 HUMAN
RIGHTS/ENVIRONMENTAL
Birzeit
University, Palestine -
info on the blockade and more...
Project
Underground -
supporting the human rights of communities resisting mining & oil exploitation
Adidas
attacked for Asian 'sweatshops' -
from UK Guardian 23/11/00
Shell
Suit -
5 years ago this week Ken Saro-Wiwa and 9 others were hanged.....Ogoni
struggles against Shell continue 11/11/00
Damning
report on UK's security laws -
from Pat Finucane Centre 09/11/00
How
US scientists brought death to the Amazon - Geneticist accused
of letting thousands of Yanomami people die in order to test 'race theory'
from UK Guardian 23/09/00
Vandana
Shiva
Edited version of Vandana Shiva's brilliant Reith lecture on the devastating
effect global economics are having on biodiversity and small-scale
farmers.
Moncultures,
Monopolies and Myths -
Vandana Shiva on the 'Masculinisation of Agriculture'
Forest
corruption -
report covered up - governments, big business & WB & IMF named
in investigation.
ASYLUM
SEEKERS UK
Su
Family -
Headmaster
defends pupils against deportation 17/10/00
Fortress
Europe -
the plight of asylum seekers in Europe, from the Irish Anarchist paper,
Workers
Solidarity
Committee
to Defend Asylum Seekers (UK) -
Scrap the voucher system - Stop the systematic humiliation of asylum seekers
and refugees!
Some
'truths' about asylum seekers behind the media myths
U'WA
U'Wa
update 29/11/00
Uwa
update 8 -
Oxy now drilling on Uwa land - urgent solidarity/practical actions &
support needed!
Uwa
update 7 -
U'Wa letter to Al Gore; Reports on actions; Fundraising plus more
U'Wa
update -Emergency
response needed! - 04/10/00
Proof
of land rights -
U'Wa leaders present Colombia's government with proof of 'Royal Land Titles'
- granted by the King of Spain 1661. Plus - Colombia's Embera
Katio people under attack , 3 assassinated, 21 kidnapped 20/09/00
U'WA
urgent update! -
Support urgently needed to fight imminent eviction - 14/09/00
Small
tribe battles with big oil
- article Howard LaFranchi 14/09/00
U'Wa
urgent call to action! - serious recent developments as of 16/05/00
U'Wa
Alert
- Update as of 25/05/00 - U'Wa mobilise against Oxy.
U'Wa update as
of 06/06/00
U'Wa
John Vidal's excellent article on the background to the U'Wa people's
resistance to the depredations of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation
(Oxy); plus links to other articles and relevant web sites.
Al
Gore -
environmental friend or petroleum politician?
VIEQUES
David Riviera discharged
Interview with Clinton-
Amy Goodmans impromptu interview with Clinton 7th November 2000
Depleted
Uranium
- US Navy use of depleted uranium on Vieques
ViequesThe
people of Vieques island, Puerto Rico, fight a David & Goliath battle
against the might of the US navy.
Viequesudate
26 May / 28 May / 02
October
GLOBAL
DRUGS WAR
Bolivia-
another drug war crisis - from Progressive Response 13/10/00
UK
in secret biological war on drugs -
UK involvement in development of fusarium oxysprum use 17/09/00
Toxic
fungus -
Attempts by the US and Ag/Bio Con Corp., to coerce the Colombians into
letting them step up the 'drug war' with Fusarium Oxysporum, a largely
untested and highly poisonous mycoherbicide
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