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July 26, 2002
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Ashcroft's War on Bookstores
July 25, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Paul
Krugman's Howl:
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the Melting Economy
Gavin Keeney
Van Morrison: In September
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
War
on Terrorism or
Police State?
July 24, 2002
Gary Leupp
An Islam Primer
July 23, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Battle
for Zuni Salt Lake
Ansar Ahmed
Am I with You, George?
Bill Christison
The
Disastrous Foreign Policies of the US: Oppression Abroad Means
Repression at Home
July 22, 2002
Rick Giombetti
Glaxo Raises White Flag
in Paxil Case
Wayne Madsen
Forbidden
Truth
The Press, Bush, Oil
and the Taliban
July 21. 2002
Francis A. Boyle
The Rogue Elephant
Jennifer Harbury
Why are
the FBI & CIA Targeting Me?
Joan Claybrook
Time
for a Special Prosceutor
for Thomas White
Gloria Bergen
The Struggle
of Workers
in Palestine
Dave Marsh
Mr. Big Stuff:
Alan Lomax, Great White Fraud
James T. Phillips
"I'll
Tell You No Lies"
The Human Rubble of War
July 20, 2002
Gavin Keeney
The Grave
New Urbanism
World Trade Center Burlesque
Jacob Levich
"I
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Confessions of a
Summer Camp Terror Tot
Thomas Croft
Augusta,
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Growing Up in the Deep South
Alexander Cockburn
The
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Popgun Populism Isn't Enough
July 19, 2002
Abe Bonowitz / SueZann
Bosler
A Discussion
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Jonathan Power
No Need
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Rick Giombetti
Qwest
Death Watch
Kurt Nimmo
Of Mice,
Bullets & Bombs
M. Shahid Alam
Through
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July 18, 2002
Mokhiber / Weissman
Business
As Usual
Jerre Skog
I Spy: Now
Let's be Fair,
the USA Ain't East Germany
Ralph Nader
The CEO
Crimewave:
Corporate Socialism
Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)
The Rising Tensions
Between Spain and Morocco
Alexander Cockburn
Drivel
and Squawk:
Can the Times' Jeff Gerth
Save the White House?
July 17, 2002
Philip Farruggio
The
New Role Model:
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Zara Gelsey
Who's
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Your Shoulder?
Behzad Yaghmaian
9/11 and
Fotress Europe:
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War, Incorporated
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Bush, Burqas
and the Oppression of Afghan Women
July 16, 2002
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Faith--based
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Kurt Nimmo
How My
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The Kashmir
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Salam al--Marayati
When
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The
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July 14, 2002
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July
26, 2002
Women Take on the Corporate Beasts
Push Back
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Let the corporate criminals take over Wall Street.
And investors flee the market.
Hello criminals.
Goodbye market.
Pollute nature.
And nature confronts the polluters.
Push the people to the edge of their
misery, and the people push back.
In Escravos, Nigeria, 600 women seized
control of the ChevronTexaco oil terminal.
The unarmed women villagers threatened
to remove their clothes -- a traditional shaming gesture aimed
at humiliating ChevronTexaco.
Despite its great oil wealth, the Niger
Delta is among the poorest -- and most polluted -- places in
West Africa.
"Chevron has neglected us,"
says Felicia Itsero, 67, one of the protesting women. "They
have neglected us for a long time. For example, any time spills
occur, they don't do proper clean-up or pay compensation. Our
roofs are destroyed by  their chemical. No good drinking
water in our rivers. Our fishes are killed on daily basis by
their chemicals, even the fishes we catch in our rivers, they
smell of crude oil." (see http://www.moles.org)
In West Virginia, the coal industry,
which for generations has controlled West Virginia, is trying
to jam through a special session of the state legislature a
new law that would allow coal trucks to carry 120,000 pounds
of coal -- up from the previous limit of 80,000. There goes
traffic safety. There go the roads.
Last week, the Charleston Gazette, the
state's leading newspaper, referring to the protests in Nigeria,
wrote this:
"This drain the wealth pattern (in
Nigeria), the essence of colonialism, smacks of the way out-of-state
coal corporations treat West Virginians. We wonder if a naked
protest (in West Virginia) would accomplish anything."
Last week, Julia Butterfly Hill, was
arrested and deported from Ecuador. (see http://www.amazonwatch.org)
Hill was protesting an Occidental oil
pipeline being built through a nature reserve. The pipeline
faces massive opposition from indigenous communities that would
be affected.
She was roughed up. She was taken in
the morning to the airport escorted by 10 police officers and
then forced to board a plane to Panama.
Hill gained worldwide recognition in
the late 1990s after spending two years camped atop a redwood
tree in northern California to save it from being cut down.
In Ecuador, she met with the Mindo community, which staged a
three-month tree sit to block construction of the pipeline.
And as we write, Diane Wilson, a fourth
generation shrimper and mother of five, is outside of a Union
Carbide chemical facility in her hometown, Sea Drift, Texas.
(see http://www.bhopal.net)
Dow Chemical purchased Union Carbide
in 1999.
The Dow facility is one her area's biggest
polluters.
Wilson is in the midst of a hunger strike
to protest Union Carbide's treatment of residents of Bhopal,
India.
That's the city in northern India that
was gassed when a Union Carbide facility blew up in 1984, killing
thousands.
Wilson visited Bhopal after the accident
and has never forgotten.
She is outraged that Dow is pushing to
water down the criminal charge against Warren Andersen, the
former Union Carbide CEO, to criminal negligence, a non-extraditable
offense.
She is outraged that the 150,000 victims
received only $500 from Union Carbide, when in the United States,
there have been million dollar settlements paid out by Dow to
people injured here.
Following the demands of victims in India,
Diane Wilson wants Andersen extradited to India.
Warren Andersen is a fugitive from the
Indian courts.
She wants the company to face pending
criminal charges for culpable homicide.
For 15 years now, Wilson has been fighting
the chemical companies that destroyed the bay that provided
for generations of her family.
The corporate counterattack against Wilson
has been vicious.
Her dogs have been killed.
Members of her family have been shot
at.
Her shrimp boat has been sunk twice.
But she continues to fight for justice.
She says she will continue the water-only
hunger strike until the people of Bhopal get justice.
That means money, and a criminal trial
of Union Carbide/Dow, and its executives.
Wilson's hunger strike follows one begun
in New Delhi on June 8, when two women gas survivors from Bhopal
-- Tara Bai, 35, and Rashida Bi, 46 -- together with long-time
Bhopal activist Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi, 48, sat outside
the Indian Parliament and pledged to fast until the Government
ensured that justice would be done in Bhopal.
After 18 days without food, the two women
hunger strikers collapsed during a mass rally and were taken
to hospital.
Sathyu broke his fast with orange juice.
Wilson picked up the fast soon thereafter.
She says she will continue until justice is done in Bhopal.
Women in Texas, Nigeria, Ecuador, and
India are teaching us a basic truth.
You can talk or write a blue streak and
who listens?
But put your body on the line and things
begin to move.
Get up.
Get out.
Push back.
Russell Mokhiber
is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter.
Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based
Multinational
Monitor, and co-director of Essential Action. They are
co-authors of Corporate
Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy
(Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999.
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