grandes capitalistas en una gran corporación, por supuesto bajo su mando. Una imagen de ese sueño puede ser la corporación J.P.Morgan-Chase de hoy. |
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| Entrevista con Evo Morales | | 2002-06-01 |
| Evo Morales Ayma, de 43 años, es presidente de la federación de los productores de la hoja de coca en el Chapare, y símbolo de la lucha contra la política neoliberal en Bolivia. |
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| Environmental Justice in USA | | 2001-07-19 |
| The history of environmental justice in the United States is one of local movements merging into a national movement that now looks to forge stronger links with activists in other countries to demand global justice. Ten years ago, the First National Peopl |
| | | | Analia Penchaszadeh |
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| Environmental Racism | | 2001-07-01 |
| Is pollution persecution? Are there elements of the environmental movements that can be considered racist? These are just two questions this edition of the Greenpepper will explore. Questions which often inspire discomfort, defensiveness and incomprehensi |
| | | | Heidi Bachram |
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| EU liability for GMOs : A broken promise | | 2002-04-01 |
| In January 2002 the European Commission presented the Proposal for a European Union (EU) Directive on Environmental Liability. The Proposal in general is very weak and has been strongly criticised by environmental NGOs. They are especially concerned that |
| | | | Juan Lopez |
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| Evian, G8 and the PGA | | 2003-03-02 |
| Since the last summer, a series of workshops were held at various locations and a communication list (water@lists.riseup.net) was initiated. As a result, a loose network of people have started to organise around the issue of water. And one powerful option |
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| Female Migrants and Anti-Trafficking Legislation | | 2002-12-02 |
| At the turn of this century, panic surfaced about the "white slave trade", torrid stories abounded of "innocent girls completely ignorant of sex (…) compelled to submit to the corrupt and degraded desires of men sunk in vice and perversion." |
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| Fighting Big Pharma | | 2001-10-01 |
| Christopher Moraka died primarily as a result of a fungus that infected his throat and prevented him from eating. Yet a medicine called fluconazole would have easily cured Christopher’s systemic thrush. |
| | | | Nathan Geffen |
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| Free Trade and Security in the Western Hemisphere | | 2002-06-02 |
| The United States has traditionally played a dominant role in Latin America. Countries there have been treated like the poor relatives over whom the US has assumed rights and power. It has overthrown governments, assisted dictatorships and invaded countri |
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| freedom in times of anger | | 2002-01-28 |
| Terrorism is not only killing random people, destabilising social, economic and political life, but is also causing limitations of freedom and civil rights. After September 11th people, at least in the US, started to value their safety rather than their f |
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| From carbon credits to the privitisation of life | | 2002-04-01 |
| November 2000 saw COP6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) install itself in Den Haag for two weeks. The meeting saw unrelenting attacks on the already strained UNFCCC regime. Even after emergency extensions and a six mon |
| | | | Gregor Jack |
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| FTAA editorial | | 2002-06-02 |
| In this magazine we have tried to look behind the statistics and the figures to give a human face to the misery and suffering as a result of the various neo-liberal plans that are being imposed on Latin America to quite literally clear the way for the FTA |
| | | | Kev Smith |
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| GE-free zones grow in the Balkans | | 2002-04-01 |
| Taking these facts about Slovenia into account, one can ask if the release of GMOs will really benefit its environment and agriculture and will they also increase the well being of its inhabitants, as is frequently claimed by GMO lobbyists.
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| Halting the GE domino effect | | 2002-04-01 |
| China has become the latest victim of US bully tactics to force countries not to implement GE rules that restrict imports. China gave in to US strong-arm tactics just days before its strict GE rules were due to enter into force on March 20. |
| | | | Rod Harbinson |
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| Hidden Statistics: Environmental Refugees | | 2001-07-19 |
| The UNIPCC predicts there will be an estimated 150 million environmental refugees by the year 2050. Yet environmental refugees are not recognised in international law, so there is no obligation for the rich, polluting nations of the global north to protec |
| | | | Dr Zoidberg |
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| HIV = AIDS = DEATH | | 2001-10-01 |
| “Do you know anyone who has died of AIDS in your family, neighbourhood, someone you’ve heard about?" AIDS education in Assegai Primary School, Wentworth, South Africa |
| | | | Ishka |
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| Horrorscopes | | 2001-07-19 |
| The Climate Change special edition "Earth Crimes" horrorscopes from Aries to Pisces... |
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| How will the FTAA impact women? | | 2002-06-02 |
| In Latin America, women account for 70 to 90% of workers in the export-processing zones (EPZs) where they assemble garments, textiles and electronics for export. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, women earn $4 a day, not a "living wage" in a border town where pri |
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| I dont eat candy with the wrapper on | | 2001-10-01 |
| The random stranger we met at the telephone box had kept his word – we had wanted to learn about AIDS in South Africa and here we were, being whisked off to the Wings of Love centre in the south Durban township of Wentworth. |
| | | | Debbie Waters |
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| If I had a dollar... | | 2001-10-01 |
| ..to spend for healthcare I'd rather spend it on a baby or innocent person with some defect or illness not of their own responsibility; not some person with AIDS... |
| | | | David Wojnarowicz |
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| Indigenous Peoples and the FTAA | | 2002-06-02 |
| Once again the geopolitical map of the Americas is about to be redrawn in ways that violate the titles, treaties and basic human rights of the hemisphere's First Nations. The FTAA continues the genocidal tradition which began with the founding of New Spai |
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| Itoiz Update | | 2003-03-02 |
| Last month the Spanish authorities dealt a final blow to the 20-year campaign against the Itoiz Dam near Pamplona. On 23rd January water began to fill the reservoir. |
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| Joy.. Repression... Possibilities | | 2002-12-02 |
| A personal account of the anti-FTAA mobilisations that took place in Ecuador in Oct/Nov 2002 |
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| Knocking on the Doors of the Lion's Den | | 2002-12-02 |
| In July 2002 I was informed by the Australian Embassy in Washington that I was denied a visa. I did not pass the "Character Test", a provision of the Australian Migration Act that allows the Minister of Immigration to deny a visa because of the applicant' |
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| La guerra contra las drogas en Bolivia | | 2002-06-01 |
| En diciembre de 2001, Casimiro Huanca, Secretario Ejecutivo de una de las seis federaciones de productores de la hoja de coca del Trópico de Cochabamba, encabezaba un grupo de cocaleros que protestaba en contra de los programas de desarrollo alternativo i |
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| La Recolonización Española | | 2002-06-01 |
| La memoria colectiva del pueblo latinoamericano, reforzada en cada país por una educación de talante patriótico, ha impreso en la geografia del continente, numerosos pasajes y testimonios de las gestas del Ejército Libertador de Simón Bolivar, Sucre o Mar |
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| La Solidaridad es la Ternura de los Pueblos | | 2002-06-01 |
| Innumerables ejemplos de accion y acompañamiento internacional a pueblos en conflicto en el mundo alientan la confianza en la fuerza vital de la solidaridad, del hermanamiento entre iguales, en un mundo regido por la competencia, y el individualismo. |
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| Labour, unions, migrants and race | | 2002-12-02 |
| The Australian union movement's relationship with questions of race and migration has always been uneasy, with strong currents of nationalism and racism running through its dealing with question of so-called "illegal" workers. |
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| Libre comercio y seguridad en el hemisferio occidental | | 2002-06-01 |
| Estados Unidos ha ejercido tradicionalmente un rol dominante sobre América Latina. Los países latinoamericanos han sido tratados como los parientes pobres sobre los cuales EEUU se ha tomado derechos y atribuciones. Ha derrocado gobiernos, apoyado dictadur |
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| Links of Interest | | 2002-04-01 |
| A collection of websites related to the issues, including resources, action updates, and more |
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| Living is Easy with Eyes Closed: on Globalisation and Migrat | | 2002-12-02 |
| Whether migrants come seeking asylum or economic benefits, either way the causes of their movement are political. For globalisation directly and indirectly causes poverty, displacement and migrants. |
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| Luchamos por Vivienda y Vida Digna : Corporacion Destechados | | 2002-06-01 |
| n Colombia la lucha en busca de oportunidades, trabajo,salud, educación y vivienda. Es permanente debido a la desigualdad, la mala distribución de la riqueza y la explotación. |
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| Maintaining the Borders: identity & politics | | 2002-12-02 |
| Identity is the process of creating and maintaining borders, creating different kinds of people. This keeps the world packaged in tidy little boxes. These boxes, in turn, are necessary for the violence and domination of hierarchical societies. |
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| Making Money Out of Water - GATS, the EU and Water | | 2003-03-02 |
| In the context of the GATS negotiations on further liberalisation of trade in services currently underway in the WTO, the European Union has asked most WTO member states to consider opening up water provision and waste water management to foreign competit |
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| Manifesto Destiny | | 2001-10-01 |
| "I am not dying: I am being murdered. Just as surely as if my body was being tossed into a gas chamber, I am being sold down the river by people within this community who claim to be helping people with AIDS. |
| | | | Kiki Mason |
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| Migration and the Environment | | 2002-12-02 |
| If you want to highlight political differences within the ‘green’ movement, using ‘environment’ and ‘population’ in the same sentence is a good way to do it. |
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| Migration and the Environment : A Response | | 2002-12-02 |
| Cam Walker makes a go at this arguement. where this falls short in my opinion
is the framing of the issues within a liberal-leftist discourse and not a more
radical grassroots and anti-capitalist one
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| Multi-Lateral Development Banks : Paving the Path to Priviti | | 2003-03-02 |
| The World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) are the largest financiers of water projects in low-income countries, and the most important international institutions in policy-making for the water sector. |
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| Nando Alvardo Aguirrez | | 2002-06-01 |
| La palabra es uno de los mayores valores de las Comunidades Negras, la palabra ha representado el honor, la responsabilidad, la palabra ha permitido expresar todo tipo de sentimiento y conocimiento, como lo observaremos la historia de vida del “señor Nand |
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| Neither State nor Market - Alternative Systems of Water Mana | | 2003-03-02 |
| Dividing the debate over management of water and other natural resources into one between the relative merits of state and private ownership ignores the existence of numerous alternatives in societies around the world. |
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| Neo-Liberal Trade Policies, Women & Climate | | 2001-05-05 |
| Economic globalisation is having a critical affect on the lives of women and the environment. It is contributing to pollution, illness, and furthering the land use crisis wherein women are at the core. Harmful policies continue to be implemented by non-de |
| | | | Tamra Gilbertson |
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| New Rural Initiatives and the awakening of the forgotten | | 2002-04-01 |
| The current model of industrial agriculture cannot last much longer. The recent spate of food scares, the desertification of the countryside and the global structural hunger crisis, are all indicators of the current crisis. |
| | | | Fernando Garcia Dory |
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| Nine Reasons to Oppose the FTAA | | 2002-06-02 |
| The FTAA is essentially an expansion of NAFTA. But NAFTA has proven to be a nightmare for working families and the environment. |
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| Noah's Ark Sails With Global Warming - The Mozambique Flood | | 2000-11-01 |
| Floods have devastated Mozambique in the beginning of this year. Venezuela also suffered from the effects of intense rainfalls. Similar weather events occurred during this year in France and, more recently, in East Timor. Apparently, floods, droughts, des |
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| OMGs, Agro-Industria y el ALCA | | 2002-06-01 |
| La industria biotecnológica y los gobiernos de países que producen OMGs (EEUU, Canadá y Argentina) planean usar el ALCA para forzar la aparición de mercados abiertos a sus no deseados cultivos de OMGs. |
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| One Straw Revolution | | 2001-07-01 |
| The Climate is changing and the corporate and political world are not. What can you do? Revolution starts with the individual. |
| | | | Charlie Mingus |
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| People stand up in defence of the river Ebro | | 2003-03-02 |
| The Spanish government, following a long tradition of unwelcome large-scale public works and you-scratch-my-back contracts with construction and hydro-electric power companies, has prepared a grandiose National Hydrological Plan (NHP) |
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| Peruvian Peasant Economies : A Challenge to the FTAA | | 2002-06-02 |
| In Cusco, Peru, the departmental federation of the peasants of Cusco (FDCC) considers that the small scale production encompassing 92% of the country´s land can achieve profitability and competitiveness and become a source of progress which will contribut |
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| Plan Colombia : Intervención militar de manos del ALCA | | 2002-06-01 |
| En abril del 2000, l@s defensor@s del ALCA consiguieron la aprobación de un paquete de ayuda llamado Plan Colombia. Incialmente propuesto por el gobierno Colombiano, el plan fue después ratificado por la administración Clinton, después de un prolongado ca |
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| Plan Colombia. Military intervention at the hands of the FTA | | 2002-06-02 |
| In order to fully understand how Plan Colombia falls within the mandate of the FTAA, it is important to have some background knowledge of Colombia's socio-economic history. |
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| Plan Puebla-Panama: Development or Neocolonialism? | | 2002-06-02 |
| The PPP displays a benevolent facade full of good wishes expressed in the worn-out rhetoric of ‘development’- the necessity of opening the region to the global market in order to fight poverty. In doing so it sets the conditions for the transnational pira |
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| Plan Puebla-Panamá: ¿Desarrollo o Neocolonización? | | 2002-06-01 |
| El Plan Puebla-Panamá (PPP) es ciertamente un megaproyecto transnacional: diseñado claramente desde los EE.UU., promovido principalmente por el nuevo gobierno empresarial de México que encabeza Vicente Fox, y para ser aplicado en los empobrecidos nueve es |
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| Que se vayan todos, que no quede ni uno solo | | 2002-06-01 |
| La Argentina está en crisis: todos estamos ya al tanto. Pero ¿qué quiere decir esto? El Gobierno de los EE.UU y de los países del G-8 dicen: queremos ayudar a la Argentina, pero primero deben arreglar sus asuntos con el F.M.I. El Fondo pide aún más ajuste |
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| Racism and AIDS | | 2001-10-01 |
| The rich countries of the North have the technology and resources to prevent millions of unnecessary AIDS-related deaths in the South. Why don’t they? We* charge that their failure to respond is a function of racism. |
| | | | Mercedes Sayagues |
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| Racism in the Environmental Movement | | 2001-07-01 |
| Is there a problem within the environmental movement with racism? The question is asked by Larry Lohman |
| | | | Larry Lohmann |
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| Racism Inc. | | 2001-07-19 |
| The increase in racist attacks and incidents in Europe have brought much attention to the far-right groups and individuals perpetrating them. But while many people in Europe today are comfortable denouncing neo-nazi skinheads bent on inciting racial hatre |
| | | | Adam Ma'anit |
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| restore the commons! break the borders! | | 2002-12-02 |
| To restore the commons is to resist capital's enclosures. To restore the commons is to refuse to be defined by capital's borders. But to restore the commons is to do more than simply escape. Rather it is to create a new world. In our refusal we should all |
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| Rio + 10 | | 2001-07-01 |
| Ten years on from the summit in Rio what progress has been made. A report from the Corporate Euro Observatory makes an assesment as to the progress and direction of events in the last dacade |
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| Roma Compilation | | 2002-12-02 |
| Originally from northwest India, Roma have been living in Europe for more than 900 years. Continuing prejudices dictate that Roma are seen less as an ethnic group and more as a nomadic people. |
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| sands winds | | 2000-11-01 |
| "Yellow Sand" is the name for the phenomenon of soil dusts from desert areas of Mongolia and China being blown up into the atmosphere and then carried by westerly winds, to the Korean Peninsula and Japanese Islands. It is called "Hwang-Sa" in Korea, "Huan |
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| Sinking Kyoto | | 2001-07-01 |
| The original purpose of the UN climate change negotiations was to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avert catastrophic global climate change. But the talks have turned into a surreal discussion about how the atmosphere can be bought and sold with the use o |
| | | | Simon Retallack |
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| Sinks promote GE trees and crops | | 2002-04-01 |
| Corporations keen to enter the carbon-market are pursuing strategies that will give added value to sinks projects in highly unsustainable ways, such as global promotion of sinks based on a combination of existing chemical technology with genetic engineeri |
| | | | Rod Harbinson |
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| SIS : The Dawn of Digital Borders | | 2002-12-02 |
| Invisible and unaccountable, the Schengen Information System(SIS) exemplifies the more undemocratic and repressive elements of the nascent European Union(EU). |
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| Solidarity is the Tenderness of the People | | 2002-06-02 |
| Innumerable examples of action and international support for peoples in conflict encourage confidence in the vital force of solidarity, of the sisterhood and brotherhood between equals in a world governed by incompetence and greed. |
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| state of terror | | 2002-01-28 |
| In little over a year Britain has been turned into a ‘police state on paper’ with scarcely a murmur of dissent from the public. Far from the huge outcry in 1974 when the original ‘temporary’ anti-terrorism laws were introduced, the |
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| Statement of Leonard Peltier on the FTAA | | 2002-06-02 |
| I know many of you are already familiar with the FTAA, NAFTA, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. I know many of you are working hard to expose what these organizations and agreements are all about and how they are taking over the world and violating hu |
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| Supercyclone | | 2000-11-01 |
| The two cyclones that hit Orissa in late October 1999 had a devastating impact. Wind speeds reached 300 km/h, with storm surges of several metres, damaging three million homes and infrastructure, killing 10,000 people, making 7.5 million people homeless a |
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| Taking Water from the Poor to the Rich | | 2001-07-01 |
| Taking a look at the inherent inequities of water distribution |
| | | | Lori Pottinger |
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| The 3rd World Water Forum : Diluting Dissent? | | 2003-03-02 |
| The organisers claim that the forum is open and inclusive to every ‘stakeholder’, but in reality it is elitist, undemocratic and deeply biased to corporate interests. |
| | | | Corporate Europe Observatory |
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| The Aftershock | | 2003-03-02 |
| If the attack on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001 can be considered to have been a political earthquake for the American people, the U.S. is now suffering from the aftershock. |
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| The AIDS Quilt | | 2001-10-01 |
| The NAMES Project Quilt is that rare phenomenon in contemporary culture, real community artwork with no initial connection to artists or art schools. |
| | | | Debbie Waters |
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| The Answer Might be as Simple as Money | | 2001-10-01 |
| I could hardly believe my eyes when I had a look at the World Bank website. The first thing I saw was a slogan saying "World Bank - A world free of poverty." |
| | | | Gray Maguire |
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| The Borders of Everyday Life | | 2002-12-02 |
| When we think about borders it is often the prison camps and the deaths of
those attempting to cross borders that come to mind. However, borders of exclusion and poverty permeate most aspects of the lives of the poor in
capitalist society.
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| The Embera Katio People : Fighting Against Extinction | | 2002-06-02 |
| We do not want to disappear like a city of the ancients. We have the right to exist and to exercise our free self-determination. We need global political support to defend us from paramilitary attacks. |
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| The FTAA : the Conquest Continues | | 2002-06-02 |
| This massive 34-country NAFTA expansion is being negotiated right now in secret by trade ministers from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. The goal of the FTAA is to impose the NAFTA model of new corporate investment and patent protection |
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| The FTAA, GMOs and Agri-Business | | 2002-06-02 |
| The biotech industry and the governments of GMO producing countries (US, Canada and Argentina) plan to use the FTAA to force open markets for their unwanted GMO crops. |
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| The Future of the Pacific Islands | | 2001-07-01 |
| The industrialised world continues to pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses, causing climate change and sea level rise. This will have a huge impact on the low lying islands of the Pacific |
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| The International Organisation for Migration | | 2002-12-02 |
| During the protest camp in Strasbourg, the international NoBorder network decided to launch a campaign against the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). |
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| The law of the seed - just not good enough | | 2002-04-01 |
| Heralded by NGOs as “The Law of the Seed – a major step towards food sovereignty and justice”, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) establishes a Multilateral System that ensures member s |
| | | | Camille Warren |
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| The Mexican Maize scandal - biosafety compromised | | 2002-04-01 |
| Whenever a food crop suffers a catastrophic failure – such as when blights destroyed the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840s – breeders return to that crop’s centre of diversity to find resistant strains. Mexico, the ‘cradle of cor |
| | | | Kev Smith |
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| The new Spanish colonisation | | 2002-06-02 |
| In a decade, the Latin American society has lost two centuries of national capacity building. Now, the national economies have become dangerously dependent upon the privatising companies. |
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| The top 5 patents on life | | 2002-04-01 |
| GM companies are not just controlling the world food production, they are also compromising its security. Although the EU still maintains a de facto moratorium on new GM releases, this does not stop the rain of patents coming down on us. |
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| The War on Drugs in Bolivia | | 2002-06-02 |
| Since Richard Nixon declared “war on drugs” at the end of the seventies and since the second Reagan administration stated that the production, traffic and consumption of drugs were a threat to US national security, the relationship between the US and Bol |
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| The Water is Still Ours | | 2003-03-02 |
| In 1999, as part of policies imposed by international financial organisations, the Bolivian government privatised Cochabamba’s water. It was handed over to the consortium “Aguas de Tunari” whose major shareholder is the US corporation Bechtel. |
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| The Water Mandarins : Turning Water inot Global Money | | 2003-03-02 |
| Water has become one of the central testing grounds for the implementation of global and national neo-liberal policies. The privatisation of water production and delivery services, particularly urban water supply systems, has become an important arena in |
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| To Reject or Not to Reject, That is the Question | | 2001-07-01 |
| The world is breaking into camps for and against the Treaty with the "Bad for Business" Bush Declaration leading the anti-camp. He has found strange bedfellows of environmentalists who also are concearned with the Treaty and its implications |
| | | | Heidi Bachram |
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| Toxic Racism: the EU, Soap and Mercury Poisoning | | 2001-07-19 |
| Glossy faces and toothy smiles plastered across today’s billboards show an increasing ethnic diversity, implying a world in which racial inequalities and insecurities are finally decreasing. In many aspects, however, this is largely not the case. Sk |
| | | | Julie Chadwick |
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| TRIPS bites biodiversity | | 2002-04-01 |
| Whereas biodiversity is dealt with under the UN system, international rules on Intellectual Property Rights standards are dictated by WTO's TRIPS Agreement. A crucial distinction between these two frameworks is the punishment mechanism. |
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| UN plays Pied Piper - Pushing GE food to the third world | | 2002-04-01 |
| The United Nations has donned a new robe. After its failure to retain its unique and trusted position as the world’s only peacekeeper, it has now decided to play the Pied Piper, leading the flock of discredited biotechnology giants and agribusiness |
| | | | Devinder Sharma |
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| UP Against the Walls of Fortress Europe | | 2002-12-02 |
| On Europe’s southern borders, where Spain meets Northern Africa, the reality of “Fortress Europe” is very stark. The lines between rich and poor are not rhetorical here; they are fortified with bricks and barbed wire |
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| US Funds Climate Change | | 2001-07-01 |
| The US thinks that the Kyoto Protocol is un fair and thinks that developing countries should be included. This is despite the fact that the US is the main contributer to the emmisions from these states. |
| | | | Ophelia Cowell |
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| Water - A Basic Right For Everyone | | 2002-06-02 |
| More than a million people live in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the centre of my country. In the urban centre there are 600, 000 inhabitants and we have suffered a scarcity of water for more than 50 years. Water management has therefore been used by politicians |
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| Water - A source of power and a source of liberation | | 2003-03-02 |
| As a vital source of life, water is a means of power, domination and control. Water can help to dismantle domination and rather than a source of power and exploitation, become a source of emancipation and liberation. |
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| Water Editorial | | 2003-03-02 |
| We expect that most Green Pepper readers are slightly sceptical about the altruism of the corporate sector and their ability to concern themselves with people’s basic needs. We don’t trust that states have our best interests at heart either– so we wanted |
| | | | alex and kev |
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| Water Resources, Links, Campaigns and Events | | 2003-03-02 |
| There are a variety of networks on water, and a burgeoning array of texts and resources regarding water crises, management, privatisation and control. Unfortunately there is a definite lack of radical voices. |
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| Water: Commons or Commodity? | | 2003-03-02 |
| The question of whether water supply is a commons or a commodity is central to debates over water supply privatisation. |
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| We Struggle for Housing and a Dignified Life | | 2002-06-02 |
| In Colombia the struggle for opportunities, work, health, education and housing is permanent due to the inequality, the bad distribution of wealth and exploitation. |
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| West goes East - farmers beware! | | 2002-04-01 |
| In January 2002, three North American farmers, all personally impacted by the commercial cultivation of GE crops in Canada and the US toured four countries of Eastern Europe: Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Poland.
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| when is a terrorist not a terrorist? | | 2002-01-28 |
| President Putin made some very strategic decisions in the wake of S11, spinning virtue from necessity. Knowing that the former Soviet Central Asian republics would bow to U.S. pressure to make their skies and military bases available for raids on Afghanis |
| | | | Debbie Waters |
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| WHO Sold Out to Big Pharma | | 2020-01-10 |
| For years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has offered active and criminal resistance to the distribution of antiretroviral treatments in poor countries. |
| | | | ACTUP NY |
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| WTO Declares Kyoto Protocol Illegal | | 2001-06-28 |
| The WTO Today declares that thew Kyoto Protocol as it stands will infringe the laws of free trade layed down by the WTO. Even in the event of the protocol becoming law, It will not tolerate sanctions against goods and services which ignore the protocol's |
| | | | Debbie Waters |
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| Xeno-racism, nationalism and Fear of the 'Other' | | 2002-12-02 |
| As capital moves ever more freely around the world; we are being locked up, confined, enclosed. |
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| ¡NO HAY AGUA NO HAY NADA! | | 2003-03-02 |
| Can Mas Deu is a squatted community in the valley where Barcelona meets the Collserola National park. Restoring the centuries old water system on site has been a rewarding and challenging experience..... |
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