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Students from Boise State University occupied the Idaho State

Senate yesterday in an ongoing protest over living

wage issues for migrant farmworkers. Independent Media's Gabriel Freeman:

Community activists and students from Boise State University

gathered in the gallery of the state senate at 10:30 and as the

gavel fell to open the session they

showered the Senators with red and black confetti, fake $3 bills,

is this too cut?

The Columbia and Australian branches of the environmental NGO Friends of the Earth have 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.

I left ou tthe word dead as in, 9 people were dead, in the earlier version. oops

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 dead and injured two dozen more.

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

PRONUNCIATON TIPS:

Jharkand= "jar-CONNED"

Bosie State University students occupied the Idaho State Senate chambers to protest the Legislature's refusal to enact a minimum wage bill that included migrant farm workers.

Students from Boise State University occupied the Idaho State Senate yesterday in an ongoing protest over living

wage issues for migrant farmworkers. While the state house had in recent years included farmworkers in minimum

wage bills the Senate refused to act for years.

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The Columbia and Australian branches of the environmental NGO Friends of the Earth have 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.

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:

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.

jdlf

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

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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.