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Alternatives Days 2006

Thursday 10 August 2006
The Alternatives Days 2006, our annual global solidarity summer school, will take place on August 25 - 27. Follow the link for information and subscription.
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Alternatives Days 2006 - Detailed Programme

Wednesday 9 August 2006
Friday, August 25, 2006 Arrival of participants, Opening cocktail, and presentation of international guests Screening of activist films Campfire with performance by musician Hugo Bonneville - bring along your instruments! Saturday, August 26, 2006, 9h00-10h30 Opening plenary: “Building (...)
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Washington’s Latest Middle East War

Saturday 29 July 2006 by Phyllis BENNIS
The Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine, euphemistically depicted as “self-defense” against Hezbollah and Hamas, is simultaneously an Israeli war for domination, and a regional war to “remap” the contemporary Middle East. In this context it is as much a US as an Israeli war. The immediate (...)
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Gardening the city

Monday 17 July 2006
Come join the Rooftop Garden Project this summer! Learn with us ways to produce food in the city, green your neighbourhood and build a healthy community.
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East Timor: The Coup The World Missed

Monday 17 July 2006 by John PILGER
In my 1994 film Death of a Nation there is a scene on board an aircraft flying between northern Australia and the island of Timor. A party is in progress; two men in suits are toasting each other in champagne. "This is an historically unique moment," effuses Gareth Evans, Australia's foreign (...)
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Australian Coup in East Timor’s Crisis

Monday 17 July 2006 by Maryann KEADY, John PILGER
Three years ago, I wrote a piece talking about attempts to oust Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri in East Timor, then a new struggling independent nation. I wrote that I believed the US and Australia were determined to oust the Timorese leader, due to his hardline stance on oil and gas, his (...)
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Stop Israeli Attack in Gaza Immediately

Thursday 29 June 2006
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) strongly condemns the Israeli army's invasion of the Gaza Strip. This invasion is a punishment for the results of the democratic Palestinian elections held in January and is irrelevant to the security of the state of Israel and that of its citizens. (...)
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The Price to Pay?

Monday 12 June 2006 by Palestinian National Initiative
Ramallah, 11-06-06: For a few hours at least, the heart rending images of 12-year-old Huda Ghalia sobbing uncontrollably over the limp body of her father drew the world's eyes towards the daily tragedy of life in Gaza under continued Israeli (...)
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Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos’ 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals

Friday 9 June 2006 by Andrea LEVY
Some years ago, Russell Jacoby wrote a book called The Last Intellectuals in which he lamented the waning of the tradition of the public intellectual: that breed of intellectual who addresses himself “with vigor and clarity” to an educated lay audience and fosters a critical perspective on (...)
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Overseas Internships with Alternatives

Monday 5 June 2006 by Vanessa GORDON
Imagine learning to make websites for Latin American NGOs, creating radio spots for African stations, and being witness to the challenges that confront organizations that defend human rights in Asia and other civil societies the world over. Alternatives offers three specific programs for (...)
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Punishing Innocent Palestinians is a Crime

Monday 15 May 2006 by Jimmy CARTER
Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas, the United States government has become the driving force behind an apparently effective scheme of depriving the (...)
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Hamas and Israel’s "Right to Exist"

Monday 15 May 2006 by Virginia TILLEY
To the great consternation of most of the world, the European Union, followed now by Norway and Canada, has halted payments to the Hamas-led government of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The stated reason is that Hamas has not recognized Israel's "right to exist" or "renounced violence," but (...)
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Starving a nation

Saturday 13 May 2006 by John CHERIAN
The Palestinian people, who have undergone much suffering for the last half a century and more, are once again being punished. Their crime this time is that they voted the Islamists to power.
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The Triumph of the People

Wednesday 26 April 2006 by Tapan Kumar Bose
The people of Nepal have triumphed. Last night (April 24, 2006) Nepal‚s dictator, King Gyanendra gave in to their demands. Bowing to the pressure of the mass movement the king declared his acceptance of the roadmap to peace drawn up by the Seven Party Alliance and the Maoists. He proclaimed the (...)
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