Monthly Archives: May 2007

The Critical Legal Conference celebrates its 24th happening in London at the Law School , Birkbeck College , with a conference that tackles the theme of ‘Walls’ in an aim to renew and challenge our understanding of the structures, process, … Continue reading →

Social and Cultural Movements Group, Edge Hill University 3rd International Conference on the theme of Anti-Capitalism: Movement of Movements? Edge Hill University18th – 20th September 2007. The radical movement politics of the 21st century has thus far been anti-capitalist politics … Continue reading →

The Economist magazine asked a very important question on 22 March 2007: “Are not access to jobs, housing, health care and food basic rights too?” According to The Economist, such rights are not human rights: “…few rights are truly universal, … Continue reading →

In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou’s book, Dead Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky’s latest book, Failed States, mentions global warming … Continue reading →

WHAT’S NEW ON CORPWATCHHolding Corporations Accountable> Houston, May 15, 2007: CorpWatch and its partners today released an alternativeannual report on Halliburton titled: “Goodbye Houston” The new report wasprepared in association with Halliburton Watch and the Oil & Gas AccountabilityProject.http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14482 The … Continue reading →

I am writing to ask for your support for a recently launched campaign,Hands Off the People of Iran. The initiative for this campaign has come from Iranian organisationsand individuals. Our aim is to oppose any attack on Iran and at … Continue reading →

May 23rd, 2007 Friends, Well, as you may have read by now, our premiere of “Sicko” at the Cannes Film Festival has been an overwhelming success. The 2,000 people inside the Lumiere Theater were alternately in tears and laughing during … Continue reading →

Israel is being allowed to destroy the very notion of a state of Palestine and is imprisoning an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza, whose suffering has become a metaphor for the tragedy imposed on … Continue reading →

On 10 December 2006, while the world celebrated International Human Rights Day, I was in Jayyus on the West Bank. The small village is now divided by the Wall – or more accurately a high iron fence. Built in defiance … Continue reading →