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Currents Coal Special
A special on coal – including the ‘clean coal’ con, windpower in China, success in Bangladesh and activism everywhere.
Black holes and demonstrations
Positive outcome, but at a cost of seven campaigners lives, killed by police during a demonstration against the GCM coalmine in Bangladesh.
Breaking China’s coal addiction
Renewables revolution is there for the taking
'Territory, autonomy, dignity... and no coal'
Jorge’s community is part of the 500,000-strong Wayúu indigenous group, and it is not only their home in the northern foothills of the Sierra de Perijá which is under threat.
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Shell still hell
Shell may be pumping the petrodollars into glossy PR campaigns, but Nigerians remain unimpressed.
Breaking with ‘tradition’
Women’s movements were much in evidence at the Nairobi gathering.
Coked up
Farmer Gilbert Rodrigo from Tamil Nadu in India spent the WSF marching around telling people not to drink Coke.
‘Privatization brings the rain’
A new African Water Network was launched at the WSF to co-ordinate opposition to ‘water privatization in all its forms’.
Queer eye for the WSF
The many African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex activists made this one of the largest public gatherings mobilizing for sexual rights in Africa to date.
Poverty bites WSF on the backside
We arrived at the stadium where the 2007 World Social Forum was taking place.
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ON THE NI SITE
The Berlin Wall of the Desert
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stefan Simanowitz reports from Western Sahara on the wall that has separated a nation for 29 years.
Hillywood dreams
In the hills of Rwanda, Tom Cropper finds the world’s most unique film festival.
President Blair: The great escape
Anna Chen heaves a sigh of relief as Tony's plans to conquer Europe are halted.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for?
What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for
that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a
10-point economic detox programme.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on
biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was
born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
abortion in Colombia.
The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.
The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin
Alavi explains.
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