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Subject: Trading in Disaster: WTC Scrap Ends Up in India
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BEYOND 9-11
Trading in Disaster: World Trade Center Scrap lands in India
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1608
The fate of the thousands of tons of steel that formed the World Trade
Center might seem like a tangent to the tragedy of Sept 11th. More than
30,000 tons of steel scrap -- possibly contaminated with asbestos, PCBs,
mercury and dioxin -- has been exported to India and other parts of
Asia. The U.S. has the obligation to ensure that toxic contamination
from the World Trade Center is not exported to other nations. So far,
officials have been silent. Nityanand Jayaraman in India teamed up with
Kenny Bruno in New York on this investigative report.
GRASSROOTS GLOBALIZATION
The Whole World Was Watching: New York Protests the World Economic Forum
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1688
World wide demonstrations last week posed a test to the anti-corporate
globalization movement and its targets. Kenny Bruno reports from the
Anti-World Economic Forum protests in New York that parts of the
movement an A for attitude. Surprisingly, he says the police passed. The
WEF, well, they flunked as usual.
GRASSROOTS GLOBALIZATION
Globalizing Hope: Another World is Still Possible
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1708
The only way to really describe the World Social Forum that just ended
in Brazil, is a global political "carnaval." The astounding event, an
alternative to the World Economic Forum, was part-political convention,
part-art and music festival and part-intellectual gathering of social
movements. CorpWatch's Joshua Karliner, still recovering in Rio, files
this dispatch.
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BULLETIN BOARD
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Debris
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