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Building people-to-people solidarity
December 1, 2006SALEM, Mass. — It was in April of 2002 that a group of people here first learned that our power plant was importing coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, then owned by Exxon. Two representatives...
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Colombia: blood on the coal
December 1, 2006LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Cerrejón, the world’s largest open pit coal mine, materialized 25 years ago in the midst of the Afro-Colombian and indigenous Wayuu peoples living in this northeast corner of Colombia. The region is...
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Brazilian communist holds presidency for 24 hours
November 18, 2006SAN PÃULO, Brazil — At 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 12, the government of the Federative Republic of Brazil was headed by Aldo Rebelo, a parliamentary deputy and a member of the central committee of the Communist...
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Movie REVIEW: Bamako: An African indictment of the World Bank
November 17, 2006Movie REVIEWBamako Written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako 115 minutes By Bill Meyer From the cinema of the Third World comes “Bamako,” a fascinating and thought-provoking exposé of the World Bank and the effects of its...
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Swimming to the other side, memoirs of Victor Grossman
November 17, 2006BOOKREVIEWCrossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War and Life in East Germany By Victor Grossman University of Massachusetts Press, 2003 Softcover, 328 pp., $24.95 “Thinking of Germany in the night,” wrote...
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