Published in 2003

	Canada's magazine on global rights and justice Brought to you by the Social Justice Committee

January/February 2003

Crisis in rural Mexico - Campesinos demand a re-negotiation of NAFTA and a new agricultural policy

Dialogue and incongruity - Meeting with the World Bank and IMF

Voices of the campesino protesters

Interview: The failure of World Bank and IMF policies in Senegal

News from Guatemala - A personal letter of reflection

"Social Justice?"

Book review: Globalization and its Discontents, by Joseph E. Stiglitz

April 2003

Mexican farmers speak out about land rights, trade deals and the harsh impacts of globalization

Montes Azules evictions begin

Where the "Heavily Indebted Poor Country" Initiative for debt cancellation is failing

Dialogue with the IMF

Summer 2003 -

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October/November 2003

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We are all Bolivians - Somos todos Bolivianos
During the popular uprising in Bolivia in September and October, Marcela Olivera of the Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life (La Coordinadora) in Cochabamba wrote to the Social Justice Committee to describe why people were protesting.

Africa: The struggle against privatization
Bricks Mokolo speaks about the impacts, and the resistance, to water privatization in his community, a South Africa township. Related article: Orange Farm says no to water meters

“Empowerment” - The SJC talks with the World Bank about what it means
Videoconference, with SJC, Concordia University, World Bank participation.

Togo - comment sortir de l’impasse?

Local communities pay the price of illegal logging in Honduras - Opponents face death threats

Guyana water company launches cut-off campaign in quest of cost recovery

Poverty and the role of the private sector – what will be the Paul Martin approach?