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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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This toxic life
They’re in our homes and our workplace, in the air we breathe and in the food we eat. Wayne Ellwood argues that toxic chemicals are changing the nature of nature.
Things to do before I retire
Things to do before I retire… humble thoughts from the diary of GW Bush, as revealed by Stefan Simanowitz
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Breathless in Beijing
Sam Geall reports on broken promises at the Olympics.
The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.
Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.
Edible Earth
In search of bright ideas, David Ransom begins by learning some very basic lessons about how to design a more sustainable, permanent culture.
The privatization of Patagonia
Rich foreign investors are buying up huge areas of Argentina’s southern wilderness. Tomás Bril Mascarenhas exposes the new conservation conquistadores.
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