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A few minutes ago I read an article by William Greider, called “Whither the WTO? ” (which follows).
I started looking for more info, specifically the briefing paper he mentions -

What I found though, were hundreds of news articles and press releases, some of which contradict each other so much, that I thought it be could to post it here

Whither the WTO?
In round-about fashion, the WTO’s failure represents belated vindication for the blue-green movement that arose in Seattle six years ago and the Global Social Forum launched later from Porto Alegre, Brazil. These bottom-up political mobilizations offered an alternative vision …

For the Latest News about Grassy Narrows, please see, http://friendsofgrassynarrows.com and http://www.freegrassy.org/

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Amnesty Internationals Submits Brief on Grassy Narrows to the United Nations

The Primary reason for the blockade

For Immediate Release:
February 28, 2006

Grassy Narrows, Ontario- The Grassy Narrows First Nation today sent letters warning the chief executives of Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY) and Abitibi-Consolidated to “immediately cease and desist from all logging and industrial resource extraction on our territory” or face a “fierce international campaign”.

The letter …

At a cusp in human affairs, by G.S.

There are some people who you’ve just got to love, people like Peter Kropotkin, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Neruda . . . people both fully aware of the terrifying challenges most humans face in their everyday struggles, and who yet keep their hearts open to all — especially the humble — and to keep alive their hopes and efforts for a better world, where all people can live with dignity.

The struggle for life with dignity is surging in the …

By George Lakey
Training for Change (6/02)

Otpur (”Resistance” in Serbian) began as hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of young people took to the streets to rid their country of dictator Slobadan Milosevic. Impatient with the cautious ways of many of their pro-democracy elders, the youths organized in coffee bars and schools, posted graffiti almost everywhere, and used their street actions to embarass the regime.

Milosevic counter-attacked. His police routinely beat up the protesters, in the streets and more thoroughly in the police stations. His spies were everywhere. His monopoly of the mass media meant that the Otpur was described …

The following text is a section from the book Getting Free, by James Herod. Titled “Strategies that have failed,” this particular text provides several critical insights into the ways conventional strategies have prevented us from achieving our long-term goal of ending capitalism (you could just as well say Colonialism.)

More and more people are calling ‘conventional actions’ into question today, and this text is an excellent and straightforward examination into the reason why.

to contact the author, jamesherod @gmail.com

From the Introduction of Getting Free

In listing all the strategies that have failed it isn’t my intention to denigrate the revolutionary …

By Siv O’Neall

Manipulated again!

The emptiness behind the slogan free trade has been pointed out again and again by numerous NGOs, by Progressive Internet sites and by individual objectors to the obscene power of the transnational corporations. It needs however to be stressed constantly until the corporate empire falls and IN BOLDFACE CAPITALS, that the free trade concept which the rich countries are holding forth as the savior of the world from poverty, increasing unemployment and horrendous inequality is just a legerdemain, an empty illusion. It is a way of duping all of us into believing that something positive is coming …

The following is a detailed look at history of conflict among Papuan Peoples in Indonesia, and the “Special Autonomy Legislation” that was implemented, allegedly in the best interests of Paupan Peoples.

Messages of solidarity for the people of West Papua
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/wpsol.htm

You are invited to send a message of solidarity to the people of West Papua. This web page was launched on 1 December 2004, the forty-third anniversary of the West Papuan Declaration of Independence from Dutch colonial rule.

Since 1963 West Papua has been occupied by Indonesian armed forces. For the past forty-one years, the people of West Papua have been …