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Challenging the New Apartheid: Reflections on Palestine Solidarity: The Palestinian solidarity movement has made significant gains since the onset of the Second Palestinian Intifada. Over the last five years, a new generation of Palestinian solidarity activists has mobilized in the streets, campuses, and schools across North America. Among the left and progressive movements, there is broad acceptance of...; Tags: activist; White papers 2006-03-04
Different Voices, Different Venues: Environmental Racism Claims by Activists, Researchers, and Lawyers: Environmental Justice Movement activists have mobilized on the basis of grievances involving the disproportionate exposure of working class and minority subgroups to various environmental risks. Academics have frequently offered empirical documentation of such exposure. Public interest lawyers have sought legal remediation for injustice claims. But substantial structural changes to ameliorate...; Tags: activist, lawyer, voice, researcher, risk; White papers 2003-12-11
Competing For The Public Through The News Media: Interest groups seek to influence economic activity through public and private politics. Public politics takes place in the arenas of public institutions, whereas private politics takes place outside public institutions often in the arena of public sentiment. Private politics refers to action by interest groups directed at private parties, as...; Tags: Stanford Knowledgebase, activist, economic activity, incentive, industry; White papers 2003-06-26
Reparations: A Dialogue Between Human Rights Academics and Activists: This paper comprises the proceedings of a conference held at MIT on 'Racism, Colonialism and Reparations: A Post Durban Dialogue between Human Rights Activists and Academics'. That conference brought together an extraordinary group of activists who are directly involved in battling the cruel legacies of racism and colonialism, as well...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Activist; White papers 2002-03-01

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Black & green: the new eco-warriors: The legacy of activism and awareness that has been part of the African-American experience has found a familiar battlefront: planet Earth. Since the days of George Washington Carver, who in the late 1800s transformed the lowly peanut into a cash crop that saved the South, Black folks have...; Articles 2008-07-01

Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization: Robinson, William I. Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization. London: Verso, 2003. 400pp. Globalization is one of the key catchwords of the twenty-first century. William Robinson takes on the daunting task of examining how the processes of globalization are transforming the economies and politics of the Central...; Articles 2008-06-30
Taliban kill 22 peace activists: World News IN BRIEF *PESHAWAR Pakistani Taliban militants murdered 22 rivals captured on Monday when they seized Jandola, a north-western town on the road to the South Waziristan ethnic Pashtun tribal region on the Afghan border, a government official and residents said. Their bodies were dumped outside...; Articles 2008-06-26
Mandela ends silence on Zimbabwe crisis: Nelson Mandela has broken his silence on the Zimbabwe crisis to castigate the "tragic failure of leadership" in the violence-torn country. The former president of South Africa did not issue any specific call for action, and did not criticise by name the 84-year-old Zimbabwean President, a fellow...; Articles 2008-06-26
World datelines: South Korea: Meat ban lifted SEOUL -- South Korea lifted an import ban on American beef Thursday, officials said, hoping to move on from a crisis that battered the pro-U.S. government with protests over mad cow disease concerns. South Korea and the United States...; Articles 2008-06-26
This Latest Briefing Looks at National Profiles, International Harmonisation of Fairtrade and the Future of the Movement: DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1930fd/the_future_of_fair) has announced the addition of the "The Future of Fairtrade - Opportunities and Challenges - Management Briefing" report to their offering. Fairtrade has come a long way since the launch of the Max Havelaar Fairtrade Certification Mark in the Netherlands in...; Articles 2008-06-25
Zimbabwe opposition leader takes refuge: HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's opposition leader took refuge in the Dutch Embassy after pulling out of the presidential runoff, and the U.N. Security Council condemned the government Monday for a "campaign of violence" that has prevented a fair election. President Robert Mugabe and other top leaders pledged...; Articles 2008-06-24
U.S. mayors vote to phase out use of bottled water: NEW YORK -- The nation's mayors voted Monday against spending taxpayer money to buy bottled water, a blow to the beverage industry that has enjoyed growing profit from water sales in recent years. A majority of about 250 mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in...; Articles 2008-06-24
Actor and Education Activist Danny Glover Headlines Day Two of National Charter Schools Conference in New Orleans: NEW ORLEANS, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: National Charter Schools Conference WHERE: La Lousianne Ballroom, New Orleans Convention Center 900 Convention Center Boulevard Hall A WHEN: Tuesday, June 24,...; Articles 2008-06-23
Activists outraged by Kenyan biofuel plans on fragile wetland: NAIROBI AFP — Outraged conservationists Monday protested Kenyan plans to grow biofuel crops on a coastal wetland, warning that they will ruin the environment home to 350 species, including endangered ones. Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB and Nature Kenya said allowing the planting of...; Articles 2008-06-23
Israel's top court allows Jerusalem Gay Pride parade: JERUSALEM AFP — Israel's Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition to ban this year's Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, an annual event that has been the focus of violent controversy in the Holy City in the past. The petition, submitted by a group of hardline Jewish activists, called...; Articles 2008-06-23
"Image ethics" in and about Africa: The thoughts to follow are inspired by a number of recent works in art history and visual culture, most of which concern parts of the world other than Africa. The excellent essays of Photography's Other Histories (2003) edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson and the chapters of Raw Histories:...; Articles 2008-06-22
WHALING: WHY THE FIGHT MUST GO ON 25,000 ARE KILLED EACH YEAR . . .: ON the eve of the 60th annual meeting of the International Whaling Committee, a leading Greenpeace activist has called for a historic decision that would ban hunting and boost fragile populations. This year could mark a watershed in the debate, as it may be the last time...; Articles 2008-06-22
Dad divulges location of children's remains: HOUSTON AP -- The father of two missing children has led investigators to the children's charred remains, police said Saturday. Police found the remains of Randy Sylvester Jr., 7, and his sister Denim Sylvester, 3, packed in a wooden chest and a suitcase and left in a...; Articles 2008-06-22
PROTEST FLAGS: IT was some own goal by the anti-war activists who clambered on top of Belfast City Hall on Monday to unfurl an Iraqi flag in protest against President Bush's visit to the city. The hippies were complaining about all the people killed in the war. Unfortunately,...; Articles 2008-06-22
Ex-BNP activist 'recruiting prisoners to join al-Qa'ida': A former British National Party activist who converted to Islam in a maximum-security jail is being held in isolation on suspicion of trying to recruit fellow prisoners to terrorist groups. Stephen Jones has been confined to a segregation unit in Whitemoor prison, Cambridgeshire, for three weeks while...; Articles 2008-06-21

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