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  • Peace leader: Most Israelis want peace

    Peace leader: Most Israelis want peace

    February 14, 2003 By Susan Webb

    PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Most Israelis want a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and the Bush administration’s policies are “very unhelpful,” Galia Golan, a leader of Peace Now, Israel’s oldest and largest mass peace movement,...

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  • International Criminal Court to open

    International Criminal Court to open

    February 14, 2003

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) will begin operations on March 11, despite the Bush administration’s worst fears. Under the Clinton administration the United States had signed the Rome Statute, which formally began preparations for the formation...

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  • So. Africans act for peace

    So. Africans act for peace

    February 14, 2003

    South Africa’s Stop the War Campaign – a broad alliance of organizations from different sectors of South African society – has launched a ten-day period of intense anti-war activity aimed at bringing the maximum number of...

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  • Witness to history in Brazil

    Witness to history in Brazil

    February 7, 2003

    Early on the last day of the year, Dec. 31 2002, thousands of Brazilian workers were constructing platforms and mounting sound systems in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. A historic event was...

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  • On Mart, war, peace and economic justice

    On Mart, war, peace and economic justice

    February 7, 2003

    The following is an edited version of Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz’s Jan. 29 speech to the International Conference for World Balance, held in Havana in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of José...

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