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April 11, 2009 Baby Animals

Hoglet

November 22, 2008 Business

Dangerous Duty in Papua New Guinea

Community members get "the opposite of what was promised" from Barrick Gold

November 4, 2008 Business

"Tell Your Investers to Get Out of Here!"

Thai opposition to potash mine becomes community-wide fight

August 7, 2008 Weblog:

Klein in Shenzen

Naomi Klein's investigation (published in Rolling Stone) of China's massive surveillance project, the "Golden Shield," is well worth the read.

The crackdown in Tibet has set off a wave of righteous rallies and boycott calls. But it sidesteps the uncomfortable fact that much of China's powerful surveillance state is already being built with U.S. and European technology. In February 2006, a congressional subcommittee held a hearing on "The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?" Called on the carpet were Google (for building a special Chinese search engine that blocked sensitive material), Cisco (for supplying hardware for China's Great Firewall), Microsoft (for taking down political blogs at the behest of Beijing) and Yahoo (for complying with requests to hand over e-mail-account information that led to the arrest and imprisonment of a high-profile Chinese journalist, as well as a dissident who had criticized corrupt officials in online discussion groups). The issue came up again during the recent Tibet uproar when it was discovered that both MSN and Yahoo had briefly put up the mug shots of the "most wanted" Tibetan protesters on their Chinese news portals.

July 23, 2008 International News

South Koreans Have a Beef

Crackdown on demonstrations against US beef imports

July 9, 2008 Weblog:

Indigenous Peoples' Declaration on G8 Summit

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Prior the G8 Summit in Japan this year indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Ainu Mosir. This is the official declaration they have prepared.

INTRODUCTION

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July 6, 2008 Weblog:

G-8 Protests in Japan- Photographs

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Attending the Indigenous People's Summit in Ainu Mosir, Benjamin Powless, an Ottawa-based independent photojournalist and indigneous activist, remained in Japan to document resistence to the annual Group of 8 meeting. Please see his photoessay for more photographs.

September 30, 2007 Weblog:

Burma and Democracy Protests: Where is the coverage of Ivanhoe?

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Burma (aka Myanmar) has been on the front page of the Globe and Mail twice this week, and has been featured by many other publications and media outlets, as monks and pro-democracy protesters are mercilessly killed on the orders of the military junta that rules the country.

This has spawned a whole outpouring of solidarity and concern in various forms, as should be expected.

But the media coverage has been truly bizarre, and it seriously compromises the aims of that solidarity. The massive coverage given to the Burmese crackdown raises two very serious questions, the premises of which are somewhat contradictory:

1. Where was the the media outrage when this was happening in Haiti?

» continue reading "Burma and Democracy Protests: Where is the coverage of Ivanhoe?"

July 6, 2007 Environment

Uranium rising

Plan to mine radioactive ore generates controversy in Moncton, New Brunwick

June 18, 2007 Foreign Policy

A Mined Democracy

The Philippines is rife with political violence, but Canadian mining companies don't seem to mind

December 8, 2006 Foreign Policy

Sanctioning Nukes?

pet_korea_fp.png What role does Canada's nuclear industry play in the geopolitics of the Korean peninsula? Stephen Salaff investigates.

Canada's nuclear exports and the Korean conflict

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