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January/February 2002
April/May 2002
June/July 2002
September/October 2002
November/December 2002

January/February 2002

El Salvador riot police crack down on anti-privatisation unions

Need versus greed? The Bujagali Falls dam project gets go-ahead from World bank despite criticism

Privatization - an SJC interview with an anti-privatisation activist in Zambia

The School of the Americas - Higher learning for terrorists?

Personal reflections on the "war on terrorism" by Pete Henriot, S.J., Zambia

 

 

April/May 2002

Farms versus factories - Planning the future for the "under-exploited" of Mexico and Central America - Plan Puebla Panama (Wendy Call)

"The Symbol of Stability" - NAFTA reaches into the lives of farmers in Southern Mexico (Jamie Wilson)

Four Central American Countries fighting hunger amid drought and flooding (Mia Gewertz)

Let us defend human rights defenders - Remembering Monsignor Juan Gerardi (Gloria Pereira-Papenburg)

Privatization - solution to poverty, or another burden? (Derek MacCuish)

Hunger rising in Malawi, Zambia (Hayley Coristine)

 

 

June/July 2002

G8 meeting in Kananaskis fails to deliver

Southern activists speak to SJC about their struggles - see Economic Justice

Three Empires and a "kin-dome" - a commentary by Ernie Schibili

The Social Justice Committee to focus even more on social, economic, and cultural rights in Mexico

 

September/October 2002

Rolling out the red carpet for the corporation sin Central America and Mexico

Talking World Bank blues

Déjà vu in Guatemala - The return of brutality and oppression to the haunted land

Supreme Court of Mexico upholds flawed law on indigenous rights

Harassment a feature of daily life in Chiapas

The continuing crisis of impoverished countries' debt

Interview: Fighting water privatization in Pakistan

Opinion: "Development" - a weapon against the poor?

 

 

November/December 2002

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Fighting the privatization of health care in El Salvador

Privatizing peanuts - No debt relief without it

Guatemalan visitor describes his community's efforts to become self sufficient and provide a decent standard of living

Strange opinions on debt relief

Table: Heavily indebted poor country debts and payments to the World Bank

The Acteal massacres after five years: Injustice and impunity continue despite latest court judgment

Student activist visitor to Montreal speaks about social repression in Guerrero, Mexico

October 12 2002, "Dia de la Raza" - Columbus Day becomes day of action against re-colonization via FTAA and Plan Puebla Panama