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Bangladesh: Garment Workers Beaten, Fired for Organizing
[Reposted from http://bigstory.ap.org/article/group-bangladesh-workers-threatened-over-union] DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A human rights group said Thursday that garment factory owners in Bangladesh have...
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Chevron steals $9 billion from indigenous Ecuadoreans, with help from US...
Original $18 billion judgment was already reduced to $9 billion by Ecuador’s highest court A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. courts from being used to collect a $9 billion Ecuadorean judgment...
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Lakota vow: ‘dead or in prison before we allow the KXL pipeline’
By Camila Ibanez [Reposted from http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/lakota-vow-dead-prison-allow-kxl-pipeline/] On February 27, Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists joined in a...
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NPA vows to “seize more arms, inflict mounting casualties”
[Reposted from http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2014/03/25/npa-in-southern-mindanao-vows-to-seize-more-arms-inflict-mounting-casualties/] DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 March) – The New People’s Army...
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Fairtrade coffee fails to help the poor
Coffee drinkers who choose brands carrying the Fairtrade logo are not helping the poor and the “ethical trading” claims made by fair-trade organizations are hollow, according to an in-depth report...
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The $60 Billion Dollar Looting of Africa
Western countries are using aid to Africa as a smokescreen to hide the “sustained looting” of the continent as it loses nearly $60bn a year through tax evasion, climate change mitigation, and the...
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Cambodia deploys troops as garment workers renew wage campaign
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia deployed armed troops in its capital on Wednesday as garment workers held rallies to revive a campaign for higher wages that had helped to stoke a year-long political...
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In Ethiopia, foreign investment is a fancy word for stealing land
By Dosert Rose [Reposted from http://oromianeconomist.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stealing-land-colonialism-never-left-oromia/ See link for more...
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Real agrarian reform could double food production
The United Nations declared 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming. As part of the celebrations, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released its annual “State of Food and...
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The Fanon Phenomenon: Documentary Unearths Africa’s Anti-Colonial Struggles
BY KAZEMBE BALAGUN [Reposted from https://indypendent.org/2014/12/16/fanon-phenomenon-documentary-unearths-africas-anti-colonial-struggles] Concerning Violence Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson (2014)...
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