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Microfinancing has been hailed as a breakthrough in combating global poverty by giving small loans to impoverished people in the hopes of transforming their lives. But one very profitable Mexican lending program is now under intense scrutiny.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092007U.shtml



http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=microfinancing&btnG=Google+Search

By Catherine Brahic

A switch to organic farming would not reduce the world's food supply and could also increase food security in developing countries, say the authors of a new study.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682250ms64

Gerard Aziakou reports for Agence France-Presse, "The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a non-binding declaration upholding the human, land and resources rights of the world's 370 million indigenous people, brushing off opposition from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091407P.shtml

Classically Liberal
by CLS

09/10/07

Politicians of all stripes impose needless pain and suffering on the world. In the West people tend to be wealthy enough to purchase their way around some of the misery. Political policies that drive up food costs, to benefit a few wealthy farmers, are ignored because wealthy Westerners have enough disposable income to pay the extra for food. They may bitch about food prices, and then stupidly blame the wrong cause: globalization, greedy grocers, capitalism, etc., but they don’t go hungry. In poor nations hunger is their only option. The world’s poor can’t buy their way out of the problems inflicted on them by the political class of do-gooders. The wealthy people of the West can. The actions of our politicians are often nothing more than a minor irritation. The same actions, when their consequences are imposed on the poor nations of the world can literally kill.

http://tinyurl.com/2q7trj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

By Robert Fisk

What is it about graven images? Why are we humanoids so prone to destroy our own faces, smash our own human history, erase the memory of language? I've covered the rape of Bosnian and Serb and Croatian culture in ex-Yugoslavia - the deliberate demolition of churches, libraries, graveyards, even the wonderful Ottoman Mostar Bridge - and I've heard the excuses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18340.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

Bundesweite Demonstration gegen Abschiebehaft

„Am 02.09.2007 fand vor den Toren der Justizvollzugsanstalt (JVA) Büren eine bundesweite Demonstration gegen Abschiebehaft statt. Zeitgleich begannen 60 Abschiebehäftlinge in der JVA Büren einen Hungerstreik, um ihre sofortige Freilassung durchzusetzen…“ Bericht von Büren Gruppen Paderborn vom 02.09.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/09/193161.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 4. September 2007

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Wieder Toter in Berliner Abschiebehaft

„Wieder ein Toter in Berliner Abschiebehaft. 28-Jähriger starb am Neujahrsmorgen an den Folgen seines Suizidversuchs. Am kommenden Samstag findet deswegen eine Protestdemonstration vor der Berliner Abschiebehaftanstalt in Köpenick statt…“ Bericht von antifa aus berlin südost vom 02.01.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/01/204081.shtml

Siehe dazu auch:

Erster Suizid im Abschiebegefängnis Berlin-Köpenick. Pressemitteilung der Dokustelle Antirassistische Initiative Berlin vom 2.1.08 mit Hintergrundinfos http://www.fluechtlingsinfo-berlin.de/fr/pdf/ari_suizid_020108.html

Infos zur Protestdemo http://www.fluechtlingsinfo-berlin.de/fr/pdf/Demo_Koepenick_050108.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Januar 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abschieben

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2757204,00.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien

John Vidal, The Guardian UK, writes: "The era of 'agrofuels' has arrived, and the scale of the changes it is already forcing on farming and markets around the world is immense. But the surge in demand for agrofuels such as ethanol is hitting the poor and the environment the hardest."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907EA.shtml



Indonesian Peatlands Seen Playing Key Climate Role

Sugita Katyal, Reuters, writes: "In recent years, experts say peat bogs have been stoking global warming through increasing greenhouse gas emissions because of massive deforestation and conversion into agricultural land and palm oil plantations, especially in Southeast Asia, which accounts for a huge chunk of the world's marshes."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=palm+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Vidal