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China arms ship: union says ‘return to China only option’
Submitted by David Ransom on April 22, 2008 - 4:44pm.
This is a press release from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), dated 22 April 2008 Read more »
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Food - wake-up call
Submitted by David Ransom on April 14, 2008 - 2:28pm.
The excellent Oakland Institute in California has produced this useful briefing which sheds a little more light on what's really going on.
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Sub-prime people
Submitted by David Ransom on March 18, 2008 - 2:40pm.
What turns a credit crunch into a financial crisis? One reliable sign is when people who have always advocated privatization, free markets and deregulation start demanding - without apology - government intervention, hand-outs, even 'nationalization'. People like themselves, they say, are not to be trusted with money, so they won't lend it to each other. Government must do it instead. Besides, it's so fiendishly complex that there's a good chance no-one else will have a clue what's going on. Read more »
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Another Guatemalan banana union leader shot dead
Submitted by David Ransom on March 12, 2008 - 2:47pm.
BANANA LINK URGENT ACTION REQUEST Read more »
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Fidel Castro - the verdict
Submitted by David Ransom on February 27, 2008 - 1:09pm.
Since the darkest night of the 'missile crisis' in 1962 - when I doubted I'd live to see the next dawn - Cuba has lodged somewhere at the back of my mind, as often as not taking the faintly roguish form of Fidel Castro. Read more »
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A day for Osanloo
Submitted by David Ransom on February 26, 2008 - 10:29am.
March 6th will be a day for OsanlooThe bus drivers of Tehran are one of the medal winners in New Internationalist's Human Rights Olympics. The medals have been awarded to inspirational groups around the world who are struggling for human rights in their fullest sense. In the online magazine you can find a brief background to their extraordinary three-year struggle to set up an independent trade union. Read more »
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Inner city orchard
Submitted by David Ransom on February 18, 2008 - 5:54pm.
In this part of the world Burnham is not a wood that moves, as in Shakespeare's Scottish Play, but Burham-on-Sea, a charming little resort on the coast nearby. Even so, Transition City Bristol reversed the usual flow last Saturday and brought trees to the city. If you looked very closely you could even see them moving. Read more »
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Born to be wild
Submitted by David Ransom on January 17, 2008 - 1:44pm.
We went to a pub to mark the 50th birthday of a member of our community. He's taken to a Harley Davidson motorbike of late, in a passable re-enactment of the film Easy Rider. So someone suggested we should sing the song 'Born to be Wild' for him. We have a rock guitarist and a performance artist among us, and we rehearsed, tweaking the lyrics but keeping: 'Take the world in a love embrace / Fire all of your guns at once and / Explode into space...' Read more »
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Another year is possible
Submitted by David Ransom on January 3, 2008 - 6:11pm.
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Anita Roddick
Submitted by David Ransom on September 14, 2007 - 2:19pm.
It’s not often I get a pang of grief from the mass media, but I got one from the news of the sudden, premature death of Anita Roddick.
I didn’t know her well. Most of what I did know or think about her was fixed long before I met her, in a way that must eventually drive people who have fame and fortune to a particular kind of madness - if it wasn’t there to begin with. But, so far as I could tell, it was not there in Anita Roddick, which leaves me feeling that my own little world is just a fraction less appealing without her. Read more »
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