October 1980
Issue No. 092
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Taken for a Ride
Issue editor Dexter Tiranti looks at the contradiction between public need and private greed when travelling from A to B.
To Fetch and Carry
Third World transport planners have often been distracted by the Western world's love affair with the car. John Howe explains.
A Bicycle made for you
Ian Barwell outlines the case for bikes to be brought into the mainstream of traffic thinking.
Pedalling in Penang
Trishaw, drivers threatened by city planners. Peter Rimmer reports.
The Age of the Automobile
Illustrated poster by Ronald Cobb.
One Road for the Rich
Michael Hamer attacks motorway construction programmes which hit the already disadvantaged.
The Battle of Alexandra Parade
Freeway development resistance in Melbourne. By Bob Hawkins.
Shipping Costs!
Ernest Ostro looks at the world of maritime freight from the viewpoint of Third World exporters.
From Nothing to Nowhere - The Transamazonian Highway
One of Brazil's biggest development projects of the 1970s, Sue Branford examines the highway's progress.
The Flash and Curse of Manila Traffic
A Filipino jeepney driver talks about his life to Ruth Seitz.
African Routes
Does Africa's transport future lie with the motor vehicle? Maggie Black argues for the combustion engine.
News, views, and & voices
Chinese Puzzle
No-one here seems to know or care what it will be like to live in a society without brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles or cousins.
Prize-winning anniversary
'No-one will ever buy a magazine on world poverty'. So said the sceptics when New Internationalist was launched - 10 years ago this month.
Snail Fever
Bilharzia, or 'snail fever' is one of the infamous diseases of the tropics, affecting roughly 250 million people from China and the Philippines to Africa, the Middle East, Brazil and the Caribbean.
Bankrupt Development
The InterÂnational Monetary Fund, shy twinÂbrother of the World Bank and godfather to three generations of subservient Finance Ministers is being challenged to come clean or get out.
French Aggro
For more than 73 years the Melanesian people of the group of Pacific islands known as the New Hebrides lived under a shared and shoddy Anglo-French rule.
Breast is Best
'At no time in history has such a rapid change in human behaviour been recorded as is the case with the recent decline in breast feeding in developing countries' argues Dr. G.J. Ebrahim
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Voices from the margins:
Multimedia: video, podcasts, and more.
- Poetry Slam in Zimbabwe
- The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. The video features four of the poets.
Published by Pambazuka News.
- Iranian women speak out
- 3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
- Raised Voices audio:
- Benny from West Papua on Corporate Power
- Vinayan from India on agriculture
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