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Eco-Community Takes Back the Land in London

Jack Laurenson June 28, 2010 Jack Laurenson

I scurried up to a higher vantage point to get a better view of the site the activists had just sneaked into and occupied. Most were now sitting in a circle amongst the undergrowth having a planning discussion, while others guarded the locked gate. ‘This is it,’ I thought as the police eventually arrived and started banging aggressively on the nine-foot high wooden gate: ‘It's all gonna kick off!’

An Interview with Charlotte Dennett: Bringing G.W. Bush to Justice

Toward Freedom and Charlotte Dennett June 17, 2010 Toward Freedom and Charlotte Dennett

In this interview, author and attorney Charlotte Dennett talks about her new book, The People V. Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way, what led her to run for Vermont state attorney general on a platform to prosecute George W. Bush, the current movement to bring Bush to justice, and connections between the US accountability movement and similar movements around the world.

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Refugee Film Festival Joins Western Sahara Independence Struggle

Stefan Simanowitz June 3, 2010 Stefan Simanowitz

Audience member at festival
During the 1960s, when decolonization movements were sweeping the world, it was joked that after achieving independence a country had to do three things: design a flag, launch an airline and found a film festival. Western Sahara has a flag but no airline and despite a 35 year struggle has yet to achieve independence. The closest it comes to its own film festival is the Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara (known as FiSahara), the world's most remote film festival, which had its seventh annual gathering this week in a refugee camp deep in the Algerian desert.

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The Oil Spill: Accident or Cyber Attack?

Greg Guma May 11, 2010 Greg Guma

The Oil Rig Explosion
Before the massive oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, experts and politicians confidently said that it couldn't happen. Or, if something did go wrong, the impacts would be swiftly contained with minimal leaking. Now that those assurances have been proven wrong, they claim that it was an accident that couldn't have been predicted, and meanwhile avoid the elephant in the room - how and why.

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Honduras: The Return of the Death Squads

Jeremy Kryt April 29, 2010 Jeremy Kryt

Source: In These Times

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS-Late in the afternoon on February 3, Vanessa Zepeda, a 28-year-old registered nurse, left a union hall after a meeting and began walking to the supermarket to buy school supplies for her children and formula for her baby girl.

She never made it.

According to witnesses, as she was leaving the union hall parking lot in this sprawling capital city, Zepeda was forced into an unmarked white sedan by two masked men dressed in fatigues.

A few hours after she was kidnapped, her corpse, still dressed in blue hospital scrubs, was tossed from a moving car in the Loarque neighborhood on the southern side of the city-a well-known stronghold of the resistance movement. read more

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Rio de Janeiro’s Katrina: Rains, Tragedy and Segregation

Michael Fox, Photos by Sílvia Leindecker April 29, 2010 Michael Fox, Photos by Sílvia Leindecker

Favela in Rio
It could have been New Orleans as it was pummeled by hurricane Katrina-the torrential rains, the rising waters, the families separated, bodies lost and still missing-but it was not. This was Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2010, and the culprit was not a breach in the levee, but dozens of mudslides that leveled whole neighborhoods, burying homes and families alive.