United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development To see a series of interviews and articles from the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 26 - September 4, 2002 - click here.

• Family Farmers From Mid-Missouri And Mexico Hold Fair Trade Picnic And Roundtable
  Propose International and Local Solutions to Challenges Faced by Family Farmers Around the World
  Bryce Oates
  Columbia, Missouri
  
  • Fair Trade Picnic And Roundtable
  • Selected Facts and Figures on Trade and Agriculture
  • International Impacts of “Free Trade”
    
    
• Interview with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
  of Tebtebba Foundation
  an indigenous people’s policy research center
  “Democracy in relation to how food is distributed"
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Yin Shao Loong
  of Third World Network
  Democracy at the International Level
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• From Disillusionment and Abandonment to Autonomy:
  Zapatista Bilingual Indigenous Education in Chiapas, Mexico
  A Case Study in Alternative Meanings of “Development”
  by Roberto Flores
  Los Angeles, California
  
  
• Interview with Mandla Mentoor --
  The Soweto Mountain of Hope:
  Making People Free
  Soweto, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Richard Haigh of The Valley Trust
  Sustainable development -- "Participatory development”
  KwaDedangendlale, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Elfrieda Pschorn-Strauss of Biowatch South Africa
  GE crops, trade liberalization
  and food sovereignty in southern Africa
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• No Oil For Blood: Post-War Boycott In The Making
  by Paul Rockwell
  Oakland, California
  (cross-referenced from the Email, Opinions and Discussion section)
  
  
• President Bush’s Press Event in the Azores “Fantasy Island”
  Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
  Chicago, Illinois
  (cross-referenced from the Email, Opinions and Discussion section)
  
  
• Global Grassroots: Gaining Ground
  Ronnie Cummins
  Little Marais, Minnesota
  
  
• Interview with Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network
  “First and foremost is our right to exist and to make our own decisions ...”
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Justus Lavi Mwololo speaks about Kenya’s agriculture
  “Farmers, we have to put forward our agenda.”
  "Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Vandana Shiva
  Discussing “Water Wars”
  Resurrection of commons, community rights, and direct and basic democracy
  Interview by Nic Paget-Clarke
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Opinion articles by columnist Paul Rockwell
  Oakland, California
  (cross-referenced from the Email, Opinions and Discussion section)
  • Presidential War Is Unconstitutional
  • Colin Powell: A Hawk With Smooth Talons
  • A Time to Break Silence: U.S. complicity in Saddam's crimes against humanity
  • When Will We Ever Learn? Dr. King’s Forgotten Speech on Peace
    
    
• Interview with Sindiswa Mahuza
  Unemployed women create vegetable gardens
  in Khayelitsha
  "By having land people will create jobs for themselves"
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Dr. Tewolde B. G. Egziabher
  (Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia and the Institute for Sustainable Development)
  On farmer empowerment, genetic engineering and global systems
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Eve Crowley
  Respecting The Autonomy And Decisions Of The Poor
  The Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Initiative
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Fred Kalibwani of PELUM
  Community rights policy and small-scale farming in eastern and southern Africa
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Ela Gandhi
  The Gandhian view on sustainable development
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Silvia Rodriguez
  Costa Rica's Biodiversity Law
  Intellectual community rights are preeminent to intellectual property rights
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Interview with Joshua Sena Alouka
  “They should contribute their local knowledge.”
  Youth representative from Togo discusses how to make sustainable development effective.
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• "GANGA" is not for sale
  Suez - Degrémont and the Privatization of Ganga Water
  by Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri, Kunwar Jalees
  New Delhi, India
  
  
• WTO: The New Threats to Developing Countries and Sustainability
  by Martin Khor
  Penang, Malaysia
  
  
• Border operations / Migrant life / Organizing for human rights
  Part 1 - "One of the greatest human rights tragedies in the history of the U. S.”
  Part 2 - Combating hate crimes, organizing to improve housing conditions.
  Part 3 - Organizing on the border for human rights.
  Interview with Roberto Martinez (2001)
  San Diego, California
  (cross-referenced from the Human & Civil Rights section)
  
  
• The Fourth World War
  by Subcomandante Marcos
  Translated by irlandesa
  La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico
  (cross-referenced from the Autonomy: Chiapas - California section)
  
  
• Immigration, migration, and human rights on the U.S. / Mexico border
  by Roberto L. Martinez
  San Diego, California
  
  
• National Autonomous University in Mexico City (UNAM) striking students' organic relationship to the EZLN
  Global neoliberalism prompts global organic relations and responses
  by Roberto Flores
  Los Angeles, California
  (cross-referenced from the Autonomy: Chiapas - California section)
  
  
• Maverick Artist
  Conversations with Theater Artist, Marty Pottenger
  by Eloise de Leon
  San Diego, California
  (cross-referenced from the Art Changes section)
  
  
• Doctor, about that medicine I saw advertised…
  by Barbara Mintzes
  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  (cross-referenced from the Healthcare section)
  
  
• Genetic engineering and Maori health
  Different ways of managing and understanding knowledge
  Interview with Fiona Cram and Glenis Philip-Barbara
  Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• Facing the world today
  GMO's: farm policy, patent laws, contamination, trade
  Interview with Bill Christison
  Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• Zapatistas in Mexico City to promote the Indigenous Bill of Rights
  A Photo Essay by Danny Turner-Lloveras
  Mexico City, Mexico
  
  
• Assessing the Risks of Genetic Engineering
  Super weeds, non-target impacts, horizontal gene transfer
  Interview with plant geneticist Doreen Stabinsky
  Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  

• GE is another way of being unsustainable in the biological sense
  The market wants an un-modified product
  Interview with farmer Ian Henderson
  Amberly, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• The future is GE Free
  Genetically modified organisms are unpredictable, irreversible, unnecessary
  Interview with Greenpeace campaigner Annette Cotter
  Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• My trip to Quebec City (A Tale of Two Summits)
  Report from Quebec City People's Summit of the Americas
  Bryce Oates
  Quebec City, Canada
  
  
• The Wai 262 Claim by Six Maori Tribes
  Flora and fauna and cultural and intellectual heritage rights
  Interview with Maui Solomon
  Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights and Obligations
  by Maui Solomon
  Nairobi, Kenya -- Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• From Nuclear Free to Genetic Engineering Free
  Soil ecology: the most serious and the least understood
  ecological risk from genetically engineered crops
  Interview with Jeanette Fitzsimons
  Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• A guarantee of safe food
  Organizing organic dairy farmers
  Interview with Russell Simmons
  Waikato, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• "Undisturbed and exclusive possession of the land, estates and forests"
  The strength in it
  Interview with Maori community leader Sydney Jackson
  Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand
  
  
• Opposing Genetic Engineering in New Zealand
  (and around the world)
  by Bill Christison
  Auckland, New Zealand / Aotearoa
  
  

• Interview with Peter Dowling
  of Canada's National Farmers Union
  The farm income crisis, supply management, sustainability and more
  Part 1 - The Farm Income Crisis
  Part 2 - Sustainable farming
  Howe Island, Ontario, Canada
  
  
• "Regarding the U.S. Relationship with Native Hawaiians"
  On rejecting the Akaka bill
  by Kekuni Blaisdell
  Honolulu, Ka Pae'äina (Hawai'i)
  
  
• The Impact of Globalization on Family Farm Agriculture
  The increasing role of the multi-national corporations in controlling
  both the inputs and the marketing of our commodities jeopardizes our very existence.
  Bill Christison
  Porto Alegre, Brazil
  
  
• "Reconciliation" Hearings Undermine Kanaka Maoli Self-Determination
  The need for return of all Kanaka Maoli lands and other natural resources
  by Kekuni Blaisdell
  Honolulu, Ka Pae'äina (Hawai'i)
  
  
• In memoriam: Julius Nyerere
  We are poorer for his death, richer for his life.
  by Jerry Atkin
  Portland, Oregon
  
  
• Defending Immigrant Rights in Iceland
  Gudjon Atlason
  Reykjavik, Iceland
  
  
• Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops:
  Why We Need A Global Moratorium
  Ronnie Cummins
  Little Marais, Minnesota
  
  
• U.S. Border Patrol in S. California developing deadly
  but ineffective Operation Gatekeeper
  418 men, women and children die in 4 years,
  in California, crossing U.S. / Mexico border
  Interview with Roberto Martinez
  San Diego, California
  
  
• Mobility, Human Rights and Economic Development:
  Lessons of the International Mexican Migrant Experience
  and United States Immigration Policies
  Maria Jiménez
  Houston, Texas
  
  
• Decolonization: Unfinished Business in the Pacific
  Pacific Islands Association of Non-Government Organizations (PIANGO)
  discussion paper for the regional seminar of the United Nations Decolonization Committee
  Kekuni Blaisdell
  Nadi, Fiji
  
  
• Breaking the Ideological Hold:
  Zapatista Response to Mexico's Bilingual Program in Chiapas
  (The Zapatista response to globalization)
  (Two part series)
  Roberto Flores
  Los Angeles, California
  
  
• Interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva -
  "The deeper you can manipulate living structures the more you can control food and medicine."
  St. Louis, Missouri
  
  
• An interview with representatives of Japanese farmers' and consumers' groups
  - "It's the ethics of the quantity."
  St. Louis, Missouri
  
  
• Family Farms and U.S. Trade Policy
  U.S. family farm leader speaks to European farmers
  Part 1: The Impacts on Family Farms of 20 Years of Corporate Trade Agreements
  Part 2: Citizen Opposition to Corporate Domination of U.S. Trade Policy
  Bill Christison
  Brussels, Belgium / Chillicothe, Missouri, U.S.A
  
  
• The Indigenous Rights Movement in the Pacific
  1998 marks the centennial of the U.S. colonial expansion
  in the Pacific and Caribbean
  Kekuni Blaisdell
  Honolulu, Ka Pae'aina Hawai'i
  
  
• In Motion Magazine interview
  with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
  Affirmative Action, Wall St., and the International Monetary Fund
  San Diego, California
  
  
• The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border
  Interview with Maria Jiménez, Houston, Texas
  
  Part 1 - Border Communities Respond to Militarization
  Accountability and Direct Involvement
  
  Part 2 - From Slave Patrol to Border Patrol
  Life and Culture in U.S.-Mexico Border Communities
  
  
• Seventeen Years and Counting
  A history of the indefinite detention of Cuban immigrants
  Sarah Town, San Francisco, California
  
  
• Immigration and Human Rights on the U.S. / Mexico Border
  Interview with Roberto Martinez, San Diego, California

Part 1 - Militarization of the Border
Globalization. Impacts on Human Rights / Militarization of the Border.

Part 2 - In Search of Work
Jobs, Raids and the Mexican Economy. Reforms. Scapegoating.

Part 3 - The Needs of Agribusiness
Soldiers: U.S. and Mexican. Filling a Need for Labor. Discrimination in Immigration Enforcement.

Part 4 - From Taking Lands to Building Triple Fences
Police Powers. "Even before 1848, lands were taken away ...". Triple Fences Along the Border. Human Rights.

• The Internet: Handwashing of the Future?
  Interview with Susan Estrada, Carlsbad, California

Starting up the Internet
The Internet and Globalization
The Internet and Future Society

• NGO Parallel Forum Expresses Pacific peoples' concerns on climate change, nuclear weapons and self-determination
  Kekuni Blaisdell,
  Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Honolulu, Hawai'i
  
  
• Kanaka Maoli Self-Determination and Reinscription of Ka Pae'Aina (Hawai'i) on the U.N. list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
  Kekuni Blaisdell,
  Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Honolulu, Hawai'i
  
  
• Autonomy: Chiapas - California
  
  
• Essays from Ireland

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