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Major Protest to Shut Down Coca-Cola and Pepsi in India
For Immediate Release
August 22, 2006

Jaipur, India: Over a thousand people marched and rallied in the north Indian state of Rajasthan to demand the shut down of Coca-Cola and Pepsico bottling plants in the state.

Accusing the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Kala Dera of creating severe water shortages affecting over fifty villages and producing harmful products, protesters marched towards the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Kala Dera, about 40 kilometers from Jaipur.

Water is a scarce and valuable resource in the state of Rajasthan, often referred to as the “desert state”.

At the rally, protesters burnt …

MNN. August 7, 2006. Milton Born with a Tooth showed up at my house at 9:00 pm. last Friday. He had a very important colonial tale to tell. Milton Born With a Tooth is a Blackfoot Indigenous man from Piegan in Alberta. He went to jail for four and a half years for trying to divert the Old Man River back to its natural course in 1990. As a “Lone Fighter” he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The weapon was a bulldozer. In 1921 the river had been diverted to an irrigation canal for the benefit of …

Phra Supoj Suvacano, a Buddhist monk, was killed for challenging the efforts of businessmen to take control of forest lands belonging to the temple and his local community. One year after his death, there have been no signs of progress. He is one of more than 20 defenders killed in the last five years.

This month, Human Rights First released a report documenting these attacks on defenders as well as arbitrary arrests and disappearances in the conflict area of southern Thailand. It’s called Losing Ground: Human Rights Defenders and Counterterrorism in Thailand.

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End Impunity for the Murder of Thai Rights Defenders

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Communique from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Mexico, November of 2005

To the Peoples of the World:

Brothers and Sisters:

Concerning the Intercontinental proposed in the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, and in general regarding the international aspects of this statement, the CCRI-CG of the EZLN says its word:

First - The Intergalactic Committee of the EZLN, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Insurgente Moises, has been named for the coordination and monitoring of the international part of the Sexta. There will be a rotating team of comandantes and comandantas from the CCRI-CG of the EZLN, …