Jordan Flaherty of Left Turn magazine continues his series of articles from New Orleans (apologies this took a while to post here!). Wednesday, December 14, 2005. On Sunday, I drove past streets named Abundance, Pleasure and
Humanity to a memorial for Meg Perry, a 26 year old Common Ground
Collective volunteer from Maine. Meg died on Saturday when the bus she
was in crashed near downtown New Orleans. She had come to New Orleans
in September, then left and returned with more volunteers. The memorial
was in a community garden she had been working on in the Gentilly
neighborhood. All around were empty houses. It was a small moment of
mourning, in a city of mourning. Mourning that feels like it won’t end,
because the disaster hasn’t ended.
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Focus on the Global South: The unholy trio of
the EU, US and Pascal Lamy succeeded in their attempt to force
developing countries into accepting a Ministerial Declaration that
further forecloses the development of countries of the South.
After 6 days of acrimonious negotiations the final day of the Hong Kong
Ministerial ended with the adoption of a highly flawed text that
doesn’t reflect what several developing countries have been demanding
over the last 5 days. The resistance of countries such as the G90,
Venezuela, Kenya and Cuba were systematically thwarted by immense
pressure from the developed world. Venezuela and Cuba registered a
reservation on the NAMA and services components of the text at the
closing plenary. Its legal standing remains unclear.
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New York University (NYU), the largest private university in the United States with over 50,000 students and 16,000 employees, becomes the 12th college or university in the US, and at least the 20th worldwide, to have taken strong economic action against The Coca-Cola Co. by banning the sale and marketing of Coke products on campus.
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Dalkeith
Country Park facing the axe
22 November. At the end of October
protesters set up a tree-sit to stop the construction of the A68 Bypass, which would
destroy Dalkeith’s 850 acre country park. An eviction order has been served on
the protestors and trees have already begun to fall. The activists have vowed
to remain in the trees until the bypass is defeated, but need support to keep
the protest going. To contact Dalkeith Protest site phone 07783904369 or http://www.save-dalkeith-park.org.uk/
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