By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
Craig

The best I could do without the names. I think it is tighter.

India

by Gabriel Freeman 5:07pm Tue Feb 20 '01

Tapkara massacre:

On Monday, Human Rights observers in India's Jharkand state reported that local police opened fire earlier this month, on several thousand indigenous people protesting the Koel-Karo dam project in the village of Tapkara. The February second attack left 9 people and injured two dozen more.

The government sponsored project would submerge 115 villages and displace over 7000 poor rural families.

PRONUNCIATON TIPS:

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
walter, jade, thatcher, et al.

just tightened it and removed the speculative critique of the corporate meadia, which Philip wouldn't be crazy about. I just read Alison's piece off the web, the Fox link wasn't absolutely conclusive.

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
jrfkjk

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Anti-globalization activists leave Mexico

City Friday for Cancun, Mexico where they will unite to disrupt the

meeting of the World Economic Forum. The group hopes to stop the two-day conference of

corporate elite who are meeting, they say, in an on-going effort to

establish global economic policies that remove environmental,

labor, and locally imposed restrictions on transnational

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
edited by jade

i changed a few things

The environmental NGO Friends of the Earth in Columbia and Australia has called for the international community to condemn the government of Columbia for failing to protect the lives of nine environmentalists who were massacred in Columbia last week.

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
walter and others

building of others' revisions

Eight Earth First! protesters are still waiting to be arraigned after their arrest Saturday at a Staples office supply store in Atlanta, Georgia.

While 60 others rallied outside, four men and four women locked themselves to homemade tree stumps, to call attention to Staples' selling of products made from old growth timber.

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
walter and others

building of others' revisions

Eight Earth First! protesters are still waiting to be arraigned after their arrest Saturday at a Staples office supply store in Atlanta, Georgia.

While 60 others rallied outside, four men and four women locked themselves to homemade tree stumps, to call attention to Staples' selling of products made from old growth timber.

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
thatcher

Intro: Testimony continues today in Vanouver, B.C. in

the NAFTA court hearing Mexico vs. Metaclad. Independent Media's Thatcher Collins:

The NaATA

hearing could determine the outcome of a case by the

California-based Sun Belt Water Corporation. On Monday they

asked for a dismissal of the Metaclad case. It was denied. Sun

Belt is suing the Canadian government under NAFTA for $100-220

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
Thatcher

Intro:

Testimony continues today in Vanouver, B.C. in

the NAFTA court hearing Mexico vs. Metaclad. Independent Media's Thatcher Collins:

The Nafta

hearing could determine the outcome of a case by the

California-based Sun Belt Water Corporation. On Monday they

asked for a dismissal of the Metaclad case. It was denied. Sun

Belt is suing the Canadian government under NAFTA for $100-220

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
edited by jade

make sure this is still accurate

By Anonymous (not verified), 21 February, 2001
Author
Gabriel Freeman

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Tapkara massacre:

Human rights observers in India's Jharkand state report Monday that local police opened fire February 2nd on an assembly of several thousand indigenous people opposed to the Koel-Karo dam project in the village of Tapkara. At least 9 people were killed and over 22 injured.