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Bahour: The Violence of Curfew
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Sam Bahour
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“Oh God, please tell Sharon to end the curfew by this Saturday so I can go to school.†This is how my secular, eight year old daughter, Areen, has put herself to sleep for the last two weeks. Areen, like so many others here, have t...
Kagarlitsky: The Great Friendship
Commentary, August, 27 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
After a period of cooling in their relations, Russia and the US are experiencing an acute bout of mutual sympathy. This seems a little strange against the background of the nationalist declarations uttered by President Putin during the first month...
Municipalities: 2 Zapatistas Murdered
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Autonomous Municipalities
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[translated by irlandesa] San Manuel Autonomous Municipality By means of this denuncia, we would like to make public the following incidents: 1. - On August 22, several persons from the OPDIC organization met in Ach'lum Mo...
Fazio: The Southeast
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Carlos Fazio
Fazio's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] There is renewed interest at some official diplomatic missions in Mexico in knowing what the EZLN is going to do in response to a foreseeable adverse ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice on the legality of the constitu...
Andes: The Political Economy of a Narco-Terror State
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Ecosolidaridad Andes
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Introduction Social and political upheavals - unlike any before - grip many nations in Latin America. The failure of neoliberalism to deliver prosperity is turning against many of the political parties there. The entire concept of liberal democr...
Al-dabeik building: Interfere and Put an End to Our Human Suffering
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Residents of Al-dabeik building
Al-dabeik building's ZSpace page
Urgent appeal Since the beginning of the last invasion of Nablus the city has been subjected to different kinds of collective punishment by the I...
Burrows: The Saddest Thing About Netanyahu's Visit To Canada Is That Someone Actually Wants To Bring Him
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Paul Burrows
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Binyamin Netanyahu is coming to Winnipeg on September 9th, and the local Canada-Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet-Winnipeg) is helping to organize a peaceful information picket and protest. He is also making an appearance the next day in Toron...
Cromwell: Honest And Compassionate: The Reporting Of John Pilger
Commentary, August, 26 2002
David Cromwell
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One of the guiding principles of the western liberal democracies is that the crimes of our 'enemies' must be scrupulously held up for account and condemnation, while our own crimes are ignored, minimised or cast as examples of 'humanitarian interv...
Aceh: Aceh Backgrounder
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Kontras Aceh
Aceh's ZSpace page
The Indonesian province of Aceh, with a population of around 5 million, is located on the northern-most part of the island of Sumatra, about 1,000 miles from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Located strategically on the sea lanes between south and ...
Burrows: The Saddest Thing About Netanyahu's Visit to Canada is That Someone Actually Wants to Bring Him!
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
Binyamin Netanyahu is coming to Winnipeg on September 9th, and the local Canada-Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet-Winnipeg) is helping to organize a peaceful information picket and protest. He is also making an appearance the next day in ...
Colman: Crisis and Creation in Oaxaca
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
George Colman
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Oaxaca's reputation as a unique center of the arts, prehispanic ruins, colonial architecture and indigenous culture gathered international momentum in 1987, the year the United Nations designated the city part of the "patrimony of humanity". That ...
Winer: Summit Shame
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Stan Winer
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The mass arrests of demonstrators and a blanket ban on civil society demonstrations during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg highlights the contradictions in a country where values have become dangerously eroded. S...
Ritchie: Instant Runoff Voting in Alaska
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Rob Ritchie
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This summer's most exciting campaign for electoral reform will be decided on Tuesday, when Alaskans will vote on whether to implement instant runoff voting for most of their major elections. Instant runoff voting gives voters more power as it lets...
Camacho: The Inexorable Appropriation of Land by the Indigenous
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Dolores Camacho
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[translated by irlandesa] The Indians of Chiapas are not disappearing, there are not just a few of them, and they are not, obviously, a relative minority in a state. As can be seen in the accompanying table*, the Indian population h...
Burrows: The Saddest Thing About Netanyahu's Visit To Canada Is That Someone Actually Wants To Bring Him
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
Nicholas Guyatt, The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Zed Books, 1998), p. 49n Eitan cited in Nur Masalha, Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion (Pluto Press, 2000), p.174 Eitan has a...
Aceh: Aceh Backgrounder
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Kontras Aceh
Aceh's ZSpace page
The Indonesian province of Aceh, with a population of around 5 million, is located on the northern-most part of the island of Sumatra, about 1,000 miles from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Located strategically on the sea lanes between south and ...
Peters: Good Dads are Patriarchs
Commentary, August, 25 2002
Cynthia Peters
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The best dads are old-fashioned patriarchs according to a Globe report of a recent study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. Good fathering is all about stability, says the study, which seems to result from having a wife, a college di...
Mahajan: Bhopal on Less than $40 a Day
Znet Article, August, 25 2002
Romi Mahajan
Mahajan's ZSpace page
“Living. Improved daily.†That’s the motto of Dow Chemical – global giant – the folks that lied about Dioxin, gave us poisonous silicone implants, and in 2001 merged with Union Carbide, the company resp...
Various: Urgent Call for Solidarity
Znet Article, August, 25 2002
Chiapas Various
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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas August 21, 2002. To National and International Civil Society. To the National Indigenous Congress. To Non-Governmental Human Rights Organizations. To the National and International Press. The following is an UR...
Castro: Open Letter to Plazas Vega
Znet Article, August, 25 2002
Alfredo Castro
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Dear Mr Plazas, I write to you in my capacity as a journalist specialising in human rights issues in our country in the hope that you may be able to answer a few questions for me regarding your past activities. To save you time I have tried to ma...
