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Anti WTO/FTAA Student Trainings in Florida and New York

Published by Sierra Student Coalition/Sierra Club | By | Tuesday, February 25, 2003

You are invited to attend Fair Trade Activist Trainings with the Sierra Student Coalition & Sierra Club in Florida and New York.

USA: 12 Reasons to Oppose a War with Iraq

Published by Focus on the Corporation | By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman | Monday, February 24, 2003

With the airwaves and op-ed pages dominated by war-mongers who mock and mischaracterize the burgeoning peace movement, there remains a need to continually reiterate the common-sense reasons to oppose a war. Here are a dozen.

MEXICO: Toll of Murdered Young Women Tops 300

Published by IPS | By Diego Cevallos | Thursday, February 20, 2003

Three more young women were added this week to the list of over 300 like them who since 1993 have been murdered and mutilated in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

USA: GOP Threats Halt GAO Cheney Suit

Published by The Hill | By Peter Brand and Alexander Bolton | Thursday, February 20, 2003

Threats by Republicans to cut the General Accounting Office (GAO) budget influenced its decision to abandon a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney, The Hill has learned.

India: Bottled Water Firms Lose Licenses

Published by Indo-Asian News Service | By | Wednesday, February 19, 2003

New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Indian government Wednesday withdrew the licenses of eight bottled water units following reports there were massive doses of pesticides and other chemical contaminants in their products.

Is Agriculture the WTO's Achilles' Heel?

Published by Focus on the Global South | By Walden Bello | Wednesday, February 19, 2003

In this report from the Tokyo mini-ministerial, activist and scholar Walden Bello looks for cracks in the WTO's armor on the road to the September summit in Cancun.

Extradite the Butcher of Bhopal!

Published by International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal | By | Tuesday, February 18, 2003

In December 2002, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) handed over Warren Anderson's extradition papers to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The MEA, which was supposed to serve the papers to Anderson through the United States government, is dragging its feet.

BRAZIL: Vivendi Moves to Keep Water Company

Published by Financial Times | By Raymond Colitt | Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Vivendi Environnement will today launch last-ditch negotiations to recover control of a Brazilian water company after a state government said it would take over management from the French utility.

The New Oil Order

Published by Foreign Policy in Focus | By Michael Renner | Friday, February 14, 2003

We take a look at the geopolitics of oil and the role they play in Washington's war on Iraq.

JAPAN: Tokyo Meeting Aims To Boost Flagging WTO

Published by Agence France Presse | By Katharine Millar | Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Trade ministers gather in Tokyo on Friday for a three-day meeting to try to step up the pace of flagging global trade talks, beset by failed deadlines and a lack of progress. Only 25 of the 145 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have been invited to send ministers to the February 14-16 "mini-ministerial". Their task: to thrash out ideas for giving a boost to negotiations, mainly on greater market access in services, industrial goods and the traditionally-thorniest subject of agriculture.