International
Play reveals struggles of South Asian women
December 1, 2006NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In response to Eve Enseler’s feminist “Vagina Monologues,” a series of theatrical vignettes on the theme of contemporary women’s gender and social oppression, South Asian Sisters, a California-based group, developed “Yoni Ki...
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Q&A about Iraq Iraqi Communist Party viewpoint
December 1, 2006How do Iraqi Communists view the upsurge of violence in Iraq? There are a number of important interacting factors here. The recent upsurge of violence, which has taken a sectarian form, has been in essence a...
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EDITORIAL: Middle East questions
December 1, 2006More than 200 killed in a Baghdad neighborhood. Is Iraq in a civil war? Another Lebanese politician is assassinated. Will Lebanon restart its civil war? Violence, questions, violence, questions swirl around the Middle East in a...
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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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