September 2003's Issue
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A Group Of Chavos With A Rifle On A Hill Top North Of Mexico City During Holy Week. Photo © Pablo Ortiz, By Arrangement With Drik Picture Library Ltd, Www.drik.net
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Taking the veil
Why educated women are deciding to take the veil, by Reem Haddad.
- Reem Haddad
- 1 Sep 2003
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Experiments in democracy
Whether it’s Hutus and Tutsis with a history of massacre, the losing side in post-civil war Spain, or shell-shocked Argentineans, human beings are endlessly reinventing real democracies of infinite variety and hope.
- Katharine Ainger
- 1 Sep 2003
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Bomb-catching
Priscilla Elworthy on how to defeat warmongers, authoritarians and other bullies without becoming a bully yourself.
- Priscilla Elworthy
- 1 Sep 2003
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Walking our Talk
From religious leaders in the rainforests of Thailand to marginalized minorities in the US, George Lakey has some lessons about transforming power-relations.
- George Lakey
- 1 Sep 2003
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A flower in the hands of the people
In southern Mexico, indigenous people have remarkable ideas about how to exercise power. Gustavo Esteva explains why, for them, nation-states are irrelevant.
- Gustavo Esteva
- 1 Sep 2003
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The web of democracy
Could the science of systems theory help us devise intelligent, self-organizing and truly networked democracies? Roy Madron and John Jopling investigate.
- Roy Madron and John Jopling
- 1 Sep 2003
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The Power of the cooking pot
In the poor townships of South Africa, the only politics that matters is the kind that gets you fed. Local activist Ashwin Desai talks to Holly Wren Spaulding about community solidarity.
- Ashwin Desai
- 1 Sep 2003
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Earth Warrior
Controversial environmentalist Paul Watson interviewed in New Zealand/Aotearoa by John F Schumaker.
- John Schumaker
- 1 Sep 2003
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Interview with Al-Muajaha: the Iraqi Witness
The staff of Al-Muajaha, Iraq’s only independent newspaper, bear witness.
- Chris Richards
- 1 Sep 2003
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L Paul Bremer III
Yale boy in Babylon: the US Viceroy in Iraq, L Paul Bremer III.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Sep 2003
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Junk Sale
Take a walk around the junkyard of leaders past their sell-by dates.
- Katharine Ainger
- 1 Sep 2003
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Hot and bothered
Urvashi Butalia on how Indians, rich and poor, cope with the crushing summer heat.
- Urvashi Butalia
- 1 Sep 2003
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Pablo Ortiz
The gangster’s gun, by Mexican photographer Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.
- Pablo Ortiz
- 1 Sep 2003
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