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Mobilizations against the World Trade Organization in Cancun, Mexico have begun!...

Both Jabel Juhar and 'Asira ash-Shamaliya are located not far from medical institutions and hospitals. If not for the restrictions on freedom of movement the residents would not require the services of the Mobile Clinic. It is obvious that as long as the internal closure continues there can be no proper health system....

An update on the Sherman Austin case: Webmaster moved into isolation after the "Aryan Brotherhood" puts a price on his head....

The staff of Chevron Canada’s office decided they would rather take the afternoon off than talk to peace activists about their company’s policy of buying Iraqi oil from the occupation government....

Recent Znet Commentary on WTO...

Vasalisa, up front, with the tattoo, says that although the police have been hounding protesters day and night, they have been making their presence known - in some suprising ways... Today, farmers, indigenous activists, agri-fighters, health advocates, students, women's groups and, yes, some of our very own Bay Area local radicals spelled out No OMC! (No WTO!) on a Cancun beach during the protest against the World Trade Organization....

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Campaigners say they will get their message across peacefully. "I would hope that we can demonstrate again that the WTO is an organization that should not exist. It is creating more harm economically, socially and environmentally than good," said Antonia Juhasz, a veteran protester based in San Francisco....

It's becoming clearer to all that the secular, democratic, one-state solution is the only solution that makes sense....

Ugandan Member of Parliament and gender activist Ms. Winnie Byanyima, Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa and the minister for Industry and Trade for Tanzania, Dr. Juma Ngasongwa have been speaking out recently against rich countries agriculture subsidies, the WTO's unjust trade rules and the inability of poor Sub-Saharan countries to acquire generic forms of AIDS medicines. Attached are excerpts from stories which appeared in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania newspapers over the last few weeks....